Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-11
GENERAL NEWS.

St. Louis has forty-eight school houses
valued at $l,730,0oo.
Texan paper records a marriage in which
the lady was fifteen years old and a widow.
In Arkansas the horse flies are SO abundan
that ploughing has to be done by moonlight
| An Oregon toast, over a glass of the ardent
"Here's what makes us wear old clothes"
A school of petrified whales has been added
to the educational facilities OF California.
General Hancock seems to be the favorite
candidate for President among the southern
democrats.
There were manufactured in the United
States last year over half million sewing
machines.
Twenty-Five miles of whisky shops supply
Philadelphia with artificial enthusiasm.
A daily paper recently contained an adj
vertisement for lost, Charge, black, silk UNI
brella, belonging to gentleman with curi-
ously-carved wooden head"
An Omaha paper advises the people "nOt to
make such a fuss about the shooting of one
constable, as there are over forty candidates
for the position"
Mobile, Ala, has found a new material for
street paving in cypress shaving. 1t is said
this road bed will remain firm and solid from
eight to ten years.
1t is said that when the soldiers of the King
of Italy took the oath of allegiance they no
longer did so on the crucifix but on the Scrip
lures.
An Illinois man is arranging a hen farm
near Geneva in that State, on which he ex-
poets to keep eighteen thousand hens of the
choicest breeds.
Naples large enough to make three foot
rails, each with four thousand trees to the
acre, have been raised from the seed in seven
years in Monroe county, Iowa.
number of ruralists visiting indianapolis
last Sunday made the circuit of the gas-meter,
several times in the vain attempt to find an
entrance They supposed it was a lager beer
establishment.
1t is said that one of the Siamese twins is
lying at the point of death, at their home in
North Carolina. The other is in good health.
In anticipation of death, arrangements have
been made for the immediate separation of the
living from the dead brother.
A dyspeptic read that by sending dollar
by mail he would receive cure for dyspep-
STA. He sent the money, and received slip
with the following printed on it: "Stop drink
ing and hoe in the garden" The man was
mad at first, then laughed, and finally went
to hoeing, and stopped drinking, and is now
as well as ever.
A city exquisite having become agricultur.
ally ambitious, went in search of farm, and
finding one for sale began to bargain for it.
The seller mentioned as one of its recommen-
dations, that it had very cold spring on it.
s'Ah-ah" said the fop, 81 won't take il
then, for I have heard that cool spring
ruined the crops last year, and don't want
place with such drawback upon it,"
In February last the Boston Traveller
printed Newfoundland letter which describes
the finding in the stomach Of a Goldfish,
caught in Trinity Bay, N. F., of a massive
wedding ring, inscribed with the sentence,
"God above continew our love-" A late
despatch reports that claimant has been
found. 1t proves to be the wedding ring OF
Pauline Burnham, wrecked on the Anglo
Saxon in 1861, off Chance Cove, N. F. The
finder n fisherman was rewarded with ESQ
sterling by the ladies' relatives.