Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-19
Curious C0ndensati0ns.


Illinois has 100000 invested in
nurseries.
A shoal of behring's is supposed to
number from 100000 to 100000.
There are 1924 men and officers in
the royal navy at the present time.
An Austrian professor who believes
in the value of hygiene, declares that
England largely owes her supremacy
over other nations to the national
bathtub and that the only sure way to
outstrip England is to beat her in the
use of water.
The smallest inhabited island in the
world is that on which the EddystOne
lighthouse stands. At low water it is
SO feet in diameter; at high water the
lighthouse. whose diameter at the base
is 1854 feet, completely covers it. 1t is
inhabited by three persons.
DR.. Paul Goldman declares that
Cinnamon make the most obedient. in
dustrious and trustworthy of sailors
judging by his experiences on Oriental
vessels. Many of them have at some
time belonged to the crew of pirate
ships, on which discipline is specially
strict.
English capitalists are already pre-
pairing to buy the railroad which Sir
| Herbert Kitchener has built in the
wake of his army practically as far as
Omdurman. The gauge is the same as
that of the line from Cape Town TO
Buluwayo. which before long will be
extended to Lake Tanganyika.
Leipzig University refuses to accept
time spent at the University of Erie
burg, in Switzerland, in the count for
it's degrees, on the ground that the
teaching there has deteriorated below
university standards since the Domini-
can monks have obtained control. The
other German universities are likely to
follow the example of Leipzig. and will
refuse to recognize the Frieburg de-
grees as we'll.
A servant of the late Prince Bis
lmarck. named Rohrig, who for the last
eight years had cut the Iron Chancel-
llor's hair, kept the locks by permission,
and is now trying to sell them. he
finds difficulty in persuading the Ger
man public that his relics are genuine
owing to the widespread tradition
established by the caricaturists that
Bismarck had only three hairs on the
top of his head.
. A St. Louis gentleman writes to the
New York Sun: General sherman mas
often been quoted as the author OF the
EXPRESSION. War is hell" In an ora
ton by the late Hon. Charles Sumner,
delivered in Boston in 1S45, on the
, True Grandeur of Nations. l find the
following: War itself is hell, recog-
nized. legalized. established, organized
by the commonwealth of nations Tor
, the determination of international
: questions
England has now reinstated nearly
: all the culrrits in the Jameson RAID.
Colonel Frank Rhodes, WHO was
wounded at Omdurman while acting
~ corres1ontent for the London
5 Times. has been restored to his former
, r5,sitica in the army and Sir Graham
, Bowers. VINO. as colonial secretary at
the Cane. came out badly from the in
vestigation, has received an equally
$ lucrative post at Mauritius.
A Berlin paper thus speaks OF the
women en,ides now employed in that
T citv: ",rhey are partly elderly, partly
n,;d,ile-aged ladies, with certain
arornt of knowledge of the world
some acquaintance with languages ano
: an assured and amiable demeanor. &c
i whose care lone female travellers 81
E the lady travelling parties recently nm
norted from Scandinavia and America
intrust themselves. Most of these res
e oluta nersons are Russians or Austrl-
e ans"
Last year there were in New Soutf
Wales 3422 full-blood aboriginals ant
1868 half-castes. Twelve years back the
). full-bloods numbered slightly more
than double the half-castes, but since
then they have decreased at the nnnu
al average rate of 160, against an av
10 erage annual increase of S63 half-caste:
A total sum of 1872 pounds was ex
pended by the colonial government OF
y behalf of the aborgines during I'M
wear. and every possible protection il
afforded them, but nothing can proven
g their numbers steadily dwindling.
10 Peceipts at all the Paris subsidized
ID tbeaHers last season fell off slight,
,c from those of the year before, rangin
from A diminution of 6S. 100 francs TO
the Co,nedie Franchise to ISL. 900 franc
IL for the Odeon. The Grand Oper
1T took in 3.155,O77 francs, the Comedi
Franeaise 2.147.767 francs, the Oper
,a Comiaue 1,427,S71 francs and the Ode
I'm 546O11 francs. Coquelin, at tn
!. porte Saint Martin, with "Cyrano d
he pe,rerac." took in 2,069,732 francs, a
t. increase of 100000 over his previou
season.