Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-13
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j., b named Pizarro Caesar
The new United States postal card will bs
big enough to write letter OH
There are go central electric light sta
tons in various parts Of the United States
Professional rat catchers receive salary
OF 81. .IU a year There are hut ten in the
United States
Homestead entries were made during the
last two months in Cullmau county. Ala.
tor over 500 acres
During a thunder storm at Dennson. Tex,
the wheel Of a sewing Machine was melted
by stroke of lightning.
A stone at Woodsviile, N H., Is said tn
mark the boundary line Of two states, three
counti.s and four towns
Steubenville, o.. man suggests that a
day like Arbor day be set apart annually for
the destruction Of the English sparrow
A Canton o.. man undertook to eat
twelve tsoiled eggs in fifteen minutes. and 1t
took two doctors bring him around again.
The bennington battle monument, that Is
TO te Ul feet high has reached u height OF
l94 feet The rainy summer has retarded the
work
A feminine summer boarder. who recently
kilei a rattlesnake in Passaic county. N j.,
will wear the tanned skin OF her victim as q
girile
deathbed marriage took place lately In
Winsted Conn The groom was well to do,
and wiilei all his money to his wife He was
a years old
Somebody has discovered that nearly every
one Of the worlds famous beauties was born
In summer, at a time when the earth seemed
to smilingly welcome them
The no ton gun at Shoeburyness is stated
to have cost kl5.OO0, and the carriage. with
its various mechanical devices for handling
Il, 81 go. total of E2GO0
1t is stated by one of the guides at the
,apitol in Washington that fifteen brides an
hour is the average number Of visits to the
statuary hall each day Of the year
The elm tree that shelters the Sheldon
homestead at Deerfied. Mass. is one Of the
oldest In the state. and its history can be
sraced hark automatically for 200 years
A young man from Philadelphia has lost
ais job as school teacher in Accotnac county
Va, by chucking the girls under their chins
~ 5eohJ wv" uHS niSsiit6 btIctu At tsStBoL
In 6 n Francisco one day recently water
melons sold so low that WHOLESALE. deal.rs.
raths' than still further glut the market,
threw a consignment Of $500 into the hay
According to German paper, there Is nov
living at St Hubert old stager Of rs. who
take daily exercise on a bicycle. and Is re-
nowned all over the country side A. an expert
rider
The diary of the famous Baron Friedrich
Won der Trenck, cousin Of the notorious Franz
von der Trenck. which purports to lie written
with his own blood while prisoner at Maggie
burg. is now offered for sale at Leipzig
The statisticians of the Pennsylvania
weather service have calculated the rainfall
Of that state during the summer, and find
that II gathered in one place it would form
lake 81 600 miles square, and IS feet deep
A man named William faines, I02 years
old, has been converted and has joined
Methodist church in st Louis He says he
was never sick day IN his life He va. Ali
orderly on Gen Jackson tan in the war Of
1872
The craze for pearl fishing has EXTENDED
from Wisconsin into Illinois At Belvidere,
on the Kishwau q" river, a baker found 800
pearls. for which. ii' has been offered in Chi
cago an average price Of thirty five cents a
pearl
A remnant Of the Seneca tribe OF Indians
still fingers in Warren county, Pa, sTearing
fish, ETC.. for a living Tho tribe all told
barely numbers 900 members and has %
iwndled that marriage among blood rela-
tons has bes'ome almost necessity
Clinton A. Snowden. of Tacoma. saw bees
going and coming from hollow tree He
built a fire. smoked out the bees and cut
down the tree to get the honey He found q
great lot Of it; but, better still, large quan-
tity OF gold was in the bollo~ trunk
The house in which Oliver Wendell Holmes
~as born is still standing on the common at
Cambridge, Mass. and is now one Of the col
iege buildings II Is an old gambrel rooted
house and during the siege Of Boston Il was
the headquarters Of the Amer can ofiicera
A party Of fossil hunters ars having good
luck In the North Fork country Of Oregon.
They have found the bones Of small horses
with three toss on each foot; rhinoceros skulls
and other bones that show, as they think,
that Oregon had tropical climate before the
glaciers came down from the north and GOV
cred the land miles deep with ice
One Of the jewels which Col North, the
nitrate king" brought hack with him from
Chill was . miniature canoe. fashioned Of
gold after the model used by the Peruvian
and Chilian warriors hundreds Of years ago
in the construction Of their war canoes. Col
North Announced that he felt much inclined
IN build raein. t.oat on the lines Of this lit
tie canoe. AMI II is nov rumored that he In
tends I" r,ssn-iei the Thistle b this manner