Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-10-11
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Mr.. Robert Browning's new poem will be pub
l,shed during the coming season.
Ralston willed that his executors should not
give bonds
Little Las, Napoleon is sickly youth and
| plays the piano {os. 84
Pedestrian Perkins of England, has walked
eight miles in less than one hour
Mrs. Craik Maria Muloch) finds it necessary to
state publicly that she has not been left q widow,
and has not lost the infant daughter she never had.
In one of the large London hotels they have in
troduced steam machinery for washing the dirty
plates and dishes, and also for cleaning boots and
knives and forks. 1t is said to answer well.
Kossuth is living in comfort at Baraconne, a
village between Turin and Rivoli. absorbed in the
cultivation of fruit, fowers and vegetables, and
keeping an eye on his collections Of insects and
minerals. Kossuth was seventy three years old ON
the 10th Of September. ~
The hog disease is raging extensively in Ohio
The number that have died in this county within
this month is estimated at 6,000.
After the little body of child was transferred
from one lot TO another in the New Haven GENE
terry on Monday last little black-and-tan dog be-
longing to the deceased lay down on the mound,
and could not be driven or coaxed away, and at
last accounts was still keeping faithful watch.
''IIow fond you seem of the eternal old doll Of
yours, Mabeli" ooh, aunt, it has been the de-
sire of my life to hide it from her that she's doll
I hope she didn't hear yon"
Dante's house in Florence has been purchased
by the local authorities and will be restored in the
style of the fourteenth century. Rent it to man
and his mothcr-in-law and call it "Inferno."
The common wild herb elecampape in solution
with milk will, it is said, cure hydrophobia. This
weed is the basis Of the specifics used by old
women with recipes. II grows wild over all the
Northern States. The roots should be dug in au-
tumn. In medicine the extract is known as mula.
Two fluid drachms in powder are dose.
A correspondent Of tue Waterman and Reflect
or writing of sankey singing at Mortified, Mass
says:
"And oh, may you live to hear Sankey sing |!
Never out of heaven did expect to listen to such
music. He has voice Of great power and sweet
ness. At an evening meeting in front Of the
church--a fourth part could not get inside-we
could al our home IA mile away by the road prob
ably three-quarter of mile in direct line,) hear
him sing distinguishing the words"
Old Winston was negro preacher in Virginia.
anu MS Iuchs VI tucoioSs "uu huAhoh holutC WIZ
often very original.
A gentleman thus accosted the old gentleman
one Sunday:
winston l understand You believe every wo-
man has seven devils. How can You prove :"
swell, sab, did you never read in dc Bible how
seven debbles were cast outer Mary Magalin /"
"Oh, yes! I've read that"
Did you ebber hear of 'cm bein' cast out of any
oder woman, sab y ttt
mo, never did, q "a ~ fst
"Weil, den ali de odders got em yet"
Edgar A. Poe's leading idea concerned the re-
lation of soul and body after death. Both in his
poems and 10 his stories he gave the fancy that
the dead body had q peculiar life of its own. In
one of his poems he writes about liking and feeling
his home in the grave. His own coffin at West
minister, near Baltimore, has recently been
changed. The skull was lying in the position in
which the head lay when buried. The grave
clothes and all except the bones had erumbled to
dust, leaving the skeleton white and bare. The
brain was in almost perfect state of preserva-
ton The cerebral mass as seen through the base
OF the skull, evidenced signs Of disntegration
or decay. though OF course, ii Il somewhat dmn-
shed in size. The skull was Intact, and the gen.
eral skeleton was in condition as an anatomical
preparation in a doctors Office. ,... r.t