Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-19
Notes OF the DAY.

| London.
There is only one sudden death anon
women to eight among men.
The wars OF the last 20 years have cos
Russia sl,775. 900, 600 and the lives q
664, 900 men.
| 10 be perfectly proportional 1t i
claimed that man should weigh 2
pounds to every foot of his height
II there is any portion of a bank bill
equal to threefifths of it's original fac
size rem aining,it is redeemable at its fac
value
d. o. Mills of New York. intends t.
erect on the site of some of the wors
slums in that city two colossal hotels
specially designed for the accommodation
of the poorer classes. Rooms will cost q
cents night.
An evidence of the striking uniformity
of size among the japanese is found in
the fact that recent measurements taker
of an infantry regiment showed no varia
lions exceeding two inches in height or 2t
pounds in weight
Professional hunters who hunt and fran
among the mountains along the Snake
and Grand Ronde rivers in Washington
say that the weather in that region has
been so mild all winter that the bears
never once went into winter quarters
General FitZ Lee, who is undoubtedly
the most popular man in Virginia runs
down to Washington often on official bust
ness, begins to shake hands at the railway
station and keeps it up pretty much all
day if he ventures out of the Hotel Page
The most expensive parliment in Europe
is that of France. The two chambers cost
the nation $1,000, 600 annually Spain
spends $500, 900 on her representation.
Italy 1920 600. England $500, 900. Belgium
$3.50, 000 Portugal $3.50 900, and Germany
sos, 900
An electrical machine for cutting cloth
ing is the invention of q Cincinnati
manufacturer. The machine will cut
through eight layers o. cloth and Is can
able of cutting ESQ suits day. 1t has
strength of one-eighsh horse power, and
IS of ITO voltage.
The thread on the cocoon of the silk
worm is not wound around and around.
as might be supposed, but irregularly here
and there, as the worm moved his head to
and fro within his selfmadc house Many
yards of thread may sometimes be I'M
wound from the cocoon without turning
it over at all.
Recent sales of autographs in London
show that Mark Twain's signature is
worth - shilliugs and Is pence, Bret
Harte's s. Andrew Iang's E. and Rider
Haggard' 5 3. Fer some insorutable rea-
son, Mrs. Humphrey Ward chirography
is considered worth & shillines, while
Southey's is only Is.
Representative Lacey of Iowa, is the dis
author of one of the most valu-
able law books in use by the American
bar. 1t is Lacey's Railway Digest IA
compendium of all the railway cases ever
tried and decided In the United States.
England and Australia. 1t is in two
volumes, and the second volume is tome
about two-thrds as large as Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary.
President Kruger of the Transvaal
republic, has some queer notions of free
dom. To a delegation who visited him
not long ago and urged compulsory educa-
ton the ground that it was the custom
in other countries, he said Yes, educa
ton is compulsory in other countries, but
= is military service. This is a republic
and people may keep their children in
ignorance if they please
The sn AXE river liar has broken loose
again. We give his latest conception Just
as it rolled from his seethng pen: There
is town on the Upper snake river in
Idaho called New Sweden. Hans Hansen
is mayor of the town, Peter Petersen is
clerk, and the common council is COM
posed OF Peter Hansen, Hans Petersen,
Peter Hans Petersen, Hans Peter Hansen
and Peter Hansen Hans Petersen. No
exists between these men,
Although the typewriter, both machine
and operator, is an American creation,
other countries are beginning to rival us
in the quality of the work done by both.
In the House of Commons there are five
and in the foreign office six young women
who are typewriters, stenographers and
also linguists. They are organized into a
staff at each place. Each staff reads
writes and stenographs English French
German, Danish. Spanish Italian. Portu-
guese and Dutch.
A year from this, Mr. Olney will 90
back to his large Boston practice. or. may
be- into the White House; Mr.. Lamont.
to his business interests in New York, If
not into the Governor chair: Mr. Her
bert to the practice of law in Alabama,
probably Mr.. Wilson either to the
practice of law or to the presidency of
some university or to Congress: Hoke
Smith to Georgia as lawyer, or to the
United States Senate; Mr.. Harmon back
to the bar; Mr.. Morton to farm, possibly
in Virginia.
Sir Donald Smith. who has been sent to
Manitoba by the Canadian government
on mission of Cancellation regarding the
separate schools dispute. is better known
as leader of Canadian commerce. than
as politician. He and George Stephen.
no Lord unt-Stephen were the chief