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

is at It's height. Names population is
many thousands larger now than a few
weeks ago. and next month the in
crease will be still greater.
| Those who remain at home In the
cities during the hot months appreciate
the public parks and yhe shade trees
that line the streets Our Maine cities
are for the most part favored in this
respect. Keep up the parks, care for
the trees and plant more of them.
| They say that during all the hot
weather the coolest man in the United
States Senate is Hale of Maine. His
smooth exterioris never disturbed by the
extreme heat of long summer days
session. Mr.. Hale never adopts the
negligee of summer attire. His waist
coat Is buttoned high; his coat fits
smoothly over his shoulders; his collar
| is stiff and white, his tie exactly in
place, and his trousers are properly
creased. The starch in his linens seems
waterproof, and the heat never loosens
button in his waistcoat
| Rockland Opinion: The late r. l..
Stevenson wrote a very amusing chap
ter on the character of dogs in general
| But the editor of the Thomaston Heral
is the first literary man we have heard
| OF who has made a personal attack on
an individual canine. The leading edi-
| torial of the last issue of the Herald Is
grave and serious analysis of the
| character of Postmaster Gilchrests
| dog Mike" whose conduct, we regret
| to see, does not meet the appreciation of
| the editor We understand that Mike"
does not appear to mind the editorial
| aspersions on his doings. and manner OF
| life. but, like everybody who gets
! roasted in a newspaper, he mas his
| friends who take up his cause with con-
siderable enthusiasm. AT last accounts,
the editor appeared To have hold Of the
uncomfortable end of the controversy.
and Mike was pursuing the even
| tenor of his ways without 50 much as
growing at the Herald when it comes
into the postofiice.
| The Buekfield miss who went to the
Hebron Academy commencement with
a russet shoe on one foot and black
shoe on the other doesn't let her friends
plague her about such tritiing mis-
take. She says she is simply in ad-
vance of her time. and this may be a
popular fad yet. Many styles are fully
as absurd and unnatural.
# "A Lincoln county town is perplexed
over the question, can a town meeting
legally vote to strike an article from
the warrant" calling the meeting? This
was recently done and some have a
suspicion they rather went boy ond
l'their powers. .f4...
The RocklHnd dynanaiters who cele-
brated the night OF the Fourth by shat
tering all the glass on several streets
and frightening the eity almost to
death, have at last. been run to earth
by the local police sleuths. Next yea:
their patriotism win be OF a less demon
stratve kind.
"A Bath paper speaks of the girls IF
that city as being the salt and rosebuds
1t is the weed called everlasting which is
strange combination, but perhaps the
rosehuds are too fresh
ii "A sure cure is now announced fopiivy
poisoning 50 common in the summer.
i is the weed called everlasting which
is found on every farm.
1t is all matter of taste. The female
aeronout who makes balloon asceusions
at South Portland cannot be induced to
shoot the chute at that place where
hundreds enjoy themselves daily. She
thinks it is too dangerous. but most of
us would perfer shooting down the
chute to shooting up in a balloon
Brunswick. with it's swarm of wheel
men, is trying to get bicycle club or
sanized. Every town in the State
should have one
We'll known citizen of Avon who is
noted spiritualist has had his faith
rudely shaken He has an uncle who
for many years has resided in the far
West and at recent seance which this
man attended he claimed that he held
direct communication with his uncle
from the spirit land, and even told
some Of his neighbors that he was posi-
tive that his uncle was dead Strange
To say. a day or two later along came a
letter from this same uncle which was
dated several days after his nephew
tfaimed to have talked with him from
the other shore. stating that he was en-
joying good health as usual
Fifty dollars in gold is waiting some
one to call for it in orono At a recent
guessing contest arranged by a local
store the first prize was that sum and
the fortunate man hasn't appeared to
claim his reward. The winners of the
other prizes were promptly on hand.
l Rubber neck is slang phrase the
boys are calling those who are in the
habit of trying to learn too much about
business that does not concern them
This does not apply to all the people
who have recently purchased the rub