Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-27

your rooms whitewashed and papered Or
frescoed, when rough plastering or IN
planned boards would do just as welis
Does 1t pay to wear good clothes when
cd ones will keep you warm? Does IT
pay to have in your garden roses and H.
laos and pansies, which are ofno practi-
cal utility, and which sap the ground:'
ETC., etc.
"Blind John. Dearborn of Dexter. for
merly of Lewiston, who has already won
fame by doing things that would be be-
yond some men with good eyes is evident
ly signing for new worlds to conquer He
can do carpenter work, play ball, put up
telephones, and all that. His newest freak
is the purchase of steamboat which he
says he Is going to put In order and run
himself. If he does one Of the Maine
curiosities this season will be his craft
sailing about Lake Wassokeag pilOted by
a blind man. Fortunately, there are no
shoals or reefs in the lake, and the worst
he can do is to bump against the shores.
or run down some other craft.
1t Is said to be more difficult to steal a
bicycle than to steal horse. A witness
In a bicycle suit at the Lewiston NUM-
clpal court recently said that when
machine was stolen all the men and
women who own machines look sus-
piciously at strangers on wheels till the
cycle is found.
The Owl man in the Bath Enterprise
learns that the owner of small store in
that city was offered $3.50 year rent for
it from saloon keeper and only 5000
year from a man in another business
He accepted the latter offer saying'I had
rather rent my building to him for $50
less o year than to have 1t made into
rum shop, for If it was once let for the
latter purpose the chances are 1t would
never be rented for any other This Is
sound logic and should be borne in mind
by the owners of business street pro-
perty in this State.
Love never grows old. A youth of 50
summers Is reported to be endeavoring to
insnare the affections of a good looking
widow of 81 or whereabouts in the town
of Northport.
The town of Grafton is said to have
only one yoke of oxen at tho present time
and the farmers there, according to
local correspondent, arc reaching the wise
conclusion that if they do not raise some
of their calves they will very soon be with
out cattle.
First quality hay can be secured at
present from 80 to SO ton, about as low
point as it has reached for many years.
A number of boys indulge in a game of
Sunday base ball at Bath last week, and
two of them were carried before the
municipal court, Monday, and fined 1t
is safe to assume that when the urchins
of that burg desire to indulge in the ma
tional game again on the Sabbath, they
will HE themselves outside of the city
limits.
One Of the best fish stories that has come
to the service of late is told by Lewiston
man. -Four years ago he was fishing at
Lake Auburn with long silk line and a
hook of his own manufacture. In the
AFTERNOON Of one May day he hooked
monster salmon who came to the surface
three or four times and then broke the
line under the keel of the boat One day
last week he was up there fishing and
about five hundred yards south of the is.
land hooked salmon which he pulled in
by the aid of q scoop net Embedded in
the lower jaw was his old hand made
hook.
Two dogs killed II sheep for one man
in Auburn last Thursday. The owner
said he would not have taken 800 for
them. The sheep were appraised by 10
cal butcher and claim filed against the
city. 1t is under such circumstances
that the farmers of Maine appreciate the
value of the dog law. The dog licenses of
the city of Auburn amount to several
hundred dollars each year, and there will
be plenty of money in the city's treasury
to settle the bills in this CASE 1t would
be a good plan, however, for the local au-
thorities to remove the tails Of the two
offending dogs as close behind the ears as
possible.
Abram Atwood Of Lewiston is one of
the most hustling marketmen in the
State of Maine. May Is his Lisbon street
market was burned to the ground On
Saturday, May %, barely ono week later,
Mr.. Atwood took possession Of a new
market built from the ground up and
after his own designs. Saturday after
noon he was serving his old customers as
usual on the old site.
A school war Is about the most demon
alizing thing that can agitate a small
community.
The agent of the Belfast Humane So
ciety recently ordered a horse In the pos
session of a suburban farmer to be killed.
He afterwards learned that the animal
had been traded off for four hens. He
ought to see to 1t that tho man who was
responsible for the piece of work be made
to pay into the county treasury the price
of whole flock of hens.
The Bath Enterprise says that one of
the finest cottages in that vicinity is the
one now being built tor Hon. p. o. Wick
cry of Augusta, at Ocean Point.