Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

The prize asked for Dickens house, near
Rochester, IS Z! so
The tomb Of Virgil at Posilippo, just out
.ide Naples, Is for sale.
A typemriting machine that III use script
type u promised before long
Silver can he kept bright for months By
being placed in an air tight case
There are no fewer than Ss,79 known
thieves over 10 years Of age in England
The oldest city in the world, Damascus. Is
about to have street cars and gas lamps.
The Long Island seventeen year locusts are
distinguished By their red eyes, others hav-
Ing black
George Clements, Of Gainesville, Ga, has
a bunch of forty distinct heads Of cabbage
On one stalk.
A mouse nest made OF cid fashioned shin
plAsters, was found IN a drawer Of bank In
Fishkill y
During the last ten years Americans have
contributed 81, 100000 to relieve suffering
caused BY disasters or epidefnics.
The income IF the Free Church Of Scotland
tn. year Is EOS G}S, being an increase Of
fH.0oo as compared with last year
The food dumped fully $4,000 worth OF
lumber which cannot be identified on farm
near Milton, Pa Many poor men have thus
been enriched.
4 private soldier says that GeSertlons from
the army are largely due to--rlle tyranny Of
the younger officers and the drunkenness Of
tine older ones
Seeds Of the most valuable varieties of Gin
choua bring a Thousand dollars per ounce in
Ceylon There are nearly one hundred thou
sand in ounce.
Mr. Angel says that the tight check rein Is
generally put upon some poor animal whose
weare,l and haggard appearance Is attempted
TO b. disguised by this instrument Of torture.
The police commissioner OF Brooklyn wants
the force Of patrolmen increased from 800 10
200 He ella ms that with the increased
force there would then be only one policeman
TO 40 inhabitants.
A painting Of the Madonna dated 1854, has
been discovered in the village Of Messembria,
an old Greek colony, near Bourgas, 1t has
been removed to Sophia, where it will be
placed in the Nationa! museum
An American was arrested on the Austrian
frontier for having in his luggage unmistak-
able dynamite bombs. On further investIga-
ton they proved to be cocoanuts, something
that the Austrian authorities had never seen.
A man In Tennille, Ga, dreamed that he
was in IA fight, and he rose up, grabbed a pill
low and sent it with all his might at lamp
sitting on the center table, which he supposed
was his antagonist. The lamp was smashed
A telegram from Sparta in Greece, an
nounces that the Inspector Of antiquities in
the old Laconlan town of Pharis has UNI
earthed some ancient tonbs containing OBJ
jects of Greek art in gold, silver and precious
stones all Of great value
Dennysville, Ne. a town Of 522 people, has
no debt and has $1,000 to her credit There
has not been a fire for eighty years One
Peter E Vose has been first seIectman twenty
nine years, treasurer twenty three years,
assessor thirty-one years, overseer twenty
four years and town agent twenty years
curious discovery has been made In Eng
land. in the neighborhooI of one of the Spit
head forts While AT gunnery practice some
man-of-wars men engaged IN graphing for
shot found a twelve FOUNDER gun, which
turns out To be at least 100 years old. How
| the gun got where it was found is mystery
male beauty show is to be opened in
| Vienna and the decisions are tn be made by
jury Of women. Four prizes will be award
| ed, one to the handsomest man, one to the
owner of the finest mustarhe. the third to
1 him who has the largest nose and the fourth
to the competitor having the least hair on his
head
! Secretary Tracy calls for bids for two 8 90
| ton steel cruisers which are to be in all esStn-
tial points duplicates Of the British MeGea
! and Medusa. The vessels are To make nine
teen knots an hour. are to carry fuel enough