Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-02

the stealing of the same article on a rainy
Jay is said to be justifaole on the ground of
self defense.
The first through train on the Central n, W
England and Western railroad crossed the
big bridge at Poughkeepsie Tuesday
Trains cross at thirty-fve miles an hour but
there is no vibration.
It's rather an interesting exhibit which
shows that the internal revenue service
squeezed from bank and bankers during the
last tiscal year S6,2l4, and from liquor
dealers S98. 900, 900.
A sad case of disappearance is that of
Governor Lowry of Mississippi. Nothing
has been heard from him since the Demo
cratic State convention met and nominated
another man for governor.
One day last week 1877 900 tickets were
taken at the Paris Exhibition. The number
of paying visitors from the 9Th of May to the
9th of June was 4,4l4 900, and the number
of tickets used was 5,l74,000
While Thomas II. Blythe, of San Fran
cisco, was alive there was not q chick or
child who claimed relationship with him.
Now there are are 1877 heirs registered in the
courts, rs he left 81 900 900.
The Massachusetts, rifemen, who are now
sailing for home, have done themselves and
the whole country honor during their Eng
fish trip, and are entitled TO the warmest sort
of a welcome on their return.
With the organization of a watermelon
trust. peanut trust and a sweet potato trust,
the future looks dark for our coored breth-
rem. but so long as there is no poultry trust
they need not utterly despair.
Gently of new invention called the vagel-
phone, which transmits wave sounds by mag
netism. 1t is claimed that the instrument
will convey sounds a great distance.
The heat in Russia and other parts of
Northern Europe has been intense of late.
The central observatory at St. Petersburg
has not recorded such high temperature a,
the same time of the year since l774.
Equal and exact justice to all men, of
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
political; peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling slli-
ances with nome Thomas Je.ferson.
Abraham Lincoln was the tallest Presi-
dc mt in this country, namely. 6 feet inches !;
Martin Van Buren, the shortest, barely )
feet 6 inches. Benjamin Harrison is short
er STILL his height being feet ) inches.
A hailstorm at Vilafranca, Piedmont, was
of such enormous stones that more than 100
persons were badly hurt, and boy and girl
had their skulls fractured. The weight of
some hailstones was estimated at two pounds.
At Concord, N. H.. during Tuesdays
storm, the roof of the furniture warehouse
of the G. T. Comns Company was taken off
and large stock valued at 81, 900 damaged
| by the rain Barns were leveled to the
ground.
An old church in Cahokia, H., that was
built in 1854 of cedar logs, was torn down a
few days ago to make way for more
modern building There were only two
churches in America-at ST. Augustine and
Sante Fe-that were older
The ife of man-of war is but short, if
the Repulse is fair example. She has been
. afloat twenty years, and having cost 81 ,235,-
900, she has been sold to a firm of ship
breakers for $50, 600 She WAS really in
commission only eleven years and quarter.
The electrician reports rumor from Ber-
lin to the effect that means has been dis
covered of using electricity for ascertaning
the true north, instead of the magnetic
needle; that, in short, the new means will be
superior to the compass, and is likely to
supersede it,
The Grand Army of the Republic depart
ment commanders of eight States were in
session nearly all day at Chicago Tuesday
The result of the meeting was positive in
dorsement Of the determination to discourage
general attendance in view of the refusal of
the railways to make satisfactory rates.
The knapsack by which the weight of the
burden carried is transferred to the hips from
the shoulders has been under trial for some
time by the authorities of the war depart
ment. SO favorable have been the reports
received from the officers testing it that the
ordinance bureau has been ordered to manu-
facture 2000 for use in the army
Red rain fell recently in the province of
Lublin, Russian Poland The shower lasted
for about ten minutes. The peasants who
nistook the red liquid for blood became
panicstrcken and crowded the churches.
where they were quoted by the priests
Several bottles of the red rain were sent to
chemists and microscopes in Warsaw for
examination. For several days after the
shower all the surface water in Lublin was
of a dark pink color,
novel use is made of the electricity
on the ST. Lawrance river. near the Thou
sand Islands resorts One of the lights ha.
been placed at the end of yard arm on the
steamer Lawrence, which has dynamo
aboard. The light stands in front of pow
erful reflector; and as the boat steams about
at night among the islands the search light is
cast upon them, revealing with startling dis
tinetne.s their beauty and the beauty of the
landscape.
The method in which the most delicate
perfumes are obtained from flowers 10 not of
the most aesthetic nature. The flower petals
are spread over glasses which have previously
been covered with a quarter-inch layer of
fat. The glasses are then shut tightly into |
wooden frames, and before long the fat
absorbs all the perfume The next process
is to cut up the fragrant fat into small pieces |
and put these in alcohol The perfume at
once deserts its oily protector and unites |
with the alcohol. 1t is then fit for market.
Cey lon cats are a curions instance of |
what evolution has accomplished in the way
of adapting creatures to environments They |
have no tails, and are able, by lack of that
appendage, to initiate rabbits and so get
them into their clutches. They are great
rabbit cstchers, and as such are valuable be-
yond all other cats in Australia. They have
been introduced into this country, but
whether for their hunting propensities or not
10 not stated. The cat family has never been
utilized by man as it might be. Rat and
mice catchers can also be developed into
good hunters in many other directions.
Aark Twai. once said that when