Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-02-16
NO. 40.
pailu krnnehtr Journal.
General News.

is about !. 500 600 tons
The streets were well filed with team, las.
Saturday.
4 sister of the late Thomas Carlvle. Mrs
lIanning is a resident of Hamilton, Ont
Idaho has t5o. 900 cattle. co. 900 horses.
and Go 900 sheen.
Carlyle's chronic dyspensia NAV explsin
his chronic hatred of American institutions.
Pennsylvania last wear produced 81 600.
600 pounds of tobacco.
United States Treasurer Giltallan was in
the class with Gen. Garfield Mt Williams Col
lege.
Hope for the best and do vour level best
for the realization of your homes
Our postai service cmplovs Ia 600 n.rsons
and there are a.. .9s9 rost-othces
The Lake Shore railroad companv has CON
tracied for tiftv-fv new locomotives
There are now six hours during the aav
when tve-ccnt fares are taken on the New
York elevated railroads
Bjornsticrnc Biornson is preparing a COM
plcte American edition of his works. "Arne"
has long been favoritc here
The Rev Edward Egglcston has n rcad.
able article in the second number of the Critic
upon George Eliot
A Belgian porter shut a railway carriage
door So savagelv that he cut of, the thumb of
a passenger.
A colored man the Rev. Thadteus SaIters.
has been admitted TO deacon's orders in
South Carolina
Over 100000 persons are on the pension
list. to whom government paid S57 200 600
last wear.
1t is said that the doubIe runner ia so called
because il will double up anv one who is not
runner enough to get out of the wav of il.
When you saw that a girls hair is as black
as a coal. it's Just rs well TO specify that YOU
don't mean a red-hot coal
Louisiana has S. 45l white and IS. .oot
colored voters officially registered or the
whites I6,9I4 cannot write; of the negroes
~. .403 can write
4 Frcnchman has invented n machine
which he claims will manufacture the finest
of real laces which hitherto have had 10 be
laboriously mnde by hand
John Rull has paid dearly for his "scion-
tific frontier" IN Afrhanistan Tho cost NJ
the Afghan war now toots m the comfortabIe
firure of SI7 .Ooo. 900 mounds sterling. with
some large hills vet To he hoard from,
The New York s.CoIleyr of Uer,ldrv"
showed the weakness which many pconI.
have to no descended from somebodv in Tho
distant past. The college" consisted of one
roor, and one man. and was a stupendous
humbup.
The New Orleans Picavunc. comparinc Law
Gould. w. II. Vanderbilt and others TO
Ptolcmv Philadclphus, who was worth n
round 81 900 600 600 calls them American
pauners. Most pcople would not object 10
being such paupers.
L. T.. Sachs. German naturalist. writes
to Nature that on the island of Billion. 200
miles from Batavia. he found n fresh water
fish which produces its Young bv batcbipo i,s
eggs in the lower part of the head. and the
Young fish are projected out of its month
Even tramps now aud then are of some ac.
count. According 10 a western exchange. n
little Cincinnati child. who had her head
drawn down on the right shoulder from the
effect of scarlet fever. was cured by A tramp
by means of some sort of "hoodo" process.
As crumb of comfort to the holders of
Little Pittsburp stock. il NAV be said that n
report comes from Leadvile relative to the
tapping of an immense body of carbonate ore
ten feet in width. the richest ever discovered
in the Little Pitsbnrp workings assaving
$500 to 1000 ounces
1t isa curious coincidence that since olco-
margarine has become staple article of
trade, the soapstone factories in several parts