Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-17
Facts and Personals.


planted by the Swedish school children.
under the guidance OF their teachers.
The wife of President Kruger is not
leader Of society, but she is one Of the
best bread makers in the Transvaal.
Venezuela has 200, 900 acres of forest.
in which grow all the varieties of ebony
as well as rosewood, satin wood and
mahogany.
The Sultan of Turkey has mania
/ for collecting carriages He has nearly
800 Of them, and often loses half an
hour before deciding in which one ne
will ride.
Y. w. Rogers farmer near Bridge
ton, n j.. has planted 500 chestnut
trees with the idea of selling them II or
Is years hence for telephone poles,
which even now bring sl65 per 100.
Vienna will soon devote an entire
week to the celebration Of Mozarts
memory, and on April q. the Emperor
viii unveiI the new monument to the
composer back of the opera house.
| i woman bicyclst of Springfield.
| Mass, has kept a record of her riding
during the winter. and says that there
have been only &c days since Novem-
Der ] 1895. when she has not been out
on her wheel.
A rev material for the making of
pipes has been found in turkey bones.
These bones are said to make the most
perfect stems imaginable. The sub
stance is light porous and resists the
pressure Of the teeth. Smoke drawn
through The turkey bone IS cool and
sweet
The latest fashionable ailment in
New York is ammonia colds" Ac-
cording to the doctors who do business
with the "4e0" they are caused by over
Indulgence in artificial ice Kinks. The
shopping face the golf straddle"
and the bicycle hump are not in it
with this latest afiiiction.
The corpse of girl. aged Q. was be-
ing carried to the temple in Madras for
cremation The palbearers somehow
rlost heart and bolted. leaving the
corrse behind. The police took charge
Of the body and forwarded it to the
morgue. where. on post mortem ex-
animation, death was found to be due
to cholera.
The bronze statue OF General Han
cock. which is to stand in the small
park at Pennsylvania avenue and Sew
enth street, Washington. will be un-
yelled about the first of the coming
month. 1t was modelled by Henry ].
Ellicott of Providence. r. l.. is IA feet
high, weighs 1000 pounds and will cost
altogether about $4,000.
A singular illustration OF the persist
ence with which the Japanese adhere
to the family vocations is seen in an
announcement in a japanese newspa-
per that a celebrated dancing master
was to hold a service in honor of the
l00eth anniversary of the death of his
ancestor. who was the first of the fam
lily to take up the profession.
Russia's landed nobility is in a bad
way. according to the report of the
British consul at St Petersburg. More
than 100000 estates. or Al per cent of
the whole area of the land held by no
bles. are nortgaged to government and
private land credit institutions. The
amount of money advanced in ten
years was S632 900, of which only
SD. 500. goo mas been repaid.
California shipped out of the state,
1871 carloads of fruit. nuts. wine
brandy and vegetables in 1895, an in
crease over 1894 of 5346 carloads OF
fruit alone the shipments We're $3.50
carloads In 1890 the shipments of
fruit were only 1916 carloads. If all
the orchards in California now in bear
ing were to put out full crop this
year the exports of fruit should, it is
,stimated. reach 10000 carloads.
Perhaps the most wonderful feature
Of the cbronometer is the compensation
balance. a beautiful contrivance for
counteracting the effect of changes of
temperature, which, by causing an or
binary balance to expand and contract
bring about variation of time. So
beautifully is the balance maintained
that ship may pass from the torrid
zone to the neighborhood of the pole
itself. and the chronometer will not
vary second.
Six of the large Tennessee Centennial
Exposition buildings are now expected
to be completed by June 1. next. All
will be staff, colored to give a stone eff
seCt. The commerce building will have
great central dome Us feet high. The
line arts building win be an exact re-
production in size and appearance of
the Parthcnon at Athens. There will
be womans, a children's and a ne
gro building. The exposition will not
be formally opened until Nav l. 1897