Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-16
General News.

| Mr.. Archibald Forbes is said to be writing
| work on Am, rica.
A yacht can stand on a tack without swear
| ing. A man can't.
Fifty persons asked for prayers at the
Thursday evening prayer meeting at Beech
er's church.
"What is home without father?" asked
an exchange. 1t is mighty good place to
court girl in.-Reporter.
| A portrait of Milton, painted in 1910, and
formerly owned by Charles Lamb, has just
| been sold in London for f355.
Whitelaw Reid and Miss Mills will be mar
ricd about the Sd OF May and spend the hon
eymoon in Europe.
| The New York physicians are killing the
goose which lays their golden eggs by joining
| in the movement for cleaner streets.
Senator Dawes is described by cores
pondent shaped like one-half of paren-
| thesis, and as being thin-haired and scrawny.
Trinity College, Hartford, has received
| several hundred volumes of valuable books
from Mr. .Junius s. Morgan Of London.
| At st. Paul, Mimi, April 4. at midnight,
shock of earthquake was felt sufficiently
| strong to awaken people from sleep.
Michigan has a man with three arms. He
| is the only man alive who can take two girls
| sleighing and enjoy it.-Boston Post
| Men who their own enemies would
| find it great deal more profitable to be enc
| mics to somebody else and friends to them
selves -Somerriiie Journal.
| Mr.. John q. Whittier remains generally in
excellent health although he still continues
| to throw off stanzas occasionally. lie has
| lately been in Boston.
| Mr.. w. ID. Howells will contribute TO the
June and July numbers of Scribner's Maya
| zine a short story called "A Fearful Respon-
| sibiitv.'
The Medical School of Maine is now on it.
| sixtv first annual course, and more students
are in attendance at its lectures this spring
than ever before.
Eight of the United States Senators are
mentioned by the Philadelphia Press news
paper proprietors. Among them are Senator
| Fair, VINO owns part of the Virginia City
| Enterprise, and Senator Hill. who has an in
terest in the Denver Tribune
| Max Muller writes of spelling reform: "a
| reviewer. if he has nothing else to say, can
always fill volume with ridicule of spelling
reform. That cannot be helped No man
was ridiculed much as Coperncus.
| The revised New Testament in the author
lied Oxford editions will be published by
Thomas Nelson & Sons, Of New York, on
the 18th of May. 1t will be issued in twenty.
two different styles at prices ranging all the
way from - cents to SIG.
| ''Annie Cary was as fresh, humorous and
bewitching as ever in the part Of Nancy
and sang with her own noble fulness and
| sweetness of voice and evenness of STYLE.
| So saws the Boston Advertiser of Miss Cary's
part in the Opera Martha" on Monday
evening.
John Gyumber, the young Hungarian who
fell asleep in Allentown. Pa, just two months
ago, still slumbers. though not so soundly
The case has excited much interest among
the people in the neighborhood, and the local
physicians have watched the sleeper with
close attention. DIR. Baird, of this city, and
DIR. Morton. of Philadelphia, have also made
examinations. Attempts of all kinds, includ
ing the use Of hot irons and electricity, have
been made to rouse the patient, but without
the slightest effect, aside from slight mus
lcular twitchings.
Checkers is the Oldest game in history
one thousand years. Ex.] This is mis-
take. Pharaoh existed at earlier date
lTSyracuse Standard. Poker is still in or
der. Invented by Tubal CAIN New Yorl
Commercial Advertiser. Freeze-out hold,
the age. 1t was invented in Paradise.- Bostor
Globe. You're wrong. old man. Adam
piayed solitaire before Ewes advent Lynn
Bee Whist, One-half Of creation went or
"All Fours" before Man began to play lon'
lhand.-fNew York News.1 We are al
wrong. boys. The little protopIasms wer,
the first to play the ''game Of life" away bsci
in the cribage Of the world.-t Boston Globe