Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-01
Personal and General,

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The number Of girl graduates from
fifty high schools, taken at random
throughout Nebraska, exceeds the num-
Der of boy graduates, two to one.
The Rev. Cyrus Musser Of Norris
town, Penn, has become editor of
"The Reformed Church Messenger"
succeeding the late DR.. Charles G.
Fisher.
Count Goetzen, the well known Ger
man explorer Of Africa, has entered
the foreign service OF Germany and
been assigned to the Embassy at Wash
ington. The count is certain to be
popular addition to the diplomatic
corps at the national capital
When Governor Bradley Of Ken
lucky goes away on stamping tours or
for private business he always pays
Acting Governor Worthington for his
services to the state, out of his own
pocket When he is away on the
states business he lets the state pay
the man who takes the executive char.
S. j. Barrows, who has been nom
mated for Congress by the Republic
cans of the Xth district of Massachu-
sets. is the Rev. DIR. Samuel ]. Bar
rows. a well known Unitarian clergy
man, and the editor of THE Christian
Register" of Boston. He is man of
wide culture, and is a fine classical
scholar.
With an ordinary steel pen, and with
out the aid of a glass, Miss Frances
Lafayette of San Francisco, has writ
id, q 10 16 A
cursory glance at the card reveals
nothing but Il shaded surface but by
placing it under microscope the writ
ing looms up with surprising distinct
ness and one wonders how the feat can
possibly have been performed.
Buda-Pesth a great sensation has
been created by the announcement that
the three young daughters of Count
VasqueZ, all of whom are countesSes in
their own right, have decided to go on
the music hall state. The young ladies
are aged Is. Is and II respectively. and
are not yet out of the schoolroom
They have already signed articles for
several years training and perform
ances.
A horticultural wonder in the shape
of an apple tree bearing four crops has
developed on the Marshall county
farm of Asher Boyce, near Laporte,
Ind The first crop ripened and fell off
weeks ago. This week Mr.. Boyce
picked the second crop, and the third
crop, the apples being about the size
of walnuts, is now ripening The top
of the tree is a mass of bloom, herald
ing the fourth crop.
Davies county is the banner tobacco
county in Kentucky. Her product for
1895 is reported at 1855, 120 pounds.
Graves county is a good second, with
II, 4l6, 900 pounds, and Henderson comes
third with 1881, $50 pounds. Hopkins
county shows up with 9103, 900 pounds.
with Webster close up with S,2S5. 9e6.
Logan county reports 7,642, 800 and sey-
eral counties are credited with over G.
100000 pounds. The total yield of the
state for 1895 was 229792,4S2 pounds.
Mime. Christine Nilsson now lives at
Madrid, where she has a most charm
ing house, two rooms of which are
uniquely decorated. Some cynic chris
tened them The Records of Din and
Dinner" and this is the reason why:
Ht NeiiS VI iltI DeUfOOm are pdDered
with leaves of music from the operas in
which Nine. Nilsson has sung, and the
dining room is papered with the hotel
bills she has collected (and paid dur
ing her Journeyings around the world.
The grape growers of northern Ohio
are afflicted with a big crop. The
vines are black with the fruit, which
is selling at cents a basket of ten
pounds in the Vineyards There is no
profit in such price, for the basket
costs 21a cents and the picking as much
more. 1t is said that no more grapes
Will be sent to market, but that th., re-
malnder of the crop viii be sold to
winemakers. This years crop is the
heaviest ever known in that section
of the country.
man named Pierre Brandeau. aged
~ years, was arrested in Paris for burn
ing holeS in the dresses of a number
OF ladies with a lighted cigar. He
stated at the police station. saws the
Figaro, that he found an extreme
pleasure in spelling women's dresses.
lie bad been in prison for three months
Tor having sprinkled ink on ladies'
dresses and had been on another occa
sion sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for squirting vitrol on them by
a