Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-23
Notes Of the Day.

For dinner tables the latest idea Is to
find the flower appropriate TO the season
or the occasion.
The official expenses of the British am
bassador in Turkey. exclusive of enter
tainments and servants. are about 81. UJ
a year.
Pittsburg sportsmen are about to liber-
ate a large number of pheasants on the
$1,000 acres of their game preserve on
Cheat mountain. Va. The clubhouse.
which accommodates the forty guests, is
3400 feet above the sea.
A good bull was made recently in par
lament by Mr.. Murnaghan. member for
Tyrone. who on being stopped by the
and merely beg to reterate what L was
about to observe.
Dominican nuns at King William s
Town In Cape Colony. where they have Il
plow and hoe. have built their own build
ings do the carpentry and all the black
smith work. besides teaching the boys
and girls in their school.
A cure for rinderpest is said TO hav.
been discovered at Salisbury in Rhodesia.
1t consists i'll keeping the animals from
drinking water and dosing them with
linseed oil. Cattle in the first stages can
be cured by purging them washing the
mouth with paraifin and salt. and apply
ing Stockholm tar to the nostrils.
London has been aroused 10 the neces-
sity of having Il thirtyfoot channel open
in orderto be able to compete with South
ampton and Liverpool. The Leigh mid
die shoal acts as a bar to the river:
through the channel no vessel drawing
twenty-eisht feet can pass at low water.
Vessels drawing twenty-seven feet can
pass only thirteen days in the year and
those drawing twenty-five feet on l25
days.
A small worm has made its appearance
in the clover and timothy fields near Cir
cleVille. O.. destroying entire fields In Il
few days The worms come in countless
numbers and fields that have been entire
y free from them in the morning are COW
cred by night. The worm when young is
white, with four brown bars across its
at maturity is q dark gray The Oldest
farmers say that it is ii species unknown
to them. and when and how it terminated
is a mystery.
T. r. Ferris of Lagro. Wabash county
Ind, tells strange tale of the discovery
of twenty-seven fine fish in Il hollow tree
on his farm. Mr.. Ferris place is on the
Wabash river; and at the e time Of the re-
and covered part of the farm. A large
oak tree drifted out of the channel and
lodged on the farm. and when the water
receded Mr.. Ferris went out to chop it
into wood. While thus engaged. he found
a lot of black bass in a hole in the tree.
lie took out twenty-seven bass. varying
pounds.
a society to encourage the use of French
universities by Scotch students and of
Scotch universities by Frenchmen has
French professors among them Jules
Simon, NM. Greard. Lavisse, Berthelot,
Lord Reya and Principal Donaldson. One
object of the society Is to re-establish in
the original building the old Scots col
lege in Paris. founded by the bishop of
Moray in the fourteenth century and en-
teenth, to be occupied by Scottish stud
ents and professors. The building is now
used as a lycee.
A memorial tablet has just been erected
in London Westminster hospital to poor
woman. In November last an epidemic OF
typhoid fever occurred in Luton. but few
families escaping the malady. The local
authorities applied to Westminster hos
Among them Nurse Margaret Anderson
Allan. native of Perthshire, was par
ticularly assiduous and painstaking
among the patients until she contracted
the fever. Her sister nurses tried to per-
suade her to desist and put herself under
medical treatment. but she continued
pursuing her duties till she died Nov. 30.
Rev. Leonard B. Worth formerly pas
tor of the Baptist church, has begun suit
for divorce from Elvira w. Worth. in
Oklahoma. The couple were married in
asked him to deed all of his property to
her, and made threats that if he did not
she would not live with him. but would
make 1t hot for him all his life. On one
occasion. he says. she filled his Sunday
boots with water. On another occasion
his Sunday coat was spoiled. Often. as
Rev. Mr.. Worth claims. his wife would
get angry with him and would lock him
out of doors for days together.
Many foreign physicians. including
American, now practicing in France. are
cision of the government. On Nov. 30.
1892, law went into effect requiring ali
foreign doctors desiring to practice their
profession in France to have Il diploma
from a French university or medical
school. AT the time those who had settled
in the country prior to that date We're ex-
empted from the requirements of the law.
The government. however, recently de-
cided that they had not renowned the
right to withdraw the privilege from
those who settled in Paris and other cit
les before 1892. and this causes the trouble.