Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-22
General News.

An Illinois woman has named her baby
"Pinafore."
The next walking match should be held in
Lapland. philadelphia Bulletin.
Oranges and lemons from Australia are a
novelty in the London market.
The Gate City Guards, while at Hartford
were fpresented with six wooden nutmegs
made from the charter oak.
Professors Now, l ask you, as practical
miner, what spade do you think is the very
best? Third year mad (scornfully): Why,
the ace, of course. (Sensation. )-Acta Col
umJiana.
A Paris urchin recently tossed lighted
cigarette into cask of petroleum and then
put his eye to the bung-hole to watch the
effect. 1t was his last experiment.
The maidens of Chenango county, N. Y,
are getting desperate. They have adopted
the following Resolved, That if we, the
young ladies of cambridge, don't get married
this year somebody will be to blame.
A gorilla about Is months DID, in the Syden-
ham Crystal Palace, is described as having
'the droll, quiet manners of little black
child" 1t is gentle and harmless: its ears
lie close to its head, and are as well formed
as a boys 1t is a girl gorilla.
1t is said that Indian babies never cry.
This is because they are never taken to pub
lie entertainments. We believe an India
rubber baby would yell frightfully if it were
taken to place of amusement. They all do
it'-Nor. Her.
A cotton factory which was started at At
lanta, Ga, less than four months ago has
readily sold every yard of cloth it could
manufacture, and now receives an order from
f.,ro ofs vnoIs
giving it three months of steady employ
ment.
The New York Times contends that, while
the climate of New England is a breeder of
consumption, ''the habits of the people, with
their constitutional anxiety of mind and phys
ical s.lf-denial have much to do with the
prevalence of the disease.
Limburger cheese, now made in this coun-
try, is said to be superior in every respect to
that produced abroad, especially in the pecu-
liar smell which distinguishes limburger, and
which in the American articles is said to be
of such an exqusitely horrible nature as to
drive the most stolid Dutchman wild with
delight.
A young man dressed in the hight of fash
ion, and with poetic turn of mind, was driv-
ing along a country road, and upon gazing at
the pond which skirted the highway, said:
"Oh how l would like to lave my heated
head in those cooling waters!'' An Irshman,
overhearing the exclamation. Immediately re-
piled: "Bedad, you might lave it there and it
would not sink"
The drouth seems to be widespread in its
effects, and not only serious Inconvenience
but some alarm is being felt throughout the
country. The first rain for more than
month occurred in New York Saturday night.
Several collieries in Pennsylvania have sus-
pended for lack Of water, and a serious water
famine is imminent in number of other local
tiles.
As an instance of the remarkably mild
weather with which we have SO far been fav-
ored, ii may be mentioned that on Sunday
there was picked from some strawberry vines
which were growing in the open air, entirely
unprotected, on Ashmont street. Dorchester,
several perfectly ripe strawberries. Upon
many of the vines there were buds, either Just
forming or in full bloom, as well as large
numbers of strawberries partially ripened.
A lion tanner, M. Karoly, who has recently
been exhibiting before the public of Madrid
his powers over the brute creation, had fire.
quently performed with boa-constrictor, the
huge snake enveloping him in its folds, but
never doing him any injury. On the last oc-
casion he ever appeared the boa had, as usual,
wound itself round the performers body,
when suddenly it frightened it folds. The
spectators applauded, thinking it some new
trick, but Hardly simply uttered groan
and in one or two seconds was dead
man.
A terror remembered is sometimes more
dangerous than the same terror actually ex-
perienced. One Sunday, a fortnight ago, as
young woman was crossing the Rue ST.
Honore, Paris, she was suddenly knocked
down by high-wheeled cart, known as sp-
der. Her peril was imminent, but she re-
tanned her selfpossession and relieved the
anxiety of the spectators by regaining her
feet and reaching the sidewalk very little the
worse for her mishap. As soon as she reach
ed home she began to relate the incident to
her friends, and while doing so was seized
with violent attack of nervous agitation.
and sank faintiny on the floor She never
spoke again.