Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-03
Newsy GIeaninos.

New York insurance company is get
| ting good deal of lucrative business In
| China.
There are Il. 900 more women than men
| in the state of Massachusetts, and this
| excess Is all In persons over H.
| A peach thirteen and quarter
| inches in circumference was raised In
| McMinn county, Tennessee, this season.
| In Virginia before 1865 there were about
sixty insane negroes in the dsyiumS OF
| that state, and now there are over 1000.
| The number of pupils In the schools OF
| the United States last year was lG,il5, ly.,
an Increase OF nearly 100000 since 1880.
II is argued that the sparrow Is a ben
efactor to the farmer, because it feeds on
the seeds of waste plants and weeds
during the winter
North Carolina reports that its crops
this year will exceed in quantity and
value any produced in the state In the
past thirty years or more.
The porter of the Paris bourse recently
died, leaving a fortune of $4,000. He had
been employed thirty years at u salary of
$40 year. He got rich on tips
The suburban trolley lines in and about
New York are beginning 10 carry bicycles.
A charge of 10 cents Is made and n con-
siderable income will be realized from
wheelers.
The oldest London theaters are: Drury
Lane theater. opened l665:' Sadlers Wells
started as an orchestral assembly-room
in 1851; Haymarket. i720. coyent garden,
1872. and LyCcun, 1..5.
A law passed at the recent session of
the Alabama Legislature. levying a license
tax on the capital stock of all corpora
tons. except banks. has been pronounced
constitutional by the supreme court Of
the state.
Colorado. II has u population of leo peo
pie. consisting Of thirty families, regu-
larry paid policeman commissary.
resident physician and is conducted on
the cooperative plan.
Justice Kennedy of England, has Just
decided that wife may sue her husband
for libel. The parties were living apart
under separation order, the wife earn
ing her own living, and the husband kept
sending defamatory kilograms to her.
Governor Atkinson of Georgia. in a
speech to some veterans last week
claimed and presented, figures satisfacto-
rily showing that his state pays about as
much money in pensions to ex-confeder-
ate veteran soldiers all the other
southern states together.
The state of Mississippi is already well
off in educational facilities. but some OF
her citizens want TO add to them. and are
endeavoring TO raise a fund for the en-
dowment of a university they wish To es-
tablish ut viclxshurg. giving it the name
of that war-renowned city.
Baltimores board of health has issued
orders which will stop the mad dog craze.
1t commands the police to apply q liga-
ture above the bite and then try to suck
the poison from the wound with the
mouth, care being taken. of course. that
your own lips are not chapped or cut"
A Wichita man has invented an appi-
ance which he says is TO be attached to
brooms used in hospitals. 1t is a tank to
hold disinfectants. and is arranged so
that the stroke of the broom feeds the
liquid To the straws distributing it regt-
larry as the broom is drawn over the
floor.
Great numbers of red oak trees in the
region of Long Beach. Miss have been
mysteriously whitening in a day and DIV
ing. The only guess made as to the
cause is that in this stage of the sap flow
the trees are unable to withstand the
drouth which has marked the season
there.
Ships of the English navy are making
trial of the coal lately discovered in New
foundland. and the people of the province
are earnestly hoping ii will meet the re- |
quirements, believing that the outcome
would be the establishment of a British |
dock yard and naval station at st
Johns.