Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-28
NEWS NOTES AND READABLE
ITEMS.
Fresh and Crisp from Many Sources.

Iowa boasts corn crop Of 1886. 900 ,OOO
bushels valued at S75 900 900.
Persons living near the sulphur springs Of
Uwchland, Pa. bsve lost the sense of smell.
Umbrellas are being imported into India
in great numbers. Last year 100000 Ar
rived in Calcutta alone.
| Wheat growers of the Mississippi valley
are in session at ST. Louis, Mo, and there
are rumors of big combine.
| A faYorite cat in Youngstown Pa, store
was found alive after being imprisoned six
weeks without food or water.
| The population of Berlin has now reached
| 100000. So far this year about 65 900
Germans have emigrated to America.
| The first of the four big furnaces of the
| Pennsylvania Steel Company at Sparrow's
Point Md, was put in successful operation.
| A sarcastic New Yorker, having read that
Amelie Rives-Chanler performs on the violin,
remarks that her husband plays second I'D
die"
1t 10 stated as a curious fact that during
the recent great strike in London the alms-
houses were emp.er than has ever been the
case before.
| The latest Partisan novelty in gloves has
small purse inserted in the palm, wherein
women can carry their railway tickets and
small coins
1t is understood that the estimates for the
naval establishment for the fiscal year 1890
1891 exceed those Of the previous year by
81. 100000.
Forest fires continue their work of de-
vastation in the Western States and terri
tories. and are doing more hurt than the
lumbermen at their worst.
The Pan American Congress. delegates
were shoEn the industries of Milwaukee
Wednesday, lis ened to number of speeches
and then proceeded to ST. Paul.
The switchmen's strike on the Wisconsin
Central has ended The man whose dis
charge causei the strike resigned yesterday.
and the strikers returned to work
The United States steamer Thetis. which
it was feared had met with mishap in Arctic
waters, and regarding whose safety grave
fears were felt, is safe at Ounalaska.
1t is said that Postmaster. General Wana-
maker means to recommend free postal de-
| livery in all places having 900 inhabitants
or $4,000 annual receipts for postage.
A West Virginia paper is making itself
unpopular by publishing list Of persons to
whom marriage licenses have been granted
and giving the ages of the ladies' about to
marry.
The National Asso ,iation of Manufactur-
ers Of Proprietary Drugs, in session in In
dianapolis, decided to continue the rebate
system as an inducement to jobbers to mali
tain prices
The Canadian Commissioner of Customs
has issued an order for the enforcement of
the law forbidding coasting privileges to
American vessels carrying imports 10 bond to
British Columbia.
The Long Island Railroad having ne
elected to elevate its tracks when ordered to
do so by the Brooklyn authorities. force Of
men employed by the city covered the tracks
with dirt and stopped travel.
Fortv-six Yukon miners were brought to
San Francisco last week BY the steam
ship St. Paul, from Onalaska. They say the
reports of starvation among the miners
there are exaggerated.
The first furnace of the immense steel
works of the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany at Sparrow Point Nd, was put in opera
ton yesterday. This is the first attempt At
manufacturing at these works.
1t is proposed to bring in bill at the next
session of the British Parliament to put re-
strant on improvident marriages, the great
proportion of such marriages being made
by those under twenty We years Of age.
The poetic Will Carleton gets compliment
tary and says: ''If were a woman, should
thank God for considering my soul worthy
such an environment, and strive each day to
show him that his confidence was not mis-
| placed
| The U. S. steamer kearsarge, on her re-
turn voyage from Port au Prince, where she
had been to take Frederick Douglass. Minis
ter to Hayti, encountered a fer e gale off
Cape Hatteras and was obliged to put into
Delaware Bay.
| The London coroners are at length begin
ming TO raise protest against the hold
| ing Of inquests in public hous .. A more
| horrible custom, or one more revolving, TO
the relatives of the deceased. it would be
difficuit to imagine.
The city of Cologne is to hold next year
an international war exhibition. consisting of
all articles appertaining to war or necessary
for the use of an army. II is the intention
Of the promoters to make the show of an in
ternational character as far as possible.
There is curious effect wrought on the
hair and beard Of men engaged in the Martin
| White mine at Ward. Neb. The ore 10
roasted, but no disagreeable perfumes arise
from the heating process, yet there 10 some
unknown substance that change the hair
beard and eyebrows as green ~ grass.
4 A Lancaster county. Pa, pensioner draw
| ing sl4 month recently boasted to q
stranger that he could set more fence than
any man in the county. When his pension
vas stopped he learned that the stranger
was Government detective sent TO investi-
gate his case.
Among the many curious sights the trav-
eler witnesses in the lower Columbia 10 men
I on horseback, wadiDg about in what appears
to be an almost aimless manner. They are in
reality fishing for salmon with huge seins.
which are so heavy as to make ihenssistance
of the horses imperative.
\ The Flathead Indians of Montana differ
widely from most other tribes on this CONT
pent. They are not warriors. nor are they
lazy and good for nothing. On the contrary
uost Of them are thrifty farmers, whose in
dustry and skill are aste.ted by big stacks of
hay and grain about their dwellings.
What il kno~n a. John Bfovn's Fort at
Harpers Ferry, Va. is TO be torn down.
Tbi. is the old engine-house used as citadel
by the anti slavery leader and his followers
80 years ago as place Of refuge from the
soldiers and citizens surrounding them. The
Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company has de-
cided TO charge the location of its main line
at Harper's Ferry. The new survey runs d.
rec,ly through the old engine house.
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