Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-24
General News.

A new law in North Carolina requires all
deeds dated since 1925 to be registered.
A Chicago boy of IL has been arrested for
stealing cabbsges, the proceeds of which went
fo- liquor.
Now that rage for chestnuts as a cure for
rheumatism has come up again. Eli Perkins
has set out for the East.-N y World.
The two year old child of Farmer Jean
Baptiste Romilly was borne away and killed
by large bsld-headed eagle at the village Of
St. Vincent de Paul near Montreal, recently.
Samuel Duell, who lives near Woodstown,
N. j., recently showed field in wheat which
he himself had sown in rye just three-quar-
tiers of century ago.
A Chicago man called at an undertaker's
recently and ordered an outfit for = funeral.
CDR. - sent me here" he said. "Oh,
yes," said the undertaken, "Dr. - sends US
all his work"
The Chinese of Tacoma. WASH, have
lately been warned to depart, and have agreed
to do so if $500 is paid to them tor their
unmovable property. 1t is thought that the
money will be raised.
Another solution of the perpetual motion
problem 10 announced 1t is . "wheel within
. Wheel" and the principle that was hit upon
20 years ago is said to be now perfected, in q
ulACuIuc ouOp NJ hdClue, w
Sacramento, which had almost forgotten
that it was the birthplace of Mary Anderson,
is now greatly excited over the actress ex-
pressed determination to revisit it after her
transatlantic triumphs. -San Francisco Alta.
The bishop of Mines has begun an ener.
getic campaign against bull fighting, which
was growing formidably into favor on the
French side of the Pyrenees. The sport il
denounced as altogether bad, and Catholic
newspapers are forbidden to advertise or re
port Journeys.
writer IN the London World says have
had handed to me private letters from per
sons in the town, who state that there have
been as many as nine cases of cholera daily
in the last few weeks, and | have also seen
letter from an hotel keeper at Nice acknowl
edging the same thing.
The fisheries of New foundland appear tt
be decreasing. Statistics show that in ISL;
a vastly larger quantity of Goldfish was caugh
than in $780, and this, too, in the face of the
fact that double the number of people is now
engaged, that the appliances for capture are
trebly efficient, and that the fishing are,
frequented has been greatly extended.
The height of absurdity seems to hav,
been reached in the prizes offered at riff,
competitions of the British volunteers. The
rewards of a recent contest were bottles o
whiskey and gin. gallons of beer. a clothes
brush, pair of braces and fork, spade ant
shovel. The winner of another competition
found himself the proud possessor of pig
head.
The Paris American Register saws tn,
cleaning of the windows in the new Vienn,
city hall is no sinecure. That building con
tains 1900 windows with full panes and SO(
stained windows, making a superficies OF
%, 100 square metres. and entailing upon the
municipal authorities an annual expenditure
of 10000 forms. 1t has been found more
profitable to increase the personnel sufficient
so rs to dispense with outside aid in the win
dow-cleaning process and yet to make a saw
ing of POO fiorins.