Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-21
General News.

| On Saturday. fur seal four feet in length
was caught at the north end of Raritan Bay.
leading Brockton shoe manufacturer
sold over S50, 900 worth of shoes in March.
Sir Walter Scott's castle, Abbottsford, is
| to be let furnished by the year or for the
season.
Over S29. .0e0 was taken at the Boston
Theatre for the seven performances of ltal-
| ian opera last week.
weekly line of steamers between Boston
and Washington. and touching at Norfolk, is
projected.
Victor Hugo is to be honored by having
the Avenue d'Eylau, in which he lives,
called after him henceforth.
The Montreal Post says that James Cor
don Bennett is a suitor for the hand of Queen
Victoria's daughter Beatrice.
Three firms are now engaged in canning
Boston baked beans. and their annual pro-
duction is not less than 4 200 200 or 1000
900 cans.
1t is reported that over 100000 blacks
from the South have emigrated to Kansas
since the exodus began, and the end is not
vet.
The new Victoria University at Manches-
ter. Eng, has decided to grant academical
degrees without demanding from students n
knowledge of Latin or Greek.
Mrs. Mutt, living near Camden, Ark.
while in fit of insanity Saturday last killed
five of her children by throwing them into a
we'll. The oldest was ~ years, the Youngest
1 months.
The inhabitants of the Cannibal Islands
have discovered trichine in an American
missionary This is a sad blow at one of the
country's leading exports Philadelphia
| Chronicle Herald.
Five people with the smallpox have just
been moved out of p New York city cigar
factory where they have been engaged on ci-
gars which had gone into circulation before
the character of the disease was known.
There are twenty seven Mayors in England
and Wales who are teetotalers, hut only one
has ventured to carry total abstinence princi-
Piles into the festive part of his municipal
duties. This is Mr.. latham, Mayor Of Leeds,
who has banished wine from the civic ban
qucts and substituted notwithstanding bev-
erages.
The law students at Toulouse in France are
in state of insurrection breaking desks and
chairs. and interruptng the courses to such
an extent that the police have been called in.
The faculty revived an old law, which with
held diploma from any one who was absent
during three successive lectures.
The Committee on Experimental Medicine
of the Medical Society of the State of New
York. has addressed circulars to the members
of the Society for the prevention of Cruelty
to Animals asking that the name and au-
thority of the society may not be employed
to prevent, by legal enactment, experiments
on animals for medical and scientific pur-
poses.
The French National Legislature has bill
| which provides that any citizen who loses his
life while saving life or property at fire, any
physician who dies while laborng in the
hospitals in time of epidemic, or any one who
dies while eBdeavoring to save low-being,
shall be regarded as soldier slain on the
battlefield, and insure a double pension to
his family.
"Ah, dear sighed Miss Fizroy, as she
yarned YEARLY. ''tbere isn't anything to oc-
cupy ones mind nov. I've made toilet cush-
| ions and tides. and embroidered slippers and
painted majolica jugs until I'm weary of life.
| believe I'll 90 down into the kitchen and
watch Jane make bread. I suppose ought
| to know how many piDts of yeast it takes TO
loaf" And she penetrated the business
part Of the house only to find out that bread
was ''raised'' from the bakers cari.-NeD
| Horea Register.
DIR. William Clendenin. who was the frs,
| Health officer of Cincinnati, and occupied
| that position for several consecutive years,
SAYS that there is TO need TO direct public at
tention to the fact that Cincinnati is through.
out the length and breadth of its streets. al
| leys. places and commons, in very filthy
state. At no time since the close of the wal
certainly at no time since the first organ
zation of the Health Department-has the
accumulation of filth been equal to the
present.
| A number Of gentlemen recently met in
Poughkeepsie to organize a movement for
the establishment Of Hudson River Indus
trial school for Girls, and they have since
addressed a circular explaining their plan To
the inhabitants Of counties which border on
the river. Nearly one hundred girls under
| eighteen years of age, arrested for more ol
less fragrant offences against society, from
the Hudson River Valley alone. are to-da,
undergoing confinement in the jails. the Pen
| itentiary or the House of Refuge on Randall,
Island. II is estimated by those fully com
petept to Judge, that in addition to those thu.
arrested a number more than five times a
great are preparing themselves for like
fate.
An extensive trial of electric lights was re-
| Gently made in the streets of London. One
night the principal streets from Londor
Bridge to Blackfriars, including Cheapside
ST. Panl's Churchyard and Ludgate Hill
were lighted by two rival electric systems
the Siemens and the Brush. The expert
ment seems TO have been very successful. 1
is said ..the brightness of the illumination
gave a cheerfulness and vivacity TO th,
streets such as they have never before pos
sessed-'' The thoroughfares were .'radisn
with pure white light" and the architecture
features Of such edifces a. the Roval Ex
change, Bank Of England and the Mansion
House were brought ont With Startling ef
fleet"