Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-10
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the last far one snort year agO. In
| short. the variety in the exhibition
han is so large that there is scarcely
I a person, be he rich or poor, educated
or uneducated, who fails to see some
thing there of interest.
Although all like to go to the hall. yes
to linger there, Ills the woman who
looks forward to this visit with the
greatest pleasure. She is the one who,
when her husband is looking at the
| spring pigs or watching an exciting
| finish in a horse race, is to be found in
the hall wandering about, going the
rounds time and time again, always
seeing something new, always noticing
| rounds time and time again, always
seeing something new, always noticing
something that will again be brought
up in her mind during the year to
come. She never wearies of the hall
and her only regret is that she Is un-
able to longer Stay there
The fish exhibit has the same posi-
lion that it did last year. While there
is nothing new in the display, this year,
| the members of the finny tribe from the
State hatcheries are just as popular
| as ever. The public always enjoys
watching the big, hook jawed salmon
splash around in his small enclosure.
I ever restless, always watching for a
| chance for escape, or the little google
eyed fellows whisk about in the muir
ky waters of the Androscoggin, which
by the way. some are unkind enough
| to say is not too good for fish.
The tanks are made of thin plate
glass and The water runs in all day and
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the building from the front entrance is
filed with little ones, too many OF
them to count. They fit about as
as enjoyable for all practical purposes
as an existence in great lake fed by
cool springs.
The next tank contains brood OF
i:t;e four-mon.hs sold Qunnot salmon.
They have not been in Lake Auburn
long, but when they grow up. won't
the sportsmen along the Androscoggin
/ have lots of sport? The brown trout
recently imported from Europe are
very interesting The tank contains a
r.u,nber of l.ttle ones and they seem TO
thrive under the gentle influence Of
New England water.
Then comes the brook trout. Just
large enough. you know, to be inter
esting. The kind that Will cause you
to tramp long weary miles through wet
grass, ovcT focks, to pull from under
some unsuspicious looking stone.
These are sizeable and will weigh all
the way from quarter to a pound
apiece. Then comes the old bull sal
mon. - How the sportsman aches to
drop line into the tank. He jumps
around like cat with bag of catnip
He shakes his fist at the old bull fish
7 and he shouts between his gritted
tseth, IF | only had you on my D.
ounce rod But the huge salmon only
sticks his big hook up and with a
gaudy. confident air, turns around.
The big lake trout is different from
the salmon in shape. He is very deep.
short and stubby while the salmon
has a long slim form. This is the
most noticeable difference 20 the com
mon observer, but that is not all.
There are many great differences be-
: tween the salmon and the trout.
In the nl;th wing on the second floor
of the hall is the exhibit of Lake View
Grange of Young's Corner, Auburn.
Now this grange has always had a
record for exhibits, but for short notice
they beat everything this year. The
fair opened. Monday Saturday morn
ing no Grange had put in an appear
ance or been heard from. The mem
bers of the Grange became interested
then they hustled and before the fair
was running in full swing they had an
exhibit that did the old Changers good
to lool, upon.
The location of the Grange is duly
announced by pretty sign over the
entrance to the wing. The braided
rugs and quilts are appreciated by the
| women for they alone realize what all
amount of work there is in few speci-
| mems Of this work. A pair of ancien.
hand bellows used by our ancestors are
F, attracting more attention than any
thing else in the fair
An interesting thing is a couple of
pillow shams, outline work, made by
a gentleman 15 years old Unfortu-
nately the cards do not announce the
name of the maker. The ladies say it
| is as good as any of them could do.
1t is stated that the old gentleman likes
| to sew and that he insisted on having
these, specimens of his handiwork at
the fair. On one of the shams are the
| words, Sweet lilies close at night
| The fruit exhibit is not in charge of
| the Pathological Society as formerly.
| but is managed by the State fair d.
rect. The exhibit is not unusually large
on account of the scarcity of fruit, bat
| the quality of the fruit on exhibition is
of a very high order and quite salts
factory to those having the depart
ment in charge
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