Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-19
Curious condensations.

Perus anthropology has been the theme
OF 1900 books.
Spaiiyihas more sunshine than any 9TH
er country in Europe, the yearly average
being 5000 hours.
France pays its steamship lines over
100000 a year for carrying mails and
$4.O00.ec as general subsidies.
Monumental memorials of Gladstone
are to be set up in the capitals OF Eng
lantlWS Scotland and Ireland No decision
hasiyet been reached as to what their
precise form shall be.
Last year penalties in 81 cases, amount
ing 20 500. 1000 were incurred by copstruc-
tors for the British navy, owing to de-
lays: they were enforced in two cases
only to the extent of $500.
A German wine dealer was recently
brought before the courts at koblenz. 1t
was found that he made his '.wine" OF
glycerine. water. sugar and raisins or
dried currants, which he imported in i'm
mense quantities.
1t is estimated that the capital invest ted
In Germany in hotels amounts to $780,
O0o.0OO giving employment to million
persons. The capital invested in Swiss
hotels amounts to $50, 0OO O00 yielding a
profit Of ~ per cent.
dozen horses for transportation services
during the war with Spain. The horse
has become too weakened by civiliza ton
to keep company with the mule when it
comes to rOughing ii.
The term of a prisoner in a Mexican
penitentiary is divided into three periods,
The first is occupied with penal labor.
preparatory freedom" includes paid
work and many privileges.
Krupp is building five centimetres e.
inch) paper field guns for the German in
fantry. They are SO light that a single
soldier can easily carry one. while the
resistance of paper is greater than that
of steel of the same caliber.
The inspector of the Fifth Gendarmerie
Corps of France has forbidden the use of
the bicycle in the service. He has evil
IDENTIFY not read General Miles assertion
concerning the victory that Is to perch
on the first army to adopt the wheel.
A shrewd shopman on Broadway, n, Y.
has placed genuine 13-inch. Pinch and s.
inch shells and and 1-pound shells in his
big window. The huge messengers Of
death and destruction draw crowds OF
'rubbernecks" from the bulletin boards.
A pension has been granted to a Turk
1sh soldier known to his comrades as
kfeusse Ahmet Chat Is, Beariless An
metz. who, after three years service in
the army. fell Ill and, coming under med
ical treatment, was discovered to be a
woman.
The light house on Armish Rock. In
the Hebrides, Is about 800 feet from the
shore. To avoid having an attendant on
shore and projected across the water
upon mirror in the lighthouse. the mir
ror rejecting the light in the desired de
rection.
designations from the French Legion of
Honor. owing to the persecution of lola,
continue. NJ. Jules Barber, the WE'LL
known comic opera hbrettist, eulogixes in
his letter of retirement ''the great Zola, :"
and remarks that he Is as glad to resign
the rosette Of tine Legion as he was to re-
ceive it.
Denmark makes a clear distinction be-
tween the thriftless and the respectable
poor The former are treated like Eng
lish paupers. The latter never cross a
workhouse, threshold. II destitute they
a year: or. If too feeble to look after
they are placed in an old-age
home.
Dickens would have been pleased with
the title of the "Church of England Bur-
ia1, Funeral and Mourning Reform Asso-
citation" which at its twentieth annual
meeting has issued the following mani
festo: mo darkened house, no durable
coffin. no special mourning attire, no
bricked grave, no unnecessary show, no
expense, and no unusual eating
or drinlsing."
The railway from the Congo rivers
mouth to Stanley Pool, 240 miles in
length. has finally been completed, after
eight years work. and a vast area of the
Interior Of Africa has thus been opened to
modern methods of trade and commerce.
There are 10000 miles of navigable-water
way above Stanley Pool. and 20.000.G0O peo-
pie inhabit the territory which may be
thus reached.