Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-02
In a Nutshell.

The Chinese drink tea cold and vine hot
\ steel bridge Is to be built across tbs
Esgtra gorge near the old railway susper
81 IA bridge.
The editors Of Vsssar publication have
offered prize Of $50 for the best story witt
| Fassar girl as heroine
Major Decker, who died in Chicago or
Saturday night, was a wears old, weighed
Is pounds and was but 80 inches high.
Ercs.ons submarine torpedo boat De
sr.Oyer, which is now at Ne~port, Is said Il
have been purchased by the Brazilian gov
| e7nment.
| Senator Allen, of Nebraska, is to be Civ
en- silver brick of 40 ounces by the PEG
pl. of Silverton, Col, in recognition of his
. hours speech: .@
| i child born in Washington county, n
| I. hiss been christened Christopher Colum
bus Cleveland Chase. He has future tina
aay one can four c. 49,
The idea Of an ancient tropical continent
al the South Pole uniting South America
| NAH gascar and Australia, is aroUsing con
81 erable interest and discussion in scieutit
circles. s.5> ~ T.. ~
:
of z nulue ink. Il ia formed by the con
1ieuce of two streams. one flowing from
| terruginous soil, the other drai Ing pea
scamp.
| Barring little trouble from rheumatism
Oleen Victoria. who will be IS years Oh
IN Nay III xt, if she lives till then, is in ex-
client condition AMI thought good for -
wears more.
When the japanese and the Coreans
hitch a horse they 20 so by tying hi
| fortfret togt Their. 1itching posts are
never used in either Cora or Japan ex'epi
| by foreigners. ~.
1t is estimated that the total production ot
coffee in the worll is abnu; 600 coo 10 600
000 tons of which Brazil alone produces
between 80 900 aud $50, 900 tons, AMI Jaw.
! so 600 to 20 600 ~.
! 4 natural ice house, it is claimed, has
/ been discovered north of Lewiston, Non
/ t4ra. The rave i. described a. similar to
/ none heretofore known. 1t varies in wil,h
/ from - 10 400 feet.
| One of the laws Of King Loherglla, now
| f .hti the British in South Africs, is tina,
ipgthersln-laS may not enter tn If son-in-
| Law. house, and should they meet in thu
street they mist avert their gaze.
| \ submarine b-i ige il projected to cross
III, bel of the Strait of Oresund between
| Denmark ami SSeten. Il is 10 b. hat
tunnel ard half tub, the latter resting UP
IN plies l. viii be tire nilrs long.
Twelve aud half rnllio1 rounls Of
/ e-een. ripe aud dried frUi. we're >tippe,'
| from San Jose. Cal, the second week Of
uctoher Three ami n half million pounds
If dried pruues wore c,mprised in - to'a':
/ or the recruits in the British army 32 .
| OYi were last wear raised in En-. land, 5 90
! Ia ScJtAn and $3.50 in IRELAND. Or
| Il oqsanh thrt . hundred AMI FIVE % thrs'
youhg soldiers were under Il years Of age,
| There is talk of transporting the New
Hampshire state building, at the Chicago
! Exposition. 10 Manchester, n. H., and
turo;ng it into II pub museum. 0ther
/ stltes ould 10 we'll in following thi-
-cbeme. Il :
There is hole in Yellowstone Park sur
i.,scd to be dry R.ysrr,' which il he
hev,i to ne botlo Nje-sH Three thoaaand
teet of line with weight attached has beer
| do,n into il without meeting with OBJ
-t-uctions
The Rev. j. Orten. Presbyterian min
lister Of Wnsmac, Iodi.na, was publicly
torsAwhpp.l MONDAY by Merl Mos. o. t
of two youths whom he had ordered from
l,j' church the evening" be fore for disturb.
ing he service.
report reache Colorado Springs MOI :
Il from Cripple Creek that geld ore worth
irom $1,000 10 $40 900 pr ton has ju.t been
nt,nea in the lowest level of the Victor
Nine. The strike is one of the best ever
ma 'e in the camp.
The natives of the west coast of Africs
are jet to the attacks of ous Of the
most remarkable parasites kHoan II the
&c entific investigator culoriess. thread
Ike worm aSnnt tro inches in length, which
affects only the eyeball and the surrounding
parts.
Ru.sophllism, to sp7ak automatically,
boil. d over in the late visit of the Russians
tn Paris. Among the 10000 letters re-.
ceived by the admiral os the Russian fleet,
wer. 10 600 from ladies begging for AL
an hence. lock of the admirafs hair ,or his
aut graph.
A process. h beea discovered by Ger
man mechanic for producing. through the
com Hinstion of rarhids and compo'ition
of his osn. rev material adapted TO the
manufacture of "cox an friction wheels,
which is cun.iiered likely TO do asay in
MANY cases with iron.
FL. Dreer OF Philadelphia i. sal tn pos
sess one of the finest collections Of William
Pena autographs and manuscripts in exist
snce. He also owns eighty three letters OF
Washington. thirteen of these dating from
before the Revolution. and one having been
written when Washington was only I2 wears
old. One of the letters in this collection l.
The last one Warrington wrote, and is dated
the day before his death.
Rev. DIR. Hiram Bingham. who. with hi
wife, is about to sail from San Francisco
for the Gilbert islands, has completed
translation of the Bible for the natives Of
those islands, where be has been mission
airy for many years. Mrs. Bingham is the
author Of several school books for the
islanders, and is at present working on an
arithmetic, task which offers many diff
culties on account of the lick of equivalent,
in the Gilbert island ltnguaga for many
arithmeticsl terms. Certain of them Mrs
Bingham has been obliged to ~on.
Dr.. Alfred Moneris of England. con
spicuous at the parliament of religions, says
in a New York Interview; 1t IL the great
est xhibi.iol that the world has ever seen
aud Chicago is the Greatest city in the
World. No other city could have accom-
plisiied hat it has done. The SIZE of tn.
Fair is m srvelous, but iss beauty i. more
marvellous still was told tti.t III. " no e
of the t.ermaa army could stand in one ~
the buliInss, Yet noue of tie massive
structures seems too large, f r they are p r
fectiy proportional. The Chicago people
are really wonderful 10 tlsir generosity and
their public spirit.