Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-11-13

the British Legation at Washington seventy-fve
years ago.
Two million dollars are invested in the salmon
fisheries of Columbia river. The product for 1876
was $3.50 cases of AS pounds each.
A New York collector. whose means eqnsled
his enthusiasm, has just paid Fulton street deal
er $500 for q single postage stamp OF rare
issue.
Lebrun, who was sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment in Germany for slapping German
officers face, has escaped after being seven years
prisoner
A Boston shop-keeper, whom the east wind has
driven out, has disposed of his business, aud has
started to ride to St. Augustine. Fla in his car
rage for his health.
The Chinese Envoy and Assistant Envoy to
Great Britain have issued a memorial, dated
April, 1877, recommending the gradual suppress
sion of opium smoking in China.
A father of three sons and five daughters was
asked what family he had. The answer was: 81
have three sons. and they have each five sisters.
"Mercy! !" replied the nterrogator, "such fami-
ly"
Municipal reform has gone to roost in Iowa.
The Mayor of Des Mones rendered his resigna-
ton last Monday, with the understanding that it
should take effect the next time he got drunk
An aeronaut named Foster, of Derby, England,
recently lost his life in the neighborhood of Work
SOP. He had assembled in a balloon at lexington,
where there were public rejoicings on the opening
of new market. and while passing over Carlton
in. LindricS was thrown out of the car and instant
ly killed.
1t takes a bright-eyed Western Yankee to do
something very small. workman in GAINESVILLE,
Wis, has engraved on one side of a gold dollar
the Lords Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the
Golden Rule, a text from st. Paul, his own name
and the date. A man with strong eyes can read
every word without the aid of a magnifying lens.
The recent storms have been of exceptional vi
oleuce on the ocean, and sea captains running be-
tween New York and Europe declare that such
terrible weather has not been paralleled for thirty
years. The steamers which have arrived at New
York during the past week report having been
washed from stem to stern for days at time,
and the passengers were unable to leave their
cabins.
Queen Victoria regulates and dscpnes her
children just as if they still boys and girls.
Prince Leopold is twenty four. but his slightest
movements or plans are telegraphed to Windsor
or Balmoral by of his suite, so that the other
Sunday when, being in Elgin. he accepted an in
vitation to attend the Episcopal Church, he re-
ceved few minutes before the hour of service
positive orders to go to the Presbyterian Church.
He went
Belzoni, many years ago, told this odd story of
the carnival at Lisbon. A mask in the merry
crowd threw orange at the carriage of the
Turkish AMBASSADOR which struck him in the face !;
and that dignitary, after slight delay, appeared
before the Portuguese Minister of foreign affairs
to complain of the indgnity thus publicly offered
him. "Oh," said the Minister. "such is the GUS
tom OF the country on these occasions, and hope
your Excellency will pardon it," BE it So"
answered the Turk, politely, "but was about to
ad when you interrupted me, that immediate
ly drew my pistol and shot the fellow dead, for
that is the custom of our coutry, and have no
doubt, from the remark you have just made, that
you will overlook it,"