Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-07-16
normal school yet. but 1t Is to have q
summer school for teachers In August
and that is the next best thing.

summer ScnOOI AOI tctaCHcIS iu hu6uot'
and that is the next best thing.
Belfast Age: think the grounds
about the houses in town never looked
so well as at present. This is owing to
the fact that many of the lisfguring
fences have been removed and the peo-
ple have taken more pains to beautify
their home surroundings. The old
fences about some Of the houses were
like a convenient bed in the houses Of
some slovenly people-good thing to
hide the dirt. How much better flow
ers and shrubbery looks out on well
groomed lawns where all can see and
enjoy, than the old way, in gloomy
fence corners.
Here is a Belfast horse story that If
not true, ought to be true. The animal
belongs to a grocer and is used to de-
liver goods about the city. Becoming
thirsty the horse left his stand in front
of the store and walked to a distant
watering trough. His head was
checked so that he could not drink
Evidently realizing what was required
he walked to an electric light pole
where he rubber his head up and down
and finally unchecked his head. Then
he returned to the trough and re-
. freshcd himself and returned to his
place in front Of the store.
There is a five-year-old boy in Rock
, land whom 1t will be worth while to
o.. ll.,t1 in Hnf will I..,. 10. t.
bet on him every time. He carried a
lighted lamp up stairs the other day
when it exploded and set the things
near by on fire. The cool young gem
tleman didn't do thing to that fire
hut just smother it in some old clothes
that were at hand and then went down
stairs and told his parents what had
happened without showing any signs
that he thought he had done anything
remarkable.
Waldo county rustics were dazed the
other day by the inquiry of some Mas
place to fish fer boneIess Goldfish. AS
the good people thought il over after
wards they could not quite decide
whether the strangers We're trying To
guy them, or whether they had brought
along n superabundance of Bay State
bait.
The best hot weather story has just
arrived from the town Of Stetson. a
sound. reliable thermometer there
burst with the intense heat.
Riddeford Journal: Last night the
Lewiston Journal odltorially took issue
with Prof Small on a great social ques-
tion. 1t said, in part:
Prof. a. w. Small. formerly Of Colby
University. now Of Chicago University.
is our for spanking. Prof. Small's ideas
might do in a semi -barbarous com
munity. hut cutting and cudgeling in
the house have done more to perpetuate
barbarism than almost anything else
At the same hour. the local editor was
dashing off the following introduction
10 story about mischievous Lewis
ton boy;
Little Paul Parent needs n parents
care--and a spanking by a parent
would not spoil the child. to Judge by
his latest freak.
The two editors should get together
and settle the question as 10 whether or
not theirs is semi -barbarous com
munity."
There is minister in Gardiner who
doesn't know whether to be disap-
pointed or not. He dreamed three
nights in succession that the steamer
would sink if he went TO Boston on it,
but he went. and the boat didn't sink.
and he said ne had a nice sleep all the
way. There are dreams ana dreams,
but they are all of the stuff that dreams
are made of.
over on the Androscoggin they are
boasting of apple blossoms and halt
grown fruit on the same trees.
Some young vandals upon whom the
birch has been too sparingly used are
raising havoc in Calais gardens ana
yards. They destroy flower beds. peel
shade trees, pull up rose bushes and
plants and in general commit deviltrv
tDdt is VICIOUS ana not the least funny.
1t would he very difficult TO remember
Portals advice about mercy, in dealing
With such miscreants.
The Lewiston dog catcher is the
busiest city official. This year he has
SHARED 500 CANNES in the net at the
end Of his 1S-foot pole. over S5 of these
have been killed. In some places the |
way of enforcing the dog license law is |
to make those owners pay who WILL |
and let the rest go.
Auburn is having real boom in
house lots and people are buying right
and left, investing their money in the
right place, at home A local doctor
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