Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-12-03
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There are 1000. 600 women tn ths
United States who work for wagss-
Within, the last two years l43 persons
have bsen convicted fer stealing oooks
in Paris.
Il Is proposed In Toxic. Japan. TO erect
. large monument 70 the memory Of
Gen Grant
The terms Of an election bet caused
Jersey City man 70 sit two hours on
picket fence
Estimates Of the number Of dogs In
the United States fix il al 20, 0C0. 600,
and their cost Of keeping At 500. 5000
per annum-
There are on earth / ,0spo. ooo. 900 inhab-
itants. OF these 1903, 033 die every
year. o. .s54 every day. 8, 100 every hour,
and 60 every minute. or every second
A new dog is coming into fashion In
London Il is the Tartar fox terrier.
His coat IL silky. smooth and red. with
markings at head and tail He Is good
tempered.
A hornet few into the mouth Of HAr-
rison Sands. near Syracuse, the other
dav and gave him sting which resulted
in his death He had his mouth open
to yell Pats
The lantern Of Tullamore Light, near
Portland. Ore is 1870 feet above the sea
level. vet several times the glass has
been broken and the lights extinguished
by severe storms.
In WaIla Walla Valley, Ore. four
crop. of strawberries have been gath
cred. pear trees have yielded three crops,
apple trees two crops, and numerous
other fruits the same.
The public debt of France is now over
g, 90. 900 go, and taxation Is so hlgh
that everybody is growing ard finding
fault The government must have an
other billion for the army, however
The five great continental powers OF
Europe now have l2 600 900 men under
arms, not to mention the naval arma-
ments, almost double in size the whole
sea fighting force OF the world twenty
years ago.
There has Just been landed at San Fran
cisco freak worth mentioning In shape
Of black mare from Australia that Is
utterly and absolutely without hair, even
where name and tail ought TO be. In all
other respects she is model OF the equine
race.
The largest artificial basin for docking
and repairing the hulls Of ships in the
United States is being completed at New
port News, Va. 1t is 600 feet long, 1870
feet wide with depth of 20 feet over
the sill at high tide 1t is furnished with
pumps that can empty it in two and .
half hours.
William H. White, Of Seattle. w. T.,
went to bed with SCI in his pocketbook.
He woke up three or four times during
the night. examined the money. and
found it all right In the morning what
was his surprise to find all his wealth
gone and the sides of his pocketbook
bullying out with a piece of soap.
Louis McMurray. the first man TO sue
cessfullv can oysters and the owner of
the largest corn canning factory in the
world. died recently at Frederick City,
Nd He began business in 1851 in a
modest way. and before his death en-
ployed more than 1000 hands in single
establishment. He leaves behind large
fortune.
The first inventor Of the sewing ma
chine turns out not to be Howe. but q
man named Thomas Saint, who took out
his patent in 1860, sixty years before
Howe produced his machine A machine
made according to Saints specification Ii
now being exhibited at the exhibition OF
sewing machines and domestic appliances
at the Royal Agricultural hall Ellington.
novel watch is being manufactured
by the Waltham Watch company. The
case plates are of Brazilian pebble or rock
crystal Holes are drilled in the crystal
plates for the various screws and fittings
the pivots are set in rubies and sapphires
and the plates are held apart by sapphire
pillars The dial is skeleton Of gold
Diamonds mark the hours and rubiee the
minutes. The watch is, OF course, trans
parent.