Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Since the cyclone at Galveston, Texas, last year
the whole island is being covered with fine Bcr-
muds grass.
visitor to the Jail in Columbus, Ky, recently
had his pocket picked of $500 by one of the pris-
oners there.
A tremendous amen" from his vast congrega-
ton followed Mr.. Spurgeon's prayer the other day
that the Turks might soon be driven out of Eu-
rope, and the whole of the Mohammedan power
swept away from off the face OF the earth.
Some mercurial people throw away their friends
10 happy times and wish to regain them in gloomy
hours, very much as a COW that kicks over the pail
in the morning is the first one to come into the
yard at twilight and low to be MIXED.
John Hancock received from the Colonial Leg
issture in 1874 the first silver-plated table service
seen in America. 1t is now owned by gen
tleman in Lawrence, Mass, and has just gone to
Meriden to be replated
There is Bishop in England who finds his
diocese too large, and so he advocates division.
He will give up half of his territory and $500 of
his salary and will be content with his palace and
$50 500.
The manufacture of iron in the West is rapidly
increasing in amount In Chicago alone there
are two of the ten Beasemer steel works in the
United States, and these made $1,000 tons of the
29 900 tons of Bessemer steel rails manufactured
in this country last year
Superintendent Spicer, Of the Grand Trunk
Railway, finds total abstinence from intoxicating
drinks on the part of the employees of the road to
work so well that he has issued circular in which
he says, 81 have determined to renew my pledge 70
another year, and hope that the assistant super
ntendents, agents, trainmen, and the traffic staff
generally, will cooperate heartily with me in
the movement"
While the new ship Brown Brothers of Boston
was rounding Cape Horn in June last, on the voy-
age from Boston to San Francisco, it blowing a
gale and the sea running high, one of the seamen
was blown overheard from the foretopmast. 1t
was impossible to lower boat but the master of
the ship, Capt Goodel, Jr., "a Maine mani, had a
line tied round his body, jumped overheard and
saved the half-drowned seaman.
Here is Chinese joke. The Celestial Empire
quotes the statement from an American paper
"In the Chinese department of the Exhibition al
enameed-bronzed soup bowl is shown which is
1000 years old, and there upward of 400 arti-
Giles of chinaware which were manufactured 00C
years ago; and then adds with quiet irony POS
sbly the family of the Noahs took pot luck out Of
the bowl while they were in the ark"
A four-y ear-old boy, son of Mason Sage OF
West Marlborough, Vermont, was lost in the
woods last week, and had play spell with two
black bears. They came up to him as he sat on
the grass in an open glade and smet of him. He
pated them on their heads, thinking that they
were dogs, and they then walked away into the
forest. Their footprints disclosed that they were
the "dogs" the boy told about encountering.
Burlington Hawk Eye :-"What under the sun
are you rumnaging in all the old clothes closet
for p the tender wife asks her fond husband,
these bracing autumn mornings. my winter pan
falcons and coats, he replies, with suspicious
look at the empty hooks. 'Oh--why-yes-letm me
see and, with the guilty blood suifusing her
lovely face, she glides into the next room and
takes china dog and pair of glass vases and a
plaster shepherdess off the maultepiece and hides
them behind the sofa.'
One Of our ablest and most popular physicians
requests us to say a word of warning against the
bad practice of overwhelming the streets. The
sprinkling carts do not produce any injurious eff
feet upon the public health, but the custom of
deluging the streets with water from hose rs the
cause of a good deal of malaria and throat dis
ease. 1t produces sudden lowering of the lem
persture, which, in the hot summer evenings
when people most indulge in the use of the hose
has bad effect upon health and is especially in
furious to children. The water evaporates, and
thus produces damp and depressing atmospheric,
which frequently induces chils and fever and 9TH
err unpleasant maladies profitable indeed to the
doctors, who unselfshly protest against having
work made fors them. The remedy is not TO
cease spriukling the streets and yards but to use
more moderation in the cooling work.-NeW Ha-
zen Palladium