Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-22
STRAY eIrS

In Curonean Russia from 1871 to iS'7 no
less than 2.3.so EerS rs werS Siusd by Light
ming.
Th-re are SEGA languages IN the world. and
its inhabitants profess mors than LOCO ~
lisionA
An experiment recently made in Scotland
prnScs that the tortoise Gun walk . mils IN
four bourx
We have over 10000 miles Of railway In
the Unitc,i States md this year ve shall
build 1900 miles mora
The Russian minister Of railways has H.
s,e,i an order that in future all passengers
who play cards will 10 ''judcially pursued"
The occupants OF an Astoria. Orc hostelry
fish frum their BEDROOM windows and haul
in their supper from the surgin. water about
the hotel foundations
There are on the earth 1000 OoO 900 inhab-
itanta or these SiGs3Gsi die every year
0lSA every day. s.7:D every hour, and 20
every minute or one every second
james Miles. mn Idaho man. refused tochip
In even a nickel To bury fellow towns'nan.
and bolt of lightning killed thirteen horses
for HIM OH the day Of the funeral
The London Telegraph has rrreived q 400
ktters on the question. lis Marriage q Fail.
ureF an issDe, after all, which can h prac-
ticsily deciied by two persons better than
BY a million
less than fifty years ago there was not q
photograph camera in the world. to-day there
are lhD0 photographic establishments to
say nothing Of the Thousands Of amateur
outfits. in the Untel States
4, IL ,asI , hat bara n ra mn rv,cy,
in America who get shaved three times
week. That means nm expenditure OF thirty
cents a week, or si5.fo a wear for each man,
or for the 1900 900 sl5.6n0.OOO annually
A few days ago a spring burst voluntarily
forth from the ground Immediately i'll front
Of the Central hotel in las Vegas. while the
artesinn vel borers in tn" same town nre
searching frultlessly 50 far at a depth OF
t,l00 feet
Archibald Campbell. while out driving
near Cincinnati the other day. pulled out his
handkerchief tn wipe his nose Mrs Osborne
was Al her. gate AMI Thought he meant TO Hlrt
with her. and she followed him up and shot
him in the arm
Tho physicians ut Eelevu. hospital have
advertised for four haDded baby year
a-o Girl baby with three nearly rerf-ct
hands attached to her right arm was brought
to the hospital ard the physicians wish TO re-
discover the phenomenon
Il has hitherto been thought that Euenos
Ayrr-s was one of the most extensive cities to
live in, medium sized house rcntin. there
for t2.too year Ii is learned. though, that
an eight room house in the outskirts Of sgd.
ncy brings Sl,75o year.
1t is sail that in eight cases out Of ten II n
man gets $4,000 all OF sudden he will
either go cracked in the he1d or make
laughing stock OF himself Tha,'s doubtless
the rrason why Providence keeps $4,000
away from 80 many of US
The practice Of running trains on the left
hand tracl; is nov beng largely Put in force
b. railroad corporations throughout the
United States The custom originated in
/ England. and affords the engineer a better
AID fuller view of the tracks ahead
A sin~ullr coinridcnce occurred at A.
toria, Ore Mrs Clooncy died at 3 o'clock il,
the morning quite suddenly. after having
bc-l in good spirits all d,y Her canary
bird. which had hecn singing all day. died at
the exact time Of its mistress death
The famous French physician Charcot, the
ispecialiSt in nervous diseases. has a ROYAL in
come from his practice His fec from tho
emperor Of Brazil alone amounted to Is 600
HIS reception room, where patients wait
their turn. IL filed with costly paintings and
sta,uarv and carved furniturr, while stained
class fila the windows and Gobelin tapestry
covcrs the walls
A correspondent writiny fror, Colts Isl
and. Me-, claims that this favurel island
harbors neither tramps, rats nor musqui-
toes No run is sold there, neither is there
any mud lie has never sccn al intoxicated
per on On the island, md but one house was
burned for over 100 years The people arc
not afraid OF thieves and seldom fasten their
doors ut night. except in cases OF gales Of
wind, and there is not dos on the Island