Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-12
Many Of the leading lines are gradually intro
ducing them.

Many Of the leading lines are gradually intro
ducing them.
A young bachelor in Jersey City was urged
to marry, but he replied-"1 don't see ~.
NV father was a single man, and he always
got along we'll enough
An exchange, describing funeral, says
"The procession was very fine, and nearly
two miles in length; as was also the prayer OF
Dr. Perry, the chaplain
A Bureau school ma am in Georgia thrashed
one of her pupils, a colored boy OF eighty,
for holding his book bottom up, and his grand
chi dren looked on and applauded.
Fisk & Gould by their frequent waterings
have increased the capital of the Erie road
from s25, 900, 900 to ss5, 900 900 since they
secured control of the road in 1867.
Cambridge has become the second city in
Massachusetts in point of wealth. Brookline
is the richest town; West Roxbury stands
next. Both have higher assessed valuation
than half dozen cities of the State.
John Hatfield of Troy N. Y, made the first
lucifer matches in this country in 1886 He
cut them out, with knife, and was the only
individual in the country who knew the chem
zeal ingredients needed.
An immense number of fish of the smaller
varieties, estimated at not less than so 000, 000'
were lately found dead on the shores of a
small island in the Genesee River, at Roches
ter, below the Lower Falls. The malady tina,
caused this singular mortality is unknown.
"Does the train start this evening at thirty
five minutes past six, as usual?" asked an
elderly lady of a railroad employee. mo; il
leaves at twenty-five minutes TO seven" was
the reply. "Dear me, dear me, how they
change these trains!"
The harp after being for years discarded
from the haunts of fashion, and vulgarized
by street musicians, is once more becomirg
the instrument for young ladies. "Thus doth
the whirilgig of time bring round its revenge.
In famous horse case in Binghamton, n.
Y, the Attorney vet, r.nary surgeon, "llave
you ever made any examination in the abdom-
inal region?" To which the witness replied,
''No all of my examinations have been made
in Broome county
A man in Ashland, Pa, recently ordered a
slime gold watch" from one o: the swindling
agencies in New York. Paying ten dollars
express charges, he received, well boxed, a
beautiful "glass marble block, with note
attached, reading thus:
Dear Sir: The mystery in regard to this
is to find the key-hole by which to wind it up.
Numerous persons have been searching for ii
during the past year and have failed in finding
it, but we hope you will be successful.
Respectfully, Williams & Co.
P. S.-All fools will learn by experience. -
A farmer cut down tree which stood so
near the boundary line of his farm that it was
doubted whether it belonged to him or to his
neighbor. The neighbor, however, claimed
the tree and prosecuted for damages the man
who cut it. The case was sent from court to
court. Time was wasted, temper soured, and
friendship lost; but the case was finally gained
by the prosecution. The last we heard of the
transaction was that the man whe gained the
cause went to the lawyers Office to execute a
deed of his whole farm, which he had been
compelled to sell to pay his costs! Then,
houseless and homeless, he thrust his hands
into his pockets and triumphantly exclaimed,
ave beat him.