Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-07-27
General News.

Los Angeles, Cal, recently shipped ,l25,-
| 600 oranges in single day.
| Several ancient Roman coins have been
dug up near Oshkosh, Wis, and the people
out there firmly believe that the copper mon-
ey came to America centuries ago in traffic,
by way of India, China and Alaska.
A naked wild man is dashing about the
country near Boerne, Texas. He runs with
great speed, is very tall and slender, with
| long locks flying in the wind. He has out
| stripped chasing horsemen, but q party has
been organized for his capture.
While digging an artesian well near Punk
enton, ID. T., the other day workmen struck
the roots Of a tree seventy-six feet below the
| surface and other portions were found at a
| depth of l36 feet. The tree was pronounced
to be a tamarack and the wood was in a fair
state of preservation.
The consumption of coffee in this country
in 1882 was s25 for each person, and of tea,
/ .46 pounds. In 1879 the French used only
3 04 pounds per capita. and the English but
80 of n pound; but the people of the Meth
erlands consumed 1890, those of Belgium
9.l3, those of Norway S.73, and those of
Cape Colony 7.72.
Street car horses do not, on the average,
last more than five or six years. Hard work
uses them up. During the round Of the week.
month and year, if able to stand on their legs,
there is no day of rest for them; poor things
Ii is the starting of crowded cars on up grades
that pulls them to pieces. Careful, merciful
drivers save money for the company by tire at
ing horses kindly.
A terrific snake story comes from Phoenix
Vile, N. Y. Two men visited an old mine,
when they saw something that looked like
stove-pipe. Suddenly great head, with
eyes that looked like diamonds, shot high
,nt tha - nj aln A.. 4
itself and, with leap, flung itself about one
| of the men, breaking his leg. The serpent
was finally beaten off and made its escape.
curious case of sensitive skin has been
observed in a female patient at one of the
Berlin hospitals. 1t was found that If
name was written upon 1t with the nail.
or with blunt piece of wood, the flesh ut
once rose over the marked track to the height
of several millImetres, showing the writing
very plainly. After while it vanished. So
many persons have thus written their names
on her body that she is called the autograph
woman.
Statistics of the religions Of British India,
based upon the census of 1882, which reckon
ed the entire population at 254, ,S99 ,5l6, make
the following enumeration: Various sect.
and castles of Hindoos. 1877 ,937.S50; Mahome-
ans, 30, 121 ,5S5; nature worshippers, $685.
oil Buddhists, 3,4ls, 1884 native Christians,
,S62, ,634: Jairs, sect whose worship Is
mingled Buddhism and Ilndooism, l 1,221, 1896 /;
Sikhs. who are simple thests, s53, ,42G !;
miscellaneous and unspecifcd. 3,O57, 1870.
The native Protes stant Christians number
| only about 500 900, but this is an increase of
Sc per cent within ten years.
Sir Lintorn Simmons statistics in regard to
the British Army do not show it to be in a
very fourishing condition. 1t is, in the first
place, more than 800 below its appointed
strength, and at the end of the present year
there will be a deficiency OF between 5000
and l6, 900 men, which will be increased to
between 25,000 and 10000 next year. The
Brigade Of Guards is nearly 100 men below
its strength Crime is on the increase, cases
| of violence to superiors and insubordination
have increased since 1872 by 81 per cent in
the Army at home, and by 81 per cent 10 the
Army abroad and in the same period the
number of men tried for being drunk on duty
has more than doubled.