Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-01

Governor Russell gets is his Thanksgiy-
ing appointment ahezl VI the ffssi lent
Ouida. mother i, dead. She is described
asa very charming, aristocraae Cd lady
with particularly sweet voice
The Brotherhood of Railroad Traiamsr
AZ Boston, recently passed resolutions IA
voring the abolition of Sunday trains.
A National Council of Women of Can
ala was organized in Toronto recently
( Lady Aberdeen being elected President.
A collection of papyri has Just been
bought by the Geneva Museum which con
tains fragments of the Had ari the ojys-
/ sey.
/ Prospec,or. who have returned TO Mime
| an lis from the northern part of Minnesots
report finding gold deposits wbi;h will re-
pay working,
| "Ann, Badly an inmste of the Old
! La lies Home at Terre Haate, Ind. cached
her 10th birthday on TUESDAY. She il
said to be the oldest person in Indiana
| Since lsl3 the Free church of Scotland
has raised no less than E22 900 900 by vol
1ntary effort. Ii has nov 100 minister
| 1000 manses aud an annual income of 600 :
900.
In India the work of Christian Endesvor
i, being vigorously pushed and the consti-
tuition, which is now Translated into SIX o
the languages Of lndii, is being largely cir
culattd.
The origin of the American navy date'
from 1875, when Congress authorized tie
Equipment OF two cruisers. BY Ocs9ter,
l.16, the American feet consisted OF q
yess Is, mouniiug 5S6 guns.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has received b
urge increase Of income since the death OF
her husband. She was already rich, as b =
f.ther-iu Law at his death, three years age
left her An income of $35 600 year and tfs
London house.
The new congressional library, in Wash
ing.on. will, Librarian Spofford believes
accommodate copies of all the books OF til.
Sorll OF one hundred years to come and
till leave seven-eigh,s Of its available spac.
applicable for other purposes.
At the North pole there Is only one dlree
lion-south, east and west have VANISHED
The hour OF the day at the pole is para
ioxic.l conception, for that point Is thu
| meeting place of every meridian, and tht
time OF all holds good, 50 that IT is any hour
one cares to mention.
When the great to.er now being con
.truct.d at Wemb!y park, near Harrow, II
| ENGLAND, is completed, IL will be 10 fee
| higher than the Eiffrl Tower. The height
| will be 1850 feet, aud AS it stands on hi
| lG5 feet high. it gains SO much in extent OF
panorama. 1t wiil be built of steel.
II is an odd coincidence that the oil AMI
| vita mitten poplar at Versailles, which
Queen Marie Anton-tte planted 10 year
| ago at the Tri.non dairy, vas blown down
| on the centennial anniversary Of her exc
cution. 1t was for many years in e mutt
| ated state, being proppti up by masonry
1t is estimsted that about so per cent. Of
all the fire losses owing their origin to elec-
tricity which have happened in TINS country
| during the last four years have been caused
by electrical devices su1 machines, IN
only 10 per cent. by wires used to conduct
currents from one machine or device 10
another. ..~.,
It is estimated that the richest of civilized
people is the English, with Sl2G6 per
o.tira In France the average j. sald, to b.
SIl02, in the nitel States sl029, while by
the sale of their lands to the United States
government some Of the Indian tribes are
worth from $1,000 to $1,000 per capita,
man, woman and child.
King Oscar of Swe!ca is once more com
lax to the front a. An author, copies Of ?
stirring poem, enttlei Memo IL of th'
Ssedish Fleet" corlrosed by him, having
a.t been placed upon the market hI HI.
stockholm publishers. lie has errtehe'
the literature of his country hs several tin'
poems, hesi'es translaiing Tasso, Goeth'
and Racine into Swedish. $685. ....~
The town of Hart, Ga, boasts a notiOlt
specimen of the albino negro. The maj
was once pure blark but for years his ski.
has been changing until now he is white all
over 18th the exception Of a few dark spais
Not only IS he whit t., hut much whittier
,h,n mot ~hife men, lis changed ssii
being of 81 ar, milky wilderness. Ih'
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