Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-11-27
General News.

Peanut growing in Florida is being warm
ly advocated.
Mexican manufacturers are making paper
from the fibres OF the cactus.
The value of the crude cinchona bark inn
ported into England in 1882 was nearly two
millions sterling.
Among the post offices in the country there
are 81 Washingtons, 10 Shermans, 15 Sheri-
dams, 13 Grants and 30 Salems.
One hundred and ten pounds is the weight
of a three-y old child named Fiz Bu-
chanan, who lives in Greenup Ky.
"Bee ranches" as California apiaries are
called. are fast increasing in the Southern
portions of that State and have proved very
successful.
The last census of Japan gives total pop
uIation of 36,70O,00O. Toxic, the largest
city, contains somewhat over a million, and
Kioto, the imperial city, 700, 900.
'ghost' that has been terrifying Syra-
cuse, N. Y, people of late turns out to be
weak minded female with a penchant for
walking the streets clad in snowy raiment.
Major Benyaurd has made a survey Of
three routes for the proposed canal from
Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. He
gives the preference to the Rock Island route
and estimates the total cost of construction
from IIennepin to Rock Island At s6, ,372, $50.
ing canal from Hennepin to Chicago he esti-
mates at 81, ,29s, ,9I9.
South African inns are proverbial for their
horrors. says writer in the London Globe.
Sometimes the roughness of the food makes
it difficulty to support life sleep Is nearly al
ways only possible by the unlimited applies
ton of insect powder. The slaughter sasct-
ed by this valuable compound considerebly
astonishes the stranger when he riseS from
his bed in the morning and finds numbers Of
dead insects, of which many are worse than
fleas.
Committees appointed by authority TO re-
present the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Con-
gregational, Methodist, Baptist and Reformed
Churches of Ohio have decided to hold . con-
vention in Columbus on December 6, for the
purpose of organizing an Ohio Divorce Re-
form League. Addresses will be delivered
by the Rev. DIR. Dixie, secretary of the New
England Divorce Reform League, the Rev.
DIR. GLADDEN. of Columbus, Bishop Bedell and
| others.
A balloon with an electric propeller. con-
| sisting of the balloon proper, the gas genera
tor and the electro-motve generator driven
by a battery of twenty four bichromate cells,
has been the subject Of q series of expert
ments in France. At a recent trial trip the
electric apparatus allowed Of four speeds Of
the propeller. 60 to $50 turns per minute, and
the aeronauts proved that they could outspeed
and breast the wind as well as steer the bal
loon in it.
Seventeen United States Senators are worth
in the aggregate, S5j, ,350, 900. Their are Fair,
of Nevada s18, ,000, 900; Miller of California,
81 900, 600; Sawyer of Wisconsin, o. .OO0,-
| 900; Brown, of Georgia, S3.O00.0OO; Palm
er, Of Michigan. 81 800, 900; Sabin, Of Min
nesota, $1,000 900; Bowen, Of Colorado,
81, 900, 900; Hale, of Maine, 81 200, 600 /;
Miller, Of New York, 90, ,00O. 900; Don Cam
eron, S., 900, 900; Plumb, of Kansas, $780,
| 900; Pendleton. Of Ohio, 5000, 900; Sherman,
Of Ohio, $3.50, 900; Van Wyck, of Nebraska,
s250, 900; David Davis, of Illinois, a 4,000.-
600; Bayard, of Deleware, 4lOO, 900; Nc
Pherson, of New Jersey, $3.50. 900.