Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-11

There were Is deaths in Bath during
| October.
Smelt fishing with hook and line is
the favorite pastime of Waldoboro
youth.
| David Nichels of Searsport, raised a
beet, this season, that weighed nearly
Is pounds.
| An oxford county farmer Ks boasting OF
a parsnip of his raising that grew Is incn-
| es straight down into the ground.
Within the past SO years over 1870
buildings, big and little, have been
| erected inside the village limits of
Winthrop.
| Eight of the penny weighing ma
| chimes stationed at Bath, Boothbay
| Jarbor and Popham weighed 5000 peo-
| pie in the three months ending Octo-
! Der 81
The city Of Lewiston has 127 electric
street lights, to illuminate it's streets
| and avenues. One man takes care of
| 10 Westinghouse lights and the other
looks out for 81 old style American
| ones.
| In digging in the cellar of an old
Portland house on Congress street, a
! cutlass was unearthed. 1t had marks
| of blood or rust on the blade, but no
| body knows how long it has been there.
| The house is said to have been built
| previous to 1880
Regarding the longevity OF apple trees
| ii is worthy of note that George T..
| French of Warren raised apples this sea-
| son which grew on trees planted by his
sreat-grandmother. Dorothy Parsons)
Crawford. III years ago. The trees are In
4 vigorous condition and bearing album
dance of fruit. One is seven feet in cir
| conference.
a pretty strong piece of machinery
has just been put in to one of the
| Podwell Granite Co.'S quarres at
Vinalhaven. 1t is a new locomotive
crane and is something new in these
parts and great Improvement over
the old way of handling stone. The
machine can easily lift 10 tons.
| Stephen Huston, the Oldest voter of
| Falmouth, cast his 10Th consecutive
ballot for candidate for president at the
| late election. His first vote was for
Andrew Jackson and he has voted the
| straight Democratic ticket at town,
State and national election since. Mr.
Huston has lately decided one-half of
lis farm to one of his grandchildren,
which makes the seventh generation of
one family to occupy the same farm.
Thoughts of the late departed sum-
| mer and bright sunshine of the glad
sprngtime have been revived in the
mind of the Rockport correspondent
CT the Rockland Star by the presenta-
ton to her Of a bunch of buttercups
piucked on Sea street in that town on
Thursday and later in the day by be-
ing the recipient, from small youth,
OF bunch of pea blossoms, with a
cluster of pea pods filled with the peas
AS We pick them in July. blossoms
and peas on the same vine
Can you imagine what sled pro-
reiler' is? a man in Franklin, Hancock
county, has patented one. and perhaps
it sgnaliZes the coming of the horse
less sleigh. Ii seems to be an adapta-
lion of the screw steamship idea and
requires snow or ice instead of water.
Attached to the boys coaster, it will
enable him to ride up hill as we'll as
Gown: on the ice boat. it will drive it
in any direction regardless of the wind.
and on heavy sledS, driven by a small
engine, it will make ten miles an hour
says the inventor. His device consists
| Of frames with rudders. and a pair
end in some cases two pairs of rear
wardly arranged screws. which get a
leverage against the ice or snow.
Spring point ledge in Portland Harbor.
Oh which the new lighthouse will stand. is
a long line of rock running out towards
the main ship channel from Fort Preble.
some distance below the break-Water. 1t
has long been a menace to navigation.
Once. the famous ocean-racing yacht Coro-
ct bnr n r4r nod tcl on,
one of its jagged rocks with great hole
| in her bottom, until she was assisted to
the dry dock. And yet the fishermen sail
ing in and out of the harbor have appar-
entity gone right through the ledge I'M
(! harmed. Leave fisherman alone to find
the shortest way home! This is how he
| wggles through the ledge. As his little
craft. loaded down with the nights catch.
comes dancing up. the bay in the early
morning sunlight. he sees on Munjoy hill
the tall red observatory, and when he gets
| lis boat on such course that the OBJ
servatory looks as If Waterville street
| ran right into it, he knows he is IA i.le
| for the wee channel that just hicks the
ledge. Large vessels. however. give the
| lodges wide berth and the new light may
| be the means of saving a great deal OF
valuable property.
The story comes from the u. S.
ship Marblehead, that Lewiston boy.
Eugene Peabody did daring act
While the cruiser was stationed at
Smyrna, in the Mediterranean A
party of young Turks had come off
III boats to see the ship, and had left
again. They were about three hun
dred feet from the side of the vessel
when a quarrel occurred among them
for some reason. One young fellow
struck two of the others and was
promptly thrown overheard. Mr.. Pea
lody was standing near the rail, and
seeing that the natives did not intend
to pick the fellow up. he sprang over
board and swimming to the drowning
hoy pulled him to the boat which had
by that time been launched and was
approaching. The strange thing about
the incident is that the young Turk
said the fellows who threw him over
board were his brothers.
STATE NEWS.