Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-09-07

| right idea for the proper occasion, Gov
| ernor Burleigh's Labor Dav proeiama-
| lion Is a model OF good sense and sound
| logic.--Bangor Daily News.
A novel spectacle was witnessed In
Eastport recently when reverend gen
tieman about 20 years OF age, was
observed carrying the dinner OF hi.
father-in-law aged about 80 years. TO the
place where the latter il actively EN-
ployed as 3 mechanic.
The side Of the battery at PASSPORT is
said to supply the base ball ground with
| al excellent natural grand stand
Biddeford must he pretty honest
place A citizen there laid down his
DOC textbook recently and had boarded
the train for Old Orchard before he
missed it He sent boy with note 10
a friend, telling him where he had left
his pocket book and this friend found IL
| all safe, though for an hour IL had laid
in public place
The Belfast Age reports maekerel az
very scarce in that bay. They must
have gone TO Camden. The Herald re-
ports them very plenty in that harbor.
A Belfast farmer was on his way to
summer resort with a coop full Of chick
ems which he intended to peddie
out fresh and tender, when unfortunate
ly for him a slat came of the coop and
all the chickens escaped and fled into
piece OF woods. The last heard Of him,
was several miles away with the chick
ems having good lead.
The Belfast Age says that the shell
game was quite extensively worked IN
that city during the recent horse trot
and circus II has such an innocent look
that IL attracts at once. All you have
got 10 do Is to do Ia to bet all the money
you have got that you can turn over the
shell under which is the object This
is hard thing to do because the object
ia not under any OF the shells. AZ many
learned to their sorrow. One ambitious
citizen dropped ten dollars In this FACT
mating but expensive sport.
The Camden Herald has long edito-
rial this week under the caption Are we
to Have the Railroad" It reviews the
various propositions for securing the
road and declares that IL after all her
commendable efforts In that direction,
should Camden now fail TO secure the
railroad, she certainly would have good
reason to think she had been indulging
In very unsatisfactory and undigniiied
game of boys play
A Biddeford man recently discovered
a vicious" tarantula in bunch OF banan-
rs. He the tarantulaJ was very much
frightened.
Portland gave the fleet royal wei
come.
Griudstone Is not a very euFhonious
name. Moreover. it recalls TO the aver.
age citizen many wearisome scenes in
'childhood's early morning." bat not
withstandug this. the place by that
name on the Maine coast appears TO he
having genuine boom as summer
resort. Ground is to be broken for at
least eight cottages during the next two
weeks, making a total of twenty six
residences built on Grindstone Neck
during the ten months that the place
has been opened with the certainty OF Il
number more 10 he erected during the
winter.
Care should be taken not to kill little
bug, something like a potato bug, but
not so gaudy, who follows the caterpil-
lars about and makes their lives miser.
able. When he sees cocoon he attacks
il and covers it with sort Of white
slime. In this slime il contained the
eggs OF the bug and they feed on the
embryo caterpillar. They can do more
to clean out the caterpillars than all other
means combined,
Rosemary Cottage in Eliot will close
its seasons work this week During the
summer two hundred and forty-oue
people have come out Of the city of Bos
ton, tired out and discouraged. and have
returned with their hearts filled with
interest, enthusiasm and JOY. Miss
Maddox OF the class of % at Wellesley
College, who has acted AS matron this
year, will ill the same position next
year.
The Lane genealogv by Rev j. Chap
man and Rev. j. II. Fits OF Exeter, n.
IL is now in press. 1t includes the de-
scendants Of william Lane of Roston
1850 John of Newbury, \. II. and
NNpbaiN 'Vhu VI YIN tuuItN, lHo latLtr
of which includes Col Isaac Lane oiIIol
lis and his descendants.
The lecture season in Maine has al.
ready commenced.
The king Of the turf or queen of the
turf has brief tenure Of reign these
days-snd no one can tell which will be
the crowned one, week or month
hence. Startling revelations in the low
ering of turf records are taking place
all the time, and may be expected any
day.