Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-20

| Those Interested In temperance and
in the decorative art will be interested
in the following remarkable description
| from Maine paper. The writer Is the
| possessor Of most artistic imagina-
ton. for we all know bar-rooms do not
exist in Rockland, and moreover II
there were any bar-rooms the beer In
them would not be allowed to get stale
Here is the idyl: "One of the popular
bar-rooms of the city has a novel and
pleasing hot-weather decoration. The
big mirror back of the bar, extending
nearly the whole length of the room, is
covered with what looks exactly like
| frost crystals: and 1t gives the room a
delciously cool appearance. This eff
| feet is produced by the application 10
the surface of the glass of a prepare
ton composed of stale beer, alum and
epson salts. The salt and alum crys-
| tails are precipitated upon the glass,
forming the delicate and graceful fig
ures made by the frost of winter on the
window pane. The effect is very pref
ty and can be easily produced. 1t pro-
| tects the mirror from the flies as effect
ually as guaze coverings, and looks
better, besides making room look cool
and comfortable these hot days"
| The Richmond young man who spent
the day in the woods gathering what
he thought We're spruce boughs with
which to make q cooling summer drink
will get his cool drinks at the ice tank
or soda fountain hereafter. The boughs
proved to be fir. and the drink did not
meet his expectations.
Those guides who have not taken out
their licenses are the only ones who
complain of hard times.
The old time herb culture of the New
Gloucester Shakers is no more. but
now they do big business in horti-
culture and Horticulture. These Shaker
communities of which Maine has sew
eral. are the quaintest. the happicst
and most peaceful To he found
Augusta Has a Mysterious Fire"
reads a recent headline in the Portland
Press and the dispatch below il tells
about a Hallowell connagration over
century ago Augusta was a part of
Hallowell and perhaps the Press is
looking forward to the time when Hal
lowell becomes n part of Augusta,
when Greater Augusta is a reality.
The Lewiston police court has taken
a hand in the gslme and seemed to
hold the trumps. The gamblers had to
ant. up.
Portland's fireiug is back from his
vacation.
That pie controversy between the
Portland baker and the Waterville
band is making l1ts of music.
For 10 summers the Old Orchard
Daily Sea Shell has been a fixture of
Names great coast resort. Its editor
for the past six seasons is now on the
staff of the keniiebec Journal and he
is grieved to learn that thellittle paper
has fallen from its high estate. The
following complimentary and apprecia-
tivereview from the Portland Express.
written by one of our former associates
on the Sea She'll, is our first intimation
that the paper Still survives the rude
shocks of fortune. Among the well
come exchanges that lift us from the
dun cares of cold world and make
existence really worth the tremendous
struggle that it costs. is the Old Or
chard Sea Shell. What makes the pa
per particularly interesting this year
is the adaptability of the subject mat
ter To the sensitive requirements of the
butterfly tourist In place OF local
news, which really takes up valuable
space. there appears in the issue be-
fore us a very comprehensive article
nearly three-quarttrs of column in
length, on How To Apply Manure.
Then appears few observations on
the maple sugar season. a little off the
trolley for maple sugar, but always in
teresting. And any daffodil of fashion
while sitting on the piazza of the Old
Orchard House that fails to become
deeply absorbed in the evolution of
Wool and Mutton. The Condition of
the Hawaiian Islands, The Cultiva-
ton of Blackberries' The Flora of
Australia How to Plant Evergreens
or Crops for Green Manuring.' is GER
tainly blase to the beauties of litera-
ture. There are q few thoughts on the,
Cretan affair with moss Accompanies
ment. Il whole column of wholesome
religious thought, and in the issue Of
Thursday of this week column or so
of stereotyped news items with regular
date lines, but of the June vintage two
lovely receipts for cooking eggs with
mushroom sauce and one article that
every boarder at the hotel ought tn
paste in his hat: How to Keep Your
Groceries, Probably a subsequent is
sue Will tell how to get them And any
gay devotee of fashion that can have
the pleasure Of picking up paper in
the midst of Il full dress hop and read
ing an article on How to Cure Sheen
that are Infested with Worms ought to
be glad she is living. Local news is not
allowed to crowd out any of these in
teresting articles, and for this reason
the paper comes to its readers every
morning almost as a messenger from
heaven. w. A. Roberts, the all-round
protector of sundry enterprises. is the
m Int faJn