Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-07-23

'NNNhN "caiuei uhS Deeu exceedingly Dene-
fetal to the corn.
We had better breeze yesterday than we have
had before for a long time
Aud now the sweet-scented pinks are coming
out in all their glory.
Ice water. drank constantly during hot weather.
will injure the coats of the stomach.
The flies have not commenced to he very
troublesome yet this season.
Arrived yesterday, Sch. Gen. Howard, Cant.
Reed, from New York wi coal.
1t is said that hens aud chickens will not eat
potato bugs. They are poison to them.
1t is now proper TO sell Jamaica ginger and
green apples from the aIne counter
The lsdy-bug Is almost rs destructive in some
localities as the po,ato-hug.
The Augusta Band will give an outdoor concert
on Cushnoc Heights this evening
II the grass continues to grow as il has since
haying was begun, there will be heavy after
math.
The real dog days" weather put in its first an
pearance Sunday, and portions of yesterday were
quite muggy
Quite number of people in the city are attend
10y the commencement exercises oil Colby Inn,
versity al Waterville.
The Bootbbsy Register has just put in new
press. II Is a smart, lively paper, and ought 10
prosper.
Motto of the greenbscker:
While the lamp holds out to burn
III try each party in its turn.
vegetable is much preferable to a meat der
in hot weather. and meats are not bought in or
sold in large quantities.
The fishermen in some OF the State lakes sa, it
is hard work to tell which bite the hardest the
perch or the mosquito.
Where shall we spend the summer" asks
Blank OF his spouse. "Better spend part OF i,
with your wife, is her uncharitable reply.
Living i. cheap at Hsrpswell. Msckerellrz
cents per pound Holsters cents each; milk )
cents per quart, and other things in proportion.
An exchange says The river has been fnH Of
vessels the past week and il had more the apsesr-
snce of Boston harbor, than stsid, quiet old Ken
nebec.
held in Mr.. Stephen Boynton's new house on
Cushnoc Heights for the benefit of Elder j. f.
Wade. All are invited to come
The meeting of the Maine Pharmaceutical As.
sociation and druggists OF Maine, at Portland.
with the excursion down the harbor and clam
bake, is Wednesday, the Path tomorrow. Half
fare on the Maine Central Railroad.
Col f. B. glasgow, of the Highland Military
Academy, Worcester, Mass, arrived at the Cony
House last evening, and will be in town for two
days. Julian Wilder, son of Dr. Amos Wilder of
this city, is cadet OF that academy.
Mr.. Warren Taylor of this city, while at work
laying gas pipes, Saturday afternoon, was pros
trated by The heat. He carried home in a
carriage; and We glad to learn. that though he
was obliged to take his:bed he will recover.
The Superintendent of the NJ. c. r. r. has Is
sued circular announcing reduced rates Of fare
to Mount kineo. Rangeley Lakes, and White
Mountains. No pains will be spared to carry out
just What the public desire when excursions take
place on this road.
The Augusta Reds intend to practice now every
evening when the weataer permits. They have
been some what careless about this 10 the past;
but they have learned that only good record can
come from constant playing.
A person who claims to speak from personal
knowledge SAYS Fruit is cheap and wholesome
Those who partake Of it plentfuy will find the
effect on the system salutary in the highest de-
gree. Families who make fruit principal portion
of their diet almost invariably healthy"
la archery practice at Squirrel Island, Messrs.
Choate and Whitehouss OF Augusta are the
champions, says the Lewiston Journal. Their
bows are beauties, of forty-pounder kicking DOW
er. Sixteen Augusta young ladies occupy one cot
tage on this Island.
There a report on the street yesterday that
five pc rsons upon North street had been severely
poisoned by drinking poor butter-milk. On en-
curing concerning the matter, however, we
learned that the rumor had no foundation in fact,
and that the report was butter false story.
Be very careful how you knock the ashes from
your cigar. 1t is a mistaken idea which some peo-
pie entertain that such ashes incapable of set
ting fires. An instance has lately come to our
notice where fire caught from such source in the
dirt on the floor of blacksmith shop, and when
discovered had got under considerable headwav.
Here is an experiment that is worth while for
all our citizens who raise tomatoes to try "The
Western Rural says, that tomatoes picked when
Just ripe, and with portion of the stems retained
and at once covered with brine composed of
teacup of salt dissolved in gallon Of water, can
be kept nearly all the year without noticeable loss
of freshness of taste
The fitting up for picnic ground, of the beau.
mi ito1 oh.
this side of Mouse Island, supplies a want long
felt for a convenient spot near the sea shore to
which parties could go for picncs 1t has been
furnished by the Eastern Steamboat Co. with all
the conveniences for making chowders and clam
hakes, and is now open to the public.
Lewiston paper says: The stopping of the
Hill Mill on Saturday next will throw nearly one
thousand operatives out of work, with payroll
Of $4,000 a month. This amount Of money will
be sorey felt by our city. j. g. Coburn, Esq
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