Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-09-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Jubilee Gilmore's brother is landscape gar
dener at Oakland, Cal.
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle, although 70 years OF age,
is said to shut himself up every evening to study
United States Treasurer New has sent female
relative at indianapolis cnker, which is all that
is left of nearly 81 600 600. 1t is about the size OF
ones fist, and was formed by the chemicals in
greenbacks which have been burned.
One of Tennyson's lines was quoted in his
presence as a happy instance Of a natural express
sion of q spontaneous thought, when the poe'
said 81 smoked dozen cigars over that line"
An Empero, respectfully asking Parliament to
give him vacation for eighteen months, as just
seen in Brazil, is pre- eminen,ly a nineteenth
century spectacle.
| The city of Atlanta, Ca has sixty-fye doctors
and 1876 lawyers, and one Of its papers says that
these are more than would be necessary every
body were sick and suing all his neighbors.
Wellesley College, Massachusetts,, was opened
7th inst Tins establishment is intended for the
education of women exclusively. A chief baker,
an engineer, and porter are the only persons Of
the male sex employed in the establishment. The
college will accommodate 300 persons. About
two hundred applicants for admission have been
rejected.
1t is remarkable fact and very credtabe to
the San Francisco savings banks that the failure
of the Bank of California was not accompanied
nor followed by anything in the shape Of run on
them. They have 56377 depositors, and are the
repositories of large amounts Of money and yet on
ly 7l3 persons demanded their money on the day
the great bank failed.
!. Madison Wells, Of Louisiana, lately sen. a
challenge to an editor in registered letter that
he might be certain Of its receipt. The recipient
is French Creole, and the Augusta tGa.) Con-
stitutionalist says therefore no coward
The Ohio Hospital for the Insane is a most re-
markable building. 1t is on a tract Of ground OF
three hundred acres, two and half miles from
High street, in Columbus. 1t resembles the letter
r. The front measures LOSS feet and the depth
is $50 feet. 1t covers four acres ard has ] 200
rooms. 1t is to be bountifully supplied with wa
ter. The whole is under roof, and the plaster
ers are going on with their work. About year,
it is thought will be consumed in completely fin
ishing it up for occupants.
The following were questions in philosophy to
the candidates for admission TO Harvard at the
last examination Explain briefly the theory Of
atomistic dynamics, and how it reduces Matter to
mere viii and Presentation. OF what only do
the senses and the physical sciences take cogniz-
ance constituting the primitive element of mat
ter. What must ideally or in thought precede ev-
cry motion or physical force"
Prof. Marsh, during his researches at the West,
discovered a fossil bird with we-formed teeth,
and after making critical examination Of the Gu
rosity he concludes that it is intermediate be-
tween the bird and the reptile, and supplies one
of the missing links in the Darwinian theory.
The News has occasion this week to chronicle
the burning of house in Biidgton, and the provi-
dental saving of four lives by member of the
brute creation. The house was that occupied at
the time, and for many years preceding, by Mrs.
Lydia A. S. French, close to the Sweden line.
Mrs. French, a lady Of sixty -four years, and her
three grandchildren Whose father, Thos. French,
is in California;, were the only occupants. They
retired about IL o'clock Friday night An hour
or two past midnight, Mrs French was awaken
ed from deep sleep by her cat jumping upon the
bed. After driving the cat off, Mrs F. thought
she smelled smoke, ond on opening the chamber
door found the rooms above all ablaze. She in
stantly seized the bed on which the children were
sleeping, and drogged it and them out doors. 1t
was wild, terrible night, the wind blowing gale
1T being at the height of the line storm-and the
nearest neghbor was a quarter Of a mile off. With
remarkable GOODNESS and presence of mind, she at
once decided that to go for help was useless, and
set at work eavng what things she could. She
removed windoN sssh and threw out three beds.
some trunks and chairs and also got ont some ia
bles through the door, before the flames drove her
from her position. She then even went round to
the sned, towards which the flames were then
making rapid approach, and rescued half IA dozen
hens In short time, all the buildings except
the barn, which stood separate some rods to the
windward, were in ashes Then with her little
ones. aud the bedding which she had saved, she
sought shelter in the barn until morning.
SuerfaI Nntfrrs