Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-07
Newsy GIeanings.


! estimates on the cost of a cable road
| deposits in the crater of Popocatepetl
Some people in the South are pre-
dieting that the current trend in cotton
manufacture will flood the North with
negro operatives and the South with
! Yankee white girls.
| A Minnesota farmer insists that corn
makes a better and cheaper fuel than
| coal. He raised enough corn on ten
acres to heat his house and feed two
| horses and COW through the winter.
| Several cases of boomers were
among the booty taken by tramps from
a freight car at Chillieothe, o. The
police are puzzled to know what the
marauders intend to do with the gar
| ments.
The Norfolk. Va. Landmark prints
the following news item: MI Quarts,
| the Socialist candidate for governor
was seen upon the streets of Richmond
| on Wednesday last peddling sus-
penders.
A woman who died in Paris five years
ago left her money to schools for the
poor. reserving $4,000 for the support OF
her pet tabby. The cat has just died
ard the school has come into the res,
of its inheritance
According to the authority of an
English magazine Great Britain con-
trolls Il out of every 100 square miles of
the earths surface and "A out of every
100 square miles of territory in North
and South America.
That great bridge at Montreal. 1000
feet in length. built to accommodate
two railroad tracks. two trolley lines
and two foot paths, is to be erected hy
American contractors and made of
American materials.
Bicycles are used for smuggling on
the frontier of France and Belgium.
The customs officers at Tourcoing took
TO pieces the machine ridden by man
they suspected and found that all the
hollow tubing was stuffed with pepper.
The revised returns of the Russian
census give the total population of that
country as 1000 900 This makes
Russia third in rank among nations,
China coming first. with an estimated
population of 400, 1000. 900, and the British
empire next with 29S, 600, 00J
That there is a possibility of Battle
Mountain, New. developing into great
copper producing locality was again
demonstrated last week. at which time
there was put on exhibition copper ore
of a quality that is unsurpassed. even
by that of the famous Calumet and
Hecla, which has afforded dividends
amounting to over $40. 900 900
The firemen of Boston are planning
to commemorate in some acceptable
way the 18th anniversary of the big
fire. in that city, which destroyed mil
lions of dollars worth of property Nov
., 1872. One feature suggested is d
banquet at which those men who were
members of the fire department at that
time and still survive shall be honored
guests.
Bird in the bush" is a new Wand on
American menus. A small hole is
made in the end Of a watermelon and
the core scooped out. The interior Is
| filed with breasts of chickens, leg meat
! of squads. Chinese mushrooms and
sprouts. Then the watermelon is sealed
| up and boiled for two hours. All the
| juices are retained, and when served
| the melon is plugged in the top.
| One of the owners of a Kansas City
| packing house, who lives in New York,
wrote his manager complaining that
! his live stock buyers We're verbose III
their kilograms to him. They sent him
| three or four day and he objected
| to paying for unnecessary words. The
manager instructed the buyers to De
! more careful in wording their messages.
| a few days later one of them was
astounded when he received this mes
sage from the New York man: IF you
| can get some more of the same kind of
| Texas, stock that you got yesterday at
the same price, buy them. No. never
mind; you needn't do it." The letter
of complaint and the telegram will be
| framed together.