Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-24
GENERAL Ne US.

Scarlet fever Is prevalent at Chicago-l7 deaths
from it reported last week.
One hundred deaths from smalpo occurred in
London last week.
The average cost of manufacturing postage
stamps, it is said, is cent per 100.
There is a spring at Frcdonia, Ky, fifteen feet
in diameter, viii ch has been sounded to the depth
of three hundred feet without reaching bottom.
An English steamer with arms and ammunition
from New Haven, Conn, for Constantinople, has
been lost.
The trustees of Miami 60 } University will sus.
pend that institution for ten years. and then there
will be money enough to go on with
White bonnets, trimed with very light coloiU
are the rule for sraws; the exceptions are black
chips trimmed with new light shades of yellow,
green Or red.
schoolmaster asked class what Shylock
meant when he said, "My deeds upon my head"
"Wel," said one of the boys, 81 don't know un-
less he carried his papers in his hat"
| One hundred and sixty pouches of mail mat
ter from Australia reached New York overland
on Saturday morning, and on Saturday evening
| they were far out on the Atlantic, en- route for
Europe.
| The medical officer for Burnley, Eng, has re-
ported 80 cases of typhoid fever from the use Of
bad milk supplied from given dairy. Numerous
cases from similar cause are reported fiom
other parts of England.
There was tea party in town the other day and
the parson was invited. Teacups were little
scarce, so everything in that shape was drummed
into service. Just as the parson was going to ask
la hlessinu he five yaar old If he lv
shouted out, 81 don't want this old mug grand
ma soaks her false teeth in it." That boy got his
blessing after supper-Helross Journal.
| The new bridge across the East river between
New. Y ork aud Brooklyn is the longest ever pro-
ected. 1t is 3i75 feet between the anchorages,
with a clear span of 1895 feet, while the Niagara
bridge has span of only S2l feet, and the Gin
cinnati bridge is 2220 feet long, with a span of
| 1867 feet. The longest span of the St. Louis
bridge is $40 feet.
Concerning the statute, 1.-THE Triumph of Wo-
man" upon which the late sculptor Hart, spent
so many years and so much loving study, there is
told little romance so pathetic that it seems al
most desecraton to record it. 1t is said that in
early life he lost the woman he loved, the realized
ideal of his artist.imag ination and in the face Of
luis Tue Dtst years Vi MS MT nc per
petusted the features which long ago faded into
nothing but memory.
The ravages of the phylloxera in the grape
growing districts of Europe attract the attention
of the governments, and the destruction has be-
come so general that the Swiss authorities have
invited Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria,
Portugal and Roumania to a conference to consid-
er means to extirpate the pest. Unless remedy
is soon found the grape crop " III prove failure.
A Philadelphia fas hon writer says: Bustles are
entirely, and wish could add irrevocably, to be
dispensed with, and even the underskirts (Which
should be as few as posssible) are cut and gored
as not to infringe iota the right of close
drapery. A caprice of the moment Is to have the
dress skirts made quite short in front, no matter
what may be the length of the train. Many of
the new evening bonnets trimmed with bias
bands Of water blue or pale rose color fastened
down with gold Or silver buckles, and ornamented
with soft ostrich plumes, and fine lace strings.