Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-28
GENERAL NE VS..

"a home without music" says certain
moralist, sis like spring time without birds"
poor washerwoman says that while
there's life there's soap.
The Church Union says that it seems as
though women went to church not so much to
praise, Is to be appraised.
The people Of Memphis will decorate the
graves Of the southern soldiers who are buried
near that city on Sunday, It'll of May
I'd A little girl, delighted at the singing Of the
bobolink, earnestly asked her mother, 'sWhat
makes him sing SO sweetly? does he eat flow
: ers?"
Allthe friends of the martyred President
will be glad to know that Robert Lincoln is
one of the ablest young and rising members
ofthe Illinois Bar.
Some enthusiastic Tyrolese raised the Ger
man nag on the birthday of the Emperor
William on the highest peak Of the Bremen
Mountain.
A Chicago hair-restorer agent went out into
the suburbs, stuck his posters all over a
church pulpit, and then asked the minister to
call attention to them.
A paper called the Magnolia Flower blooms
in Arkansas, but the editor complains that he
does not make scent.
A funeral was stopped in the streets of
Janesville, Wisconsin, the other day, to give
the drivers of two of the teams an opportu-
,.sx~ 70 nl,t Ettla bat
them.
A really witty caricature has appeared in
the London shop windows; that of a large
and venerable orang-outang, with Prof. Oar
wins face, labelled ''contribution to (un)-
natural history"
There il no computing how much real good
10 crushed out Of the world by the gloomy and
selfish spirit that withholds praise and open
approval from those who deserve it.
Nearly all the Baptist preachers in Arkan-
sas support themselves by secular pursuits,
and preach for nothing. The people of that
country are slow to support either ciergymen
or schoolmasters.
An exchange says: "We are in receipt of
two poems, one on the 'Throbbing Brain,
and the other on Bleeding Heart We
will wait until We receive one on the Stomach
Ache and publish all three together.
1t is stated that the late William Gilmore
Simms died considerably in debt, though be-
fore the war he had a handsome property.
estimated to be worth from $3.50, 900 to $780,
600.
Two deaths have occurred in Richmond.
Virginia, during the past ten days, from eat
ing canned lobster. In one case the patient
died after sickness Of seventeen hours; in
the other death came more suddenly.
A friend relates the following: A mile or
Two from town he met boy on horse back,
crying with cold. "Why don't yoa get down
and lead him That is the way to keep warm
ssNo" said the boy, ''it's ab-b-borrowed horse
and I'll ride him il freeze"
a Newark IL the workshop of the New York
jewellers. The capital employed is some ten
millions Of dollars. Materials to the value OF
elo0, 900 are in hand for weeks, going through
the process Of manufacture, while the stock
u Asished goods waiting sale is larger still.
The head Of = Vermont railroad shop was
applied 70 for permission to work ON Fast
Day By coaple Of men who were noted for
their laxiness. Permission was given, for,
says the chief, "you can't either Of you work
hard enough to break the day."