Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

| nipa palm.
| A Newark IN. j. man is accused of
using forged check to pay the clergy
man who performed a marriage cere-
mony for him.
One of the most popular of the post
card photographs in London is of Pres
| ident Wilson. The stationers can hard
! ly supply the demand.
OF about one million four hundred
| thousand pounds of caviare obtained
each year by the Astrakhan fisheries,
approximately 10 per cent. is exported.
The value of the mineral products OF
| Pennsylvania, exclusive of pig iron
increased from $445, 1868 in 1912 to
s506.466,759 in 1913.
| The value of the mineral products
of New York, according to the United
| States Geological Survey, increased
| from s3S, 431, $40 in 1912 to Sal, 594, o52
| in 1913.
The value of the mineral products of
Tennessee, according to the United
! States Geological Survey, increased
| from $780, 09 in 1912. to s21 ,052, 1891
! in 1918.
| The value of the mineral products
OF Wyoming. according to the United
| States Geological Survey, increased
from s3,374,oss in 1912 tb $136S2.09
| in 1918.
The value of the mineral products
t of Arizona, according to the United
States Geological Survey, increased
| from s67, 497 1888 in 1912 to ST., 429, 705
| in 1918.
The value of the mineral products
| of New Mexico. according to the
United. States Geological Survey, in
creased from $14,391 1856 in 1912 to
| $17,s62. 1863 in 1918. The figures for 1913
| are more than double those of two
years ago. the increase being due
principally to activity In the produc-
| ton Of copper.
The value of the mineral products
of West Virginia. according to the
United States Geological Survey. in
creased from $123,s47,S12 in 1912 to
| s143.640,633 in 1913.
The value of the mineral products
of Washington, according to the
United States Geological Survey, in
| creased from s15,347,313 in 1912 to
s17,579743 in 1913.
Japan has asked for increased space
at the San Francisco exposition.
Thorough soaking in sea water
lengthens the life of telegraph poles.
| 1t Is estimated that 2s.000,000 persons
attend the $500 moving picture thea
tiers of England each week.
Elementary instruction Is compul-
sorry in France. for children of both
sexes between the ages Of six and
| thirteen.
Depression and uncertainty hung
over German business last year, de-
| spite the fact that the output of coal
| and iron was the largest in history,
| railway frenght receipts higher than in
1912. imports increased slightly and
exports by II per cent.
A very noted diamond is the one of
sapphire blue tint, known as the Hope
diamond, which is valued at about
500, 900. 1t is thought to have been
cut from a blue stone which was once
| owned by Louis XIV and which disap-
peared during the French revolution.
The Colorado womans eight-hou
law is sweeping in its application. 1t
includes bookkeepers, stenographers
and cashiers who are employed in mer-
camille, merchandise and manufactur-
ing establishments, according to rul-
ing of Judge c. c. Butler, of Denver
Julian Workman Johnson, principal
OF the Suffer grammar school, of Sac
ramento, Cal, has been absent from
school only twice. in % years, these
being in his third year, so that for %
years he hasn't missed a day. Also,
he has never been tardy.
The value of the mineral products
of Oklahoma, according to the United
States Geological Survey, increased
from s53,614,130 in 1912 to ss0,16S,S20
in 1918. OF the 1913 total the produc-
ton of petroleum amounted to $780,
6S1, 948. Oklahoma now ranks second
In quantity among the petroleum
producing States, California being
first, but in 1913 the value of the
Oklahoma production exceeded that of
California by nearly $14,oO0,00O.
Robert Boyle, the philosopher. and
one of the founders Of the Royal So
ciety, could never overcome his aver
from pipe, and he has put on record
the case of one Of his servants who
could never hear knife sharpened or
sheet of brown paper torn without
bleeding at the gums.
The library of congress at Washing
ton, D. c., is now ranked as third
oAiiohS tic great ilpTdIISS VI Tic WOtlu
The library was first established in
1900. 1t was almost totally destroyed
when the British burned Washington
in 1914, and the private library Of
Thomas Jefferson was bought by con-
gress to start the collection anew.
The menace of film famine" which
because of the European war threat
ened to hurt the American moving
picture industry has been banished
Moving picture film is being made out
of skinned milk. The first roll of
practical SKINNED milk film was
shown in the exhibit of the Illinois
state food commissioner at the nation
al dairy show.
Seventy girls appeared In the English
High school, Lynn, Mass, clad in gar
ments like those their grandmothers
wore One day In September Super
intendent of Schools Frank j. Peabody
sent the girls home because, he said.
1t was too cold for such scanty and
scandalous attire as theirs. The T. I.
O.sClub set time for protest. All the
girls wore wooden stockings and many
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