Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-04

England, has obsasnsa from the Postmas-
~ General autk ersfy 10 have specially pub
i.sbsd schedule Of isfofmaiioa regarding
the New Esgisna psss-siiies for use Of The
postal clerks. Mr. Ryan has jasf secured
peYsnanen. service Of two daily malls shieb
Is established between Bangor And Bar
Haytor. Temporary service between
Portsmouth and York Beach goes into eject
to-day, AMI tie daily service between Farm
lngson and Portland has been made double
daily.
The Journal q. agent sad correspondent
Mr.. v. 3. Berry who snov ia Belfast and
vicinity In She Interests Of cur pspsr. has
paid . visit to Mr. Ria hittsridge. the
famous microscopic writer. And sends as
the following interesting xeeount of Ar
Kirteridge snt his work
Mr.. Ria Kittridge Of this city, the cham
pion microscopic postal card writer OF
the world has Just finished writing Pres
idsnt Harrison's last message containing TO-
ol0 words on a postal card, being about 20
DAYS in doing the work. Ia writing he uses
nothing but paiy Of common spectacies
fl would seem slfnost incredible that any
thing done With 8 common pen could be de-
ciphersd after beihg crowded into such
small space. but with the aid Of a micro
scope every letter and word stands out IN
bold relief and are very distinct.
The last one thousand words Of the mes
sage were written on a space OF ns-fourth
OF an inch in depth TO three inches IN
length. or sig lines to one-six,eenth OF an
inch. Mr.. X. also showed the writer the
Lords Prayer, distinctly to be seen, writ
ten slght times on the size Of silver 1--WE
cent piece He also has the same written
On the size Of three-sixteenIh inch circle,
beinz squal TO more than 80 900 words to
postal card. The most wonderful part Of
ali is that Mr.. X. is nearly 70 years of age.
He presented your scribe with few speei'
men, Of his work which will be on exhl-
billion at the Journal office on my return 10
the city.
The revenue steamer Woodbury., which
has been At the government dock at Gas
tine for sir weeks, has completed repairs
and gone into commission. This ship,
though built in 1868, never looked better
than at present. She left for Portland for
coal and will commence her summer cruis
ing under the command Of Capt. A. A. Fen
gar.
II was down on Il g kennebec the other
day - said local travelling man, land |
took a run up to bright little town not
many miles from Merrymeeting Bay The
town WAS in quite a stir aud the subject of
the conversation along the streets and in
the stores was the peculiar condition in
which the National Bank Of the village had
been left. the night before. The regular
cashier was sick and his substitute was an
elderly man living some distance ont Of the
village. He closed his work at the usual
hour and went home. The next morning
the passers BY at daylight saw through
the open windows the vault door open
and the inside door ss we'll. The
time lock could be heard ticking
merriiy along and there. through the
open door were piles OF bank notes AMI
cold cash II was clean case of forget
on the part of the substitute cashier, but
we couldn't help thinking how many bur
glar bold, or how many a tramp or sneak
thief will roll over and kick himself upon
each of his most painful spots as he learns
Of the fortune that lay there, in this unex-
ampled ~ay, all that long night, though
almost within his gasp. suppose, too,
world ever have been willing to believe
that the cashier had forgotten and had not
been in league. The certainty that such a
thing can happen is established. Every
day finds some fact that is more strange
than tctios.
Bravo for Ralph Woodman. a workman
In the Cushman Shoe Shop, Auburn. GA
Monday he risked his own life 10 snatch
from in front of an on coming train n little
three or four years old child who was walk
ing on the track unconscious of its danger
As Mr.. woodman suatehed the child from
the track the engine struck his hat and car
red it under he wheels
On Friday of last week Harmon Thomas
of Brunswick. one of the victims of the
recent mad dog bite, went to the Pasteur
Institute in New York, being &C.
companied by DIR. G.. II. Coombs of tha'
town. DIR. Coombs returned Tuesday and
informed the Telegraph that the physician
in charge of the hospital said that the fact
that Mr. Thomas was bitten through the
clothing was in his favor. The treatment
consists in innoculsting the patient by by
podermic injections of virus obtained by
iunocuIsting rabbits from the brain of a
rabid dog. Patients with freshly made
wounds are treated once day for fifteen
days but in cases when some time has
elapsed since the bite was inflicted. there
are three injections day for several days
and then one a day for the remainder of the
fifteen days. Every possible preeauton is
taken to guard against blood poisoning and
the patients suffer no inconvenience, not
III. H. \ an.
aud Only occasionally experiencing even a
slight rise in temperature. DR.. Coombs
reported that Mr., Thomas was feeling
nicely, having lost his feeling of nervous
ness.
A writer in the Boston Evening Tran
script writing from Bar Harbot gives a fine
description of the scenery about West
Gouldsboro on Frenchman's Bay. 10 the
old town house of which the distinguished
Boston artist. Mr.. Henry Sandman is now
engaged In painting his great historic pic
ture The March Of Time" the immense
canvas being stretched across the north
ern side of the large town hall, which build
ing Mr. Sandman uses as studio. The
scene represents the passing of the Grand
Army proee .sion of veterans on Boston
Common Ia 1888. and embraces correct
portraits of twenty or more of the most
distinguished veterans of the war. Mr.
Sandman brought his canvas to Goulis
boro TO finish. in order that he might have
the physical aid of the invigorsting, COO
sea sir and country life. When completed
it will, after being exhibited in Boston foI
time. be finally deposited in the Capitol
at Washington.
| The Penobscot Bay Ses-Breeze will com
mence to blow about July 10. for q cam
paign of two months. It is not "nlow
hard however. but the Oldest aud brightest
of the many summer papers Of Maine.
smallpox il declared of.
| I,ah Andrnscaruin No . of the Tnns,