Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-31
In a Nutshell.

The body of Mrs. Lucy Stone, the noted
woman reformer of Boston, is to be ere
mated
| A whale was recently washed ashore at
Bridpehampton, l.. |. On being measured
/, was found to be fifty feet in length.
The study chair of Richard Baxter when
he wrote 1.-The Saints Everlasting Rest is
IN the possession of Rev. Reuben Thomss
of Brookline, Mass.
| New York has Ave women lighthouse
keepers New England has two. Nancy
| Rose of Stony Point, n. Y, has been in
the business thirty-tive years.
| Senator Stewart, who fearlessly walloped
England on the floor of the Senate on
| Thursday, was guilty of senatorial discour-
tesy. His Nevada colleague is a native of
England.
The Georgia House of Representatives
recently passed bill prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes in the state. A bill was intro
under certain restrictions.
More precious than ever will liberty bell
return to Philadelphia. To keep it from
vandals and make it more portable in case
of fire it is now to be inclosed in glass case
and placed on a movable platform.
Prof. Williams of Johns Hopkins, found
at Heidelberg University . rule printed in
1880 forbidding the older students to shave
the heads of the new ones, and cites this as
an evidence that hszing is an old habit.
The Boston Plste Printers Assembly re-
Gently formally Withdrew from the Knights
Of Labor and reorRanized under the new
national body, which will include all the
union plate printers of the United States.
A snuff boz, valued at over $4,000 was
recently stolen from New York store.
This box was presented by Ferdinand to
Queen Isabella in 1850. It is supposed that
IT the thief knows the value of the article
lie has stolen, he will take it to Europe.
Marshal Field of Chicago has promised to
give 81 900 900 to the Columbian Memorial
Nus, um PROVIDED that $500 goo in cash is
subscribed TO the endo~ ment fund, and that
81, coo o60 of the Exposition stock is trans
+, rrrd Ia the trustees of the projected mu
'eum.
WHAT is claimed viii be the largest torpe-
Il boat ever constructed will shortly be
launched at Nantes, France. The length
of the boat will be 80 meters. aud it is esti-
mated that she will attain a max mum speed
of 20 knots an hour. She has been named
the Lansquenet.
The health commissioners Of Minnesota,
have prohiti,e the excbangs Of lead PEN
els smong the school children. They say
tsa, tiiyhthvfIa and other fisessss are often
transmitted by putting th.. pencil in the
nol.li.. which IS = very Common habit, net
,uiy with children, but adults.
The largest of any recent gifts to Har-
std College is that of DR.. Harry willard
WiElisms. who has given s25 900 as a spe-
rial fund toward the maintenance of a pro-
fe.sorship in 0phthalmology in the Medical
.ehool. DIR. Williams resigned that seat
swo years sgo, after holding it since 1871.
Explorers have recently visited the Wild
Oh, inpie mountains, in Western Washing
ton. They reported that the timber line
6i.sppears at about COCO feet, and at the
has. Of the highest peak, on the 5000 and
eoo0-feot level, 10 a system of meadows
and lskes, where grass and flowers grow in
great laxurisnce.
A work of tremendous siza IL about to be
Installed in the library of the British muse
mn II comprises 1000 big books wherein
are bound up the 500 native volumes Of
the ~enderful Chinese encyclopedia. This
10 the only perfect copy in Europe, and
even in China there are not more than i've /
copies Of this edition.
Govesner Peter Tarney Of Tennesses, n !