Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-25

kentucky have been ADVANCED because
oil the great scarcity of water.
During the past three months there has
been so heavy a demand for lumber in
California that many firms have been
oDilSed to refuse orders. In many cases
the increased demand has caused an adj
vance of nearly so per cent in prices.
An administration regulation which held
good in Prussia for a century and more
has been abolished 1t was the provision
that every official and employee of the
state should before he could lawfully
marry obtain the consent of his superiors
to the step.
runaway horse at Florence, S. c..
jumped siX-foot gate, and, the dangling
check rein catching on a picket the
horses head was pulled in such manner
that the animal turned a somersault.
landing on its back, but it gained it's feet
and ran on.
The dead heroes of the Buena Vista
battlefield, where 5000 American volun-
teers under General Zachary Taylor de-
feated 10000 MeXicans under Santa Anna
after a desperate and bloody battle. lie in
neglected and unmarked spot near Sal
tillo, Mexico.
In the Pennsylvania experimental apri-
cultural station nine cows were fed ex-
actly alike for $50 days. The value of
the product from the best COW in that
time was $64.32. The poorest produced
only $2s.o6. The profit from the best COW
was S3I.65. while the poorest gave a profit
OF only s4.5J.
An envelope for carrying merchandise
through the mails is so constructed with
reversible flaps and stiffening strip at
tached 10 the closing flap that the inside
OF the envelope may become the outside
ana the same envelope used to return
merchandise in the same manner in which
II was forwarded
professor Simon Newcomb in speaking
Oh the wonderful star called 1880 Groom
pfidSe. says its velocity is about 200
miles second. and that $50 far as our
knowledge goes, there is no force in ma
lure that could ever set ii in motion at
tuch a rate. and no force that can ever
bring it to Il pause
Philadelphia is talking about a national
exposition of raw materials and manufac-
tured products, to be held there next fall
under the Joint management of the Phil
adelpha Commercial museums and
FRANKLIN institute. and to have the finan-
cial backing of a stock company with a
capital of at least $4,000
specimen of German architectural
ana business solidity is afforded by the
tact that in Nuremburg there are houses
sun IN good order which were erected i'm
loSo, and that in the same town n firm
since 1860, sixty years before the
settlement of New England.
y new industry has arisen in Michigan
namely. the conversion of pine stumps
INTO shingles 1t is stated that stumps of
trees when were cut twenty or twenty
I'VE years ago remain enduring and OBJ
iHrate distractions to the cultivation of
the soil. They are still sound and turp
out excellent shingles when so utilized.
There are sixty modern steamships fit
Tor cruising now available by the United
states navy in case of war. exclusive of
regular war vessels building or in com
.hssion. and there are rapid fire guns
enough 10 equip fifteen of them within
| week. THESE ships are the ocean liners
and coast steamships carving tho Amer
lean flag.
An enthusiastic church member Of
has just contributed 81 10
me church on his birthday, pledgins
to double the amount on each
anniversary of his birth for the rest of |
MS life If he keeps his pledge and |
ives long enough the church will have
lehty OF money. for the amount of his
on his birthday % years hence
VIII be something over $4,000, 900.
There was collision on the Danish
'tate railroad near Copenhagen soma
-iine ago in which 40 persons were
>iiied and 40 wounded The railroad at
'hce admitted that it was to blame,
ma, instead of fighting claims for
has appointed committee to
ettle with the claimants what will he
air compensation. so as to avoid hay-
ng the claims brought into the courts
III is probable that the name Broad
Wy Tor the central thoroughfare of
sew York city will soon be extended &
the north of the Harlem river. and (
o away with the Boulevard, Eleventh q
venue. Kingsbridge road. and so on. =
his will continue Broadway as a I
anne to the Yonkers line through the {
oHough of the Bronx. There is :, J
worry because this would carry the
uInper up to something like 5000.
10 farmers who fear that the drouth
as ruined the seed wheat now in tha {
round practical farmer near Frank
Dr. Ind, recommends the following =
nipple test before the fields are re- t
lanted Gather seed from the fields t
mere 1t has been sown and place it in q
pan OF water where it will soon send a.
orth sprouts if the embryo has life.
nd many dollars as well as much la
or VIII be saved by the experiment. :
After having been twice shot without =
eng hurt in the very act of stealing
Maltese cat of Pikesvil.e
altlmore county, Maryland, was finally
lspatched by citizen who had lain in
'aft all night for it in the henhouso.
ccording to the neighbors' records the
at had carried off 100 chickens in a
aw weeks and the owners of the
were under the impression
lat gang of thieves was at work in
he neighborhood.
The nickel-in-the-slot idea is utilized
II restaurant purposes in the Brussels
ambition. BY placing franc in the
OF chop or steak, with potatoes, can II
procured. hot and well cooked; an
her franc will produce a half bottle
wine; half a franc will supply ;; Il
ate of cold meat, with salad and roll.
nd nickel of ten centimes will ex-
act a piece of bread and butter ana
reese. or 'brioche.'' Besides all thi,
nickel will draw an excellent glass of
1ck.