Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-09-14
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New York state has 100000 aliens.
Sound carries best southeast OF q
storm.
More than $500 illegal distillers were
seized by the United States revenue
department last year
In northern India sheep are used a.
beasts Of burden. They carry q load
Of twenty pounds each. 49,
French naturalists have discovered
ants in Madagascar that cultivate
fungi within their nests for food.
Women and girls now outnumbvS IL
men in the British Isles by 100000.
And the war is not yet over.
There are about 1000 differQ,t kinds
Of mosquitoes, but you can't tell the
dicerence when they bite you.
In the United States we have $685.
100000 acres Of arabic land. Of which
only 400,000,000 Is under cultivation.
1t is generally agreed that at the
lowest estimate wheat has bsen .
faithful servant Of mankind for 5000
years.
One Of Brazils most important rail-
roads Is being equipped with oilburn-
rg locomotives and expects eventually
to dispense with coal.
London's electric lights are provided
by about thirty companies. which sup
ply current at voltages ranging from
10 to 24Q.
Efforts are being made to produce
textiles from the strong dber Of the
silk grass that grows wild throughout
Honduras.
A Tennessee boy. competing for n
Prize, collected 1925 old tin cans from
the alleys Of tho town In twenty.four
working hours. He got the prize.
Among natures freaks is a tree from
the fruit Of which oil and tallow are
extracted. The tree grows in the
Azores, in Sumatra, in Algeria and in
China.
Swiss engineers have convinced tho
Russian government that 1t is possible
to bore a sixteen-mile tunnel through
the Caucasus mountains to connect ths
Black and Caspian seas.
John Wycliffe completed the trans
lation Of the whole Bible for the first
time into the language Of the English
people. He was born near Richmond
in Yorkshire, England, about 1924.
1t has been shown that frogs survive.
a pressure Of 800 atmospheres. but at
400 atmospheres their muscles be-.
come disorganized. Bacteria are killed,
by a pressure Of 800 atmospheres. {
Daniel Miller Of Showers Creek.
Huntington county. Pa, is using a.
wagon which was built in 1881. The:
date is stamped on all iron plate on tho.
wagon. E
The Barnard college addition. given
by Jacob H. Schiff in COMMUNICATION !.
Of the fiftieth anniversary Of his ar !.
rival in this country, will cost nearly
$500. 900.
Electrically driven machines with !.
which stamps can be attached to let !.
tiers and packages at a rate Of 400 a !.
minute are being tested by the German ;
postal authorities.
A cargo Of salmon recently shipped !.
out Of Vancouver consisted Of 5000. 900 :
cans. valued at 100000 wholesale. (.
Laid end to end, the cans would reach /.
a distance Of 452 miles. :
In an experimental way bank notes :
are being printed in England on silk !
waterproofed by secret process :
which employs no rubber.
A German scientist has invented a :
tiny electric oven to be placed on the
platform Of a microscope to heat or
dry objects that are to be examined. Z
With an automobile tire in mind an !
inventor has brought out fire hose
with a removable inner tube that can
be renewed when injured. @ q
Near Glasgow q suburb has bsen es.
tablished composed Of BUNGALOWS In
which all the baking co1ieine, lighting
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