Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Philadelphia makes over a million dollars
worth Of wallpaper annually.
The sovereignty of the FIJI Islands has been
formally rendered to Great Britain.
Twelve street cars, now building at Troy.
New York, will soon be rafting through the
streets of Bombay.
In the noted Lamar cotton case, General
Butler has secured judgment for 5000 900 for
his client.
Twenty thousand persons, it is estimated,
have been drowned in Lake Erie during the
present century.
An English lady has promised twenty five
thousand dollars for the purpose of supplying
Jerusalem with water.
The London Post denies the report that
Mr.. Disraeli is to marry the Dowager
Countess Of Chesterfield.
BY nearly unanimous vote the California
Legislature has decided to submit to the
people a proposition for new State Consti-
tuition.
St. Louis invested $l75, 900 in the Louis
vile lottery, and did not draw cent. A fool
and his money are soon parted.
In Costa RIGA they exile rebel for year,
and make him pay three fourths of the costs
out of the other fellows.
Pere Hyacinthe has left the rural home
where he passed the greater part of last sum-
mer, and has become, from the necessity inn
posed by his arduous labors, a resident Of
Geneva.
The Providence Journal reasserts that a
very large majority of the members elected
to the Legislature of Rhode Island are I'M
pledged npon the question of United States
Senator.
Captain Preble, commanding the naval rem
devious at Boston, is to be nominated COM
modore on the active list of the navy, thus
restoring him to the same relative position he
occupied prior to the special promotions of
1866.
The Girards, who made their first success
at the Boston Theatre, are on their way to
Australia, whence they intend proceeding to
London, Paris and st. Petersburg.
Miss Early, niece of Jubal E., beautiful
Virginian, who was once, accordidg to cor
respondent, full of the rankest rebellion, is
said to be engaged to Yankee officer, Com
mander Manly, of the United States Navy.
A devout pilgrimage of Roman Catholics
from this country to Lourdes and Rome is
now an assured fact. Passages have been
arranged on the steamer Perere, which will
leave New York on the 10th of May. About
fifty pilgrims have already engaged state
rooms, and there is room for more on the
list.
The question how much does it cost to be
born, to get married and to get buried should
interest everybody. The Chicago Tribune,
in discussing the matter, makes out the fol-
lowing bill, in gross, as the cost to the people
of the United States every year: "Getting
born, $22o,o95,O oo getting married, $780,
900, 600; getting buried, 1913, sS9, 400. Total,
$543, 1884, 49,"
A bit of tyranny is in vogue among the
London 'prentices, by which, quite unlike the
story in Hogarth's pictures, the idle one COM
monty gets the better of the Industrious.
When the body of them make their minds up
to holiday, the exceptional fellow who
keeps at work is punished by "randling," that
is, the boys get around him and solemnly pull
his hair in time and tune until he consents to
60 or they get tired. The Pail Mall Gazette
thinks ''many valuable life might be saved
if the system Of rambling were adopted in
professional circles, and overworked men
were, in cases of necessity, dragged from
their desks even by the hair Of their heads"
A member of the Ohio Legislature visiting
the Penitentiary, had his hair cut by the
prison barber. While in the chair visitors
looking in At the door entertained him with
such remarks as "Ugly look about the eyes,"
"Wonder what he did?" etc.