Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-04
General News.

Two rattlesnakes have been killed near
Brattleboro, lately.
There was reduction of 81 ,225. 900 in the
national debt during the month of MAY.
The court of claims has closed its business
for the term and adjourned until October 26
next.
Military Examiner: What must man be
to be buried with military honors Recruit
Dead.
Ceylon spiders weave so strong that a
walking-stick, when thrown into it. is entan-
gled among the meshes.
The bridal gift of a California man to his
daughter was spirited horse. in the first rid
ing of which she was thrown and killed.
Vaccination is carried out so strictly in the
Prussian army that it is said not soldier has
died of the smallpox since 1875.
The slave population of the empire of
Brazil is estimated at LIZ 022, of whom
623 274 are males and 553.7 4S females.
Nine.tenths of all the forecasts made last
year by the French weather bureau are said
to have been verified.
England and Russia have agreed to invite
the King of Denmark to arbitrate as to the
responsibility for the Penjdah incident.
The cataracts of the Nile are due to granite
veins, which the river, while working a way
destroy or remove.
Many pianists now have the extensor
muscles of the ring finger cut for superior
freedom. 1t is said Louis Gottschalk sub
mtted to the operation.
There is bird roost at Lake Gentry in
Brevard county, Fla, covering tract of so
acres, in which, it is estimated. over 7,000,-
900 birds gather every season.
There are more subscribers to the tele-
phone system in New York and its neighbour
hood than in the whole of Great Britain,
notwithstanding that the charge in New York
Is about double what it is there
Belgian editor who recently insulted a
rival editor in the morning; fought duel
and killed him 10 the afternoon, and came out
at p. NJ, with special edition describing
the encounter.
Salt Lake newspaper declares that there
has never been Mormon scholar nor Nor
mon school worthy of the name, and that in
no other Western State can community of
$50. 900 Inhabitants be found who, like the
Mormons, have no scholars.
The time of day is announced
every day at Woolwich, England, at
l p. NJ. and $50 p. NJ, by firing off a
| blank charge of powder from a 9-pounder
bronze gun. Notwithstanding this fact, a
courageous little sparrow has made her mes,
in one of the boxes of the carriage on which
the gun rests, and has hatched out five little
sparrows.
| Science has come to the aid of base ball
players, and announces. for the benefit OF
batsmen who are ambitions to make heavy
hits. that the ball should be hit at the appl,
of 90 degrees in order to send it to the great.
est possible distance. Repeated experiment.
in artillery have proved that ball fired from
cannon at this angle will carry further thar
If fired at any other angle with like charge
of powder.
While other nations, when invasion threat
ems, moblilized their armies, in Holland ar
order would be given to mobilize the waters
When this is effected. watery line from five
to ten miles wide and some sixty miles Ions
will be created. directly barring the advance
of an invader coming from the East. About
the surface of inundation nothing will bs
vissble but few narrow roads An unusual
outlay is to be made this year upon the Hol
land defenses.