Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-28
Notes Of the Day.

Roses and orchids are 10 be the chief
flowers for table decoration during the
summer In England.
Italy has two kinds Of naturalization
the one under the law and the other
conferred by royal decree.
The people of Ceyion have a saying
that the robin will flourish only within
sound of the human voice.
The total membership OF the Boys
Brigade for the United Kingdom Is
81. 900 lads, with 2.s0o officers.
The miners Of Newcastle. New South
Wales. are in favor of a strike by 3pVo
votes to 500. and work has been
stopped.
A well known paper manufacturer
has stated that the production of new
journals had given a great impetus to
the paper trade in England.
There Will be a tower go feet high
upon the new government building AT
Chicago, which will be dedicated to the
weather bureau and occupied by its
observers.
A new campaign button has made
its appearance at Washington. The
button bears a likeness of the secretary
of the treasury. with the inscription
Carlisle for President"
a handsome silver loving cup was
presented the other evening to Asger
Hamerik director of the Peabody Con-
servatory of Music Baltimore. in recog
milton of his % years of service as di-
rector.
There are about 100 public electric
lighting systems in operation in the
United Kingdom. of which nineteen be
long to London. No less than "a sys-
tens are now run by the municipal
authorities.
Prince Arthur of Connaught. having
successfully passed his entrance eX-
animation at Elton college. has been
placed in the middle fourth His
Royal Highness is between IS and II
years of age.
Lady Ulrica Duncombe. the most
beautiful OF the Earl of Faverscham' S
daughters. has entered NEWMAN Col
lege. Her older sisters. the late
Duchess of Leinster. Lady Vincent,
and Lady Graham. of Netherby. We're
all famous beauties.
Mary Mcpherson. a young married
woman of Portsmouth. Va. died on the
Seaboard Airline train. Saturday
Death resulted from excitement Incl
dent to railroad travel, to which she
was not accustomed.
In Boston there resides Miss Eliza
beth G. Adams, granddaughter of the
first President Adams. She lived in
the White House during the term of
her uncle. John Quincy Adams. She
and her brother. l. Hall Adams, are the
| only surviving grandchildren of the
second President.
Scholarship and athletics go together
at Oxford this year. Mr.. Robertson.
the hammer thrower, carried off the
Chancellor's prize for the Latin essay:
Mr. Lancaster president of the tennis
club. won the Newdigate prize for Eng
lish verse. and Mr.. Stride, who is on the
cricket eleven, obtained the prize for
the English essay.
One of the greatest inventions ever
added to the granite business is being
given test in Montpelier. VT. The
machine is for saving granite. and if ii
proves satisfactory it will go down in
history with the cotton gin. The ma
chine contains $4,000 worth of diamonds,
and the total construction costs in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
A man hanging by the neck three days
and nights was the attraction at a
MOntmartre (Paris) cafe recently. The
doctors. however. stopped the perform
ance at the end of the fourth day, the
man being in a critical condition. His
name is Durand. He attained notoriety
some time ago by standing on pedes-
tai at Marseilles for 2S consecutive days.
Miss Martha Hichborn. daughter OF
Chief Naval Constructor Philip HIGH
born, has recently come into possession
of an interesting colonial specimen. 1t
is desk that was in the possession OF
the Hichborn family at the time of the
Boston Tea Party. Many years ago it
was taken to Sandy Point. Me-, y an
ancestor. and has only lately been
shipped to Miss Hichborn's home in
Washington
A remarkable ceremony was enacted