Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-08-25
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| Work go on IN every tOWn.
curisys csadsnsaiIens.
| Excursion tickets for dogs are now Is
sued by two English railroads.
"A peach 1874 inches in circumferenc.
was raised In McMinn county. Texas
this season.
Jefferson City. No., has come to the
front In season with court house Wa.
| termelon Club.
Count Tolstoi's domestic life Is being
written up by one Of his former servants
| a man named Stiepan.
| Snake-hunting about lockwood. Tenn.
Will Tedder killed In one day an Old
snake and 81 young ones
The Russian government has just pur-
chased the great Sebastopol shipbuildine
yards for the sum Of 100000 rubles.
Until August 3, Grand Sole. La. had
but two showers since April IA. Wells
had gone dry and vegetation was wither-
ing.
1t is estimated that there will be to-
tai registration Of 100000 in Greater New
York for the election on November 2,
and total vote OF $4,000.
Farmers of Northampton county, Va,
have received more money for the l6oWo
barrels of potatoes shipped this year than
for the 2S4,660 shipped last year.
A frog that can't get out of jug Isl a
curiosity at Mayfie!d. Ky. The jug, up-
corked, was left out on a backyard bench
ON the place of r. c. James last fall.
Daniel Todd, a negro IS years old OF
White Cloud. KAN, couldn't get self
binding reaper. and he cut his wheat with
scythc and bound it himself in the old
way.
John westbrook, bachelor, farming 1t
five miles north of Laporte, Ind. and ~
years old, had never seen a railway car
riagc or street car until he visited Micnl-
gan City last week.
Thousands of bushels of cherries have
rotted on the trees In Oakland county.
Mich, the owners not being willing 10
pick them when the fruit commanded
only 80 or 40 cents a bushel.
Judge Giles of Charlottesville. Fla.
touches for the story that 2-pound
cantaloupe was cut at George w. Smiths
f;trm, and that eight people, eating their
MI could only make way with half OF 1t.
Jesse Shoun of Cross Mountain. Tenn.
il credited by those who believe snake
stories with having killed a rattlesnake
three inches across the head, five feet in
length and six inches in diameter. IL
had 81 rattles besides the button"
1t Is told OF woman Of Lyons. Mich.
that after purchasing for a cent box
supposed to contain 200 matches. she
counted the lot at her home, and. finding
the number to be four short, returned
the box and demanded a full one. She
got II.
While prospecting for silver on the
mountain near Aughenbaugh station.
west of Wiiliamsport, Charles O'Connor
and Charles Slime uncarthed an Indian
skeleton. With the remains were found
several stone tomahawks, arrowheads
and other relics.
A Wichita man has invented an ap-
pliance which he says is to be attached
to brooms used in hospitals. 1t is Il tank
to hold disinfectants. and is arranged so
that the stroke of the broom feeds the
liquid to the straws, distributing II reg
uiarly as the broom is drawn over the
floor.
NJ. Eulogios Georgieff. the founder OF
the Sofia University. who died recently,
bequeathed 20,000.000 francs to the BuIga-
rian government, to be applied to the
country's needs; 100000 francs for
technical school to be established at So
fla. and large sums for other public insti-
tutionS.
Great numbers of red oak trees in the:
region of Long Beach, Miss, have been
mysteriously whitening in a day and ap-
parently dying. The only guess made as
to the cause is that in this stage of the
sap flow the trees are unable to with
stand the drought which has marked the
season there.
On August g. the village of Buffalo Cen
ter. Mimi. celebrated its third anniver-
sary and thought that 1T had right to
celebrate in view of the fact that within
three years of the time a field of grain
occupied the site of the village the people
had put up $4,000 hotel and a $4,000
schoothouse, and the population num-
bered 1000.
From Blairsville intersection to Derry.
distance of six or eight miles, the
Pennsylvania tracks are straight as
line. with the exception of probably one
or two curves. Recently, an exchange
says one of the big S0-inch wheelers of
the Pennsylvania whipped No. q at the
rate of 80 miles per hour, which was the
fastest time ever made on the Pittsburg
division.
The retiring president of the Detroit
board of education in his annual report
asks the novel suggestion that courses
be established for parents as well as for
children in the public schools. His idea
is to give some of the advantages of
schooling to grown people who have come
to America from foreign countries where
they have not had the advantage of free
tuition.
Some newspaper reader of Missouri,
with time where Mr.. Cleveland had Con-
gress, has compiled a list of odd names
of newspapers in that state. The list in
cludes the Rock O. Comfort, Unterrifed
Democrat Hustler. Rustler, Buzz Saw,
Silver Hummer, Eye-Opener, Cyclone,
comes down to the quiet Eye. Optic, Fly.
Eli. Quill. Bee and the busincss-like Cash
Book and Fact.
Felix Denewith, living two miles from
Mount Clemens, Mich, is the reputed
owner of a young horse which resented
SO strongly having most Of the work
thrown upon it. to the favor of the horse
which Mr.. Denewfth had owned for 3S
years and was disposed to favor, that 1t
not only kicked at the old one at every
hlut ra11
was swamped in pond. refused to pull
it out after the, owner had fastened a
rope to it. The young one was made to
pull only after being blindfolded and then
it had to pull out the old horses body.
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