Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-01
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There las aot been IN execution of . whins
man in South Caroline fnr tvsnfy -dss ysArA
prisooer in Kestscky jail attempted
suiciie by eating two dosln piscss Of haoeong
paper.
Public opinion in Ne. York b bsGinninG
to lean toward asphalt for IL repaving a
the streetz
Kansas Editor says that 0,ooe rairoad
cars viii be required to haul ~ wheat crop
of his state.
Il is estimated that IL progeny Of . singh
pair OF English sparrows for TN yean vii b
275.6i6. 9sS .6s biriA
The Gillian government has ordefed TWO
swift cruisers TO be built in Francs. having
displacement Of a,oeO sonA
Superintendent Mills, Of The Delaware rail-
road company. says the peach crop win num-
Der exactly 2, ~. 80 basketA
A large cave has been discovered near La
Cruces. n. NJ, the interior Of which n hnsa
with veins Of almost pure silver.
The giant diamond. lately discovered N
CAPE Colony, and now 1t the Paris exp0n-
ton. weighs $50 carata. and = valued -
s3,Uo.oO0
Cricket is played in English blind asylumA
The ball is Of wicker work. with pisces Of TN
within. which enables The players to judge o.
its whereabouts
A cIoudburst In Nevada the other day
dropped enough water on . region two miles
SQUARE to form q lake Of ten acres in extens
and ten feet deep.
The escape Of q swindler by means OF .
balloon and his discovery through the pigeon
post is the latest sensation In criminal tnteli-
gence that comes from Vienna
The name Hood" has been given 70 the
most powerful of EnglaId's new battle ships
She is TO have engines Of 5000 horse power
and a displacement OF II, GO tons
A wildcat fell into cistern the other day
at Myers, Fla The water not being deep
enough to drown it. it was beaten until in
sensible. and then taken out with rake and
put to death
Ten years ago a man near Lexington, Ky,
had twenty-fou sheep bitten by dogs Since
that time he has poisoned and shot over three
hundred CANNES. and is still engaged in his
glorious work.
1t is said that the belief that the Eiffel
tower causes thunder storms is becoming an
article of faith In Paris Never have thun-
der storms been SO frequent there Is in the
last fortnight
Awell Of so called electrical water has been
tapped at Fort Scott, Kan To place both
hands In the water at the same time is utter
" impossible The shock is so forcible that it
throws one aside with vigor.
Numerous assures have suddenly appeared
in the earth near Matanzas, Cuba, and have
created great alarm among the inhabitants
Of that vicinity. Some Of the assures are
600 feet long, - feet wide and 20 feet deep
Lopdon Justice says that all the people now
living in the world, or abodt 400, Coz, 900,
could find standing room within the limits Of
field ten miles square, and, by aid Of a tel
ephone, could be addressed by single speaker.
The great bridge which is to cross the st.
Lawrence at Quebec will with its approaches,
be "a 600 feet long The top Of the bridge
| will he 4Os feet above high water level. One
span of the bridge will have q length Of 40
| feet
| A report from the British consul at Tent
| sin saws that the North China railroad, which
was completed Inst summer, is now open for
traffic He says it is eighty live miles long,
and cost on an average about 81 600 per
mile
Few people are aware what opportunities
there are at Harvard for summer study.
There are summer schools Of languages, chem
istry. physical training, geology, botany
topography and ply sizes, and all under com
petent teachers
Some experiments lately made at the Roya
| Polytechnic school at Munich show that thu
strength of camel hair betting reaches 6.3l:
pounds per square inch, while that Of ordi-
| nary betting ranges between 9 go and 5. DC
| pounds per square inch
| A representative of French syndicate hai
been looking at an island near San Francisco
with IA view TO establishing there frog farm
According to his estimates an enormous fort
| une awaits the man who takes hold Of thu
venture in the right way.
Before the Isthmus Of Suez was pierced BY
the canal there were almost no sharks in thu
| Mediterranean, the passage through thu
Straits Of Gibraltar not being TO their liking
Now, however, they come I'm by way Of thu
canal, and in such numbers that in more thar
one watering place. and especially on tn
Adriatic, the sign has gone up beware Of
Sharks
It Is problem in Montana how and wher,
to procure and stow away for summer u.s.
sufficient water for mining and irrigation
purposes, and the national government hal
undertaken to solve it. A corps Of engineer,
have been sent to survey and examine thu
facilities for building reservoirs and estimat.
the water supply. The rainfall this season
has been very small and placer mining hal
been almost abandoned
A century ago only 800 species Of orchid
were known, and those very imperfectly
Now the latest authority gives the extreme
number OF known species as 10000 This may
be an excessive estimate, but shows the i'm
mense advances which have been made ir
our knowledge Of these interesting plants, fol
which collectors now ransack the most re
mote quarters of the globe.
Some new light Is thrown on the question
of college expenses by the statistics Of thu
graduating class at Yale this year. Accord
ing to the figures furnished by the young
men, the average expenses for each freshman
were sTg3; sophomore year. ss3l, junior
year, 1884, senior year, t9la. This Is about
the same average as Professor Palmer fount
among the students at Harvard when b.
| Looked into the subject nome time ago