Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-07
CURIOUS CONDENsAr,os,

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BY the use of partial vacuum !.
United States department Of 49,
ture has developed hydrocyani.
process for fumigating importes
more RAPIDLY than heretofore.
Willie D. James of Bethlehem !
owns a pillow which has been han
| down from his great-grandfatbe,
has been all the time on one Of i \
farms now owned by Mr.. James 4
:east 125 years.
Sixteen children in western Mona,
go to school on skies from Octebs !,
j June. The snow is sometimes 40 A.
that the telegraph wires are risht 4
side the children. Willows stucl
the snow mark the trail to and t,n
the school.
A Cairo correspondent writes to n
Manchester Guardian that, own
the falling Of the Nile, Egypt viii
to import nearly all her rice this 4
! The Nile has not been SO low for =
| ~ 100 years, and the facilities
water storage have been insufncist|
relieve the distress.
| A curious law point as to aerophi
has been raised in France. A r.
owner brought suit to compel Ar
facturer of aeroplanes not to pase
over his land at height Of less thu
| feet, alleging that aeroplanes frif1
away his game. were likely by H.
to inure his crops, and might enla
ger workers in the field.
King George of England not osh
enjoys but profits by the "spoEts6
kings" His horses won more in ~
on the English turf in 1914 than u
previous year since his accessi6n
the throne. This result is due in tk|
main to Friar Marcus, which won 81
$50 of the total Of s59,725, resulting
from eleven victories gained by "
bearers Of the royal purple and scasI
let.
Princess Marie jose. the third child q
the king and queen Of Belgium, born d
August 4, 1900. is said to be the prettie
Shortly after the beginning Of the B
gian invasion she was sent 10 Lond
with her two brothers, Prince LecM
Duke de Brabant and Prince Chan
Comte de F!andre, and ha., been ID
ever since.
A safety first" book issued to the N
minal employees of a railroad in I'D
York is printed in four languages I'd
is due to the fact that dock employees n
Jerse! City are almost Poles, in Brood
lyn principally Russian, and on Mauhas
| tan island Italians. with a mixture n
English-srealing races. The booklstH
! addressed to THE man who talnn<
chance and who causes most Of the
| juries.
James r.. Mann, the RepakJlean ~
leader in Congress. knows jult'6eA ~
it will take him TO make j.
When he sets out to talk Ave nlnu9es
sits down at the end Of NV Mt1utee1
| right to the second. 1t is not uqp4eA
him to reach the period at tn
final sentence Just as the 81
! falls to mark the expiration q
not once a year-not once in tw43
does Mann ask to have. hi1 go
time extended. He KNOWS
| exactly how much he will D.
| San Marine, whose inh1
ciamoring for war with Ge{N
never sought to extend its -
Napoleon was master Of Italy
San Marine large accession
but the offer was declined
its well-nign impregnabla
miniature republic has steer44
safely Though all the WORST
Italian history. repelling mar
of covetous princes. Never l.
its independence for moro DIR
months at q stretch-once Ia ~ ~
| fell into the hands Of Caesar B6rsiG
4 agin In 17ss. through the 1feachefJs \
Alberoni.. During the last Teentur y, Y
chief troubles with foreign pcSefs -
arisen from the convenience Of The -
lie as harbor Of refuge for
| criminals. lsa' -
It is difficult to realize the cal
| toward the sick and wounded
which Wellington struggled IN
sular. One evening at dinner
! that at a post several mflsa u
| large number Of sick soldiers ~
in the open exposed to- the wea4 =
rode promptly 40 the. place, hd y
sick in tfs.pafght described, while - y
healthy ofncefs were IN tomfortaa'
\ houses and vas told by the com'aanoaa
! osficer that tAete was no accommodaae
Tor the sck9 He instantly ARRANGED
detail for the billsting Of the SICK
those housss. but shspecting what mip
follow, paid y surprise visit next ny
and found that the invalids had ~.
been turned out into the open. Weiila
ton Immediately reinstated them, AIT"
cd the officers and had them tried =
dismissed Tor Hsopedience-Clster w.
dian.
When lake interferes with modern
dustrial progress. the lake must % ~ !.
ished. according to a precedent ~ =.
lished regarding Kerr lake near W..
Ontario, which Is no longer in exis'.'
1t has been pumped dry because " ~
in the way of the mining OF . ve'.
rxilver extending under it. This ven
so rich that the mining company oe.'.
1t was worth the expense OF punr,
the lake dry. The pumping opel'.
was unusual. 1t required four o's
trifugal pumps, which we're pis =.
scows fioated on the surface OF 'ho
These pumps we're large enough " =.
nit the passage Of solid matte. "
-four inches in diameter. Inc ~a'.. -,
conveyed through the pipes TO Inv. NV.
lake about half mile away - A,
ing operation required ~ worhe ~,
Of 10 hours each. with the pump ..,u