Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-04
Odd Items Of Interest

How do you go upstairs? With your
body bent over? And clinging to the
banister? That isn't the way to
profit by stairclimbing. Going up
stairs is fine chance for body train
ing. People who know its value in
physical culture go upstairs in a pre-
scribed way. This is how to do It:
your feet: you lift your chest; you
inhale a good long breath; then you
go up easily and quickly as if you
were lifted by your chest. See?
Try it.
Toys which develop the magma
ton are better than intricate me-
chanical toys and deliberately dressed
dolls. Next to ball. the very best
plaything is set of blocks, which
is capable of beirg transformed into
anything desired, from train of cars
to a pigeon house. Give a boy of five
a hammer, some nails and a few
pieces of wood ard see what he can
make-the results are often surpris-
ing. Children love to create. and the
toy which they have made themselves
will give a more lasting pleasure than
the usual elaborate plaything bought
ready made.
Whatever may be the excellent in
tent of the bill filed in the Massachu-
sets Legislature reducing the length
of Holsters that may be legally taken
from to s inches, the measure might
well be entitled q bill to further the
determination of the lobster. The lob
ster is rapidly disappearing. partly.
at any rate, because young and i'm
mature specimens are permitted by
law TO he caught. The present 9 inch
eS in this state is shorter than the
Maine law allows-and that is none
too long.-Bostol Post.
In the great diamond fields of
South Africa the stones are found in
what are called pipes" round OF oval
steams of peculiar sort Of rock,
several acres in extent at the ton and
running down to unknown depths.
Near the surface this rock. rich in
iron. is disintegrated by exposure to
the weather and assumes a yellow
ish color. The precious gems are
readily extracted from the friable
rock
Know you no. that our business
mere Is a warfare, and one must
watch, and one &c out as a spy, and
one must fight? You neglect to do
the bidding of the commander. and
complain when he hath laid some
what rougher than common upon
you, ana you mark not what, so far
as in you lies, You are making the
army to become. so that if all copv
You, none will dig a trench, none will
cast a rampant, none will watch. none
VIII run any risk, but each will ap-
pear worthless for warfare.-Epicte-
tuS.
IN spite of extremely cold weather
ana other operating difficulties,
Southern lumber mills shipped dur
ing recent siX-day period 81 cars
of ship timbers daily, or n total of
30 cars for the week. These cars
loaded on an average OF 5000 feet
each. which makes the shipments
Lii 900 feet a day, or nearly
enough to complete standard size
.iOOU-ton Government wooden shin
every day. The total shipments for
the week aggregated S,4GG, 900 feet
When lack of funds prevented the
erection of new hospital at Palm
Beach, four women started in anc
raised nearly $4,000 in a few day,
pennsylvania is creating q for
. estrN reserve. The planting of trees
is progressing in a way that has
proved most gratifying to those tax
ing q special interest in the work
Some years ago it was said tina,
| there was danger of Pennsylvania
becoming a treeless state. Recent
Developments show that such a de.
plorable state of affairs will never
/ come to pass.
| Owls and other birds which are
active at night show rise of tenn
perature during the hours Of dark
ness and a fall during the day. This
IS result of the well known fact
that muscular activity means an in
creased production Of heat.
Never, if you can help it. hang pic
lures so that the wires will show
and do let the pictures hang against
the Wall.Sas if they were really anG
truly decoration.
/ United States flying students are
required to fly nine hours with ar
I instructor before being allowed tc
/ fly alone. One of our Allies require,
! hut four hours duty. There is one
! accident to every 24OO flying hour.
in United States fields as compared
with one to every 400 for this ally
Time consumed by girls employec
in the Standard Oil Company plan
at Bayonne, y. j., in donning ant
dofling overalls, was classed by tn,
I company as "overtime.'
4 recent census OF North Ameri
can birds shows an increase of II:
species and subspecics since 1910
But though there are really new
birds in the list, many of them be
long TO subspecies, up to this time
unrccognzed
Charged with failing to send hi!
son to school, George Christine OF
! Tyrone. Penn. was fined by a mag1s.
trate, Notwithstanding the fathers