Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-11

ter he had lived three weeks without taking food
or water, concluded that it time to interfere,
aud held him while they forced beeftea down his
stomach.
The habit of the California woodpeckers of
dropping acorns and other nuts into knot-boles
and hollow trees a source of future supply, is
well known, and an ingenious Nepa farmer has
turned il to good account by knocking out q knot
in the side of his barn and placing trough un-
derneaih. As the birds drop their acorns in, his
hogs seize them, and are thus fatted at no extra
expense to himself.
Dean Stanley riding down town on the Elevat-
ed Road the other day, looked out of the window
and said pleasantly These cars are like the four
chariots driving abresat the walls of Babylon"
Then as he reached the fresh green precincts Of
the Battery, he exclaimed why, here are also
the hanging gardens of Seniramis!"
On the shores of the Bay of San Francisco over
500 Cinnamon at the present time engaged in
catching and curing shrmps. Each camp is q
little community by itself, and is governed by a
contractor "boss," who consigns the cured shrimp.
to Chinese commission merchants on shares. The
contractor, who is generally the representative of
some firm in the city. furnishes food and clothing
to his employees, and the SUN paid as wages 10
consequently very small. The amount of bust
ness at first hand in this singular business is not
less than $4,000 month.
Prince Bismarck's dog is said to have Just dis
tiDgushed himself again. friend of the Ger
man Chancellor, it it is said, called upoL him very
early the other morning, to present his compli-
ments and congratulations the betrothsl of his
dnuUhfer Prince Rismarck wa dressinu and -
the meantime the visitor shown into the draw
ing room. To him entered Tyras, who, after
smelling round his legs in An exceed ngly uncom-
Portable manner, suddenly observed the visitors
hat which had been placed upon chair Tyras
straightway made for the hat, took it by the brim
trotted out, aud deposited it the door sill This
hint coming from such quarter, was not to be
disregsrded, and the visitor, thankful for his per-
sonal escape, took his hat and fled. lie said he
would call again when the Prince was up.
Lebig's theory that quordrnkng is compati-
Bile with animal, but not with farinaceous diet
seems to have been corroborated by an English
scientific man who has been trying the experiment
on u liquor drinking persons. A striking in
stance Of reform shown in the case of man
Of co, who had been Incorporate for IS years and
WAS III Tue uault VI tthlHg spree once a week.
His constitution so shattered that he had gre
difficulty 10 obtaining insurance on his life Az
ter an attack of derium remens, which nesrl,,
proved fatal, he was induced to live upon fsrna-
ceons food, which in seven months entirely re-
moved his appetite for liquor, and he became per
fectly sober He lost flesh at The beginning of
the experiment but regained i after two or three
months Among the articles of food mentioned
as specially antagonistc to alchohol are lents,
dried beans, haricct beau., and msccaroHi, all of
which should be well boiled and seasoned with
plenty of batter or olive-oil. Ordinary garden
vegetables said to be provocative of temper
ance, but much less so than fsrnaceous diet. The
carbonsceous starch contained in maccaroni,
beans, and oil seems to render unnecessary, and,
therefore, repulsive, the carbon resident in alco-
hol This remedy is so very simple that it ought
to be tested by men who have so often tried to
break themselves of incorporate habits.