Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-24
GENERAL NE VS..

Long Island shore in Connecticut.
New York will follow the example of Phila-
dephia and open its Mercantile Library on
Sunday.
The opium revenue in India for the year
ls67-8 was just under nine millions sterling
| Mrs. Slower, Andrew Johnson's daughter,
has married. Her husbands name is Brown.
Walking on railroad tracks, though very
dangerous, is INDUCED in by many persons
who think themselves careful.
Grog- shops in st Louis are called
'.juceries."
1t is stated that the Pope is about to create
a new bishopric in Pennsylvania, to be known
as the Diocese of Reading
Leisure is sweet to those who have earned
it, but burdensome to those who get it for
nothing.
Garibaldi's faithful and devoted and valued
friend, that eats, sleeps, walks, rides and
hunts with him, is a cat.
Minnesota has sxty-fve thousand less sheep
than it had two years ago. The winters are
too long to make woo-growing profitable
He who receives good turn should never
forget it; he who does one should never re-
member it,
Josh Billings says: "Give the devil his
dues" reads well enough in proverb; but
.'what will become Nv you and me if this ar
rangcment is carried out?"
Elk county, Pa, is said to have the largest
tannery in the world. Its capacity for sole
leather is two hundred thousand sides year.
man in Rhode Island has been sent to Jail
for ten days for sleeping in church. Nothing
was done to the clergyman.
In Allegheny county, n Y, a man who
died recently left his wife one cent, his broth
er few dollars, and s. 900 for the erection
of monument to himself
This motto ought to be placed on the bill of
fare of some restaurants: ''No customer can
go farther and fare worse"
A base ball player of considerable note died
in New Haven the other day, his death being
the effectof over exertion in his favorite game
last season.
A man who is over eighty years old, and has
just married his fifth wife, is called by his
friends ''the refuge for aged and INDECENT
females.
| Awrter upon onion culture in England says,
the best way to get large onions, is to tramp
and roll beds firmly; the seed is then to be
sown on the compact surface and covered with
a rich compost the usual depth.
The Stanton fund, originated by the
Union League Club of New York for the BEN
eft of ex-Secretary Stanton's family, now
amounts to the handsome sum of S54 900.
1t has lately been proved that the white Of
an egg is the most efficacious remedy for burns,
Seven or eight successive applications of this
substance soothes pain and effectualy ex-
cludcs the burn from the air.
"Jack" Rand, whose connection with the
secent bank robbery i'll Rockland, Maine, was
more than suspected, has been arrested in
Montreal one of his familiar lurking places.
English steam plsws are now in use in the
South. They are constructed in Leeds, and
cost, exclusive of freight, duty, ETC., some
/ f1,6OO. The first one imported to this
country is now in New Jersey.
The leading job printers of Boston, have
decided to keep black book for each others
Inspection, wherein shall be registered the
names of individuals who neglect to pay their
bills, or who order printing and never call for
it.
A medical authority says pulverzed alum
and common salt, put on piece of cotton and
chucked into hollow tooth will shut up its
aching.
Round hats have almost entirely superseded
bonnets with both young and old. They are
worn very high, as a gentleman expressed it,
three stories high with cupola and balcony
and flag at half mast.
Bishop Thompson says he saw in India 8
religious devotee sitting cross-leggea on sharI
stones, who had sat there for seven years, un
der the belief that mental and physical suffer
ing would improve his spiritual condition.
At place Of amusement in indianapolis
the other night, little girl actress sang Lit
tie Barefoot" in costume. Such was the effec'
i on the audience that at the repetition of
"Please, sir, give me a penny, sir" 1t fairly
rained nickels on the stage; at least two dol
lars worth were thrown.
The South is alive with new railroad pro-
jeets. The Augusta (Ga.,) papers are now
advocating the construction of road to con-
: meet Port Royal, s. c., with Knoxville, Tenn,
via of the Blue Ridge Railroad. The route
/ proposed is via the Savannah river.
A good old Massachusetts deacon, recently
deceased, was once called in question upon
some points of faith, pertaining to his denomi-
nation. With a great deal OF earnestness his
reply was Don't tell me that am mistaken.
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