Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-05
STRAY BITS.


lands both show decline
Artificial flowers were first invented byths
nuns In an Italian convent
Six hundred thousand Frenchmen own
shares in the Panama canal
OF the total Indian tea crop Of $4,000, 900
pounds Assam produces II 10000.
A Kansas lad Of 10 years Is in jail for
stealing fifty horses during the past year.
Laundryrnen in France clean linen with
out soap by rubbing it with boiled potatoes
A Clydesdale colt has been sold for 5000.
the highest price ever paid for draught
horse.
New York city consumes 5000 melons
day from the beginning Of the season until
October.
There Is a runor that King Solomon's
mines have been found In tbs Fembobo
mountains
One watermelon doctored with half an
ounce Of strychnine killed 1900 rabbits on
ranch at Traver, Cal
The daily consumption of needles in this
country Is said to be 4,2o0, 900, most of which
come from Rsdditch, Eng.
A reward Of 1900 is offered for the dis
CCVeEy Oh u pfDrt1ss WLtIEDy I<1lhrA SoA - ~<sA
be prevented from swelling.
Returns for 1888 show that British live
stock has decreased As per cent compared TO
1857 and 7.S compared with 1885,
William Carter, aged 81 years, has been a
coroner for afty-one years, and Is the Oldest
coroner in England He succeeded his father.
The coolest town in the world is Wercho-
jansk, in Siberia, where the mercury has
sometimes recorded a temperature OF 80 degA
below zero.
Wrapping fruit trees with cloth TO keep
them from being injured by sunburn and in
sects has proved disastrous TO the trees In
Shasta county. Cal
The editor Of Die Bevolkerung Germany
estimates the population of the world to be
i,4S4, 10000 NJ. Levasseur French puts 1t
at /, 49,. 0O0, 900, difference Of 100000
A Philadelphia barber makes the statement
that there are fewer bald heads among the
people of wealth and fashion in Philadelphia
than among the same class Of any other
American city.
One Of the citizens Of Salem, Mass, Is
Frank f. vistorato, who, when he was lad,
was one Of the /, 200 Greeks that, under Marco
Bozzaris, made the famous charge at Car
penizi In August, 1923
English physicians condemn cigarette
smoking because IL produces throat diseases.
Even the best cigarettes are dangerous. They
cause more consumption Of nicotine than
either the cigar or the pipe.
A postal card sent from London around
the world via Hong Kong and San Francisco
returned to its destination after q tour OF
seventy days. This is forty days less than
the time taken ten years ago.
At an international horse show to be held
at Paris next year S43, 900 will be distributed
in premiums. Thoroughbreds, Arabs, Anglo
Arabs, half breeds, cart horses, mules and
donkeys are the classes agreed upon.
English farmers have turned against the
sparrows as pest to agriculture and are
offering rewards for their destruction. 1t IL
asserted that these birds cause a loss to ngri-
cultural England Of SAC, 200, 600 to $50, OO0,-
600 per year.
Dakota is $50 miles one way and $50 miles
the other But this is nothing to Texas,
which Is s25 miles one way by 740 the other,
while New York Is 4l2 miles long and 312
miles wide, and Georgia is 800 miles long and
2f5 miles wide.
A Philadelphia peach merchant says that
as far west as st. Louis there is hardly
town of considerable size that does not con-
sumo car load Of peaches, containing COO
baskets, every day. There is no difficulty in
disposing Of the greatest crop
A Georgia man is ready to swear that COM
mon soda Is the sovereignest thing on earth
for the bite of either mad dog or snake-not-
withstanding there is not the remotest pos
sibility that fishing parties and SO on will
substitute it for the usual antidote.
The advisability OF badges for physicians
is beng discussed In medical circles prefer
ence being shown for an olive colored button.
The fundamental idea is that distinguish
ing badge would be Of great value in case Of
a hasty demand for a doctors services
Tho age at which most suicides take place
in the United States is s. 1t would seem
that in ear middle life the disappointed
hopes ore most keen and the effects Of an Ill
spent youth most disastrous At IS many
Americans feel the wearisomenesS of old age
Dr. Zambaco, Of Constantinople, who has
lived for several years among the lepers Of
the far east, says that he has never met q
single instance Of contagion, although the
malady is certainly hereditary, the children
of lepers becoming leprous at the age of 10,
10 and 70 years generally
The old Puritan, Governor Endicott,
planted pear tres which is still standing,
very much alive, in the village Of Danvers,
though the governor himself he dust 1t IL
the Oldest cultivated fruit bearing tree In
New England, is of the variety Bon Chre-
ten, and was brought from old England
The colossal statue Of William Penn, which
tnn
hall at Philadelphia, will be the largest
bronze figure ever cast, standing thrty-seven
feet in height. The model is completed but
there is no foundry in the United States
where the casting can be DONE
Indians in the United States last year cul-
tivated 227 ,265 acres of land and raised 724,-
o5S bushels of wheat, 934, 912 bushels Of corn,
5l2, 1877 bushels OF oats and barley, 524, 0l0
bushels of vegetables and 10l ,S2S tons of hay.
They also owned 35s, 1854 horses and mules,
11l,4J7 head Of cattle, 40,47l swine and ,117,-
273 sheep.
Martin Wiles, bathing master Of the Mo-
bican house, Lake George, while digging the
other day under the roots of big cedar not
far from the beach, found quantity Of In
dian weapons, evidently of great antiquity,
and portions of a human skeleton, which
crumbled into dust as soon as exposed to the
air. The weapons were arrowheads and stone
hatchets of curious design
Government statistics recently published
place the population Of the Russian empire
at los 1877 ,23S5, OF which 81, TBS, 1855 are in Rus
sia proper, 10, l36, 725 are in the other prov
inces Of Russia in Europe, and l6. a25 ,325 in
Asiatic Russia st. Petersburg is the most
populous city, with total Of SCI, SoS The
population of Moscow is 752, 400, Of Warsaw
a., 29S, and Of Odessa 240 600