Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-10-25
General News.

General News.
The reports of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's
illness are exaggerated.
| DIR. Tanner is going to London, where ne
expects to indulge in another long fast
| 1t is estimated that Baltimore had over
three hundred thoa-a.I visitors at its recent
celebration.
The torch bearer in the procession says
my burden is light"
| The employees of the New York Central
railroad are receiving their wages in gold the
present month.
A Schenectady (N. y firm sent large
shipment of brushes and brooms 10 Jerusa-
lem.
Small ornamental pockets made Of Au-
tumn leaves are worn on day dresses and are
tasty and likely to meet with favor.
The faculty of Oberlin College have de-
cided that the use of tobacco by the students
will not be tolerated.
A young lady in Keokuk has written a
poem beginning, Il cannot make him smile. "
He would certainly smile if he saw that
poem.
The Boston Transcript deplores the igno-
rance Of butchers who cannot learn when a
bird ceases to be chicken and becomes a
hen.
There are multitudes who abuse pOliti-
cians and yet if you listen to the talk nova
days ninety-nine men out of a hundred are
politicians. If politics are corrupt we are all
in the same boat
Among the latest caprices in breastpins are
rustic bars forming fence broken by gate,
through which or upon which is crawling a
mouse or rat. Or behind the bars, with his
snout forced through, stands pig.
The Carriage Builders Association in ses-
sion at Chicago adopted resolutions for the
establishment of a school of technology in
Now York especially devoted to the art Of
carriage building.
Boston celebrates to-day the centennial Of
the adoption of the Massachusetts constitu
ton.
George A. Wheeler formerly of New Yorl
murdered his sister-in-law in San Franciscs
on Wednesday, packed her body in trunl
} and then gave himself up to the authorities
confessing his crime.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg brings ava,
!, from Vienna a souvenir of the pleasant i'm
preston she made upon the audiences of the
Grand Opera. An unknown admirer sent tc
her hotel, anonymously, a bird of beautiful
plumage in a cage of gold.
, A superstition of Yorkshire, England, i.
that new born infant should be laid first ir
: the arms of a maiden before any one touches
it; and that its right hand should be left un
} washed in order that he may gather riches
There are good many unwashed hands ir
the accumulation of wealth.
Mr.. Tilden, it is said by "Gath," spend.
most of his time at his new country seat
Greystone, on the Hudson, where he enter
tains considerable company, particularly
ladies, his sister, Mrs. Pelton, being hi.
housekeeper. and in the family is the daugh-
ter of the late nephew Peton. Mr. Tilden
still speaks in a whispering voice and has
one hand disabled, and both his hands have
a trembling motion; but he is mild of mind
expresses little interest in the Presidential
campaign, has not mentioned Jonn Kelly's
name for two or three years, and regards him
self as retired from public affairs merely ex
ercising sort of senior patronage over the
} general concerns of the democracy
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