Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-22
GENERAL NEW s.

The French Academy has found several
plants sensitive to chloroform as animals.
New York is making arrangements to con-
vey fruit from Delaware this season by
water.
Vacation" says the Church Union, sis
true milestone, on which over-taxed men
sharpen their faculties for better work.
The Journal Officiel contradicts the reports
of the illness of the Emperor and Prince Ma
poleon, and states that both are in good
health.
A Rhode Island paper is very severe upon
a mean man in that State. 1t says he would
take his grandmothers coffin to slide down
hill on.
A horse of Plymouth, Mass, was fright
ened to death at the sight of an elephant.
The proprietors of the managerie paid the
owner.
Baltimore has painted its garbage carts a
bright blue, with the running gear and shafts
red, and had a grand procession of them
through the principal streets day or two
ago.
The Michigan State geological survey is in
progress north of Houghton lake. The iron
and copper regions of Lake Superior will be
thoroughly examined.
Here is the way in which they advertise the
qualifications of situation seeker in Brig
ham Youngs domain: "He is a matchmaker
CO., ~ ,I and is
willing to help build up Zion"
Laborers on an English railway lately found
a thrushs nest under rail, with the hen
peacefully sitting on four eggs, undisturbed
by the thunder of passing trains.
The bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers
passed the House on Friday, without opposi-
ton. 1t appropriates sl9, 100000 and had
previously passed the House, substantially as
now.
Two boys, aged respectively twelve and
thirteen years, started from Cedar Falls, Iowa,
a few days ago for the plains, to hunt bears
and Indians. They were overtaken twelve
miles from home and taken back to their
mammals.
An old gentleman who resides near Boston
never has green peas for dinner without re-
Numbering the poor by sending the pods to
the orphan asylum.
Bishop Simpson, while in Europe, will visit
Denmark, Sweden and Norway, well as
Germany and Switzerland to attend various
Methodist Conferences.
Cincinnati is to have grand industrial ex-
hibition, commencing September 81 and con-
tinuing to October 10. 1t is said to be held
under the auspices of the Chamber of Com
merce, the Board of Trade and the Ohio Me-
chancs' Institutes.
A giddy student, having had his skull frac-
tured, was told by the doctor that the brain
was visible, on which he remarked, "Do
write and tell father, for he always said had
none"
A German inventor is exhibiting talking
machine at Bremen. 1t is made of wood and
caoutchouc, and is of life size, in the form of
a woman. 1t chatters away like any living
member of the sex. What the age really re-
quires is a machine to diminish the excess of
talk.
This is to be wonderful year in Holland,
for this is the year of the blue tulip. pre-
diction exists that in 1870 some successful
horticulturist will raise blue tulip, and a
prize of many thousand francs awaits the
producer of the rare flower. Already there
are some six hundred different kinds of tulips
in Holland.
There is renewed oil excitement at West
Hickory, Pa, and the various roads leading
to the Forest county oil regions are lined with
pedestrians vending their ways over the hills
in search of leases and employment. Build
ings are being erected, and oil rigs are spring
ing up like mushrooms, reminding one of
Pithole in its palmy days.
Oscar Cespedes, the son of the leader of
the Cuban rebellion, who was captured by the
Spanish troops and executed ON May 80, had
just been married to a Cuban lady of seven
teen, who was also captured. 1t is said the
Spaniards do not treat her as his widow, but
consider the marriage as of no binding effect.
Westerville, Ohio, with twelve hundred in
habitants, is quite model town. No drink
ing saloon or other low place of resort has
ever been tolerated, and the citizens are de-
termined that none ever shall be. The streets
are lined with shade trees, and the yards fill
ed with evergreens and fruit trees. For
healthfulness and beauty the place is not
readily excelled.
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