Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-14
Maine Gossip.

The bird to the nest and the pee 10 me
comb, "a,
When the night from the heavens iaiis
dreary; d..
And love to the light IN the WINDOWS u
The light of the love of my dearie.
Frank l.. Stanton.
The girl, who gets a column notlce
in the New York Times for novel
cook stove. which costs almost nothing
to build or to run. is native OF west
Eden, Maine. She is student at new
York cooking school and IS teacnihg
the teachers. Just like the Maine girl
The Orneville man VINO charged an
other with having shot at him and
showed bullet holes in the sleeves OF
his under and outer coats to prove this
was somewhat embarrassed when the
Judge had the coats put together as
they would be when worn. 1t was
found then that the holes didn't cor
respond, that a bullet making the
holes in the outer coat could not at the
same time have made the holes in the
inner coat.
The Gardiner man who took off his
Prince Albert while moving the lawn
and later clipped off both coat tails
with the mower gets mad when the
subject is mentioned in his presence.
South Thomaston has had over 80
eases of humps In the past two
months. Quite a cheeky community.
One woman, residing in Maine VII
lage has been so much annoyed by
ioafers leaning against her fence thar
he now keeps it freshly painted.
Habit is queer thing. An old gen
leman in Montville, who said he could
lot see to sign his name until given a
,alr of glasses. was given a pair from
which the lenses had been removed.
he signed the paper nicely and de-
Jared he could see better with those
lasses than any others he had tried.
A correspondent who has been suffer-
ng much from his rheumatism because
# the wet weather wonders II by the
aw of compensation the rheumatism
eacts on the weather.
Portland Express: The Fourth OF
July enthusiasm is getting up to fever
leat in our city, That's right Lei
the eagle scream.
A correspondent of the Courier-Ga-
:ette has this to say concerning the
much condemned English sparrows; l
I'm glad 10 speak a word for the little
english sparrows. as they are subject
lots of abuse and are outlawed in
ONE states We always have them in
Rockland in plenty, but last summer
.oticed such unusual numbers CT them
n my pear trees that l was led TO
hink there must he a reason for Il.
IN a close examination l found the
rees infested with small green worms
which We're feeding on the leaves.
There must have been millions of the
worms but the birds kept them woll
inder, so that they did no harm and |
rad a good crop of pears. The spar
ows not only fed themselves but had
heir young to feed and it took thou
;ands of worms to supply one family.
am also glad to say that l saw other
birds in the trees at the same time, no
tably the cedar bird and the common
tree sparrow. and / never saw any dis
putes. AS you get back from the main
streets the English sparrows are not
so plenty. ! saw two pear trees situa-
ed farther back which the worms had
completely stripped of their leaves.
A Lewiston pastor it is said will have
pay 800 for marrying a couple with
out requiring proper certificates His
rood wife's pin money, if she depends
| IN marriage fees for it. will be sensibly
| diminished by her good mans negli-
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