Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-26
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Items OF Interest tn
World Over.

The new eshman class at Princeton is
the largest that ever entered that college
II numbers 200.
Lenawee county Mich. is at present pay
ing out something like SIP day in bouniies
on dead sparrows.
There are sixty paper towns in Southern
California, comprising ~ $50 town lots, and
the whole 60 have only 235 inhabitants.
| The Government dry dock, just opened a,
the navy yard in Norfolk. Va is $50 feet ovev
all. and will hold 5000 900 gallons Of water.
II has cost over $500, 900.
The Mayor of Litchteld, ILL.,, was relieved
of his cash and valuables the other day by a
lone highwaymsn in the presence of six
policemen. The robber escaped.
Charles Lambe zedeu Milwaukee laborer
kept his little fortune Of 81 900 in stock
ing. The other day when he went TO look
for it both stocking and money were gone
Bagdad, on the Arizona and Pacific road
is said to be the hottest station on the road
The thermometer has stood at 40 deg in
the dining room and l2s deg. at midnight OF
the coolest side OF the depot.
Lieutenant Schwatka estimates the num-
Der of living elf dive oilers he has discovered
T
l2.00t. they are wild and shy. and upon
the approach of white people tiee TO theiI
caves in alarm.
The giant diamond la'ely discovered il
Cape Colony, and now at the Paris Exposi
ton, weighs 100 csrats, and is valued a
-, 000. 900. 1t is said to be of the firs
water ard a. pure as the famous Regent il
the French crown diamonds.
A bill making it illegal for anyone to lie
or sell houses unless n certificate Furnished
by a Government Inspector is produced
showing that the premises are in n perfect,
sanitary condition, is 10 be introduced in th'
British House of Commons.
| Mr.. Cummings of the Biddeford Time
staff who is in Chicago. was drafted rs
talesmsn in the Cronin trial the other day
/ He explained that he was not citizen Of
! Porkopols, but only a modest newspaper
man from Maine, ~hereupon he was excused
and given n seat Of honor within the bar.
/ A Buffalo carpenter committed suicide
/ last week and left letter alleging as his rea
son for the act that, having been engaged ir
the carpenter trade for many years he hat
decided upon doing something higher an,
better The Bible. he continued, says tina
lin my Fathers house are many mansions,
and some of them must need repairing So
having been good carpenter on earth HI
guessed he could get along in heaven.
lie then shot himself.
| A discovery referring to the iron age ha
been made at Gloppen. on tine coast of Nor
way. A burial chamber. IL feet in length an,
formed Of stone slabs. has been uncovered
containing the remains Of u man. Aroun'
the neck Of the body WAS cloak in per
feet state of preservation which revesle,
wonderfully rich embroidery Of images o
animals. In the hands had been place,
three interiseed wooden rings, resemblin.
the well known puzzle rings, an object neve
before discovered in ancient graves Tn
discovery has given Norwegian srchaolo
gists much food for speculation.
Observation-Disclosures, with 81 letters, i
said to be the longest English word. Othe
languages furnish numerous examples o
longer ones. For instance One Of the vii
lagos in the north Of Wales is called Lillian
tsirpw llgyna ll1ogerpw Handy pilwgogo. CT
the Isle Of Null. in Argyllshire, there is
place called Drymtsidhorickhii lichsttan
! The two longest words in the German Ian
guAge are Gesundheitswiede herste llungszu
sammenmisch ungsverha I'm Iii er an,
Constantinopolitauisc herd ute lsackpfeiferge
sellschsfts vereinmscher.