Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-29
Curious Condensations.


be the lowest ever known.
A scheme is on foot for holding a motor
and cycle exhibition in Dublin next year.
The decree forbidding the admittance OF
Jews to Russian universities has been
withdrawn.
There is a prospect of motor cars being
used to convey the mails between Glas-
Cow and Greenock.
Business in Belfast, except in the ship
building trade, has been depressed for
several months past.
After a stiff fight a boatman at St.
Ives, Cornwall, has killed a shark 10 feet
long and half a ton in weight.
In the early morning Leeds workmen
can travel five miles for a penny by the
municipal electric tramVay cars.
The greatest depths of ocean yet dis,
covered have been off the New Zealand
coast, and go down for about six miles.
The high altar of Westminster Cathe-
dral, London, will be solid block OF
rough hewn Cornwall granite, weighing 20
tons.
Including policemen, pressmen, bakers.
postal employees and market people at
least 10000 people are working all night
in london.
British manufacturers are now pushing
| their goods in South Africa pottery, fur
| nture, clothing and saddlery being sent
out in large quantities.
The furniture of Windsor Castle has
| had the covers removed which used to
| cloak it's variegated beauty. 1t may now
be seen in all it's splendor.
In one week lately IA steamers landed
at Liverpool from Canadian and United
| States ports 4.076 cattle, $50 sheep, Il, i52
sheep carca sses and 33,7S3 quarters of
| beef
The sunniest spots in the United King
dom are the Channel Islands, which en-
| joy sunshine during 500 per cent. of the
| time the sun is above the horizon in the
course of the year.
In the year ending April l. 1890. Berlin
| imported from Italy so carloads of cher
| ries. 357 of table grapes, GAG of summer
fruits, etc, in the following II months
| the business doubled.
A clossal hydraulic press one of the
| largest in Great Britain. and the estimat-
| ed weight of which will be $50 tons, is
about to be added to the works at the
Darlington Forge Company.
1t is reported that in and about Shen-
andoah in the anthracite coal region of
PENNSYLVANIA there are about 1909
Lithunians, 5000 Poles 5000 Ruthenians,
| 1000 Siovaks and 800 Bohemians.
General Booth has just accepted $4,000
acres of land in Western Australia, where
| he will establish great Salvation Army
agricultural and industrial colony, which
| he will populate from the London slums.
| Miriads of ants have made things so I'M
| comfortable in the pretty little French
| village of Nerae U.ot-et-Garonne) that
| had to flee from their dwellings and seek
| shelter elsewhere.
When ordering two boys to be birched
| for stealing apples the Norwich eng
| land) magistrates said the lads parents
| might infiict the punishment, if they
| desired in the presence of the police. The
offer was not accepted.
| Lord Dudley is not the first of his name
| to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. AS far
| back 142S Sir John Sutton, the fifth
| Lord Dudley was Irish Viceroy. He
| summoned an Irish Parliament and held
| the office for three years.
Although 125 years old, watch owned
| by gentleman in Worcestershire still
keeps excellent time. 1t was worn at
Trafalgar, during the Peninsular War.
| at Waterloo. through the China War in
| 1910 and finally in the Indian mutiny-
| A most interesting and commendable
| enterprise is being organized in Manches-
ter. England. at present, in the shape OF
| a bazaar to raise funds to endow a hos
pital bed in honor of Robert Burns. and
child's cot in honor of Sir Walter Scott
| In London during the year ended Lady
took part in swimming INSTRUCTIONS ms lI en at
various baths; 57oSS7 children were adj
mitted to the baths. A 1854 were instructed
In swimming 1880 were taught to swim,
GEO. earned certificates; five boys also
earned recognition 1.-TWO medals, three
certifcatesD from the Royal Humane So
ciety. ~.
| An extraordinary sale took place a few
| days are at the state furniture depot in
! the Rue des Ecoles. This consisted of all
kinds of objects which have come into
the possession of the authorities as a
J consequence of criminal proceedings, and
otherwise. Among the objects put up for
auction was forger's press for printing
banknotes. The Bank Of France had
! claimed this press in order to destroy it,
but after viewing it. the bank officials
| considered it was of too primitive a
J character to cause them any alarm, and
i abandoned it to the state.
| Sailors have long told tales of magnet
| lc islands which lure ships on to wreck
i by affecting their compasses. An island
not far away from civilization, near the
coast of Europe and known for centuries
TO the geographers, has been discovered
| 70 nave this quality. This is the islam /
OF Bornholm. which belongs to Denmark,