Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-19
GENERAL, NEWS

| A student, undergoing his examibation,
was asked what was the mode of action Of dis
infectants. He replied, "They smell so bad
that the people open the windows, and the
fresh air gets in"
Navigation on the lakes and the surround
ing rivers and harbors is rapidly opening.
The forest fires are still raging in the Dis
nal Swamp, Virginia, and are doing much
damage to property. .-
! Commenting on late editorial by Alexan-
der Il. Stephens in the Atlanta Sun, to the
effect that ''.he democratic party must be pre-
served" the Harrisburg (Pa.,) State Journal
wants TO know how it is tc be done, alcohol
having failed TO accomplish it.
Bidwell, the Bank Of England forger, who
escaped Saturday from the Havana prison,
has been -ecap;ured.
| QuartermasteT Owens, c! the lost Atlantic.
says that vessel only ran eleven knots al
| hour on the night O.! the disaster. The wreck
! commissioners q: Halifax do not place much
faith in his statement.
A local paper in Ogle county, ILL.,, heads
its report OF farmers meeting after the fol-
lowing characteristic style; ga Power
Abroad in the Land-The People Rising in
their Might-One Common Grave for Monop-
olies Of Every escription-'Flints Picked
| and the Long Roll Sounded'-Ili.nois Turns
| Her Face to the Foe That editor would do
70 address a Modoc Peace Convention.
| The case of the counsel Of Laura D. Fair
against that lady for the recovery Of his fees
has closed in San Francisco. Laura says
lawyers, doctors and women have combined
to fleece and injure her. Poor woman.
In one neighborhood in Kansas where there
have been two hundred cases Of cerebro-sri-
nal meningitis the physicians have succeed
ed in curing nine out of ten cases. They
give thirty grains .: quinine every forty to
sixty minutes, and battle patients in hot water
with mustard. add mustard on the back, with
hard rubbing thoroughly and continuously.
Louisville, KY, has opened free library
with 40 900 books and six times many Curl
osties, and expects now to produce literary
curiosities by the hundred.
This is the way a delighted Michigan 40
CAL puts it Brighter days are comipg-just
think of it. Blue birds, dandelions. caravans,
scissors grinders, ar,ichokes, 'iolets, and
hand organs, will soon sing, shine, show,
sharpen, scent, and shrek that spring has
come.
! Everybody in San Francisco is eating
strawberries.
The favorite song OF the Siamese twins
ave were boys together"
: Nearly 5000 Cinnamon have arrived at Sau
Francisco within month past.
Flirting is thoroughly cold booded per
, Torrance. When it ceases to be eold-blood-
, flrts become seriously interested in each 9th
er love sets in and matrimony follows.
AQuakeress said recently to friend, in
-, reference to the Quaker formula Of marriage
= cit is true, did not promise to obey when
' was married. but might as WE'LL for hav
had to do it."
sBridget," said O'Mulligan TO his wife
tits a cowld we have. A drop Of the crathu
nd do you no harrum." "Och, hone" SAT-
:. Biddy, GIVE taken the pledge; but you cal
mix drink, Jenny, and force me to swallo
| it,"
A Detroit man bought a horse the other
day, and not finding him all that the jockeys
fancy painted him, applied dye to the ami
NAL that made him lovely black, and resold
him to the dealer In about two weeks the
animal was resold to the first purchaser, his
appearance having undergone another change,
and now Detroit is interested to know which
of the men ought to sue the other.
story is circulating which tells how fair
young thing went to Hartford drug store
and told the man to fix her up one dose of
castor oil and to mix it with something to
take the taste away. The man told her to
wait. In few minutes he asked her if she
felt like taking glass of soda water. She
accepted the invitation, and drank the bever-
age. Presently she asked the roller of pills
why he didn't give her the castor oil. The
man smiled triumphant smile, and said
MADAM, you have taken it; mixed fear
full dose with that soda water" She turned
|, pale; she sank into chair; she gasped !;
Immortal Jove! l wanted it for my moth
er!' Then she suddenly went home, and the
druggist is not so certain whether his maneu-
yer, after all, was very smart
The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that confederate war bonds issued
by any State in aid of instruction cannot be
treated in the same way as confederate mon
ey, which the court has before decided did not
vtiate contract, provided such contract was
lawful one. The case in point was in re-
gard to a lot Of war bonds issued by the State
OF Arkansas to aid the rebellion, then worth
about seventy five per cent. of their par val
ue, and used at that time in Memphis to some
extent as circulating medium. The Court
held that the issue of the bonds being uncon-
stitutional the consideration was void. This
decision is of considerable importance TO a
laige number ofpeople in the southern States
| MANY people take newspapers, but few ure-