Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-01

| New York is advertised; "nfteeE minutes from
the Ferry"
Senator Fenton has purchased house for
his daughter in Forty seventh street, in New
York.
The New York Elevated Railroad nuisance
has been sold by the Sheriff for something
over two hundred thousand dollars.
A negro, after gazing at some Chinese. ex-
| claimed: 'If de white folks is so dark out
dere wonder what's de color oh de niggers!"
| A little boy in Ohio built fire in a chicken
| coop ''to warm the chickens" 1t stood near
| livery stable, and the horses got warmed.
| Walt Whitman is reported to be writing a
sequel to his "Leaves of Grass" under the
| title of ''Loads of Hay" et-.as.aaaa.7.
Young New York girls will wear little
catching hats with the name of the yatch gid
| ed on the blue ribbon, this summer.
A Frisco dealer advertises ''revolvers
and objects furnished for practice" Any
body that happens to pass by is the object.
An Ottawa, ILL.,, undertaken advertises that
| he keeps ON hand 'an elegant stock of neat
| and nobby shrouds, warranted to give salts
| faction to the most particular"
In the intoxicating cup, discomfort seeks
| for comforts cowardice for courage; bashful-
ness for confidence; sadness for JOY and they
all find ruin.
| The statistics prove that handsome wild
ow has three chances for marriage, to maid
ems one. Especially if the dear departed left
| her a million or So
An exchange remarks that 'many child
sings Il want to be angel who would be
more satisfactory if he wanted to be good
boy" fezt .LA
Rochester has had mirage in which the
Canadian shore so doomed up that the natives
| thought it was about to be annexed, despite
t the High Old Joint Commission or others.
A wag says-"In Germany, when paper
says anything witty they kill the editor"
Fl Strangely enough, not an editor has been kill
= ed there for two hundred years.
!, Several French women who have been
+ working in the California mines for eighteen
i years dressed in mems clothes, will now have
n to do something else for living, as their sex
e has been discovered and they have been ar
i rested.
+ The murder mania in the West so familiar
lied the people with bloodshed, that nothing
le short of killing an entire family is looked up
N on as "paying'' sensation by the newsmong
J. ers of that region.--[N. Y. Times.]
" An exchange says "Base- ball on Sunday il
If now prohibited unless the players can max.
q runs faster than the police. Wouldn't it be
better for the base-ballers not to be "caught
. out" on Sunday.
DIR. Dollinger refuses to accept the dogma
f of Papal Infalibility in any character, wheth-
4 er as citizen, historian, theologian or Chris
tan. He asserts that the new articles of faith
gave different meaning that the history OF
? the church refutes the assertion that it is not
: a new doctrine, and that the mass of the bish-
; ops in the Council were led astray by their
| class-b books
William Cullen Bryant has written an in
teresting letter, which has found its way into
print, describing his habits of life, giving the
lie to several calumnies, among them that he
uses quinine as a stimulant, and has become
deaf from that cause. The poet says:--sI
rise early, at this time of the year about SO !;
in summer, half an hour, or even an hour
earlier. Immediately, with very little en-
cumbrance of clothing, begin series of ex-
ercises, for the most part designed to expand
the chest, and at the same time call into action
all the muscles and articula tons of the body
These are performed with dumb bells, the
very lightest, covered with flannel with a
pole, horizontal bar, and light chair swung
around my head. After full hour, and
sometimes more, passed in this manner,
battle from head to foot" With this prepa-
ration, he breakfasts on bominy, oatmeal,
brown bread or wheaton grits, milk and baked
apples, sometimes chocolate, but never tea or
coffee. When in town he walks to the office
of the Evening Post, some three miles, and af
ter his labors there walks home. In the coun-
try he rests from literary toll by farm or gar
den exercise. He eats meat or fish only at
dinner, and sparingly, but partakes freely of
wine, as he says 81 am a natural temper
ance man, finding myself rather confusd than
exhilarated by wine" He avoids mental Ia
bor even to writing letters in the evening,
and retires early.
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