Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-29
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

II Is stated that the United States gov
eminent has paid more money in the in
vestigation of the disease of hogs than 1t
has for all the diseases affecting the
human race.
lately keeper OF peanut stand at Am
sterdam. N. Y. has fallen heir to an
eighth of fortune of $500 600 left by o
relative in Italy.
A person is not a man In Corea until
he has wife. Boys and bachelors part
their hair in the middle, and it is braided
in a strand which hangs down the back.
When a boy is married he has the right
to cut off his hair.
The hind buttons used on the coats
worn in America cost 81 800, 900 year,
and are of no earthly account Think Of
how many bars of soap that money
would buy. And soap is something that
you feel the direct benefit of.
James Price, of Oconee, Ga. dreamed
that if he would 20 to Athens on the sec
ond day after Christmas he would find
draft for several hundred dollars await
ing him. He went. and found the draft
awaiting him according to his dream.
There are in South Carolina $1,000
whites who cannot read or write, an
equal number in Tennessee, 10000 in
georgia souoU In Alabama io,ooO In
Mississippi 1000 in Louisiana, 10000 in
Experiments are being made in Eng
iand WIN ne" saiety gun "hich Is
said 10 DC capaoie OF dischafgihg sixty
snens minute, eiieItly anu ihNisiois'
me gun is uischarSeu ny steam OF VaPor
- >''e 7i''-N
one OF the latest Wrinkles IN Pho-
tography Is the ghost picture IN winch
person likeness Is taken by an instan-
tahe"os exposure win result so
snaanwy 'hdt me pachgrouhu, supJec~a
Tho ebns, '''' ~ ''''''
AT fittspurS' "a recently woman
asked the agent OF the Ahtl-Crueity so
ciety 10 heip her get redress IN Inc courts
from man VINO mas exercised mesmerlc
influence over her Tor the past nine
years ana wmch' she aiieges' Is grauu-
ahy aiming ''e'
ski running scandinavian sport, Is
becoming popular IN Minnesota Inc
performer slues down mn on long
aPreinfeu Joit naAes reap INTO space
Nhety-nve rect Is me longest SKI Jump
on RECORD ID norway
Ffonhoiy the ri'Hest he"sooy IN the
ives, Is Moses 9a,oos, VINO sells papers
on the streets Oh Des MONIES Ia lie is
10 years on anu mas sou newspapers tof
tne last fourteen years, uufihP Which
ume ne has acquired s4'ooo worth OF rear
II a box six feet deep were filed with
sea water, and the water allowed to
eraporate IN the sun, there would be two
inches OF SAT- ieit al me bottom. taxing
the average depth OF the ocean to be
uree mites, thefo WOMB pc layer OF
pure san 2oo Feet thick on the Atlantic,
II seems that the average New Eng
land father reserves the right to tan his
sons Jacket until the very day that the
boy reaches his majority. while in the
ives. me oiu man iets up al ABOUT the
80, ~ ong W." ~ si,.i No.iee' so
ISIS 70 sno~ "t.,n ia'''ee proves 'he
"io'' 'ei' Id! W 'iie '~'
In a row at Ierre laute, Ind, negro
known as Jasper vas struck on the
mead by buiIet hred from revolver OF
heavy calIOer held quite ne'F HIM. The
bullet was tatteued by the mans skull!
ana fell to tue floor, leaving only sore
spot on jasper head to remind HIM that
~,
his'hg my Neo.. man driFes INTO
the country s'Fefa' ih'es every DAY to
"orh. lie icaNes ms buEEy standing IN
tne yarn yaIu rom morning tiii evening.
Every e'eiliii? "heh ne returns from the
neius ne i"iis men IN ms buggy II
ays an eSG every DAY uiidsf the buggy
seat anu WIN iio' lay any pace else
Massachusetts, mother went TO the
room where her Ettlg girl was sleeping,
and " hen she turned mp the light noticed
chin Stnnni,, 10 500. who, /, vas n
mouse sprang away like a flash and was
gone. fhe little girl had been eating