Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-04-08
GENERAL Ne us.

Ann Elizas success in her suit against Brigham
is said to be making trouble in the harems of Nor
mondom.
There was a total eclipse of the sun Tuesday in
the southern pats of Asia and Africa.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that secessions
from the Catholic to the Orthodox Greek Church
continue on large scale in Russian Poland.
Florida is said to be the best timbered State in
the Union, there being in it over thirty million
acres of timber land
The President tells press correspondent that
the published stories of what the government pro-
poses to do about the Mexican ourages are pure
inventions, the fact being that the subject has not
even been laid before the Cabinet as yet.
The Duchess of Edinburgh while ont driving
was caught in shower and borrowed an umbrel-
la at cottage Of an old woman, who refused to
loan any but the second best one" and next day
the Duchess sent it home with her compliments,
one sovereign and pound of tea.
The imports of foreign dry goods at the port OF
New York for the month of March show u gain OF
over two millions upon the corresponding figures
of last year, which were small for the season.
All of this gain has accrued during the last week
This increase has been unexpected, many looking
for still further decline.
The Chinese are evidently pagans. They cele-
brate all their holidays by paying their debts for
giving their enemies and shaking hands all round.
The civilized people who have gone to China have
| not yet induced them to relirquish these odd and
barbarous habits.
| President Porter, OF Yale College, recently gave
the following laconic advice TO the students IN the
course of an extended address Don't drink.
Don't chew. Don't smoke. Don't sweat Don't
deceive Don't read novels. Don't marry until
you can support wife, Be earnest. Be SELF
| reliant. Be generous. BE civil. Read the pa
pers Advertise your business. Make money.
and do good with it. Love God and your fellow
men"
BY table published in the New York Times 1t
is shown that only seventeen per cent. Of the in
habtants of that city are native born of native
born parents-that is, having two generations OF
American blood in their veins, while nearly eighty
three per cent are foreigners and the children Of
foreigners. In the country at large these figures
are almost reversed.
The late DR.. Macadam used 20 tell ofa tipsy
Scotchman making his way home, upon bright
Sunday morning, when the good people were
vending their way to kirk. A little dog pulled
the ribbon from the hand of lady who was lead
! ing it, and it ran away from her she appealed
to the first passcrby, asking him to whistle for her
poodle. "Woman," he retorted, with a solemn
ty of vsage which only drunken man can as
| sumo, woman, this is rot a day for whistln"
| The statue Of General William King, the first
| Governor of Maine, which Simmons is working
r IL. O.. r NFa..
is highly praised by the Rome correspondent OF
the New York Times. The figure, says the cor
respondent. is of what is called heroic size, or
somewhat above the natural, and less than the
colossal The action is full of vitality, without
exaggeration, with the happy combination of dig
nifty and rcpese, which is the best result of art.
Mr.. Simmons has just completed in marble, busts
Of Mr.. Speaker Blaine. Mr.. Brown of Maine, and
several of Rhode Islands representative men for
that State.