Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-21
GENERAL Ne VS..

The theaters in Paris have opened at re-
duced prices.
Gladstone's lavish hospitality is reported to
have put him into serious financial straits.
Professor Cunning says mans big toe pre-
cludes the idea of descent from the gorilla.
Iowa mourns its peach and cherry prospects
ruined by sleet storm.
An exchange says: AN Indiana woman
has sent to market during the past year, 800
eggs-the product of her own hands"
The Princess Metternieh has offered to
Louis Napoleon the use of her palace at
Vienna.
Chicago paper says the color of the river
in that city is delicate orange"-classica
expression for muddy"
The New York Legislature has refused to
bow to King Patrick, and make his anniver-
sary a holiday.
\ puppy-not ahuman one licked the cheek
of New York belle recently and died from
the effects of arsenic. Puppies beware.
woman went into Kentucky newspaper
Office and asked the printers to print her
Harper's Ferry Weekly
The great trouble with many of our young
men appears TO be that Providence has not,
apparently. designed them for anything in
particular.
\ New York politician, whose head boasts
no capillary adornments. is said to have ia
dome beautifully frescoed in colers.'
Jacob Methuselah laughed so immoderate-
ly at a droll story told him by friend that he
dropped dead.
There is some fear on the part of Tenny
sons physicians that the poet may lose the
use of his eyes.
The St. Louis papers and people are just
now congratulating themselves on the com
pleton of their new water-works.
A baby show at Cedar Rapids had twenty
one competitors. The mothers decided by a
vote which was the incest. The vote was a
tie-each baby receiving one.
Two prominent bankers of Vienna have
been suspended" by the Bourse of that place,
for week, for indulging in a knock down
within its usually very decorous precincts.
The proposal to annex West Florida to AL
ALBANIA is again revived, and it is said that a
large majority of the people of both States
favor the proposition.
a roasted onion bound upon the pulse on
the wrist will stop the most inveterate tooth
ache in few minutes, provided you can stand
the perfume that long.
A man whose wife eloped and carried off
the feather bed, started after her in postha
not that he cared anything about his wife,
''but them feathers was worth something"
\ brave champion in the cause of science
and progress, Capt. Lambert, the Arctic ex-
plorer, has fallen under the Prussian bullets,
says the American Register.
The Michigan State Prison convicts are
tortured by a hand organ, which the warden
hires man to grind. They are petitioning
for the restoration of capital punishment.
\ lady in Chicago says, Take my advice,
We young maidens contemplating matrimony.
Never marry man who is impudent to his
mother, snubs his sister, helps himself to the
biggest piece of cake or beats his horse cause
ltssly in fit OF temper"
A testimonial TO the skill of a chiropodist,
published in an English paper testifies that
-four or five years ago he successfully ex-
tracted several corns from my feet without
pain, as also member of my family, which
have not returned since that time"