The Portland daily press., 1877-03-16

Mountain locusts, and $4,000 was appropriate
ed for their expenses.
Ine increase of French population is alarm
ingiy small The births last year were only
1oo'oVO more than the Deaths In 1874 there
were about 172, 900 more; but in either case the
increase is very small in population of 36, 0OO,-
900.
The Indian habit of giving names which can
only be translated into awkward phrases of the
English tongue seems to prevail among the
Chinese, as one of them, lady connected with
the Chinese Embassy in London is named
The lettering Lady of Fascination.
An old man named Brunot, who all his life
had scrupulousy concealed his Christian name
recently died at Paris. On looking through
his papers after death it was discovered that
he was born in 1898. His father, rabid
Sa1,SculotteS, had named him Caracalla Salsifs
Secretary OF State Evarts was retained in the
Vanderbilt will case before his name was mer-
toned In connection with the Cabinet. His re-
taiher was $50 600, and to earn this vast sum
required of him only a journey from Washing
ton to New York and an attendance of an hour
in court.
looks much younger. He is worth between
two and three millions, and never took an in
terest in politics until about ten years ago,
when he was possessed with desire to be a
Cabinet Minister. He is a man of ability,
and possesses administrative powers of high
order.
Dishonesty has even reached the New York
churches. A minister the other day preached
an anniversary sermon. He congratulated his
people that the parish was out of debt 1t
was found afterward that a mortgage was on
the property for $4,000 1t was put on by the
treasurer, who used the money for stock specu-
late
If there is any vitae in blue glass New York
will enjoy it, AL up and down Fifth avenue,
among the fashionable, blue glass is Haunted
from nearly every window. An invention has
been introduced by which blue glass frame
can be connected With the ordinary window.
Everybody seems disposed to try the virtue of
this cure.
Experiments in raising hogs upon grapes
have recently been tried in California An ex-
pertinent upon single hog showed thar, fed
exclusively upon grapes, it gained foIty-three
pounds IN tweDty-seveD dayes, or one and a
half pounds per day. The grapes were of the
finest kinds, such as Flame Tokays, Mn;cats
and Black Hamburgs.
Edhm Pasha, the new Grand Vizier is up
in his history. At the late conference, against
the French illusions to the Bulgarian horrors
he retorted with the massacre Of Saint Bar
tholomew and the excuses of the Communists.
diplomat turning to Lord Salisbury whisper
ed: "He will be at you next with the murder of
the children of Edward W."
An amusing incident occurred SIS the new
Secretary of the Navy was leaving his hotel the
other morning for the Department. AS he was
passing out he was suddenly accosted by gen.
tleman, who said, "Is your name Thomp son?'
The reply, eyes" "Well," said the stranger,
my name is Key. We are both in the Cabi.
uet; let us be frends'' They shook each other
by the hand in old time style. Mr.. Thompson
remarked, 81 know We will be much better
friends with such an introduction than If we
had been more formally presented to each
other"
Readers of edwin brood" will remember
the description of Opium Sal and the den in
the East End of London, at Blue Gate Fields,
in which that extraordinary character lived.
Through the kindness of a clergyman's wife,
who had heard of her, she was recently offered
comfortable home in the country. She will
not accept it, as she says she could not live
without her opium. She has smoked opium
for twenty years, and without opium no nour-
ishing food would make life endurabe. She
still lives in the room where Dickens found
her. Her chief support is the opium which
she sells to Chinese sailors, and the gifts she
receives from stray visitors. These are mostly
Americans, who seem to be more interested in
the scenes of Dickens novels than Dickens
countrymen. Sails bed, which Dickens de-
scribed and made famous, was purchased some
months ago by an American, who gave her
about ten times more than it was worth.