Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-05-01
GE.TER.4L NEWS.

Is seven feet high in his moecasins.
A cake of maple sugar and free return ticket
home the prizes at a spelling match in vii
lage near Utica, the other day.
The aggregate number of brewers in Great Brit
tain is about 10000, and they pay annual excise
duty of about 81 600.
Miss Ida Lillian Greeley, the elder daughter of
the late Horace Greeley, will shortly be married
to Col Nchola, Smith of Kansas.
Says the correspondent of the Rutland Herald
| "A hundred wears ago there were no shams in
Washington" Well, mo- Washington was found
ed in 1890.
A dox-co,iar with Julius Caesar" en- graved NJ
on it, has been found in Yorkshire, and the peo-
pie there think they have got hold Of a relic ofthe
classic ages.
The island of Cuba is in ptable condition, the
insurgents using the torch and burning indiscIln
ately all estates belonging to Cabans and Span
iards.
This is the week when the boarding house land
lady goes quietly around feeling the weight Of de-
linquent boardes trunkrs, and keeps her weather
eve open for sudden departures.-N. J. Cam.
Adr.
The Humane Society OF Boulogne, France,
unanimously and by reclamation voted its gold
medal to Capt. Boynton, the great American
swimmer IN recognition of his services to human
ity.
Arumor that Ingersoll, the pardoned Tammany-
lite, has made important revelations concerning the
Tweed ring ia causing futter of excitement
among certain parties in New York.
| The Prince of Wales has become the head of
| the Masonic order in England, and Wednesday
was installed Grand Master in place of Lord Ri
pom.
The Grand Master OF Freemasons in Iowa hs'
sistent with the good of the craft. The Masons in
the State are very much exercised about it.
| The Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference has negatived the question Of giving
women licenses to preach, the ground taken being
that the discipline and usage of the denomination
forbid it.
At meeting in Springfield, on Thursday, of
prominent envelope manufacturers, representing
the greater part of the product of New England
and New York, it was decided to raise the price OF
envelopes and stationery ten per cent.
The Louisiana sugar planters are now more
prosperous than at any time since the war. The
yield Of 1874 l40 900 hogsheads against 10000
the preceding year, while the crop was made very
economically and commanded fair prices
A French butcher who was on his death bed,
said to his wife, ''If die, FRANCHISE, you must
marry shop-boy. He is good young man,
and the business cannot be carried on without a
man to leok after it." 81 have been thinking
about that already" said his wife.
Centreville, Nd, contains prodigy in the way
of citizen aged 81 years, who never attended
school twelve months in his life, but whose natural
talent for mathematics is great that he has yet
| to find problem which he cannot solve. His rules
are entirely of his own devsing, and many of them
are said to be curiosities of their kind.
An Indiana black smith died the other day, whose
brain weighed trihe over sixty-one ounces, about
the heaviest on record Cuvier the French natur-
alists, having been between ffty-Rinc and sixty,
and Daniel Webstcrs ounce or two less The
man was a regular giant, every way; he weighed
three hundred and fifteen pounds, and was sixty
inches around the chest.
The London Medical Record publishes Mr..
w. Is. Woodbury's new idea for "Rogue's Gal
lery," which is to obtain photographs of the palm
of criminals hand, taken in q strong oblique
light as to bring out all the markings distinctly.
lie declares that such photograph would be found
a map, never. alike in two persons, whereby iden-
tifcation would be sure, no disguise except actual
Disagreement sufiicing to hide mans peculiar
marks.
The exact words addressed by the Emperor of
Austria to King Victor Emanuel in private con-
versation, are said to be the following: al have
chosen Venice because this city was the last given
up by my government. and l wish to show the
whole world that Austria has renowned definitely
and forever all idea of pretension to Italian soil
| The astonishing events which have taken place
Within the space of a few ycars-cvcnts which
have led Italy to unity and independence
the action of superhuman power before which
feel it my duty to incline"
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