Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-21
Notes Of The Day.

telephone in the United States for every
1872 persons.
The New York stock brokers are sale
to wear out the floor Of their Stock Elk.
change every five years.
At Jackson, Mich, father playing
| leap frog with his boys fell against /.
stove and broke his neck
Connecticut has fifty-four womer
who are daughters of soldiers who
fought in the Revolutionary war.
The colony Of Waldenses in Tennessee
near the North Carolina line, is -four
ishing and now numbers about 400.
During the year 1896 the plumage OF
over 100000 t,rds was used in New
York for the decoration of wcmens
hats.
The committee of the city council Ct
Detroit, Mich, has consented to ex.
emI1t the Masonic temple in that city
from taxation.
The now cigarette law restricting tn,
sale of all kinds of cigarettes to persons
over Fl years of age in Maine went int }
effect, Saturday.
The flour mills of Seattle are said to
be running night and day because Of
the great demand for breadstuffs fror.l
China and Japan.
The new shah of Persia is anxious to
open the country to international COM
merce, and favors the introduction Of
electricity and steam.
Among the laws passed at the recent
session of theme York Legislature was
one appropriating $1,0o0,000 for the prs
servation of the Adirondack forest.
Twelve men have been fined $50 each
and sentenced to forty-fiv days i'm
prisonuent in Cleburne county. Ala
bama, for selling their votes at an cleo
ton.
Since the beginning of this century
ifty-two volcanic islands have risen
cut Of the sea. Nineteen of that num-
her have since disappeared, and ten
are now inhabited
Watches are adjusted to heat ana
cold by being allowed to stand first in
a room heated with dry heat TO 120 dc
grees and then in cold storage, being
regulated after each treatment.
Texas papers complain that the
ground on which the battle of San Jac-
into was fought was worth 81 for tax
alton purposes, but $50 when the state
wanted to buy it for public park.
During the past four years $50 loco
motives have been exported from this
country. Strange to say Brazil wac
our best customer in this line, having
taken one-quarter of the whole number,
while seventy-four went to Russia ana
sixty-seven to Japan.
Master Valerie CT Daphne, Baldwin
county, Ala, has succeeded in raising
an italian pea of the variety known as
fave which he represented as sta
pie food supply among the Italia
reasaptry and the plant of which he
advocated as a trustworthy agent fcl
the renewal of exhausted soil.
An ordinance has gone forth in japan
exhorting the people to eat more freely
of meat. with a view to increasing the
average height of the race--ancther IN
stance of the determination Of the JAZZ
anese net to let The slightest chanc2
slip for attaining all the advantages OF
western civilization.
The last of seven escaped Siberian
cOnNlCtS WHO were lOuIu dt Stet III =
small boat and taken to San Francisco
a couple of years ago, has recently bee q
disposed of by the state authorities,
who sent him to prison for twenty year,
for burglary. One of his fellows WAS
some time ago hanged for murder.
1t has lately been proposed to use thin
sheets of water PROCEED asbestos IN
place of the usual spongy material en-
ployed for the inner sole of shoes. NVi
only would dampness thus be excluded
but. 1t is said, the natural tempefature
of the foot would be better retained, be-
cause asbestos is poor conductor 81
heat.
The Colonial society of Pennsylvania
have published n reproduction in fac
smile of the American Weekly Mer-
curry. from it's first issue in 1I19 till its
last in 1852. 1t required the collections
Of six or seven libraries and societies
to make this reproduction complete.
The Mercury was the first newspaper
published in the middle colonies, and
one of the first in America.
Household Hints.