Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-18
GENERAL NEWS.

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London had only Il hours of sunshine in
March.
The n. Y. Herald says Wade Hampton wears a
cabbage-eaf in his boots for fear he may get sun
struck.
Gold earrings in the shape of slender ladders
with tx steps are the latest novelty in jewelry.
A book agent was kicked to death by horse in
Vermont last week. Mans noblest friend.-Lan-
| bury News.
San Diego, Cal, boasts of an orange which
| weighs l-2 pounds and measures "a ga by % "a
inches in circumference.
Dogs are faithfal; they will stick TO bone after
| everybody else haz deserted it.-Josh Billings.
The lowly beet now ranks commercial i'm
portance above the patrician sugar-cane. More
beet sugar than cane sugar is made by the world,
every year.
| Now they are trying blue glass on the fishes in
the New York Aquarium, and it is said with the
most benefc ial results.
A Philadelphia of 70 years took his fifth wife
last Monday, after mourning the deceased fourth
six weeks. Number five was number tours sister.
| and has survived three husbands.
Hereafter, when the gentlemanly hotel-cerk of.
ers to put you in room $685. on the sixth floor, in
sist upon his providing you with rope ladder and
| Babcock extiaguisher.
j. II. Mccarthy, the son of Justin Mccarthy
the novelist, though not quite 20 years DID, is a
promising contributor to the London press.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that the ay-
erage land of California is not so rich as that of
Illinois, and that the wine grape is the only staple
crop of the great Pacific State.
Spotted Tail, who has saved the Government a
million dollars by bringing In bands of hostile ST.
oux, is willing to accept from the Government
something beside ten-dollsr silver medal.
Maggie Woods a child of IL years, recently
arrived safely IN Stockport, England hav ing made
the journey from Chicago, without any care but
that of the railroad and steamboat employees.
General Nichols of Louisiana lost an arm and a
leg in the Confederate service. In regard to his
loss he said to friend 81 feel badly, because the
ambition Of my life has been a judgeship, but you
the proper thing"
A hundred or more letters of the poet Gray,
some Of them badly mutilated, ranging over the
years l742-l77l, have been recently added to the
Egeron Library of Manuscripts in the British
Museum, and are all written in the peculiarly neat
and small hand characteristic of the author.
Recent mails have brought instructions from
Australia and Cape Colony to houses in England
to make up consignments of hardware from
American and not from British products. Mer-
chants in those distant countries are csptivstcd
with the beauty and low prices of American hard
ware goods.
Lena Warner, young miliner of St. Paul, was
accused on the 18th of March, by her partner Of
taking money from the cash drawer. She had
made mistake in her account book, and fearing
that 1t would be attributed to a desire to conceal
an cmbezzlement, fed on foot with 81 in cash,
aud had nearly reached Milwaukee when her
friends found her, her shoes worn out and her
clothing in shreds. She had walked or stolen
rides on freight trains the whole distance, some
four hundred miles, begging her diving on the
way. and was almost crased with hunger and men.
tai agony