Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-03-14

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Partisan shopkeepers have decided "a
close on Sundays. 10
There Is macadamized road in rnd,.
| 1880 miles in length. "c"
some important inventions have hee,
| discovered by 1unatics. "e"
| No fewer than IS nations have ba..
v!ted 10 participate in the Paris erraai ~
| tiOn Of 1900. eApoSi.
| The University of Oxford has tvno a..
appliances for printing In form 1N i.m cm'
guages. ~ "h-
| In India the average duration OF ufo =,
| Britain. '' II III
inc negro race embraces about ona.
tenth of the worlds population. l0 00 NJ,
| persons. ''''"'"v
Soldiers in the Italian army are a,,owa,
TWO hours in the middle Of the day FOR y
| nap. - '' A''
a large paper house, with ls rooms. has
been erected by a Russian gentlemen a.,
| his country seat. ~
! The japanese arc, as n rule. so email
that 1t is necessary to build specjally Io,v
bicycles for them. ~"
The Ainn women in Japan tattoo th.i,
races TO give them the appearance of men
| with whiskers. y, '''e"
has dwindled from about four miiiion
acres to two million.
From August r. 1885, to Januarv u
1899, there were in BOMBAY i,sG Gc cases os ~
the plague. with $3.50 deaths.
Queen victoria's will is engrossed on
Neiium, quarto size, and is bound az
volume. and secured by a private lock.
A Massachusetts farmer is being s,,ea
Tor sneezing so lonA on the public high,
way as to cause the plaintiffs horse 10
run away. "
At Tunbridge Wells 1t is proposed that
Oh 1txpl..
as there Is very little crime in the dis.
trict. "''
AT Harvard and Columbia Universities
thb year a course of Is lectures on life
gwen.
The wheat harvest In South Australia
"a proved to be much better than was
4clpafed, the estimated surplus for ex.
kbeing 100000 tons. "
all the lands suitable for cultivation
II 81, sugar cane were utilized in Cuba the
the entire Western hemisphere
Steam omnibus lines are being estab-
lished between Newcastle and Hull and
other cities of Northern England. The
fares are only cent per mile. j.
The royal crown of Persia, which dates
back to remote ages. is in me form OF q
pot OF flowers. surmounted by an uncut
ruby the size of hens egg.
During 1898 96 grade crossings were
eliminated In Chicago. making a total to
nances exist providing for the removal Of
IS more. 80 - ~ 5ss a ~
/. A hundred years ago the Hawaiian
Islands were said to have had 100000 na,sl
tive population; now $1,000 is high estK
mate. Inc same fearful diminution h8
/, In June next Germany will celebrate
the l5Dth anniversary OF the birth 81
Goethe. According to German paper
the programme of commemoration will be
an imposing one. 1t will last three days
A tumbledown house in Johnsoa.x
court, Fleet street, London, in which Dr.
Johnson lived for many years with the
persons dependent on him, is to be demol-
ished to make room for hotel exten-
sion.-
Only once. in their history as a nation
have the Spaniards achieved a naval VIC
tory. That was at the battle of Lepanto,
in l5ll, when, with the aid of Venetians
and Genoese, they annihilated the Turk
Africa is the most elevated. of all the
continents. 1t is the continent of pla-
teaus." The great tableland In the sou.n
has mean altitude of over $500 feet: the
wide tableland on the north has an ay-
erage elevation of about 1900 feet.
In the New England Magazine. Mr.. E.
D. Mead makes the proposition that the
housing of the people Of city should be
made the special province OF specia!
head who have the largest knowledge OF
whatever is being done TO improve the
homes of the masses In the cities
throughout the world. This step has al
ready been taken in Paris.
Her Majesty is particularly fond of4tsh.
and on her table is always found 9 pen
tIrul supply of whiting, salmon tufbot.
etc, according to the season: For
state or big dinner, the cost of this item
alone is usually about SO pounds. AS re-
CARDS the Sweets the Queen has pecu-
liar fondness for Il special make OF thin
sweet biscuits and these are always 10
be found on her table g
The olfactory kiss is llongoliap:. ne
nutritive affair is European: fhe Noneo-
liam kiss is with the nose. The European
kiss is with the mouth. The Mongonan
kiss indicates that the party snlnea
would be an agreeable prey, the European
variety indicates that the party en-
braced would make deiectaDe Eea.. a
They are but the different forms Oh Inc
same instinct of preservation, the give
and take Of wild beasts. {tt tsg
One of the rarest and most expensive OF
Chinese gold fishes is the brushtaii. "a
pair of which sells for $1,000. The brush
tail gold fish is so small that an Ame,l-
can silver dollar will cover IT., ana PROD
ably there is no other living thing o. itS
size and weight that Is worth SO mucn
money. Like all the other Chinese nsnes
that are so highly priced by coliectoEss
the form of the brushtail Is due to some
extent to artificial methods. The chinese
know how to assist nature in shaping ana
fishes. How they do~it Is
one of their many secrets which We nave
not discovered yet