Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-14
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Items OF Interest the
World Over.

Lady Vaudeville threatens to go on the
stage unless her atherin-lsw, the duke Of
Manchester. pays her husbands debts.
| The Emperor Of Japan has just taken pos
session of new palace furnished in Euro
pean style. Itcos, him four million dol
/ lars.
/ james Russell Lowell has been placed by
1 friend 10 possession Of the manuscript of
an early poem written by himself which, il
seems. he had utterly forgotten.
The largest catch of muskalonge at the
| THOUSAND Islands this summer was obtained
by VIII Carlton. the poet. who returned
wth los fish as the result Of a single days
port
Households are becoming so common in
| England that there is a talk about taxing
them. There are nearly twelve thousand
! pleasure boats, used on the upper reaches
Of the Thames
/ Visitors 10 Newport speak of a collie of
! rare breed which takes a constitutional along
! the cliffs his feet encased in little boots of
/ cbamois skin by way of protection against
dampness and stubble-
/ Eden Sprout. well known New York
lawyer, whose death Is reported aged IS,
was the confidential friend and legal adviser
/ OF tdp'ain EtlcssOh- lie WAS one OF the
executors of Ericsson's will
| NJ. Carolus Duran was led by his wife's
advice 10 take up painting portraits Of FASH
/ ionable rOmen, through which he has made
a fortune. Mime Duran is a sister Of the
famous actress. Sophie Croizotte.
/ There il real count of Monte Christie At
last. He is Carlo Givart of Florence. who
has bought the island and the title with it.
! The new count proposes to erect a palace
aud outive the Edmond Dantes of fiction.
The pearl excitement at Albany. Wis,
continues, and the banks of the river are
dotted for miles with the tents of clam
hunters. For the largest and best pearl yet
found $500 was offered and refused. Hun
lreds of small pearls are found and sold
daily.
Berezovski the Pole who tried to avenge
his ccuntry's wrongs by shooting at the Gar
Alexander II during that monarch's visit to
| the Paris exhibition of 1867, is now a white
haired old convict in the French penal settle
ment of New Caledonia off the coast of Aus
traiia.
The late Austrian vice admiral, Coun,
Bomhelles, was master of the household to
the late Crown Prince Rudolf. He was de-
ended from an old Scottish family. He
sp Ike English to perfection and was person
ally one of the most amisble men who ever
held high court office.
DR.. BRAND, a distinguished young French
physician attached to the hospital at Willie
juif, is reported to have effected some won
derful cures Of consumption by means Of the
cold air cure, which consists mainly in grad
ually accustoming the patients to exposure
until they are able to sleep out in the open
air, regardless of the weather.
i Queen Victoria was much pleased while in
Wales with the music of the Welshmen.
She especially liked their singing and their
manipulation of the harp. 1t one dinner
eight harpers played during the banquet
ship of their father. who appeared in full
5srdic costume, with cap Of antique form,
blue robes and red girdle.
Zone of the sir gular things about the
graphophone," remarks the Hartford Cou.
rant, sis that no one recognizes their owr
voice. Writing more than thirty years ago
) DR.. Holmes said in the Autocrat: People
never hear their own voces-sny more thar
they see their own faces. There is not even
a looking glass for the voice. OF course
there is something audible to US when we
speak, but that something is not our owu
voice as it is known to all our acqusintances
think if an image spoke to US in our own
tones, we should not know them in the least.
The graphophone might be called looking
glass for the voice. II has demonstrated
that the Autocrat's theory of so long ago il
exactly in accordance with the fact"