Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-08
NEWS NUGGETS
Boiled Down Items OF Interest the
World Over.

Governor Fiizhuph Lee of Virginia i.
growing so stout that he can with difficulty
mount a horse.
Henry George is going to California in
January and thence will proceed to Australia
and New Zealand, featuring.
Elias Kerr, of IIanford, Cal, is herding 4
band Of 2 100 turkeys. lie counts them ever,
night and hopes to have them ripe by Thanks
giving Day.
Miss Cordelia Meyers, of Neville, Cum
berland county, N. Y, has piano which wa.
owned by the wife of President John Quincy
Adams. The instrument is still in excellent
condition.
A Philadelphia inventor is busy on a stree,
car floor. comprising stats laid crossw!se on
two endls IS rubber bsnds that revolve as the
car moves. and gradually roll the people up
to the front
The health of Lord Tennyson is now com.
pletely restored. The aged poet may almost
daily be seen frequenting the beautiful drive,
in the neighborhood of Iiaslemere, while it il
not unusual to see him walking.
A wooden mill at Charlottesville. Va, ha,
for three successive years obtained the con.
tract for furnishing the cloth for the fall and
winter uniforms of the Philadelphia letter
carriers-between 500 and 900 men.
Foundations for the new and great library
of congress are now building. Genera
Casey, the engineer in charge has about So ).
800, 900 allowed him for the structure. The
library will be large enough to serve for &c
years, and with small additions for l20
L. Al Ill
est constituency, is in the commune of Nor
teau. He is mayor of I2 inhabitants. and
the taxes last year amounted to 80 20. But
he was invited, all the same, by the govern
ment to meet his fellow mayors at the Paris
banquet.
The first Armenian church service evel
conducted in New York was there held last
Sunday Bishop Potter allowed the use of
Grace chapel for the purpose. The priesf
lately from Constantinople, was the Rev.
DIR. Saragian of Worcester, Mass, wher,
he has large parish
Mark Twain lives an idle, easy going sort
of existenc. during nine months of the year
Unlike most authors he works all summer
and rests the remainder of the year. Hi,
home is a handsome red brick Queen Anne
villa, the principal attraction of which is
large library on the first floor
$ Sadacbi architect of Toxic, Japan. i,
nov IN An official visit to this country, arc
is now in Washington famliarizing himsel
with the governments methods OF doing
business in the construction of public build
ings. He will visit Chicago and the princi
pal cities of the west in few weeks.
Buenos Ayres paper atfirms that ther,
is now in Bolivia surgeon, Luca Silva by
name, whose age lie not less than 1879 years
He was born in Cochsbamba in 1850 an,
devoted himself. after graduating in medicine
to the practice of surgery. Lately he was
taken to the house of Senior jose Ramallo
President of the Dramatic College of l.,
Psz and gave lucid account of the revolu
ton in 1869, which resulted in the emancipa
ton of his country from the Spanish yoke.
An immense boa constructor from the val
ley of the Amazon arrived at New York
few days ago on the steamship Augustine
consigned to Donald Burns, a menageri,
agent. When Mr. Burns went down to CLAIM
the constructor he found that it had got on
of its box and was winding about all over thu
deck. Finally the boa constructor got Mr.
Burns thumb in his mouth and bit it. Thu
plu, KY dealer in animals held on to tn,
reptile and pu. it in a box. His thumb wa
dressed by a ply stefan, and the wound i
said TO be not serious.
The other day Messrs Frank and Clark
two Wyoming hu tiers. were passing along
thick growth of ~illo rs 90 the Sybille. wheI
they heard noise in the brush They start
ed 70 investigate, when suddenly FIVE bear
rush ID cut ard confronted them They acte,
~ quickly as possible, and used their Win
ciesters with deadly effect upon three. Fiv
were too many for them. however, and be
f,re they could even fire at the remaining
two the beasts were upon them. They wer'
three miles from camp, and literally in thu
embrace of two bears. One bear threw hi
arms around Frank, who succeeded il
slipping bis head under one of th'
bears foreiegs, 90 that the brute coul'
not attack il, and, obeying the instinct o
self -prt servsti, n, reached round to his hi
pocket fer his knife. The act was quickl.
( his hand and bit it Though. Meanwhile
4 Clark had succt eded in freeing himself from
the bear which had attacked him, and hs
/ dispatched it He promptly came to Frank
a.sistaBce, and shot in the back the bea
which clu,ched the latter. This so enrage
the beast that it Immediately released Franz
and attacked Clark. Frank now turne
rescuer, and, notwithstanding the severe in
| Jury TO his hand, succeeded in getting in
very good shot, which struck the bear in tn
shoulder, and brought il to the ground
Both men were badly scratched and bruised
and their clothing vas torn.