Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-08
General News.

The. shipments of grain from Chicago are
the largest ever known.
The doctors have made Gambetta leave on
smoking and Bismarck abandon beer
In New York. house rent has gone up ten
to twenty per cent. and for down town offices
the advance has been still greater.
Peter Cooper now in his eighty -ninth year,
announces his purpose to retire from active
participation in politics.
1t is said that the Russian Government pro-
poses to purchase large stocks of arms, am
munition and coal in the United States.
The Hon f. B Washburne has returned
to Chicago from the Hot Springs without
waiting for General Grant.
The American. Colonization Society SAYS
that half million of colored people are will
ling to go to Liberia.
During 1879 twelve persons in the United
States and Europe gave an aggregate OF So
OOO, 900 to the cause of foreign missions.
Color-blindness was never more strongly
silk umbrella instead of green Bingham
one.
Sixteen hundred citizens of Springfield
have petitioned the mayor and aldermen of
that city not to grant licenses for the sale of
intoxicating liquors. The petition bears the
names of very large proportion of the
prominent citizens.
| private letter from Constantinople, dated
March 18th, reports that there has been great
| suffering there this winter. One cause was
the depreciation in the value of money; first
the paper became worthless, and then. the
copper and the metallic currency lost half of
its purchasing power, and the loss falls heav-
lily on many classes.
The coming journey of Queen Victoria to
France will be only the fifth visit she has
made to that country. The Prince of Wales
is constantly in Paris, and knows the city as
well as he knows London The queen
does not know France at all, and has not
really seen modern Paris.
The Duke of Wellington would never re-
spond to a letter asking tor his autograph.
| A shrewd fellow. however, wrote to him from
Portsmouth informing him that in the hurry
of departure the Duke had forgotten to pay
for a pair of boots. The reply came, IF.
NJ, the Duke of Wellington never in his life
neglected to pay his bootmaker."
One of not the least curious and.interest-
ing corners of the Palace of SIN Donate was
the imperial chamber dedicated to the mem
DRY of the Bonaparte family. and filled with
objects of interest relating to that great
house. There were splendid study by Can
al.
''Petit Caporafs' youngest sister, ring OF
the hair of Napoleon l. when child pa
per-weight made of piece of stone from the
tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena. the cockade
worn by the Emperor on his return from Ell
ba, a tooth of Napoleon /. given by Nine
Mere to Jerome, King of Westphala. and
snuff boxes, pocket handkerchiefs, rings and
a pair of breeches belonging to the founder
of the Napoleonic dynasty. Al! passed under
the hammer.
Professor Nordenskjold is a man of forty
six, short and broad shouldered He has a
large nose, a mouth drawn down at the cor
ners and pair of amond-shaped Finnish
eyes, which look out at the world through
spectacles. His small, dropping mustache
and his abundant hair, which is fiattened
down and parted on the left side, are of a
light color. His expression is said to COM
pine something OF dlsda1n and great deal OF
sang froid. The professors title is purely
honorary-he has never acted as a professor
in reality. He belongs to an old and noble
Finnish family, and is the father of five chill
dren. He is man of magnificent acquire
ments, but he is very modest and talks very
little.
| A lOve-lorn young astronomer,
GaZed on the world above,
And wondered if the stars he saw
Looked down upon his love.
| just then his careiess heel
I Slid on an orange peel
And he saw ten thousandmore
Stars than he had before.