Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-30
General News.

Partisan duellists are causing no little per
plexity to the Belgian Police.
'Tis funny to see how eagerly a femal,
editor grabs 1.-THE male
Edwin Booth has not relinquished his en-
gagement at the London Lvceum as was re
Gently telegraphed.
Sitting Bulls daughter. Sleeping Water,
has added to the old mans woes by elopin.
with an Objectionable Young brave.
The English team of cricketers which i,
going out to Australia in September next
says a ToroAto dispatch, is negotiating fol-
Hanlan to accompany it.
Mrs. Mary 4. l.ivermorc is cndeavoring Il
convince Ohio audiences of the non- existence
of superhuous women. She was in Cleveland
on Sunday.
1t will not be necessary hereafter for eli
gar manufacturers to apply TO the Commits
sioner for permission to remove cigar facto
tories including unstamped cigars.
Among the improvements at Middlebury
Vt. college, are new gymnasium, more
commodious quarters for the museum. and a
new library building, with dome and wind
ing alcoves.
The Trustees of the Louisiana State Uni.
versity are discussing the question of admit
ting young women to that institution. The
press of the State is strongly in favor of the
innovati
Sliding down hill is called coasting, prob.
ably because there are so many buoys en-
gagged in it. And girls, too, for that matter
And consequently, a great many smacks.--
burlington Hankeyc.
The fact that Montreal is without a fire.,
public library is not creditable to that sub
stantial and prosperous city. In the hope
Of removing this reproach number of pub
lic-spirited gentlemen are taking preliminary
steps toward supplying the lack.
The reformed spelling" advocated by
Professors Whitney and Marsh and J. Ham
mond Trumbull and other philolorists has beer
actually adopted by some thirty American
newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune
Springfield Republican and Home Journal.
A Portland (Me.) fisherman. while mack
ereling of the cape in his wherry. was at,
tackled by a swordfsh. which drove its sword
through the bottom of the boat, and was held
so tight that the fish was killed. 1t weighed
800 pounds.
A school of gardening and practical fOricul-
ture is to be opened at the Crystal Palace
near London, for the benefit of students of
landscape gardening and gentlemen likely to
be the owners. the conservators or managers
of great estates.
A huge mammoth has been discovered in
Siberia at depth of twenty-five feet beneath
the surface. Its hide and flesh at first had a
pinky hue but in a few days it turned to a
solid, white, argillaceous mass. 1t is TO be
exhumed in September.
4 dispatch tC the Galveston (Texss) News
from Blossom Prarie SAYS ''B. F. Ackcrman
living ten miles north of that place, while a,
the house of one of his tenants on Sunday
was fired upon by four men armed with Win.
chester rifles and seriously wounded in the
face. breast and leg.
The Pittsburg Dispatch believes that in the
future there 'will be chance for the young
men of Pennsylvania to win fame and high
position without catering to those who should
be the mere scullions and scavengers of the
political household
4 telegram from Fort keogh, NJ. r., ha,
been received at the War Department an
nouncing that thirty-two lodges Of Uncapaps
Sioux Indians surrendered April Is, consist.
ing Of 47 men, 80 women, 25 boys and 4;
girls, and possessing ~ ponies, IL guns anc
revolyCrs.
Mrs Disrael once told an interested lis
tener that her husband took shower batl
the first thing every morning, and added
ale looks so funny coming out Of the bath.
Mrs. Gladstone says that when she hear,
she knows ,ba, atis;r. are prosnerou.
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Once or twice year scare takes place
from the discovery that parasites are found
in fish. a day or SO ago leading Westerr