Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-11-03
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A pie facto,y in New YORK city turns out |
20 600 pies adsy.
The Ixrgest lighthouse in the world 10
shss near Hsvre, France.
IL msy not be generally known that Par ; |
is the great postage stamp market Of the |
World.
The Mount Blanc observatory, which 10 |
built upon eternal ice, Is st Lass an accom- +;
plished fact.
10 . single season the locusts and srsss- |
hoppers have eos, the Western farmers !
$500. 600 900.
Trinity College has received = legacy Of
$4,000 BY the will Of Mrs. Charles Scot:
of Warrington.
The danger Of ire in the cities from the
crossing of overhead trolley wires 10 sitract-
ing increased attention
The longest canal in the world extends
from the frontier of China to St. Petefs-
burg. II is 4472 miles in length.
The New Decimsl Coinage Association
has organized with considerable evidence
of strength for the purpose Of decimatizing
English coinage.
The Mirror of Mayheld, Ky, has man
fully refused TO print any more obituaries
for folks who don't subscribe, and great
chorus Of approval rises from s suffering
brotherhood.
The South SIDE Chamber of Commerce
in Piusbnrg has elected woman, Mrs.
popp, TO membership. 1t is saii to be The
nrst case in which woman has been made
a member of such body.
Gardening was Gounod's pet hobby, and
almost TO the last day of bis he he ~as able
to busy himself among bis roses and geran-
iums. But mentally the composer was a
wreck long before death came.
Mrs. Grant, widow of General Grant, has
decided upon making Washington her pei
manent home. She has spent some time
recently searching for suitable house, but
thus far has not succeeded in finding one.
Dean Hoffman Of the General Theologi-
cal Seminary New ork, is believed to be
the richest clergyman in America. if not in
the world. He has given to Episcopslian
institutions and charities over 81 000, 900, |
The income of Henry Labouchere from
Truth" is estimsted at $50 600 year. He
i. a good story teller and has an inexhsust-
ible fund of anecdotes. The only danger
this, apparently threatens him is his inordi
nate love of tobacco.
Tariff was originally the name of Moor
ish chief who having port in Spain, near
Gibraltar, was accustomed to levy toll on
passing vessels. His toll became reg
ularly understood thing, and the amount
was added to the price of the goods.
The first almanac was printed in Hun
gary in l470. One medical firm in this
country now prints and circulates over
3 900 900 year and it is estimated that the
total number printed annually in this coun-
try does not fall short of 10000 900.
The hottest mines in the world are the
Comstock. On the lower levels the heat 10
50 great that the men cannot work over 10
or Is minutes at a time. Every known
means of mitigating the heat have been
tried in vain. Ice melts before Il reaches
the bottom of the shafts.
Gorham ID. Abbott of Winsted. Ct, has
surprised his shopmates by audibly utierina
q word. When child he became deaf and
dumb through scarlet fever and has not
spoken for thirty years. Since last Frifsy
he has uttered several words coherenily,
and it is expected he will regain full power
of speech.
American women are yearly growing more
independent. The statistics show that over
5000 0C0 women are earning independent
incomes in this country. Their" are some
2500 practicing medicine, 5000 managing
postoffices, 275 preaching the gospel and
n New York city alone 21,00o of them
supporting their husbands.
The success of American singers abroad
shows no abatement. Miss /slie De Lus-
san. the charming young prima donna who
began her career with the Boston Ideals"
and made quick and brilliant success, is
now singing in opera in London, and was
one of the company commander by the
Queen to sing at Balmorsl Castle last week
for q second time.
Captain Magnus Anderson, the Norwegian
sailor who built the Viking ship and sailed
her across the sea to Chicago, was presented
to President Cleveland the other day by
Gardiner G. Hubbard, president of the Ma
tional Geographical Society. 1t is thought
that the Viking ship will find permanent
resting place in Washington, now tina. the
Worlds Fair is closed.
Harvard University has just established
the highest meteorological station in the
world. IL IL lOChteu oii TIE top VI iut FL
Miste, a nearly extinct volcano of the Cor
6illeras. in Peru, 1920 feet in altitude, or
almost $500 feet higher than the station of
the French Academy on Mont Blanc. The
volcano will hereafter be climbed once a
month and the station visited.
The cost of governing the state of Nevada
from 1865 to the close of the last fiscal year
vas nearly 81, 800, 900 and the amount for
the last fiscal year was not quite $500 900,
or SO 900 less than for the year 1865. The
most expensive year was 1879, when Neva-
la had reached her greatest population.
The amount that year was Just short of
$500, 900 Economy seems to have accom-
panied the fading out process of the last ten
years.
James r. Randall. the author of Mary
land, My Maryland, is now connected with
the office of the Senste's serg 'snt-ft-rms.
He is welcome visitor TO The press caller
l., of the Senate and occasionally writes a
clever letter to his home newspaper but
it Is difficult for a stranger in meeting him
to conceive that he was the author. Of that
wcrld- famous battle-soug, with its fire an!
.yirit. Mr. Randall receives requests from
all over the English speaking world for au
nh Of hi