Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Inc CouinS July VIII DC Ieuaih dpie ioi
two full moons.
The most prosperous business men are
those who freely use printers ink.
Never have a wooden leg made of oak, be-
cause the oak is apt to produce acorn.
A Ladies life insurance company" is be-
ing formed in London, of which all tlfe en-
ployees are to be women.
The woman who maketh good pudding in
silence is better than she who maketh tart
reply.
President Grant is to visit Boston on the
18th inst, to attend the reunion of the Army
of the Potomac.
An Indiana jury gave young lady only
nineteen cents, out of 200 she claimed as
a plaster for her fractured heart.
The Boston Post knows of young man in
that city who smokes 81 900 worth of cigars
in year.
party by the name of Jones has written
book to prove that " The United States is
the Kingdom of Heaven"
Bad examples are as bad as the small pox,
while inocculation against them is not always
so effective as it is againt the deadly maledy.
Advice to young ladies the least conspic-
uous, eaiest, and safest way of darkening the
eyebrows is by means of the bent end of q
hair-pin smoked in the gas fame.
"The last word" is the most dangerous Of
internal machines. Husband and wife should
no more strive to get it than they would strug-
gle to get possession of lighted bOmbshell.
Brigham Young has ordered special pray
ers against the grasshoppers this summer,
and the Deseret News warns the unsophist-
Gated youth of Salt Lake against the miners.
People who ''would not die in the spring
time" should exercise great deal of caution
in regard to the taking down of stoves and
laying aside warm under garments.
Recently woman was seen promenading
posedly smoking cigarette, while her meek
looking husband walked behind, carrying the
baby.
A citizen of Reading, Pa, is said to have
mourned the death of thirty of his children.
He is now ffty-five years old, has had three
wives, and has four children living.
Oysters and clans, all the way from Alaska,
are displayed in ice in front of Church st.
New York restaurant. The oysters are
very rough looking specimens.
Two hundred people on Nantucket island
are employed during the winter in taking
clans, which are sold for $40 per barrel.
Last season about !, 400 barrels were shipped
from the island.
Congress- has authorised the construction
of drinking fountains with nothing but water,
in the streets of Washington, and the Demo-
cratic newspapers call it ''another outrage
on their party. Perhaps it is.
A rythmic romance in six lines He took
her fancy when he came; he took her hand,
he took kiss; he took no notice of the
shame that glowed fhr happy cheek at this.
He teok to coming afternoons; he took an
oath he'd ne'er deceive; he took her fathers
silver spoons, and after that he took his leave.
Mr.. Sampson, the North Adams shoe man
ufacturer, says that his experiment is so sue
cessful that he intends to import fifty more
Chinese, increasing the number to one humid
red and twenty-five. Before the first ship
ment arrived his business had barely held its
own, but now it is largely profitable. The
Chinese are very apt in learning the business,
and some of the Caucasians whom he has
since employed have left in disgust because
the Chinese were more rapid workmen than
themselves. They average about one-sixth
more work in proportion to their number.
An old negro made application at one of the
public buildings in Washington, short time
since, for something to eat, and claimed that
he had right to come there for victuals
The head of the department was called in,
who asked the darkey upon what right ne
based his claims. "Why," said the sable rep
resentative of the Fifthteenth Amendment, Il
understan dar's provisions in de Constitu-
ton for de colored folks, and Iharent had
de fust erumb"
Mr.. Watts his-name having heard the
Devils Fiddle" relieved his excited feelings
and acquitted himself of a moral duty to the
boys by inditing the following:
How do the bnsy little brats
improve upon their toys
Ana Ind new pleasure every day,
In some unearthly noise
What pains they take to find box
And rig it with string
ihat they may rack our quvering nerves.
With the Internal thing
Let dogs delight to bark and bite
Their dscord we can bear:
Let turkey-gobblers, pigs and hens
Their sentiments declare
Aut children you should meier he let
To torture those tin cans.
our ear drums were not made to split
Nor any other mans,
FOR SALE!
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