Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-07-21
General News.

Mr.. Beecher preached his last sermon for
the summer on Sunday last at Plymouth
| church.
The hotels at Mt Desert and on the East
ern coast are doing much larger business
than at the same time last year.
The CITY of Chicago claims that the re-
yised returns of the census show that 1t has
a incubation of sos 29s. and it is very happy
that il exceeds half million.
II is said that the widow of William Bull
lock. the printing press inventor, has accept
ed two millions of dollars in settlement for
his patents from Hoe & Company.
An odd sight at Stockbridge, Mass, is
swarm of honey bees suspended from the
Episcopal church tower. 45 feet from the
ground, where they have been making comb
| for some days.
One of those profound Boston newspapers
has come to the conclusion that if the Presi-
dent of the United States felt in proportion
to his place as big as policeman in a uni
form. he would grow roundshouldered trying
to dodge the clouds.
After more than twenty years suspension
the work of laying the marble masonry of
the Washington monument will be resumed
this week. 4 powerful engine and boiler
have been placed in the basement of the mon
ument. which will be used to hoist the ele-
vator carrying up the blocks of granite. 1t
is estimated that the monument will be COM
plete in about three years from now.
There is young woman at St. Lnke's
! Hospital, New York, who six years ago had
her scalp taken off. and the skin peeled from
the bone. She has had some thousand
pieces of skin. contributed by hundreds of
people, grated on her head, which is now
nearly covered with smooth but hairless
a permanent cure.
A man disappeared from Mount Vernon.
Ohio, more than twenty years ago. leaving a
wife and children. After a while the woman
married again. Recently the second hus-
band died, and few days ago the first hus-
band came back, having just made quarter
of million of dollars in Leadville and SAYS
he proposes to make his family comfortable.
when he meets them in Iowa, where they
now live.
| In China the names of children are given
according to circumstances associated with
the time of their birth. If child is born at
midnight, its name may be Midnight; if the
season be rainy. the child's name may be
Rain; if birth occurs on the birthday of some
relative, that relatives age may be the name
of the new born. and so there are names of
| Thirty, Five, Fifty, One and other numbers
But there are even more curious names. If
the parents desired boy and girl is born.
her name may be Ought-to-b e-a- boy.
The growth of the boot and shoe business
in Lynn may be shown by the fact that in
| 1910. there were manufactured about 200,
900 pairs, amounting in value to $500. 900.
The earnings of the female binders reached
$50, 900. In 1880 the number of pairs made
was go 900, Lynnfeld and Saugus having
been set off in the meantime. In 1850 the
number of pairs was 9,275 900, Swampscott
and Nahant having been set off. At the
present time about 10000, 900 pairs per year
are made. and so many of these Are of cost
ly kind that it is fair to place the average at
about l20 per pair. The number of shoe
manufactures in Lynn in 1879 was lis, and
the number of cases of boots and shoes
manufactured in the same year. ending Sept.
l, was 229 6S3.