Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-24
GENERdL NEWS.

hanging on Texas trec.3
Indian tradesmen at Niagara complain
mournfully Of the season.
1t has been decided to hold an international
exhibition in Vienna in 1873.
2. They tell of dog in Minnesota that barked
himsef to death.
Though men boast of holding the rens,
the women generally tell which way to drive.
Bathing shoes are of plated straw or of
oil skin, tied to the ankle by bright colored
tape.
Oystermen are predicting. that the bivalves
will be abundant and of superior quality the
next season.
They tell of man out West whose hair is
so red that he has to wear iy-nets over his
head to keep the candle moths from flying in.
In Portsmouth, Va, of an evening, 213
dogs pass given point in fifteen minutes, all
bowling different tunes.
Cholera first appeared in America in Mon
treal, in June 1882. 1t never obtained much
foothold in New England.
An Indiana hen turned a box over her and
or water and was taken out alive.
The latest foreign papers express the opin-
ion that the German Government is arranging
a campaign against the Papacy.
Some of the New York yachts are sailed at
the tune of fifty thousand dollars year, in
GLIDING band of music.
First bales" of cotton are being sold all
over the South. If second bales are as plenty
as the first we shall have big crop.
A Father Mathew Institute" in honor of
the apostle of temperance, is proposed in New
York.
Bridgeport, Conn, manages to worry
through the dog days by engaging the servi-
| ces of an artist whose feats on the tight rope
| make the blood run cold.
The latest "society news" is that the mouth
should be worn slightly ajar this year. Of
course this fashion is for the ladies.
"Vill you take sumding?" said a German
tee-totaller to friend, while standing near a
tavern, 81 don't care if do" was the reply.
"Vell, den, let us take a valk!"
Wax candles instead of gas are used to
| light the most fashionable and exclusive
houses on wedding occasions, receptions etc.
The complexion and pearls look best in such
a light.
Old Joe Gilbert, colored wood hauler of
=,
standing the test of life with the fourth. By
these three wives he had thirty-seven chill
| dren, thirty of whom are living, and within
his parental sight.
An enterprising scissors grinder propels
| about Philadelphia a machine that is protected
| by gable roof from which waves the stars
and stripes. Every revolution of the wheel
causes one of several bells to strike, produc
chime.
Startling headings, suggestive Of exciting
topics, are perhaps becoming little too COM
mon. This is the latest before us: ga brok-
en-hearted negro saws off the head of a
white woman" In the announcement of new
novels striking title is very effective. Punch
had good idea of that, when he announced
| the name of forthcoming Indian romance
by Fenimore Cooper, as "The Hockenhock,
| or the Yelled-toD cath of the Whoppenyack."
An ''old colored sister" of Atlanta, Ga,
thus accounted for the recent destructive
storm in that city 81 can jes tell you what
| is de reason for all dis hail and rain what de
good Lord has poured out upon us poor sim
ners-it all comes of that ice mersheen what
the white folks hab started in this town. It's
agin matchmaking of freezin'- cold ice here
in the month of July, and de good Lord is
punishin' us fur tryin' to be smarter dan He
is. He don't make ice in de summer time,
and when poor sinful man gets to goin' agn
de Lord, den he's sure to punish 'em with
storms of hail and rain and wind and tarafy-
| in fevers-bless de Lord"