Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-31
GENERAL Ne " S.

An old adage, and a very good one, says ::
"Sweet are the uses of advertisements.
The lowest estimate for the California vim
tage this year is 5000, 600 gallons; the high
est 100000.
A lady died recently in Massachusetts, leav-
ing nnety-eight legal heirs to her property.
i The Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
have fenced their road for 200 miles with Os-
age orange.
| The bachelors of Detroit have a club, con-
stitutionally prohibited from marrying below
| $50, 900 and brick house.
| Halls Journal of Health says a sixpenny
sandwich eaten leisurely in the cars, Is better
than dollar dinner, bolted at a station.
An English writer, speaking of Elihu Bur-
rt, says he looks as if he had just dropped
out of the Old Testament.
Several thousand spinsters after long years
of watckful observation, entirely dissented
from the proverb imam proposes"
Norfolk, Va, is excited over finding kernels
of rice in hail stones. All of the philoso-
pliers are showing how they came there, and
no two agree.
The post-ofice revenue for the current ifs
cal year is expected by the Department to
surpass that of last year by 100000.
All of the western papers agree that the
wheat crop this year will exceed that of any
previous; and California and Oregon never
raised so much.
A New York police captain is publicly re-
ported to have received "a costly set of dia-
monds, given by lot of gamblers and dance
saloon keepers"
'''Is it wrong to cheat lawyer" was re-
Gently very ably discussed by the members of
debating society. The conclusion arrived
at was that it was not wrong, but impossible.
A Boston produce firm shipped 5000 bush
els of grain in bulk, received in six days from
Chicago, by steamship; 5000 received the
same way ly the next, and have contracted
for a like shipment by another. This appa-
rently inaugurates business.
Sacramento paper reports that recently
six Cinnamon were seen in a hair dresser's
negotiating the sale Of their pigt tails, which
were finally purchased at the rate of SO each,
to be manufactured into ladies' switches"
The exports of sole leather from New York
and Boston are increasing, and have been
quite large for some weeks. The goods en-
ported have been Buffalo leather and other
common stock that has been heavy here. Ex-
porters obtain drawback on leather made FROM
foreign hides, and as bark is comparatively
cheap here, it is thought our leather export
must increase.
Lace curtains should never be ironed,
Wash and starch Them using in the rinsing
water, a tablespoonful of powdered borax.-
This makes them very stiff. When wet,
spread on sheet either on The floor or bed,
and pin down firmly every two or three inch
es. Let them dry for several days, and they
will look very nicely. -t-ff.
The following advertisement appeared in an
Irish paper "Whereas, Patrick Mallory has
fraudulently taken away several articles of
wearing apparel without my knowledge, this
is therefore, to inform him that if he does not
forthwith return the same, his name will be
made public"
Pennsylvania reports a man sixty-seven
! years DID, now living in Chester County, who
has been blind since he was seven years of
age, and who can find his home among the
trees on Welsh Mountain at any time. with
out aid from any one; who can pass from one
place to another for distance of four or five
miles in his own neighborhood; knows the
|, different residences of the neighbors as soon
as he approaches them knows the voices of
his acquintances, and in many instances their
footsteps; can tell different kinds of timber;