Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-20

| The lights that our streets did adorn
When Camden was rich, wnen oanioen ""s
proud,
otell us where, where have they gone?
The Waterman who had a strong arm
! He has left us Ben Bolt, and we fear very mucn'
That his absence will bring US to naTm.
Camden Herald.
Bangor proposes to elect a mayor Mon
day.
Portland's city solicitor has been called
upon to render an opinion as to the pow
ers and duties of the board of aldermen
under the so-ca]led Lane law. Incident
ally the common councils will probably
learn why they exist.
sign of spring as baseball and both are
in evidence.
A Bath editor discovered within a one
cent, open letter containing an advertis-
ing circular letter that had slipped in by
accident and which contained S. bill.
VIZ fear this will tend to increase the
number Of these one cent advertising null
sances that are usually thrown away I'M
read. The postal clerks say that these
open letters very frequently swallow up
| in transit other letters in smaller en-
yelopes.
| There has been remarkable decrease
| in the amount of drunkenness in Rock
| land the past few months. This decrease
| is attributed to lack of work and cOnse-
quent lack of the coin of the realm.
| Here's Dexter hoping that before the
| spring rains are over the lake at that
place will be full This last fresher
didn't seem to wash the just and the I'M
just just alike.
There is boy living on Long Island,
Portland Harbor, who, we almost hope,
will sit down on tack sometime in his
career. The other day he put pin in an
apple and then gave the apple to another
boy. The recipient ate the apple, the pin
stuck in his throat, fortunately, and a
doctors services saved his life.
Vinalhaven wants bank because a
man secured tho town the other day to
get a $25 check cashed and didn't sue
coed. We've heard of men who couldn t
get their checks cashed if there were a
| thousand hanks in their immediate neigh
borhood This was probably another
man, however.
West Levant boasts twins, the record
of whom shows that what one does the
other is sure to do likewise. One fell and
broke his arm recently and all the neigh
bors declare the other twin must follow
suit and the poor little fellow is almost
frightened to death for fear he will.
Rockland is almost assured of hospital.
Perhaps shcll get one by the time the
next Legislature reaches the matter of
hospital appropriations. BY the way,
which school Of medicine Is to control it
and will there be ward in 1t for the
school that doesn't?
| The Portland Transcript sees in the
| Fast day gun clubs nucleus for affOrding
needed instruction to our young men in
the way of handling firearms. Tho Tran
script cites tho fact that the German gov
ernment maintains instructors in the use
of firearms in the German villages and has
supervision over shooting galleries and
thinks that there is much greater need of
such instruction in this country which
relies upon its citizens for it's defense in
time of war. The idea has value in it we
believe. Maine has some of the finest
marksmen in the world but fitting schools
like those proposed would not come amiss
for furnishing recruits
A Vinalhaven man lost watch last
August and neighbor found it frozen in
the ice of a puddle this spring. When
wound up the watch licked away as lus-
tily as if rust didn't corrupt. We would
advise oiling, however.
| A Rockland fisherman got u good haul
last week, bag of defunct kittens. He
tried to divert the laugh from him by
declaring he caught catfish. Rockland
is peace loving town SO he escaped with
his life.
Waldos sheriff has removed himself
from the pale of popularity SO far as no
boes are concerned. He compels every
tramp coming to Jail to wash not only
himself but his clothes.
Portland Advertiser: Visitors to oul
city sometimes express disappointment al
the barren appearance of the house in
which the poet Longfellow was born, cor
ner OF Hancock and Fore streets, and al
its commonplace surroundings, SO differ
ent. dill of it from the ideal Of the home
of a great bard. But at one time this was
rs picturesque point as could be founG
in the bay. There was handsome from
yard, all abloom, which was later absorbed
by the street. and coming up to this yart
were the bright waters Of the cove, the
curve Of the latter still preserved in tn,
bend OF the street. A man who is ia
lniliar with the interior of the house say.
it was originally quite elegant in detail
very different from what the exterior
would lead one to expect to find.
A former resident of Thomaston is en-
gagged In saving off the trees killed by tn,
frost in his Florida orange grove ant