Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-07
Notes Of the Day.

Penny shares are the attraction offered
by a London stock company. There are
go of them the full capital being G2500
At New Augustine. Fla. the mayor sit
ting as a magistrate, accepted five hogs
from a negro culprit as security for the
payment of a fine.
A Livingston county. Missouri. farmer
comes to the front as record shatterer
with Il turnip that pulls down the scales
AT Il plump ten pounds.
bors Of a woman whose husband abused
her ordered the brute to leave town. which
he did. and then she sued the good folk
for alternating his affections.
England is 10 have a home for aged and
nfirm newspaper men who. from causes
beyond their control. have been unable
to make provision for the proverbial rainy
day. which is not easy in crowded Lon
don.
Walter Nichols, u years old, has been
sentenced to nine years Imprisonment at
Suffolk, Va, on two charges of grand
larceny. one for safe breaking and the
other for robbing a jewery store. 1t is
said that his criminal tendencies were
manifested from infancy.
Water hyacinths have at last been found
good for something, according to a pro-
perty owner up the river from Jackson
vile. Fla, who says that after putting
some of them on heretofore sterile
field and blowing them under he was
able to grow good crops on the land.
H. G. Mcdowell of Canton. O., has
made a shipment of twelve merino sheep
to Cape Town. Cape Colony. Africa The
sheep We're valued at 5000, heavily in
sured. One buck alone was worth 5000.
The animals were shipped to New York.
thence by steamer to Cape Town. They
will be twenty days in transit.
A paper which may be described as a
historical and technical sketch of the ORR
gin of the Bessemer process. has been
ally. and it will be the principal feature
of the national convention of the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineers. TO
be held in this city during the first week
of December.
mense lamp. such as has probably never
been seen before. The lamp is composed
of S0eo pieces. It is six feet high. and
ter. 1t is fed with lard oil. and the con-
is very small. its light being so
powerful that one may read by it at a
distance of 600 feet
In the University of Jena there has been
preserved d manuscript song book OF
1870. containing a collection of Witnessing
er songs. written in fourteenth century
German text. This manuscript was IN -
because it was an authority on
the music of the Middle Ages. has been
exactly by Photographic pro- =
cess. Attention was first called to this 8
book $50 years ago.
Among the curious uses to which iron
has been placed is that of visiting cards.
Many great iron manufacturers have had
the metal rolled in sheets so thin that IL q.
has been successfully employed for this
social use. 1t is interesting to know that
the cards of Count Renard are l-l0O0th .
part of an inch thick. those of Baron
krupp 1-sa0th part of an inch. and Count ,
Harrach's 1-6i0th part OF an inch.
The Constitutional club. the home Of
the conservatives in London has a new
building project in view. Ii proposes 10
build a clubhouse that will accommodate
1890 members. 1t is TO be the focus Of all
movements. 1t Will have 4 8
great ballroom. theater. and all the !
other arrangements for a successful club
All the conservatives in the kingdom are
TO take an interest In the VEN
ture and subscribe to it,