Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-03
HERE AND THERE.

Maine has fourteen cities. and Waterville
will soon be added to the list
The average Mexican laborer supports his
family on ten cents per diem, invested in
corn end beans.
There are forty-three log school houses in
Iowa. This is the number given in the report
of the state superintendent for 1887.
A low estimate puts the number of persons
supported by all the forms of employment
furnished by electricity at 100000
The "Great She" is the name of the latest
gold mine speculative company in London.
The mine is said 10 be in South Africa.
During 1887 eleven and one-haif tons of
postage stamps-nearly l70,000, 600 in number
were sold at the New York post office
A Greek named Dmitlius Ant:ppa has
just died at Constantinople at the age of ll5.
He knew Robespierre, and possessed several
of his letters.
There were not fewer than 3, 459 matricu-
lated students at Edinburgh university last
year, and the value of the scholarship and
bursaries which were disposed of was $4,000.
A train on the Alabama and Great Southern
railroad dashed through a drove of fifty
mules at Akron recently and killed eight of
them outright The locomotive kept on its
way without leaving the rails.
One hundred and twenty bull fights We're
given in the City of Mexico during the past
year. Seventeen bull ii shters were wounded,
and one professional and two amateur fight
ers killed.
The prize for the eifectual destruction of
rabbits offered by the New South Wales gov
eminent Is being warmly contested. Already
$50 inventions have been sent in to compete
for the $50, 600.
The Corean never cuts his hair, and he
wears it in braid down his back until he
gets married, when he has the right to curl
it on the top of his head A man is not sup
posed to be a man until he can wear his hair
on the top of his head
The champion ''Benedictn of the civilized
world is Francois Sauron, wood ranger of
Saint Paulien. He is 6S years old. and on
Jan. 10 was married for the sixth time to a
widow of CO. His last four marriages have
occurred in the last four years
More and more paper is taking the place of
woodwork. Paper doors are now largely
substituted for wooden doors. The paper
doors are better for the reason that they are
lighter: they do not shrink or swell with
changes of weather; they are made from sin
gle sheets of paper nodded into any desired
pattern, and they are not dearer than wooden
doors.
A Hartford man started a good fire in a
sheet iron stove in his Office, forgot to close
the draught, locked the office door and went
TO drive. When he came back he found the
fire out: but it had made itself felt before
going out. Everything in the room was
scorched, apples on shelf were baked. and a
dog that had been locked in was dead, evil
IDENTIFY suifocated.
A rival to Dakota for the championship in
low temperature is Wercbojansk, in Siberia
Tho mean temperature i'll 1855 was 80 degs
below zero. For January and December il
was g dogs, below, and for July it rose to 20
dogs. above zero. The lowest temperature in
July was - dogs, above, while in January
fail to 81 tlegs below zero was experienced.
This attractive winter resort is in latitude g.
degs. 81 Minis. longitude lS3 dess. 81 minis.