Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-16
GENERAL NEWS.

The last French war cry-"Lie, but never
surrender"
Be satisfied with your lot, especially lift be
corner lot
Wilmington, n. c., has increased in popu-
lation nearly sixty per cent. since 1860.
The springs in North Iowa are almost
dried up. No rain has fallen in that section
for months.
The horseshoe seems to he fayorite en-
blem with Mile. Nilsson. Many of her jewels
are set in this form.
Pickerel and trout thrive together better
than any other two kinds of fish. Perch, it is
said. destroy trout.
The English correspondents in Paris give
an account of "salmi Of rats served to them
in ,first-class restaurant.
A cynic asks: "Would men enact wonders
in industry, if they kew the fact would not
get into the daily papers?"
The s'National Virginian," of Richmond
has nominated President Grant for re-elec-
ton in 1872.
The cornerstone of the new Capitol at AL
bany, which was lately brought from Dix
Island, weighs twenty EIGHT tons.
Skinflint, who g. gives nothing to street
beggars," has no doubt that the men cut off
their legs and women have babies ''on pur-
pose to appeal to public sympathy"
The value of advertising was realized by a
rural New York merchant who advertised for
small boy, when his wife presented him
with two very small ones.
'sThere is meat still in Paris" says a
letter writer, ''but" he adds, sit must be very
little" Whether he alludes to the supply, or
the size of the animals, the American reader
can judge.
Spotted Tail is seriously i'll in Dakota. He
has been at work industriously of late, to es-
tablish his people in farming and in improve
ing their relations with the United States
authorities.
A greater tonnage of iron ships is now in
course reconstruction on the Humber eng
laUuJ tIuu nv dtiy piCNiVWc thhS IA 'A'~ AfStSAS
of iron ship-building.
Missouri claims that her iron region is 300
miles long by 100 wide; and that in Shannon
county there are 1924 square miles OF copper
lands not yet touched.
Franklin N. H., has sheeted ghost, oil
some thing of a mortal nature in snowy habit
iments, that follows young men and women
about with perfect recklessness.
Rolls of parchment are to be circulated at
the dinner on the day of the landing OF tho
Pilgrims at Plymouth, for the autographs Of
the guests, which will be deposited in the
archives of Pilgrim Hall.
David Dudley Field, one of the ables
lawyers in New York, is said to have received
as counsel for the Erie Railroad Company
alone, in single year, upwards of 5000 900
while his regular income besides is enormous
Mr.. and Mrs. Samson, of Chicago, filed
bills for divorce. He testified that she
poured painful of boiling water over his
head, and then scraped the hair off with the
pan, he submitting 'to see how far she would
co.
A lifelong democrat is said to have left the
meeting house on a recent Sabbath, in the
town where he resided, because the minister
made too frequent use of the phrase, "Grant
| we beseech thee" He wouldn't stand that.
The Prussian Legation at Washington has
received from Berlin large numbers of letters
&C., taken from balloons captured by the
Prussians, and sent, unopened, to be delivered
to persons in America.
This is the latest cat story, from the Lex
ington (Ky.) Press: 'Mr. j. +. Dean, stable
keeper, on Mulberry street, has cat and
rat that play together, as kindly as though
they belonged to the same species.
The Alta California says; 1.-THE prices OF
the finer varieties of table grape have fallen
SO much this year, that the time has come for
the production of raisins with profit, and a
number Of small experiments have been made
with decided success"