Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-19
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! The Zeppelins ought 20 have done
/, lots more damage than they did,, said
Wing Commander Seldom, the other
day. There were lots Of reasons for this.
but as important as any was the fact
that they played in bad luck, and fell
for nearly all the tricks we played on
them. For example, quantities of
bombs We're wasted on bonfires lighted
/ ir open fields which looked like fur
naces to the Zeppelins. On another
occasion a whole bunch of bombs was
dropped on number of lanterns
which we had scattered over a big
field to look like a big factory from
few thousand feet in the air.-Curtiss
F'iyleaf.
A quart and half of cream day
for two months served TO add nearly
fifteen pounds to the weight OF Pro
fessor Lawrence G. Bailey. of the Eng
lish department of Syracuse Univers-
ity. and today he is on his way to an
aviation training station, having been
accepted with three pounds to spare.
He was rejected in June because he
was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. F7yleaf
TO ship ore by balloon route is the
scheme of J. NJ. Nelson of McCarty.
Alaska who is investigating the
claims of a new dirigible recently put
On the market. He proposes to use
the aircraft to carry molyodenite ore
from his property and to carry in sup
plies. The balloon will be used because
of the difficulty of any other kind Of
traction in the prevailing SHOWS of
that region.-Curtss Flyleaf
Representative F. II. La Guardia Of
the 14th New York district, has left
one branch of the United States serv-
ice for another. His friends have re-
listed in the aviation corps. and has
obtained a commission as a lieuten-
ant.-Curtiss Flyleaf
Flobert William Riches. son Of
Cherokee Indian chief. is soon to re-
turn to France to rejoin the Lafayette
Escadrille. after a furlough in this
country, to be married.-Curtiss Fly
leaf
A French Aviator has just downed
his fftieth German plane. although he
was just out of hospital. There is
cause for wonder what he would have
accomplished if he had been WE'LL
Troy Times.
A California man is forming a COM
pany to build a marvellous aeroplane
which is to have a speed Of 400 miles
per hour and to carry $50 passengers
Next.--Curtiss FlyIeaf.
A British aviator. with his plane on
fire and sure to be burned, turned on
his German opponent in a recent air
battle and took him to the ground as
he fell.-Curtiss Flyleaf.
Theodore Roosevelts six sons are al,
ir the L. S. Army and one of them.
Quentin is a student aviator.-Curtiss
Flyleaf.
An aerial freight feet to operate be-
tween Chicago and New York, has
been proposed.-Curtiss Flyleaf.
Cultivate beans deeply and frequent
~ early in the season and as little as
possible and very shallow later. Never
cultivate when the vines are at all
moist as it may spread diseases
The Chinese pen is a brush made of
soft hair. which is best adapted for
painting the curiously formed letters
of the Chinese alphabet.
The inch was formerly subdiyided
INTO three "barleycorns," these divi-
SONS being originally the length Of
"eil-dr.ed grain of barley.
klhg John of England is credited
with having recovered in the thirteenth
century. plate, coin and jewels worth
sl'ooo'ooo or more that had been bur
led IN one place beneath the Roman
wall in Northumberland, and il is
assumed that similar finds in o,na,.
places are still possible.
Lady. let me sell YOU a nacI,,so -,
Cefebellumbiskits." said the grocer
You VIII hnd them unsurpassed as a
brain nourisher. In fact | can truth
fuiy recommend them as food for
thought"
MY wife is like George Washineton.
don't believe she could tell a lie 10
save her soul" You're lucky Mino
can tell lie the minute | ge. il o,,t ~,
my mouth"
Inc essential difference between
man and animals is well stated Nv
Doctor Gasset, an eminent French hi.
oioSist quoted by the Scientific Amer
icah. he says the animal is nre.
destined TO obey the laws of it's sne-
cies' while man obeys them only II
ana when he will. man NAV. If be
wants to, sustain with energy the pre-
sention that two and two make f1e
OF ne may commit suicide.
They had Just Finished ,hair e.
quarrel subsequent to the. honeymoon.
and she was in tears are" sba sott,
II you had had the tiniest spark of
love Tor me you would never have
married me-"
into room full of company rushed
donald. soaking wet from head to feet.
why. Donald" exclaimed his aston
lshed mother. where have you been .,
II BEEN" gulped Donald. "I hoe,