Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-12
General News.

Col Robert u. lngersoll OF ILLINOIS, VIII re-
move to Washington this winter to practice law
Alfred Tennyson is extremely sensitive when
conscious of being under observa ton, and avoids
lion hunters as much as possible.
The Cars headquarters are in howell Of I'M
burnt clay brick with low roof of rough tiles
at Gorny -Studen. Near by is large tent where
he dimes with is staff and invited guests.
An Indiana paper relates that on Sunday morn
ing there no Sunday school in one of the
churches OF lis town because wasps had taken pos
session of the house and showed fight.
Sim Hinds, an eccentric colored man, who died
in Kentucky, few day since, could charm mock
ing birds and catch them wherever he saw them.
no matter how wild they were.
1t has just leaked out that Max Strakosh, the well
known theatrical and musical manager, was mar
ried over two months ago. His wife is the daugL-
ter of VIM. II. Nelson, retired New York mer-
chant, and the wedding took place very privately
at Watch Hin, Aug. |.
On the authority Of gentleman tho saw it, the
Trenton Gazette says that the very day that
Gen. Mcclellan non mated for Governor of
New Jersey oy the State Democratic Convention,
be was reg istered at hotel in Boston as George
b. Mcclellan of New York. This is dreadful
Theirs and hacMahon were decorated, in 80,
by King Leopold of Belgium, at the same time
Theirs for services rendei ed the occasion Of the
taking of Anvers. and MacMahon for brilliant
conduct during the siege.
1t is rumored that Amsdeo ex-King of Spain,
feels so severely the loss of his wife, gentle and
lovely lady, that he has resolved to take holy or
ders and enter a coister. 1t is said further, that
lie has written to this effect to the Pope.
Three American authors, Mr.. William Cullen
Bryant, Mr.. Long fellow and Mr.. Bayard Taylor
have recently been elected honorary members of
the Literary Academy of Athens, which is under
the special patronage Of the Queen OF Greece.
The Uondon) Academy in announcing Mr..
Bayard Taylor's forthcoming work on German
Literature, says: ave have no one in England
at all comparable to Mr.. Taylor in German. and
especially Schiller and Goethe literature
Secretary Evarts told friend the other day
thus records letter in the Graphic--that he had
just received letter from one of his daughters to
this effect: Dear papa Thank yougvery kind
ly for the donkey you sent me, but he's so lonely
Won't you soon be home, papai"
All babies born in the Oneida On. y communi-
ty are at once taken from their mothers and given
to some other woman to nurse, and the babies
changed around so that mother ever rears, or
even knows, her own child. The object is to des-
troy all family feeling and to keep woman from
loving her own child better than anybodys else
children.
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Newfoundland during the recent gale, has been
secured for the New York aquarium. 1t is said to
measure 40 feet inches between extremities,
from the point of one of its arms to the end of
the tail. The body is 10 feet long. Two hun.
bred gallons of alcohol will be required for its
preservation.
Ice did not become an article oe commerce un
til the present century; but already in the United
States alone thirty millions Of dollars are invested
in the business of gathering and selling it. Large
shipments of the ice are made to South Amer lea
and Asia; the European nations supplying them
selves with ice from Norway There has been a
remarkable increase in the use of the article in
the United States since 1915, when only So O0O
tons of it were used. 10 the year 1876 the CON
sumers bought :, 500 900 tons and probably 5000
600 tons were cut. Beer brewers are the best Gus
toners Of the ice companies, several using 80 000
tons Of ice annually. SO great has become the
ice commerce that it now has neatly and clearly
printed newspaper of its own-Ice Trade Journal
the first number of which has just been printed
Little Mary Prebble, as she is known among
her friends in London where she has been foi
two years, is a Boston girl and an ariste. She
commenced drawing and painting "all by her
Self" and, at the age Of II, without hav ing re.
ceived any instruction whatever, she had de.
veloped remarkable proficiency. Soon after she
was engaged Instructor of painting in a
lsdies' school, and held her place with success
til she was Is, when she went TO Europe She
has spent some time In London and Paris study.
ing and filing orders, and now has several orders
for copies of noted pictures in the British Nation.
al Gallery. and also for portraits and other pro.
ducts She is remarkably vefsstile-doing land
scape. and portraits in oil, making success il
water colors, painting exquisitely on porcelain
and, in brief covering almost every branch of her
profession. Miss Preble is yet but young girl
an orphan, without influential friends, and all she
has accomplished has been through her own un