Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-09
Curious Conc ensations !.

Out of every million persons 1000 die
from govt.
There are oyer 5000 animals in the Lon
don Geological Gardens.
Vienna has burglar who has been
convicted of breaking into 800 houses.
There are Is Protestant churches in
Rome, all the work Of the past q years.
Butter and bacon are declared by a
medical writer to be the most nourishing
of all foods.
The Prince of Wales is patron of % liv-
ings worth f7636, and his total income is
G14a year.
Sir 7. j. Lipton's little futter to cap
ture the Americas cup is to cost him be-
tween 10000 and 10000.
III all the mountains in the world were
leveled the average height OF the land
would rise nearly $50 feet.
bookselling trade in Australia. has left a
personal estate valued at fl17.000.
Eight churches have stood on the site
of St. Paul Cathedral in London. The
first one was built in the year 223.
The largest lunatic asylum in England
is at Prestwick. where the Lancashire
county asylum has over 300 patients.
In the hotels built in China for the use
of foreigners the highest stories are the
most expensive because the breeziest.
1t is announced that fewer American
divines are visiting England this summer
tfldlp has DCtu hHOWu lOI uldHy year ,
past
BY recent arrangement the voyage from
London to Adelaide through the Suez
Canal will be shortened by nearly four
days.
Madrid authorities s,hte that since the
beginning of the 10th century their coun-
try has lost GOO war vessels by ship
wreck.
TIE doctors of Sweden never send bills
to their patients. the amount of remun-
Grafton being left entirely to the generos-
lily OF the latter.
There are signs in many quarters that
the agitation against ritualism IN the
Church of England is growing in in
tensity. and is not to be stayed.
Professor Echterweier has completed
Immermann which is to be placed in
front of the theater at MnRdeburg. 1t
will be unveiled on April "a. 1899.
There are seven admirals of the fleet in
the British navy on the active list. 10 adj
mirals 20 vice admirals and 30 rear adj
mirals. There are also 1870 captains, 2S0
commanders and 93S lieutenants.
Jingling bells for cycles and numerous
other purposes are mounted on the ends
sprng she naeT Ing
moving objects. to be rung by the jar and
motion. f eg
The regular army is made up of Is per
cent of foreigners while in the navy 81
per CeNl VI tue ISlty ouiCtis eHsi y pSi
cent OF the scamen are foreign born.
Forty per cent of those VINO went down
with The Maine were of this class.
The oldest university in the world Is
at tPekn. 1t is called the 'Scnool for the
Sons of the Empire" Its antiquity is
very great. and a granite register. con-
sisting of stone columns. 800 in number,
contains the names of $4,000 graduates.
This in, memoriam notice has again APP
peared in the leading London papers: I'm
loving memory of our dear son. Windsor
Dudley Cecil Hambrough, found shot
dead in a wood at Ardamount. Argyll
shire. August 10. 1893 in his 21st year.
Vengeance is mine; will repay. saith
the Lord
C. Godfrey Compel. an English scien-
tist. has spent n years in studying. the
effects of salt upon the body. and is about
to publish a book which. he thinks. will
be revolutionary. He attributes diph-
iberia, apoplexy and various other ais
eases to deficiency Of common salt in
the system. - 33sa