Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-22
GENERAL NE VS..

Pearl fisheries in the Pacific are being sue
cessfully renewed.
Vicksburg fears that the Mississippi is 60
| ing to leave her twelve mills inland.
The theatre of war is the only theatre where
back-seats are desirable.
Ohio boarded the prisoners in its Peniten-
tiary for SAG 80 each last year.
white hedgehog, twenty-five inches in
length, has been shot up in New Hampshire
"This is the last rose of SUMNER exclaim-
ed wag, as he rose from his bed on the 3lst
of August
Mrs. Swan of Cochran, D. Y, lighted her
fire with kerosene on Monday, leaving hus-
band and one child.
''During the siege, lost the habit of eat
ing" writes Boston lady, who has been in
Paris, the past sixteen months.
Oil City is engaged in laying out cemetery,
with cheerful prospect for large patronage
during the coming summer.
President Elliot, of Harvard University,
gets $4,000 year for his services, and the
head cook of the Parker House is paid $1,000
per annum.
Mcdonald county, Missouri, has natural
bridge spanning chasm sixty feet high and
100 feet wide. 1t is one solid rock and a
wagon road cross es it.
Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of the
American branch of the late ruling dynasty in
France, has arrived at his home in Baltimore
A shoddy woman, who returned from Eu-
rope with some paintings, was asked if they
were landscapes. She said; NO, over one
half of them are water scapes."
The Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany have discovered that the lowest cash
price for ejecting negro from a railroad car
after selling him first class ticket is 1920.
| "Arth ur," said a good-natured father to his
young hopeful, Il did not know until to-day
that you had been whipped last week"
Didn't you, pa" replied the hopeful II
knew it at the time
Twenty years ago Leland Stanford arrived
in California with ''only one shirt to his back -
Since then, by managing always to retain a
situation, and close attention to business, he
has contrived to accumulate trifie Of sl0,-
O0o, 900.
One John Lafaver is held up to public odium
in Kentucky, having eloped with his niece
in the second week of her widowhood His
/ tap g
is much against him, but the fact that he also
ran away from 'an aged mother in Law" il
mentioned as an extenuating circumstance.
Sydney Smith once gave a lady two ant
twenty receipts against melancholy; one wa.
bright fire; another to remember all the
pleasant things said to her; another to keep
box of sugar plums on the chimney piece, ant
a kettle simmering on the hob.
play is being performed in theatres out
West, one of the sensations in which is an
earthquake By placing keg of powder I'M
der the building, and touching it Off at the
proper moment the effect of an earthquake is
produced so natural that the audience can
hardly tell the difference.
Mr.. John Bells, aged seventy three, and
for many years a resident of Rocheport
Boone county, Kansas, was killed at that
place, Monday last by the falling of the wall
of an old clubhouse he was removing. He
was man of very eccentric habits, and some
years ago prepared his own tombstone, with
the following inscription: "Here lies John
Bells, may the God of Heaven have tina,
mercy upon my soul that would have upon
His if were the God of Heaven and He were
John Bellis!"