Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-16
ODD ITEMS OF INTEREST

49,
ota Of 81, $50, 600, goo.
Only about 80 per cent. of the natives
of Spain are able to read and write.
Mexico has Jeen secretly negotiating
with Japan for ships, arms and anmu-
milton, according to Toxic dispatches.
Commission represents C%arranZa, and
las 81, 900, eco gold credits. They have
been unsuccessful in getting ships.
The New YorkS will take about 81
players to the training camp at Macon,
Ga, This month. Fifteen pitchers will
be included i'll the lot. Joe Kelley and
Duke Farrell will be in charge of the
first squad, which will leave New York
on February "a.
Plans already have been made and
some of material is on way for $5,000,-
600 plant which Union Switch & Signal
Co. will build at once. Pres. Hum
phreys said sfell-making machinery.
unchanged by fire. could now be put to
good use on regular output, for which
there were many orders, all domestic.
A new boys sled has a third unn
in front to aid in steering.
Portugal makes ability to read and
write a requirement for suffrage.
Experiments with cooling buildings
by forcing air through hollow walls
with electric fans are being lone in
India.
Democratic members of Senate
committee on finance have agreed to
retain excess profits tax in new reve-
nue. measure.
United states SteeIs annual produc-
ton is 80 per cent. greater than that OF
all German steel companies, according
to Chairman Gary.
ParamA despatch says that Bank OF
Canal Zone suspended payments
Thursday. but it is promised they will
be resumed Saturday.
Lulu CHASER, the comic opera favorite
is to appear in a one-act musical
sketch called Margery.
Deutsche Bank Of Berlin has bought
two large easterly Observation-Disclosures
B|ankverein, at Breslau. with capital
of $4,000, 900 marks. and N~orddeutsche
Creditanstalt Eank, at Konigsberg,
with capital of $4,000, 600 marks.
Deutsche Bank will raise it's capital
and reserve to 500, 900, 900 marks.
Cheap ice bags can be had during an
illness getting a couple of dried pigs
bladders from the butcher. These are
very inexpensive and serve practically
the same purpose as the more costly
rubber bag.
Mirrors hanging outside of the
Dutch houses enable the residents
seated inside to see the doings of the
street in front.
Sales approximating 49, 0 ,0GO are
claimed by officials for Chicago auto
mobile show which closed Feb. 3.
Wheat imported into United King
dom in week ending Feb. 10-first COM
plete week of intensive German block
ade-was 2,766, 200 hundredweight, ac-
cording to London Board Of Trade
Journal. These figures with
ILLS in 1916. 1889, 700 In 1915, and
1,444, GOO in 1914.
Beleian capital. frightened out of
that country by German o~ccupation. is
flowing into United States seeking in
vestment. Already part Of a fund,
which is to be placed in real estate. mas
been invested in a large number Of lots
at Manhattan Reach, n. Y.
When John Craig opens his New
York season he will present a new plav
by E. H. Sotllern.
A board covered with emery paper is
useful in the kitchen. 1t is for sharpen
ing knives, and is good for removing
rust from steel knives n forks. The
10 emery paper will put a smooth edge
on carving knives.
French inventors have developed a
vertical axis rotary motor for HYDRO
planes that can be completely protect
ed from water.
Chicago, quoting from a newspaper
of August 3, 1851, now has the enor-
nous population of $500, an increase
of 10000 in the last year"
Mn cubic inches of water frozen
will measure 10 cubic inches.
More than 200 public astronomical
observatories are in the Norther
Hemisphere and less than 20 in IL
Southern.
German authorities have decided to
begin the daylight saving schedule
April 10 instead of May /. to continue
until Scbt. IS.
State Department is said to be con-
suggestion that American
commission review returns from Cuba's
election, over which armed
revolution has developed.
There have been a number OF yellow
fever epidemics in Philadelphia more
than a century ago. In the latter part
Of the summer of 1893 the city was WIS.,
tied by an epidemic of yellow fever
which threatened to wipe out its popu-
lation. The fever had been raging in
the West Indies ell the summer and
vessels were permitted to enter the
Philadelphia harbor without inspection
quarantine. BY the middle Of Au-
gust the fever had broken out with
~fierceness. Seventeen hundred
fed from the city within a
month. The efforts made to stay the
ravages of the disease were feeble, and
with little actual knowledge of prope~
treatment. Tar and NORWOOD wer4
burned in the streets, and the doctor,
such skill as they possessed in the
Of the sick. At the height /
the disease more thar 200 people
died IN a day. Corpses were buried at
hight. The fever lasted until the ar.