Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-21
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'ne olher American ports com.
bined.
In 1914 the total value of all farm
products in the United States was
approximately $4,000, 900 900, which IA
sSS.ooo,ooo more than the total for 1913.
ana breaks all records. The 1914 total
is more than double the combined VAL
ue OF farm products Is years ago.
Miss Fay Clark, University OF
Oregon girl, is superintendent Of
schools in Washington county of
1888 square miles, in which only IL
| OF 81 schools can be reached by rai,-
| road. Once in swinging round the
circle" she travelled 400 miles in q.
wagon without springs
Oklahoma seems to be growing "a
markedly polite. In the town of New
kirk two candidates were tied when
the vote for mayor was counted. nid
they cry loudly for a recount Not
they. Both stepped politely aside, and
the man who was mayor before cleo
ton will serve another term
To such an extent do all classes Of
India load themselves with unsupport-
able debts for the sake Of the show
the government of India has become
aroused, and has recently passed laws
intended TO make impossible the in
curing of debt beyond the ability to
pay.
! hiplIng's poem in which he said,
Beware my country when she grows
polite is being quoted by soldiers re-
| turning from the front. They say
| there is great significance in the fact
| that In the trenches men are speaking
| quietly now and referring to the Ger,
mans only in terms of rigid propriety.
1t has been figured out that when
the graduates of 1915 at Yale get their
diplomas the men will have spent
sl,o19.ll1 during the four years Of
their university life. The most affluent
member of the class spent 81, 500 and
| the most frugal only 5000 in actual
cash during the freshman year.
house was nearly burned down In
| New York recently because some one
mad cert magnifying glass leaning
against a wicker sewing basket. The
! glass caught the rays of the noon sun
focused them on the infiammable ma
terial in the basket, blaze followed.
and before are firemen put it out $500
damage had resulted.
third marriage is considered I'M
lucky in certain parts of India. A
fourth marriage is not So when a
/ man wishes to become benedict after
two previous trials and still evade su-
perstition, he evokes very clever
scheme. Mr.. Man Of India goes
! through ceremony with a bird or
animal or flower as the bride in order
that his next wife will be the fourth
and not the third venture
\ In the French chamber Of deputies
there are 154 barristers and solicitors
! The next most numerously represented
profession is that of medicine-5S dep
| uties The literary men and journal
lists number &c; the university profess
sors. 10: the landed proprietors, 4s; re-
tired officials. %: manufacturers, 80,
and merchants, 81.
\ chimney sweeping. which has made
fortune OF over SIS, 600 for one Of its
opponents, is comparatively modern
| profession. None of the Roman ruins
show chimneys like ours, with fire
places and flues, nor are any to be
| found in Herculaneum or Pompeii The
| chimney of antiquity consisted OF a
hole in the roof and kitchens were
| then always sooty. BraZiers were used
in the living rooms, the fuel supplied
TO the wealthy classes being carefully
dried wood from which no SCOT came;
but Roman architects used to COM
plain that the interior decorations Of
houses soon became smoked up. The
modern chimney was first used in Eu-
rope in the fourteenth century-Lon-
don Chronicle.
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Hut.
ton, who in his Goth year has been
called from his retirement to command
one of the divisions Of Great Britains
new Third army, was known in his
younger days as Curry Hutton and may
be said to have done more than any
other officer in the British army to or
ganize the military defenses Of King
;, Georges big over-sea dependencies.
From 1898 until 1900 he was general in
command of the Canadian militia, and
during the Boer war was in charge OF
the brigade constituted by the troops
! from Canada, Australia and New
Zealand, comprising cavalry and
mounted infantry, which rendered SO
splendid an account Of themselves
throughout the campaign.
The Falls of Tequendama are stu
ated near the city Of Bogota, United
States Of Colombia, where the River
Bogota rushes through a cleft 36
feet wide and falls about 900 feet into
a rocky chasm. Near the falls is the
natural bridge Of Inconongo, which 10
something more than 300 feet high.