Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-05
%Maame G0ss1n'
Studying Astronomy from the Porch.

Studying Astronomy from the Porch.
For every shooting star he claimed a kiss
She, seeming COY, 1T frs; demurrcd to
this:
But he, pers!stine, would not be denied.
When he. ut length. 4 flying meteor spicd.
Ana 50. as evening grew apacc. their
OFT scann'd the glittering aSpcc; of the
skies;
And when a darting star caught others
sight
a sound OF kissing broke upon the night.
And 50 ii came to pass anon that she
Look Il for a shooting star as much as he
Nay, If by chance star escaped his
view.
She called his wond'rins fancy TO it. too.
When intervals seemed long between each
hug,
She called him on a passing lightning
bug:
And ever taxing her ingenious mind.
Her ready Wit enabled her To find
MQrN. shooting stars in three short fleet
mig hours
Than would compose whole metooric
showers
But when she did her last pretext tx
And was about to WELD her cause as lost.
She saw a swtchman's lantern circling
swing
And got the youth down to a steady
thing.
ltf.t..,tt " ISS1r miscellany. p
Again the farmers want rain.
The grain fields are turning from
green To yellow.
Somerset. in Somerset county. is
Names youngest rostotiicr,
Those nomination papers must be in
by tomorrow. at the latest.
OF all the summer gatherings in
Maine that one at the Good VIII Pines.
this week is one of the happiest.
The First Volunteer engineers. in
which half hundred Maine lumber
men are recruits, has sailed from New
York for Porto Rico.
one Eiddeford couple this week well
coined the eighteenth child to their
home and hearts. That's the kind of
family they had in the good old times
Those children have no need to 90
abroad to find somebody to play With.
Portland Press: Honest sam" Lord
and the Rev Mr.. Mckinney agree that
Democratic platforms are not TO he
taken very seriously. Democratic can
didates III this State are not to be TAX
en- very seriously either.
Biddeford Journal: AT last fate and
the American army have lit upon n
word to rhyme with "Saco." 1t is the
name of the Porto Rican town of Yam
60. 1t has been 30 years that the
pine has waited for the palm.-and
even the rhyme doesn't seem able TO
suggest a verse.
AS II rule Maine people were not
caught in the Lubec gold-mininr
scheme; but it is alleged that the buh-
BILE burst just in season to save several
Portland men who are reported as
having bonded piece of land on the
Maine coast west of the Kennehac for
the purpose of starting n branch f..
NJ. S. Co.
captain Butler of the Signal Corps
now in Cuba, writes to his family at
home in Portland of a mishap to him
self on the field of battle His mount
was an untamed mule and, as the cap
tain rode to the front, at the first dis
charge of field piece the animal
/ 'bucked," landing his rider in a pool
of mud and water. The mule then
disappeared and has not yet surren-
dered.
The observations of the Maine ey-
pertinent station show, what we al
| ready know, that July was a scorcher
| The average temperature was several
| degrees higher than the average for the
| past 80 years, and on July 3 it reached
80 degrees. the highest observed at the
| station in generation. 1t was also a
| month of extremes for on July 7 and
| IL the temperature fell to 80 degrees
| the lowest observed in July for the
past 30 years. The fall of water was
about two-thirds of what July usually
| brings.
| The Yale foot ball team candidates
will come to Maine for the early train