Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-26

for Bowdoin. There was breath from
breezy Maine when the two-mile run was
started. Several likely ones were anxiously
watched, but one chap that nobody except
q small knot of Bowdoin students knew,
took the lead and opened up gap of 200
yards before be stopped his spinning. His
number was doubled out of sight, and the
race was half over before some downeasteis
considerably informed the crowd that he
was Soule of Bowdoin. They added modest
ly that he could run like that all day, and
no one questioned it, least of all his oppo-
nents in the race. They let him have it
and fought for SECOND honors."
The Aroostook Fish and Game Club has
already demonstrated that advantages are
to be derived from its existence. 1t has a
hatchery which now contains 100 600 young
sea salmon, 10000 land-locked salmon and
$4,000 trout. 1t desires to increase its
membership, also the size of the hatchery
IN order to afford accommodations for feed
ing the fish as by so doing greater number
will live after being liberated.
There is an ice man in Bar Harbor who
makes no excuses when asked for cigar
He went into basement to deliver some
ice the other day. Seeing man standing
there he asked him where he should put the
ice. The man made no reply and finally
the ice man went up stairs and asked what
that dumb fool was doing down there any
way. He was told there was no one down
there, and sure enough it was the ice mans
own face he had seen in tall mirror stand
| ing up against the basement wall. Bar
Harbor fog before this has been known to
affect the vision.
In Guilford female class has been
formed for the study of parliamentary law.
Do some OF the members entertain hopes
of sitting in the Legislature at no very
distant time?
Up in Skowhegan the girls are learning
to ride horseback while the boys are de-
voted to the pastime of cycling. Butter
how do the young men manage to do escort
duty for the fair sex under those somewhat
trying circumstances?
Bicycle riders are among the foremost to
call for improvement in our roads but in
Pennington they are kicking because the
commissioner has been expanding money
on lower High street. Either a poor job
was done or the bicycle riders in that town
are like some other people in the world
passionately fond of grumbling.
The Boston Sunday Journal has pene-
trative way and enterprise back of it. A bun
die of them is taken by team at Waterville to
to Pennington every Sunday.
People outside the State are beginning to
appreciate the value of Names forests it
would appear from what an exchange has
to say. The gradual depletion of the wood
land wealth of other states can have no
other effect than to enhance Names rich
timber resources. Some authorities state
that there is not five years supply of
hemlock bark remaining in Pennsylvania
and the great tanneries of that state must
| look elsewhere for a product. With the
exceptions of few tracts in Clearfield, Elk
and Potter counties the stately white pine
is at an end in Pennsylvania, and the hem
lock followed very soon. Similar reports
come from other states and Maine is grow
ing to be more and more the locality tow ard
which lumber consumers turn,
The Rossini Club CT Portland has re-
ceived its Worlds Fair diploma having been
recommended to special honors by the ex-
pert musical jury.
The scholars in the village district of
Cambridge show their appreciation of the
lessons to be learned from proper obser-
vance of Memorial day. They have sub
scribed for and purchased flag which they
will raise over their schoolhouse on that
occasion.
An Athens lady is getting as much
profit and notoriety from raising Gu
cumbers in the house as she would
from raising the rarest of flowers. 1t sits
on the window sill and the vines running
on trellis. completely fill the window.
There are hundreds of blossoms on the
vines, making it one mass of beauty there
are also 80 cucumbers, one of which is over
three inches long. :