Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-07
General News.

Summer has come on us. in very sum-
mary way.
Over 400 car loads of ice have been des-
patched from Montreal to Cincinnati. Louis.
Vile and other cities in the United States.
Edward Whymper, President of the Eng
lish Alpine Club, has succeeded in reaching
the top eff Chimborazo. He is the first man
who has ever done so.
Judging from the tone of the English
newspapers, American rflmen will probably
be offered an opportunity to vie with their
Anglican cousins in the native heath.
The Raleigh, n. c., News says that young
lady of that city wears six diamond rings on
one finger and suggests that she needs gold
band around her head.
The stockholders of the Ogdensburgh and
Lake Champlain railroad have authorized
the directors to issue bonds to the amount of
81 $780, 900 to retire its preferred stock, out
standing bonds and improve the property.
The recent rains which prevailed over a
large section of the United States were Of
great value to the growing crops. Wheat
and the meadows are in splendid condition.
and never more promising of bountiful
yield.
The aspect which Mr.. Simon Cameron
presents to the newspaper man is graphically
described by the Herald of Boston. ''To
the interviewer" says that journal, che is a
tomb. To other visitors the ex-Secretary is
courteous and hospitable and likes to make
them at home
The Lockport Journal tells story of
delegate from Niagara county to the Syracuse
convention who, not feeling well upon his re-
turn home, went to a physician for consulta-
ton. ''If you were a small boy. said the
doctor, 81 should say you were going to have
the measles" The delegate replied ''Well
feel small enough to have the measles.
think no boy ever felt smaller than do. If
there is any disease small enough for me to
have, please try it on
The beauties of nature are made the object
of contemplative study in Cheyenne, in the
Far West Two men recently put up s. each
on wager that one could hold a wasp in his
hand longer than the other. The man who
rubbed chloroform on his hand expected to
win, but the other fellow happened to know
that male wasps don't sting and got one of
that sex. They sat and smiled at each other
while the crowd wondered, until the chloro-
form had evaporated. and then the fellow
who used it suddenly let go of his wasp The
other man got the money.
Mr.. George Dawson, the editor Of the AL
banv Evening Journal, and who is an au-
thority in matters piscatorial, quotes as fol-
lows from recent letter of Mr. Seth Green
on the best modes of angling for bass: "If
the fish is on the lower fly, you will not take
any more, but if he is on one of the INNER
flies, you will be sure to take more if there
are any in sight" We learned this fact
years ago, as curious habit of the bass
family. and long before we discovered the
reason of it. Here is the simple solution :
The bass is social fish. Where thsre is one
there are more. They move in schools.
When one strikes the troll there are always
others in the neighborhood. When the
lookers-on see the struck fish "cutting up
they Ego for him. under the impression that
he has found ''good thing of which they
are unwilling he should have the monopoly.
As the angler, on feeling the strike, at once
''reels up" the ravenOus rascals follow in
pursuit, but never pass their leaping and
floundering companion because they fancy
he is trying to seize and gorge the '.tid-bit''
they wish to share with him. This purpose
keeps them either even with or behind him,
but they never pass him. Hence none ever
take the fly above the one upon which the
captive is hooked, but are pretty sure to be
beguiled by and fiy below him.