Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-09
NEWS NUo0ETs.


Miss jennie Flood is the richest unmarried
woman 10 California.
Tn, o hi G Ian lreau, the dsc0yerer of the
immeo.. beds Of guano in Peru, il living IN
comparative poverty In Lima
An eagle that measured 8 feet with its
wings spresd out wa. shot the other day Al
Ru' ledge, ia The bird was sitting on a
pine tree looking at G-montbs old baby.
According to paper read at a congress al
Strasburx, 80 per cent Of railway passen-
.ers in pru.s STA travel fourth class, II per
cent thi Il class, 20 second and only 80
first.
God news for the bald and gray heads
cop.rs from Indianapolis. The water from
rev srtesian we'll Whereabouts produces
new crops of hair and turns gray boards
black
F. Parker, At Bickshear's Mill, Lau-
rens county, Ga, has boy baby months
a. 4 ~ days Oil. At months and 10 lays
he had TWO teeth, a. i weighed ~ pounds
and could at alone.
Frank u Pet igre~. Who is believed to BE-
sure Of one Of the new United States sena
iprsbips in Sou'h Dakota. is Vermonter.
who footed 1t into Sioux Falls, from Sioux
new gem. the pierre Tonguinoise, is in
the market When cut like diamonds it IL
sal to be- very beautiful. Its color /. a dark
blue. more brilliant than sapphire. though
some varitle- have purple or red tinge.
ply sic an of Salem, n. J. has q morn
ing glory growing In hts yard that is quite a
phenomenon, a seed in one of the blooms
having sprputed and grown vine of consid-
| cradle length on the end of which is anoth
er bloom
After destroying avery large number of
letters, Mr. Gladstone has selected GO, 900
for preservation and his built for them a
ire proof room when his biographer
core- to overbsu! them he will find his
work balf done in advance.
MIlie + rupper, who has accepted call
10 the pastorate OF the Unitarian church at
La Pore. is the only feminine pastor in
Indiana, Miss upper is a graduate of
Cornell University. aud is described AS a
1.-THE lii,le woman of easy grace and charm.
veg manners,
A Russian paper, giving statistics Of prices
paid TO ku sian authors by publishers says
that roursuened sold the copy right of his
works shortly before his death to VI Glssu-
non tor t9Ooo; Goyofs works were soli for
l6UO0. Pushkin's for fl75o and kriluff'.
Fables for 700.
4 check for several thousand dollars sent
to Pope Leo NIL from Newark. N j.. ha.
been returned through the regular channel,
TO the Newark bank on which it was drawn.
duly Endorsed by the Pope. The hsndsrit.
iig is neat and even. The checx will be
kept ~ souvenir.
H.. IL IL. = 4.
great interest in news from The surrounding
States. a. we'll as within the borders OF
their own nations Ten weekly newspaper.
are published within the territory, and a
nunher Of daily newspapers from the States
are taken by the indians.
\ congres, of chemists was held recently
in Germany in which several potable scien-
fihs diversions were exhibited. One in TAR
ticulsr attracted special attention DIR. II II
mann, Of Cologne. gave short lecture enum-
,rstng the difficulties experienced by students
in remembering the constitution of organic
oomnouuds and proposed an original method
of tirrg the formula in their memory A
ballet then commenced. in which the cory
phees. dressed in various colors, repre-
.en,ed the different atoms Under the iirec-
i,on Of the professor, the atoms grouped
themselves in different attitudes, represent
ing the chemical compounds and their re.
actions. Specially noteworthy were the
composition of benxole and sniline and its
derivatives. On the formation of fuschine,
or any of the coloring matteSs, brilliant lights
illuminated the groups. The representation
terminated in the explosion of one of the
substances. This excelsior ballet was the
eros ming event OF the evening.