Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

The government of New Zealand sup
ports and regulates the bee keeping in
dustry and maintains an experimental
apiary, where students are trained.
Mrs. Oscar Sheath of Mahoney City,
Penn. one Of twins, both girls. gave
birth to two healthy baby girls. The
new twins father is one of twin
brothers.
Although situated in the heart of the
Midland coal field, Nottingham. Eng
land, is experiencing a serious coal
famine, chiefly due to a scarcity Of
mine laborers.
The telegraph and telephone systems
of the United States and Canada re-
quire about 100000 poles a year for
renewals along old lines and the erect
ing Of new ones.
Experiments in the Philippines in
crossing native tobacco with a Con-
necticut variety have produced to-
bacco selling for more than twice the
price of the native.
To facilitate rapid writing there has
been invented metal device to be
clamped to the little finger and with a
shelf on which to rest the next finger
and slide over a surface written upon.
Commercial houses are urged by the
government to save their old cores
pondence as material for the paper
mills. One large house that formerly
burned about 500 tons of old letters
each year is now selling them.
Willis A. Calkins, of Abingdon, large
chicken raiser, hired an expert to come
from Boston to pick chickens. The man
arrived about 1890 in the morning,
stopped to eat dinner and at s o'clock
had 100 birds picked.
A IS bill passing through Lowell
(Mass) bank had the following written
upon it's back: This bill is broken to
celebrate the baptism Of the finest boy
in the world. May the holder of it be
as happy as the present owner.-A. ]"
New York'S bureau of pure foods,
with its corps Of inspectors, claims to
have put reinforced sugar out of the To-
cal market and killed the industry of
freshening stale fish with paint.
Starved chicken, bogus salmon and
doped candies are also chased into Sc
clusion.
While searching the ruins Of the
home of DR.. c. H. Barton, in Spencer,
Mass, which was destroyed by fire,
firemen found a pocketbook containing
1855 in bills concealed between mat
resses. Although everything else in
the room was burned, the bills were
INDIANA ed.
The population Of Quinter town in
Grove county, Kansas, Travelled to
Hays, forty miles away, in a commun-
ity motor run to visit the state normal
school and agricultural experiment sta
ton there. The eighty-six cars that
made the run carried $50 persons. The
last census gave Quinter a population
of 450
In the first nineteen months Of the
war the savings banks of France re-
ported Withdrawals of only 1S,000,0 900
francs, out of deposits of 1000, 900 900;
and most of the Withdrawals came at 1,
time when the country first felt the eff
fects Of the war. In 1915 the withdraw
ais were hardly more than the interest
on the deposits.
casion to handle sugar have frequently
noticed a soft, blush light when
scoop was scraped across solidly-c aked
sugar in the bin Loose sugar does not
show this glow, nor does granulated
The cause Of the peculiar light is in the
fracturing of the sugar crystals. Lum-
inescence of this type accompanies the
breaking Of crystals Of a number of
different substances, but in none is
more pronounced than in rock candy
To get the best effect. place Jumps of
rock candy between the jaws of nut
crackers, or forceps, and suddenly
crush the crystal to fragments. If the
room has previously been darkened,
the fash of light may be seen at dis
lance of twenty yards or more.
An enormous deposit Of asphalt in
Leyte province, in the PHILIPPINES, lies
so near the shore line at Tacloban that
ships can anchor and take on cargoes
from lighters loaded at the mines with
practically no overland transportation.
There Is large and growing demand
in the islands for paving asphalt, and
all the cities of the far east are now in
a position to offer a market.
A cold-blooded view OF the war hos
pitfalls reveals the wonderful and other
wise unobtainable practice that young
surgeons, Of whom many are Ameri-
cans, are obtaining. The young fellows
who are going into that profession
could not have chosen a better class
for their graduation than 1914 or 1915.
Those employed in France receive s42
a week and So a day expense money.
In spite Of the high price of gaso-
line. it really does not cost us any more
a mile to run the average 1916 car than
1t did the cars of 1905 or 1906" is the
statement recently made at a meeting
OF the Society Of Automobile Engineers,
and the speaker further said: 1.-THE in
creased efficiency Of engines and de-
creased weight Of car have certainly
enabled US to go more miles on a gallon
OF gasoline; in fact, I think almost
double what was possible ten years
ago. or even Ave years ago in this
country"