The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-25
STATE. TOPICS OF INTEREST.

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STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.
The ice has left Lake Cobboseeountee.
The gold bowed spectacle swindler is
operating IN Perryville.
The ice has left Lake Auburn. 1t had
all gone yesterday but no anglers were
there.
The school of military instruction will
be held in Lewiston May 9 and z. Ar
rangements have been made to quarter
40 of the out of town visitors at Hotel
Normandie.
Maine furnishes the greater part of the
spool stock and plantation No. z, Han
cock county, has the reputation of sup
porting more thread than any other piece
of ground six milesksQuare in the world.
A Guilford hen recently began laying
eggs, commencing with one a little
smaller than a goose egg and ending
with one the size of a robins egg and
not one of the eggs contained yolk.
Poor Island in Saco has been a Dump
ing ground but the flood washed the
foata BILE debris away. Since then SIS
gold piece and other pieces of money
have been found by the crowds of boys
that for several days have been search
ing every inch of the island.
Speaking about the pulp industry in
Maine, a prominent man said, in talking
with reporter, Increasing, why yes,
very largely, In 1891, the quantity of
luni Der used for this purpose was AGO.
900, 600 feet, while last year, the amount
was 500, 100000 The demand for the
Maine pulp too has been great, as it is
said to be of superior quality to much
that is upon the market.
Mrs. Getchel, adjudged guilty of pois-
oning her husband in Sydney, is happy
and fat, and thinks If the Law Court
knew all the circumstances of the case
as she does they would grant her new
trial.
A Kingman correspondent writes: The
water in the Mattawamkeag is very high
and is still rising Tine bridge is in great
danger of being swept away and meas
some.
Nearly 10000 bushels of CLANS have
been shipped from the town of Friend
ship the past winter. Clam stew from
Maine is now a favorite beverage of
Pullman car travellers in every state in
the Union.
Dat MI o hor, ,yao1
his pulpit that Bath is the most unsocia-
bic city he has lived in, the Times backs
him up, asserting that society in the
Shipping City is in "a state of senile
dementia,n and that it's leaders, so far
as it has any. are few giggling Roslings
of both sexes" The Bangor News says:
bath must have changed slice the days
when the writer used to go down with
merry-makers from all Maine to those
memorable dances in the Patten Car
Works "The Times" has changed, too"
William Chase, with the 9. e. Weeks
company, is the champion rat catcher
of Rockland. He caught 1876 in one
trap at the fish house between Saturday
and Tuesday afternoon. 1t is one of the
largest wire traps, and not unfrequently
he has or 10 in it at one time. He had
eight in it Tuesday afternoon, caught
Down in Rockland they have way
of disposing of men who won't pay poll
tax that should work we'll. One man is
just out after serving eight months for
the failure to pay. After all, though,
a little mental arithmetic will make
one wonder. if the cost of boarding
prisoner eight months isn't stiff price
to pay for the recovery of So which you
don't recover at all.
E. H. Young of Camden has just COM
pleted handsome violin of his own de-
sign made from wood which he says laid
IN Llncolnvilie pond 10 years.
The new bell for the Camden High
School building arrived Tuesday morn
ing. 1t weighs 700 pounds.
At the regular Bristol town meeting.
the town was asked to'vote to instruct
the selectmen to lay out a road in the
Walpole part of the town which would
shorten the distance to Damariscotta
nearly three-fourths of mile and cut
off large hill. The vote stood 1oa in
favor and 106 opposed, several hundred
present not voting. This road will be a