Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-16

General News.

Senator David Davis suffers from heart
disease.
II is claimed that the Brotherhood of Loco.
motive Engineers has been reorganized.
Secretary lincoln is expected to give the
Decoration Day address at Rcch, ster
Moody and Sankey are urged to so to Ger
many and preach through interpreters.
The Mexican telegraph line from Monterey
is completed to within IL miles Of New
Laredo.
Prof G. :, Hall, of Harvard University,
thinks the tendency to precocity is the banc
of American childhood
The comet discovered by Prof. Swift Of
Rochester will be nearest the sun next Fri
day. but will not he visible TO the naked eve
He asked me prettilv for my hand"
said Princess Stephanie concerning her BRIDE
groom. Rudolph. that l could not refuse it,"
Ex-Governor C. c. Washhurn calls Min
neapols, Mimi. the most prosperous city In
the United States. and says that il ought to
sprinkle its streets.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is still very i'll at
the home of her brother in.law in Springfield
H.. and is cared for by her sisters. Mrs.
Ninian W. Edwards and Mrs, c. NJ. Smith.
IL begins to look rs il Boston wore dis
posed To take into serious consideration the
project Of a Worlds Fair in lSS5.-N T.
Tribune.
Presence Of mind.-"Oh. kiss me. too,
Janet" Janet conscious of mammals ap.
preaching footsteps) )-''Dont say Kiss me
two Tommy. Say Kiss me twice" ~
Punch
Stonewall JAtkson's widow was present at
the unveiling of her husbands statue in New
Orleans last Tuesday, Her daughter, Lucy,
is said to be the very image Of the great Con
federate soldier.
4E.thetic Lady-"ls not that Mrs. Braba-
zop, whose photograph is in ell the shop vim
dows?" The Professor-'lt is. She ia hand
some, is she not?" Esthetic Lady-"Weli,
yaas- -bn,-a--essentially n woman of the
nineteenth century. .'-Puach.
A resident of Montana, who owns thou
sand head of cattle, writes that his loss dur
ing the past winter on his range, in the Val
ley of the Yellowstone, was but three head,
and that the reports of losses in that region
have been greatly exaggerated.
The British India Steam Navigation steam
ship Puniab recently. while on her way TO
Bussorah was closely followed for twenty
four hours by an enormous whale, said 10
have been about eighty feet long The mon
ster did not seem to mind In the leapt the
volleys of bullets poured upon it.
Mr.. Wade Hampton Of Virginia has in his
possession a German Bible which was print.
cd at Strasburg in 1918. Ii was conjcctured
bv some Lutheran ministers, whose transla.
ton of the manuscript accompanies 1t. that II
was written by Luther himself or was copied
from his writing.
At the annual meeting of the Society of
American Artists held in New York. May llth,
the following officers we're elected: Presi.
dent. j. Alden Weir; Vice President. Olin
l.. Warner: Secretary, Frederic Dielman;
Treasurer, j. c. Bcckwith; Board Of Control.
Wyatt Eaton, Augustus st. Gandens and W.
NJ. Chase.
Queens hair "stifed sighs," "indis-
erect murmurs.' "vain desires '.heavy
eyes" and "needless regrets" are the singu-
lar names OF some Of the new colors IN Paris
this spring. BY another wear the Boston
Journal expects millners and dressmakers to
add to their absurd termnology such other
titles as 'emperor's whisker,' "subdued
yawns, 'ill-advised complaints ''unsstis-
fled craving ''frost-biten noses" and ''un-
avaiing cryings over spilled milk"