Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-06
General News.

The total length of submarine cables now
in use is quoted at 6S 900 miles
A West Lynn piano has had a new attach
ment put on il. The sheriff did it LINN
Item
Horses can now be supplied with artificial
tails of the most artistic quality. The big
gest tail factory is in Bridgeport, Conn.
Lieutenant Story, commanding an explor-
ing expedition, sailed from San Francisco
Sunday, for the newly discovered Putnam
River in Alaska.
The deaths in Boston last week numbered
1877. Pneumonia and consumption Led 81
of them.
The democratic and republican legislators
of New York are to play game of base ball
at Albany in aid of the Bartho!di's pedestal
fund.
The Rutland Herald saws that the steno-
graphers have taken and the type-writing
men have reproduced about $50 600 words of
evidence in the Page trial-more than the
whole number in the New Testament.
The maple sugar harvest in Sandwich, N.
H., lie estimated at So tons. Joseph Hay
ward of Acworth reports 1900 pounds, and
Messrs. Farnsworth of Washington, from
four orchards, 10000 pounds.
The recent sudden death of son of one of
the professors of the Columbia University,
Washington, was accounted for bv the pbysi-
clans who investigated the case by the youths
habit of persistent cigarette smoking. The
primary cause OF death was aortic regurgite =
ton, which had been increased by the inhale-
ment of cigarette smoke.
An elevator proprietor at Salina, Kan, Of
fers to wager $500 that Kansas this year will
not harvest 20,000,00O bushels of wheat
The yield of last year is claimed by the State
board of agriculture to have been so 900. 900
bushels. Estimates from California say that
the crop in that State will fall of fully one
quarter, save in the southern counties.
Tennessee man has five living kittens
all joined together like the Siamese twins.
So says correspondent of the American
singular will has been probated at Jasper,
Tenn. An old man died. leaving a large
property in trust, to be used by the trustees
in any manner they may deem best to sup
press the habit prevalent among men of eat
ing with knives when forks should be used.
The deceased says he has always felt the dis
advantages of early training in that respect.
He was in the habit of reproving every body
at hotels or elsewhere he saw using knives
for eating, and was monomaniac on the
subject, -Phiiadeiphi Inquirer.
The catch of Goldfish off the Newfoundland
banks during 1884 was the largest on record.
The French take annually 100000 quintals
of cod, worth 81 40. 600. Americans take a
large quantity, but no returns are kept. The
whole amount taken during the year was
,S30.+ quintals, showing Newfoundla nd to
be the largest and most valuable cod fishery
in the world. Next to it comes that of Nor
way, with an annual catch of 700, 800 quin-
| tails.
| LOOKING FOR DAISIES.
| just where some gray rocks skirted the field
A scraggy old oak did duty,
With only last summers bright fraitage and yield
10 remember and sigh tor its beauty;
over Its rough limbs, brown and bare,
Pattered the rain drops steady,
Seeking the burrows with sober care,
Making the iallow ground ready.
His ma e peeped out from sheltered fir,
/ with her russell brown dress aspattsr,
" nile her round brown eye, and a sad low chirp,
| , Spoke complaints of a serious matter.
SUI over the rain drops, and over the field
| brave Room was singing his praises
| Inc ven OF the clouds holds summer concealed
Dear love, We will wait fol the daises''
/ -Salelu f,d-effe