Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-09-25
General News.
Kentucky corn-growers are wag ny a war of ex-
termination against the squirrels.

Kentucky corn-growers are wag ny war OF ex-
termination against the squirrels.
The Baltimore American calls Mcclellan "the
Prof. Peppers CHEST of politics"
The grounds surrounding the war monument at
Berlin are to be paved with stones from the
eral battlefield, of the Franco Prussian war.
A new line of steamships will be placed upon
the route between New FORK aud Venezl ela early
next month.
Hon. Caleb Cushing and party of friends
went fishing at Newburyport, Mass, on Wcdnes-
day. and returned with over 1000 mackere aud
200 Goldfish.
A lady visitor at Newport, Il. l., lost two rings,
which cost 81 900 aud $500, while collecting shells
on the beach, and both were aiterward found by
searchers 10 the saud.
A Virginia paper thinks that Thomas Jetlcrson's
greatest deed was bringing "love apples (Which
we now call tomatoes) from France to America as
food for his hogs.
The grave of Gen. Israel Putnam, at Brooklyn,
Coma, is said to be marked only by few stones
and fallen and defaced SLAB.
The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks the democrats
of Wisconsin, who organized the G,eenback
movement in that State, did a cunning thing in
selecting republican as the ostensible leader.
Near Romney. West Virginia, lives Miss Susan
Drew. woman hermit. She has her home in the
mountains far away from any other human habi-
t.tion. and dwes amid silence and solitude. She
has lived in this way manv years, and although
very old is quite active, fond of visitors well To-
forGed, and quick at repsrtee She often walks far
into the mountains, and remains for days in re-
gions inhabited alone by bears and wolves
NJ. Theirs small statute was often ridicued.
One day he was walking up the Champ-EIyse
two ladies who wished to get good view of him,
approached. and one of them exclaimed "How
little be is" "Yes, madam" replied NJ. Theirs,
turning around, "but am somewhat bigger at "a
distance"
Lucy Hooper says that what Patti feels most
keenly is the altered attitude of her fellow arstes
toward her. Her genius and her social station had
combined to make her a sort of queen amongst
them, and when she came into the green room Or
upon the stage at rehearsal everybody would re-
spectfuly make way for her, and salute her as
she passed. Now they stand their ground, glanc-
ing at her askance with significant smiles and
whispers. She is no longer their goddess, their
sovereign LADY, she is one of them only. an un.
loved comrade at that. For, strange to say, not.
withstanding her immense, her Unprecedented
success an artistic standing that need fear no
rival, she was pitilessly jealous OF all possible
riyals, and qusrrelsome and exacting with the
male singers who supported her.
DAY BY DAY.
Wayside roses bloom and fade
Bloom and die their own sweet way;
And know not where the fragrance goes,
Floating, floating day by day.
Past the footsore travellers
Breathing in the dusty air,
They catch the odor of the flowers,
Aud bless the grateful perfume there.
Such our lives. Sweet words of kindness
Fall--we know not where or when
Like the fragrance of the roses,
Reaching far beyond our ken.