Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-17
People and Events.

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Sir John Lubbock IT'S that ESQ, 000,-
900 il invested in bull ing societies in Eng
Land.
The little red house at Lenox, Mass. in
which Nathaniel Hawthorne once lived ,is to
be repaired.
Mis-. NAV Abraham, lately appointed
factory inspector ia England is the first
woman to bold this position.
Jean lngelow the poet, provides diner
thrre times week for persons lately dis
charged from the London hospitals.
Gen Longstreet, the senior surviving
officer of the confederscy, lives at Gaines
borough, Ga, old and gray and deaf.
The lumber report of the United States
in 1899 amounted to 81 100000. At the
present rate of use our supply will be es-
hausted.
MIR Gladstone has conferred the profcs-
srship of Greek of Oxford. upon Dr.
Ingram Bywater. a scholar of great reputa-
ton in Europe.
Efforts are being made in New Haven,
Connecticut, To have the old Benedict Ar
mold homestead removed for historical
relic and preserved.
] G. Hinriehs, of Chsrls ston. s. G.. an
ex- Confederate soldier, wears the iron cross
Of Prussia for vsl0rous service performed
in the Franco Prussian war.
Reports come again from Florida that
the alligator is rapidly becoming extinct.
II is reported that fully $500, 900 of them
have been killed in the past zen years.
The drought in South and West Texas is
b,,. h., lat f'attia
are very poor and will have hard time
getting through the winter. THOUSANDS
will die.
DR. Cook. former fellow-traveller with
Engineer Peary. the Arctic explorer. who
has recently returned from a short north
ward trip on his own account, is confident
that the lieutenant will reach the north pole
this time, and return safely.
The late Marshal MscMshon's family
have not AZ yet decided when they " II pub
hsh the five volumes of Memoirs left by
the great military leader of France. The
book Is said to treat almost exclusively up
on MacMshon's military career.
With the clos of the Columbian Expo.i
ton comes the annual report of the Illinois
Ce trail Railroad Company. The company
carried 1892 ,6si passengers on its tr aims
during the Fair season. not one of whom, it
/. claimed, was killed, and but five injured
Mr.. Ruskin doesn't like bicycles. II not
only object" he SAYS, but am prepared
10 spend all my best bad language in rep
rotation of by. tri and 4. 3, 8 or ! cycles
and every other coptrivance and invention
for superseding human feet on Gods
ground
The Empress of China has no sympathy
with gsy and fight, fashions. She cele
brated her sixtieth birthday by issuing q
proclamation enjoinipg general restraint
of extravaganza. Her Majesty has even
prohibited the customary gifts of silks and
jewels by ministers.
A ststuette displaying figure of Hermes.
the god Of commerce. claimed TO be 5000 !
, ears oil. was found by j. A. koniylis at
Jau.gie, near Athens, Greece, sometime |
go, while excavstipg. The relic has the |
familiar whitish and reddish color of Egyp- |
tian works. and is about foot high.
Bears are uuu.uslly plentiful aud agda- |
cious in some of the southwestern counties
of Washington this fall. They rsd the |
farms. carrying of hogs, sheep. and young |
calves, and doing great damage to crops. /
Bear hunting up in the mountains is orli /
nsriiy popular autumn sport there. but |
the mere trying to keep bears out Of the |
farm yards is just now serious business. /
CALIFORNIA; vintage this year will be |
about Is 600 900 gallons, some 100000 |
gallons more than last years yield, and the |
quality will be good. Ii is expected tina.
the vintage of the state i'll show decrease
during the nett ten years, owing to the raw !
sss of phrlloxera. and to overpltnting |
The low prices caused by overproiuctiou |
terd also to place a check on the industry.
Lumphin county, Georgia. is having an
exciti goli-mining boom. The mines are
not new ,iiscoveris, but since the silver |
trouble began sttenrion has been rrdirecsed |
TO oil disgings and goh deposits known to !
exieis there. Colorado nining capitalists |
AMI capitalists from other regions have been I
looking over the Lumpkin gold fields dur
ing the past two or three mouths, with /
view to investment.
The women of the West are taking am
Pile advantage Of their new political privi-
leees. They took an active part in the
school elections in Seattle, Spokane. AMI /
oshsr Washington towns this month. going
to the polls in companies Of from dozen
to hundred Candidates of their own ssx
we're nominated in several districts, which
helped greatly to enlist the interest of the
women.