Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-04

child HIS name IL Raymond Sherman, son
Of Elmer Sherman, Of the Leather Beard
Factory, and 10 only two year, old. but there
. no part OF mill, driven by water wheel
but What be can name and specify its USE
We also might call the little fellow an Hy-
crauiic Engineer. ~ he takes 10 water
wheels and their accouffements and can tell
how . Wheel 10 made, all about the case,
the shoots, faee-vh<ei. pinion, shaftins
puilsys, eelts. ETC., sad point them all out.
Ask him What kind Of . crank he is and
be will quickly reply. "a water wheel
crank. He never 10 20 happy ~ When
pouring over some vatsr wheel book or
catalogue Of machinery. The other day he
vas asked shat he wanted for Christmas
present And his ready reply va, "A water
Wheel book - II would "As.onish the
Jews" 70 hear him talk mill machinery.
the Monsehead Lake hunter Who shot
the white deer some ueeks ago, came TO
Bangor recently with % pounds Of beauti-
fnl spruce gum. He sold /; for one dollar
per pound.
Mrs. MARY A. Livermore is being greeted
by large audiences every where she lectures
IN Maine. All are delighted to honor this
queen Of lady orators.
The creditors are on the war path this
season Of the year.
laundering operations are reported to be
very much retarded by the bad weather A
| good fall Of snow would do vast amount
Of good 10 the Maine woods.
| A robin il reported to have been seen 10
Belfast recently. He vas doubtless labor
ing under the delusion that beautiful
spring had got along.
How many letters have you dated 1883
this year;
People Who are suffering with La Grippe
appear to be nearly unanimously Of the
opinion tina, the number Of bones in the hu
man body has been greatly under estimated.
Matters will be lively at the Poultry and
Pet Stock show which opens in Auburn
Tuesday. over 900 birds aud 50 dogs have
already been entered.
Madison did the honors right royalty to
Secretary Whitney and his party.
E1-President Pepper Of Colby University
has returned home from his European trip
He came on the steamship State Of Georgia
.hich left Lorne, the seaport Of Belfast
ireland. Dec sth. and came to the wharf in
New York late in the afternoon Of Dec. 25
The passage was a rough one, heavy gales
being encountered.
The delay occa.ioned by the roughne.s
Of the weather caused the passengers to
resort TO every possible eIpedient for pass
ing away the weary hours. DR.. Pepper
says You may Judge to what straits we
-ere reduced when confess to having
ventured on = composition Of = rhyming
Of = song Of farewell to the stormy sea.
sung on the last evening aboard, to the
tdue Of Aud Lang Syne.
The Doctor 10 obliged TO confess, how
ever. that the delays of the passage were
not without their compensation since those
Of the passengers who wanted the tonic OF
sea air secured il beyond all expectation
and tn. cost Of board and lodging for the
three weeks was not more than it would
have been for ten days
Capt Elisha Cakes of Vinalhaven, has
90 900 live Holsters in his pond from which
he is shipping to Boston. Two or three
men like Mr. Cakes would be able to get
up quite = corner on the salad market.
A Belfast man, says the Republican Jour
nal. has a heifer that is a little nervous at
milking time, and to perform that operation
he has to hold the pail with one hand. One
evening last week as Moses was milking
the heifer became uneasy and brushed of
his hat. lie got up, quoted the animal,
and reached down for his hat but picked
up the pail instead and placed it on his head.
He discovered his mistake as pint of the
iuid ran down the back Ct his neck.
This is reported to be great season for
smelts
Miss Gertrude Peaks. talented yourg
lady actress whose home was formerly in
Milo. Msins, has joined Richard Goldens
"old Jed Prouty" Company.
Plenty Of exercise in the open air will be
found TO be among the best preyentatves
Of influenza.
The Republican Journal reports that no
La Grippe has grabbed that section. Happy
Aroostook
Caribou claims the champion absent
minded man of the State. The other day
he dressed himself and started for his place
of business. At the foot of the stairs he
met his wife, and when she saw him she
smiled very audibly, and continued to smile
The gentleman saw she was laughing at
him and casting his eyes around in a puz-
zied manner. he bent his head over his
bay window" in front and saw that he was
fully dressed with one important exception,
viz he had left his trousers OF. At this
moment the servant girl came along, and
seeing the lower part of the head of the
house apparently dressed in skin tights,
gayea yell and started for the kitchen.
while the absent minded man quickl, re-
turned to his room to complete his toilet.
The fur season in Maine is now well
opened, and the fall catch is about com
pleted Foxes are usually plenty. so buy
ers report, and while prices are not 80 fsv-
orsble as might be wished, tirmer market
is looked for in the near future The best
hold of money of the Maine dealers is the
trade in skunk pelts, which are of unusual
ly fine quality, the black ones bringing good
prices. This odoriferous little animal is
easily captured. and there is hardly boy
in the country who does not add dollar to
his spending money from this source, trap
ping the skunks and lacking their skins up
on the barn door.
Another prize comes To Maine boy
Claude Rogers of Newburg, seventeen
years of age, has just received the prize of
$50. offered by the William Henry Msue
seed house Of Philadelphia for the largest
and best specimen of turnips raised last
year. He raised a turnip which weighed
~ pounds. Prizes on potatoes and turnips
will do, but we might also get it on wheat
sweet corn, csbbsges, tomatoes and mum.
of other crops just as well As not.
Cresmeries in Maine seem to be on the
increase. although this increase is much
slower than it should be considering the
advantages of the business for our farmers
and the adsptibility of our State to its sue
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