Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-18

are to make it plain, but at the same time
smart, as I sit in a conspicuous place in
church."
The Grand Duchess Marie, in her uniform
as honorary colonel of Russian regiment, ia
said to be ''as martial as Minerva"
Since the royal alliance with Russia, all
Russian trophies in England have been re-
moved from the public gaze.
James Russell Lowell says: put Yankee
on Juan Fernandez, and he would make
spelling book first and salt-pan afterward."
The trial of Archbishop Ledochowski in
Berlin, for the violation of the ecclesiastical
laws, has resulted in his conviction, and he
has been sentenced to dismissal from his sec.
An Iowa railroad employee wrote to the
supply officer for ':sone more of that red
OIL" not knowing that the color ofthe lantern
globe had something to do with the shade of
light it threw out.
Uneasy lies the fair head of the hotel girl
in Terre Haute who has inherited $4,000 in
gold, for by all the aspiring young men of
those parts she is persistently serenaded.
Bradlaugh is stumping England, and to
larger audiences than ever before, although.
as usual, the newspapers never report him.
lie is enthusiastic in his praise of America.
A shocking coal mine explosion occurred
in Durkinfsld, Lancashire, England, We'd
nesday, killing So miners and seriously in
juring others. Fifty bodies have been re-
covered.
The French Assembly is considering law
providing that every newborn child shall
have its name and the date of its birth tat
tooed on its arm The object is TO facilitate
identification.
An edition of a paper in Dundee, Scotland,
was recently printed on paper made from
reeds grown on the banks of the river Tay.
The paper closely resembles that made from
jute, and is said to be very satisfactory
product.
The Tichborne claimant, having "lost some
flesh since his Incarceration now only
weighs 392 pounds. Even with this reduced
size, however, we read that che cannot be
placed in an ordinary cell' at Mllbank
prison.
A kerosene lamp has just been invented
which gives as bright light as gas, and uses
no glass chimney. Compressed air is forced
around the flame through the meter and pipes
heretofore used for gas.
The Reese River Reyeille admits that the
fearful story it related few days ago of a
husband numbering his wife, two children,
and an alleged seducer in Smoky Valley,
New, and dying himself of the wounds he re-
ceiyed, was LIST of April hoax. Some people
apparently think such things jokes.
The public announcement of Bishop Hen
derson Of Rhode Island, that Catholics cannot,
without violating the rules of the church, be-
long to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, on
account of its secret character, has caused
some little excitement among the thousands
of Catholics who are members of the order.
A local in Louisville, Ky, called at the
military headquarters to get news. and was
cheered by the answer ard be glad to give
you anything if l could; but when there is
anything of Importance We are not allowed to
give it and when there is anything to give it
is of no Importance" The same is frequently
the case in other places.
Artemus Ward, in one of his lectures, used
to tell of an old frontiersman who had built
him a comfortable cabin and was living alone
with his wife and family far away from all
civilization. On returning from protracted
hunt one day, he found his cabin burned by
the Indians, his wife and children gone, and
the bones of his stock in the ashes Of his sta
BILE. The old squatter gazed upon the scene
for a moment, Artemus said, and then muir
INJURED in tones of anguish, Chow ridiculous"