Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-10
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Arcc~seck farmers aras nnv rraiizI1x
~ % per barrel fsr their po<afoss
Liberty has one armed soldier who can
do about q. many kinis Of york AMI sbous
a. much Of il, ~ an primary nnsn san 90
With ,wo hsnds. His ktest exploit vas
shiaxIing the walls ard roof OF hniihnS
ali alone. doing bis Own Inning. lie can
lay about one thousand day and = - Sofs
a sizhs TO see him bold the shiagle in place
And star. the fret nail all wiki one harh.
The Aubnrn Gszettr, with tauess;Dg
| tEauehtfusness, suggests that the hands OF
the CITY clock. wbiei, i DOW valuable only
:. an ornament. b. adjusted 10 half past
ssx. A. they viii hang =. shueh easier thai
way.
p,yann Ticker OF the Maine Central
oiye. the big granite stsps for the Msine
baiLi,ug a. tns Worlds Fair. They are to
BE- q feet long anil -ix feet vide and ey-
e,v Maine visitor 10 the building as he
..ep. upoa th~ru will recall with gratitude
the iarge-hesrfed donor, who has done 40
mach 10 build up the business Of our noble
State.
Deer are reported from all parts of Waldo
county IN scattering numbers. The people
will be very foolish If they kill these visit
srs, or alIow them killed this year. They
will prove very valuable residents Of the
eeuufrv. IL us.li.turbed for few years.
All the Maine schools are active with their
rr. GA rstioFs for celebrating Columbus day !,
Oet. 81.
Belfast Journh. A somewhat rare con
tlition of the atmosphere was shown by some
boys ffying kites last THURSDAY afternoon.
In our streets no. breath Of air was stir
ring and the bag was smooth as glass, yet
kites upon 200 feet OF string hal westerly
breeze Of such force az to make severe
strain on common soft hemp Irvine.
Ellsworth American: Several Maine
ne - per~. eiailies and weeklies, including
the Bangor Commercial. Lewiston Journal.
kenneb.c JorRSAL. Brewer Echo and
Name Coast C0stager, have expressed some
very pleasant. We may say. humorous,
.olicitude for the safety of she editor of the
American in view of the fact that he was
Thank YOU, dear brothers. and allow us to
say in the last words Of Daniel Webster.
We amt dead yeti" On the contrary we
had so good a lime at the baby show that
se have been supremacy happy ever since.
Don't be Jealous gentlemen, nor let your
ambition to be judge in a like show run
away with you: but remember always.
How Ike u mounting devil in the heart
Rales the unreined ambition
The Aroostook Herald Of October 8, says
Straw berries are occasionally to be seen in
the fields in this vicinity and a few ripe
straw berries have been picked the past week,
THIS is not bad for northeastern Maine.
Rockport is to have public reading
room for the special use of the young men
of the village.
About three years ago the L. $. fish COM
mission planted about fifteen thousand year
ling land-locked salmon. taken from the
Grand Lake Stream chain of lakes, in Green
Lake IL WAS expected that the present
season these fish would commence spawn
ing and AS the fish from which these salmon
were taken run down stream to spawn, in
it has been interesting tn note whether the
new salmon would develop the same ten
dency or not. As reported last week, eleven
fine salmon were taken in the stream below
the dam after the gates had been open a
few days. The L. $. fish commission will
il. once construct trap to take all the fish
that pass out of the lake.
A bear visited Caribou Thursday evening
of last week, indications of his presence
being first given by the wild believing of
cattle in one of the village stables. Brun
was found few minutes later making
merry in the door yard aud coolly made his
escape into some bushes on the outskirts of
the village and thence to the woods. 1t has
been long while since bear has had such
a thoroughly good time in a Maine town.
The Aroostook Republican is urging the
establishment of a wooden factory at Carl
hou.
The following auecdote is told in con-
nection with Judge George 1hacher of Bid
defor,I who was the first representative in
Congress from the York district under the
Federal Constitution. He served as such by
repeated elections until 1901. and while a
member took an active part in the debates
of the time, Judge TEACHER while in Con-
gress received challenge from Southern
member for words uttered in debate.
Mr.. Thacher told the bearer of the ehal-
lenge that he had no right TO hazard his
life on such chance. but would write
to his wife, and if she consented, he
would accept the challenge; but as a
compromise he proposed that his figure
might be marked on a barn door, and if
the challenger, standing at the proper
distance. hit il, he would acknowledge
himself shot. The gentleman's friends,
finding that they could do nothing with
Mr. Thatcher, abandoned the matter.
The new library building in Saco is be-
ing pushed very rapidly, and its fine
foundation is matter of admiration to all
who see it. 1t is an uncommon thing to
find piece of granite of the size of these
stones that has no flaws in it. Mr.. Good
win was able to get the entire front founda-
ton from one moustrous block.
Mr.. Holman f. Day has closed his con
nectiou with the Eastern Gazette and is
succeeded by Mr.. Lamont H. Appleby. Mr..
Day is to be engaged in different line of
newspaper work" than that of office editing.
Special articles and bright dialect poems,
we suspect.
New Insect Enemy Of Indian Corn.
The Pennington Chronicle say "Scv-
eral weeks ago Mr. Hiram Cook of this town
brought into our office a number of ears of
sweet corn broken from stalks in his gar
den, and asked if we could tell what was