Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-22
GENERAL Ne us.

statue, is sclf-taught artist.
A Chicago bishop waited two hours for
bride who had been disappointed in her bonnet
strings.
Hans Andersen says, "Our age is no longer
that of Imagination and fecling-it is the age
ofantellect"
There were, in l77G fifty Post Offices in
thousand.
4 boatman at Browntown, Michigan, re-
Gently captured a seventy pound sturgeon in
his arms and brought him safely to land.
The Republican Statesman calls the Labor
Rcformcrs of New Hampshire, tie Assistant
Democracy"
There are now four hundred professional
wood engravers in the United States. Thirty
years ago there were not twenty.
One hundred and seventeen thousand Ger
man officers and soldiers were killed, or died
of wounds or diseases, during the late war in
France.
How many months is it since the Demo-
cratic members of the Legislature of Indiana
unanimously declared the Fifteenth Amend
ment to he null and void?
South Carolina has an association of Coon
federate survivors," before whom General
Jubal Early is to deliver an Grafton in Novem-
Der, at Columbia.
4 boy in Ohio watched flock of quails run
ming along the rows Of corn, and'presuming they
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in its crop one cut worm, twenty-one striped
cucumber bugs and one hundred chinch bugs.
DR.. Scavy of Bangor, in his address before
the Maine Medical Association, censurcd the
clergy "for their aid and support to every
new quackery." He said 'they allow their
names and portraits to be placed on handbills, |
and give liberal certificates of cures
The manufacturer of scarecrows calls for
the exercise of the highest inventive powers
A lady in AIddesex county set up one that
was deemed n success for an hour, when the
crows were found alighting upon il, to take
survey of the field.
There are now several little electrical en-
gines for running sewing machines, and ont
Of SO many undoubtedly one or more will be
a success. If some of the stories told are
true, the sewing sex viii be greatly the better
for this simple invention.
The best reason yet given for the "ncw de
parture" of the Ohio Democrats is that there
are fifteen thousand negro voters in that State.
If these will only vote the Democratic ticket,
McCook may be elected Governor
Titusville, Pa, having survived the bay
window fever, the Mansard roof relapse, and
the ornamental lightning rod chills, is now
threatened with the striped awning epidemic,
and fears that it will spread to every house in
the city if rigid sanitary measures are not en-
forced.
A poor colored woman in New Haven re-
Gently bequeathed between two and three thou
sand dollars, money she had saved by life
of toll in washing and scrubbing, to educate
any poor colored student who might enter
Yale Divinity school to become a preacher,
and if no colored student is presented, then
the money may be applied for the benefit of
white student.
The Count de Chambord is described as
large, fleshy and awkward, with diluted
look in the eyes" soft smile and full beard
on his face. OF his wife we are told that '.her
luminous hair, high forehead, dreamy thought
full eyes, prominent nose, beautifully -expres-
sive mouth, and slenderness of person, indi-
cate a queenly aspiring being"
Ina certain cemetery in town in New
London county, Conn, can be found lot
containing five graves, one in the centre, and
the others near by at the four points of the
compass. The inscriptions on the latter read
respectively after the name of the deceased
"My l. Wife, my II. Wife" "My III.
Wife" ''My I'LL. Wife," while the central
stone bears the brief but eloquent expression,
"Our Husband
LITTLE HOME-BODY .
Little Iome-body is mothers wee pet
Fairest and sweetest of housekeepers yet;
Up when the roses in golden light peep,
Helping her mother to sew and to sweep.
Tidy and prim in her apron and gown,
Brightest of eyes, OF the bonniest brown;
TinIest fingers, and needle SO fleet
Pattern of womanhood, down at my feet
Little Home-body is grave and demure,
Weeps when you speak of the wretched and
poor,
Though she can laugh in the merrest way
While you are telling tale that is gay.
Lily that blooms in some lone, leaty nook;
Sly little hide-away, moss-sided brook;
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