Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-03-23

demonstrations of persons in the visitors and
reporters galleries, in violation of the rules
The galleries were cleared, but were soon al
forwards reopened
After several attempts to adjourn and va
riOus dilatory motions the House divided, WIN
the following result:
For the motion
Against the motion "a
The result was greeted with cheers and
laughter.
On Saturday a majority of the Massaclu
sets legislative committee on Woman's Sui
trage presented report recommending that
the Constitution of the State be so amended
as to give women the right to vote and hold
Office. The committee stood six to five on
tie question.
The Corinne (Utah) Reporter does not be-
leve in conciliating Mr.. Schurz, after his an
nouncement Of his intention to betray the par
". 1t says: Of Gen. Washington had taken
Benedict Arnold lie would have hanged him.
According to the Tribune, he should have
given him an important command in the rev
dictionary army, and retired himself to pro
duce harmony.''
At an inquest upon The body of a young girl
in Burlington, Vt, the evidence proved con-
clusiyeIy that she came to her death by eating
arsenic to beautify her complexion. She had
been in the habit of eating cloves, pickles
chalk, &C., for the same purpose, and having
seen in a newspaper that some ladies in the
old country ate arsenic to whiten their skin,
L., .J,a fl,nt nd 4Vit
fatal results.
It is well kn-sn that Frenchmen will put an
end to themselves on very slight proyocation,
hut the extreme point of Indifference to life
has perhaps lately been exhted by young
man in Paris, who concluded his existence on
account Of his inability to get off some tight
| boots. Having written Il memorandum to the
effect that he had failed in everything from
! Infancy, and at last had even failed to draw
of his torturers, he proceeded to cut his throat
with a kitchen knife.
Ia Pearl street, New York, there is 4 mill
which makes from paper such articles as milk
pans, cups, bread-pans wash-bowls, &C.,
/ which are said to be superior to wood or
metal. The paper being pulped, is pressed TO
shape, dried, enameled, and subjected to a
heat that would destroy some utensils of the
kind. The material is light and easily
handled and does not rust. shrink, leak, or
easily break.
| Mr. Geo. w. Lawson OF Someryille, Mass,
who noticed the singular phenomenon of
shower of worms on the 18th inst, sent some
specimens 10 the Museum of Comparative
Zoology at Cambridge, and has received the
following interesting reply from Mr.. Thomas
G.. Cary of that institution;
II have received your letter containing a
! specimen of the worms which you saw cap
! parently falling with the snow" during the
/ storm Of the 18th inst. l nave shown the
! specimen to Dr. Hagen, who says it is the
larva of a beetle belonging to the family Tele-
| phoridr, and probably to the species Chang
| liognathUs PennsylcanicUs. Similar extra
ordinary appearances of insects during snow
storms have been recorded in Europe. The
earliest notice was given by Moller in Hunga-
ry, in 1872, the description being still extant
in very rare pamphlet. These appearances
occur in winter where there have been several
warm days in succession, followed by snow
Storm In Sweden, Germany, and in the
| mountainous parts OF France, numbers OF the
Larvae Of these insects, together with other
living insects, mostly Poduridq, have been
found, and were supposed to have fallen with
the snow, but the phenomenon has never been
satisfactorily explained. Some think that the
insects have been swept up into the upper
stratum of air by violent gales prevailing be-
| fore the snow storm, while others suggest that
| the insects, being attracted by the warmth to
the surface of the EARTH and then being COW
cred lightly by the snow, still endeavor to
keep at the surface As this late appearance
has been accompanied by warm weather, high
winds and then snow, either of the above
suggestions would hold good.
Tie London Daily News says that the pri-
waite history Of O'Conner, the man who as
saulted the Queen, points to his having hith-
erto been quiet and well-disposed lad. His
father is a hard-working man, in the employ
of the Iron Steamboat Company, on the
Thames, who lives with his wife and a family
of seven children in large clearinghouse in
Church rOW--a dinoy thOrourlfare running