Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-05
STRAY BITS.

Ruby Paradise is the name Of a pcstmas-
ter at Concordia, Kan.
A Gngle day Of heavy fog makes the city
of London pay f40,Oo more for gas.
The Russian government is pushing rail-
road across Siberia with great energy.
The United States sends 100000 barrels of
apples every year to foreign countries.
Fifteen young Moors from Morocco have
gone to Italy TO study in the military
colleges.
A Germaa tourist has Just encircled the
globe at a cost of f1s0. and the voyage took
ls5 days
A social philosopher foresees the day when
the primary school desk will be supplied with
typewriters instead of writing books.
Sir John Lubbock, in his lecture on
''Savages,n says that the negroes never kissed
until they were taught by the white people
Queen Victoria is going to institute an
order of literary merit, consisting of twenty
knights, fifty knights champions and ioo
champions.
China has at the present time ] 500 tenn
piles to the honor of CONTIGUOUS, at which
g.. 600 pigs, rabbits, sheep and deer, aud
q 900 pieces of silk are offered annually.
The largest electric light in the world is in
the lighthouse at Sydney, Australia. 1t has
the power of $50 600 candles, and can be seen
at sea fifty miles distant Americas largest
light, a4,OoO candle power, is at San Jose,
Cal
A butter dealer recently sold quantity OF
bad butter at a residence in Indianapolis
When he next returned he was invited IN
Hc entered and was seized by the inmates,
stripped of all his clothing, and buttered
from head to foot with his rancid wares
The petrified remains of a huge monster
have been discovered near Knoxville, Iowa
The body WAS between fifty and sixty feet
long with head almost four feet long and
two and half feet wide, with four eyes
The sockets of the eyes are eight inches IN
diameter.
A manufacturer in New York state is en-
gagged in drafting a design for car to be
made entirely OF wood pulp. 1t will be light,
cheap and indestructabe by fire or collision
If it should be thrown off the track it would
simply bound into the air and settle down
into its place.
Sebastian Muller, a Swiss, lately arrived
~
Yankees with his feats Of strength. He is %
years old, 5 feet inches tall, weighs a
pound and a half less than 200. is magnlfi-
Gently developed as to muscle, and can break
q six-inch cobble stone with one blow of his
fist.
Of the !, 4O6 students Of Michigan univer-
sity, it is stated by President Angel that the
parents of 5G2 were farmers; III merchants;
90 lawyers; 50 physicians; So manufacturers;
"a mechanics, and 81 clergymen. He esti-
mates that as many as 45 per cent, belonged
to the class who gained their living by
manual toll.
kangaroo leather has become SO decidedly
popular for shoes that {, 600 skins are re-
cicved and tanned in Newark, N. j., alone
each week. But that means most of the
skins used, for they are sent all over the
world from the jersey tanneries. One result
is that kangaroo hunters in Australia are
making money. They get 70 cents pound
for skins, and some of them clear from s2,OOO
to 5000 year.
A San Francisco justice of the peace for
INFLATED an oath for Chinese witness like
the following: II swear by the Chinese gods,
foreigners god, the God of heaven and earth,
that if am a liar in this case my head will
be cut of the same as this chickens head is
cut Off and that l will he drowned III the
ocean and never get back to China and
while repeating the oath the Chinaman held
cleaver in his hand, with which he severed
q chickens head from the body when he
finished the words.