Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-06-28
Notes oil The Day.

A Venetian firm is making bonnets OF
spun glass. which are soft and as pliable
silk.
II is said that the Introduction Of frogs
In Iceland has very much diminished thf
number Of mosquitoes
An eminent Austrian physician de-
clares that rheumatism can be cured BY
4 plentiful diet of ripo fruit.
Uncle Sans navy chews up $4,000
pounds OF plug tobacco a year Tor which
he Lays this year - cents pound.
Citizens Of pittshurG expect 1T LEASE 81,
000.000 10 be spent in building operations
in tbat City this year. f0r business hons
IS. working establishments and dwellings
j. r. Brown OF Williamsport. Pa. mis-
look 4 sheet OF fly paper for porous
plaster ln the dark. and put It on his
chest The acid Oh the paper att through
the flesh In the ribs In several places.
and the niaas life is in danger.
In agriculture although the area under
cultivation exceeds by 100000 acres the
total farm area of Great Britain. the mid
the West, and all of them together do not
raise food enough for the single state of
Pennsylvania.
Ardross. the Rosshire estate on which
the second duke OF Sutherland spent 81.
oco. has been sold TO Mr.. Perrins. the
Worcestershire sauce manufacturer. The
state comprises 5000 acres. including l6.-
80 acres of grouse moors and L., 900 acres
of deer forest.
Forty years ago three-fourths of the
total ocean-carrying trade of American
ports was done on American bottoms,
whereas at present the American ratio is
less than one-fourth, The United States
pays an annual tribute of si0010.o09 10
British ship owners.
The highest temperature in the world is
over the southwestern coast of Persia. ON
ne Persian gulf. In July and August of
thermnfn.-fpr
100 degrees in the shade night and day for
forty consecutive days 1t has been
known to so as high as $50 degrees.
The story goes that the sulphur mines
now located near the Natchez trail.
Washington. about fifteen miles from
buckley, were first discovered by II camp
er. whose fire took hold of the rocks.
which burned and created such a smell
that he had To remove two or three miles
10 get away from the fumes.
A Baltimore paper comments on the
fact that the use of sailing vessels is in
creasing. They are coming into vogue
again, especially for heavy materials
which may well be a month as a week
on the ocean. For IA time steam sup
planted sails. but the demand for cheaper
freisnts is suppIanting steam in turn.
In 1891 II required 16. 100 pounds of coal
10 produce one ton of pig iron. In 1870
the same quantity of iron was produced
with $500 pounds of coal and in iSH; the
quantity was reduced to 5000 pounds A
blast furnace produced twenty tons OF
pig iron per week in 1871 1877 tors in 1870
i,S60 tons in 1890. These figures are given
by the president of the British Iron and
Steel institute.
remarkable prisoner of war has been
taken to Salonica by the Turkish army
according to the Westminster Gazette
He is Zano. the dog OF Prince Nicholas of
Greece, q great Dane. of the correct slate
color with cropped ears. When the
Turks entered I4arissa after the fight of
the Greeks, they found Zano very dis
turbed and disconsolate at being aban-
doned.
The sum Of s2C00.0oo would not be an
eXtravagant estimate of the queens