Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-20
General News.

1t is reported in London that Mrs. Laugtr,
| is writing novel.
| A suitable location for life saving servic,
is being sought for on Nantaske, Beach
The business portion of Tulare, Cal. wal
DESTROYED by an incendiary fire Tuesday night
Loss. $3.50, 900.
| tiny green frog, imprisoned in big cake
of ice, was set free at Naugatuck, and begsr
| to hop when the sunbeams had warmed it.
| On and after Oct. l, on the Third av enue
Elevated railroad, New York, the rate of fare
will be reduced from 10 to 5 cents
At Jefferson, Ga, on Tuesday, by Consent
| of the parents, William Thornton, aged IA,
and Matte Smith, Is, were married.
Another attempt will be made to launch the
big raft of eight thousand tons from Joggins.
near Halifax. to be tugged to New York.
Hon. George ID. Wise, member of Con-
gress from the third Virginia district, Rich
mond and vicinity, declines denomination
The voters of Wisconsin at their next
election will vote on the question of allowing
women to vote in school matters
The liquor dealers of Providence have or
Ranized to fight and defy the prohibtory law.
and propose to carry on their traffic in spite
of all authority.
The first herring caught each year of the
coast of Holland belongs to the king, AZ the
first English sturgeon belongs to Queen Vic
toria.
The latest fashionable crank is a Cane Nav
woman, who in addition to a very remarka.
BILE costume, wears a hustle into the water
when bathing.
The difference between some men and a
dog is that they will go into a saloon topeth.
er, and the dog will come out perfectly sober
- Woodbury.. Ark. Tdette.
The will of the late DR.. William Riplev
Nichols bequeaths all his scientific apparatus
and scientific books and pamphlets on chemi.
cal, sanitary and other subjects to the Massa.
chusetts Institute of Technology.
The effort insugurated in Indiana a few
months ago to raise 800. 900 for a monumen,
in memory of the late Vice President Hen.
dricxs, has collapsed. The collections thu.
far amount to less than $4,000, and have
virtually ceased.
Townspeople in Minnesota are being swim.
died BY young women, who sell clocks on the
instslment plan and collect 81 at the ii me OF
delivery. confederate follows and claim.
that the clock was stolen, giving its numbe,
in proof. The victim loses the clock and
50
The architect of the Garfield monument at
Cleveland, NJ Keller, denies that the height
| of the structure is to be decreased because tbs
foundation is insecure. He saws the pro.
posed alteration of plan is question of taste
with the trustees. and also of economy. The
amount saved is to be used in interior deco.
| ration of the mausoleum
Paris physician has brought before the
French Academy of Medicine the results of
his investigations concerning color blindness
He has examined ll,l75 persons. Two of
these only were incapable of Distinguishing
| one color from another, three were blind for
red and six for green, Is could not distin-
guish green from red, 10 saw no difference
between green and blue or gray, and 50 had a
peculiar weakness in color vision in general.
More than year sgo a woman in La
orange, Ca, while feeding large flock of
chickens, dropped diamond ring from her
hnger, and not being able to find it, conclu.
ded that one of the fowls had swallowed il.
Ii was not thought best to kill all the chick.
ems In order to find it, but the internal ar.
rangements of each fowl afterward killed
were carefully examined. A week ago the
ring was found. 1t was under the dirt ;ust
where it had been lost.