Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-01
NEWS NUGGETS
Fresh and Readable - Home and
Abroad.

1t 10 stated at Brussels that Archduke
John of Austria will Join the staff Of the
New York Herald.
Marie Amalia, the new Queen of Portugal.
is only % years Of age. She is the daughter
of the Due d'Orleans.
An Ohio girl has photograph album con-
tanning the pictures of IA men to whom she
says she has been engaged.
Rutgers College, New Brunswick. N. j..
has conferred the degree Of LII d. upon
Hon. William Waiter Pheips.
The actresses in Lionel Brough's company
in South Africa, having found husbands
among the diamond diggers. Mr. Broush has
telegraphed to London for fresh supply.
A gentleman in Cohssset set out 20 pansy
roots in May last. BY actual count more
than 1000 very large pansies have been
picked, and there are still flowers remaining.
One Of the remarkable things said to be in
Utah is mountain near Salt Lake City com
pletely covered by oyster shells. This noun
tain is nearly 5000 feet above the level of
the sea.
There is large and constant demand at
the South for silver coin. and the monthly
shipments for some time have been equal to
two-thirds of the monthly coinage of silver
dollars.
1t is thought that the estate Of the late
Allen ThOrndike Rice, who WAS supposed TO
De orth 81 100000 when he died few
months ago. will not, when it 10 settled, be
~o- IA more than $4,000.
Earnum has decided that as his whole
show will not be allowed in the lord mayors
process sion he will give separate procession
of lis own on the same day. asd make the
lo.d mayors show look foolish.
Four American artists Of high re eputation
Sargent, Abby, Millet and Pa-sors. al of
whom, except the lat, have been abroad for
a number Of year.. will sail for this country
Dec. 4 AID spend line winter here.
There is in the Paris hospital called the
Hotel Dieu a woman who can see two differ
ent sets Of objects at one and the same time.
While one eve is gazing at . given point the
other remains perfe' tly still, and vice versa.
Objecting to the erection Of an electric
ligh; pole, Pennsylvania man stood guard
over his sidewalk and drove the workmen
away; but was lured from his house by a
trick. and the pole was planted during his
absepcc.
Shakespeare is now being done in Japan
uader some hard titles. The Merchant Of
Venice" is "Ninnku Shichire Sarban;' =
"Rorneo and Juliet 10 "Seyo Musume Set
suyO;'' Julius Caesar" 10 ''Shisaru kidan,
and the poet himself is Sekisuplya.
An individual who was Q clerk in the India
House with Charles Lamb and John Stuart
Mill. has just died at We tnos, England, af-
ter having enjoyed . handsome position for
| 54 years. He had been allowed to retire, ''in
-
The bridge Of the Pennsylvania. Pough-
keepsie and Bosom Railroad, at Portland,
Pa. recently completed, 10 one of the largest
in the United States. 1t 10 925 feet 6 IL
inches, and the viaduct 10 993 feet inches,
making total or 1921 feet and half an inch
What is known ~ the tree Of life i.
growing in the United Brethren Church, Al
Falmouth, Pennsy lvania. The plant i,
Of the spice-vood variety. 1t has nov at
tanned the height Of three feet. and shot from
the earth through knot-hole in the pulpit
floor.
The population Of France 10 decreasing
and it 10 feared that there will be an insuffi
cient supply Of subjects for statues. Atten'
ton ie therefore being given to historica
balloons, and . monument has Just been pu
up on the spot where Gambetta's balloon de
scended when he escaped from Paris in 1870
| Great Britain mined almost 10000, ,00'
more tons Of coal. iron. and other mineral
last year than in 1887, and employed 10,
600 more men in the work, bat fewer live
were lost in the process. The total number
Of fatal accidents was sss, and Of death
occasioned thereby 960. being an increase o
4 10 the accidents, but . decrease Of 81 il
the lives lost
The modern land Of Babel 10 Austria
Hungary. Everybody there wants to speal
. different language from every body else
A new telephone line has just been ooene
between Buda-Pesth and Prague. and tn
employees could not agree shat language :
use TO each other. Some wanted TO spea
German. some Polish. yet others Magyar O
Czech, At last the difficulty has be- 60
over by an ordinance that French shsli b
used.