Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-21
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poodle dog in Paris, confined IN ne
volving cage. drives four sewing machines
All the railroads of Russia are expected to
become government property within the next
fifteen years.
statistical barber in Philadelphia says
that the longest cared men want their hair
cut the shortest
Miss Anna E. Dickinson will, it is report
ed. reappear upon the stage in the autumn IN
her play The Crown Of Thorns."
isn't vour husband a little bald?" asked
one lady of another, in store, yes!erday'
.There isn't bald hair in his head. was
the hasty reply of the wife.
Mr. J. ii. Sho-nberger. the Pittsburg iron
manufacturer has just settled 81 .0OO,OOO up
on his new-made bride, who was Miss Alice
TAYLOR OF New York.
An enterprising censu.-taker has discov-
cred that one woman didn't know what her
husband does. There are great many wo-
men don't know what their husbands do
The paper purporting to be message writ
ten bv person on board the training ship
ATLANTA. contained in bottle picked up off
Rockport, Mass, June II, is regarded by the
British Admiralty as hoax.
The eleventh annual meeting Of the socie-
ty of the Army of the Potomac took place at
Burlington. Va, Wednesday. The veterans
present numbered about 700. Special trains
ran in all directions, bringing in hosts OF
spectators, estimated at fifteen thousand
At Omaha a curious freak was recently
low lakes, north of the city, were blown
nearly dry, the wind scoOping out the water.
The ground near the lakes was covered with
dead fishes which were blown out of the wa
ter.
One of those rough-clad, big-hearted min
ers who come into Santa Fee occasionally to
Law in supply of grub, stepped into the post
office of that town recently and seeing in the
window three letters held for postage, picked
one up, and, looking at the address. said in
a tone of great astonishment: why, this let
ter is for a lady in Denver!" eyes," said
the clerk. "And you are holding it here"
in a tone of greater establishment. "Why, OF
course" answered the clerk, ''dOn't YOU see
it hasn't any postage paid?" In a tone of
utter contempt for the man who would not
forward letter to woman paid or unpaid,
the miner said "Give me some stamps" 1t
was done; he carefully put stamps on all let
tiers in the window, putting two on that Of the
feminine gender to make sure that it would
90 all right, and stalked out of the Office with
the concluding remark hurled at the head of
the astonished Pine Pinto: "Strikes me
there's some - mean people in this town."
The Rochester Express describes singu-
lar case of death by lightning in the town Of
Belcoda on the night of the 9th inst, the
victim being the wife of Charles De Gaugh
Mrs. De Gaugh who was about 20 years of
age, heard the storm approaching early in the
evening, and said to her husband she was
afraid of lightning and would go to bed.
She did so. taking her child, not yet two
wears old with her. Later in the night the
husband was awakened by the cries of the
child which had been sleeping in the arms of
its mother, and discovered that his wife was
dead. There was no mark or trace of light
ming on her body, except that her hair was
slightly singed. The post Of the bed near
her feet was split and Clipped off as if done
with Ratchet. but there were no traces on
the floor or the wall where the bolt had en-
tered or passed out. Neither the child nor
its father was injured in the lesst.
There is young lady in KeOkuk, Ia. who
is six feet four inches tall and she is engaged
to be married. The man who won her heart
did it in these few words:
"Thy beauty set my soul agOw,
I'd wed thee right or wrong;
Man wants but little here below.
But wants tat little long,