The Portland daily press., 1889-07-19
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

There was brief frost at Mt. Kineo Tues
day morning.
The two dollars per ton and the big feet
Of schooners bearing the product to the
South are making the Kennebec Ice men
$4,000.
Augusta people are not going to the sea
shore in such large numbers as formerly.
This is due in the main to the exhorbitant
prices made by the cottage owners, an aver
age price of $1.5o and $1.75 per day being
charged.
The Kennebec Journal thinks there Is a
prospect that President Harrison may pay a
brief visit to Augusta later on In the summer
as the guest Of Mr.. Blaine. The last time
Mr.. Harrison visited Augusta was in 1882.
when he spoke in Granite Hall.
Bangor people have reason to DO proud Of
the public spirit with which her citizens have
subscribed to the fund for Young Mems
Christian Association building. Mrs. Will
liam b. Hayford has just added $4,000, bring
ing the fund up to $33,175.
The four new steel cruisers Atlanta, York
town. Boston and Chicago, the finest men-of-
war In the American navy, and among the
best In the world, are expected on the Maine
coast some time about the middle OF August.
They will probably call at Portland and Bar
Harbor.
A remarkable bond has been put on record
in the Office Of the Waldo Registry of Deeds.
A father decided farm to his son, in Waldo
county, and the son in return gave bond to
his father In the sum Of $1,000 as follows
1.-THE condition Of the above bond is such
that IL the said Blank, during the space of
twelve months from the above date, Is known
to indulge In any drink known to be intox-
icating forfeit all right and title to the farm
now occupied by the said Blank" &c.
Maine seems to be ahead in the great con-
troversy over the Oldest pair Of twins in the
United States. Moses Young Of Searsmont,
and Aaron Young of Lyon. Mass, were
born April 14th, 1908. They claim they are
the oldest twins in America. being 81 years
of age and alive today. There is another
pair in the West who are 81 years who
claimed they were the Oldest, but they were
are older. The oldest pair Of twins is much
easier to designate than the youngest.
Belfast has an old sea captain Of that Inn
patient absolute kind that must have every
thing their own way or make troable. This
old Belfast captain has been trying all the
Spring to get his house painted, but it has
been such an unusually busy season for the
painters, that their services could not be had
until recently when they called on the cap
tain and said they were ready. "l'll be
hanged If you paint my house or anybody
else, hereafter" he exclaimed. 'Im going
to fix that question myself" And he has
workmen now at work stating it from top to
bottom, the only job OF the kind In Belfast.
The Granite National Bank of Augusta
has for years had an ingenious continuance
SO fixed to the doors of its vault that II any
one should attempt to open the door or force
an entrance in any way. it would give warn
ing to the post Office clerks below, who are
employed day and night, by the ringing of a
loud electric bell. The bell has been silent
for so long that the clerks had almost for
gotten about 1t, when the other night at mid
night, 1t gave loud peal The police were
called and the bank was entered at once
But no cause for the alarm could be found.
They have had another official bonfire ii
Augusta. Wednesday afternoon Governor
Burleigh and State Treasurer Beal destroyed
by burning in the rear OF the State HOUSE
and within the limits of the new addition
now being erected, bonds representing on
their face $2,S00O00 These bonds were te
have been issued under the refunding law Of
1887, but were made void by the passage o.
the issuing of registered bonds in their place
hence the old bonds were never perfected b,
signing. They were placed in barrel ant
saturated with kerosene oil. match was APP
piled, and the State House officials and w0rl
men about witnessed the spectacle.
1t is safe precautlon to investigate banana
punches with long stick before bringing
them into the house. The tarantula. spider
venomous as well as hideous. is quite likely
to be lurking within. Besides the one tina
scared the Portland woman the other day
another tarantula, big and ugly. was fount
in bunch Of bananas at Waterville Monday
Saturday Belfast man was going about thu
city with one in his vest pocket asking peo
pie what IL was. When he found it In the
banana bunch no chloroformed it, fortu n
ately, so no serious result followed. One
Belfast man says that he has found severa
he has probably mistaken large native spider
for them.
Growing out of the masonry Of the French
Catholic church steeple In Biddeford, almos
at the upper limit of the brick work, are two
young trees. One Is upon the side OF the
steeple facing down Elm street, and the
other is upon the opposite side They are Sc
high in the air that they look much smaller
than they really are, and probably very few
who pass the church notice them, yet ma
sons who are able to make comparisons by
knowledge of distances between points up
on the spire. say that the tree upon the soutf
aide of the steeple is fully eight feet tall an,
the other about six. Both are green an
healthy looking, and have grown rapidl
sSifhin wear. They are beyond reach 'froI
shs upper window, and could not be remol
ed without stage being built. The opinio
that one = WHOM apn root I in The masdnI