Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-21
STRAY BITS.

The zouave uniform is to be abandoned by
the French army
New Workers. devour a million quarts Of
ice cream OIL "A Sunday.
In London the women are beginning to
wear the single eyeglass
Wood pavement lasts about seven years in
STRAITS where the traffic is heavy
Buffalo. D r., has a 3-year-old boy who
weighs eighty pounds and is four feet high
About 25,0OO,0O0 letters pass yearly be-
tween the United Kingdom and North Amer
lea
A thief at Parkersburg, Pa, dug up field
Of potatoes during the night and carried
them off
Stuffed rats and mice are said to be one Of
the fashions as ornaments in bonnets and hats
for 1880
The mouth of Calumet river, enptying into
Lake Michigan. has moved east ESQ feet
since 1896
An Ohio farmer says that one of his hens
has produced an egg every day for the past
six months
More than 2,0JO,OOO of the youth of India
are now receiving an education in the Eng
lish language
A West Virginia man suggests that the new
postage stamps he adorned with the picture
of Baby Mckee
Cheesine, the most recent American prod
uct is said to be composed of skim milk.
alkali and hog fats
There are 5000 benefit and burial clubs
registered in England and W ales, with funds
which amount To L .UOUDOU
A pear tree at Sandy Hill, Pa, is well
filed with fruit, and one bough is covered
with blossoms People 60 miles to see it
Last year the value of the farm stock
CATTLE sheep and pigs-on the farms of the
United Kingdom was about ti42.00J,ooO
A western paper gallantly remarks that
1.-THE LAZY prisoners IN our jail are about the
most desperate lot We have seen in IA long
time"
Two kinds Of divorces are granted in Cir
cassa BY the first the parties can iInine-
diately marry again. by the second. not for
year
A salesgirl employed by New York dry
goods house polite and agreeable to an
aged customer. who recently died leaving
her ST. so
In 1871 each lamp in London cost 81 lbs.
81, this rose to f6 Us 81. in 1872, it is now
f3 Is. ID for square lamps, and f3 s. l0d
ior round lamps
Johh fredericks ana MS VIE and Henry
uhahls ana his VIE. OF ihporte' Ind, were
al W s u ~, sue 10" VI 'e'' u'i i"e '''e''
a'e " ''"e'
A Louisville man the day aftcr being bitten
by inosluit" was seized with COMMISSIONS,
MS right SIDE t"ciiine paraiyzed and he was
"'' "a i''''e'i 70 I'VE
Ata wedding IN Arizona recently the bride
received with other gifts, furnished house,
mule. heifer, barrel Of beer. cask of
wine some whisky and corkscrew
A silver bell has been hung in a tower in
the village where the railroad accident to the
car train happened, and it will be tolled
every day at the hour of the accident
A Massillcn mother tried to open her sons
eyes to the uyliness of the girl with whom he
was blindly in love by giving him n good
strapping. He thinks the girl prettier than
ever
A musical clock over one hundred wears
old furnished twentv-four pieces Of music for
the entertainment Of the guests at the golden
welding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs Jacob
Schneider. OF Hellert1wu. Pa.
p,,,,ha, ,,,,,.,,,,,. announce, $780,, ...
-;a,-as Il, so oasa H., - 49,, 10 !,
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bridegroom was 30. This is the system which
Punditn Ranabai is struggling against.
.c,,ord;n,- 70 u,ohir., o.,,,,.
.whar 1,,r..i,, 81, Id - Cs.,,,,,r
-,,r,, ,r,,ss..s De-, .>,.,.-;..,
~, ,,,lic, r-o,xr which l,,,,,
yna,s a,,., a,d c,,s, a;e,h,e.,, CONT 49,
bay, ON being rescued. maintained complete
silence tor nearly two days when she gave
this explanation tor going overheard; oh,
~antei TO go to heaven and that was the
quickest way
A melon fell off a Wheeling. W. Va. truck
and split lengthwise. A dirty faced boy inn
mediately sprang from nowhere, lit on one Of
the heruispheres, gave his face a header into
its liquid depths, and. presently emerging.
spluttsr.sl the etstatic remark Its sloppy
day when don't get aboard"
A novel service wa, held racentlv nv tho
congregation Shearath- TefiIIeb. of Orange