Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


There are y 20 thieves over 10 years Of
age in England
Therc will t. Tudor exhibition next
winter IN London.
At the last census Paris contained 9s.0so
horses and IS i!uics
Sir Thomas Dakn, ex-lord mayor of Lon
don, was buried la paper coffin.
A sixtv-one pound salmon has been fished
out OF the Severn iy IA Mr. Ffennel-
British people drink annually five pounds Of
tea per head per annum. The French average
is only half an ounce,
succession of unusually frequent and
heavy thunder storms in Paris has led people
to blame the Eiifel tower as the cause.
The latest eccentricity in the evening cos
tune Of the jeunesse doree in London appears
to be the wearing of white tie with a thin
edging of scarlet
Four hundred and forty-two men have gone
in for honors at Oxford, against 4i6 last year.
New college sends forty seven candidates and
Ballot thirty-four
II has been found that a nickel plated bull
let will 90 through man, where one without
will stop short, and England will hereafter
nickel plate all her bullets.
There is giant rose tree in Roostoen, Hol
land, which has held 5000 Roses at the same
time. The owner, Mime. Regimen. considers
it one of the great wonders of the world.
The Parisians, it is said, are shortly to have
the opera and drama laid on to their houses.
like gas and water, by the theatrophone.
The cables, it is stated, will pass through the
Partisan sewers
The Austro- Hungarian cavalry regiments
are to be armed with revolvers having car
trdges of eight millimetres caliber, that is,
tine same cartridges as those used for the Man
licher repeating rifle.
\ Frenchman tried his flying machine in
the suburbs of Paris the other day. He flew
off barn and il will be several months be-
fore his broken legs will allow him to canter
around as blithely as before,
Great preparations have been made at
Oberammcrgau for the Passion Play next
year New costumes have been procured.
The orchestra and auditorium have been in
creased at au expense Of .e7,0W.
man with an artificial face has been at
tracing much attention at an English water
ing place He had an artificial cheek, eye
and palate, fitted by q surgeon of Bristol He
eats without the slightest difficulty and speaks
distinctly
An admirable society fer the help of bache-
lors has been started in London. The pro
gramne is to provide persons who Will sew
on buttons, darn mend and otherwise care
for the neglected habiiments Of unwedded
gentlemen
The scissors -ng' have made their APP
pearance in London. Tnese petty thieves,
armed with scissors, frequent great crowds
in Paris, and use their weapons for the pur
pose Of cutting the NANTES Of fashonably
dressed ladies'.
The new cartridge recently tried at Vim
cenneS, France, has given surprising results
The metal cartridge is dispensed with, and it
can thus I've adapted Instantly to all military
rifles. 1t is also smokeless does not clog the
barrel and will cost 20 per cont less than the
ordinary cartridge
Fifty wears ago there were probably not
more than from . 800 10 100 900 acres of fruit
lanl IN Great Britain. In 1872 the date Of the
first reliable recorl. it had increased to near
ly l7O,000 acres, and Mr. Whitehead, we'll
known authority. estimates the present acre
age at pa, 600 acres.
A peasant found IN the earth at Szllagy-
Somiyo, Hungary, hidden treasure contain
lng twenty nine bjects in gold. which are
said to be the Fourth century work There
are three drinking cups Of SOLID gold. deco
rated with enamcls, a gold bracelet such as
men wore, and golden brooches carried by
women on their shoulders.