Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-18

Ih0 managers Oh tne VarIous oohiP1hieS
operating electric wires in Portland have
recently made n very careful examination
of all their line and house connections
Every precaution should wisely be taken
to insure against imperfect insulation.
The move SO wisely begun in Portland,
may we'll be followed by other cities in the
State.
Brother Landers, tho genial city editor
OF the Reporter Journal, combines with
his editorial duties the Office Of auditor of
the city of Gardiner. He has been TAX
ing vacation of few days of late to go
over the city accounts, and after the har-
rowing experience, expresses the opinion
that If the city auditor should receive
n salary of $500 year, he would not be a
penny overpaid, for the amount of sorely
perplexing, soul destroying, disposition
damaging work performed
The fish hatchery of tho Anglers Pro
tective Club at Rangcley has about 100, 900
trout and 90, 600 salmon belonging to the
club. In addition so these there are about
1000 trout belonging to Harry M,
"
salmon belongin TO Capt. Barker.
The Rockland Star says that man in
that city has a unique theory to account
for the winters growing warmer in this
vicinity. He says that so much granite
has been moved,south from the quarries of
the north that the world has been tipped
thereby towards the sun.
The Phillips Phonograph tells that the
recent town meeting In that place was
very calm when compared with church
choir row, but it got interesting at times.
A Camden man tells of crowd of
boys who have room in block at that
place and who have constituted them
selves into a"club." They make rem
devious there about every evening aud all
day Sunday Card playing is their chief
amusement. There ought to be some
method of impressing upon these young
men the advantages of some more credit
able form of recreation.
W. S. Emery. who with w. W. Doug
lass owns the sporting camps at Blakes-
ley lake, thinks the idea that some of the
writers have advanced that deer in Maine
are decreasing is very far from the facts.
He says the deer are increasing very fast
and he advances what is to us new
theory, viz, that If there ever Is decrease
it will be due more to the lack of feed
than anything else and If that ever takes
place. they will be- likely to leave sudden
". He bases his idea upon the fact that
in many localities where deer are very
thick, the shrubbery upon which they feed
Is eaten down very closely and is taken
faster than 1t grows. He says the deer
are so thick now in many places that the
work Of crust hunters is much less de-
struotive than it used to be, because the
deer have numberless well beaten paths,
80 many in fact, that they can travel for
miles without being driven into the deep
snow. So If his theory is correct there Is
protection In large numbers; or putting
1t In another way there are SO many tna'
the crust hunters can't kill them SO easl
ly.
Portland Advertiser: The Legislators
are making important changes IN Maint
geography Dexter has been granted
CITY charter-which, however, she seems
Reluctant to take. The new towns q
Winter Harbor and Sorrento have beer
made: and after much labor the Cap,
Elizabeth division bill has passed
whether the new town will take tn,