Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-07
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possessing church building construct
ed entirely of grindstones.
The perfume industry of Italy annual
ly makes use Of 1850 tons Of orange
blossoms and 1000 tons of roses
A simple horse-drawn machine has
been invented by a Michigan man to
sprinkle sand evenly over slippery
streets
AS a race. the tallest people in the
world are the Bororos, of the southwest
inches in height
John Smith, age ninety-six, got into a
fight in Freeport, r. l., the other day
and broke his wrist in striking his an
tagonist.
To enable his aerop1ane to alight by
clutching a cable a Frenchman has built
a spring fork that projects from the top
of the machine.
In an experimental way bank notes
are being printed in England on silk
waterproofed by secret process which
employs no rubber.
The wet. fiat lands Of Ecuador produce
a vine yielding a fruit which, when
dried, forms sponge regarded as su-
perior to animal sponges
Electric locomotives are in use il.
Switzerland. in which powerful electro
magnets are used instead of couplings
in drawing cars.
ITO rent was the sign hung out re-
Gently on a Philadelphia bird house
Then one day a tenant came, so the sign
was changed and now reads "Wrented"
Ninety per cent. Of the worlds supply
Of cloves comes from the Zanzibar ar
chipelago. but much Of the crop is lost
through inefficient harvesting methods.
multiplying machine small enough
to be mounted on the end of lead pen
Gil has been patented.
Two million children between the
ages of ten and fifteen are employed
for wages in the United States.
A luncheon case of English invention
is so shaped that it Will also serve as
foot rest In an automobile.
Michigan stands first among the
states for the production Of salt. ranks
second for iron and third for copper.
The first time Donald Walter, age
nine, of Wolfebore, n. H. fired a gun
he killed a sixteerspound hedgehog.
Russian railroads protect ties and
telegraph poles against decay by soak
ing them for several months before use
in strong brine.
Portable houses that can be carried
in an automobile and set up in short
time in any convenient camping place
are French invention.
On some lines the Prussian state
railways are using storage bat tery
| cars at less expense than steam loco
| motives or gasoline electric cars.
fuel economy exceeding - per
cent Is claimed for a French device
that heats water before it reaches loco
motive boilers, with exhaust steam.
Toxic has 2.244796 inhabitants.
Fernando Ell Ciano, of Santa Rosa,
Cal, claims to be lis years old
AS mineral producer Alabama
ranks first among the southern states.
Louisville, KY, is to have mission
school for Baptist women, to cost
s15o,O00.
Workmen in Japan wear on their
caps an inscription stating their bust
ness and their employers name.
The worlds largest artificial harbor.
| 766 acres in area and % feet deep, is
planned for Rotterdam.
FdpeT circular saws nave been IN
vented which are said to work better
| in fine woods than steel ones.
1t requires more than a century for
cedar tree to grow large enough to
yield 30-foot telephone pole
Since 1870 white illiteracy in Georgia
has been reduced from 81 to per cent
and black from go to So per cent.
IF you have brains. use them, if not,
plant cabbage" is an epigram credited
to General Gallieni, defender of Paris.
Mounting on which any buttons can
| be fastened to form hat pins or
brooches have been patented In Great
Britain.
A patent has been granted to a New
York inventor for guard to prevent tn,
fingers of person using a sewing ma.
chine being pushed under the needle.
The normal range of an anti-air Graf,
gun fired at an angle of about As degrees
is increased from So to 40 per cent, due
to the shells passage through the al,
strata Of reduced density.
A Brooklyn woman. who a few year.
ago began making rag dolls for one re.
tail toy shop, now employs 300 girls ir
her factory and farms out work to 500 wo.
men in and around New York city,
Unlighted aids to navigation are main.
tanned just as carefully as the Nehted
ones. There are 519 fog signals, 4S sub.
marine signals, IS whstling buoys. 23s bel
buoys, e33 other buoys and 1873 day bea.
cons. In all, the United States maintains
l4,les aids to navigation.
The first experiment in Japan in the
tried at Yonezawa.