Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-12
CRISP CONVERSATIONS


A Trutm shief got i've yeazs ~
sealing ssventy-fve cent knife
a diamond has been found in the CAps
diamond field weighing $40 carats.
OF 5000 criminals arrested In Paris.
n. 900 had not attained the age Of 20.
Over .o.0co.0oo pairs Of suspenden
were made in the United States last year.
At awkinsville. Ca. . spread has
Just been finished in which 6.S77 yerds
Of thread were used
Owing to the failure Of the rice crop
in Corea the government has prohibited
the expectation Of other CEREALS
A Washington paper SAYS that not .
dollar Of conscience money has been re-
ceived at the treasury for two -earS
A stone crab was exhibited at Char
Iotte harbor. Fla. recently. whose claw
measured six and one-hak inches in cir
cusaference.
4 block Of flrewood was recently 70
ceired at Portland. Ore, that was cut
from tree which was 100 feet high to
the first limb.
T. J. Summers. Of Americas. Ga,
drew something of curiosity out Of his
well the other day. 1t looked like an
eel. excep, il had four legs and web feet
At Willows. Cal. flock Of wild geese
settled down on forty acre field of
grain and picked it clean in two hours.
The number Of birds was estimated at
rs 900.
The far famed city Of Damascus, SO
bound up with memories of antiquity,
and SO oriental in all its characteristics,
is to have street cars and be lighted
with gas.
Capt Frink. Of South Windham. Me-,
who has been almost totally deaf for
nearly two years. during a violent
sneezing attack few days ago regained
his hearing.
A Lewiston man has invented de-
vice for stopping runaway horses. 1t
blinds the animal by clapping something
over his eyes. The mechanism operates
from the drivers seat.
A Port Jervis, n. Y. man got clear Of
a charge of robbing clothes line at
Middleton by saying he was pulling the
clothes from the line with the intention
of making himself bed on the ground.
A person convicted of any crime in
China, except that of numbering one Of
the royal family. can hire substitute to
take the punishment. even if it is death.
The rate of pay of these substitutes has
lately advanced about 90 per cent, and
the cause is laid to the English.
A Cincinnati establishment each year
beats out 1900 gold dollars into gold
leaf. and as each dollar can be made into
a sheet that will carpet a room 1871 feet
square. some idea may be formed of its
tenuity. 1t requires | 400 thicknesses of
gold leaf to equal sheet of thin paper,
and 2S0, 900 TO form an inch.
James Carroll, San Francisco milk
man. is the possessor of q horse whose
hide is covered with thick mass of
curly white hair, about three inches in
length. When seen from a short dis
lance the hide presents woolly appear
ance. and the animal looks as though
nature had given him the skin of sheep
through mistake.
The mania among dog fanciers in Eng
land now is for greyhounds. Greyhound
pups have recently brought MS high as
$50 guineas. That price was paid at
recent London auction for the celebrated
greyhound puppy Fullerton. Sixty to
seventy guineas is common price for
greyhound pups with any claim TO
blood"
The new American navy. when COM
pleted. will consist of twenty-five YES
sells, ranging from the armored cruiser
Maine, carrying IA men. down to a
first class torpedo boat. carrying four
officers and eighteen men. There will
be 5.1SG men on board the twenty-five
vessels-500 officers nnd $3.50 sailors and
marines.
The dangerous feat Of climbing the
loftiest peaks of the Alps in midwinter is
becoming common. Several cases of re-
cent successful ascents ardfeported from
Munich. On the Goth and 30th of De-
cember two Germans assembled the Tug
Spite, peak in the Bavarian Alps more
than 5000 feet high On the same days
some Americans assembled peak about
G.o00 feet high. near Berchtesgaden, in
bavaria