Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-14

patented. This, says the Scientific Aneri-
can, taken in connection with the patent sub
stitute for eggs. will he good news for board
mg-house keepers.
The late Paul dc Nussct's affection for his
brother Alfred was extraordinary Ills bio
graphy Of the poet overfows with frafernai
devotion. Last wear FrenchInan asked
Paul: s.Why do you not present yourself
as q candidate at the Academy" '.My BROTH
er's place: Never he exclaimed. There
il enough of an immortal in the family al
ready"
The census man has struck something in
teresting away down East in Oldtown, Me-
He has found and ''enumerated' youth
twelve years old, named Joseph II. Fortier.
He is the fifth in succession bearing the same
name. further circumstance is that each
of the five was the first born, and all five
we're born on the first day of April.
An original method of advertising was late
" devised by San Francisco merchant.
who hired a man to represent Gen. Butler,
had carriage in waiting for him at the boat
drove IllIIl tIlIOuSu uic succtS UCHluu q "a ass
band, and ended the procession in front of
his own store, into which the alleged General
Butler went.
A minister was questioning his Sunday
School concerning the story Of Eutychus-
the Young man who, listening to the
preaching of the apostle Paul, fell
asleep, and, falling down, was taken up dead.
What he said, ''dO we learn from this
solemn event!" when the reply from little
girl came pat and prompt, 'Please sir, min
listers should learn not to preach too long SER
mons.''
St. Louis damsel of a statistical turn of
mind figures out that she knows one hundred
young men, of whom she knows about thirty
more than four whom she would consent to
marry for love or money on the spur of the
moment This is rather hard on the St.
Louis boys, but what would they say about
the girls?
An ambassador at St. Petersburg, Lord
Durferin, has $4,000 year besides resi-
dence, free furniture, table allowance. etc.
the French ambassador. $1,000: the Chinese
and Austrian ambass adors, each $4,000; the
American minister, $4,000 the Italian am
bassadors, f3, 500; and the ministers of
Turkey, Persia, Brazil, Holland, Spain and
Italy, from 1880 to $4,000 a year. The
finest official residence is that of the English
ambassador, and next to it comes the German
embassy, located in a palace belonging to the
late Prince Lvoff, and recently purchased by
the German government for f25, 900.
The Crown Prince Of Germany has just
done kindly and pretty thing. Little Paul
Brandt. nine-years-Old orphan, having ex-
hibited a remarkable capacity for music. is
being educated gratuitOusly at q musical
school in Berlin. On the Emperor's birthday
the little fellow summoned up courage and
addressed note of cOngratulatiOn to his
Majesty. embodying in this note petition
for new fiddle upon the pertinent ground
that his own violin ''scraped so awfully" that
he could bear with it no longer. mistake
in the address took the note to the Crown
Prince instead of to the Emperor, and the
former Immediately ordered inquiries to be
made at the school concerning little Brandt
and his "scraping instrument These in
Quiries revealing the truth of the boys
statements, the good Prince proceeded to
purchase an excellent violin which he sent as
a Whit-Sunday gift to happy Paul Brandt.
DIR. Calling, inventor of the famous gun.
has Just perfected another instrument of war
that is said to be the most complete in its
deadly properties. 1t is capable of firing
1000 shots in a minute; and by the use of
the instrument three men can do the work of
800 riaemen. 1t is capable of killing man
or horse one mile away. 1t is somewhat in
the form Of the present Calling gun, but
more complete, and may be taken to pieces
a. vvil1 ov6 tborofOro con Qasilv no
about. About $25O, 900 were spent in exper-
imenting on it.
The moral of "Over the Hills to the Poor
house" is pointed by The Miners Journal, of
Pottsville. Thirty years ago DIR. Benjamin
Becker had lucrative practice and large
income. He was an eccentric man and had
many hobbies, upon which he squandered his
fortune. Ten wears later he had amassed
another fortune, which was also lost in Wis
ionary schemes As years rolled on he be-
came toe old to hold his practice, which tell
off until he could not make enough to sup
ply himself and wife with the necessaries of
life. One day last week, when he was nearly
eighty wears Of age, he and his wife were re-
moved to the almshouse to be cared for by
the county until death should come.
DR.. George L. Porter, an army surgeon,
who examined the bodies of the conspirators
NJ W aSnlngtOn IN 1900, mas been trying TO
bring the body of pm executed murderer to
life in Bridgeport, Conn. He confesses his
failure to the Medical Society after this fash
ion sThe electrodes were now applied, one
to the right and left super. clavicular space,
and the other over the region of the heart
This was the supreme moment, for could the
central engine Of organic lite be once more
set in motion and the stream Of blood freely
pass into and out Of the lungs, the problem Of
once more living, after satisfying the penalty
Of the law, would have been successfully
solved in favor Of Hoyt, and many of the
questions Of theoretical physiology and many
of the surmises Of that unknown country
from whose bourne no traveller has before
returned, might BE answered. For science.
his return to life would have accomplished
many steps in her royal progress; for the ex-
aminers proper repute, - connected with
the great discovery. Slowly the thoracic
walls expand, the lungs dilate, with long
breath drawing in the atmospheric air, then
as the electrical current is interrupted the
thoracic cavity is diminished and the air is
expelled and the act of respiration has been
completely performed. Again the battery is
applied, and again the air enters and leaves
the lungs; the flame Of q candle is drawn
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