Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-08

tobacco "quid IL WAS done. No more
dead marine. were fonni lying about the
Locke after that
Reports Of green peas AMI straw berries
are beginning To come from the south and
are we'll calculated TO make the mouth Of
the average Name man water. Bat We are
getting a crop in the Pine Tree State just
now that is Is worth twice az much-grrat
blocks Of cry stat Ice fifteen inches thick.
Later on when the son Of the south has got
past the green pea and strawberry season,
ard is sweltering beneath tropic sun he |
sill have the same opinion. Maine will |
have her green peas and straw berries in |
due season and viii enjoy them too.
Capt Pendie,on and Mr. Nelson, of
f.leshur Who returned home recently, |
afer suffering .hipwreck in the South /
Pacific. q. related IN another column, were |
sl.o wrecked on the railroad train while |
'umiug across the continent from San
Francisco Their train was run into Janu
sry Both at Oeego, n. Y by an express
tram d lwo people killed and several
woundrd The snpWrecked mariners es-
ca ped injury bp, Mr. Nelson was not al
ali pleased Win his experience and says he
prefers the sea 10 railroad travel any time.
A certain Young lsiy-native of Belfast
-sishlng TO rene mbvr al absent friend
.ent her Christina. to her home In Idaho a
dsirt,iy embroidered silk table scarf In
due time letter came with grateful &C
know Judgements, and from which We make
the fGllostng extract:
"A Thousand, thousand thanks for the
lotely present you have so kin ly sent me
l. IS t1qusltely bsautifui, aud came ust
IN the nlck Of time for me TO wear to our
Christmas bali II is very, very becoming
10 me. and you couldn't have chosen better
col0rs- 1t IS new thing here and has
made a great hii--tor the girls are fairly
Wild over il, and every body is having one"
Hon. + NJ. Goodall, Of Sanford, is one
of the Maine men " no are just nov enjoy
ing some rare sport in Florida. He recently
sent a Biddeford friend section of an
alligator hide from seven foot sourisn
which he bad shot
Somerset Reporter. The Aanual En-
campment of the Grand Army at Augusta
this week was one Of the largest in the
history of the order in Maine, was very
harmonious and thoroughly enjoyed by the
veterans
r9e i9erss'9s daylight nov Peigg mtFe
amount of time is added each week to the
length Of the days. and gradual approach
is being made to the longest days.
A correspondent Of the Portland Adver-
User gives some excellent advice relative
10 conduct at fires. He SAYS that the Gus
tom of speaking of throwing water onto
the flames gives rise to very general mis-
conception, that water has no effect upon
the flames it must touch the fuel which is
making the flame. Reporters describe the
Efforts of the fremen To get water TO the
top Of the burning building This may
often be necessary; hut ii is, in nine cases
ont ot ten far more i'm rOrtAnt to get water
into he bottom of the bprning building.
nue gallon Of water thrown into the lowest
part of burning mass docs more tosard
putting the fire out than a hsrrelful thrown
on top of ii The most important of all
rules for the man who holds the pipe is,
Plag ior.
| once know" he sass "a man in olden
days, IN small city, provided with five
hand engines who gained grea, reputa-
ton as putting out more fires and quicker
han the other four captains combined. H.
told me- that the secret of his success was
in PLAYING low. He would cut with axes
into the spot where he Judged the fire had
begun, and pour in a stream there. The
steam Of that water would follow naturally. /
the same lines of ascent by which 'he fire
had spres and put the fire out as it went"
II was witness" he continued Ito the
burning Of the IIenshsw house on Hsr
ward street. Cambridge, | stood on the
windv ard side. All the engines and the
hremen were TO the leewsrd; half blinded
probably with smoke Two large streams
of water thrown from the leeward came up
through the mass of smoke and flame ris-
ing five or ten feet above the ridgepole of
the building and failing into the garden on
the windwsrd side. near where stood |
watched them for some time the psrsbolic |
curves, Illuminated by the red flames, were
very beautiful; but no man in his senses
can suppose they were of any use ward I
putting out the FIRE If one of those
streams had been poured iutelligeRily into |
the windows on the windwsrd side il would /
very soon have exunguished the whole.
"A house in Somerville, Mss.." he |
adds, was well on fre. Two or three en- |
gines had been pls, ing on it twenty minutes
without producing any effect; when man
without a pipe anne to the wlniwsrd side. |
punched hole through a cellar windo,
ard turned IN stream ot water The 1
effect wss instantaneous There was \
heap of firew God well gaited. in the eel. |
lar and when the water touched it. the I
steam in few seconds smothered all the
fire in the whole building.
These appear TO he timely and Thought I
toi sugses ti ns and are certainly worthy of /
careful consideration.
And still the splendid run of smelts con
unues.
the lumbermen are getting rid of the Ia /
grippe.