Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-19
GENERAL Ne VS..

The popularity of postal cards is established.
The sales this year are ,O00 600 more than last
The freight earnings of the Union Pacific Rail
way for June were Ssl 55s over the same period
in 1874.
Chinese young lady is an applicant for a
teachers place in of the public schools of San
Francisco. She insists that she can "snatchee
small boy bal-headed alice same Mclean miss "
Catskill exchange says There isn't any
Overlook House now, but man keeps shantv
up there and charges twenty FIVE cents for lemon
AIDES, and he's about as near heaven as he'll ever
get"
A Chicago inventor comes forward with rival
to the Keey motor and has progressed so far as to
be willing to state that BY the combination of air
and water he has produced pressure of 10000
pounds to the square inch.
The "course of true love- does not run smooth
for young and unwise girl belonging in Fall
River. She listened to the latery ef her fathers
bar keeper, and dcserting her home proposed to
share an advcnturer's fortunes. She was caught
in New York. and will be returned to her parents.
1t is reported that Madame Bres, the first lady
to obtain a medical degree at the Sorbonne, has
declined an offer of 40, 900 francs year as physi
clan to the Sutans harem, on condition of never
going outside the building. She will attend the
harem, but will practice in Constantnople like
other doctors.
The West End of London is agitaed about q
recent fashionable dinner party whereat every one
of the guests contracted scarlet fever, which dis
ease is prevailing to an alarming extent The
Queens intended visit to Aldershoot was indefinite
or - & i,
the camp.
Tennyson has written a letter to the managers
of the Poe monument in Baltimore, expressing
his qualification that the memorial is to be erected
and speaking of Poe's work as the Immortal pro-
auctions Of the American poet" He classes Poe
with the most brilliant writer's Of America, and
requests photograph of the proposed monument.
Their, is good deal of truth in the following
clipping :-"Iotel men say that people who at
home arc unused to good living and luxuries are
the hardest to please at the table. Those accus-
toned to rich and dainty dishes make allowances
for shortcomings, but folks to whom delicacies
and style are strangers are loudest in their de-
mands and complaints. Remnants Of shoddy still
exist"
The Khedive of Egypt wrote to General Sher-
man to ask him to recommend . good engineer
officer for the Egyptian army, and the general
recommended Colonel Derrick of Virginia. who
was prominent officer in the engineer service in
the confederate service during the whole rebellion.
Colonel Derrick has received his commission and
sailed from New York for Egypt on Wednesday.
Do divorces run in famies' Is the passion for
putting asunder what God hath joined q matter of
blood,-an epidemic which is catching? 1t would
seem 50 from recent occurrence in the New York
Marine Court A divorce suit was brought in
that court. and every witness examined had been
divorced. There were five altogether and all re-
lated to each other. The record does not show
what caused these divorces, but it certainly ind-
Gates that the disease had very successful rum
Chicago Tribune.
The Queen of Madagascar has been making
royal progress through her domains. And Father
Gelbose describes her appearance at a reception,
with satin dress and golden crown, with huge
scarlet umbrella in one hand and an ivory sceptre
in the other. "Now you may all dance" she says,
after the formalities. They all begin to hop
about in an independent and comical manner, as
though the floor was hot gridiron, the old folks
with the rest, and the Queen seems to enjoy it
greatly.
real estate lawsuit, which promises to rival in
magnitude and duration the celebrated suit of
Mrs. Gaines in New Orleans, is one of the proba-
bilities in Chicago. A strip Of land worth several
millions of dollars, on which stand the Illinois
Central Depot and portion OF the tracks, is in
dispute having just been originally entered at the
Land Office at Springfield, although it has been
occupied and presumably owned by the Railroad
Company for the last thirty years.