Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-07-06

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Life and Nature.
over the mountains, purple, cold ana
CLOVIS the mercurial dawn with rainbows
interviewer.
So DER the solid, fate-laid facts of ex-
istCnce.
Faith. Hope and Love aye simmer like
the dawn"
Al! were willing the drouth should be
brokcn-after the Fourth.
Augusta had q fireman's contest not
down on the programme.
The prcttiest opera house in the
State was an expensive piece of fire
works.
An Ellsworth couple. whose recent
cbratcd, should be sought out by the
sensational reporter and interviewed
upon the burning question of the hour,
is marriage a failure?"
Old Orchard Hotel men were about
discouraged until one day last week an
avalanche of baggage descended upon
the place, and they showed no dispo-
sition to get out from under.
Iioulton is agitating the matter of a
fine new public library. but there are
some who argue that it is best for the
church debts to be paid before library
building is attempted.
At a Houlton Republican caucus q
Democrat who attempted to vote was
asked if he would support the candidate.
His reply was that he had all he could
then do in the way of supporting HIM
self and family and didn't see how he
could support any more. The sagacity
revealed by this remark convinced
those who challenged the vote that the
fellow should vote.
Aroostooll farmers have suffered
much the past year, but as they are
looking to something other than free
silver at 16 to 1 to help them out
| their prospect of speedy recovery is
most bright.
1t was an eleven year old Alfred Miss
who defined grass widow as one
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There arc farms and farms. Near
Lewiston is a turf farm, where turf for
city lawns is grown until sleek and fat
| with richness
| The Saco inventor, William Mitchell,
who patented the sanding machines for
| electric cars. thinks he has perfected
brake that will hold q car on the most
slippery track. 1t provides for an ex-
| ira wheel on the axle of the car and a
clamp to fit around it. When the grip
| is put on, the clamp closes over the
small wheel and acts instantly as a
| very firm brake. This is worked by
| small lever on the front which has to
be turned slightly to take effect Some
DIdEcS HOW III use nave To DC turned up
| several times to act. They are there
| fore slow and cause Inconvenience at
! times. This brake works from either
| end of the car and if one chain breaks
| there are others so that it can be oper-
ated from the other end of the car. 1t
| Is claimed that use OF the present
| break tends to make fiat wheels and to
| spoil them. for by dragging them along
on the rails it wears them out unevenly
| thus making the ears run roughly,
Pork is cheap in Biddeford since the
| Board of Health decreed that hogs
shall not be kept within the city limits.
The centennial souvenir edition of
the Ear Harbor Record has beaten the
record of the season in the way of
souvenir editions. The illustrations
are of the very best cbtainable. and the
| publication in respect to every detail is
as near perfect as it well could be. all
OF which is perhaps not to be wondered
at when is considered that a woman.
Miss Helen M. Smith, is the editor and
manager.
The GROW is no fool, but by the looks
| Of some of the scarecrows, it seems
that some of the good people take him
to be.