Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-07-01

Tennessee is looking forward to a very
large blackberry crop.
Ths1e are now four times as many wire
nails made as cut nails.
To Jewish cUiony in Tampa, Fla.
numbers close to 2o5 souls.
For foreign rs,vies the private ship
yards OF the United Kingdom are build
ing tweEty-eight vessels.
A site in Salt Lake city has been APP
propriatsd by the council fer the pro-
posed statue of Brigham Young.
Pennsylvania has just been added ID
the LIST of states which make the Lincoln
birthGAy. FEB. l.. legal holiday.
William Peagues. q negro Baptist
preacher cf Chesterfield. $. c.. is the
proud father of forty -three children.
In ono year there has been an increase
CT IS per cent in the amount of mail
handled in the Jacksonville. Pa. post
ltiice.
A Madras dentist has Il Is announced.
received sum of $3.50 for supplying his
highness the nizam Of Hyderabad with
q row of false teeth.
Some of the North Carolina moonshin-
ers have embarked in the counterfeit
money making business. Several noun
tain districts arc flooded with spurious
coin.
a Virginia evangelist breaches to the
people from a mission boat in the river.
he canslot be induced 10 preach on shore
Water and religion, he says, ''go to-
eethcr."
Austrians spent 9S.2o5,sG9 florns on to-
most popular form was drama cigar
cites. al u cent each, of which no less
than ! l.l09u 100000 were sold.
The Connecticut legislature recentlv
passed a law requiring the use OF only
such inks On public records as have been
approved by the secretary of state. one
hundred dollars is the penalty provided
FOR the violation of the act
A Georgia author sent a short story
70 100 newspapers and magazines com
bined. 1t took all of them just three
years TO decline il, but he was not dis
couraged, and during the fourth year OF
lis itinerary 1t was accepted and paid for
When dog barks at night in Japan the
owner Is arrested and sentenced to work
a year for the neighbors who were dis
tnrbed. The dog is killed. Perhaps this
accounts for the superstition thai when
q dog howls at night 4 death will short
~ occur.
Laundry classes at which little girls are
laught now to wash and iron are now
established IN connection with boarding.
schoois IN London and are reported by
the school management COMMITTEES ia
nave proved thoroughly satisfactory this
year-their first.
Aix-la-Chapelle has a newspaper mn
scum forty years old and containing over
$1,000 newspapers in sixty different Ian
guages. Gera has similar museum with
@vpVV COPIES 50 Idf. III is believed that
these collections will prove of inestmahie
value to historians. =
Among the wonders shown at the re-
cent exhibition of the Quekett Microscop-
real club in London was the whole nf
the second chapter of ST. Johns posnel
written on the two-thousandth p9rf az
a square inch. and plainly legihle al thai
under the microscope
River and canal Improvements l. an il.
portant subject in France. One of the
latest propositions is to imnrove tho
Loire and its canals at a cost 81 s9t ono o.,n
the Rhone and Garonne have alrea1y
been improved. and the heavy expend;.
ture Is Justified by results
In Giles county. Virginia. the inhahiss
tants are moving to other parts on nc-
count OF the earthquake which tba-.
produced cosmic effects NOT rarort,a
elsewhere. The water all leaked ont az
one of the neighboring lakes and n nrasA
porous salt works entirely Disappeared
A curious accident befell Major WI.
liam Heimke at Chihuahua, Mexico ra-
Gently. While walking along one III M
streets of that city he slipped ana ~,
His right hand was close at his sida iea',
the TIME and his full weight struck 81
hand and actually broke one OF his rihs
herewith. 80
Another idiotic exhibition of shoot;r.
backward with a rifle at a woman ffsS
ann taken from a looking glass s l3S27
proved fatal, this time at Berlin Ar
pert named Kruger. after Shooting
rious objects from the hands and IL
uers OF MS sister. put a bullet ti1F1S13T&
heT nead IN the presence Of 1900 pes
"A reEnlar slave mart stiIl
many country districts of Einl8S
year sucn paupers. lunatics and