Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-07-11
kTFTFRY TO CARIBOU.
! One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.


The New England fair will be held at
Rigby Park the last week Of August.
The late Hon Hall C. Burleigh left an
estate valued at ESQ, 600.
The State bicycle meet will be held at
Roekland, Wednesday, July "a. Prizes
aggregate 500.
In Augusta last year there were 14S
marriages, 203 births and 31s deaths. a
large number of the deaths were of
patients at the insane hospital.
Norway has schoolmaster, William
Mark Brooks, aged sixty-eight, who says
he has taught ia schools and whipped
115 unruly scholars. He probably holds
the record.
The Augusta city government has de-
cided to accept the offer of the syndicate
to build a city building, the cost not to
exceed $4,000; for which the city makes
a guarantee of interest on the investment
not exceeding four per cent.
1t is rumored among the mill men that
the spruce mills on the Penobscot will be
shut down for three or four weeks. The
reason given is that manufactured spruce
is not at present bringing as much as it
costs in the log and it is claimed that the
only wayt to bring he price up is to create
a scarcity in the Boston and New York
markets.
The ship "Arabia,' Capt. c. II. Nc
Loon, of Bath, bound from New York
for San Francisco, was wrecked off Cape
Horn. All on board We're saved and
landed at Montevideo. The "Arabia" was
built at Bath in 1881. She was wooden
vessel of 2,02i tons burden. She meas
ured 23S feet long by 10 feet beam and ~
feet depth of hold and had three decks.
The Lewiston Journal says Portland
has good reason for "pointing with pride"
to her two venerable eX-mayors, Hon. w.
W. Thomas, sr., aged ninety-one years
and seven months, and Hon. Neal Dow,
aged ninety-one years and three months,
each of whom can stand the strain as well
as most linen thirty years their Junior.
Few cities can trot out such pair, so to
speak
The Maine building at the Worlds
Fair, which was moved to Poland
Springs, was dedicated Monday Of last
week. Judge Symonds, of Portland, was
master of ceremonies. Among other
speakers were Gov. Cleayes, Gen. Edgar
r. Champaign, Senator Hale, Senator
Frye, Congressman Dngley, Congressman
Boutelle, Judge Webb, Judge White
house, Hon. j. ?. Bass and Gen. A. c.
Martin.
Dexter last Wednesday dedicated its
new public library building, the gift
Of George \. Abbott as a memorial TO his
father. The building is known as the
Abbott Memorial library building. 1t
contains the public library, for which it
was primarily designed, together with
! large art room, and rooms for the use Of
the municipality in it's various depart
ments and large reading room. The
building cost S25, 600.
Ria kittridge, of Belfast, is in all
probability the worlds greatest expert at
fine writing, having won every prize for
which he has contested. His wonderful
power of eyesight enables him to inscribe
with his pen 1880 words on a single
postal card. circle the size of silver
five-cent piece contains the Lords prayer
twice. All of Mr.. Kittridge's work is
/ done with the naked eye, although it re-
qures a microscope for the average
human eye to appreciate its beauty.
There is nothing slow about them! The
Aroostook farmers are now introducing
machine that eultivates and hoes their
potatoes as it passes along, the driver
riding on Il comfortable seat. Those
great fields of potatoes containing from
ten to seventy-fve acres We're not possible
a few years ago Now the seed is cut by
machinery, the ground marked out, the
seed dropped and covered, cultivated,
hoed and dug while the farmer rides
along. The paris green i. given the bugs
in allopathic doses, while the operator sits
under "a sun umbrella. Machinery has
done rs much for farming as for any i'll
dustry.
The house of C. Mckenzie, OF Bridge
water, was struck ny lightning recently.
I Mr. Mckenzie was in the yard with his
| team at the time, and both man and horse
were Frustrated and partially stunned by
the shock. Every rafter in the house
was more or less splintered, and two We're
torn out bodily. The roof on one side
WAS nearly stripped of shingles. every door
and window casing in the house WAS
splintered, and in one room on the
ground floor bedstead was wrecked and
several holes burned through the clothing.
In the room where Mrs. Mckenzie and
her little boy were, the bolt tore hole
through the floor near their feet on one
side, and ran down the door jamb just in
front of them, covering them with a
wreckage of splinters and plastering
from the walls and ceiling. Strange to