Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-09

cured somewhere last spring new Kind o9
pole bean. He planted them. One bill OF
those beans has Z pole fifteen feet high. The
vine has climbed to the top Of that, climbed
off from the pole to tall apple tree, climbed
| the tree % far - the tree went and then
started of on it, own hook. IT. course was
still onward and upward. The top Of the
vine went ont Of sight about ten days ago
and 1t 10 expected that ere this il has made
connection with some other planet, and we
| are confidently and momentarily expecting
to see messenger from there coming down
ON the stock with the inquiry Say what
have you fellows bean doing down herer
Mr.. H. K. Morrell Of Gardiner, was
lately guest Of Professor Lee Of Bowdoin,
who has been making soundings Of Sebago
lake and examining life In those waters.
Mr.. Morrell has furnished the Gardiner
Reporter Journal an account Of the ex-
| petition, in the cousre Of which he says ,:
| The first days "skimning" by Professor
Lee, showed rather surprising results, IN
water 90 pure as Sebago lake water 10 sup
posed to be. "Skimming" is drawing hne
silk bag through the water. 1t 10 30 fne
the threads can scarcely be seen, and It
gathers everything except microscopic ami
| mails, His first catch showed several
species Of small jelly like things, some OF
which the professor pronounced. crustaceae.
OF course It will take later and fuller exam
nation to determine what his catch 10.
| One cast Of the minnow net brought 10
thousands of minnows, about half Of which
| pronounced salmon, and part of which
d. hnn chi 70 ha N
of fish. A few were kept for the use OF the
fsh commission, and the rest released to
grow up, or to take their chances for 1t.
This experiment showed wonderful album
dance of fish in the lake an abundance
which it seems to me 10 not shown in mature
fish.
Nobody ever thought the Maine coast
promising field for the pearl industry, but
some good ones have been found here just
the same. - 4 a1gor
Ex-Mar,hal +. A. .Tarbox Of Biddeford,
dug IS hen clans recently, and ia one Of
the shells he found pearl ~ round - =
marble and that weighed 6 I.2 karats. S.
G.. Twambley & Son Of Biddeford. have
sent II away to be prepared for D ring.
They sold one the other day not so large as
that for SIS. The number Is did not bring
bad luck in this case.
There are seventeen abandoned home
stesds between Camden village and Sstur-
day Cove In Northport. The only wonder
is, however, that most Of them were ever
home steads at all. The desertion
of them may be taken As a sign Of thrift.
White rats are reported to be growing
popular as pets in Bangor. The Commercial
declares that They are capable of being
taught tricks and are really quite attractive
in appearance having milk white hair and
pink eyes," Red whiskers are all that seem
necessary to constitute poem.
A well-informed Democrat. who has
taken no part in the contest, expresses the
opinion that no appointment for postmaster
will be made in the town Of Phillips,
for the feeling 10 so bitter that the friends
of the defeated candidate would leave the
party in a body. charge, Chester, charge !.
On, Stanley, on
A level-headed Phillips man has, in place
of dog, two cosset lambs that follow him
about with the devotion that characterized
the famous one that Mary owned. They
are far more useful than the average
canine and are exempt from the operation
of the dog tax. .
Speakil Of the dog tax, what has be-
come of Prof. Henry Carvill these sultry
summer lays? We have seen nothing from his
voluble pen tiuce he surprised the
Maine public some weeks ago, through the
columns of the Lewiston Sun. with the
startling details of his Nspoleonic dream.
A company of men have been examining
the pot. holes on the Lewiston falls this last
week. Two of the holes were cleared out
on Saturday, with much labor, and very
peculiar things were found in one Of them,
including the jaw-bone of some animal.
probably wolf or dog, stone resembling
4 stone Ratchet owned by the Lewiston
grammar school, and two bone speAr heads.
These discoveries have excited the anti
quarians, and it 10 probable that more ex.
plorations will result. "a. l.esa.. s.
The citizens Of Phillips are sgitating the
project of uniting with several neishboring
towns and building flre-proof vault in
which the old books and papers Of each
town could be stored and preserved. The
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