Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-28
STRAY BITS.

The guava crop in Florida this year VIII
% immense.
A tree was cut down at Orting. v T., that
measured $40 feet long.
Carriage horses, only fairly well .aatched,
in Buenos Ayres bring 5000 pair.
Jerry Moron, Of Hancock county, W. Va,
is over 10 years of age and scarcely three feet
high.
A justice of the peace in Doddridge county,
W. Va, has been fined for selling whisky un-
lawfully.
The lima bean crop of Ventura county,
Cal, this year will amount to 5000 tons,
worth S400,0O
Philadelphian fed peanuts to the polar
bear at the Too" and the ungrateful ami
NAL bit one of his fingers of.
The heavy rains Of the past month have
seriously damaged the cotton, corn and to-
bacco crops of North Carolina.
George Freeman and wife, Of Lothrop, Mo-,
have been married thirty years and are the
parents of twenty-five children.
A charter has been granted for a railroad
in Liberia 1t will be the first in that ccun-
try. Its length will be $50 miles.
A strange and fatal disease has appeared in
GuayaQuil, Ecuador. Victims fall in the
street, vomit foam and blood, and die.
More buildings have been struck by light
ming IN northern New York during the first
half of 1889 than in any previous year.
Electric welding has proved so wonder
fully successful in the United States that for
eign companies are actively organizing.
The collection OF Shakesperean rarties col
lected by Mr. Halliwell Phillips are to be
sold to the Birmingham library for R7,000
After courtship that lasted an hour
young couple in Akron concluded to get
married, and were welded the following day.
The agent Of the Broome County, N Y,
Bible society has discovered that there are ia
families in that county who do not possess a
Bible.
The California state board Of trade reports
that there are IL, 1000, 900 acres Of arabic land
in that state capable Of being rendered pro-
ductive by irrigation.
The Newport cottagers, in their fight
against the street railway there, set up the
claim in their bill in equity that they own to
the middle of the street.
The keeper Of the great seal" Of the Unit
ed States is George Bartle He has been in
the government service for forty three years,
having originally been appointed clerk in
the state department by Daniel Webster.
The city Of Toledo, O., is in luck In order
to checkmate the Standard Oil company the
city government bought land at Van Buren,
and drilled well. A few days after gusher
was struck that will yield 5000. 600 feet Of
gas per day.
The III luck attached to the number thir-
teen struck little Katie Fehling. of New
York, with full force. She is IL years old
and is one Of thirteen children in the family.
At 5:l3 she was arrested for shoplifting and
pleaded guilty.
The cutlery dealers Of New York complain
that the prevailing humidity has rendered 1t
necessary to put their stocks Of penknives,
scissors, chisels, etc, on the wheels to be re-
polished This has involved an expense OF
thousands OF dollars.
A railroad regiment has now been added
to the French army, and the minister Of war
is about to set it at work constructing an ex-
detrimental line within a given time. The
regiment is expected to do everything con-
nected with the laying Of the line.
A Philadelphia dealer, not being able to
sell even a single pair OF shoes OF a certain
grade at 81. thought to mark them down to
the advice of his errand boy and added
twenty five cents to the price, and they went
off like hot cakes.
At Farmersburg, Ind, local Judge, dur
ing the progress Of a sensational trial recent
ly, hired q hail and charged an admission
fee Of ten cents from each specie or to the
trial. Even the attorney for the defense in
the case was refused admission to the court
until he had paid his fee.
A Philadelphia named Humphrey, who
has been enjoying the delights At Bar Har-
Dor, has q high appreciation Of the honesty
Of the colored servants on board the boat
running down to Boston Mr. Humphrey
left his purse, containing s266, under bis pill
low, and it was found by q servant and for
warded to him
Joseph A. Donohue, of Menlo Park, has
offered to the Astronomical Society Of the
Pacific to establish q medal 70 be given to
the first discoverer Of every unexpected
comet, ard to the first person making pre-
else observation Of . telescope periodic
comet at any Of its expected returns