Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-16
GENERAL Ne VS..

Indiana wheat has been badly damaged by colo
weather.
Miss Lillian Edgalton says that about five years
are required to exhaust the popularity of the ay-
erage lecturer.
Mexico is lazy country, but the sight OF a
drove OF Texas cattle will fill Mexican with the
enterprise of fruit-tree pedler.-Chicago 1im"s
A severe battle was fought between the Abys-
snan and Egyptian armies few days since which
resulted dsastrously to the Abyssinisns They
are reputed to have lost 5000 men.
Just a year ago Norwegian, when drunk,
floze his hands and feet so badly near DEBORAH,
Iowa, that they had to be amputated. His wife
last week got judgment for s., 800 against the
druggist that sold him the liquor
There is boy in Bnghampton, ILL.,, five year
old, who is physically perfect healthy, talks dis
tnctly, is very active, and weighs only nile
pounds. lie is twenty three inches high. On the
WHOLE he is quite Tom Thumb for his age.
A prudent mother of wealth and respectability
residing in Chicago, has brought up her accom-
plished and beautiful daughters to do washing and
ironing. When questioned to the cause o!
this somewhat unusual proceeding, the prudent
matron replied: "Oh, it is always well to be pre-
pared for any contingency. Perhaps some of the
poor children may marry an Italian count.
a new claimant has appeared in England in the
person of Joseph Thoma., coach builder, Birm-
ngham. who claims the Whaddcn Hall estate
Buckinghamshire, which, with accumulated mon
ey, exceeds in value $4,000, 000-Sl5 900
The Birmingham claimant has not been able to
carry on an action before, owing to want Of funds
but several gentleman have offered pecuniary ale
consequent upon the particulars OF the claim ap
pear;ng in the birmingham papers.
This is what Mexican circus is like, according
| to the Denver (Col.) News "a Mexican circus
has been giving performances at Pueblo for sever
al days past. A curious thing is a Mexican circus
This one came up from Old Mexico. The mana
gers have some sections Of canvas, and with these
and such pieces of lumber as they can pick up IN
the town in which they exhibit they construct a
sort of tent or corral. The patrons Of the show
must provide their own seats. Each caballerc
may be seen going to the show with a senorita on
one arm and a couple of chairs or stools on the
other. The advance agent spurns the regular
printers ink, using instead a muslin poster. on
which is painted an advertisement of the circus.
The performance consists mainly of tumbling and
horizontal-bar exercises, though an educated pony
and some trained dogs play part in the pro-
gramme. The performers are wonderful athletes,
and their feats are we'll worth seeing"
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