Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-07
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The United States pays rear-ad-
mirals $4,000 a year; Japan pays hers
s1643 a year.
Spain has been practicing irrigation
for more than a century, it's first canal
having been begun in 1874.
Wilmington (DelD old city hall is to
be bought and preserved by the His
torial Society of the state.
In times of peace London contains
sixteen ernoa ssies and legations repre-
sentative Of foreign countries.
A dredge built in Holland for the
government of Uruguay crossed the
Atlantic ocean under it's own steam.
Hiking ATS miles from Washington
to get a job, man carried his Sbed
with him in a cart. He got the job in
Bridgeport, Conn.
A Frenchman has developed a method
for obtaining casein from milk by eide
trolysis.
Texas boasts the deepest oil we'll in
the gulf coast fields it being also the
deepest rotary oil well in the world.
Ships built in American yards We're
fewer in number in the year ending last
June but of much greater tonnage than
in the previous year.
A government statistician has found
that about 1900 persons are struck by
lightning in the United States every
year, of whom about 500 are killed.
Henry n. Bushnell and Edward A
Fiske have been deacons in the Con-
gregational church at Waitsfield, VT.
for half century and recently a re-
ception was given for them at the END
of their 50th year as deacons.
A Baptist pastor in New York has a
novel way Of attracting an audience
He conducts his evening services al
us in front of the church. Besides
the novelty the people find 1t cooler and
decidedly more comfortable than in
side the church
F'atigued, a Pittsfeld (Mass) man
returned home, and. undressing, knelt
beside his bed to say his prayers. He
was in that attitude when his mother
came to call him in the morning. He
was not halfway through the Lords
Prayer when he fell asleep.
Trainmen put off two young mer
who had boarded a box car at Wealth
Maysville the train had wreck and
that particular car was badly smash
ed. When the boys later walked into
Maysville they hunter up the brakemer
and thanked them for saving their
lives.
Lace was known in Venice at ar
early period, and was not unknown t
the Greeks and the Romans.
David Cline. of Philadelphia. has
completed without an accident forty
five years as a railroad engineer.
F. c. Fisher. age lightweight, of st
Louis, Mo-. wishes to enlist to fight
Mexicans He fought 'em in 1916.
Through the government effort mil
lion acres Of desert land have beer
transformed into fruitful farms titled
by $4,000 families.
Clothesline holders in which the rope
is gripped by eccentrically mounted
wheels have been invented to do ava,
with the necessity for props.
To catch burglars an Englishmar
has patented a mechanism to drop q
| person who steps in front of safe a
certain hours into a pit, doors CLOSING
over him.
Before its discovery by the Spaniard'
Mexico was occupied by several 1ndiaI
races. the Nahuas, known as Aztecs
predominating. In 1918 the exploration
| Of the Gulf coast by Grijalva was fol
lowed by the Spanish invasion in 1919
and the capture Of the Aztec capital
Tenochtitlan, in 1921. The Spanish col
ony thus formed was created into {
viceroyalty, and became the riches
European possession in the new world
with the exception Of Peru. The Span
iards extended their conquests ever
into what is now the territory of tn
United States. The viceroys had ful
sway over all the territory. which wa
from the southern boundary Of Costa
Rica to Florida. as we'll as the Yves
Indies. However. in the eighteenth
century the East Indies and Guatema
/ la, or Central America, were separated
With the exception Of few IndiaI
wars nothing molested the lives o.
splendor led by the viceroys Grea
fortunes were amassed in the silver
mines and in the East India trade.