Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-09
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| Wtal ng in the Arctic region is reported
| TO have been Unprecedented this year.
Amer can pumps are known in China and
| Japan, as we'll as in all parts of Europe.
| In his younger days Joe Jefferson took
| boxing lessons RS remedy for dyspepsia.
| Wheat that is gown in northern latitude
| .,roiuces much more seed than grain grown
| farther south.
camphor is cultivated at Hiogo, japan.
| ,hout one fourth of the product comes to
| e United States.
w. Clark Russell. the writer of sea tales,
reed by rheumatism to keep to his sofa,
| icta,es all his novels.
| Since the reduction of cab fares in Lon
| lon the ratio of patronage to population has
| -isen from li.G to II.
Previous t. 1910 nails were made by hand.
| It cost 81 900 900 TO RI, ct machine that
| came into use that year.
| Italy he a II the list of European count ie 3
| Tor homicides, 5000 of her people every year
| Beng done to death by violence.
In G, rmany, the land Of specialties. u
| new spspor has been started especially de
| voted TO the interests of servant rls.
Lady Henry Somerset's paper. the
Woma1s Herald, of London, England, adj
vocates the abolition of the House of Lords.
Professor Campbell has discovered at the
lick Observatory new and ingenious
oethoi of asc, itainDg The dimensions OF
liked stars.
The Ada Rehan silver statue, which was
Exhibited at the Worlds Fair, i, now in
Brooklyn, vhtr9 it is to be exhibited in a
esIing combination store.
A memorial window, to cost $1,000. to
Gen. Sionew all Jackson. is to be placed in
The Pieshy terrain church in Lexington, Va,
f hich he used TO be member.
The Russian government has decided up
on the construction OF a railway from Plo-k
(, Novo Georgivsk The new line will be
( sreat iml ortance from strategical point
IT VEG.
The hsirs of Dumas, ptre, are sti!l en-
/ y ing sn income of about $1,000 a yesr
from the sale of bis novels, of which he
wrote about three hundred. Two or three
IL. nish most OF the revenue.
Mrs. +. NJ. Dgnney of Ashland, one.
Who has labcr-i fpr THE Jewish relief fund ,
has received ts nail from Jerusalem liv-
ing rose tree which travelled II 600 mile,
securely packed ia a condensed milk car,
ami is Low growing wtil.
More telegraph was made practical in
1897. The Western Enion now had 139 =
l05 miles Of virc ant sends 90 900, 600
IN s.sgss Il year. The world. business l.
transacted patty ~ means Of 100000
messages sent every year.
Stais,ics just issued by tine Geological
Snrvey show that she total coal output 81
th.. nifed Stats du'iuR last year was l79
900 GEO tors vallr d at fI4s nines a, S207
566 sSl. More tnan half, or 90 .0OO, 09o
tens, vas mine in p, mn ylrsnia.
Miss Mary Rec; Of Cincif natl, who his
contracted ,l,e rnajsdy herself willie actin.
~ a nurse among lepers n India, has writ
ten home asking that $50 be withheld from
her modes, salary and devoted TO the relief
of the food sufferers in the South.
NJ. victorien Sar6ou has On hand the
plot and bare outline of about $50 pisces
tn II are still waiting to be written. Fifty
h I'VE ALREADY received titles. The plots are
all methodically arranged in leather cases
and carefully dockcted and indexed.
The longss. reach of railway without
curve is claimed by travellers {, be that Of
the new Argentine Pacific Railway, from
Bgenos Ayres to the foot Of the Andes
For 2lI miles it is without curve, and has
no cutting or embankment deeper than two
or three feet.
The Society Of Arts in LONDON has placed
tablets on the houses occupied by Tbsck,-
raw in Palace Green, Dryden in Gerrsri
street, and Wslpole in Arlington street.
tsouses occupied by William Blake, Charles
Wesley. Goldsmith, anil Dickens can still
De identified, and axaIt heir tablets.
Doubtless three-four;hs of the Americans
Who WRIT the Bermudas pronounce the see
ond sy liable of the name - If it were spelled
..mew,S although Shakespeare in the
Tempest has indiea.ed for all time the
original pronunciation of that syllabl~ by
calling the islands the still v.xed Ber-
Il oothes.'
The famous Chinese giant, Chang. die