Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-07
MAINE GOSSIP.

lsge until the latter part of the spring, when
they dishand in season to give their mt M
hers chance to enjoy its silvan beantles
and invigorsting air. IL does really seem
too bad. that when greedy Old Town IS
favored with two minstrel shows and
comedy company all at the same time.
Bucksport should be absolutely without
anything in the line of shows However,
there is this TO console our friends in that
thriving Penobscot village; when the shows
leave Old Town they take with them 1t IS
safe to assume, quite good lot of ducafs
which have come from the pockets of its
citizens; but hen the actors leave Bucks
port il is quite probable that the conditions
are the other way. There is never any
great loss without some small gain.
A Bar Harbor citizen complains of the
loafing of young men and boys on the cor
ners Of the streets of that place. 1t is GER
tainly a reprehensible habit, and one that
cannot be too vigorously condemned.
A correspondent from West Sorrento re-
lstes the fact that on a recent dark night
about five hundred pounds of squsshes and
a considerable number of cabbages, carrots
aud turnips were stolen from the farm OF
altlXgn OF tDAi tpWH. All Rptt tltlLFUS VIII
Join with him in the hope that this Sabbath
breaking, cabbage headed, carrot-headed,
tnrnip-noseh thief will be found and pun
sned" It might be chastisement enough.
however, IN this particular case TO send him
4 marked copy of the paper, if his address
could be learned.
Already the farmers along the line of the
pn,I work
getting ont Christmas trees, of which they
make such large shipments every fail, This
is an item that constitutes quite a yearly
source of revenue 10 the people of that sec
ton.
recent issue of the Boothbay Regis
ter, Hon. Luther Mattocks. who represented
Boothbay 80 ably in the last Legislature,
has an interesting article under the caption
Mysterious Menhaden
In the course of this article he says
S dentists and fishermen agree that no fish
of any commercial Importance have such
dark and hidden wavs which seem to be
hard to fiud out as the menhsden. Each
year they present a new chapter; ga h year
a new theory is invented, but theory after
theory is exploded by subsequent events.
To review the past season will furnish
! food for thought. In the early spring, large
bodies of menhaden were visible on he sur
face of the water. Fishermen who have an
opportunity to Judge agree that this great
BODY of fab were en- route to the Gulf of
Maine. So sanguine were they that they
put their equipments in order. and the
Maine factories for the manufacture Of oil
and guano, were put in order, also.
But when these great bodies of menhsden.
which were moving northward from their
Southern winter home. reached Cape Cod,
all record of their movements il lost, for
they did not appear on the surface again;
and although our fishermen cruised the
COST for months. only = few stragglers
we're seen But the most interesting part
in regard to the menhaden il the fact that
within the past week they have re-sppesred
in the place ~here they were last seen some
months ago. near Cape Cod, and large cap
lures have been made.
Mr., Mai,ocks gives as bis theory for
their non-sppe .rance in Maine waters that
their food controls their movements: that
when their food does not appear on the sur
face, they become of necessity bottom seed
es., and have no business in sight; that this
season their disappearance can be attrib-
uted to this reason and no other
on the shores of Moose lake in the town
of Harmony. an association of sportsmeu
has erected a fine club house. A party,
composed largely of professional men, re-
Gently passed Sabbath there. and several
of the new corners had chance TO test the
pleasures of the practical jokes with which
tho club regsles its visitors. One
of them. CHANGING in a tree in front of the
building. delighted TO see coon perched
among iss branches. He made dash with
in the building and secured his gun. His
hand trembled some. but he managed to
Put the cartridges in place. Then began
fusilsde upon that coon which, strange TO
say. maintained its perch with astonishing
obsriiacy, At length, af-er he bad pumped
half dozen cartridges int, its carcass, the
fact 4 wn, 4 upon the would-he sportsman
thst it vas simply a spe linen of the skill
of good tsxiaermist. and joined heartily in
the general laugh st his expense.
LISTER in The asy another of the party
streliing about the ~siks near the club
house. ss~ the inv ting sign ITO the Spring
Following slarg the silvsn. moss-arovn
path be 1T lergsh Yesch@,i delightful little
summer house f-st-r-d to whose side were
.ome convenient little drinking cups.
Taking one of these he raised the cover in
the center of the floor, and there. neatly
bsisnced upon erotchsd stake, was .
wagon spfing. To say that he was . VIC
tim of that tired feeling would be to put
il mildly He hasn't got through treating
the boys yet.
One Of the good Sabbath school teachers