Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-24
GENERAL Ne US.

Nearly one-half Of the money raised by taxa
ton in Boston goes to pay the interest.
There have been but two deaths from hydro
phoba in Boston during the past twenty -four
years.
Los Angeles, Cal, is trying new fuel. made of
screenings and tar pressed together in cakes and
sold at SIS per ton.
pious hen crawled into Methodist church in
Jefferson City, q week ago Sunday and laid an
egg in the contribution box.
The Gar of Russia, after the fall of Napoleon
Ill, purchased all his railroad carriages and field
wagons, which he is now enjoying in his Turkish
campaign.
Shipbuilding was killed at Baltimore, a city
once famous for its splendid ships, by trades
unionism, and the yards have now lain almost idle
for twelve years.
Worcester Press IA writer in the Toledo
Blade says that every man may spell the names of
Russian and Turkish men and things just as he
has mind to. This is q relief Henceforth we
shall acknowledge no superior in Russian and
Turkish photography"
Aaron Hill, the Boston postmaster fifty years
ago, employed only three assistants, including a
boy of all work. To-day the Boston post Office
employs three hundred men and women.
A balloon swayed against q gas jet in Hull,
England, Monday and exploded, woundpg eighty.
six persons, six of them seriously.
With the exception of Cows. Hunt and King
all the Governors Of New York elected since the
adoption of the Constitution. nearly 80 years ago,
are now living
Thaddeus Fairbanks, of st. Johnsbury, VT,
who was knigbted by the Emperor of Austria four
years ago, has been invested with the Order OF
Commander by the Bey of Tunis in consideration
OF his invention Of the Fairbanks scales.
The New Haven Palladium says: Andersen,
the murderer now in the county jail amuses him
self by playing with two or three tiny mice
These he has tanned SO that they regard him with
no fear. and they pass much OF their time in hi,
hands or upon bis clothing.
There are some strange revelations in the quar-
terly report upon immigration which is made by
the Bureau of Statistics England sends more
emigrants than Ireland, while the single Canadian
province of Quebec doe, nearly as well. Distant
Australasia sends several times a. many as our
neighborng continent Of Sosth America. Tur-
key, India and Iceland do better than Japan,
"a N~NSSNSo OHit W SuSlhuu kuu
Germany.
claim Of 81 years old was recently paid by the
Treasury Department. 1t was based on supplies
furnished the Revolutionary army in l779, and
has been in variou. courts since that time. The
claim was originally $4,000. but the 81 years, in
terest which had to be added increased 1t to be-
tween SOL 900 and S52 900, which was paid to the
grandsons of the original claimant.
The deformity Of unequal limbs is now obviated
by making the longer limb shorter. Apparatus
has been contrived by means of which peculiar
fracture Of the thigh bone is produced. When
the injury is repaired by nature shortening results
and the deformty no longer exists. An instru-
ment intended for this purpose was recently exhib-
tied.
The weather-cock on the village church at Lou
dan, France, becoming rusty, a man recently
clmed up the steeple to repair it but slipped Just
before reaching it, slid down 70 feet rebounded
from the roof and struck the ground without be.
ing seriously injured. A man named Chevalier
then strove to haul himself up by q rope, but at
last bis hands slipped his foot caught in the rope
and he remained hanging in the air 100 feet from
the ground. Pierre PeAn then mounted TO rescue
him. but after doing his best for of
an hour he had to descend, after which Moreau.
climbing higher than the swsying Chevslier,
slipped rope around his body cut the one which
held his foot and freed him from the fearful posi-.
ton IN which he had remained for three hours.