Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-15
GENERAL NE MS,


There are now $4,000 Dakota Indians I'M
der missionary influence.
Persian fathers are selling nice marriage
able class of daughters at So head.
More boys run away to sea from Vermont
than from any other New England State.
The Cleveland police report shows that
more married than single females were ar
rested in October.
The Swedes who have settled in Georgia
complain of the climate. They like less sun
and more ice.
Josh Billings says that opera music don't
have any more effect on him than castor oil
has upon craven image.
There are at the present time fifteen sailing
vessels loading in Baltimore for European
ports, principally with breadstuffs.
The Mayor of Delphi, Indiana, has pro-
claimed that no persons are TO be be out after
o'clock, except on legitimate business.
The masons of Utah are making prepara-
tons for building handsome Masonic Tenn
pie.
A pin, carelessly dropped in loom by
female operative, spoiled 700 yards of cloth in
one of the mills at Lawrence.
The value of the direct importation of dry
goods to the Pacific coast is estimated at more
than 500, 100000 annually.
The largest cotton mill in the world will
commence operations in Norwich, Coma, in
few weeks. Its capacity is ITO, 900 spindles.
People that advertise only once in three
months forget that most folks cannot remem-
Der anything longer than about seven days.
The Temperance question is exciting good
deal of interest in Australia, and inebriate
asylums for the benefit of the incorporate are
proposed.
The first steam locomotive set up and run
on an iron track in America was a coal road
near IIoDesdale, in the isolated valley above
Scranton, Pa.
Eugene, the youngest son of the Baron
Rothschild, it is said, is coming to America
to help forward the old scheme for the coloni-
cation OF all Jews to Jerusalem.
Tennessee woman recently released her
husband from the State prison by walking 100
miles to Nashville, with child in her arms,
and asking the Governor to pardon him.
The following notice is stuck up on bridge
at Denvers, in Colorado: ''No vehicle drawn
by more than one animal is allowed to cross
this bridge in opposite directions at the same
time
Whiskey distilled from Canada thistles is
said to produce penetrating and exhilaratng
effect. Mules like thistles; some men like
whiskey. Is there, then, a Darwinian resem-
blance between the two animals?
Prominent English capitalists are about to
attempt the development of the Canadian oil
fields, and will take steps to introduce the
products OF their enterprise into European
markets. That there are large quantities of
petroleum in that section there is no doubt
''There are two ways of doing it, said Pat
to himself, as he stood musing and waiting for
a job on the street corner. eff | save me
$4,000 must lay up me $500 year for
twenty years, or can put away $40 year for
two hundred years. Now, which way will /
do it?"
An unsophisticated parent in Portsmouth,
N. H., observed with pain that his first-b born
had no teeth, and fastened to remedy the ''de-
formity' by purchasing fifteen dollar set of
moars, which he handed TO the nurse, with
the remark that the baby shouldn't suffer If he
had to wear only one shirt week.