Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-13
General News.

Lead, copper and silver have been found at
the Abingdon mine in Massachusetts.
Vermont dairymen are dissatisfied with the
law taxing oleomargarine.
On the assembling of Parliament the queen
will make very short speech.
"Nothing but the air admitted free" is
| notice in one Chicago theatre.
Wagner and Ruylens, socialists of Brus-
sells, have been sentenced to five years tor
melting violence.
"Poor Richard's Almanac" has just been
translated into Chinese, making 81 languages
into which it has been rendered
The red, white and blue of the Union Jack
are the colors adopted by the English Union
| lists.
A horse thief lately arrested in Denver had
| ridden his stolen animal over 400 miles from
| Nebraska.
| Gotta, an Italian tenor, being Kissed at
| Gporto, threw himself from a window and so
put an end to himself.
Lettuce leaves fried in butter make a
| Creole dainty They are also regarded as a
delcacy in central Pennsylvania.
England has Dickv Bird Society COM
posed of 100, 900 children. Its aim is to en-
courage protection of birds and animals.
The $4,000 floats used in the Albany BIZ
centennial procession have been knocked
| down by the auctloneer for S74.
| letter directed as follows passed through
the Napa (Cal.) post office recently "Napah
City, Leunatick ascilem, Younited ST."
| As much as $1,000 in small coin has been
gathered by the New York World for the
purpose of sending to Gladstone a silver axe.
| Fifteen Berkshire, Mass, Prohbitionsts
held county convention Tuesdas, and de-
cided to push things.
The English war department has succeed d
in making a cannon which cost 81 100000,
| and uses $1,000 worth of ammunition every
| time it is fired
| A railway fagman at Galena, ILL.,, has
| taught a tame robin to hop out of the flag
| house and wave little flag whenever a train
approaches.
| 1t is said that the Concord residents do
| not look with favor on the annual influx of
philosophers and some of them ridicule the
whole affair.
Among the products of Shasta county, Cal
| now on exhibition in San Francisco, are
growing cornstalks IA feet high and an onion
that measures Ia inches in circumference.
The longest clock pendulum in the world
is ut Avignon, France, 1t is 81 feet long. and
requires four and half seconds to swing
through an arc of nine and half feet
When the Texas people get ready to build a
town they do it in hurry. Ballinger, a new
town in Runnels county, is less than one
month old, but it has 2000 inhabitants and is
still growing
At the next election the people of Wiscon-
sin will vote upon the question of allowing
women to vote on school matters Those
who advocate the proposition are quite con-
tident of carrying it.
One hundred and five thousand nine hun
dred and eghty-two persons are employed in
the breweres and Gistilleres of the United
States They earn in wages each month
about l2,250, 900.
Funds are being raised in Texas for q
monument to the memory of General Thorn.
as J, Rusk, who was secretary of war, COM
mander-in chief, and chief justice, success.
slvely, of the Texan republic, and afterward
United States Senator.
Excepting Harvard, William and Mary in
Virginia, founded in 1893, is the oldest col.
lege in America. 1t can now boast of not a
single student, and the last dollar of its en-
dowment will soon have been spent. There
ss New York policeman named Moon.
Quite appropriately he is on the night force.