Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Ladies' Grecian head bands are coming into
fashion again.
The Ancient Order of IIibernians is under the
ban of the Catholic Church in New York.
When q rough says, "You amt no gentleman u
the best way is to parse the remark over in silence
". Y. Com. Adu.
Grace Greenwood is bitterly opposed to Indians
She says the finest thing she saw about squaw's
embroidered petticoat was bullet hole.
The strawberry fields in southern Illinois have
been attacked by new disease, and the prospects
for other fruit crops are bad n that region.
The girl students all over the country who grad
uate this year are resolving to dress for that
sion in ordinary calico.
Twenty. seven Mayors and 10000 people well
coined Garibaldi to Viterbo ON the 9th inst Carl
baldi was on crutches
Commercial travellers will not be likely to trouble
the merchants Of British Columbia, tax of 5000
per annum having been levied upon that class.
A carriage with huge trunk upon the dash
board either means bride or trip to the Cen
tennia If the trunk is new and has four initials,
ten to one it's bride ~. Y. Nail.
Nearly twenty albatrosses are said to have fol-
lowed the British war ship Challenger from the
coast of Japan to within two days sail of Homo
luln, distance of about 1000 miles.
The town authorities of Chico (Cal) have passed
an ordinance declaring swsrms of the common
honey bee a nuisance within the corporate limits
of the town. They are destructive to fruit
They say it is impossible to cheat with one Of
the turnstiles used at the Centennial exhibition
yet one of the gate-keepers turned in $50 more
than his registering apparatus called for the other
evening.
An auctioneer, at a late sale of antiquities, put
up helmet, with the following candid obseva-
tions: "This, ladies and gentlemen, is heme,
of Romulus, the Roman founder; but whether he
was brass or iron founder l cannot tell.
| Rev. Nahum p. Foster, who died at New Lon.
don, Conn, recently, was rather eccentric and
used the upholstery Of his sofa as bank of de-
post for $500 in railroad bonds, and schedule
of his property shows that all his hiding places
have not yet been discovered.
| Theodore BaTlere was asked few days ago by
a Partisan correspondent to give definition OF
the phrase 'he demi-monde." at is" he replied
"the first landing on the social staircase, where
the woman who is going down meets the woman
who is coming up"
| \ private fair held in Baltimore recently real.
lied nearly $4,000 in two days. One gentleman
gave $1,000 for an afghan and another $4,000 fol
an album containing the photographs of the pref.
test young ladies Of Baltimore. The fair was in
aid of Catholic charity.
The latest mail from India brings particulars Of
the death Of the young Maharsjah of Puttiala
which leave no doubt that that Prince killed him
self by drink. For some time he has lived in a
constant state Of debauchery, and even at the in
ssllation celebration at Calcutta by the Prince OF
Wales he could not keep sober. His extrava-
gance was unboundcd. He was but "a, and At
ten years old he inherited IN estate worth nearly
half million sterling year. Besides drink, his