Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-01
General News.


Premier Gladstone has no lack of timber
for his Cabinet; his difficulty is to get prop
er blending of colOrs.
A Russian paper gravely assures its readers
that the Earl of Beaconsfeld is about to retire
to monastery for the rest Of his days.
The Great Eastern has been converted into
a screw steamer, and will henceforth be ex-
clusively used as a cattle ship.
Seven thousand dollars is the little sum
which Mr. August Belmont paid the other day
for an Italian landscape painting.
At recent railroad festival the following
striking sentiment was given: sour mothers
the only faithful tenders who never mis-
placed a SWITCH
Copious rains have just fallen throughout
central Kansas, and an average wheat crop is
now assured in the districts which have been
threatened with drouth.
Judge-"See here, prisoner, if you do any
| more lying you won't get off with three years"
Prisoner-"But, Jedge, how many years dye
s'spose ye'd gimme if told the trooth.''
Wake county, N. c., was surprised the
other day by shower of bugs. which were of
the size Of a grain Of corn. They covered the
ground like red snOwf1akes.
It's now reported that Prince Leopold's Wis
it to America is postponed on account of the
impending announcement of his betrothal to
a young lady of the British aristocracy
1t is said that more men have been killed
and wounded BY the moonshine distillers of
the South than were killed and wounded in
the Pennsylvania whiskey rebellion of the
last century, which an army was called out
to suppress.
MIR. John Gorham Palfrcy, the historian,
is now eighty -four years old, and is still bus
lily writing upon the fifth and concluding vol
ume of his History of New England.
Maple sugar made from the sap of tree
| in Williamstown, VT, at the roots of which
the brine from the farmers beet and pork
barrels had been emptied last autumn, was
so salty as to be worthless.
| The Baltimore American says that the
young ladies of the Normal school in that
city short time since sensibly discarded
frizzes and puffs, &C., but soon became tired
of the change, and have resumed wearing
them.
| The Baltimore Gazette claims to have
know ledge that the exact amount of United
States 4 per cent bonds held by Mr.. William
II. Vanderbilt is s47 ,O5O, 900, and that he is
also an investor in l-2 per cent bonds to a
small extent-say three or four millions.
1t is reported that Mr. w. H. H. Murray
is tired Of wandering, and wishes a return
home. The Boston Post says that the gener-
eral claims against his estate are variously es-
timated at from $4,000 to $40, 900; and that
should Mr. hurry return, it is said friends
are willing to settle all his debts and give him
back again his highly-prized Guilford farm.
Albums for preserving specimens Of lace.
or cards. or monograms. are exceedingly
QUAINT, The back is satin, and upon this
sheets of paper or packs of cards appear to
be carelessly flung, with monograms on each
leaf. Still more fanciful are those albums
upon which a bird is depicted flying away
with one crest, while others are strewed over
the paper.
The Breakwater (Del.) Light has this men,
ton of some odd pets-a pair of wild geese :
They were taken when young and trained to
the very highest pitch for decoys. They can
be put in a wheat-field, or on marsh or pond
which Wild geese use. and by their peculiar
'honking' they will soon draw around them
large iocks, many Of which may be killed
from blinds which have been previously built
They are very tame having been handled as
pets. they have no disposition to hy away or
stray off,
Say. little butterfly. why do you wander
Ever amid the gay, beautiful flowers?
Are you . salaried daily reporter,
Gathering items through all the long hours !?
| In q recent work on ''Eyesight-Good and
Bad" by r. b. Carter, NJ. D., of London,
the singular theory is developed that large