Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-23
STRAY BITS.


William Shakespeare Is now managing .
London theatre.
The cost OF public education in Prussia b
Is cents per head
The Target grape crop ever known In Cali
fornia is now maturing
Vancouver Island coal is to be mined at
the rate Of 1900 tons day.
Snobisne is the latest word which France
has borrowed from England
Irrigation has produced great crop Of
mosquitoes at Los Angeles, Cal
Executions by electricity viii be compul-
sory in New York after Jan | next
The French propose to send pigeon mes
sages from ship to snip upon the broad seas
A French laundryman cleans linen with
out soap by rubbing it with boiled potatoes
The 'l000-foot tower at the Paris Expo
sition viii he only 954 feet high 1t viii take
2,500,0 600 rivets to put it up.
American plays, actors and actresses in
England are getting good share of atten-
ton
One hunired road wagons have been
shipped from Midd.ebury. VT, TO Buenos
Ayres.
Memphis is the greatest inland cotton
market in the world, receiving from 700 900
TO 100000 bales yearly.
A Butte Call man who began farming en-
rented land ten years ago has this year $6l,-
600 worth Of wheat to sell
The deaf often hear conversations when
there Is music going on, which they could
not hear when there was nc music.
An artesian we'll sunk under the salt waters
Of New York bay, on the Jersey side, pro-
duces pure fresh water in abundance.
Florida is 70 grow opium 1t is expected
that sixteen plants will grow an ounce Of the
drug, and that an acre viii give s., 600
profit.
The municipal councilof Paris has granted
ground upon which to construct the Jovis
balloon, in which he proposes to cross the
Atlantic.
A Kansas ranchnan predicts that cheap
beef and mutton OF the future will come
from the immense grassy plains of Brazil and
the Argeatine republic.
The Panama canal lottery has not proved
success. The canal will require only about
500 100000 more to complete it, making
about $3.50. 900, 900 in all
Some high dignitaries Of the Chinese EN-.
pre- who we're lately detected in selling
false decorations and credentials" like
Wilson, President Grevy's son-in-law, were
condemned 10 be beheaded
A society has been formed out in Oregon
for the importation Of German song birds,
TO he turned loose in the country, where it is
hoped they will increase, multiply and make
music in the now silent woods.
There are Two sunfower stalks Of natural
growth al Rochelle, Fla, one OF which has
1000 and the other /, 1856 blooms and buds
The stalks are about ten feet high, with
branches reaching out about six feet
The salute OF seventy-two guns fired at
Berlin when the new empress gave birth to
son marked the first time since 1909 that a
similar event has happened in the case of a
reignins sovereign of the Hohenzollern fam
ilv.
A new use has been found for the district
messenger boy The walters in down town
New York restaurant went on strike re-
Gently, and the proprietor rang for number
of boys, and thus temporarily supplied the
places of the waters until others could be
engaged.
a new route for the Nicaragua canal has
been discovered which is much more favor
able than the line laid out in 1855 By the new
route it is said that the total leagth of the
excavation from Ochoa to Greytown will
not exceed nineteen miles, and will consist of
several short embankments instead of one
lo.,; one Tho cot Will be greatly reduced.
There is now on exhibition at the Alexan-
dra palace "A steam life boat built of steel. 1t
is absolu ely unsuitable, is uncapsizable,
worked with twin screws placed in position
where they will not be lifted out of the water
and can be raised instantly on coming to
shore. The engines and fires are perfectly
protected, and the draught of the vessel with
fifteen men on board is only twelve inches
Within the antarctic circle there has never
been found "A towering plant In the arctic
region there are 49, kinds of flowers Fifty
of these confined to the arctic region
They are really polar flowers The colors of
these polar flowers are not as bright and
varied rs our own, most of them being white
or yellow, as if borrowing these hardy hues
from their snowy bergs and golden stars.
a Chinese merchant who sailed from San
Francisco for home few days ago is re-
ported to have accumulated a fortune of
100000 in Peru during the asS lirteen
years. His name is Chun Lee, wears q
queue, according 10 the Chinese Jon, but
dresses exclusively i'll the European fashion,
even to the high standing collar and tight
fitting CATERS Before his departure he gave
grand banquet to the Chinese niandarins OF
San Francisco -