Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-28

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PAGES.
A wag lenta Clergyman horse, which ran
| away and threw him, and then claimed credit
| for 'said in spreading the Gospel"
| Rev. Peter Cartwright, the veteran pioneer
preacher, is drawing nigh to the close of his
earthly pilgrimage. He is now confined tc
his room in Pleasant Plains, near Springfield
Illinois.
A French BARRIERS sign reads thus: ''To
morrow the public will be shaved gratuitous
~" OF course tomorrow never comes.
The story of lazy school boy who spelled
Andrew Jackson "&dru Jaxon," has beer
equalled b. student who wished to mark
half dozen new shirts. He marked the first
John JONES'" and the rest ''do."
A Georgia young man after an absence from
his family of thirty EIGHT years duration
quietly dropped in upon them the other day
as if nothing had happened. The wife, strange
to say, had INDUCED in no Enoch Arden fool
ness.
newspaper man said to General Sherman
"You killed good many Indians out West. y
''No," said Tecumseh, ''the papers kill more
IniunsSthan we do. "Wby, if we killed half as
many Injuns as the New York Herald does,
we'd be short of hguns."
The Cincinnati Times says: eve have no
doubt the democracy of the South almost
universally, spurn the new departure and
will run a ticket of their own rather than
unite with the Northern democrats on the Val
landigham platform"
One of the New York clergy says; ''Give
ME an empty church to start with rather
than one full of precisionists. | have no
great fondness for fossils. | see more to adj
mire in one living horse than in fifty megath-
eria or mastodons exhumedby geologists Give
me one man with a great heart rather than a
thousand men made out of plaster of Paris.
A young man in Lafayette, Ind, is humility
personifed. The other day he asked young
lady if he might be allowed the privilege of
going home with her, and was Indignantly re-
fused; upon which he inquired very humbly
if she would permit him to sit on the fence
and see her go by.
The New York Tribune gives an appalling
picture of a certain class of picnics on the sea
beach and in the woods in the vicinity of the
city, and introduces long article descriptive
of their management, or rather their inten-
tional Encouragement, by saying that, osten-
sibly, political, social or complimentary re-
unions they are often cloaks of the thinnest
material for drunkenness, brutality, debauch
cry and crime.
Last week the Cape Ann Granite Company,
with blast of seven kegs of powder, started
block of granite in their quarry at Bay View,
one hundred and twenty-five feet in length,
fortyf five feet wide and thirty feet deep, con-
tanning about one hundred thousand cubic
feet. and weighing over fourteen thousand
tons-supposed to be the largest block ever
quarried in this or any other country.
What is the size of this placer" gravely
asked a New Yorker of the conductor just
after the brakeman had sung out "O-peli-ka'
at a southern station, where not a house was
visible among the pine except rambling shed
called an ''eating SELDOM ''Its about as big
as New York" was the ready answer, "but it
isn't built up yet"
Theresa Gambardella, girl of thirteen, a
native of Palermo, has recently attracted
much attention in Vienna by the fact that her
body is SO thickly covered with hair that it
more resembles fur than anything else. Even
her forehead-the first instance of the kind on
records covered her head is very similar to
a monkeys, and different parts of her figure
bear out the striking similarity. Her habits
and peculiarities correspond with those of the
quadrumana species, and the interest she has
excited in the public and among the scientific
class is also unprecedented. Theresa seems
to be remarkable illustration of Darwin
theory.