Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-10
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A Philadelphia firm advertises for s'a large
boy to fire under boiler"
Deerticld, Mass has an Indian stone pillow
the shape and size of large boot last.
The Young Mems Universalist Association
of New York have voted to admit ladies to
membership.
A sign in Western city announces, Boots
Blacked Inside"
Tax was paid last year on ll.140,727 dogs
In England, ireland, and Scotland
The North Carolina papers are advocating
the establishment of the whipping post.
An old bachelor compares life to shirt
button, because it is SO often hanging by a
thread.
Brigham Young has lost twenty, seven
mothers-in-law since 1865.
Some of the streets of Salem, n. j., are
covered with oyster shells.
Innocence is like an umbrella-when once
we have lost it we may never expect to see it
back again.
A druggist in Wiliamstown, Mass. recent
ly received an order for "a botl of Mrs Win
loss suthen scirup."
1t is said that bl oad- soled shoe will make
lady's foot look smaller than narrow
soled one.
Some one CONSTITUTES a thoughtful article,
'sW by do wives fade? p, as conundrum, and
gives US an answer, They fade because they
wont wash"
Bug catching is distinct industry in the
fruit regions around Golden, ILL.,, and some
of the most active catchers make SO day.
Fireman writes to the Treasury Depart
ment from Brooklyn, n. Y, enclosing one
dollar in restitution for various little things
filched fl ON the government.
''The only Democrat" paper in Jasper
county," Mo, has been reduced to the use of
brown wrapping paper.
care these pure canaries ?" asked young
gentleman who was negotiating for gift for
his fair. Eyes, SIR said the dealer, conf
IDENTITY, 81 raised them ere birds from ca
nary seed"
They pretend to have 80 model girl in
Tennessee. She left her place because they
omitted family prayers, and all the silver
spoons, etc., accompanied her. "Watch and
prey" was her motto.
A boy in Detroit has killed 81 of his neigh
bor's cats to get money to buy his mother
nf a. Ha has
neighborhood where once was bowling
wilderness.
Quaker lady recently explained to her
new girl that washing day came every Second
Day. The girl left in high dudgeon. She
didn't go to be washing every other day.
The failure of the Commonw ealth Fire In
surance Company of New York has created
quite a sensation in that city. Stories Of
fraud in the management of the company are
freely circulated
A physician said of a quack that, ''if he
could take lantern and go down inside his
patient, he couldn't find out what the matter
was"
A steamship has just arrived at New York,
that is four hundred and twenty seven feet in
length, and six thousand tons burden. She
belongs to new Liverpool line, all the ves-
sells of which are to be of that size.
A marble cutter near Lockport recently
received from German an order for tomb
stone with the following epitaph: "My wife
, Susan is ded is shed had life till next Friday
shed'd been ded shust two weeks. AS a tree
fall so must she stand. All things is impos-
sible init God"
The Boston Journal of the 4th says The
'Old Catamount Tavern, which for more than
hundred years stood in the village of Ben
nington Centre, was on Thursday morning
last reduced to ashes by the hands of the in
eendiary. This house was the rendezvous of
the Green Mountain Boys during the troub-
les with New York before the war of the Rev
olution In it met the Council of Safety, COM
posed OF sucn men as Ethan Allen, Seth War
ner, Remember Baker, Moses Robinson, Jo-
: mas Fay and Isaac Tichenor 1t was the
headquarters Of Stark and his brother officers
during the war of the Revolution. 1t was the
prison house of the British officers taken at
/, the battle of Bennington. 1t was also the in
It FAINT State House of Vermont during the try
n ing times following the revolutionary strug-
d gle, and the official home of those whose
II names shine conspicuous in the early history
p of Vermont Some alterations and repairs
'e had been made on it, but it was substantially
the same house that witnessed the struggle,