The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-28
Varieties.

Fifty thousand eggs of the Lake Ontario
white fish were deposited in Lake Onota.
Pittsfeld, Mass, last week. The great deuth
and purity of the waters Of this lake render it
peculiarly adapted to the propagation of
fish, and the variety it now contains is probably
not exceeded by that of any New England
lake. Pike, pickerel, white fish, rock and STRIP
ed bass, lake and speckled trout, white and
yellow perch sunfish and eels are found there
q" "happy family" indeed if they can live peace
ably together.
"A number of wild boars being, tew DAYS
ago, pursued in the wood of Champvoux
(France), made their appearance suddenly in
the hamlet of Quatre- Vents, in the midst of a
group of about twenty persons, who at once
took to flight. But shortly after, seeing thst
the animals had passed on rapidly, they recov-
cred their courage, and finding that one of the
intruders had stopped to take breath, they re-
turned and attacked it, expecting an easy con-
quest. 1t, however, turned fiercely on the as
sailants, and making a charge, overthrew men g,
women, and children, and made its escape
Three persons received severe wounds
The Prussian tribunals in Hanover ar
very busy Just now. Nearly twenty charges of
high treason have been brought before them
within the last fortnight, and several newspa-
pers have been prosecuted. Several women
accused of having sung the Hanovairan hymn
have each been condemned to two months
imprisonment, and the same punishment has
been inflicted on six laborers for a similar Of
fence.
"A converted Jew who was baptized in Chi
cago is said to make the third Israelite con-
verted since the settlement OF this country.
The English press is not yet entirely free
from libels on the Queen. The last number of
one of the comic periodicals, called "Quiz,'
which has come to hand, contains an atrocious
cartoon, in which Signor Marfori, the lover of
the ex-Queen of Spain, is depicted holding out
his hand to the favorite man-servant of Prince
Albert, the Highlander John Brown; while
underneath are the words: "Arcades ambo.
Honi soft quill NAL pense." After the para
graphs in the Queens book about this servant,
and all that is known of him, this use of iunu-
endo is foul and cowardly to the last degree.
An Irish lad, five years old, truant in
Cambridge, Mass, thus excused himself TO an
officer: "Please, sir, Mrs. wanted me to
come and breath on her baby's face" "Why
did she want you to do that?" said the officer.
''Cause the baby's sick, and never saw my
father" was the reply-the explanation being
that the lads father died before his birth, and
it is an Irish superstition that the breath
of child who never beheld the face of his
father charms away disease.
"A German soldier, bearing fifteen war
medals for meritorious service, has had to beg
in New Orleans
Russia is about to order that no military
or civil officer shall be in any way engaged in
railroad enterprises
The largest known tree in Kansas is a
the mouth Of the Fall River, on the Usage
lands. 1t is magnificent oak, nine feet in di-
ameter and about thirty feet in circumference,
and runs up, straight as an arrow, forty feet
without limbs. The United States surveyors
took the dimensions of this tree, and they are
now on record at Washington.