Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-23

has left Washington on brief tour for the
benefit Of his health.
The English papers say that Wilkie Collins
will return to this country as soon as he can
make arrangements to do SO.
At recent dinner Of shoe makers the fol-
lowing toast was given "May we have all
the women in the country to shoe and all the
men to boot"
The Detroi, Tribune says that BaInum's
parting words to the agent that he recently
sent to Europe were, "Get thee TO a num-
merry. Co.
A Chicago paper longs for some royalty
and promises that if the Queen will make
run for Mayor of that city on a citizens
ticket.
Church building is prominent feature in
the industries of the Pacific coast. Quite a
number are in process of erection, or con-
templateJ, in California and Oregon.
The Hon. Samuel Milligan, one of the as
sociate justices of the United States court of
claims, died in Washington Sunday. lie was
a native of Tennessee, and received his ap-
pontment in 1868.
Mr.. Samuel Woodson, an American engi-
neer, is on his way to India, where he is to
assist in surveying the route of NJ. de Lesseps
Indo- European Railway.
st. Louis Democrat. Boston claims to
have diamond ring which once belonged to
Sir Isaac Newton. That is nothing. ST.
Louis has the lead pencil with which Noah
checked off the animals that went into the
ark.
A man in Wisconsin found recently that
the flames of burning kerosene may be ex-
tinguished by throwing on flour. 1t seems
reasonable that any absorbent material not
readily combustiblc might be effective for
such purpose.
An English critic, speaking of Rachers
style of acting, says: 'She represented her
self. Into the world of the dramatist she
poured her own intense passions. She was
the true muse Of tragedy, the goddess of the
moral, the divinity of crime
| 1t is said that the first half of April just
| ended was the coolest frat half Of this month
! in fifty years, without any exception. In
| 1868 it was about degree warmer and in
1882 (the coolest of the fifty Aprils) the first
half was three degrees warmer than this
year.
A doctor Of Chicago, besides consigning pa
tients to the occupancy of two feet by six of
mother earth, also dabbles in real estate in
other ways He recently prescribed some
pills for lady. She asked how they were to
be taken. "A quarter down" said the doc
| tor, "and the balance in one, two and three
years"
The first tea drank in Maine was made on
| Cuts Island, Kittery, about one hundred and
| fifty years ago. A daughter of Major Cuts
| was returning from school in Massachusetts
with a daughter of Governor Vaughan. A
severe storm detained her at Portsmouth
several days, and at the governors table she
was first offered tea The young lady fol-
lowed Madame Faughans eXawple and, add
ing sugar and cream, carried it to her lips.
She afterwards purchased pound of tea for
guinea, sent to Boston for cups and saucers,
and thus introduced the first tea and tea set
in Maine.
According to a French veterinary surgeon
a simple method ofpreeventing flies from an
noying horses consists in painting the inside
of the ears, or any other part especially
troubled, with few drops of empyreumatic
oil of juniper. 1t is said that the oder of this
substance is uncomfortable to flies, and that
they will keep at distance from the parts SO
anointed. If this treatment should accomp-
lish the alleged result it may, perhaps, be
applicable in repellng mosquitoes from the
faces and hands of tourists and sportsmcn
when passing through woods or meadows.