Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-21
NeWsy GIeaninas.

Wages of school teachers In Connect
| icrt have been doubled in thirty years.
The expectation of American agricui-
;urtl implements is increasing rapidly
Engineers think that by 1898 they will
| have succeeded in substituting liquid fuel
, for coal.
There are about thirty newspaper pro-
prietors and journalists in the house OF
commons.
Montana mineral product during the
| calendar year 1895 was valued at more
than so, 0o0 eeo
With only onc-ninth of the population
Great Britain owns one-fourth OF the
| wealth of Europe.
An agency has been started in London
TO SEND young Englishmen out 10 Mexico
~ ruo5eI planters.
The British Aborlgines Protection So
eiety estimates that Africa contains 200
eco 900 native population.
a Scottish member Of parliament has
delivered a lecture on golf, in which he
traced tho garden OF Eden
1t has been found In many parts of Ne
braska that the ice of last winter has
pei manently ruined much of the alfalfa.
i rock has been found in Mexico which
is said to prove by Inscriptions that the
Chinese were in Sonora twenty centuries
ago.
An electric locomotive running between
Paris and Havre attained a speed of sew
enty-five miles an hour II drew thirteen
cars
Teapots are used in China only by the
poor, Among the wealthy II Is custom
airy to put the tea leaves in each cup and
pour water on them.
New York is full Of new laws. Since
Jan. l. Governor Black of New York.
has signed 7g7 bulls, has vetoed few and
let $50 die upon a time limit.
The German agricultural papers say
THAI the imports Of American apples into
Germany last year were twenty times As
large as in any previous season.
one hundred and twenty-five feet is the
extreme height limit for office buildings
in Boston. and the projection of the
cornices must not exceed three feet
A man in Wilmington. Del. who stole
an umbrella. was tried for theft. found
guilty and sentenced TO receive tive lasheS
ard be imprisoned for three months.
t.xcept in the north. Ireland is likely to
AXE very little part in the jubilee cele-
btaton. Scarcely any preparation is be
ing made in the capital of the country.
Sweden IS the greatest match producing
country in the world. although The in
dustry Is conducted ON an enormous
Sc ale in the United States ANA elsewhere,
When the electric railway in south
London was constructed the delicate
cGmpaSses in Greenwich observa tory,
cighs miles off, were affected and had to
bc reset.
The annual report Of one of the largest
II ines in Colorado shows that since the
organization of the company ahc average
ccst Of producing 81 worth q gold mas
been 81 cents.
\ 1S-year-old boy of Louisville, Ky.
fell from 4 ladder the other day. and
when he was picked up it was found thal
he had sustained no serious injury. but
his hair had turned gray.
The 2l00 living alumni of the University
OF Georgia are asked to make up Il fund
G Si0009o for its additional endowment.
colonel John Temple Graves has started
the good work by subscribing the FIRST
SiG00
1t is a singular fact that. while all 9th
CT games Of chance or skill have a one
time or another been denounced by the
clergy Of every faith chess alone mas
received their appreciation. and among
| the best players eff every land have been
clergymen, priests and bishops.
In 1859 a dog muzzling order was made
| in England and kept in force until 1895.
| IN 1889 there were 3l2 eases of rabies, In
| 1890 there We're iz9 ana in 1892 only thirty
eight The order was then revoked. and
| in 1888 there were ninety-thrco cases. in
| 1894 there were 2iS ard in 1928 there were
Gf2.
| The Birmingham gun trade has not
been so active for ten years as il is now.
| 1t is stated that one birmingham firm
| has an order in hand for 1i,0o0 Martini
| rifles for the Boer government. Orders
are also beng executed FOR the British
government. the uitlandcrs and the Brit
| ish settlers in Cape Colony and Natal.