Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-08
NEWS NOTES and READABLE
ITEMS
Fresh and Crisp from Many Sources.

The Missouri runs 1000 miles through
Dakota and is navgable the entire distance.
President Harrison formally opened the
Southern Exposition by touching an electric
button in the White House
The Paris exposition has had already 81
on 0,000 visitors Ii is the best paying worlds
fair that has ever been held.
A real estate fraud by which S3s7 900 has
been obtained BY Minneapolis and Indiana
swiDdlers has been exposed in Duluth.
The King of siam is a magnificent object
in state attire. He glistens from head 10
foot with jewels worth more than 81 ,000. 900
Strong efforts will he made by those ai-
rectly interested to have the Charlestowa n
Navy Yard reopened and there will be little
opposition.
EvaTgoist Moody. who is IN Rockfer'
Ill, received draft for s25O0 for the Gov
ernment from Canadian smuggler convert
ed by Mr.. Moody.
If the Chinese editor is as invariably truth
full as his American brother, then the Pekin
Gazette 10 1000 years old and has lost 1900
editors by decapita.
In London lately IA policemen were put
of duty in two days by bites, kicks, knocks
and punches administered al the hands, feet
ard teeth of the unruly citizen.
The board of officers examining the United
States training ship New Hampshire at New
port, are finding considerable evidence of
her unftness for use. and may advise con-
demnipg her.
Paul du Chaillu. who returned to England
last week from this country intends to pass
the winter in Egypt. NJ. du Chaillus neI,
important work will he an elaborate biography
of Gustavus Adolphus.
The Russian ukase forbidding female tel
egraphers from marrying any persons except
male telegraphists has been revoked. and now
they may marry ANY man of respecfablity'
after having obtained official permission.
| Eighty thousand dollars have been raised
/ by the people Of Johnstown to continue the
search for dead bodies abandoned by the
! State authorities. The misery Of the dread
full disaster in the valley is prolonged ant
I intensified by the mystery that enshrouds th'
fate Of hundreds of unaccounted for dead.
! A few months ago = London club adver
tised for a secretary. Six hundred candi
dates applied. The list included graduates oi
| Oxford and Cambridge, barristers, doctors
schoolmasters, solicitors, architects, and I
whole regiment made up from her Majesty
/ military and naval forces. The salary wal
$500 per annum.
A Brooklyn girl. who is an htiress bu
whose property is in care Of = trust company
applied to the President for money with whiel
to buy q sealskin sacque. He refused. on th'
ground that il was luxury. The girl theI
applied to the Supreme Court through law
yer for permission, and !, was granted, ant
in less than two hours the young lady VA
wearing the best one she could find.
Some years ago . daughter Of Harrie
Beecher Stowe gave Mrs. Frances HodgsoI
Burnett = thin gold ring. set with single
moonstone (mooostones are accounted a
lucky" stones). and shortly afterward sb,
made her first success in tile field Of litera
sure, where she had formerly labored il
vain. She laughinsly attributed her success
to the moonstone, and since then the ring ha
never left her finger, and she declares i
never will.
The translation Of legal documents from
English into Spanish 10 quite an importan
business in st. Louis. There IL also muci
correspondence relating to mines that mus
be translated A firm recently received
letter ordering supplies, in which the svt
languages were strangely mixed. One of tht
/ items called tor certain number Of "Monqni
Rinches" II took some time for the cleri
TO guess that monkey wrenches we're wanted
but his guess was correct.