Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-10-16

fever.
Mrs. Wm- S Badger went to Boston YES.
terday.
Mrs. S. A. Nye of Fairfield wa. in TOW
yesterday.
Mrs. r. N. Savage left the city for Mime.
apolis, Mimi yesterday.
d. W. Pillsbury and wife have returned
nome to this city from Boston.
Mr. Ira D. Sturgis il in the woods prepar-
ing for his winter logging campaign.
Mr.. Charles Moore has taken position in
the Augusta newspaper mailing room.
Land Agent Packard is in Aroostsok conn.
~ on business connected with his depart
ment
Ex-Mayor Vickery and Dr. Croker were
at Merrymeeting Bay, yesterday, bagginz
ducks.
Prot. Pulen of this city will WELD the bow
at The opening Of the Gardiner skating rink
tonight
Winfield s. Choate, E-q., has been an
pointed Commissioner of Deeds in Maine for
New York.
Rev. DIN Hallock of New York conducted
the services at ST. Marks church, in this CITY.
last Sabbath.
Mrs c. c. Hunt of this city is on a trip to
Boston and New England points, west She
is doing mission work.
Mrs. S. J. Gallagher of this city. is in
Calais at the bedside Of her mother, Mrs
William II. Young, who is very ill.,
Mr.. Carl Colby of San Francisco, Cal who
arrived in this city last week on a visit to
friends here, returned homeward yesterday.
+. w. Kinsmin, Esq. leaves for New
York this morning, to make a contract for ad-
vertising Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam
Mr. f. G. StOrer is still confined to his
bed from the effects of injuries received in
the runaway accident, two weeks ago last
Saturday.
Charles Merrill. engineer on the train that
collided with the dummy between this cit,
and Gardiner several years ago, was in town
Yesterday.
Mr.. John Dockendnrf and Mrs. G. A. Syl-
yesterday forenoon. Mr.. Dockendorff will
spend the winter there.
The Lewiston journal says: Special notice
should be made of very fine paper offered
Friday, at the meeting of the Maine Peda-
gogcal society, by g. b. Files of the Augusta
High School, on the art of questioning.
Albion A. Brainard of Winthrop, a Fresh
man at Colby, has been obliged to return
home and leave his studies on account of an
injury to one of his knees received in the
gymnasium.
Gen. J. A Hill of Utica, N. Y, Maj. B. J.
and Charles Hill of Auburn, and Hollis Hill
of Portland, were in the city yesterday.
These gentlemen are all connections of As
sistant Postmaster Hill of this city Gen.
Hill vas one of the bravest and most efficient
officers in the service during the war.
Remittance Of vassa- MUIR hlna Glass.
Soon after the accidental discovery of glass
by Ph1nician merchants. whose cooking yes
sells were placed on blocks of natron, parti-
clss Of which the heat united with the alkali
and sand of the shore. the art of glass
making was carried into Egypt, and very
ship almost 5000 years old. are exhibited in
the British Museum. They reached point
of excellence in the blending of colors. A
Roman Emperor is said to have paid $3.50, 900
for two moderate sized cups made of their
glass, which. until recently, has never been
egualel. The renaissance of the glores of
this Murrhina glass. is due to Salviati, and
the secret of the combination Of glass with
metals is known only to him, and DR.. Dlow-
er and MIR. j. c. DeVoy of Boston
The latter gentlemen are manufacturing
this glass at Sandwich. Mass. The chem
zeal and mechanical difficulties they
have overcome is almost incredible
to those familiar with the form of metals.
In their rooms are seen wonderful embodi-
ments of colors in Us. full and ornamental ar
ticles-fsc-simile of those in the State col
lection in the British Museum. Every imagi
nsble color, ruby, crimson, rose, purple, en-
erald, blue orange, brown, garnet, chryso-
praise green, canary yellow. opaque white,
and amethyst is combined in the glass with
metals, such as gold, silver, bronze, brass,
copper, steel, jewels and precious stones.
which fash with splendor that dazzles.
Specimens of this glass can be seen at Pierce's
crockery store.