Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-27

/ church. during lis recent revival.
| Mr.. Vennor says that 10 all demands Of
the kind he has hut one reply-'l do not
lecture" Mr.. Nennor is wise beyond his
generation.
| II is reported in London that Mark Twain
has received from his English publishers
5000 for his share in the profits of a
Tramp Abroad"
| The largest schooner on the great lakes,
| the David Dows. was launched at Toledo.
Ohio last Thursday. The is to have J masts
and has 265 feet of keel, IS feet beam. and
2l feet depth If hold.
| Rossi. the other great Italian tragedian.
whose range is said TO be even greater than
Salyini's. is coming TO this country next wear
with an Italian company, under Mr.. Chiz
zola's management.
The so-called Turkish bath, which sweats
the patient with dry hot air, is not known in
Turkey. Ii originated with DR. Barter, at
Blarney. in Ireland in 1856, and was soon
| adopted in England.
Mr.. Blair Lord has presented 10 the Kan
sas Historical Society the pen with which, as
stenographer of the Congressional committee
in 1856, he took down the testimony upon
which the committee based their report upon
the condition of affairs in Kansas and did So
much to make il a free State.
Walt Whitman was one day sauntering
| slowly by the White House when-as report
ed by the Boston correspondent of the Provi-
dence Press-Mr. Lincoln looked out of the
| window and him for the first time
''Well." said the President with emphasis,
''he looks like a man.
The final surveys for a Panama canal have
led TO a change that very nearly accords with
the plan originally submitted to Louis Napo.
leon by prominent Nicaraguan resident of
New York. 1t will have its Atlantic outlet
at the mouth of the Mendi river. There is
less excavating needful on this route than on
any other, and the distance is~grea,ly re-
duced.
Mrs. Hughes, the mother OF Thomas
Hughes. though more than 81 years old, in
| tends to cross the ocean and proposes to
spend the remainder of her days at her son $
| colony of Rugby. in Tennessee. She will
bring over her furniture, books and pictures,
and expects to arrive in this country in May.
Before going South she will visit Mr.. George
W. Childs, of Philadelphia.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg intends return
ing to America soon, on account of the ;e-
rious illness of her mother. With true tilal
devotion Miss Kellogg relinquishes her
European tour for the sake of her maternal
parent, who is homesick and worn out from
her long illness, and likewise desirous to re-
tuTl W idtiNc MISS NtIlugU Is npN
at Nice, France, where Mrs. Kellogg's phys
ical condition has much improved.
A Leadvillc paper stated that well-know n
actress who visited that city went to saloon
! after the performance, PLAYED poker. got
drunk, licked the bartender and cleaned out
the crowd. OF course she was very indignant,
and was going to cowhidc the editor, when
the amazed journalist explained to her that it
was a tirst-class Puff that would get her an
opening in good society in Leadville. And
then she thanked him and gave him a dozen
passes 1t takes Il little while to understand
Western ideas of business.
4 dismal tale comes from Aspipwall of
the state of society and public order in that
city. The beginning of work on the Panama
Canal has attracted thither shoals Of adyen-
| turers in quest of employment, or, in too
many cases. plumber. As yet there is no
work to be done, and the throngs of iders,
| without the means of subsistence, are easily
led into vice and crime. The half dozen or
less policemen, overworked and underpail,
| are unable to maintain order. the Jail is
crowded to repletion and the police justice
| saws there is no use sending any more Grim
| inals to il. for they do not look upon impris-
onment punishment, but rather us a
cheap wav of getting food and lodging.
The London Telegraph says, according to
our French contemporary, the National,
Paris is at the present moment suffering un-
der an epidemic of crime, the severity OF
which is without parallel in anv other Euro
pean capital. 1t is estimated by persons in
authority who have made the criminal sta
tistics of Paris their especial study that be-
tween 10000 and 10000 professional law
breakers are now at large within the precints
of that city, about l2,000 of whom inhabi'
the Quarter Batigpolles- -Clignancourt-M Mont
martrc. While the number of resident male
factors hrs been, for some years past, steadi
ly increasing. the average of their age ha'
considerably diminished. 1t would appear
that the majority Of homici6es and robberie'
with violence OF late committed in the Frencl
capital owes its preparation to youthful des
peradoes who have not completed thei
twentieth year.