Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-15
Curious Condensations

ST. Petersburg Is the Oldest capital II
| Europe.
| The value Of the annual plum crop II
| France is $3,0O00JO.
The earliest autograph in existence I:
that of Richard ii.
The two banks of Burlington, Wis, are
managed by women.
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily. possesses
a solid silver bicycle.
Great Britain rules q of every 100 square
miles of the earth's surface.
Half of the i25Ga0 Scandinavians In the
United States live in Chicago.
A further attempt is to be made to have
the Tower of London opened on Sundays
Ireland and Scotland are stated to have
the largest proportion of unmarried per-
sons.
The gum trees of Victoria are the tall
est trees in the world, averaging 800 feet
high.
Skibo Castle is about four miles from
the fishing village of Dornoch. Suther-
landshire.
The loftiest cliff on the coast of Eng
land Is Beaehy Head. the height of which
is 5s4 feet.
There are 1000 submarine cables in use
all over the world, which have cos: about
$3.50. 00000.
Large shipments of potatoes are being
made to Cuba from the eastern part of
Long Island.
ne HDEu ASIA - ucTlNtd from the
Sanskrit Ushas, meaning the land of the
morning dawn.
Nazareth has three hospitals, seven
converts and twelve schools under Euro
pean supervision.
The cost of running a big ocean liner
from Liverpool to New York and back is
something over $4,000.
The cemeteries around London cover
200 acres. and the land they occupy rep
resents capital of 100000.
Only three men have been shot SO far
this year in the Adirondaeks in rnfsfak Ike
for deer. Last year the number was II.
When IpYchameleon is blindfo.ded it
loses aHepower of changing its color, and
its entire body remains of uniform tint
The demand for government liquor IL
cenSes in prohibition Kansas this year
has been the greatest in the history of the
state. :
The caedmon Cross at Whitby erected
in honor of England's first Christian poet,
will be unveiled by the poet laureate on
September q.
pears TO be prospecting. recent visitor
reports that 1900 trees have been planted
and u large area of land is already under
cultivation.
there are now not only ~ fountains for
human beings. but 2S6 large troushs for
horses and cattle and 40 small troughs
for sheep and dogs.
Inc hours OF Work IN the calcutta Jute
mills are from 4.30 A. NJ. to 9 p. NJ. or
lGla hours per day. Saturdays included
and all repairs and cleaning of machinery
have to be done on Sundays.
Several scientific papers have recently
announced the discovery that the odor Of
sweet peas Is very obnoxious TO flies. and
that when placed in a sick room it will
keep it free from these very iiresomc
pests.
The leaves of geraniums are said to be
excellent for yx-ba ba
skin is rubbed off. One or two leaves
must be bruised and applied to the part,
and the wound will be cicatrised in a
short time.
The Car of Russia probably owns a
greater quantity of china than any other
person in the world. He has the china
belonging to all the Russian rulers as far
back as Catherine the Great 1t is stored
in an immense closet in the Winter Pal
ace at St. Petersburg.
One of the strongest streams in the
world is in East Africa. 1t flows in the
direction of the sea. hut never reaches it,
a few miles from the Indian ocean. it
flows into a desert. where it suddenly
and completely disappears.
The Dutch residents of Wihelmina.
bration of their own in, honor of their
Queen. They wound up by sending a
cablegram to Her Majesty congratu,at-
ing her and conveying the 'iove and good
colony" ''A'''s'
The 5ullion dealers who purchased the
Spanish gold silver and notes found on
the lntanta Maria Teresa after the battle
OF July 3 propose to dispose of the whole
lot TO the public at premium over the
race value as interesting historical SOU
venfrs. The coins are furnished by fire
and water and the notes are stained
Within the last 20 years the French
have annexed no fewer than 10000
square miles of Africa They own Ala-
bira. Tunis, "the light soil'' OF the Sa-
hara; Senegal. the Ivory coast. the Vest
ern Soudan. Dahomey. the French Kon-
go and a large tract on the Somaii coast.
while in Aoyssinia they are making
steady way.
1t is possible to go round the world and
touch. on British territory all the way
VIZ. from England to Halifax. n. s..
across canada to Vancouver, across the
paclic to Hongkong. thence to Singapore.
lena and England; or from Penang to
Ceylon. Bombay Alden. Perrin. Malta
Gibraltar and home.
Russias Manchurian Railroad has RIM
against a snag. The line has been sur
veyed close to the Chaolin mausoleums
the resting place of the ancestors of the
general Of FeAg Tien. E k'o Tang ar der
cares clare, that this is sacrilege. and has
but has received no reply as yet.
II is said in Ireland that rocks will mot
Duild on Sunday. A parsons coachman
was declaring this to be an indisputa HE
Iact AT the time he was driving his
master rast rookery one fine Sunday
IN spring; "But one is building now
objected the clergyman, who disa pproved
OF all supersttions There ara had
crows as well as bad Christians" was
the crushing reply.