Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-28
STRAY BITS.

hAy 0ttOs
Tbs csule a popalatian sf 4ths Untssd
States is near Lo1isvflls. Ky.
Forty-nins suicides mako Monte Carlos
record for ths.last two ard . half montha
The Loadop Times pays out nearly $780,
600 year in salaries to its correspondents.
The heat Of the sun in the valley of the
Humboldt river, in Nevada, killed large num-
bsrs Of carp
Theodore Lamb, Of Virginia City, has q
sunflower plant that stands sixteen feet high
in its stockings
The working force in the principal new
gold miner discovered at Ishperning, Mich,
is said TO consist of two men
A hungry coyote that had wandered in
from the mountains was killed in one OF The
main streets Of Denver q few days ago
The cyclone In Kansas was not altogether
an i'll wind Thousands of English sparrows
were killed by lightning or beaten down and
drowned
A burglar who entered a Hoboken, N j.,
residence aud carried of all the silver wrote
In chalk on the manrel: Il love to take the
best in the house"
Mr.. Henry Scarlet, An eccentric and
wealthy farmer living near Atlanta, Ga,
was buried the other day under the largest
tombstone on record
Among the dead letters this year was one
addressed TO Charles Dickens, the lecturer,
requesting a copy Of your latest novel.
Cricket on the Hearth
h.
bulls and LOO horses have been killed in the
bull fights in the City Of Mexico. Two pic
adores have been killed by the bulls in that
time
Thomas B. Barry, of the general executive
board Of the Knights of Labor, says the
country was never SO free from strikes as at
the present time. The board has no strikes
to settle at all
The recent naval maneuvers Of England's
feet show that the "chef naval need of the
country is largely increased number Of
cruisers, and that tha prime factor in mod
ern naval warfare is speed"
Uncle ZACH Hash, the Oldest settler Of
Chandlerville Ills, remembers the time he
saw Abraham Lincoln plotting an odd look
ing fatboat loaded with hogs, whisky and
corn down the Sangamon river.
New York will hold big tobacco exhibi-
ton next winter There are 5O0,O90 retail
tobacco dealers in the United States and
10000 workers interested in the manufac-
ture Of smoking and chewing tobacco
A Nebraska man named Mickelwait, who
is travelling to Washington, weighs 400
pounds, and has to be carried in the baggage
car, being unable to enter a passenger car
He is in robust health, but is fasting to re-
duce bis flesh.
The receipts from shipping on the Suez ca
nal steadily increase. In July they were
$500 francs, against 8, 100, $50 francs IN
July Of 1887. The earnings in the first seven
months of the year were 81 OH ,S5S francs in
1888, and "a, $40, 900 francs in 1887.
One of the curiosities found in Maine is a
pine tree near Hallowell that smokes A
column Of vapor as large around as a mans
arm rises from the very top of the tree and
extends for several feet into the air. The
phenomenon is of periodical occurrence and
no one is able to explain il
Probably the lady who purchases ribbons
for trimming is not aware that she is con-
tributing to an enormous industry, but such
is the case. The demand for this fashionable
article is now so great that one state alone
New Jersey-turns out 56,675, 600 yards q
year. This is llo,025,OOO feet, or not quite
222,13l miles.
Illustrations of the longest existence Of
American families seem to be in order.
Among others who boast of long pedigree,
the owner Of the Farnsworth house in bed
ham should not be forgotten. Seven gener-
atoms of the same family have been born
and bred in the old mansion-a record not
often equaled in this country.
The novel spectacle of a funeral procession
of street cars was witnessed il Washington
recently. At the funeral of two employees Of
the street railway the other employees draped
an open summer car which was used to serve
as II hearse, and this was followed by q string
of cars, all draped, and occupied by the en-
ployes and their friends.
When the excitement about strikes was at
its height two policemen were patroling the
Rue de fArbre Sec One suddenly fell to the
ground, exclaIming: Il am killedr His
overthrow was produced by some Joker who
had thrown an enormous slab of ginger
bread at him, and the guardian of order had
mistaken it in its flight for paving stone.