Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-14

| Berlin has 40 900 empty tenements.
! japan has sj43 miles of telegraph.
| The Croton aQueduct is 40 miles long
The public debt of Missouri is $1,000
900.
Alsbama has an area of $500 square
piles.
The names of 800 women undertakers in
this country are given in trade paper.
A whales throst is so small that you
could choke him with your fist,snd he feeds
on tie smallest things IN the sea.
Potter Palmer of Chicago, has given
5000 coo towards building woman's me-
mortal structure on the lake front.
British South Africa has exported 3d.
600 900 carats of diamonds since 1867. The
tones represent value of about E70 900,
900.
Princeton College has total of 1902 stu
Dent. registered gain of 90 over last year.
PENNSYLVANIA leads the let of states with
is7.
A new method of coloring iron has been
discovered in England which entirely pre-
vents rust even though the metal be brought
TO req neat.
Gold leaf, when beaten into a sheet Of
the thickness of but $50 ,000th of an inch,
appears to he of beautiful green when
held up to the light.
The only instrument used purely for pun
ishment in English jails nowadays is a crank
handle weighted heavily with lead and work
ing heavily inside box.
John T. Morris, baltimore lawyer, has
served as a member for 30 consecutive
wears, and has been for % Of them presi-
dent of the school board in that city.
For 80 years, a mountain ash tree has
been growing from a narrow ledge of sand
stone on the .teep'e of the Unitarian church
in Utica, n. Y. The tree is now Is or l6
feet tall.
The first souvenir Columbian half dollar
which was purchased by the Remington
Typev ritter Company, has been presented
to President Higginbotham, of the Chicago
Exposition.
Mrs. Anna +. Brown, whose will was ad-
mitted to probate at Quincy. H., recently,
1equeathed $500 900 to public charities.
To her father and other near relatives she
left $1,000 each.
Prof. Tyndall has recently returned to
his home in Haslemere, England. after sew
eral mouths sojourn at his Swiss retreat at
Alp Lusgen. He j. said to have benefited
by his summer in the Alps.
In Holland women and persons of either
sex under the sge Of 1G are now forbidden
to begin work earlier tbsn A. NJ, or TO
continue at work after =. NJ. nor can
49, l. II 1zv n oil
There are few scientists who do not be-
ieve that petrifed human beings are pure
hnmbug. One scholarly Smithsonian In
stitute man said he could not fnd single
instance on record of human pettifaction.
Several pension officials in Washington
are compiling book of literary freaks,
epistoIary oddities ard photographic wrecks
which have been lately received from ex-
amining surgeons and pension applicants.
After two years trial with zine, oak and
yreenhear, in the Suez Canal works, it has
been found that while pine ard oak are de-
strcyed by the borer worm, the greenheart
which comes from British Guiana, was un-
harmed.
According to New York authority few
living American novelists count upon sale
of more than 5000 copies OF any book with
in a yesr Of it's publication. As to the
poets. one can scarcely hope TO sell so many
as 2OU0 copies Of new volume.
Zorn, the Swedish artist. whose pictures
seen at the Fair have been positive sensa-
ton. and who, with a disabled right hand,
has been doing portrait work with his left
this summer ,is soon expected in New York,
where an exhibition Of his works will be
held.
Noah Rabby, an inmate Of the poor farm
near Shelton, New Jersey. claims to be l2l
years DID, He often relates Of having heard
George Washington deliver . speech at
Yorktown. Rabby was not compelled to
use glasses, he says, until he had reached
his Tooth birthday.
The Princess Of Wales health has been
greatly improved by her visit to Denmark,
according to the London papers. She has
been absent from England too months. She
still wears mourning, but ii is said that she
will 20 cut more after the second annivef-
sary Of the Duke Of Cixrence's death, and
large parties are to be held this month at
Sandfingham to celebrate the Prince Of
Wales' birthday.