Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-02-14
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laseGt> have been granted T. f. Love
te. Portland. FIR automatic liquid
measure, ana to II. T, Spencer, OF Ridde-
ford, for stop-motion for eardinE engines.
f. ). MurcAie's steam grist min and
elevator, at Calais containing 900 bushels
OF corn ana a quantity of oats, were
burned, Eea. ). Loss, 5000; insurance,
5000.
Gne of the young business men of
Island Falls, who is addicted to late hours
in the morning, ON arriving at his store
late in the forenoon one morning
recently, found notice on his door read
ing: He is not dead but sleepeth. y
Some of the young men at Fort Fair
field are doing home missionary work OF
a very practical kind, They are looking
out for neglected boys of the place and
| providing such youths with suitable
clothing so that they can attend school.
Already two or three happy urchins have
thus started i'll life and the good example
promises to be contagious.
Hon. John l.. Stevens died at Augusta
last Friday, aged seventy-fiv years. Mr..
Stevenss career had been busy and nota
| bic one In early life he WAS a clergyman
of he Universaist denomination, and
then a journalist. His association with
the late James G. Blaine in the pub
LEGATION of the kennebec Journal led
him into politics, and he filled some very
important diplomatic positions, notably
the Swedish and Hawaiian ministries
An old lady in Portland, say she can't
see anything very yled about these
tremendous sleeves, which they are wear
ing nowadays. On the contrary she
thinks they are pretty old. They are
exactly he same We wore in 1886, she
says, but then to keep hem full, instead
OF using a stiff lining we stuffed them
with feathers. Afterwards took the
feat hers from pair of sleeves and stuffed
a pillow for a cradle, and there WAS plenty.
too.
In 1894 Bangor paid TO he State S976 in
dog taxes; Auburn. 5000; Augusta, $50;
Belfast, 1924; Biddeford, Si2l; Brewer,
S2225; Brunswick, So; Cape Eliza beth,
Si2371; Eastport, S193; ElIswort h, s256; Gar
diner, $50: Gorham, S24i; Houlton, SOS;
lialioweli, S152; Lewiston, $50; Oldtown,
sos; Portland, S1.3a2; Saco, S272; sam
ford, 1863; South Berwick. S305; Water
vile, S23i; West brook, 1903. Houlton re
ceiNed back from the State the largest
amount OF damage for sheep killed by
dogs SO. Rowland received back. $3.50;
Buxton. S7l.5O; Bangor, s5l.50: Boot h bay,
SO; Midway. $50.
Probably the oldest man hat makes
business OF going into the woods each
winter is Frank Wright of Bangor This
makes the fortieth season he has worked
in the woods. Wright Is eighty-tive years
old, and has passed sixty winters thin
ming out Maine forests. In hat time he
has seen many changes in the mode of
numbering. He feels rs young As a boy of
sixteen and While in the office of he
kineo House, on his way home last week,
he wanted to bet SO he could turn a
handspring with any of them. Mr..
Wright thinks that about five more win
tiers in he woods will satisfy him.
Cyclones have no terrors for David
Bemis, an elderly farmer of Woodstock.
During the blizzard which occurred there
few weeks ago, Mr.. Bemis stepped into
an clubhouse and closed the door, when
the wind took the building into the air,
and after sailing about rod the bottom
of the building and Mr.. Bemis dropped
out simultaneously The remainder of
the building continued at high rate of
speed over the frozen hills of old oxford.
Mr.. Bemis was considerably shaken up
and has not yet fully recovered, but when
the neighbors laugh about it, "Uncle'a
David joins in and declares that his first
balloon ascension would have been a sue
cess if 1.-The bottom hadn't dropped out
An old man in Eastern Maine invented
a wagon-seat, and had it patented at con-
siderable expense. He then became very
much alarmed for fear someone would
infringe on his rights. He discovered
that somebody else was making wagon
seat which, the boys said, would take
the wind all out of his and thereupon
he sat down and wrote to the commits
sioner of patents Say sir look-a-h here.
There's a Teller down here's max in a
wagon-sea that he's got no right to, an |
want you to come down here and look
after him right off, fore he damages my
patent Then he waited and watched
eagerly the tri-weekly arrivals of the one
horse stage at the crossroads pos, office,
but the commissioner of patents never
appeared
Some Rockland sportsmen who have
been camping at Muscongus lake wit
messed very interesting operation one
day recently. A two-storied house was
moved from the eastern side of Muscongus
to Damariscotta Mills by way OF the pond
The house was put on heavy shoes, and
twenty powerful oxen hitched thereto
| The building was hauled to lofty hill
overlooking the lake, the oxen detached,
and the building given a slide down the
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