The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-06-13
STATE TOPICS oFINTEREsT.

There is a convenient habit of moving real
estate in use in Skowhegan that might be
advantageously applied elsewhere If people
only knew how 1t is done. The Somerset
Reporter says: "The old Dyer brick yard
has been removed back farther into the field
it now occupies"
As a crew of men were painting on a four
story building in Lewiston the other day the
ropes gave way. One Of the men fell and
just as he reached the second story won an,
who chanced to put her head out of the W in
dow, asked him where he was going "To
the sidewalk" he calmly answered.
A Saco young man made call on t
young lady of his choice recently, and sho
ly afterward visited physician to have
bad wound on his arm dressed. He
planned the wound, saying that In q nom
of playfulness the young woman had bit
his right arm, breaking the skin and go
deep enough to make serious injury.
Charles Bonney of East Sumner has wa
relic that 1t Is needless to say is highly val
ued by its owner, although it is of a highly
unique character. 1t Is no less than a piece
of hard tack of the last rations issued to Mr..
Bonney in 1865 This very prosaic piece of
bread has been mounted on card board and
framed.
A valuable horse belonging to Mr.. Is. b,
Merritt of Bangor had the misfortune to
SJep III u QOl6 mbulOTldl udy. DT6dKl0B leg.
AS the horse was valuable the attempt was
made to set the limb. 1t was encased in
plaster which was removed Sunday. Ii was
found that the bone had united and although
the horse limped little at first complete re-
| covery is looked for
The Kennebec Reporter gently dlns its
delinquent subscribers as follows;
We have a few names ON our subscription list
whose owners clothes have gone out Of style sew
eral times since their last subscription was paid.
| They are few and far between. however, and we
| doubt not these deinquents will pay when the
| sign comes right. Hope 1t will point the right
| way soon.
A paper in the eastern part of the state
tells this story of the failure of joke:
A man was rubbing his back against build.
in Centre street, the other afternoon, when a
| workman at fourth window espied him. aud up
set dish OF water to give him donse. The rub
Der gave great jump, shook himself and looked
Cant blame me for IT, Ought to fix your water
tanks SO that rubbing on the outside wall won't
| spring 'em aleak!"
The Bangor Whig says:
The latest spot where gold has been found in
Maine. Is IN the gizz rd Of duck killed in Phil
section.
There ought to be excitement if there Is
not. Every man of common sense knows
that gold does not grow naturally in the
gizzard of duck. and therefore the ques-
tion where the duck found the gold, ought
to interest the people and to set them hunt
ing for it also. Surely, man Is as sharp
as duck in gold hunting.
The Augusta and Gardiner electric rail-
road has had trouble with the New England
Telephone Company in regard to right OF
way. Lawyers were consulted by both sides
and it is said that the Electric Road Com
pany had, by securing the sanction of the
mayor and board Of aldermen Of the city, .
right to remove or have removed any poles
or lines which might be in the way. MIR
Stanford, however, would not consent L
take his poles down and Mr.. Day, the super
intendent of the road, says that he shall hay,
them removed at once.