Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-18
General News.

Four thousand persons are annually buried
in ''Potter's Field of New York city.
Ireland manufactures more linen than AM
other country on the globe and wears less.
The first load of new wheat from Texa
reached st Louis on June 30
British policemen are prohibited from vot
ing at parliamentary elections.
Minneapolis Touring mills are now manu-
featuring but 5000 barrels of -four weekly.
In Austria 3 900 women are employed il
the railroad service, getting from SIS to $3.50
a month.
Nine out of ten Russians eat with wooder
spoons, from wooden plates and bowls, anc
drink water from wooden dippers.
The Sandwich Islanders have a base bal
league, the champion club of which is the
Oceanic of Honolulu.
Delaware papers are figuring on peact
crop this season of about two and hall
million baskets
The four American cities of above 20, DOC
inhabitants having the highest natural sites
above the level of the sea are Leadville, Den
yer. Omaha and Atlanta, in the order named
Rerchenberg's system of employing the
same wire for telegraphing and for use of the
telephone simultaneously has been tried with
great success between Toledo and Madrid
wealthy Cuban has fitted out a steamer
solely for the purpose of catching sharks.
His object is to make bloody war on the vo.
racious creatures, and he expects to kill at
least 5000 every year.
An Irish counsel being questioned by a
judge to know "for whom he was concerned, "
replied II am concerned my lord, for the
plaintiff, but am employed by the defen-
dant.'
In Japan there are three distinct classes OF
ti,.,
ties being hereditary; the "Shzoku," or
soldier class, and the "Haimin." or common
people.
There are in the United States abou. 800
clerical bcyclists, including twelve doctors of
divinity, ten theological professors, some
twelve authors, several editors and many
pastors of prominent churches.
A New Orleans negro minister sees indica
tons of decay and even dotage in the white
race. He warns the young and vigorous
negro race not TO amalgamate with the rapid
y-degenerating Concessions.
A ST. Paul shop girl was discharged from
her position in fashionable glove store be-
cause her hands were so small and delicate as
to put to blush its lady patrons, thereby ser
iously affecting sales.
Richmond, Va has a novelty in the wav
of vigilence committee. 1t is composed
entirely of ladies, married and single and their
special mission is to seek out wifebeaters and
cowhide them. They are usually found in q
saloon
Bombay's ice is provided from immense
machines. in which the ice is manufactured
daily. Recently the water supply gave out,
and for three days no ice was to be had.
During the time the death rate of the city
more than doubled.
During the cholera epidemic of lS64-65
the workmen in seven contiguous borax fac
tories in Italy were quite free from the dis
ease, which killed of one-third of the popula-
tion of village in their immediate neighbour
hood. An eminent Italian physician recon-
mends internal administrations of borax as a
cholera preventive.
The Presbyterian clergymen and elders of
Ireland are debating the subject of instru-
mental music in the churches with much talk
and some virulence. At the recent annual
assembly large proportion of the delegates