Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-25
Curious condensations.

| Clerks in Vienna stores are asitating
| for Sunday holiday.
| Two buffalo calves were recently born
| IN the Philadelphia Zoo
NeOshO, Mo. has named it's new public
school in honor Of Eugene Field.
| The Mexican government coins an ave.
and copper.
Arkansas city has woman VINO claims
10 have Tilted Fred Funston ana married
/ another man five years ago.
Army engineers declare that New York
! harbor will be in a perfect state Of de-
1871
Farmers in Scotland are unanimous
that such backward season as the pres
- years.
a bust NJ Sir Walter Scott has been sat
up ~ lhe Boston public library. IL is
COPY az ne Hutchinson bust IN West
minister Abbey.
III the western Islands ~ Scotland there
~ no Industry which eNerts so much I'M
iurnce upon the conditions Of life as the
herring fishery.
During the last TEN years TIE quantity
ot aSp1dlt exported from the famous
Ilith Lake M Trinidad has amounted 10
very nearly gD 900 tons.
The most curious paper weight W tha
World !S slld % belong 10 the Prince Of
Wales II Ii the mummied hand Of one
81 me daughters or Pharaoh.
Gout IL rarely known among TIA work
ing classes iu ireland. Their immunity
| from this complaint is thought 10 be due
70 the fact thar their food consists large
4N ol potatoes.
Annie Luker. an American girl. who
daily dives from q height Of ~ feet into q
tank AT the Royal Aquarium, London. e.
Inmates mat she has Travelled 81 miles In.
supported through the air.
Thu total number of Queens jubilee
1881. Scotland 5O5 of which Is were N
orkney and Shetland, Wales lG2 tn p
Channel Isles and France !.
The official statistics of mines and quar- |
res res, oi Crest Britain for lS9s have been |
published The number of persons en- /
plnyed in and about an the mines OF the
United Kingdom was IA, rs men.
The principles Of teetotalism appear 10
be making way steadily i'm Scotland NOT
Witnstdnding The enormous waste Of ex-
pendituTe which still goes on In intoxical III |
ing drinks among the working classes.
4 pike was caught in the Connecticut
river the other day which was 3D. inches
long ana weighed Gl2 pounds The catch
was made with an ordinary trout hook
and line and required a good deal OF pIav-
ing before ii could be landed.
John beverley. a commercial traveller
of wichita, Mas, is second cousin to both
Abraham Lincoln and jefferson Davis |
Mr.. PeVerley's grandfather was first
cousin 70 Lincoln father and his granl- !
According % the annual statistics just
published the membership Of the estah-
lished church Of Scotland increased last |
year by Goo. but the contributions shoX
decrease OF 1919 pounds. That decrease
Is chiefly due TO falling off In the leg
acies.
Dr. Matthew Woods of the University
or pennsylvania, recently read a paper II |
which he condemned the use of tobacco
because It Is promoter IF content. He
holds that discomfort is the great incen-
tive 10 material and mental advance
ment.
One Of the results of rural mail distri-
button will be the elimination Of a large
number of small pOstOfiices. In two cOun-
ties in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia
containing 261 postofiices more than 100
will be abandoned when the delivery i
in full operation.
The microscope has revealed many Won
ders, among Others that the common cat
erpillar has 1000 muscles in his body tina.
mirrors and that the large, prominent |
eyes Of the brilliant dragon flies are each
furnished with 5000 polished lenses.
In late number OF the Bulletin de Ia
Societe de Geographic NJ De Sainvlle d.
scribes the Indians tEskimoD ana regions
or the lower Mackenzie river, ana men
tons that consumption is unknown
among the natives. and that colds only
affect them on contact with civilization.
Miss Mabel Murray n member Of the
family Of which the Duke of Athol is tha |
head, has given her hand in marriage to |
Tseng kwung an attache IF The Chinese |
legation in London This is said to be the
first time on record that a lady belong
ing To the British aristOcracy has married
Chinaman
A German paper gives the following
method Of detecting small cracks in steel |
tools: The tool. near the cutting edge IL
to be dipped in petroleum. which must be
rubbed off clean and the surface then
wiped with chalk The petroleum, which
has entered the fine cracks, sweats ont
or the chalk, and the rent is visible in
its whole extent.
Girls who attend some OF the women'S
colleges in England are wailing because
they don't have enough To eat and they
don't like what they do have. The par
ents are adding their voices To the Ia |
ment, because their daughters are driven
by hunger to buy food outside the college.
the bills for this extra diet being an adui-
tional charge on the parental purse al
ready taxed with high enough fees.