Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-11

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Tile new Jute substitute made from
paper yarn and cotton waste by 4
German firm appears to be finding a
market. Arrangements are being made
Tor charging the present works. An
agreement has also just been conclud-
Ell between the German makers OF the
a'W product and the Austrian Jute
Cartel for the erection of works in
Austria. The new substitute. which is
marketed under the name of teNtilosc.
Is SO far being used only for sacks.
1T is said to offer great advantages
over jute for packing dry, powdery
substances such as cement The ma
tHrc 81 the material prevents any dust
escaping from the bas, Manchester
tEnGIand) Guardian
OF brave deeds done upon the battle
field and amid the thunder of cannons
and the cries of the wounded and dy
ing, OF heroes of the Victoria cross
and great generals who rose from
small beginnings, the teacher told her
class, firing them with enthusiasm for
their mother country. Please, miss
cried one little girl tNcitedly, my
father was in the Boer war "And
did he fight in any of the battles?s
inquired the teacher. "Oh, yes" an
s"cred the little maid. "sE was ut
ttrasRan an Moddcr river an Pardv-
burg. an" And vas lie wounded in
amy of Them" pursued the teacher.
The little girls face fell. No, miss.
h. wasn't wounded" she replied. And
then she Frightened again. But,
please. miss, e 'ad an awful cad
ache"
Since bread is the staff Of life, and
bread to the Americans means wheat
almost exclusively, il is perhaps not
surprising that W. consumed approx
imttelE SCI. 600, 900 bushels of wheat last
year
With the completion of the Panama
canal, Japanese steamships will prob
ably. for the first time. ply ON the At
laniie seaboard. particularly in con-
ncoiion with the extensive raw cotton
freight traffic.
The president of Il certain line of
eoastwise steamers has novel sys-
tenn Of handling the tipping evil. He
sends on each of his boats every once
ahd SO often a detective, who has in
struetions To go into the dining room,
order a large and elaborate repast and
l.
the waiter is silent or surly after re-
eeiving this small gratuity his number
IS promptly reported. II is said that
in no place in the world can such a
number of smiling walters be found
as in the dining saloons Of this par
ticuar steamship line.-Ncw York Tri-
bune.
For some years after the former
mikado adopted the western mode of
living his meals were prepared by a
Frenchman. He was determined, how
ever. that in cookery as in other
branches of knowledge, the Japanese
should become independent of the SER
vices of foreign adopts. The best of
his native cooks, Oyagni, was sent to
France and carefully trained in all the
refnements. Like most of his race.
Oyagni proved an apt pupil. On his
return he assumed command of the
imperial kitchen and trained a sufIi-
Gent number of his countrymen to dis
place all the foreigners.
Andrew Lang unraveled many his
torical puzzles, but there was one mys-
terry the secret of which he knew but
would not tell. He knew the truth
about the famous murder of which
Alan Breck was suspected, and for
which James Stewart was hanged.
Stevenson, in kidnapped" lays the
crime to the account of "A mysterious
companion of Alan's, and in so far
that neither Alan nor James was the
murderer he was right. said Mr.. Lang.
But the identity of the assassin was Il
clan secret. revealed to Mr.. Lang as a
fellow lansman and he refused to
make il public
Or. Koerte, Of Berlin, who received
the title of privy councillor many years
ago, and who is the nestor of his pro-
fession in Germany. celebrated his 95tll
birthday on January Is. In an article
corgratulating the venerable physician,
the Berlinger Tageblatt says that he.
together with Rudolf Nirchow, klatsch,
| Wagscheider and Wins, formed for Il
! long time the elite quintet of the pro-
!