Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-06
General News,

''No pushec, no shovee, no pullee, alice
samee, 90 like hellee," was the Chinaman' 5
first exclamation upon seeing an automatic
steam elevator
A little boy being asked what the chief end
of man was, replied, ''rhe end what's got 1.-THE
head on"
An old farmer the first time he ate an oys
ter stew, was asked how he liked it.
.'Well," he answered. 90 like the soup well
enough, but | wish they'd left out them pol
lywogs.'
About three months ago Il man in a Ken
lucky town was shot at by concealed as
sassin and slightly wounded. He recovered
from his injuries in about a week, and was
again shot, and this time seriously wounded.
He was out again in two months, and the
other day he received a bullet in the head,
which, it was thought would prove fatal 1t
is strongly suspected that his would-be muir
derer is a sewing machine agent who is kill
ing his victim on the "in:talment plan"
Gen. Butler first saw his late wife behind
the footlights, where, as Miss IIildreth, she
was an actress. He did not rest until he had
made her acquaintance, and then did not rest
until he had won her. She skipped about
the country and he followed her, pressing his
suit whenever he got chance, and finally
captured his bride in Cincinnati. He was an
exemplary husband. His wife proved we'll
fitted by nature and education for any sphere,
and their union was happy one. Some
months ago, when he took her to the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital to be operated on
for cancer in her throat, she died under
the operation in her husbands sight A deep
sorrow settled over him. and he has hardly
seemed the same man since.
Two beautiful young men in Lonoke. Ark,
procured licenses to marry the same girl on
the same day. She lived four miles out of
town, and was not considered coquette. 1t
was a case of first come, first served" The
young man who arrived an hour too late had
boosted that no woman in America could jilt
him. So the fair Leonora put her wits to-
gether to undeceive him, they being engaged
at the time.
"Papa Wrangcl," the venerable field mar
shall who died last year in Berlin, had more
than the proverbial German thrift. lie was
SO notorious for never giving away anything,
that when he announced his intention of pre-
senting public fountain to Berlin, the hui
morist, julius Stettenheim, promptly OBJ
served: Snow poor old Papa Wrangel will
l,.,f and oh ta liJ Jia Ia,
after his gift was unveiled. having been in
perfect health until the sculptor's bill came
in.
A frog was found on top of a Cambridge
(Mass.) church stceplc, one hundred and
eighty feet above the ground, the other day
In February next year there will be five
Sundays. This fact occurs but three times
i'll a century Thus, after 1880 we will have
to wait until 1920 before the shortest month
in the year can again boast of i've Sundays
The value of this years cotton crop is
placed as high as $500, 000,0 900, aud the pros
pect throughout almost the entire South is
ilattering and satisfactory.
green rose has bloomcd in Durham, n
=. Inc bud presents the natural appearance
OF the ordinary rose; but in its development
and expansion the petals seem to have been
displaced by an abnormal duplication or null
tiplication Of the calyx, the sections Of which
are crowded together, making full, green
flower.
The money paid to American shippers Of
butter in the course of the past weeks bust
ness cannot fall short of 500, 900 This but
ter is bought by agents for dealers in England
and on the Continent. As a consequence,
the price of butter has advanced from to "a
cents pound.
Not long ago man named Daniel Leech
who was supposed to be miserably poor, died
in Jersey City. He lived in a single ROOM
slept on a bundle of rags, and subsisted on