Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-01
GENERAL NE VS..

New York dressmaker died lately of ar
senc poisoning from making up green tar
latan dress.
| The Methodist papers are calling for q
monthly, ''strong. vigorous, outspoken or
gan of Methodist theology"
| A sign in a western city reads Boots
BACKED inside" Most persons prefer the old
way of backing them on the outside.
Mr.. Beecher writing about cats says: "a
black and-tan terrier kept in back yard has
wonderful influence on cats, arousing in them
a strong local prejudice
An ingenious young woman having heard
that Mr.. jefferson had made a fortune by
playing Rip Van Wrinkle, wondered, when she
saw him in the character, why he didn't wear
better clothes.
Jeffersonville, Kentucky, has disinterred
another gigantic fossil mummy. The shin
bone was three feet long; two grinders were
each half an inch long, and the remains indi-
cate man twelve feet high.
Awoman who never owned bible supposed
she was quoting it when she greeted her son,
who came home to keep Thanksgiving, in the
following words: 'Here comes the fatted
calf"
Some people make their religion 60 long
way. good woman bought lottery ticket
the other day accompanying the purchase with
the solioquy, 1.-The Lord knows how it II
turn out. It's all in the hands ofthe Almighty,
1 s'pose."
A boy eighteen years of age, residing in
Stafford, N. H., is six feet five inches tall,
and weighs one hundred and ninety pounds.
When he gets his growth he will probably be
considered large man.
The Kansas lady who went to theatre and
handed the man who took the tickets fine
tooth comb instead of her ticket, discovered
her mistake when the doorkeeper told her
she could not comb in.
The family of John Brown, residing in CAL
iforhia, states that the report that they need
assistance, is unfounded. They are we'll pro-
vided for, and will not accept assistance from
f any source.
Pennsylvania man has just received by
express $4,000 from an anonymous Pitts
burgher, who simply says that by right it be-
longs TO him. The Pennsylvania is willing to
accept mere and ask no explanation.
The late French German war lasted from
July 10th last, when it was declared, to Feb
ruary 10th last, when the hostilities between
=. the two nations ceased, two hundred and ten
days, and consisted of seventeen great battles
and one hundred and fifty-six fights.
The Rev. Jonas Merriam, who was for
a Second Advent paper, died in Concord, on
Saturday, aged 6S years. He was native of
Topsfeld, Mass, and graduated at Bowdoin
College in 1926. He was an able writer and
an esteemed citizen. Since 1866 he has re-
sided in that city. The deceased left widow,
but no children.
A writer in Land and Water states, on the
authority of the celebrated Diana of Poictiers's
perfumer, that she owed the retention of her
charms, when at an advanced age to the hab-
itual use of rain water, which has, it seems,
an extraordinary salutary action on the skin.
How delightful to think that it is within every
woman's power to keep easily and cheaply
what beauty she has
The Boston admirers of the National game
having secured ''crack nine, started out on
a conquering tour. They have met with good
success, but met with their second defeat last
Saturday by the Olympics of Washington on
the Union grounds at Brooklyn, N. Y, the
score standing to 5. The Bostons made
three runs on the first and two on the third
inning and were "whitewashed" on every
other inning The Olympics scored one on
the first inning, three on the eighth, and two
on the ninth, being whitewsshed on the others
The American Missionary Association will
celebrate this year the twenty fifth anniversa-
ry of its existence, and the tenth year of its
special work among the freedmen. The So
ciety came early into an almost unoccupied
field, where it had to fight with profound igno-
rance and degradation on one side, and with
deeply rooted prejudices on the other. Yet
the success of its missions has been every
where gratifying, and it can look with reason
able pride over the entire field which has been
so marvellously transformed within the brief
period Of its operations.
Some convictions which have lately taken
place in England illustrate new phase of
cruelty towards animals. In three instances
the owners of cattle have been convicted of
starving them. In one case the defendant
woman, pleaded poverty, and consequent
inability to buy food. 1t did not occur to
her to sell some of the animals in order to
get hay for the rest In two other instances
the persons convicted of inhumanity, pcrpe-
trated by themselves or by their agents,
were men of comparative wealth. The facts
show, says an English paper, how little the