Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-02
General News.

Jumbos heart weighed 1900 pounds.
Ferdinand Ward pays $50 week board in
Jail.
Tennyson has worked the Irish brogue into
a new poem.
Pepper-pod red is the latest fantastic shade
of that color.
The astonishing new star in Andromeda
grows brighter.
The Rev Thomas Thomas, OF Fayetteville,
Ark, is IA years old.
The city of Cottage City, Martha's Vine
yard is laid out like capital U.
In Paris $50 babies are rehearsing for
chorus in the play petit Poucet-"
The cranberry crop in New Jersey is I'M
precedentedly large. One six-acre bog in
Burlington yields 1904 bushels.
Richard Howell has made mile on a
bicycle at Springfield in 23l 2-5, beating all
previous records.
In Sedgwick County, Kan 5000, 900 bush
els of corn will be harvested this Autumn.
Hyoscne is the latest substitute for opium
or choral. 1t is much worse than either.
A novelty in silver is the discovery of a
process of electro-plating with silver upon
wood.
The Postmaster General has decided that
postal EMPLOYEES salaries cannot be attached
for debt
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ing built across Hanksbury River, in New
South Wales
The two men who recently robbed the I'm
perial Bank of f34 900 were arrested in
Geneva.
| Spanish politics and manners are so much
in the ascendant in Paris that even the wait
ers at cafes are learning to speak Spanish !;
and so with dress.
1.-The Seven Stars of the Mysterious Ten
and the Daughters of the Sepulchre' is the
dazzling title of an assessment life insurance
association of Texas.
A young bicyclist in New York was killed
the other day while wheeling along between
the double tracks of the Erie Railroad.
The Postmaster General has decided that
the special delivery messengers shall be en-
ployed on Sunday.
Terrible suffering prevails among the half
breed women and children at St. Laurent
Mission, Northwest Territory.
Telephone, telegraph and electric-ligbt
wires in Detroit are to go under ground
Chicago has a new Episcopal Theological
Seminary.
There were els patients issued for the
week ending Sept. Goth. which is the largest
number ever issued in one week in the his
tory of the Patent Office.
During the recent military manGuvres in
Austria. several bicvclists were employed as
orderles, and they got through their work
very well indeed.
George Halleye, proprietor of the Golden
Argosy, London magazine, has absconded
after defrauding the public out of 100000 by
lottery scheme
The London Truth says There is no truth
whatever in the report that Lord Coeridge
contempates an early retirement from the
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ing his office.
The colored people of Tennessee are rap
idly organizing themselves into temperance
alliances. The motto thev have adopted is
an appropriate ralying cry for all temperance
workers Freedom from the Dramshop is
the Elevation of our Race"
According to mehonored custom, the
Princeton freshmen, the other night, removed
the clapper of the college bell. Two of
them were caught as they came down from
the tower, and will be compelled to pay for
the clapper and for whatever damage was
done.
An American missionary in Armenia re
ceived lot of Moody and Ssnkey hymn
books through the mails, but the eagle-eyed
inspector of the Turkish post-offce decided
that Hold the Fort was intended to encour
age rebellion, and expurgated that lyric from
| every copy,
workmen at a Philadelphia iron works,
while carrying kettle of melted iron,
slipped and fell over a board. The contents
of the kettle was spilled over them, Burning
the clothes off their bodies and infiicting
serious burns. Many pieces of iron
about as large as dollar had cooled on their
bodies and were removed by the physicians.
Professor F. B. Dexter of Yale has written
a paper on Town Names in Connecticut
in which he says that of 100 names given by
public authority before the Declaration of
independence at least 81 were taken direct
from British sources. II came from peculiar
itles of location, S from the Bible, and only )
from names of prominent early settlers and
founders.