Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-06
GENERAL NEWS.

UENEhAL NE VS..
New York builds street cars for Java and
Bombay.
A New Orleans lady boasts that her hair is
five feet ten inches.
There are thirty nine prisoners in Raleigh,
N. c., Jail charged with Kukluxism.
New Haven has Religious Intelligence
Office"
The Japanese Government pays Mr.. Cap
ron, the ex- Commissioner of Agriculture, a
salary of $40, 1000.
A New York lady who gave party recently
had engraved in the corner of the invitations
the words "small and early"
Scott, the Pennsylvania railroad king, is
president of five lines, but II. l. Kimball of
Georgia, goes two better.
New Orleans wells its kerosene under the
name of Septoline OIL but it explodes all the
same.
Inviolable fidelity, good humor, and compla-
cency of temper outshne all the charms of
fine face, and make the decay of it invisible.
Paris. Ky, boasts of a horse which, having
cast shoe, jumped out of his enclosure,
went to blacksmith shop and had himself
shod.
The writer of the social chat in the New
York Mail, an authority on society matters,
says the latest style at large weddings is not
to display the presents.
The weather seems to have been terrible
last winter against the defenders of Paris.
Nine hundred of Gen. Trochu's soldiers were
frostbitten in a single night.
Nineteen thousand volumes and fifteen
thousand pamphlets have been added to the
Boston Public Library during the past year.
Ofbooks taken ont only one in 800 was lost.
The number of applicants for admission to
Harvard College next term is 20G-l62 to the
freshman class, ii to the sophomore class,
and to the junior class.
Greeley, Cal, lately refused to allow cir
Gus tent to be pitched within its limits But
all hands, town authorities included, went to
the show, which was given just one foot out
side of the bounds.
Alexander II. Stephens, in his paper, the
Columbus (Ga.) Sun, says that the ''idea of
adopting radical platform to elect demo-
cratic President is as sensible as burning down
house to clean il of fleas."
Halls Journal of health says "The old
and young delight in warmth; it is to them the
greatest luxury. Half the diseases of hu-
mainly would be swept from existence if the
the time"
A schoolboy's composition on language
"To acquire foreign language you must
have intercourse with the natives of the coun-
try. For instance, my father was in Paris
ten hours, and he speaks French fuently."
The st. Klda islanders employ certain sea
fowl to collect cod liver oil much as bees are
employed to gather honey. The birds gets
the oil from its young. The natives catch
the bird and force it to disgorge the oil into a
small leather bag Enough is obtained to
make it an article of export, with the addi-
tional advantage that the birds always choose
| the prime article.
The hurricane which recently demolished
one hundred houses in Eldorado, Kansas, is
| thus described by an eyewitness: "About
o'clock in the evening storm came up from
the northwest, and before the people had time
to make any preparation for it swept through
the town. The clouds were of inky black
ness, the vivid flashes of lightning, accompa-
MED by crashing thunder and by torrents of
rain, caused our citizens to feel that the
storm was of no ordinary magnitude. Every
momentary lull in the storm only seemed to
increase its fury, and in fifteen minutes from
| the commencement men, women and children
could be seen flying through the streets, seek
ing protection from the falling houses. By
this time the air was filled with flying
timbers. Large houses were completely de-
molished; others were lifted from their foun-
dations and carried by the wind from forty to
two hundred feet. AS we stood by the win
dow, gazing outward, we could plainly see
houses topping over. The roar of the tenn
pest was terrible, and the earth seemed to
tremble beneath our feet"