Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-12-03
stare ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Herald Is stirring up
a good deal Of interest over public
library In that town.

ThelDamariscotta Herald Is stirring up
a good deal Of interest over public
librart In that town.
Strange things happen to drain pipe.
One II Lewiston was completely chOked
with spongy growth from the seeds OF
a poplhr tree In an adjacent yard.
Sonic enterprising lads attend school
In one of the I.amoine districts. Rather
than lhg water from distant spring
they dug and stoned a nice well conven-
lent Of access.
Ii islcold comfort for the Brunswick
speculhtors, who have recently been Bit
ten In outside speculations; to know that
the neE enterprises in that town are
paying large dividends.
Caldb Butler of Miuot ''held plow'
several days the fall. Mr.. Butler Is 90
years !ld and found the exercise benefi-
cial. Who wonders that emigraDts from
the Pilc Tree State are proud Of their
origin
Runior has Il that West Franklin won't
have aIrailroad as there IL woman In
that toMn, who thinks that II she should
ever okn dog and the railroad should
come through her neighborhood, that
dog light be run over aud killed,
One bf the Biddeford papers Ia author
ity 1.-THE statement that an old man In
trying 10 move barrel of flour got pin
ned bebeath IL on the stairs, and several
men pissed by without needing his re-
quests tor help, because they did not like
| him.
whe,i a runaway horse smashed hole
in the big display window OF a Bangor
merchilni, the latter Immediately pasted
over tia placard advertising Christmas
goods That man would find way to
irrigatI the desert Of Sahara il occasion
requird "a.
4 Portland man who has long rec
ord In lhe police court, for drunkenness
ATTEMPTED 10 drown himself the other
day, bIt was rescued. He Is the same
man wbo fell over Fort Allen lark on 10
the Grind Trunk track last year--a dis
lance cIf about fifty fect-and recovered.
Gardiner claims couple little out
OF the Ordinary. The woman says she
il mdtnber Of the English nobility, and
that \ left her home TO elope with a
coachu an, with whom she Is now living
there, ;.hc husband having secured
situation as hostler on stock farm,
The wJman Is refined and cultivated,
speaks English, French, Spanish and
Germa& fluently.
A reiident Of Bath cherishes valuable
relic, nj pockctbook that was once the
properly Of William White, o Pilgrim
father aud also father of Peregrine
White, the iirst child born of English
parcnt,l in New England. When Pcre-
grine White was u years OF age, the
general court gave him a tract of land
contairling 200 acres. His grandson
came n Bath early in the last century
and toJk up land Al Middle Bays, and
the oh pocketbook has been handed
down uy his descendants as a relic, 10
the prefent time.
Am IN who tished for pickerel in Mir
ror I.aJe, the source OF Camden and
Rocklaf fd's water supply, few days
ago found himself in a grave predica-
ment. He caught a handsome three
pound trout. but landed II with so much
force tSat the trout was killed. Just
then sohe friends happened along to re-
mind h I'm that he had broken the law.
He wasl about 10 throw the dead fish
back into the lake when another friend
informfd him that there was Law
against throwing dead bodies into the
source |f the water supply. Then the
iisheru!n, being a person Of good sense,
took thb fish home and ate il with a rel
ish.
An old veteran in the national soldiers
home u Milwaukee, and warm admirer
OF Hon. L. Il. Reed, has started the FOL
lowing story on the rounds: I'VE served
In the |avy, on the same boat-the Sybil
of th,l Mississippi squadron. was
secretaIy TO Commander Mitchell, and
Mr.. Reid was paymaster. He drank not,
nor did|he chew, smoke or swear; was
good nJture itself, and never allowed his
work I'll get behind. He was a practical
Joker. While the captain and most OF
the ofliIers were away, week after we
had be- t|n paid. Reed directed the men 10
come no his quarters and receive
month"; nav. We were astonished; the
goverul bent had not acquired a habit OF
paying fn advance. But there was Reed's
written| direction TO come and get an
other III onth's pay. We gathered around
the smC oth-faced, happy-hearted young
paymas per, when he handed out 10 eaen
OF Us a, many dollars as we were entitled
to for d hrty or thirty-one days OF serv-
ice, but they were confederate dollars.