Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-13
General News.

VIII. H. Murray is in Liverpool; his wife
is nurse in hospital at New York.
In one house in Wilton, Conn. reside boy
his father, grandfather, great-grandmother,
and great-great-grandfather
Edison replies: "Wait." That's poor con-
ISOLATION for the man whose gas meter is turn
ing itself inside out in favor of the compa-
ny.
The city OF Ottawa, Canada, still complains
of hard times. There are said to be 700 va
cant tenements there.
Hon. Hester Clymer of Pennsylvania,
who is bachelor of fifty-three, and the best
dressed man in Congress, is about to marry a
St. Louis widow.
The fat men of Baltimore gave ball on
Wednesday night, but they did not dance;
they left that to the more agile and less wise.
The heaviest man present weighend 43O
pounds, and the weightiest maiden 3l5
pounds.
Queen Victoria and her youngest daughter
wear as their travelling names on the Cont
nent the titles of "Countess of Balmoral,,
and Countess Beatrice of Balmoral.''
A puzzled individual writes to the Cleve-
land (Ohio) Leader: my father is an Irish
man. My mother is an EnglishwOman. l
was born on board of Dutch brig, sailing
under the French flag, on Flemish waters.
What is my country?" The editor of the
Leader advises him to settle the matter him.
self by getting naturalized.
A little girl years old, left locked up in a
room with her baby sister by its mother, in
Cincinnati, few days ago, while she went
out to her work, set her clothes on fire while
playing with matches. When the poor
mother returned the child was able to speak,
and said she had not called for help because
she was "afraid of waking the baby" In a
few minutes she was dead.
got along with SO little friction in the family
machinery. "Well," said he, "when we
first married we both wanted our own way.
wanted to sleep on linen sheets, my wife
preferred cotton, and we couldn't agree.
Finally we talked the matter over. and came
to the conclusion that it was unchristian to
live in constant pickering, so we comprom-
ised on linen, and have got along all right
ever SINCE"
The gold and silver coinage, of the different
countries of the world in 1879. was 1915 ,532,-
ATS, in 1854, it was $4O2, 500, sl7; in 1876,
it was 1876, s45, 29l; in ls4S, it was $685.
595, 1859. There has been no silver coinage
in France, Great Britain. Germany, Holland.
Italy, or any of the Scandinavian countries
since 1877. To-day, the United States leads
all other countries in the amount of its gold
and silver coinage; while in lS4S, it held the
tenth place.
A correspondent of the Boston journal in
BuenOs Ayres refers again to the mysterious
stranger who is supposed to be Winslow,
the forger "From some things which have
recently come out it looks as if it was pretty
certain that this d. W. Lowe is the man, but
it is not proved yet. There is no extradition
treaty between this government and the Unit
ed States, so he 10 safe here as long as he
stays. But he recently went to Europe and
returned with another wife, age seventeen,
the other having died about q year ago. He
has puzzled the whole English and American
part of Buenos Ayres for the last six months
but as yet believe they have not done any,
thing about it. He seems to be doing a good
business, and has plenty of friends among
the upper ten,' who do not care a straw
about what he ever did in Boston,