Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-11-02
General News.

Silver is now produced in delicate buff
tints. SO as 10 be a perfect imitation OF bam-
BOO.
Innings now cost pretty penny-in fact
as much as the outside of the dress, costly
though it be.
The total number of immigrants who land
ed in the United States during the month OF
September was nearly ifty-five thousand.
Col Nicholas Smith. who married Miss
Ida Greeley. has a son named Horace Greeley,
dropping the Smith entirely. He has
daughter named Nicholas Smith.
A Fall River girl, earning salary of So a
wee.,, has fallen heiress to Sl50,OOO. We
never noticed it before, but she is very pretty.
Boston Post.
A drayman created an alarming sensation
in Ottumwa, Iowa. the other day. He drove
his dray through the town loaded with kegs
of powder, and sat upon them indfferently
smoking his pipe.
An Ohio court ha. decided that married
women do not own the clothes they wear.
This must be gratifying decision to women
who not only earn their own clothes. but also
those worn by their husbands -Noristown
Herald.
Count Won Moltke, the greatest soldier of
Europe, was so years of age the other day,
and the Emperor of Germany proposed to
surprise the old general and reward him, too,
by creating him Prince in honor of the
event. To the surprise however of the En-
peror, Won Moltke declined the proffered hon
or; he did not care for the title. The Gener-
al has honors enough that he has earned for
himself, and evidently did not believe that a
cap sheaf to his crown of laurels would add
men who refuse to he Princes are rare.
Much patent leather is employed this fall
for ladies' shoes
The most fashionable low shoe for the
house is so very low that it would appear diff
ficult to keep it upon the foot.
The Rev. W. II. II. Murray is coming to
Boston, and he will deliver three lectures in
Music Hall on the evenings of November 8,
lG, and "a.
Coney Island had about five millions of
visitors in the past season, and their expendi-
lures ale estimated at ten millions of dol
lars.
A present whim is placing genuine spin
ning-wheel, or the smaller model of one, in
the drawing room among other objects per-
tanning to a picturesque past
The Women's bank in Boston, that adver-
tised to pay eight per cent on deposits, ate
per cent and deposits too.-C Cincinnati Sat
urday Night.
John r. Douglass, Esq, of Windsor Locks
Conn. has just rendered his resignation Of
the office of vice president of the Hancock
and English club of that place, aid with
drawn from all connection with the democrat
ic party.
The man who believes that a horse chest
nut carried in the pocket will cure rheuma
matisnl, is about the only person who is now
willing to bet that Hancock will be our next
president.-Norristown Herald
Many forms of nice excuses have been
handed to the faculty, but a recent one COM
pletely paralyzed him. professor X: Please
excuse my absence from college duties last
Monday and Tuesday. was confined to nv
room with sea-sickness. Male Rec-yd.
Miss Fannie Rutherford Hayes. a cousin of
the President, and resident of New Haven.
presented beautiful flag on Wednesday
evening to the Yale Garfield and Arthur or
ganization. Miss Hayes made bright little
speech of presentation and he thanks of the
young Yale captain were pleasantly spoken.
The very combative and disagreeable King
Theeban of Burmah has little daughter. to
whom has been given the mellifluou. name of
A-too-ma-shee Soo-hpoyan-the incompara-
BILE Soo-hpayah.
A STRANGE SYMPTOM MANY men and
women. apparently enjoying robust health
and capable of enduring much hard labor
without fatigue, can walk mile after mile
without WEAKNESS. and yet when thev come
to stand still, find themselves looking for
place to sit down the very first thing. Wbv
is this? Reader, this is one of tho sr.a |