Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-05-14
GENERAL MEMS.

The Wsshingtonian Home for drunkards,
in Boston, has 272 inmates.
| Pittsburg firm claims to have discovered
process by which it can make the famous
Russia sheet iron. The latter is made in
Siberia by secret process which no other
nation has hitherto been able to obtain. The
British government has offered ESQ, 900 for
its discovery, but even the stimulus of that
large sum has failed to achieve the result.
A New Hampshire schoolmarm has the fol-
lowing certificate from one of the trustees of
school where she formerly taught: "This
is to certify that lamar Noyes stands on a
medium with other girls of her age and sex,
and for what l know is as good as folks in
general"
With the exception of the Coliseum at
Rome, the largest amphitheatre in the world
is in Verona, Italy. 1t was built in the reign
Of Titus, and is in excellent state of preser-
vation to this day.
A Michigan farmer is SO mad because a
barrel of cider was stolen from him that he
offers reward of $4,000 for the capture of
the thief.
Some people are never contented. After
having all their limbs broken. their heads
sma shed and their brains knocked out, they
will actually 60 to law and try to get further
damages.
The prospect held out to the Viennese of
having sixty thousand guests or more quar-
tered on them at a time seems to have turned
all heads in the gay capital on the Danube.
The most absurdly speculative prices are be-
ing asked and given for houses available to
be let out in detail to the expected strangers
The completion of the monument at the ma
nearly year, the stone first quarried for the
colossal figure having been found 90 defective
that it is necessary to reject it and obtain an
other.
Chicago keeps on. The city is now about
building a tunnel nearly four miles long to
run under the river to the site of the lake
pumping works and supply the west side with
water. The clear width of the tunnel will be
seven feet, and the height seven feet two
inches. and it is to be completed January,
| 1875, at cost less than 100000.
Hon. John. A. Bingham has been favorably
mentioned in connection with the position of
Minister to St. Petersburg.
A Massachusetts, woman appeared at the
shop where her husband is employed short
time ago, and apologetically said: "Jim is
not we'll. You must excuse him from coming
to work day. He and had a little diff
Guilty at the breakfast table this morning, and
he won't be able to work this week.
When the business of the honorable East
India Company was transferred to the British
Parliament the new masters swept out three
hundred tons Of records to the paper-makers
to be made into pulp. In this way, among
other tri6es, disappeared the whole history of
the Indian navy.
The British and Foreign Bible Society are
now engaged in the translation of the Bible
into japanese, and the Gospel of St. John
has been completed and printed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, at three score and
ten, is younger and more vigorous than halt
the literary men of England and America.
Edmund About relates that one of the
African kings of the Gold Coast imported
number Of those suits of amor, in whose in
vulnerability he possessed such confidence
that he arrayed his ministry therein, grouped
them artistieally at q short distance, and then
trained upon them a twenty-four FOUNDER
heavily loaded with grape. 1t is needless to
mention that only one finger, three ears, and
pillow case full Of wool was left of the en-
tire cabinet, and the sovereign is still conduct
ing IN the civil courts of France suit for
damages against the manufacturers.
The King Of Ashantee has declared war
against Great Britain, and his army is march
ing on Elmira, fortified town in Guinea
\ coast.