Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-22

Miss Annie Louise Cary intends to spend
the coming year in Europe.
Miss Adj laide Nelson says she shall NOT
return to this country professionally after
this season, and somebody says she will mar
~ soon.
The Mule puzzle.-Draw . circle nfteen
feet in diameter, place mule in the centre
and walk around him without getting out OF
the circle.
At the session of the Methodist General
Conference Wednesday the new bishops, ha-
ven. Warren, Hurst and Foss, we're ordained
by Bishop Simpson, who was assisted by the
other bishops.
The plump. nice-looking spring chickens
that are allowed to roam about the lawns IN
the vicinity of seaside hotels are merely
walking advertisements. They are not IN
tended for table use.
Justice 5. j. Field is said to be regarded
As the abandonment man on the bench OF the
United States Supreme Court. lie has a
Shakespearean head. With bald forehead and
pointed chin and beard.
The New Hampshire Press Association are
to make q summer trip to Old Orchard Beach,
Portland and the White Mountains starting
from Portsmouth, probably the last of June.
The excursion will continue week
The Emperor of Japan is slender man.
of medium height, with an olive complexion,
small hands and feet, and dark eyes Of rierc-
ing brilliancy. He 10 the representative OF
the party of progress and civilization, and Is
person of strong and determined character.
Two orse-chestnut trees on Washington
street, Boston, are claimed to be JOB years
old and to be the first trees Of the kind
brought to this country. The march Of ''Im-
provement' has doomed them but it is pro-
posed to replant- them in the Common or
Public Garden.
CAPTAIN Otway, one of the British Conser-
vative candidates, has = logical wife. She
appeared before the electors in the recent
canvass and told them she hoped they would
send her husband to Parliament because it
would make her so happy.
The seventeen year eicGdas, or locust, as
II IS pOpuIarly calleu, Is AlIeauy m1AluS lts
appearance in considerable numbers in some
of the southern counties in Ohio. Its first re-
corded appearance there was in 1895. 1t ap-
peared again in 1912, and this time the great
W on its wings was said to be for ''war." The
next visitation occurred in 1899; the next in
1886, and tho last in lS63-also for ''war."
The life of the insect is provcrbially short, and
therefore the popular belief long established
in this country that it had term of seven
teen years was rejected by naturalists as in
the highest degree improbable. European
men Of science especially ridiculed this be-
belief as popular superstition. The late
Professor Agassiz took up the question in
this frame of mind, but with his characteris-
tic candor he soon acknowledged that the
scientific probabilities were in this case at
fault, and that the popular belief in regard to
the cicadas was strictly correct; a cOnclu-
sion which American entOmologists had al
ready abundantly established. 1t has also
been established that it bores into the earth
for seven or eight years; and then takes the
same period for its return to the surface
thus making II years between its visits. No
great damage is ever laid to their charge.