Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-21
General News.

General News.
The London Times is not favorably i'm
pressed with the revision OF the Bible.
II is estimated that $4,000 New Workers
will spend their summer months in Europe.
An agricultural paper states that a good
Alderney pump never kicks the milk over.
More than IS .ooo. 900 pounds of honey are
produced and sold in this country annually.
Since gold was discovered in Australia in
1851. ore 10 the value OF 81 ,S55, ,o00, 900 has
been dug out.
The latest conundrum is. whether the COM
ing girl will be prettier than the one we now
have. Can't he Boston Globe.
The receipts of the New York Herald from
advertising last year were $3.50. .ooo-so the
business manager saws.
Thousands of trees in Northern Wiscon-
sin were destroyed by ground mice during
the snow blockade.
ncle Sans solloquy: "Garfeld-it must
be-and ,et-Conkling. Bv thunder, who
was it | elected President. anywayy"--Ha
per's Weekly. =
Sig. Tomaso Salvini, Mrs. llicks-L Lord,
Prof. Short of Columbia College, and Count
de Pinguy sailed for Havre, Wednesday. in
the steamship Canada.
Sarah Bcrnhardt arrived at Havre on Mon
day, and great crowd of people assembled
to see the woman who brought back such big
sacks of money from America.
A Georgia farmer, removing to Alabama,
took his with him, The other day the
COW wandered back to her old home in Cobb
county. distance of 30 miles.
A Hartford cat has been emulating the ex-
ample of Tanner by fasting Is days. She
will not follow the example of her prototype
by going into the lecture field. She prefers
the concert stage.-Bos.on Transc, tpt.
"No,' said Miss Susie Culture Annex Har-
vard of Boston, 'No, We shall not visit Mt
Desert this season, because of the introduce
ton of social element attributable to afiiu-
ent New Yrrkcrs of insufficient culture with
which we stoutly decline to mingle.'
The suicide of little Efiic Parson, in New
York, whose sensitive nature could not en-
dure the thought that her father suspected her
of having stolen money from him, is one of
the saddest tragedies in humble life that has
occurred in the citv for months.-MaH
Senator Voorhees, and his daughter will go
in few days to the Hot Springs, Arkansas,
to remain month for the benefit of his health,
as he has been suffering from rheumatism.
Mrs. Voorhees, will spend the summer at Mar
ragansett
negro lives on the plantation Of C. NJ.
Esy. near Fayetteville, n. c., who has re-
mained with his old master since the war. lie
has never asked for menev, has never missed
a davs work, has never left home, and has
never been known to do a dishonest act.
"We have no intention says the Lowell
Mail, 'of offering a bribe to the New York
Legislature: but we should like to mention
the fact that if it will not return Mr.. Conk-
ling to the Senate shall be disposed to
send chrome to any charitable institution
in Albany that a disnterested committee may
zane"
Mr.. George Chainey, in his lecture in Bos-
ton on Lessons for To-day, founded on Walt
Whitman's Leaves of Grass, said that Whit
man was emaently the poet of to-day, and
while no poet has been so coldly received,
the writings of none beat warmer to life.
Whitman dared to write in his own way,
finding what nature had to say, and follow
ing her rather than in the path beaten ty
others.
A good story is told of Nathaniel Deering,
the last of the class of 1910 of Harvard, who
has died recently At one time 'Uncle
Toms Cabin" was being played at Portland
in a theatre that belonged to him, and he be-
came so excited when Legree bid off the girl
in the auction scene for 5000 that he sprang
from his box on to the stage and exclaimed,
"The villain shall not have her; bid &c.
OOO"
The Elmira Gazette relates touching in
cident Of the reunion of two Italian musi-
clans, brothers who had parted in Italy when
the younger was but a little boy. When
the latter claimed the elder, named Nick, as
his brother in Elmira, Nick was incredulous,
forgetting that time enough had elapsed to
transform the little boy into man. But
when the younger brother began playing an
air taught him by Nick, that swarthy son Of
Italia recognized and embraced him amid
the tears and smiles Of the bystanders.