Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-15
Notes Of the Day.

| The jubilee procession Will FOR the
| first time see the queens carriage Htted
with rubber tires.
| In adjourning the Kentucky Legisia-
ture the lieutenant governor exclaimed
fervently, And may God have mercy
on your souls!"
| 1t is reported that bicycle policemen
have been a complete success in Ne"
| York city. 1t is now proposed to maze
| them separate organization.
| The Minnesota Territorial Pioneers Is
the name of an association just formed
in ST Paul. All males who were resi-
dents of the state on or before May IL,
llS5s. are eligible for membership.
| A gun which was used by the kear7
sarge in the notable engagement IN
which it sank the Alabama off Cher
bourg, France, in 1864. is To be part OF 4
soldiers monument about to be erected
at Stamford Conn.
| In the last four years statistics show
| that the consumption of spirits mas
been cut down more than one-third ana
| Of wine nearly one half. This decrease
| is credited to the spirit of economy in
duced by the hard times.
| A Kansas City woman sued her hus-
band for divorce recently, alleging
"harsh. harbarous and unbearablS
| treatment" The specific charge was
| that he came home mad one day and
east her sealskin into the furnace.
| AS soon as the special session of Con
sress ends the library of Congress VIII
| be closed and VIII so remain until thf
books and other treasures Of the vast
| collection have been removed to and
arranged in the new and magnificent
| building.
| An official in the French detective de-
partment says that numbers of ladies
| well known in Partisan society do not
hesitate TO offer their services as de-
| tectives. on condition that they are
| paid. Some of them, in fact. receive
pay. varying from $3.50 to $3.50 per
month.
Muzzles are used on refractory
women in the penitentiary at Cologne.
| Last year a muzzled girl was found
dead in her cell. II was alleged that
her death was due to suffocatlon, and
the persons in authority We're charged
with manslaughter, but afterwards
acquitted.
| In Austria a law has just been passed
making ii a punishable offense for
parents to take young children into bel
with them. This arbitrary interference
| with "the liberty of the subject" has
| Jeen rendered necessary by the large
number of deaths of infants through
being overlaid. the annual average hay
ing been for some time past as much
| as 1000.
Most of the cities and towns in Micni
| gan are buying voting machines that
cost about $500 apiece They are con
structed something on the order of inc
| ordinary slot machine. 1t is claimed
that these will obviate the necessity of
recording and tallyng clerks, judges
police officers and the like, thereby
saving about 40 per cent annually in
the cost of elections.
A recent thunderstorm in the neigh
borhood of Berlin afforded an oppor-
tunity of measuring precisely the
power of a flash of lightning The ex
perimenters took as their basis the
amount of iron fused by flash of
lightning, and according to the state
ment which they have published the
power of a flash Of lightning is on an
average equivalent to 1000 horse power
| 1t has been authoritatively announced
in Annapolis that Secretary of the
navy Long is not averse to allowini,
the annual football games with the
Icadets of West Point. The games were
prohibited some time ago by Secretary
Herbert on the ground that they
Icraatp had feelinr bet tween the soldier
boys and the naval cadets. The games
will be revived in the autumn.
A new way to pay old church debts
has been developed in New Orleans. 1t
is novel, mouern, and ought to do the
business. Ten churches of the colored
brethren have placed the financial obl
cations in the hands of a regularly or
Iganized corporation called The Church
Debt Liquidating Company and this
company will undertake to pay up all
the debts of its patrons by means of en-
!, ltertainments and other sources"
A Detroit preacher told his congrega~
ton on Sunday that people should not
be deferred by poverty from marrying.
IF man has So left after buying his
marriage license" he said, "and is
fortunate enough to secure goo I.
economical wife. one who knows how
to warm over cold meals and is salts
: fled with orulnary hats and dresses. he
is destined to live a pleasant married
life indeed, eternity is too short for
such couple"
false in one, false in ALL" Is an an
, Gent legal maxim. Remember 1t to the