Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-10
Curious CONVERSATIONS.

The cheapest rate Of postage in Europe
Is that of France.
The first envelope ever made is In the
possession of the British Museum.
Great Britain spends on tobacco and
pipes about el40o1@0 every year.
The ma ximum annual rainfall at Ma
Mia is lo2 inches. the minimum s..
In all Spanish America the indians
form thn great mass of the population.
During tht last century 100 lakes in the
1'yrol have subsidized and disappeared.
Country roads in China are never
bounded by fences, but are entirely unde-
fined.
Out Of every six inhabitants of France
has an account in the State Savings
Bank.
Married couples in Norway are privi-
legged to travel on railways al a fare and
u half
A monument to Darwin has just been
iuauguralcd in the geological Gardens at
Antwerp.
Hamburgs improved apparatus for
burning garbage does the work for about
9 cents per 1880 pounds.
OF the Imperial revenue OF Britain Lon
don contributes no less than G25,3 900,
or "a - per cent Of the total.
II is well known that toothache is often
caused bN IL Il~bTutftG SthUldGH, anu Is
removed by a simple aperient.
Great Britain's marine steam tonnage
is today GEO 1O3-about as much as chat
of all other nations added together.
There are said to he in London alone
5000 children who are fecblcm minded. as
distinguished from idiots and imbccllcs.
Playing cards were first printed about
1850 1t is estimate that the present an
uual output exceeds 100000 packs year
British interests in the Philippines are
s.. times rs large as those of Germany;
are indeed larger than those OF amy two
other nations.
A feature of British emigration for the
first four months Of the present year mas
hccn Il large increase in the number dcs-
tined for Canada.
There is big gap in the boardwalk at
Atlantic City, because a property owner
whose land WAS Vrosscd ny the Walk, re-
moved that portion of 1t.
1t is stated that since the funeral of
Mr.. Gladstone on the 18th of May ie,W0
persons have visited the Abbey, many OF
them strangers in London.
All wel-traincd Spanish women are
taught 10 handle the sword from their
earliest years. and as result they are
noted for their admirable figures and
easy walk.
Monumental memorials of Mr.. Glad
stone are TO be set up in the capitals of
England. Scotland and Ireland. Their
precise form has not yet been determined
on.
Subcutaneus injections of essences OF
,-iolets or other flowers. giving the body
tha scent required are reported as a re-
cent Partisan freak of fashioh iiaportcu
from Russia.
The power of scent possessed by a deer
Il wonderfully acute. These ANIMALS
have been known TO take fright al the
scent of n man "a hours after he had
passed the spot
last wear there were only Is deaths
from smallpox in the 81 great cites 90
ENGLAND. as compared with ~. loo lzo
IN - rosnectiyely, in the four prcced-
ing years.
ono hundred and nine thousand loco
r,otiScs arc at present running in Vaf1-
ous countries Europe mas b5.u" America
40 600. Asia $500, Australia 2No ana AFRICA
700.
An ambulance cycle has been invented
NV a Berlin doctor. 1t is a lhter restihS
on two wheels at one end ana atlacneu
to an ordinary tricycle. at ahe ot'ei' any
is worked by two men.
The Murray City, Ky, council mas
n,ssed this ordinance: III any person
shall tie or fasten any rattie-ooN OF SIM
iIa, contriyance to any dog or other am,
mai within the city of Murray. ne shail
be fined 81.
The Council of State of the Hawaiian
has just held an 'amles aoo
session." at which it pardoned over wv
prisoners who had been serving sentences
of five years or less. MANY Oh 'heae WI
political prisoners.
I,,,roa,s Imnrimer!e National is pre-
80 os a show piece for the exhibition
pf 1000 "The History of French PRINTING
in the 18th and 10th Centuries, by a.
Igaudin. with 1900 plates of reproductions
from rare books.
Rritafn's new naval programme pro,
,-;das for the building of four additional
hattleships, four cruisers and Twelve tol :.
pedo-boat destroyers, bringing tiie ooo
expenditure for new ships up 10 "i''V0''
100. . .,o
One of the largest coal docks in the