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

Mozart composed minuets when only four year:
old.
The American Typewriter has been introduced
in France.
The man who knows good trout stream is now
actively engaged in keeping his mouth shut.
Boston has two or three lawyers who realize an
nually more than $40 900 from their practice.
Within two weeks past the life-saving service
have saved over four hundred lives from wrecked
vessels without accident of any kind occurring.
The California so-called Labor Union is to be
dissolved, owing to the popular Indignation
aroused by the Chico massacre.
From boys composition on hens II cut my
Uncle Williams hens neck off with Ratchet,
and it scared her to death"
A Frenchman said of Shakespeare, "ven you
find any xing no understan', it is always somezing
fine
Now the Chicago Tribune proposes to have
Sergeant Bates, Eli Perkins and Private Dalzell
sent South, and to recognize the government that
will kill them first.
man crawled into the water pipe at Ludlow.
Mass. Saturday afternoon to make necessary re-
pairs. He reached point where further progress
was itupossiolt1 huu was oDllkeu W hDuul
quarter of mile. He became benumbed and
nearly lost his life.
The young man who took the first prize in the
recent orstorical contest among representatives OF
various Indiana colleges has been discovered to
have plagiaiized his Grafton.
The Eastern protocol has been signed. 1t is
said that this measure does not secure the establish
ment Of peace.
Northern Vermont people are telling large sto-
ries of meteor which passed over that section
about week ago. 1t is reported of fabulous d.
mansions, leaving behind fiery train and finally
bursting with reports like thunder. Portions OF
1t are supposed to have struck the ground and
produced the earthquake" which so startled the
natives.
A bill to allow husband and wife to testify
against each other has been killed in the Indiana
Legislature. 1t was feared that If legal permis.
sion was given nobody else would have a chance
to say anything.
A lad who was out hunting near Scooba, Mis-
sissippi, the other day. shot and killed deer with
very large antlers nkng of course. that lie had
secured fine buck. But an examination of the
game showed that it was an unusually large doe
perfect in every particular except in its possession
of horns, which have heretofore been the exclu-
sive property of the male deer
An emnently extravagant young English noble
man, who had been credited to an indefinite extent
in business circles, is credited in social circles
with the following observation upon being in.
formed that one of the discoveries made by the
latest Artc explorers is that the length of the po
lar night is one hundred and forty-two days
"What glorious place that would be to tell man
wi bill to call around the next day after to-
morrow and get his money"
The many initialed Mrs. Southworth, the writer
of profuse tales, 10 described as quiet, retiring
little person, with a slight, youthful figure, in
tensely black hair, and dark eyes that look from
behind their half closed lids with a peerng ex-
preston, as if searching among the living for the
gbos's that are said to be her boon companions