Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
Notes Of the Day.

Kier Hardie, the English agitator.
says there is a great field in the United
States for socialism, but he acknowledges
that the movement is making no head
way.
Christine Nilsson, the Comtesse de Casa
Miranda, bought W~atteau's Diane au
Bain,' recently sold at auction in Paris,
for 107, 900 francs. The picture had been
previously offered to the Louvre museum
for 100, 900 francs.
Under the head of animal products
slams exports of buffalo and cowhides
were in 1894 s1s9, PA; buffalo, and COW
horns, $57, S57: worry. $43, S46; armadillo
skins, s5S75: rhinoceros horns and hides,
50, 245, and tiger skins, only 1896.
The annual crop of mushrooms in
france is valued at over 81, 00O, 900. The
wholesale price to dealers Is from So to
$25 per 100 Kilograms t220.46 pounds.) In
Paris alone there are 60 wholesale firms
dealing exclusively in mushrooms.
Silas Belts, who has just died at his
home near Camden N. j.. was for years
one of the foremost agriculturists of New
Jersey. He introduced Guernsey cattle
into the state, and was president of the
American Guernsey Cattle I'll since
1890.
There is so little wood in Spain that the
small boy knows nothing of the joys OF
whiting, and develops no ambition. to
become a carpenter. The result is that
the carpenters are few, and their shops
not well provided with modern tools and
machinery.
A rare honor has fallen to the lot of
Postmaster General 0 Stephen. of Ger
many-that of having erected in his life
time a monument to himself, which was
solemnly inaugurated last week at Em
den, in the park fronting the postoffice.
in the presence of all the municipal and
postal authorities.
Andrew Lang says: "A difference in
taste in books. when it is decided and
vigorous, breaks many a possible friend
ship He indicates the passport to his
favor by telling us that The or she who
condemns Scott and cannot read Dick
ems is a person with whom | would fair
have no further converse.
AT Coomassie road-making operations
are being commenced, and before long a
magnificent road will be made not mere
ly between the Gold Coast proper and
the Ashantee capital, but also to the IA
nous Mooranza country. All the chiefs
have surrendered to Governor Maxwell
their instruments of torture.
Bicycle snatching is a new form OF
crime developed in Paris. A lady was
riding some distance ahead of her hus-
band near the Port Maillot recently
when two men stopped her, pulled her off
her bicycle, and We're making off witt
the machine. when her husband caugh
up with them and had them arrested.
Miss Winnie Simpson of Garfield
Mass. makes quite a snug amount OF pf
money by shooting squirrels. She handles
a gun 10 better effect than many o.
the men in that region, her average be
ing 80 squirrels IA day. She. also distin.
guished herself lately by winning the frs
prize in an oratorical contest open to boil
sexes. M
The range of the human voice 3Ayquitt
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS being about nine per
feet tones. but II .592, 1856, 044. SIS differen'
sounds; thus IA direct muscles, alone Of
together, produce IL, 1888; 80 indirect mus
Giles. ditto. 113. IA, S23, and all in co-opera
tlon produce the number we have named
and these independently of different de
grees OF intensity.
by actual measurement of so skele
Ions tne right arm and left leg have beer
avuhu 70 De longer in %, the left arm ant
Ilsnt leg IN six, the limbs on the RICH
longer IMAM those on the left in four, ant
~ tne remainder the inequality Of tn,
IMP was varied. Only seven out of I
nneletons measured, or 10 per cent ha,
imbs of equal length.
IN me west coast of Africa it is n com
Sssantic palm tree. with a calabash a
yuhnesise size hung round her neck
Mneh she has reached the top branch
SSnne laps the tree, and the sap begins +
NV Inen she hangs the calahash no
Mnsatn the stream of sap and descende
we've hours later she climbs Tho I've
aSaln. and takes down the cajahash
Wnlcn ny that time is full Of palm haa,
Ensembles mead somewhat. hut q smal
Auant'ty OF 1t stupeies the drinker.