Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-18
BITS OF MAINE NEWS.

A potato grown in tin can Kept in
Dexter stable is 20 inches long.
There IL already more or less lamenta-
tion because the "shoo fly" train be-
tween Bangor and Orono is to be taken
off.
A Biddeford blacksmith has hammer
he brought from Ireland that was made
by his grandfather and Is over lp years
old.
AT Dover the sight of yoke of oxen
and a span of horses hauling cart by
their united effort was declared the other
aay to be a very unusual one.
Daniel f. Owen, who has been teacher
of sciences at Thornton Academy, Saco.
for seven years, has accepted a similar
position in the William Penn Charter
school of Philadelphia, and will take w
his residence there in the early part ~
October Mr.. Owen is graduate u
Bowdon college, class of 49,
Austin Cary is considering the question
of whether or not the whispering pines
of Bowdoin can be replaced. They sen IN
to be thinning out just at present
has set out over 5000 white pine seeuiinss
in the eastern corner of the CAMPUS
About ten years will be required for THESE
to get a start so as to be traiiSPia, -
The sons of Bowdoin's sons VIII nav "
new pine forest to write poems apou'.
The United States fish commissioner
car is at work distributing youhs u.
taken from Craigs brook hatcneis
sOrland. in the Piscataquls fieasai,'
rivers. and in various waters ~ WI
ford. MattaWamkeag ara Naheeoo'p
The entire shipment OF the "een ~
comprise 100000 Atlantic sdiiiio"'
nearly 900, 900 Quinnet salmon ana 4V'-
600 steel head trout.
The Maine Chautauqua AAssempis VIZ
hold ITS annual session on the ma u'au :,
qua grounds in Fryepnrs. oss ii llta,'d 70
gust 3d. The meetings VIII eA,eliu
August DIST. Rev. George D. Lindsay anu
Rev Ernest NJ. Abbott, son oil Dr. ~
man Abbott of New York. are prepd,ins
the programme They will introduce
many new features, ana soon ~ nd
the public course of INSTRUCTION aIiu
entertainment unsurpassed. KEY. Dr.
Ahbott will aid in making this the pest
assembly ever held
This story of remarkable cure over
on the Cape" comes from Portland pa
per. A woman there was troubled WITH
hysteria and though she had tried all
schools of physicians, the faith cure anu
everything that the women OF the nelsh-
borhood could suggest, her case appar
emily was incurable. Finally, grilh' , gu
aunt from Vermont, with a lace Hke
fate. and three little corkscreW curis on
either side came on a visit. She heard OF
the case and seemed to dismiss it with a
grunt The next time the lnvahd WIS
seized the aunt was right on deck.
..I;rah hold there" she commanded the
nurse. Never mind her kicking and
suualling. That's it; souse her IN, ana
the patient went plumb to the bottom Oh
a big bath tub of water just below ice
temperature. She came up snoruns,
blowing and saying things that were IL
able to take her name out of the plue
book But the adamantine relative ohiy
helped to rub her down and issued an I'M
perative order that every time the
woman had a seizure she must be given
the cold water douche Two years nave
passed since then without any symptoms
of returning hysteria.,
His majesty. the Emperor of Japan
not being aware of his death, conferred
on the late Professor Luther Whiting
Mason (who died at the residence OF his
daughter Mrs. Horace A. Irish, Buck
field, last July) the decoration OF th'
Fourth Glass of the order of the Sacred
Treasure, in recognition OF his services
rendered for the cause of musical edu
cation in Japan. Owing to his death
however, the japanese legation
Washington, D. c., was not able t.
carry out the command of his majesty
and the decoration had to be returnet
to Japan The imperial government
wishing to recognize his valuable ser
vices. requested, through the ministe
of foreign affairs, to present pair o
Japanese Cloissone vases to Mrs. Ma
son. lin testimonial of the high estima
ton which we have always had towarl
the deceased professor" When 1t wa
found that Mrs. Mason also had passed
away, the present was sent to thel
daughters. Mrs H. A. Irish and Mis-