Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-27
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The best photographs in Europe are made
in Milan.
The Prince Imperial is studying mechanics
in Kings College, London.
Three hundred saloons have already been
rebuilt in Chicago.
The prairies west of Lafayette, Ind, are
said to be fairly alive with wild geese and
ducks.
There are three lodges of colored Masons
in Iowa, one at Muscatine, one at Keokuk
and one at Dss Moines.
A mischievous Pennsylvanianess dressed
herself up as a man and courted the servant
girl several weeks, before the deception was
discovered.
The War Department suggests that the
State troops should be armed with the same
weapons as those of the regular army, which
seems sensible and proper.
A Maryland sea captain named Nelson wa:
lately drowned within a mile of his wharf
and home, after returning from successful
voyage of several months.
The Chicago papers say that the warmes'
sympathy expressed for that city was by q
Connecticut woman who contributed two
strings of red peppers.
Brick Pomeroy and Sunset Cox are the two
largest contributors to the Lee monument funt
in New York, though the former gave only
ten dollars.
The Geographic cable proposed to be lait
at the bottom of Lake Michigan, between Mil
waukee and Grand Haven, Michigan, will
cost 800, 200.
An Iowa farmer has invented potato bus
harvester. 1t goes on wheels with a revolving
broom, which brushes off the bugs into a tr
trough or box suspended beneath.
The character of Xantippe is now defended
on the ground that the income of Socrates
her husband, was only sl4 year, and he had q
habit of bringing SOMEBODY home to dinner
nearly every day.
An anti Communist association of workmer
has been formed in Paris. The society is said
to number 10000 members, and each member
is pledged not to join any section of the In.
ternationale.
1t is a little singular that Reverdy Johnson
should be employed to defend the South Car
DINA Ku-Klux prisoners, and that his son
Louis should be the United States marshal OF
that State.
A Missouri horse thief was hung to a tele-
graph pole while on his way to the voting
place, and according to the Providence Her
aid that manner of polling a vote is calcu.
lated to deaden' ones interest in town poll
tics"
The Atlanta Sun says Thomas NJ. Norwood,
the last Senator elect from Georgia, learned
the trade of shoemaker in his youth, though
his father was wealthy, and he made with his
own hands the boots which he wore at college.
witness in late divorce suit kept saying
that the wife had very retaliating disposition
that she retaliated for every little thing"
"Did you ever see her husband kiss her."
asked the wife's counsel. eyes, sir, often I"
"Well, what did she do on such occasions ?"
"She always retaliated, SIR"
Rev. Henry r. Waite. recent graduate of
Hamilton College, has sailed for Europe
on several commissions, one of which is to
put into practical operation Elihu Burritt's
plan for an international pulpit exchange. 1t
is proposed to arrange in both countries a
system by which the clergymen of either may
travel to and about the other at reduced rates !,
stopping at a specified place each Sunday to
fill a pulpit made vacant on the same plan.
An Arctic owl, a rare and exceedingly
beautiful bird, but not uncommon in extreme
northern ATTITUDES, measuring four feet, eight
inches from tip to tip, was shot the Saturday
following the severe storm, by Mr.. Thomas
Parker of Georgetown. The predominating
color of this fine specimens is of snowy white
ness, but spotted on the back and wings with
a few slate colored feathers. A thick, almost
impenetrable coat of down. extends clear to
the tips of his toes, which are armed with fe-
rocious talons an inch and IA half or two inches
long.