Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Itsms OF Interest the
World Over

Hereafter each infantry regiment Of the
French army will contain four velocipedists.
Carleton Harris, the young man Who was
killed by cigarette smoking. was = nephew Of
Jay Gould.
Senator Ingalls, Is the orator at the dedica-
ton at Leavenworth. September ~, Of the
Grant monument. dorado Taft Of Chicago
Ia the sculptor
The family Of Richard Rockwell, Of Clark
county, N'., consists OF seven children,
three of l., m ripleis aud two Of them twins.
The uiplets Rrc ton years old.
Frederick |. Amcs 10 the richest man In
Boston. II. Is the son Of Oliver and the
nepbr" % 'n~-s Ames, and 10 worth $780,
o0r,U.1 Paft ne Inherited and part he made.
}. W. Eii.~or,h of Chicago has purchuDl
the "Po,. M Of DIR ruip," which Is con-
sidered on. Of the haest Rembrands /, the
Seilliere eulicetion, I; bears the datr 1859.
A citizen of Tao INA, W. r.. smoke ~.
bee tree 10 g,t the honey, snl bes,ies =
larg, quantity of the naccharine product
found a. 900 worth of gold in the hollow
trunk.
Oscar Browning, the English writer. and
Robert II 'feu Browning, the artist, are
often CO ,vundcd with zach other The
latter is !; 'bert Browning's oaly son, aAI 10
net related 10 the former
The Japanese are learning how to eat
meat. In 1885 only 80 900 head Of cattle
were slaughtered In all Japan. In 1885 the
number increased to llG.OO0; in 1886, 70
1870. 800, in 1883, to 100000.
The widow Of Professor Richard A. Proc
tor Is to deliver number Of the distinguish
ed astronomers lectures next winter. using
her husbands sterioptcon outfit. Mrs. Proc
tor is now at Orange Lake, Fla.
An electrical reading lamp, fitted to rail-
way carriages on the southeastern line In
England, is among the latest novel applics-
tons. II Is on u drop nickel in the slot"
priVciple. A pennys worth Of II sht will last
half AN hour.
One Of the members of the Paris eybibi-
ton jury proposes that the buildings Of the
great show he preserved, and that an annual
mart, similar TO the Leipsic fair be estab-
lshed on the Champ de Mars. lasting eight
or ten weeks. The Leipsic fair transactions
amount to 81 900, 900 annually.
The worst crippled veteran who attended
the gathering at Milwaukee was Benjamin
Franklin of Blue Earth City. MINI. lie has
lost both arms and both legs, together with .
piece Of his nose. lie lost his limbs from
exposure in a blizzard during the year Of
1865, when he was stationed on the frontier.
DIR. Henry Glutz, OF Louisville, aged ~
years, last Monday married Mrs. Mary Im-
hausen. aged 80 years. The doctor has al
ready buried four wives. He has three
married children. all by his first wife. nine
grandchildren, and SO many step-children and
step sr inichidren that he can scarcely enum-
crate them.
In Dublin, a small town In Laufens
county, Ga there lives = blue man. lie 10
n Csucasisn. but instead Of being white 10 .
greenish blue. and 10 known ~ "Blue Billy"
His whole skin 10 blue, his tongue and the
roof Of hi. mouth are blue, snd whers his
eyes should be white 10 seen the same ghast-
ly greenisb- blue color.
General Malone Of Virginia, IL the con Of
q tavern keeper. He walked baref0oted 70
Richmond TO secure the Governors aid 70
enter the Virginia Military Institute. While
there he vas twitted with being = poverty
pupil lie was a major general At 30 and
refused to accept q house offered 10 him by
Virginians at the clo,e Of the war.
A condemned criminal in England must
be aliowel to see three Sundays between
his sentence aud his execution. OF course,
he car thu, be hung in little over two
weeks, but the .hfee Sundays mu1 pass
over bis head before the gsllows claims
him The custom il y relic Of mediSval
| times, when = criminal wa allowed that
much Of a respite To prepare for death.
A black dog, with red and white points.
called Brutus. may be seen asleep any after
lool in the Albsay city hall. The log. .
tram? canine, sirsyed into tire hall about four
months sKo. vas fed by the jsnitor, and mas