Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-26
GENERAL Ne VS..

London has 800 newspapers.
Anna Dickinson will soon appear in New York
| in "a Crown Of Thorns."
The Emperor Williams birthday was celebrated
Thursday with great festivity in Berlin.
George Macdonald, the novelist, has eleven
children and the boys and girls alternate regular
ly through the whole number.
The great Chinese wall, built twenty centuries
ago to resist the Mongol incursionsts still serves
as fertilization thirty three hundred miles long.
Owing to the depression of the times many of
the English jockeys are becoming sailors. They
will probably be known as EPSON salts.
TIE New York Times says that among the lodg-
ers at the Jersey City station Wednesday night
was an English nobleman, who refused to give
his name. His remittance had failed.
1t is now said that the Presidents family will
divide their church attendance between the Foun
dry and the Metropolitan, to show that they have
no disposition to snub the latter.
| private polar expedition will leave New York
in the early summer, ostensibly for trading par
poses, but in reality to search for records OF the
Franklin expedition.
Professor Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian In
stitution is eighty years old, hale. hearty and
handsome. He has two daughters, who are &C.
complshed painters and sculptou.
| President Garrett Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad has testified in Baltimore court that the
employees of his line are instructed to make no
distinction between white and colored passengers,
under the penalty of instant dismissal.
Chinaman has been giving an interesting
| course of lecturers on his country in q lecture
hall in Paris. He expresses himself in French
with ease aad ygor, aud with humor that i. in
fectious.
William Shakespeare, his chair, lately sold at
auction in England, brought only S225 good
copy of the old folio edition Of the plays of 1923
sold at the same time for Ss05.
Sir Rose Lambsrt Price, who has been writing
a book about "The Two Americas" says that he
has seen in New York more pretty women in a
shorter space Of time than in any other town he
has been in. He adds: American society is So
ciable, charming and delightful; and experience
soon tells one that the shoddy representatives so
frequently met while travelling in Europe are but
very poor specimens Of the incest people 10 New
York, Washington. Or the Hub"
There was touch Of horrible humor in the ex-
ecution of the four negro murderers at Aiken,
5. C., few daya ago. The colored minister who
had attended them objected strongly to the re
prieve of one Of them on the ground that, having
been converted in his extremity, he was now sure
of heaven. and should be executed before he could
possibly change his mind.
The recent death in China of the Oldest male
descendant Of Confucius calls attention to the Gu.
rlous fact that this family is the only one which
has retained grand position owing to pedigree
derived from peaceful thinker This family
holds the highest place in the kingdom except the
throne ITSELF and has retained it for 202 years lon
ger than the Christian Era. The governorship of
the district surrounding the tomb of the sage and
an estate OF l65 900 acres still held by the rep
resentative of the family. which now numbers
over IL 900 persons, and all this multitude are sub
Ject to him, while he receives royal houors even
from the highest officials.
The manufacture of beet sugar in Canada prem
ises to become an assured success. DIR. Schadt-
weller of Germany, who is familiar with all parts
| OF the business is at the head of a movement for
the erection of large refinery in Wellesley Vii
lage, and has entered into arrangements with
farmers 10 raise certain number of acres of beets
annually. The capacity Of the proposed refinery
will be sufficient to manufacture the product Of
10000 acres Of beets annually. The success o.
the project is highly probable, since the home
market for the sugar produced will return gooc
prices for the sugar.
i ChiIdTen's Teeth
ought not 10 be neglected. Ask any dentist, ant
he will tell you that the quality of the second Sc
depends upon the care taken of the first. So rut
away with sOZODONT on their little grinders
anu they VIII thank you for it when they grow up
mar 2l-teod& wlw