Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-15
STRAY BITS.

The parcel post i'll England is very popu-
lar Nearly l30,000 parcels are handled by
it every day.
1t takes every year 600, 600 horses tails to
keep "a Pawtucket (R. L. haircloth factory in
running order
1t is said that there are more millionaires
in Bnenos Ayres than in any other city of its
size in the world.
An Anglican curate performed the mar
riage ceremony for child II years old in
Kensnston, England, recently.
An unfortunate Maine baby that happened
to be born on TIE day of her grandparents
< iden wedding was named Anna Ve,'s;.iy
The opera Is said to be having hard time
all over the world; hut twenty-five new ones
were produced in Germany last year and
thirty five in Italy.
Dr. Merriman. OF North Adams, Mass, is
riding this winter in sleigh that is 225 years
Old II was made in 1863 for his great-great-
grandfather, and has been in the family ever
since.
\ petition for the suppression of bull
fighting in the Federal district of Mexico,
including the City Of Mexico is receiving
the signatures of thousands of the capitals
citizens.
The desert of Sahara has been largely re-
claimed by French enterprise. Forty-three
GASES have been created, having 1890 in
hahitants, 10000 forest trees, and 100000
fruit trees.
The Electrical Review says that the light
ming rod is IA relic Of superstition, and that
the day will come when lightning rod on
house will be regarded in the same light as a
horseshoe over a door.
A French headle, while attending funeral
officially, caught 81 yht of hare in the Gene
terry, and after chs q killed it with his ba-
ton, and was fined 70 francs for killing game
with prohibited arms"
A railroad engineer of Erie, Pa, fell vio-
lently on the ice, striking on the back of his
head He is recovering, but finds when
standing erect he is wholly blind though he
can see as well as ever when lying down.
The people of Exeter, N H., are going to
celebrate in June nexs the 250th anniversary
of the settlement of tieir town, and have all
the arrangements now made. These include
the quarter millennaL"
There are no Tower than 2,076 general
officers in the British army, to which may be
dNItu i.bio EtttfaS VINO nave reUlre0-
Nearly 800 generals are paid for making
after dinner Speeches about the British
army always doing it's duty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jane o. Robinson are solid
citizens OF Charlesgo~n, MISS They have
been married fifty ears. Mr. Robinson
weighs .7S pounds. IRIS Robinson weighs
225, and of their seven living children none
weighs less tl,n 200 pounds.
According "a stat tics gathered by The
Railroad Gate there were in December
last nine, r-',,1 railroad collisions, eighty
three deraii'nna.s ana seven other accidents.
making - III. IL y hich seventy-one per-
sons weIs' aii1i and 2ll injured.
A it'll ri of Metz. IA years old, named
Louise Gr',S, has ju>5 been condemned to
eight da IupriSo ~. ut for having insulted
the emperor of Germany. The insult con-
listed in writing g pirate letter to one of
her little friends, in u hich there was some
thing disrespectful to his majesty. Such
sentences are said to be quite common in AL
sare-Loraine, and they can add no strength
20 the popular love for the conquerors.