Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-21
General News.

The Turks believe the opal to be of cees-
tial origin.
A dog in Providence sits before a piano
and yowls while he paws its KEYS.
A Nantucket woman claims to have had a
wart taken of her nose by faith cure.
Five daily papers in New York have sus-
pended publication since the last of January.
The cup that doesn't cheer or inebriate
but sometime rouses suspicions-the hc-cup
Nine -tenths of the Philadelphia lawyers are
said to be church members.
Kit Carson's comrade, Trapper Simpson,
thu oldest pioneer in Colorado, is Just dead.
Fifty nine deer fell to the cruel rifles of
two hunters near Sonoma, CAL, in one week
recently.
A parrot, said to be 90 years old, is owned
bv an Orlando, Fla, man, who has refused
$4,000 for it.
A Detroit girl drew door mat with a
crayon on the front door step, and it was so
natural that several callers tried to use it
wire fence near San Andreas, Cal, has
several signs upon it reading thus: '.Horses
beware ! This is a wire fence.
A Chicago socialist was discovered the
other day applying for work. and the socialist
society expelled him.
1t is now claimed that Louis Riel was on
American soil when captured by Canadian
pursuers.
The great Eastern will be sold by auction
next month by order of the court. Junk
dealers will take notice.
A glass bedstead, richly wrought has inst
been made at Birmingham, England, for a
Calcutta millionaire.
At the recent Brewers convention held in
New York city, nearly $40, 900 was expended
for refreshments aud entertaining the visiting
delegates.
Wellington, Conn, farmer has erected
marble slab at the entrance to one of his fields
which bears this inscription This pasture
is for sheep. Hunters keep out"
al was poor man once" remarked Cen
eral Fremont to the late Sheriff Merritt, who
served a writ on him at Nahant, "but now
owe millions"
Bonfires having caused several fatal acct
dents to children in Brooklyn. a coroner's
jury in that city, has asked for a rigid en-
torcement of the ordinance prohibiting bon
fires.
A lady of Brunswick ga } has a bed the
feathers of which were picked from flock
of geese during the Revolutionary War.
The feathers are just as soft and downy as
ever.
A club of 1900 members in Berlin recently
advertised for six medical officers to attend
them, at a salary of 1915 each per annum
More than 400 doctors applied for the posi-
tons.
A convict employed on a railroad in Able
Vile County, S. c., lately escaped from the
guard, but subsequently, reported at the peni-
Tertiary. and explained that he had been
worked too hard on the road.
The finest stag that has vet been shot in a
Scottish forest is one which was stalked re-
Gently on Ben Dsmph in Ross-shire. The
beast had been known in the neighborhood
for several years past, and its "clean" weight
was 2lst. lib.
The Spiritualists report that the North
pole is surrounded, by green fields and warm
water and is place of Arcsdian simplicity
in the centre of which grows tree grown
from the seed of the apple which Eve plucked
and persuaded Adam to eat.
A sight to be seen in Uncle Sans museum
at Washington. is the blue uniform worn by
General Jackson when he thrashed Packen-
ham and his red coats at New Orleans. The
uniform is in a case of glass, but the dust on
the shoulders makes golden straps in the
sunshine.
"All life is joke to the Japanese" says
Lieutenant Wyckoff of the photographic
bureau. who lived in Japan for five years.
During all that time never saw any one
snerr. l hardy belleve that they could lose
their tempers il they should try"
The Spsniards Of New York are making
efforts to raise money for cholera stricken
sufferers al home. A circular sig ned BY
Spanish editors, headed by E. Molina, states
that subscriptions may be sent to Ignacio
Haya, Liberty street, New York city.
Viennese paper contains an advertise
ment which runs as follows: my name is
ErAda oh I
can exceed my stupidity it is my