Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

| Jitneys are seriously affecting street
railway receipts in Winnipeg.
| Most Irish and Scotch banks have
the power to issue bank notes of their
own
The land at the head Of Wall street,
New York, on which Trinity church
and cemetery stand. comprises a plot
291 feet long by 227 feet broad, valued
| at ST 900.
Lemonade tablets, which need only
be dropped in a glass of water to
"ade.' are on the market for the bene-
fit of those for whom Sister Susie is
reported to be sewing shirts.
The lumberman was asked If he
wanted to buy a couple of nightshirts,
according to the San Francisco Star.
Nope" said he, Il reckon not, don't
set around much o'nights."
! Replacement of all horse-drawn veh-
icles by motor service wagons and
auto trucks has been recommended by
Herbert r. Fay, superintendent Of the
| San Diego water works department.
Thirty thousand American settlers
have entered Canada since the out
break Of war. immigration to the
| Dominion from Great Britain and
continental Europe has almost ceased
since August.
Building Inspector c. c. Knox, of
| Youngstown, o.. says that great pre-
cautions should be taken in the con-
struction of chimneys, as he contends
that % per cent of all fires in the city
are caused by defective chimneys.
| To make his descendants million
aires, a Topeka (Kas.) man has left
$500, 900 to increase until q years after
! the death of the longest lived of his
children. when the fortune is to be
distributed among his grandchildren.
The University Of Pennsylvania AM
AEON expedition has made another
journey into the unknown, and is now
exploring the frontier regions of Brazil,
Peru and Bolivia. The expedition ex-
poets to spend six months in that re-
gion and to return to civilization at
Para.
| Fuller's earth is used principally in
| bleaching, clarifying, or filtering fats,
greases, and oils: it is not now much
| employed for fulling cloth, the use
from which it obtained it's name. 1t is
also used in the manufacture Of pig
ments for printing wall papers, for
the detection OF certain coloring mat
| ter in some food products. and as a
substitute for alcum powder.
| Lorenzo E. Baer, a milkman Of Roll
| linsford, n H., is the owner of the
smallest heifer calf ever seen in that
| part of the country. The calf at the
present time is seven months old and
| weighs about So pounds, being perfect
| ly formed and as healthy as any Of
| the cattle on his farm. She is so small
| that she once walked out Of the pas
ture, under the bottom board Of the
| fence, so that special fence had to
| be made.
| A tom" turkey owned by Carl Bis
| low, a farmer living near Centerville,
| Mimi, displayed unmistakable tend
encies to sit" Efforts to dislodge
| him failed, SO the family determined
to test his sincerity by placing a COM
plement Of duck eggs under him. Tom
proved faithful to his trust, and a
few days ago came off the nest, fol-
lowed by a brood Of Is ducklngs. Tom
is an ordinary bronze turkey gobbler.
weighing about 20 pounds, and was
a year old last fall.
OF late there have been made at
tempts to construct aeroplanes of a
transparent material. at least for all
purposes where a canvas covering is
used ut present. such as the wings and
the fuselage. One of the latest ideas
OF the kind is said to be an aeroplane
which uses uninfiammable celluloid for
the wings and other parts, and when
flying q few hundred feet in the air
the apparatus is quite invisible, ac-
cording to reports. A new muffling
box on the motor serves to deaden the
sound. One advantage Of the trans
parence il that observations can be
made in all directions.
In Liverpool and some Of the other
cities Of England milk IL now served
commercially which has been sterilixed
by electricity. In other words, the
~Arrns are eIectroCutnd by haAn. - s.>A