The Portland daily press., 1890-09-24
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

The Bangor News gives local habitationlto a
familiar looking yarn about some smart men.
| a watermelon and an electric car. The smart
men offered to bet the car men that If the
feet from the car, the car could not go
through 1t; or in other words, that the melon
| would derail the car. The conductor and
the motor man looked at each other for
second, then promptly took the bet The
| melon was set on the track and the car start
| ed. Just before reaching the fruit the car
Stacked up and the conductor seized it saying
| as the car shot off 1--WE will run through this
| Bangor claims patent on this paragraph,
| but it fits Portland just as well. The town
| is full of the most atr0cious, ear splitting
noises and an investigation shows thar every
boy from fifteen years of age or more, down,
| is armed with whistle which for real rank
| sounds beats all the fog horns in existence.
The whistles were distributed free Of charge
| by patent medicine concern and If their
goods are half as bad as their advertisement
the. public onght to be warmed to guard
| against them. There ought to be a city ordi-
| nance preventing the throwing of such
| whistles around the street.
Chief Justice Peters has once more demon
strated the fact that he is an honorable and
upright judge, as we'll as quickwitted and
active man. by the summary manner in
which he disposed of small confagration
last Saturday he discovered that the wood
work around the chimney was in flames and
that the fire. was spreading rapidly. The
Judge instead of summoning the fire depart
his age and official dignity did some lively
sprinting between a water pipe and the fire.
Justice prevailed as she Tor hey always does,
and the fire was extinguished in short order.
We have had an idea that their was "some-
thing I'M the nQrQ0rqnh which has hoQn
through the papers, to the effect that golden
rod pollen had much to do with the influenza
which has had, and Is still having for that
matter, run through the State, but we
oracle that is the Bangor Commercial, has
spoken as follows.
There is no sense at all In the statement that
the dust or pollen from the golden rod wnen the
many cases Of influenza so prevalent the past few
weeks. It is due 10 the damp weather. absence
Of sunlight and changes IN temperature, more
the escaping dust of dry flowers OF the golden rod
when placed in rooms.
This settles it of course and the paragraph
will circulate no more.
The Kennebec Reporter proposes to build
| up the city of Gardiner and to make it rank
| high among the cities of the state In point
| of size If II can. In the last issue this no
| tice appears.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
| The population of Gardiner must be increased
during the next ten years. and as starter the
| Reporter makes the following proposition: For
| every baby of the male persuasion born within
the city's limits between this date, September
| goth and July 1, 1891, we will send the Kenne-
| bee Reporter one year. Should the produc ion
| be an offspring Of present subscriber, a years
subscription will be added to the list. The date
| OF birth and name of child the only credentials
necessary. We only hope our "infant list' may
| grow rapidly.
This is a good scheme. People "born into"
place are more likely to stay there than
But it does not seem the better part of wis
dom to limit the offer to babies ''of the male
persuasion" Girl babies count for just as
much In the CENSUS