Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

japanese railroad in 1897.
Theatrical companies in Mexico must
play everything they advertise or pay
d Hiie. III 100 cvil;s
ar sS11ns g S esiss ~tnsst
singers.
American pulp-making machinery is
gaining considerable Roadway in Scan
dinavia.
England holds the honor Of having
first formed societies for the preven-
ton of cruelty to animals, and of hav-
ing first lcgislated for it's punishment
A lion hunter who has made a study
of that animals peculiarities says ''all
lions are left-handed. When one strikes
a forcible blow it always uses its left
paw"
Mexico. or rather Yucatan, leads all
the world in heneguen production, and
the shutting up of Manila has raised
the price of the Mexican fiber tremen-
dously.
If the Prussian CONSUMPTION were ap-
piled in India. England would have g.
900 regular soldiers actually in bar
racks. with 100000 recruits coming up
every year.
Biscuits made of 100 parts of wheat
flour. 30 parts of gluten and small guam
tity of fat. then dried in an oven and
smeared with sugar syrup, are now part
of the French soldiers rations.
A Massachusetts, family has five cats
with varying tastes. One is ravenous for
beet root. another eats only cucumbers,
another tomatoes, another fish. and the
fifth will taste nothing but bread and
milk.
South London is so terrorized by gangs
that rob the shops with violence and
threaten those who pursue them that a
vigilance committee has been formed for
the suppression of the nuisance, indepen-
dent of the police.
In plea for preservation of Black
more's LyntOn and Lynmouth district.
in DevOnshire from railroads. the West
minister Gazette asserts that not long ago
81 artists were counted at work in the
space of two miles.
The color Of the paint on battleships
has suggested a new tint to the silk man
ufacturers, and for the fall trade we will
have dress goods. ribbons and other
stuffs in a shade that will be called battle
drab. 1t is a lead color.
The electrotypist of the British Museum
has produced such excellent fac SMILES
of ancient coins that experts have been
puzzled by them. AS a precaution against
unintentiOnal fraud. however, the coun-
terfeits are in future to bear the initials
''B. NJ"
There is a Bismarck archipelago in Me-
lanesia. formerly the New British group.
a bismarck range of mountains in New
Guinea. a Bismarck peninsula in the south
polar lands. a Mount Bismarck in South
Africa, a Bismarckburg in Togo Land.
and Bismarck. the capital of North Da-
kota. As
In one Of the Canary Islands there Is a
tree OF the laurel family that occasionally
rains down in the early evening quite q
cOpious shower of water drops from Its
tufted foliage. The water comes out
through innumerable little pores situated
at the edge of the leaves.
American motor vans are finding the
way into australia, but are only imported
to be initiated. Australian carriage build
ers, 1t is said. look forward to consider
able work from this source Another ar
ticle which is finding its way there is the
American electric forge.
NJ. Emile Olivier, the famous minister
of Napoleon Ill, has met with painful
accident In Paris. He was about to enter
tram. when, being short-sighted, his
foot tripped in some roadside watering
hose. and he fell heavily to the ground on
his face. Several of his teeth were
smashed. and his upper lip was split.