Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-11
Curious CONVERSATIONS.

| advertising his skill as an embaIrner.
+. y. Jones Of Roland Lake. Md
sent I'd the Baltimore sun a cluster ~
white blackberries grown on his place
| "A sixteenth child was born recently
to Mrs. Walter Ellis Of Anderson. Ind
The father is So years Of age and the
mother 45.
Among the 100000 inhabitants NJ
Naples 10000 never know today where
with they shall buy their meals to-
morrow.
Buffalo's rev Union railroad station.
to cost 5000 900 is to have a waiting
room sGx225 feet, said to be the largest
in the world.
The Philadelphia public baths were
patronized. last week. by 339s90 per-
sons-97.se men. I+4S women. 23J,l23
boys ana 1919 girls.
III certain parts of Africa crocodlles
toaGs and spiders are eaten Ancien,
Romans ate caterpillars, and some
-AfI leans 40 the same today.
r. ". Collins of Denver has pre-
scented the Colorado Historical Society
the original deed Of brigham Young's
mill. the first erected in Utah.
A large dog and a horse had
fierce battle at Hackensack, y. j..
few days ago, III which the latter came
off victorious, the dos being killed.
cuba ana Puerto I;ico used To buy
annually $1,000 900 worth Ct shoes Of
Spanish manufacture, ana clumsy
article they were. \ much better
grade Of American shoes is selling ir
the island now for 50 per cent. less.
German locomotive factories num-
Der Is. ana have capacity of 400 10
comotiVes PER year, part Of which out
put is exported. 1t is said that no
American locomotives have yet been
introduced into Germany.
The new bridge at Niagara. Ont.
which is 500 feet long and p feet road
way, is designed to form connecting
link in a belt line trolley system TO en-
the Niagara gorge from just
below the falls to the end Of the gorge
at Queenston and Lewiston.
June bugs are thick in parts Of Ger
many this year. At Brody, school
lately gathered twenty-five
ana half hundred weight from a six
teen-acre field. Someone has figured
out that this means 1,270.000 June bugs.
The new Third Avenue Bridge. New
York. across the Harlem. opened to
the public on August !, 1898, carries
-o.00o passengers a day on an average
10000 on foot. 17.000 in cars, 10000 in
vehicles and 5000 on bicycles
The sword of Sir William Wallace is
in the Wallace tower. stone struc-
ture in Stirling, two miles from the
'astle. IL is a twO-edged sword of
massive proportion and great weight.
ma it is said four strong men are re-
luired 10 WELD it.
Statistics which have been collected
n Wisconsin. show the average cost of
'aising wheat to be "a cents busheI.
md the cost of corn q cents. In both
asses there are included interest in the
'alue of the land. with the cost Of i'm
elements and horses added in.
Some unknown robber has stolen 40
90 postage stamps from the postoffice
II Decatur. Ind, and no clew has been
obtained to his identity The postal
authorities have at least one thought
II Nengeful consolation-that the rob
Der Will have fearfully sore tongue
litter licking 1900 red and gummy
stamps.
Scottish paper says that between
$4,000 and 100000 kits are made each
ear. The killed regiments of regu-
ars. militia and volunteers number
ONE l. batt2lions. To these may be
Gded the pipers belonging to Lowland
egiments, making in all about 140OO
nen. As the military kilt is only pro-
ided biennially this represents sup
ly Of 1000 each year.
At the Windsor flower show. now be-
ng held in London. some sweet pea
ines are on exhibition which are said
o nave been grown from seed taken
rom the tomb Of an Egyptian mummy
urled 1000 years ago. The Mole St.
'icholas correspondent must be at
ending that flower show
France is trying to surpass Germany
the matter Of red tape. Advertising
osters must bear revenue stamps
arying in value according to the size
I the poster. a man who affixed
o-centime stamp to poste which
t1ould have had only a 6-centime
lamp has Just been fined I25 francs.
: 80, for the offense
Three hundred years ago. in Eng
1870 ~ was customary TO ada beer TO
lortar to produce the required con-
stency. 1t was asserted that the beer
'ndered the mortar more durable
IAN III 1t were made with water 1t is
,rtaln that the workmen often tasted
le peer, perhaps to convince them
lives that it was of the proper
rength and flavor.
a monument recently placed in
'metery in Louisville Ky, bears in
rlpuons to the memory Of John Aus
D. soldier of the Revolution; James
Hen Austin. his son. a soldier Of the
ar or ISL; James Grigsby Austin, his
andson. soldier of the war with
eSico, and James Richard Gathright.
5 great grandson, a Confederate sol
er VINO was killed at Murfreesboro.
nm, January l, 1868. All were pri-
ties.
statistics show that the medical pro-
ssion IS more prone to suicide than
y olher. During the last three years
number of suicides occurring
iohg physicians has been. respective
10, AZ and A. per annum, an average
nearly one to 1000: or, as the death
te among the physicians is about %
h.an q. @l.a