Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-12-05
General News.
COMMON SENSE.

In Texas, when young lady declines to
dance with young man, he takes revenge
by shooting her male friends.
Bismarck has broken off it is reported,
his negotiations with the Vatican; he will
not agree to the restoration of German bish-
ops
Connecticut man recently said: "Lend
me dollar. NV wife has left me, and
want to advertise that am not responsible
for her debts"
We are told taat the Shakers rise in the
Winter at o'clock in the morning. Who
could help being Shaker. getting up at that
below-zero hour
The Spanish troops in Cuba recently de-
feated party of insurgents in the Province
of Santa Clara and killed twenty-three of
them. They also took some prisoners and a
lot of booty.
The finest yew hedge in the world is at Al
bany Park, the residence of the Duke of
Northumberland. 1t is 45S yards in length
and has been planted 203 years.
William Fargo, 90 years of age, a brake
man on the Eastern Railway, was instantly
killed while shackling cars near the East
Somerville station. He was married Thanks
giving Eve.
has dlWdNs DecH tlOuRut tildt ears VI
corn have an even number of rows, and in
slavery times the question was discussed in
Richmond, KY, when negro claimed that
he had seen ears with an odd number of rows
His master promised him his freedom if he
would find such an ear and in the fall, when
the corn was harvested, the darky appeared
with sound ear of thirteen rows and got his
freedom papers. Recently the negro con-
fessed that in roasting-ear time he cut one
row of grains in an ear with a sharp knife,
bound the ear together again, and in gather
ing time knew just where to find it.
letter from Professor Nordenskjold,
written from Yokohama the day after his ar.
rival, to a friend in Gotha, describes the har-
Dor where the Vega spent last Winter, on the
Asiatic side of Behring's Strait, and is chiefly
interesting for its account of two tribes of
natives who encamped in the vicinity and
made daily visits to the ship These people,
called Tskhuktschs, had no knowledge of
money, but their honesty was such that not an
article was missed from the vessel, although
they were allowed to range over it at will.
They were great beggars, however, and very
sharp at trade. On one occasion they cut
off the head, tail and feet of fox and tried
to sell itas hare. Not one of them had ever
heard of the Christian religion or of the Car
Of Russia, in whose dominions they lived.
Mrs. Dunaway, Of the New Northwest, at
q literary reunion at Salem, Oregon, ''toast-
ed" the men as follows ''God bless em
They halve our joys, they double our sorrows,
they treble our expenses, they quadruple our
cares, they excite our magnanimity, they in
crease our self-respect, they awake our en-
thusiasm, they arouse our affections, they
control our property and out-maneuvre us in
everything This would be dreary world
without EN- In fact, | may say, without
prospect of successful contradiction, that
without 'em it would not be much of world
anyhow. We love em, and the dear beings
cant help it we control 'em, and the precious
fellows don't know it. As husbands they are
always convenient, though not always on
hand as beaux, they are by no means
'matchless.' They are most agreeable visit.
ors they are handy at State fairs, and in
dispensnble at oyster saloons. They are
splendid as escorts for some other fellow
wife or sister, and as friends they are better
than women. As our fathers they are mex
pressibly grand. A man may be failure in
business, a wreck in constitution, not enough
to boast of as a beauty, nothing as a wit,
less than nothing as legislator for women s
rights, and even not very brilliant as men,
ber ofthe press but if he is our father we
overlook his shortcomings and cover hi,
peccadillos with the divine mantle of char
ity."
Nine. Ristori came near taking part in a
greater tragedy than she has ever played, in
Sweden, recently, by being carried through an
open draw bridge in train.