Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-15
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Some Baltimore boys, while playing
'sWild West, banged one Of their number.
One days Newspaper and magazine mai
in the New York postofice weighed 134 tons
There ara now more Cinnamon in the
Sandwich Islands than native male Hawaii
ans
The Telephone Exchange, Of Stockholm,
Sweden, is equipped with American apps-
ratus.
Wenham, Mass, has a monument to the
memory Of a cat that lived to the age OF 20
years and 2 months.
The temperature Of space Is about 500 degA
below zero, Fahrenheit, while that of the sun
is over 10000 degs. above.
The people of vanceburg, KY, are discuss
ing the singular fact that the last ninety five
babies born in that town are all girls.
Ten head Of young cattle belonging to
William Green, Of North Danviile, VT, were
recently killed by lightning at single stroke.
Two Strike Is the name Of Sioux chief at
the Pine Ridge agency, D. T. He derives
great comfort from the fact that he can never
be put out.
A lady tourist on Pixies Peak was struck
by lightning at the very top Of the mountain,
away above the clouds from which the belt
proceeded
II all organic life were reduced to one mass
and spread over the face of the earth, it
would only cover the surface to the depth Of
q foot or so.
From GO, 600 600 to $40, 0o0, 900 worth Of
old ieweiry lies idle in England, and various
firms have began to melt it down to make
new patterns
The first sheet Of plate glass manufactured
in the United States is still doing duty in one
Of the show windows Of store in Pearl
street, New Albany.
In the stomach Of a young girl who died in
Portland, Ore, was an abscess. In the alb
scess was piece Of india rubber from the
head Of a lead pencil
In the Cnitod States one man in every 200
takes a college course; in England, one in
every 800; in Scotland, one in every COO; in
Germany, one in every 2l3.
The ancient custom of ringing the curfew
bell has been resumed at Stratford- Avon,
the same bell being used as that which was
tolled at Shakespeare's funeral
The tennis ''arrn' has been succeeded by tho
tennis LEG" 1t consists Of rupture Of the
membrane covering the muscular part Of the
calf in consequence of sudden starts.
The English ironclad, the Superb, will
have the largest engines in the navy, they
being Of the triple expansion type, with low
pressure cylinder l08 inches in diameter.
British sportsman recommends that the
bantam. which is particularly pugnacious
no. l..
having it become an available bird for sport.
William Pool, OF Limestone Hill, W. Va,
has powder horn that Gen. Washington
gave to his grandfather over a hundred years
ago. Mr.. Pool prizes this treasure very
highly.
The swiftest bird on the wing is the frigate
bird, q sort of nautical bird OF prey. 1t can
fly more than 200 miles an hour, but there is
no trustworthy record OF the speed of which
it is capable.
Up In Nova Scotia town three little boys
bound and gagged another six-year-old and
then cut his throat with rusty knife. They
were playing at killing Pigs and, they
said, wanted to See red, red blood"
OF the fast trains Of the country the
longest continuous run is that of 1l3 hours,
% minutes, upon the Southern Pacific line
from San Francisco to New Orleans, 2, 495
miles. The average speed upon this line is
twenty-five miles per hour.
A cane made by prisoners confined in tho
state prison at Carson, New, was sent to
Senator Stewart. The cane is composed of
1914 pieces of woJd and thirty five different
varieties are used i'll its construction, coming
from all quarters of the globe
nrla Ds
deepest ports in tho world, the least depth
through the jetties being thirty feet six
inches and thirty foot channel being $50
feet wide. Above the jetties in the pass the
minimum depth is twenty seven feet.
A woman named Scelwig, living at the
Malaga mines, near Halifax, went to den
fist to have thirteen teeth extracted After
two had been pulled sho begged him to desst
He refused. and her husband Aeld her down
while the remainder were extracted. The
woman died two hours later
1t has been discovered that large portion
of Utah is underlaid with a stratum of water,
which may be reached by boring wells from
ono hundred to two hundred feet. The wells
flow SO literally that one of them will water
five or six acres thoroughly. The desert is
literally made to blossom as the rose"
The French have discovered method of
making smokeess powder, the detonations
of which are scarcely audible, SO that the
the firing will not reveal the whereabouts of
an army. This invention and the superiority
of the Lebel rifle have excited greaa atten-
ton in military circles in Europe, and are
likely to effect u revolution in warfare.
A delicate act of charity is ascribed to a
grutf, taciturn old physician in Colorado
mining town A poor, aged minister was at
tended by the irritable doctor. When the
preacher had sufficiently recovered to dis
peuse with further medical attention he asked
for his bill Your billi Here it is, said
the doctor opening his pocketbook and hand
ing the minister's wife a $40 bill.