Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-09
Newsy Gleanings.

Prussia has nearly 400 orphan asylums,
wt9h 10000 inmates.
Four species Of plants produce capsicum
| or the red pepper of commerce.
| Thunder is rare at Cairo, being heard
| on an average only three days in the
year.
Spain has lost about 500 war vessels by
battle ald wreck since the sixteenth cen
fury.
In the decade of 1851 to 1891 four-ifths %
the increase of population in France was
in Paris.
The grave Of an unmarried woman In
carved in stone.
Frank p. Graves. the new President of
the University of Washington. was read
ing Virgil when ten years old
1t costs about $4,000 to patent an in
vention all over the world. There are "a
countries in which a patent can be pro-
teoted.
In Emperor Williams breakfast menu
sat bun is a standing order. 1t is "a
small. white leaf Of bread, the top of
which is covered with salt.
A Xenia, O., item runs: The other day
parrot belonging TO A. w. Stark liv-
ing near this city, fell from its perch, ex-
claimed, Il am hurt and Immediately
expired.
ain expens,s sso,O00,00o a year ON the sup
port of the poor, and Germany about S25-
000,o 900. This does not include private
charities.
syeam9re. Ill. is getting, ready, to en-.
SAINT sago fame. VINO will visit his brother,
Captain James N. Shafter, there about
the middle of this month
New York City now has three parks in
Bronx borough. These parks, which have
a total area of 800 acres, are connected by
drveways and are to be beautitied under
Il general plan
The exact meaning of Hogmanay-as
New Years eve in Scotland IS caIled-ss
Saxon nighttime time for killing
animals for eating and sacrifice.
II, January, 1887. there were In st. Louis
1867 saloons. This year finds that number
a decrease OF 2oSS. The Missouri law pro.
hibits the adulteration of liquors.
Warm suppers will hereafter be provid
ed fer the German army. The change
vert into effect ON New Years day. The
increase of cost for pork and sausage for
the Berlin garrison alone will be 500, 900
a year
A meteorological observatory is to be
established in the spire of the cathedral
at ulm. one of the largest churches in
Germany. Next to the Eiffel tower in
Paris it will be the highest post of me-
neurological observation in the world
erecteu by human hands.
French engineers have something to
learn from America. They undertook to
move the great machinery gallery of the
1889 exhibition in sections to a new site
In the Champ de Mars. for use in 1900.
and did move Two sections. While rivet-
ing these together. however. they col
iapsed, owing to insecure foundations.
In attnding the recent banquet Of the
New England Society at Charleston. 8.
c. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, asked
permission to retain his plate, knife and
fork as a souvenir of the occasion, de-
sired by Mrs. Hoar. The senator's re-
quest was granted and a special decor
ated plate with silver knife and fork,
were provided.
The gifts to colleges in the. United
States last year amounted to Sl30S6, $50,
and libraries received 1,166, 500. Museums
and art galleries, whose object is partly
educatio were generously remembered
TO the extent of $l,472,00 For these va
,.ous institutions the aggregate of gifts
was s15,,24,6J0, in total for all purposes
OF S259Si,9oo.
An Old lady who died in Rochester. N
Y, a few days ago was the daughter of
man who fought under Washington,
and her husband was a soldier in the war
of 1912. She was a young woman when
she heard of the battle of Waterloo. The
ambition of this old lady, aged 1902, was to
survive until 1901. so that she might say
she had lived in three different centuries
In 1896 there were landed by the collec-
tor lf49 Chinese men and women In 1897
the number had swelled to 3o4O--more
than twice the number. In 1898 the mum |
Der is 1868. During the years 1873. 1896, 1881 |
and 1898 the total number landed was |
9S71 The number admitted during 1897 |
and 1895 under the Jackson Meredith |
management of the bureau was 1903, max |
ing in round numbers seven-nnths of the |
whole total of the four years.
Paris is to have theater de la Nature,
or scientific playhouse. The stage of the |
Bodiniere has been arranged for this pur-
pose, and ON it will be shown phenomena |
of the earth, air and sky. as well as cpl
sodes in the lives of famous explorers in |
the most curious parts of the globe. Lee
lures or conferences are to be delivered
i'm connection with the scenes and the
first production billed for the new theater
is the creation of tine world, with expla-
natcry words for the poet-pohtician, Clo-
VS. Hughes
Queensland is inaugurating new de-
parture in the fruit trade, says London
Invention. 1t is found that dried bananas
take the place of raisins In puddings very
we'll and an enterprising firm in Queens
land has sent to the agent general once.
in Victoria street, Westminster, a con-
signmenr OF dried bananas, with me OBJ
ject of opening up a market for them in
England AS socn as the puolic have
tested for themselves the agreeaDie Lavor
which dried bananas give the pudalngS,
there is sure to be a big demand Tor
them.
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