Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-08
NeWsy Gieaninds.

1t is reported that the Chilean govern
ment, as a measure of economy is about
to disarm portion of its navy.
On the Yukon. at distance of from 100
to 500 miles from the sea. there are many
points where the river is twenty miles
wide.
Near Homer. Mich, a man started a
duck farm last spring with two ducks
The eggs laid numbered 100. and he
raised to the marketable age l16 ducks.
Citizens of Kendrick. Tata county. Idaho
have been obliged to fight large numbers
of bears which have invaded their or
chards nightly, owing, ii is said, to the
failure of the wild berry crop in the
mountains
The French minister of marine had de-
cided upon the construction of new cruis-
ers of $4,000 horse power with a speed of
twentyone knots. The, boilers will be
mixed. both coal and petroleum being
used as fuel.
Nearly 10000 visitors are said to have
inspected the state departments at Wind
sor castle during August. the number be-
ing several thousand in excess of those
admitted to the palace in the correspond
ing month last year.
A telephone exchange manager in
Staunton, Va. recently advertised for
ugly girls that would attend to bust
ness. There We're actually twenty-five
who applied for the positions and con
iSSSSu NHShioClNCS quililitu " III the OIL.
A novel sight of squirrels migrating was
witnessed below Cumberland Nd. \
drove which an eye witness estimated to
contain at least 1900 swan across the Po-
tomac river. About 800 of them were
killed by men and boys ere they got into
the woods.
From Battle Creek. Mich, a thrashing
machine company a few days ago shipped
a separator to Nebraska by a route to
occupy eight days. and a man and his son.
taking supplies of food an,. water for the
| journey, had themselves shut up inside
! for the trip.
| A man in Gainesville, Ca, has pur-
chased the gallows on which a man was
| hanged and built hennery of the lumber
| He has never had a chicken stolen from
it. and it is said that the colored brother
won't go within a block of it if he can
| possibly avoid doing so.
Some sort of plant has been exhibited
In Portland, Ore, under the name of an
| Alaska rose which is described as look
| ing like a big sunfiower, except that in
place of the petals of sunflower the
Alaska rose" has mass of small yellow
blossoms which lie very close one to the
| other.
1t is said that two-thirds of all the deer
| in the Missouri river bottoms in the re-
gion about Washburn, N. D., were de-
stroyed last spring by the deep SHOWS
! floods and cyclones. and sportsmen of the
| district are taking measures to prevent
the indiscriminate slaughter of the re-
mainder during the open season this fall
| Members of the Whyte family. residing
| in Brookline, Mass, have in their posses
sion a copy of the Bible which in 1876 was
presented to an ancestress. a sister-in-law
of Governor Christopher Gore, and which
has an inscription on a fiyleaf saying that
1t was given as a reward for having read
| the Bible through twice before she was S
years Old
| A Dnr scin
bet swallowed five silk neckties. The
conditions were that the neckties should
| be cut in pieces and dressed as a salad
with oil. salt, vinegar and pepper, and
this original mixture should be swallowed
| within six minutes. The student per-
formed the difficult operation in five and
one-half minutes.
Mr.. Boucher, French minister of COM
merce, has declared his belief that the
commercial prosperity of Germany is
due especially to the victory of 1870, to
the self-confidence which the nation
then obtained and to the moral force
arising from success. He concludes
that renewed commercial prosperity
awaits France, owing to the fresh sense
of security arising from the Russian
alliance.
So unpopular at Hagerstown, Md, il
the dog law, under which 1875 animals
have been impounded, that the people
have determined to try ridicule as d
means to bring about it's abrogation
They purpose to erect a tablet to the
dogs memory and place on it the
names of the mayor and the councillors
who favor the law, and figures of a
mastiff rescuing a child and an ordin-
airy dog that has just blown out ths
gas and died.
Lola T. Lola, recently appointed denutv
sheriff of the Indians at Pleasant Point
village, was arrested, Tuesday, on the
charge of assaulting the wife of Governor
Joe l.. Dana, at her home. Friday, during