Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-13
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NE WS.
The decoration of the head with natural
flowers and vines is pretty foreign fashion.
Private letters from England state that June
was cold and disagreeable month there.
Drink ice water sparingly," is an impor-
tant maxim to every person in summer.
The broad-brimmed Leghorn hats are grow
ing in favor both for city and country wear.
An English gentleman says an American
watering place comprises sea, sand, sun,
shells, surf, sailors and swels.
Oak and linden trees are being planted in
all the German villages in honor of victory
and peace.
Seersucker suits are worn more this sum-
mer than ever before. They are light, cheap,
cool and handsome.
"Maud Muller" is the pretty name given to
the large sun bonnets now worn by city bellies
in the rural districts.
Twenty-six steamers have left New York
for Europe, filled with passengers, during the
last fortnight.
Burglars stole everything there was eatable
in dozen houses in one street in Baltimore
on Saturday night.
Among the public observances of the Fourth
in Burlington, Iowa, was a brick-laying
match between half-breed Indian and a
Caucasian.
1t is said that when Brigham Young was
asked the other day which son he had at West
Point, the connndrum staggered him, that
he was obliged to refer to the family record to
solve it.
"Bil," said Bob, 'why is that tree called
the weeping willow" "Cause one of the
sneaking, plaguey things grew near the school
house, and supplied the master with switches"
Bridgeport man who impulsively sold his
sick horse to pedler for a gross of matches,
is disguised at learning that the animal is re-
covering and bids fair to regain his original
value.
Mr.. A. II. Stephens is already experiencing
some of the minor woes of journalism. In
the latest copy of his paper received he says
prominently, "for beautifully, in our last,
read fearfully."
A Virginia editor has come to the conclu-
sion that man might as well undertake to
hold himself at arms length and then turn a
double somersault over a Westinghouse
steeple, as to attempt to publish paper that
will suit everybody.
Mr.. Braxton Bragg, Jr., son of the rebel
General Bragg, and another young man nam
ed Madison Wilson, INDUCED in a little shoot
ing match in Mobile on Saturday. Wilson
was killed, and that ended the sport.
A French auditor of accounts in the seven
teenth century was great practical joker all
his life and even played trick after he had
lost the power of enjoying it, for he left four
candles to be carried at his funeral which had
not been burned fifteen minutes before they
went off as fireworks.
Some friends of ours, says the New York
Mail, detained in town all summer, are mag
lining themselves in the country by living in
two rooms, cutting off the gas and using kerr
boring restaurant, and playing croquet in the
back yard. They say it's almost as uncom-
Portable as the real thing and doesn't cost near
| SO much.
"A Missouri journal relates that a few days
since, Mr.. Gideon Haynes, his wife and little
boy, went out to gather some blue grass seed,
and while engaged in gathering the Seed a
swarm of bees alghted upon the boy literally
covering him from head to foot. They hung
| from his ears, chin and nose in great punches
and chung in thick clusters on every part of
his body. Mr. Haynes realizing the danger
Gus situation in which his child was placed,
commanded him to stand perfectly still and
| if possible not to move a muscle. This the
brave little fellow did until the bees had all
settled. Mr.. Haynes took a stick, gently
lifted the boys hat from his head, and placed
it upon neighboring bush, when the entire
swarm left their extraordinary place, and took
| to the hat and the bush. Strange to relate,
the boy received only one sting, and that was
caused by his Selling with his teeth bee that
was trying to make his way into his mouth.