Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

Kansas will produce an enormous crop Of
peanuts this fall
An Akron plummer found sixteen dead rats
sewer gas"
The license law of Sweden forbids any per-
son buying drink without purchasing some
thing to eat at the same time.
A pair of screens wrought in the finest gold
lacquer by japanese workmen have been sold
to a merchant Of Shanghai for &14,0 C0.
s. Shillito, Of Chambersburg, Pa has
two pound three ounce tomato which nearly
staggered the seven foot stalk 1t grew on
Egg shell was once used in medical pre-
scriptions. When calcined at low red heat
the shells afford a very pure form Of carbon
ate Of lime
A projected canal across the upper part of
Italy, connecting from the Adriatic to the
Mediterranean, would take six years to build
and cost sl25, 100000
Two young ladies Of York, Pa, while play
ing ring" ran their heads together so VIC
lently that they knocked each other uncon-
Scious for several minutes.
A watermelon farm at Adams Park, Ga,
which consists Of 800 acres and produces 400
.ar loads of melons, il said to be the largest
watermelon patch In the world
Excellent putty Is made Of eighty parts Of
Spanish whiting and twenty parts boiled oil;
make it into thin paste. II not for imme-
1iate use, raw oil should be used in place Of
boiled
Considerable excitement prevails at Alba
my, Wis, over the finding Of pearls in clam
s1oll. ,,,S 81. -.
sold as high as SIS, and el00 has been refused
for others
The mistake OF people who find Indian tea
unpalatable is that Of using the same guam
tity for brew as they would Of Chinese,
whereas half the quantity is sometimes more
than sufficient
company Of ten aides and gentlemen
met accidentally in a house In West Chester,
Pa, week ago, and their names were two
Josephs, two Armies, two Marys, two Nellies
and two Jameses.
About dozen persons are now constantly
at work among the once hidden archives Of
the Vatican. employed by the German, Aus
TRAN, French and English governments in
studying the histories Of their respective
countries
AsS~Shs <hossA aaihi payers oHhouipc VIC
finding of q nugget Of gold weighing 1886
ounces and valued at RI $40. 1t was found
near Wedderburn, Victoria, by young Aus
tralian named Costa C1ovitch who had only
recently arrived in the colony
Since the introduction Of mastless ships
some sort Of a gymnasium has been recog-
nized as a necessity for providing the seamen
with the proper amount Of exercise formerly
found in the work aloft Each war ship will
now have the nessied arrangements.
The electric street cars Of Cambridge,
Mass, have been furnished with a plow
II isn't snow plow, but its efficacy was
shown when a newsboy. who had fallen on
the track ahead Of car, was sboveled to one
side speedily and without any broken bones
D. A. Chandler, Chatham, Of Pa. has in his
Possession a solid walnut desk Of ANTIQUE
style. It has inscribed on one of the bottom
drawers the name Of Job Bailyr and the
date "175' Though in u.e for three or four
generations, it ID still in q good state Of pres
ervation-
A vocabulary OF physical terms, styled
''Butsurigaku Jutsugo Jisho, has been Issued
in japan. 1t gives the authoritative Japan
eve equivalents Of an important group Of
western scientific terms In all thirty-six
Japanese gentlemen have been engaged in
its preparation for the past six years
According to The Oakland Echoes one can
scarcely be half an hour in Honolulu, keep
ing ones eyes and ears tolerably wide open,
without arriving at full knowiedge Of the
fact that the Hawaiian kingdom Is CONNER
ciaIly and socially 'boassdr by the United
States Of America, and by the state Of Cali
fornia in particular.