Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-20
GENERAL NEWS.


1t has been judicially decided in Missouri
that woman is not can old maid" until she is
IS years old.
One county agricultural society in Illinois
has offered a premium of $500 to the town
which has the best roads.
A Detroit weather seer prophesies a year
of terrible storms, and it behooves everybody,
then, to load the heels of his boots with lead.
The fashionable dance in London now is
the Russian Polonase, novelty introduced
in honor of the Duchess of Edinburgh.
A man in Joliet H., has kept lot Of pota
to bugs in bottle for eight months and is
sadly discouraged by finding them as lively as
ever.
a novel sight will be the appearance OF the
Chinese fleet in European waters, where it
will soon be sent.
They discourage attempts at suicide in
Georgia by making man pound stone on the
streets.
Brooks and Baxter are members and pew
holders in the same Methodist church in Lit
tie Rock.
A Kansas girl wouldn't be married without
yellow ribbon around her waist, and boy
rode eight miles to get it while the guests
waited
And now they say that a good base ball
player can make $4,000 year, which destroys
the popular belief that men play the game for
fun.
General Forrest is opposed to dleness. Ac-
cordingly he aud another gentleman have en-
tered into q contract to haul frewood into
Memphis.
Fortysx black snakes were killed by
party of boys at the Pennyorlinary spring in
Newbury the other day, and i, wasn't much of
day for snakes either.
Boston is the second city in the amount Of
matter received for mailing at the post office,
the daily average number of pounds being
1879.
San Francisco feels that she will have to
get up another Vigilance Committee. China
men are beginning to manifest an aversion to
being stoned to death.
The London Times recently contained the
following announcement: est. Helena. Long
wood House, formerly the residence Of the
Emperor, to be let for term of years"
gentleman was complimentng pretty
young lady in the presence of his wife. ats
lucky did not meet Miss Hopkins before l
married you, my dear ''W ell, yes, it is ex-
tremely-for her. was the dry rejoinder.
Before Nevada witness goes on the stand
he unbueklcs and removes two revolvers and
bowie-knife, and the lawyer calls him Mr..
So-and-so, and is very careful not to refer to
anything unpleasant which has has ever hap
pened in the witness history.
The town of North Brdgewater, Mass, is
greatly rejoiced at its change of name, and
hereafter is to be called Brockton. The first
child born in in the town under the name was
to receive present of 500, and one came
into the world the very next day after the
matter was settled, to claim the money.
A Partisan, who was known as free think
or, met a Partisan friend the other day, and
taking him by the hand said, 81 have become
Christian" ~ am glad to hear of it" he
replied "suppose we now have a settlement
of that little account. Pay me what thou
owest." mo" said the new born child, turn
ing on his heel "religion is religion, and bust
ness is business"
The Philadelphia School Board prohibit the
pupils in the public schools from taking home
their books. Consequently the Philadelphia
children study at school, and parents are no
longer forced to do work that teachers are
paid for, conscious all the time that brain
labor out of school hours is the worst thing
possible for their children.