Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-20

emma exports LOS, 900 fans annually
There are us schools for music in Ber.
lin " Ae'-
Marine underwriters paid $l2,000,0O0 in
losses on sea last year.
Enterprlsing Texas planters have
shipped 5000 pounds of cottonseed to Ma
Mia. "
The highest price ever paid for a race
horse was $4,000 for the famous or.
monde.
New York banks pay out in interest
and dividends every quarter not far from
$3.50 0o0,GC0. '
An ohio Judge has decided that one
cannot be prosecuted for forging a docu-
ment unless revenue stamp is affixed
TO IT.. '"
The president Of France receives a SAL
airy Of $4,000 Additional allowances
make his annual income equivalent 10
$3.50. 600. ~
The only artisan buried in Westminster
ibbey Is George Graham. the instrument
maker VINO invented clock work in the
year 1900 ~
Australian newspapers report the com.
piete disappearance of Metis Island,
which as late as 1850 projected $50 feet
above the ocean.
Alaska babies rarely cry. When they
70 they are held under little stream
pi running water, usually under a barrel
ap, until they. stop.
Inc passion flower. which grows in the
south American forests, can only be en-
Ioyed where II grows, as 1t fades almost
as soon as 1t is picked.
Fumisation of fruit trees infected win
the San Jose scale by the use of the gas
OF prussic acid is a remedy which is now
said TO be certainly effective.
An ingenious mechanical device pastes
phaner labels on l1o0oe cans in ten hours.
son OF cans and eacA gan picks up q label
- - Po-s,cS' sfN<
xEish Commissioner Mcclure Of Oregon
eclares in his 1883 report that up 10 the
ss ssn rs. NMe salmon to the value of about
Abla river.
"A writer on China says that the Chi
nese believe the Yellow river has always
Deen OF It's present color except one day
about 5000 years ago, on which occasion
a great man was born and the river was
clear.
The management of the largest and
newest hotel in Boston has just decided
70 ,es ane,ud fr d ny, or travelling
that he does not wish the lobby turned
into business Office.
st. Petersburg is to havesa novel kind
Il museum q building containing mod :
mems of clothing and appliances used in
such asylums, besides brains in alcohol
books, photographs, etc.
Asbestos is found in nearly all parts OF
'AiV SiooCs Out There Is Probably 10 DfOO.
act of inorganic nature ABOUT which there
S so much mystery. The principal claim
for this remarkable product is that il
cannot be consumed by fire.
An unusual damage suit has been filed
at Centralia. No.. where Howard Larkin
seeks to recover $500 from the Western
Union Telegraph Company because the i.
singing of its wires frightened his
team and caused it to run away.
A strange custom is followed by Next.
farmers. They n ON
In the morning and another color in the
afternoon. They do not know why; but
they know it must be the right thing to
do, because their forefathers did it.
A sharks egg is one of the oddest-look-
ing things imaginable. 1t is unpr0vided
with shell; but the contents are protected
by a thick. leathery covering almost as
is 2 inches by ga inches, and the color is
almost pure black.
Organ grinders in Verviers, Belgium,
are by law compelled to appear every
morning before the police SUPERINTENDENT
and play their Instruments The organs
which chance to be out of tune must be
set in order before a license to play on
the street will be granted. .~
The largest city in the world is London,
which has population equannS. me
and home. Its streets. placed
in row, would reach round the world.
leaving a bit over long enough to reach
ITOUl IIOIluOi " Cdii iuuSaS>c'
Andrew Oleson. the chief diver engaged
on the wreck of the Maine. recovered
plain gold ring from one of the unrecog-
nized victims. The ring bears the inscrip,.
ton September "a. 1861. c. +. +. to -:
The initials of the recipient are withheld :
70 prevent fraudulent identification.
Ritter Leopold Won Blumencron, chief
editor OF the Vienna Fremden Blatt. VINO
has just completed his Sth year, IS prop
ably the Oldest active newspaper man In
the world. He is found at work in his Of
flee every day, regardless of the wealth
er. He was formerly in the diplomatic
service but has been on the STAN OF the
Fremden Blatt for 40 years.
Canyasback duck were SO numerous In
the early days in Maryland that employ.
ers were obliged to enter into CONTRACT
with their laborers that the latter SHOULD
not be fed canvasback duck more than
three times a week. One man could cas-
lily shoot 100 ducks in single morning
in those days. Now the fowls cost y 2
pair. In London they are worth SIS.
Vienna has opened its new municipal
saloon, the Rattiskeller. in the basement
Of the city hall. The place has Deen DEC nee.
Grated by the foremost artists OF the CITY
and in it. only the vintages OF Ausula
hungarian wines being excluded. The
Rattiskeller is conducted by the munici-
pal authorities: it's establishment has
the wrath OF the restaurant Kesp
most useful supporters of the present
anti-Semitic mayor, DIR. Lueger.
The Hartford Courant has arrived at
the conclusion that in this country there
is no West at all. 1.-THE people that take
the trains at the Jersey CITY station OF
the Pennsylvania road" it says, are
very much angered when they hear the
announcer snout: Express for Pittsburg
and the Far West! They don't ike y:
The people Of Chicago point TO Wisconsin
AS being the West. The inhabitants OF
Wisconsin scOrn to consider themselves
Westerners, and say that the only real
Wesferners in the United States are tne
neonle of California, Oregon, and WASH
imptnn. When YOU go and ask those PEG.
ME if they are Westerners they look at
You with surprise and tell you that theS
live on the Pacific slope.