Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-04

| The rainy weather has especially
shown it's effects in the orchards. The
caterpiIlars have been drowned and in
many cases the trees are even now fresh
and fragrant with apple blossoms.
The most reprehensible case of en-
| terprse lately reported is way down in
| Washington county, according to a
cuses several men of starting brush
| fires in woodlands. just SO that the
| cumberland owners would hire them to
fight the flames.
Biddeford is happy over reduction
of the tax rate. 1t will probably be 81
mills this year, five mills lower than
before. Most municipalities would re-
gard q mills as at least five mills
higher than 1t ought to be-
August is starting in well at the
summer resorts. and they are hoping
to make up for rather slack July.
IL is NuItHpOFt. tHt scene III camp
meeting piety, that now brings for
ward the old story that has been told
of almost every Maine town that raises
liars.--the old story of the man who
shingled out four feet on the fog. mis-
taking it for a continuation of the barn
roof.
The hlnphprrV VILLAGES i'm Wa GhinVtOn
county are going up fast now. and the
prospect is said to be the best for years.
The berries are plenty, even the can
ners admit that. the duty on imported
fruit means much To Names BURBERRY
county. and the market which has been
growing worse steadily for five years,
is improving every day-in fact every
thing looks blue down that way-which
color, in this instance, is much more
cheerful than rose.
The Boston Herald hears that the de-
posits in Maine savings banks. thus far
this year, show an increase, especially
among people who make small deposits
weekly. And the Herald might have
added that these deposits are bound to
increase both in number and in amount,
now that the tariff has been adjusted
to favor the working people.
A donkey engine which has been do
ing great work at jam breaking at
Waterville, moving from dozen to
several hundred logs at a haul and
often doing more in 10 minutes than an
old time crew could do in day. has
made the river drivers open their eyes
and wonder if the cantdog is an
implement of the past.
The nest of night hawk containing
several young birds. has been discover
ed on the gravelled roof of a Lewiston
business block This bird usually
builds its nests in remote places on a
bare ledge. OF course this fact doesn't
indicate that the bird mistook Lewis
ton for a remote and rocky place Be
ing night hawk perhaps it had other
reasons for seeking home there.
Shades of Longfelow and Hiawatha!
Not long ago certain leading Bangor
firm issued list of paintings which it
was about to offer for sale: No. 116 in
the list was printed: Mime Ha Ha
Falls"
Less water than ever will now be
used for drinking purposes in Bangor.
Eels have habit of visiting houses
through the water pipes and creating
a sensation by their antics AS they are
far too large to pass through the filters
it is supposed they have been in the
pipes long time.
If wealthy Ohio gentleman carries
out his intention, Ocean Park before
next summer will have the unique
cottage on the Maine coast. There are
cottages of every form and size on the
coast of Maine, from the 7x9 box with
just room for a cot bed and kerosene
stove, to the palatial cottage of the
Bar Harbor millionaire; but this gem
tleman is not satisfied with any of the
conventional styles and purposes to
build his in the form of ship. All
the details are to be complete. The
deck of the ship is to be the cottage
piazza; instead of front steps there
will be gang plank which may be
drawn in at night, the cabin will be the
living rooms of the cottage and the in
habitants will commune with Morpheus
and the festive mosquito in hunks ar
ranged along the cabin WALL instead
of in the regulation beds prescribed by
an effete civilization. The man who is
to build this cottage is not a sea cap |
tain. whose love for his ocean home |
leads him to duplicate it on shore He
is merely a prosperous merchant, who
perhaps has never been out of sight of |
land in his life, but he believes in |
adapting cottages as we'll as other
things to their surroundings. and
argues not without reason that the I
home of the seaside visitor should be
as nearly like the home of the sailor
as possible. He proposes thus to en-
joy all the advantages of sea voyage
without the possible Inconvenience of
NAL de mere. and If the rains descend
and the Hoods come upon this house. |
as they did on another house. which
was built upon the sands this nauticaII