Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-15

| Just 2.529.421 people are said to have
: attended the national league games
| this season.
Daniel Campbell and Wife, Of Wal
| ton county Fla. are said to be re-
| spectively, III and 1l2 years old.
| The eight great water companies of
| London now supply nearly 6.0o0 900 people
| with about 1S6 ,0o0, 600 gallons of water Il
| day.
y farmer near Sacramento says his
crop of asparagus this season will bring
him $4,000 of which $4,000 Will be profit
lie has twelve acres of it.
King Alfonso of Spain is now ten years
old 1t is expected that next year he will
+ read the speech at the opening of the
Cortes. He comes OF age according TO
The Spanish constitution. when he is Il
years old, and the Queens regency there
fore, has but four years to run
Home supply not equaling the de-
nand for pineapple plants at Orlando.
/ Fla.. two carloads Of smooth cayenne
pineapple plants from !iono,ulu have
t.een imported for tha, market this
year.
The new Sultan Of Zanzibar, is re-
former He has ordered that women
convicted of crime shall be kept in
work in chained gangs on the streets
of his capital
AT Columbia, Tenn. Mrs. Mary Moore
white woman, worth $4,000 and the
owner of 600 acres of fine land. has been
convicted for stealing six turkeys from
a neighbor and sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary
Nine. Audiffred has given to the
French academy of medicine a sum of
about 100000, the interest of which
about $4S00-will be awarded. without
regard to nationality for the discov-
cry of a cure for tuberculosis
The Hamburger Nachrichten the
personal organ of Prince Bismarck,
says that although the ex-chancellor
is suffering from neuralgia in the face,
which is especially troublesome. there
is no change in his general health.
Among the precautions taken to in
sure the Cars safety while in Paris
was the photographing and measure
ment by NJ. Bertillon, head of the an
thropometric service, or every servant
employed at the Russian embassy
The Chicago Tract society reports
tHdt 1tS COlpOTleuFS are DISTRIBUTING
tracts written in French, Dutch. Swed-
ish Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Rus
sian, Polish. Bohemian. Bulgarian, Lith-
uanian, Italian, Spanish Welsh, Greek
Hebrew. Chinese and Arabic, and find
ing eager readers for them
Mrs. Philip O'Meara. the Oldest resi-
dent of Ottawa, and probably of Can
ada, is dead. She was III years of age
She was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in
l7S5. She had a good memory and
could recall the rebellion of 1898 Eight
children. 54 grandchildren and over 200
great grandchildren survive her.
The first papers in a peculiar divorce
case have been filed at Washington
Mrs. Martha Wolf, 50 years of age. of
Amwell township asks to be legally
separated from her husband, Jacob
Wolf, who is a. The couple were mar
ried in 1885. and have not lived together
for many years. Mrs. Wolf is pos
sessed of considera BILE estate.
Mrs. r. l.. Stevenson has figured as
the defendant in lawsuit in Samoa.
She acted as her own attorney and
made the plaintiff weary before she let
him leave the stand. For three quar-
tiers of an hour she ross-eXamined
him. but the plaintiff met all questions
with ready answer, and at the end of
the trial the justice awarded him half
the amount of his claim