Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-04
STRAY BITS.

The queens yacht has cork door cloth 10
insure quiet.
A paper is put iishe4 in Colorado called The
Golden Perhaps
Watermelon seeds have recently been found
in an Egyptian tomb 5000 years old
Diamond rings for dogs tails are the latest
whims OF New York women dog worshipers.
While digging potatoes, s. H. Calfe. Of
Erwinna, Pa. found a colonial copper dated
I722
The Squirrel club, OF Galway, Saratoga
county, n Y. has killed 1910 squirrels this
season.
A Wilkesbarre pa lad Of 5 years enjoys
smoke, and has a foniness for a i-year-old
pipe Of his fathers
A marble statue of the Princess of Wales,
by French sculptor. is to be executed for
erection at Copenhagen
A lady who tell asleep on an Allentown
pa street cur recently was carried around
the line three times before waking
An electric car company in Erie pa de
tails an extra man on each car on market days
to help ladies on and Off with their BASKETS
Female telegraph clerks In Russia are not
allowed to marry any but telegraph officials,
and there is, consequently bitter dissatisfac-
ton.
Some electric railways will be laid along
the rivers of northern Russia, where the ex-
treme cold endures during great part Of the
yer
The latest Partisan novelty in gloves has
II small purse inserted In the palm, wherein
women can carry their railway tickets and
small c,Jins
j. q. Rich. Of Bethel, Me-. n veteran trap
per, is engaged in the novel business Of catch-
ns wild hares to ship To sportsnen who wish
10 stock game preserves
An Eiffe tower In diamonds which has
been on exhibition in Paris, may I've expected
ID america soon. II has been purchased for
exhibition in the United States
A woman living near the line Of JET rrson
and Walker counties, Ca, is =. feet inches
h2h, - years OLD, weighs lso ppuH'ls anican
whip any man IN the neis hb,ruuoi
A young lady of Columbus Ga. made a
crazy quilt out Of Louisiana state lottery
tickets thar failed to 'coruect" with the priu
wheel The npmhers are worked in silk OF
beautiful colurs.
A nagnificen, English tree known a. the
"Wmfarthng oak. which measured ~ Zee,
inches IN grtb in IA, has just been rerneas- d
ure'i and found 70 have grown just seventeen
inches in the interval. $50 years
the Spanish bull Fl cutters having conqucrt
high society in Paris. have been received la
terly in the ane circie in Madrid in evenin
dress. Formerly they we're obliged to wea. y
their paint Next year they will be seen
IN London
A childle-s old lady Of Sto1dardsville Pa.
years ago sci apart small room for spiders
to make their webs in. and no broom has
ever DISTURBED it, The spiders dwell together
in harmony as rule, although the lad, says
they sometimes have regular cat and dog
fights
The Russian clergy have sci up massive
clock to commemorate the Borki railway ac.
cident, in which the car and his family mar
rowly escaJed death The clock faces the
scene Of the accident, and once a year at the
exact hour. heavy silver he'll toll, for five
minutes.
Three years ago a small tx tree was placed
in the open space which AS made oy taking
up a brick in court in the rear Of X s. Jen
kins Office at Marysvile, Cal From the day
the tree was planted until the present not a
bit of sunlight has reached it, AMI il now
stands at height Of over twenty feet and
has very heavy crop of fig, upon IT, A
lumber Of people who have tested the fruit
pronounce it very fine