Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-10

The city of Paris has 80 labor papers.
England had the first saowstorm of the
season on Monday.
r.. +. Island potatoes are selling for %
eents per bushel In Nova Scotia.
The oldest cannon in the world are among
the relics at Constantinople.
The most disastrous food was shat of
Holland, 1880; 100000 psrsons drowned.
Emperor William of Germany has issued
IN edict forbiddiag gambling in the German
army.
A proposition to unite the city of Halifax
and the town of Dartmouth Is meeting with
favor.
Moscow has the largest bell in the world
in the kremln. Its weight is 4S2 900
pounds.
The Dead Sea is the lowest body of water
the sea.
The first two courses at a recent Fort
Scott (Kan. sociable were turnips and mush
and milk.
The sale of blueberries in Quinan, about
20 miles from Yarmouth, last season
amounted to over $1,000.
The state council at St. Petersburg. has
proposed the establishment of a state
monopoly of tobacco in Russia.
The Manchester (Eug) chip canal,
which has been building for about ten years,
will be open to travel December LIST.
Extraordinary stories are told of the
healing properties of a new oil which is
easily made from the yolk of hens eggs.
The a United States owe, collectively,
1924 900, 900, and they pay 70 the holders
Of state securities $40, 000, 900 year as in
terest.
The Catholic clergymen at Shenandoah,
Pa, have advised their people not to join
the Miners and Lsborers Amalgamated
Association.
Russia has about s40O, coo, 900 in gold in
her treasury, which is ing held as a war
fund. TIE currency of Russia is a depre-
lated paper.
The Krupp Gun Works claim to have
manufactured machine which will roll
iron 80 thin that il would take 1900 sheets
to make an inch.
In the last ten years I40. 900 residents of
the province of Quebec have emigrated.
dest nave thheH up tucu Fesiuruts iu uiS
United States.
Sir Andrew Clark, a celebrated English
physician, died Monday in London from
paralysis. He wa. Mr.. Gladstones physi-
clan and personal friend.
Twenty years ago there were but two or
three manufacturers of horse hide leather
10 this country. The consumption of this
leather is large and rapidly increasing.
Should tho Latin union be dissolved BEL
30 0o0, 600 francs by ticking back at its iull
nomiaxl value the silver she has coined.
A vicsoris despatch saws that the Moth
Pacific sealing catch viii be about $4,000
skips Most Of the skins taken by the SIN
Francisco .hoone,s we're LANDED At Japan
ports.
The secret socis ty Of the Illuminate, for
some time inactive, /. to be revived in Ber-
In. Its m. mbers are pl. dyed 10 Combat
the tendencies of Socialists and Materi-
aii,ts.
composer, Peter Tschaikowsky, died at ST.
Petersburg Monday of Asiatic cholera. II
is supposed that he contracted the disease
by drinking impure water.
Two famous Partisan prisons will shortly
cease to exist. They are the Roquette, near
Pere Lachaise cemetery, and the prison of
Ste. Pelsgie, with ito sorrowful souvenirs
of the R-ign Of Terror. The government
in ends to build large prisos in their stead.
Prtsons of Long isl and are overrun with
foxes III Il are DESTROYING considerable poul-
try TIE farmers bla ne the hun clubs
bs which foxes are frequently released for
the chase. but are rarely rrcsp,ured. The
inoffrnsive xniseed bag doesu't react in this
way.
A series of exhibitions are to be held at
Milan. Italy, next year, among which will
be Workingman's International EXPOSE
lion; and sn invitation will, undoubtedly,
be extended to the working people in al
parts of the world to send specimens of
their handicrsft.
Physicians say that the present low death
rate in New York is in part traceable to the
grip. That disease, during its ravages OF
several yesrs, carried OF great number Of
weak persons Who, but for its coming.
would have lived to swell the death rate
his year and next.
III saC 0aAtAN III Aet8olt VIC hpptC hAb
become Wild, and forests of trees Of many
acres are found in various parts of the |
country. They extend from the level of !
he sea far up into the mountain Sides 1t |
. said that miles Of these apple forests can |
be seen.
In the Japanese capital there is q gigan- |
lie image Of . woman, made Of wood and |
plaster, an dedicated to Hachiman, the |
nod Of war. In height il measures 81 feet,
he head alone. which il reached BY . wind
ng stairway in the interior Of the figure, |
'eins large enough to comfortably hold 20
,ersons.
The 'soh clock on the stairs. which
longfellow made famous came into the pos
ession Of Ernest Longfellov, the poets |
on. some time ago. and now flls nook in
he stairway Of bis cottage q Magnolia.
he historic tinepisce vas the property Of |
rhomas @. Appleion. md q his death his
sir ssvs i = n. Longfello~ = relic II