Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-24


Boothbay.
Old Orchard business men are talk
| ing up the project of d big pavilion on
the sea wall, for vaudeville perform
| ances, dances, band concerts. etc.
| They say something must be done To
| entertain the throng of excursionists.
Just read this fairy tale from the
| Portland Express: There Is a Pearl
street resident who found 1t almost inn
| possible to sleep during the late hot
| spell. He tied wet towels about the
| base of the brain. counted backwards,
| enumerated the number of imaginary
! sheep passing through an imaginary
| hole in an imaginary fence. drank hot
milk with a dash OF whiskey, and re-
| sorted to all the other devices for pro-
| pitiating Morpheus that he could learn
/ Of but sleep did not come Then he
/ conceived the brilliant idea of retiring
/ to the bath tub in foot of tepid water,
About three in the morning he was lost
/ to the world. One Of he earliest risers
| in the house is his little three years-old
daughter who is pretty and precocious.
! She discovered her papa and considered
| the proprieties rather than the weather
! in concluding that he should have more
/ cover. SO she turned on. the water and
skipped lnerrily down stairs. 1t
| CHANGED to be the HOT water and all the
time getting hotter, In five minutes
| the man was slowly, boiling. but he
slept with the strong and steady snore
| of one who had TO .fnake up for "A week
| of wakefulness At length there was
a snort. a sound like the blowing of a
| whale. a yell, a string of unauthorized
| language and a ghost dance"
| That is a good yarn, well told, but
| il rather spells the effect when you
| stop To wonder why. in midsummer.
| the water III the pipes was kept boiling
hot, especially 50 early in the morning.
| Waterville Mail: 1t would he a queer
sort of a farmer that would keep a
| loaded gun in the house and let a lot
of deer cat up his grain crop simply
because the law says deer mustn't he
killed in close time. A deer that enters
the confines of civilization and becomes
a nuisance logically loses all right to
! special protection from the State.
About every Maine city and town is
suddenly discovering that some of it's
citizens are among the newly made
Klondike millionaires
Brewer is going to keep up with the
the procession. A band is being or
ganized that is said to be a crack one
Belfast complains of violation of the
laws by porgy steamers. Years ago it
was not uncommon for as many as 80
steamers to be in sight. equipped with
nets for capturing this hony and oily
denizen of the deep. Then there was
no law against seining in the bays. The
| porgy disappeared, and so did the
steamers. Now both have returned.
the one in accordance with some I'M
known law of piscatorial migration
the other in violation of Maine law. A
few days ago a Rhode Island steamer
is alleged to have taken 1000 barrels of
fish in the bay and then escaped before
the wardens could get out to her The
fishermen complain that the porgy
steamers brighten away the schools
| of mackerel
Bath Enterprise: 1t is understood
that the several light houses which are
to be erected along the kennebec river
will be built this fall.
II the crews of life saving stations
were on duty II months instead Of 10
!. there would have been less loss of life
off our coast during the recent storm.
The old problem as to whether dig
ging clans is farming or fishing NAV
'|IkT july.