Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-17
GENERAL NEWS.

The Sacramento, Cal. Board of Education has
decided to admit Chinese children to the public
schools
The National Butter and Egg Association has
resolved that artificial coloring is legitimate
part of the art of butter making.
In Treasure City, Nevada, where there is sa
loon to every sixty-one inhabitants water sells
for ten cents bucket.
The citizens of Glasgow are raising funds for
the erection of monument to Livingstone The
subscriptions are limited to S25 each, and are
coming in freely.
Seth Green, the we'll known fish culturist, has
during the present season distributed four hun
bred thousand salmon-trout fry in lakes and rivers
in various parts of the country.
The police court of Stockton, Call has been idle
for month, not single case having been brought
before it. There have been great changes in CAL
ifornia since 40.
The stems of wild rice are said to be the best
material for the manufacture of paper. Minnesota
has heaps of them, and st. Paul paper cries
There's millions in it,
Bridesmaids costumes getting to be very
lively. At recent English wedding they wore
white cashmere trimmed with sapphire velvet. AT
another they were attaired in pale blue Japanese
silk trimmed with tea-rose.
This seems rather early for chewing gum, but
Railroad Commissioner Randall, in rising from a
dry goods box on Main street, Thursday, drew it
half way across. One of the clerks had just laid
the chew there for moment while he piled up
some muslin-Ddabury Neacs.
A negro woman was relating her experience to
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things she said she had been in heaven. One Of
the ladies Of color asked her, "sister, did you
any black folks up in heaven :" ooh, get out !!
you s'pose 60 in de kitchen when was dar 7"
Tuesdays snow storm was the severest Of any
during the past cold winter. 1t continued with
undated fury until after daylight Wednesday
morning when over foot of damp, heavy snow
lay upon the ground. In many places it drifted
considerably, and interrupted railway travel.
warm, bright, pleasant day succeeded the storm
and by sunset but little snow remained in the pub
lie streets.-Boston journal
A large bulldog at Louisville attempted re-
Gently to swallow the bait attached to
fish hook of the "spooa" variety. One Of the
prongs penetrated his upper and . second his low
er lip. AS no one dared to handle the jaw of
the Infatuated dog, the extraction of the hooks
seemed quite a serious problem, which was at
last happily solved by the application of chloro-
form.
Camel coal is one Of the purest in existence 1t
is of rich, satin black appearance, and under heat
splits into plates or layers, until thoroughly united
and burns completely to ashes. The term is a
Lancashire brogue for candle, pronounced can1
by the miners, because it ignites and burns like
candle. 1t is claimed that the only really pure
mine of camel coal in the United States exists in
Clarion county, Pa.
st. Petersburg, the capital Of Russia, is the
haven for children who have propensity for max
ing mud and sand pies. In many of the small
public parks of that city there are here and there
large open spaces covered with gravel. Every
morning ia each Of these spaces may be seen
large pile Of sand, shaped, about four feet
high and six feet in diameter at the base. After
breakfast the children Of the neighborhood,
equipped with little spades, hatchets and wagons,
repair to these cones and employ themselves in
digging them down and scattering the material,
according to their fancy, over the gravel spaces.
The next morning the cones are all ready for
another assault. The city government provides
the sand, and has it piled up in the cones each
night. The result of this simple plan is that the
| children acquire fondness for exercise and labor
and get that healthful open-air amusement so es-
sential to their vitality in q city.