Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-18
tifes that Tweed IL suffering from vertigo


and liable to apoplexy from want of fresh air
and exercise, and he is to be removed to more
roomy quarters in the prison.
According to the Courier, it is not worth
while living in Lowell unless you have red
antique chair on your front piazza. With
that, you are somebody; without it, you
might as well live in Lawrence.
new Professorship of Physics and AS
tronomy has been established at Tufts Col
lege-likewise an Assistant Chair in Chemis-
try. This last is filled by Mr.. Stephen Minot
Hitman, who has studied at Heidelberg, with
Prof. Bunsen, and at Berlin with Prof
Liebig.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Company
has adopted the plan pursued by the Eastern
Company, and now charges fifteen cents in
addition to the regular fare when the passen-
ger pays in the car.
The Golden State boasts of hero OF the
Collins Graves stamp, only it thinks he is
much better than the much-lauded milkman
of Mill River Not long ago break was
discovered in one of the large reservoirs Of
the Bliss Brothers. at Indian Hill, California,
and, in the absence of any other application
at hand, r. II. Bliss threw the 220 pounds of
his own flesh and blood into the gap
The corporeal breech stayed the watery
breach until the water was drawn OIL by the
gateways, and thus what might have proved
disastrous calamity was averted.
I,1 in lar
sey city, reporter standing in the doorway
of a hotel was astonished to see a huge lump
of ice, weighing fully five pounds, come
crashing down upon the sidewalk my"
he cried, "see the hailstone!" The "hail-
stone" was extracted from a refrigerator and
dropped out of an upper window by some of
the wags of the house for the said reporters
especial benefit.
A small patch of high land of less than
quarter of an acre in Watertown has yielded
over 1900 boxes of strawberries this season.
The festive hay cutter is now busy remov-
ing incautious fingers and furnishing employ
ment for rustic surgeons.
The House of Commons. Monday, passed
Dill aD0lsnlug patronage III the thutcH VI
Scotland.
The iniquitous designs Of the Democratic
leaders in Louisiana are betrayed in Gov.
McEnery's call for ''union of the whites of
the State, representing, as they do, its virtue,
courage and wealth, into one compact and
imposing phalanx." We are glad to see,
however, that several Of the better class of
Democratic papers in the State are opposed
to the "Whte Leagues"
The yacht Foam of ID tons burden left To-
ronto on Saturday evening, with eight per-
sons on board, for trip to Niagara, and has
not since been heard from. II is feared that
she encountered rough weather and went
down.
The ancient theory that feather bed was
a harbor of refuge in thunder storm bids
fair to be exploded. Several persons have
been killed this season while lying on beds,
and one young woman was killed while pick
ing feathers.
The number of female preachers now &C.
cupying the pulpit stately or as supplies is
put at thirty-eight.
The theory won't work. You can't tell a
liar by his pulse. A physician has tried it
AMI says that while an innocent mans pulse
will jump under suspicion like an air balloon
in a storm, professional liars will beat as
steady as clock.