Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-07
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Itsms OF Interest the
World Over.

Amelia Il. Edwards will deliver 10 lee,
lures In America selected from 500 applica
tons.
The queens estate in Osborne, II sold In
email farms would fetch. il ia said, $3.50 an
acre.
DIR. Fricke, who was with General Cor
don at khartoum, has returned to Berlin
after fifteen years spent in Africa.
Miss Mildred Conway, the daughter Of
Mo"cure ID. Conway. devotes much of her
time to works of charity.
John whitcomb Riley, the poet, ha. been
in poor heal during the summer, but says
he is row fully recovered.
Henry +. Abbey's running expenses In his
new ventures for this season, not TO mention
his new theatre in Boston, will be about
$40 ,Oo0 per lay.
Thee American women received medal.
from the j lry of fine arts in the Paris exhi.
biti0n-Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner. Miss
kIumpkc and Miss Rosin.
The oli,s, living graduate OF Williams
college is the Rev. Herman IIslsey of Fast
Aurora, N. Y. lie is 90 years old and was
graduated rom Williams in 1911.
Bishop Giimour Of Cleveland has been Sc.
lected b, Cardinal Gibbins to preach the ser-
mon at the dedication Of the new Roman
Catholic university of Washington. Novem-
ber ~
Deputy Marshal Nsgle was u Union sol
der His father ard his two brothers en-
listed early in the war and the brothers were
killed. David who defended Judge Field
was the youngest.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Cl,mer says "Women
live in their houses more thar men; wha,
more fitting than that they should desga
them?" Mrs. Clymer advocates the study
Of architecture by women.
The original portrait of Chief Justice Mar
shall. Of which a reproduction appears In the
September Century, is owned by Thomas
Marshall Smith of Baltimore, whose neither
was daughter of the chief Justices eldest
son.
George Ebers, the rival Of Rider IIaggari
in oriental romancing, is so years of age
He is professor Of Egyptology IN Lcipsic
Uriversity, and took to novel writing, 40 he
says, because Illness prevented his doing
harder work.
A Boston school boy. giving an accoun, of
the first Inauguration, said: The oath Of
office was administered to President Wash
ington on the balcony of Federal Hall by
Robert X. Livingston, chaDticleer of the
State of New York.
Col. A. q. Halliday, for several years
president Of the agricultural college in Flori-
da, and a graduate Of the University of vir.
ginis, has been elected to the presidency OF
the agricultural and mechanical college OF
North Carolina
Herbert Spencer's health is so much i'm
proved that he has taken a house in St
Johns Wood, and intends soon to resum,
work on his synthetic phiIosopy. He is a,
present living in Wiltshire, occupied mainl,
with an autobiography.
The earl and countess of Meath, who ar
rived in New York Sunday by the Servia
are to be the guests Of Morri. X. Jessup, the
banker, at Bar Harbor. The earl come,
over to investigate ur muicipsl systems, and
the countess is interested in various philan-
thropic enterprises.
II Mrs. Harriet Coe Of Grand Rapids
Mich, lives until January IL, 1890, she will
be one hundred and three years old. She
was born in Hartford, Conn, In 1857. HeI
father, Alexander Mcneil, was soldier in
the var Of the revolution. In her one hun
dredth year she had a paralytic stroke. and
il was thought she could not recover, but she
did, and is now in fair state Of health.