Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-24
GENERAL VS..

A Sheboygan firm sold 5000 pairs of wood
en- shoes last year.
Camden, n. j., has borrowed gallows to
hang a man on.
Chlcagoan who stepped into basket of
eggs was arrested for cruelty to incipent ami
mails.
There are twelve hundred cheese factories
in the State of New York whose annual pro-
duet is over million pounds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is visiting the Pa
cifc coast in company with party of Botson
merchants.
Mrs. Stevens, of Laporte, Ind, tired of
the laws delay in her divorce suit, became a
widow by pouring hot tea in Mr.. SIS ear while
he slept.
| Out in Wisconsin, marriages are published
under the head, "Horrible Accident"
Nilsson, through a real estate broker, has
invested 100000 in real estate located in
Otis and Arch streets, Boston.
Cincinnatians in the theater take off their
boots and place their stocking feet on the top
of the seats in front of them. That is the latest
fashion.
The n. Y. Com. ADV. thinks the It'd bits
served up at the boarding house tables of that
city wouldn't tempt starving epicure from
meal of fried shoe leather
What world of gossip would be prevent
ed if it was only remembered that person
who tells you of the faults of others, intends
to tell others of your faults
| Frugal landlady of boarding house-''Com-
ing home to dinner, Mr.. Brown" Hearty
boarder-"Well, perhaps; if I don't feel
hungry"
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has been put in
possession by the United States Marshal of
part of her real estate claimed by the city of
New Orleans, and contested in the courts for
many years.
Chicago merchant advertised ''boy
wanted" and before he got down town his
clerk met him breathless, and told him that
his wife had twin boys. Oh, it pays to adver-
| tise.
| The N. Y. Globe "knows of a wealthy lady
living on Fifth avenue, whose husband COM
menced life as a stable boy, who is building
a monument to him which will cost from
seventy-fve to one hundred thousand dollars"
| An Illinois husband is very disconsolate
because his wife committed suicide by hang
| ing herself on an apple tree, and in the OPP
! ~. l.
bushels Of green apples, which might one day
have been worth dollar bushel.
The most frightful instance on record of
heavy taxes is related by a Vermont news
paper in respect to town in that State,
where, according to the journalist, "taxes for
the coming year are estimated as follows:
Town expenses, l35 cents on the dollar;
highway, IA cents; railroad bonds, 70 cents;
making in all 224 cents on the dollar.
| Father Taylor was no grammarian, and his
sentences ran on in very mixed up way.
Once, says James Freeman Clarke, when en-
tangled in the exuberance of his own speech,
he quite got astray, he stopped and said,
Brethren my nominative has lost its verb,
and can't find it,-but, I'm bound to the King
dom of Heaven all the same
Keene On. H. paper contains an adver-
tisement for "a man that is able and willing
by honest labor to earn one-third the cost of
hiring him, and not picked with rum or
baconed by tobacco smoke; also woman
capable of taking care of a farmers kitchen
and buttery, and neither too proud nor too
lazy to do it, and who does not carry a
'chignon big enough to hang herself in try
ing to get through a common doorway. A
liberal price will be paid for these rare relics
Of antiquity"
CAUTIoN.-The following poetical notice
recently appeared in the Patten Voice:
NOTICE.
The wife of j. T. Getchell
Without sufficient cause,
| Has packed her little satchel
And lett, despite the laws.
| This wicked wife and mother
Forsakes her children three,
To be vagrant rover;
| cruel heart has she;
| Her board and bed-she's left them
May anguish seize her breastt
| Her babes-she has bereft them
Let no one give her rest
/ Her given name Is Francis.
Ye men, of her beware,
/ While through the state she Frances,
Il Or she will you ensnare.
James w. Bradbury, Jr.,
U. s. COMMISSIONER,
Office with Bradbury q Bradbury,
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