Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-14
GENERAL NEWS,

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The Emperor of Brazil and the Queen of
the Netherlands will visit Italy this autumn.
A Western paper announces that .Bierstadt
is Juggling his paint pot along the Pacific
coast"
A gentleman recently made the journey be
tween San Francisco and Liverpool in only
seventeen days.
At recent examination of teachers at New
burg, N. Y, ninety-four of them spelled the
word "cachination" fifty different ways.
writer on school discipline says "W'ith-
out liberal use of the rod it ir impossible to
make boys smart"
Josh Billings says: ''Never do any work be-
fore breakfast If it is necessary to work be
fore breakfast have your breakfast first"
venerable citizen has been found in rural
New Hampshire who never rode in or on a
stage coach, and never saw railway track
| or car.
Huxley thinks artists the highest type of
humanity. The term is, of course, used in a
very wide sense.
Twenty-fi five miles an hour is shown, by sig
nal service observ alton, to be the average
velocity of a storm; when it has twice that
velocity it becomes tornado.
The most sagacious men affirm that the root
of the whole political evil in New York is in
the gigantic election frauds, whereby more
votes are returned in some districts than there
are adults of both sexes.
One of the old clergymen of Boston advis-
ed parish committee looking about for a
pastor to take young man, on the ground
that every church should do its share of tam
ing theological colts.
The last sermon the Rev. DIR. Gannett
preached was in the beautiful little church in
Lancaster, N. H., VIII ich' was erected mainly
through the voluntary labors of the late Rev.
Thos. Starr King during his visits to the White
Mountain region from 1S4S to 1858.
A Miss Eliza Pettibone, of little town in
Maryland, is said to have bought church for
the Methodists; to have made the first pay
ment by her profits as needlewoman, and to
intend to discharge the whole debt in the same
way.
y man in Kansas was present at the funeral
of a neighbor of whom no good could honest
ly be said. But everybody was saying some
thing, and this man, not wishing to appear
singular, but being incapable of lying eulogy,
remarked that it was ga nice quiet corpse" &
The Columbus Democrat says "The
mother of DIR. Norcross, of this village, is
rather remarkable instance of longevity and
good health. She is ninety-six years old land
during period equal to an ordinary lifetime
she has never missed but two meals. OH
"Nature seems resolved to make up for lost
time by producing flowers in matchless profu-
sion and brilliancy of celoring, but sends them
out in such haste that she forgets to scent
them" ..ur4 l-s 1l.EE
An anecdote is told of late member of the
Boston bar, that once meeting, in the season
of the dog day, the estimable son of father
of rather equivoeal reputation, in an absent
minded moment he amazed him by inquiring
how the old gentleman stood the heat The
old gentleman had been dead two months.
Seventy years ago some domestic rabbits
were introduced upon Sable Island. small
sandy islet lying about hundred miles off
the Nova Scotia coast, and being left alone
and not crossed in breeding, they have en-
tered their feral state in liveries of beautiful
silver-gray, with white collars, intimating
some remote atfinities with bygone races.