Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-14

place on the 18th. The Government will pay
$1,000 toward the expenses Of the obsequies.
The Philadelphia ladies are confident that
they have conquered Congress, and that pre-
liminary donation of three millions will soon
be made for an international exhibition.
Charlotte Cushnan writes letter suggest.
ing house visitation as much more proper
way of aiding the poor than calling upon
artists to give gratuitous dramatic and other
entertainments.
That story about Mark Twain having been
invited to q complimentary supper, the bills
for which he WAS afterwards called upon to
pay and paid, is pronounced untrue.
A man in Ottawa, Illinois, recently plugged
a tooth with cotton saturated in creosote to re-
lieve the pangs of toothaohe. He allowed it
somehow to drop ont, aud swallowing it died
of the poison.
The government is having prepared at the
Philadelphia mint, to be added to the list of
public medals, medal co commemorative of the
late Professor Agassiz and his devotion to and
achievements in science.
A man in in Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
who lives in hut four feet high, has adorned
it with lightning rod forty feet long, not as
protection from the electric fluid, but from the
visits of lightning rod agents.
"Dried tongue" was the answer which =
minister, just going out to exchange" gave
some one who asked him what he had in his
arpet-bag-which contained seven sermons.
A bill has been favorably reported from the
Senate Company Committee amending the
existing law so as to allow the name Of any
vessel to be painted upon her stern in yellow
or gilt letters.
From Cape Town it is stated that the dia.
mond fields are under a cloud. They have
not only suffered from floods but their value
is depreciating, and the decline in price has
caused commercial embarrassment.
Chicago has started Sunday afternoon lee
ture society. 1t is the intention to furnish
series of lectures or literary entertainments on
Sunday afternoons to the poorer classes of the
city at such reduced charges that all may at
tend.
The cases of Jean Luie and Captain Brown
tried for perjury as witnesses in the Tichborne
trial, resulted in their conviction, and they
were sentenced to five and seven years penal
servtude respectively.
According to the North China Herald, Rus
STA is actively engaged at the present time ex-
ploring Central Asia. Capt. Priewalski has
penetrated nearly to the source of the Yang
tsze, having passed TO the west end Of the
kononor. The sources of the great river prove
to be at an enormous altitude-some $4,000
feet or $4,000 feet above the sea, the lake it.
self being some 10, 900.
Yosemite Valley has met its superior in the
matter of big trees in the region of the river
tombstone, in Australia. The English gov
eminent botanist recently found there a huge
fig tree which three feet from the ground
measured $50 feet, where it sent forth giant
branches; the stem was nearly eighty feet in
circumference.
The woman su,lragists are encouraged.
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, in their APP
peal to those summoned to meet in conven-
ton at New York next month, say: 'The
fact that women are already voting, holding
office, and resisting taxation; that thousands
are enrolling in the grange movement and
temperance crusade; that woman suffrage
is to be voted upon in Michigan at the next
election, should warn the Government, that
the hour for its action has come
Abba G. Woolson closed a recent lecture in
Boston on "Woman's Dress" by declaring
that, had she the autocra.ic power Of the Shah
or Gar, she would command every man in
her kingdom to change his apparel with the
women for one day only, that both might see
how good it was. BY night the men would
be groaning and tuning to rid themselves of
the horrors they had considered as the type of
beauty in the other sex, while the poor women
would be wailing over a return to their nor
NAL condition of pettcoat servitude and i'm
prisOning bands,