Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Items OF Interest the
World Over.

Senator Evarts will return home with hi 8
eyesight entirely restored.
Thieves at Franklin, Neb carried off the
,300-pound hammer of a pile driver.
Captain Ross. the noted Indian iehter and
father of Governor l.. S. Ross. is dying at
his home in Waco, Tex.
ii. NJ. Flagler, the standard oil mag nate.
who owns the finest private car on wheels,
has just given orders for the most magnif-
cent steam yacht that can be built.
In her breach Of promise suit against
Charles Ray. Hannah Jeffreys, Il Hartford
domestic, said he was the seventh chap who
had promised to marry her and then went
back on his word
Chinese doctor in San Francisco 10 said
to enjoy an income from the practice Of his
profession of $4,000 per month. He has
been in America nearly 30 years, and many
Caucasians are among his patients.
Premier Crspi of Italy, has received over
1000 kilograms congratulating him upon his
escape from the attack of Coporali. King
Humbert has sent telegram every two hours
inquiring as to the condition of his favorite
minister.
Julia Hawthorne. who accompanied the
Scripps League excursion of American ork-
in2men to the Paris exposition as historian,
says that second and more careful study of
London leads him to the conclusion that there
is more vice to the square mile in that city
than anywhere else in the world.
Karl Falkenstein, the inventor Of the
smokeless powder, was chemist at Vienna
only three years ago. lie offered his inven-
ton to the Vienna war office, which, with
true Austrian faulty, scOrnfully declined ne
go,iations, so he went of to Berlin, where
the authorities purchased his invention for a
round sum.
dajor X. II. Partridge, of Monticello,
Fla has an old saber which was picked mp
in an old field near that town several years
ago. With it, at the same time, was found
steel armor weighing 50 pounds. Both
the ssber and shield bear the marks of anti.
quity, and no one has ever been able to ac-
count for them.
At Delsnd. Fla. few days ago, Amanda
Worthy, cOlored, fred at q coachwhip snake
which was chasing one of her chickens, and
shot the Methodist preacher, who was sitti ng
at his writing table 800 yards away. The
reverend genileman's wound is serious and
painful. kut not necessarily fatal. Amanda
was fined o. and costs.
President Carnot is not a hard worker in
| the sense that hard work is understood in
America. He does not bother himself with
details. He keeps a sharp eye on all that
is going on about him, but he does not con
| slider it his duty to perform clerks work
He would not dream of working as President
| Cleveland used TO do, and as President Harri
son now does. Like all Frencbmen, he is q
late riser.
Mr. Walker Blaine, who 10 in charge OF
the arrangements for the meeting Of the In
ternationsl American Congress which
| convenes next month, has secured as a
meeting place for the Congress the hand.
| s.me Wallach residence, corner Eighteen
and streets Washington. A large bal
room III serve for the general sessions of
| the Congress, while the smaller rooms pro
Y de ample accommodations for the commit
tees. 1t is near the State Department and
Otherwise conveniently located.
| The Queen of England is one of ths
| hardest worked officials in the realm. Apar
| from her private correspondence there i,
hardly a government office that does mo-
! daily send her boxes Of documents, warrants
etc, requiring her signature and attention
There is not a question of precedent. Ell
quette or change Of uniform in the army OIL
detail of military and civil orders and deco
rstions that does not come under her imme
diate supervision. The Daily Court Circu
| lar is carefully edited. revised and CORE ctet
| By her Own hand. and the punctuali,y witt
which she returns documents submitted fo
her signature 10 said to be marvellous.