Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-31
HERE AND THERE.

Modern needles first came into Use in l5i5.
Harvard distributed $4,000 to INDECENT
students last year
In the time of King Edward II the price of
the Bible in England was A31.
Electric lights are now being used by sub
marine divers with great effect
A phrenologist has been making money of
late i'll Washington examining the bumps on
senatorial heads.
Most of the London churches have offered
up prayers for the recovery of the crown
prince of Germany.
Volapuk is publicly taught in France, Ger
many, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal,
Austria, Russia, and Denmark.
The Grand Army has increased from
G0,634 in 1850 to 81, 574 in 1887 The gain in
the past year and quarter was 45, l5I.
An immense hunting expedition is about
to start for Masailand, the ground of Rider
Haggard's last novel, ''Allan Quatermain.
The hospital Saturday fund in London
amounts to $4,000 this year. Collections
are made every Saturday in workshops and
factories.
Several German firms have given notice to
houses in Bradford, where there are many
Germans, that they will adopt Volapuk in
corresponding with English manufacturers.
The London Times says that a few weeks
ago some excavations at Pompeii brought to
light a set of surgical instruments, many of
which resemble instruments in use at the
present day.
John Edman, an Ohio man, proposes to
start a daily newspaper in the Finnish Ian
Of Icbn oh lar I
be the only daily in that language published
in the United States
Maine man as an experiment clipped the
fleece from pet Newfoundland dog and had
it carded and spun into yarn. 1t yielded four
skens of jet black yarn, weighing two and
one-quartcr pounds, and was as soft as wool.
solid lump of coal, containing eighty
seven cubic feet and weighing 6,35l pounds,
was exhibited at the Texas state fair recent
ly held at Dlllas. 1t was the largest block
of coal ever taken from mine in the United
States.
1t is said thst the most acceptable Of ell
holiday presents to a lady from her husband
OF brother, or any friend who has a right to
give it, is a long, narrow strip of tinted
paper on which is written: PAY to the order
Of - s, C."
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis, an American couple,
have been travelling for four months through
Eur"De on a tandem cycle Their Joint OK
pcnscs by this mode OF travelling have been
limited to twenty-six shillings a day, sight
seeing fees included.
Mr. Jc-5e Haworth, of Bow lon. Cheshire,
has presented to the British museum the
throne ch,.ir of Queen llatasli, OF the eieh-
! L. 4.
is the oldest piece of furniture in the world,
the date of which is known,
An example Of economy was that of Igratz
i'reund in his Detroit store, who lighted the
gas jets one after another with n single
match until it burned his fingers, and then
dropped il into pile of cotton, the result OF
which was general panic and damage Of
$3.50.
In France l3l, 1882 francs are expended
on public instruction, and IL 1885, 55 on the
fine arts. There is an elementary school for
every Ar inhabitants, and primary attend
ance of !, 'sc, 06,i, o! the entire Appropriation
this year l,fjO,019 francs were set down for
primary education
Recently consignment of $50 boxes of
raisns from Fresno, Cal, We're shipped via
the Sunset route to New York The weight
of the consignment was All. O1J pounds, and
it occapied special traiA Of TIVE lty cars. 1t
was tn largest single shipment of freight
ever made from California. and regular rates
were paid
A PhiladeIphia merchant savs that in
orenino the mail in tina morning ba always
reserves for the last thosc letters which have
..Tbe Honorable prefixed to the address
His experience has been that in nine casas
ont of ten thew are written by persons Who
ASH some favor and make use of the nrofiv
in mild attempt Mt flatterv
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