Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-21
MAINE GOSSIP.

IAANL UVSSlIs
The new law IS very explicit In regard
TO certificates and records by physicians
and uodertak=rs in case of dea-h. From
wba. We learn, il seems lhas physicians
generally are very lax In regard % these
matters. much to the aggraEatf7n Of the
undertakers who have IN follow them
up and get the rsqaired documents be
fore they can get 3 burial permit. The
law imposes flee of sie0 for violation
Of this iaN. but this part Of Il seems TO
be dead letter last now.
Bath Times: That 500. 600 remaining
ought TO eoma down quick AID the gar
Gen Of Maize have an outlet for ils pro
ducts. Boom, Aroostook, boom.
Portland merchants all -epor. 4 pros
porous year during ls9l, and steady
increase instead OF f4lling of In profits
in all lines Of trade
For ore hundre5 years and more the
town Of J. merck has existed. bar never
before has there been 81 mach sickness
as az the present. time. Hardly family
in Town has escaped and in msny cases
the encire family il down On Main
street there are oaly two families who
are EoE sick, and the public house Is
closed.
A foot Of snow fell az Greenviiie Mon.
day night and from 10 to Is inches at
kacahdia Iron Works. The umbermeu
were all pleased to see the snow come
and they can now carry on their work
to much better advantage than previous
70 the storm
And row i. ia Knox county that has
reduced It's Indebtedness The figures
show that $500 has been cut Off from
the county debt during the past year.
Schooner Romeo is on her way from
8. John, y B, 10 Portland with mil
lion and half shingles This ia quite
az unusual importation at this time Of
the year and Indicates q season of IN
usual activity in building the present
year in tina, city.
In one respect, notwithstandn. our
boosted advance in civilization we have
made no progress in the preservation Of
human HE The careless mother still
leaves the pail Of scalding water on the
floor where the little tot crawling about
can conveniently tumble into it head
iirgr With results usually attending such
occurrences.
A Brewer real estate agens go. rid of
a non paying tenant by having ghostiy
noises made in the cellar, product z the
impression that the house was haunted
II was Lewiston landlord who could
only drive out delinquent of the most
provoking sort, by removing the win
dnws and doors from the house. Ne
apparition could have disIodged that
fellow. but he succumbed 10 the terrors
Of the north wind
An old colored man who recently ad-
dressed temperance meeting in this
STATE, said when sees man going
home wild gallon of whiskey and
half pound of meat. dst's Temperance
lecture nuff for ne. and sees it ebery
day; knows dat everything ia his house
ia on de same scale-gallon of misery to
cherry half pound of comfort"
A good story is told of an enterpris-
ing advertiser of Bath. He desired TO
sell a prominent ply sician of that place
u iOS Ndi u 'shb L ~ - u Aut sfi4 t'it
doctor. we'll" said the agent, IN
tell you what Il do; you doctor my
family for year, and you may have the
cart 1t was agreed upon. In that
year the agent WAS made happy father,
and his Oldest boy had about all the
diseases known to childhood The doe
tor estimated that he was over $500 out
on the tran sactlOn
People who use carriages know how
difficult it is to stop the rafting
iof the thills where they are
fastened into the axle. Dir Walter F.
Wilton of Bangor, has al invention
which will apparently obviate all this
difficulty 1t Is simple, strong and dur
able, and those who have seen it believe
it cannot fail of coming into general use
It isaa interesting bit OF Maine history
that when the first proprietor OF the town
OF Edmuuds, Isaac Hobart, Esq found
fair bride at PenDamqIan (Dennys-
ville), he was so tickled that he gave
the Sownsfolk among whom his spouse
had been reared d present of 81 Thousand
feet of nice pine boards, such as YOU
could not scare up in the pine Tree
State" nowadays, for a schoolhouse.
While old Maine can stand five or six
weeks longer of this hide and SEEK
weather aud then come up blooming
with fine ice crop. every day makes
the chances on the Hudson more beau
tiiuly less Recent dispatches from
that locality states that the river ia full
of frozen slosh, and the New York lee
men are looking decidedly blue Welt,