Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-02-03
GENERAL US.

A petrifed sunAower has been tornd IN Lo'
gansport, Ind.
A modern philosopher remarks that there i: no
sort of fool so foolish as an old fool.
a number of the American heirs to the Jen-
nings estate (England-$l50 900 0o0) have been
holding convention in Augusta, Ga.
Because no news is good news, says the New
York Commercial ADVERTISER it doesn't follow that
no newspaper is a good newspaper.
a verdict of guilty has been rendered in the
case of Mckee, OF the st. Louis Globe Democrat
charged with completely in the whisky frauds.
A Chicago gill writes to the school authorities
of that city to say that she he'd bin out OF EN-
ployment for yeare, and wud teech for $40 a
month and bord around
Professor Henricls, of Des Mones, says that
seyenty-fve years hence Iowa summers will be
like those of Louisiana, ard the winters ike those
of Duluth, MINI.
DR.. Worms, an ext s. Quarternaser, has been
arrested in Montreal at the instance of Chicago
parties, on the charge Of forgery.
South Carolina proposes to engage in the cult
walton of iue, the coast lands being very favora'
BILE for It. while the planters are becoming tired OF
raising sea island cotton and rice.
A Catholic priest has established mission among
the Esquimaux of the arctic circle. He travels
over an immense district with s!edges, sleeping
nights under a show hut
There is man in Rochester so close that when
he attends church be occupies tae pew faithest
from the pulpit to save the interest on his money
while the collectors are passing the plates for con-
tribution.
About fifty female shoe operatives Of Lynn have
struck because of reduction of wages. Their
employer protests that he cannot continue to pay
the old rates and compete with other manufactur
ers.
A hospital surgeon writes that the digestion is
mainly governed by the nervous system and the
nervous system is soon shattered by broken rest
To deprive a man of considerable portion of his
sleep and then to expose him to cold is simply to
exhaust his reserve of vital force, and to push him
half way toward the goal Of complete break
down.
Recently, at Petroleum Centre, Pa, $500 bar
rel tank, in which 5000 barrels Of oil were placed
FIVE years ago, was empted Of its own contents af-
ter rest since 1870. Thirty seven hundred bar
rels of mercantile crude was obtained, showing
that 1907 barrels had been lost by evaporation,
sediment and other causes, decline Of nearly
twenty per cent
The most exquisite toilette at Il recent ball in
New York was Of pink silk almost covered with
embroidery in silver. Its rather scant proportions
above were fairly encrusted with devices of roses
and leaves in silver, and silver rose was placed
on the breast near the left shoulder. The orna-
ments were diamonds
The Frederick Citizen says that when the late
Ex-Governor Thomas wrote from Peru to friend
in Frederick giving Instructions in regard to his
burial, he requested that the following inscription
should be placed upon his tombstone: Prank
Thomas, born February 1893. The author of the
measure which gave to Maryland the Constitution
of 1864, and thereby gave freedom to 10000 hui
man beings"