Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-05-27

| '"'utDiC uOSS nave IdlIGN VIC
'iiiS 10 the dog poisoner at Boothbay.
Jesse Spaulding of North Anson has
grating hook which he has used for
| i2 years.
fhilllps believes that the old board
OF trade there should be revived, or a
new one organized.
"A person, who was run into and
knocked down by bicycle in Bruins
| WICK recently,got up and excused him
sell lof being in the wheelmans way
west Gouldsboro boasts of a smart
niue girl in the person of Miss Mildred
N"yes Although but seven years old.
Sfle ana washing of forty-one pieces
doing it all herself
fhilip Caron rode from the Dra-
peauX store Brunswick, to Bowdoin-
nam on his bicycle, recently in q min
utes'th distance being over nine miles
His time was taken by telephone.
some fourteen years ago a daughter
OF Lorenzo Minott of Bowdoinham, lost
valuable pin While at play Recently
BOY was out digging green's and
found it. 1t was in good condition be
ing as bright as though lately lost.
Searsport can go Belfast one better
on shlpmates with Admiral Dewey.
William kelbert, of that town was a
shipmate Of then Lieut.. Dewey on
board the steamer Mississippi when
she was burned in an attempt to run
by the fortifications at Port Hudson
March 13. 1863. Searsport also has
cltiZen IN the person of Frank T..
Shute, paymaSter'S clerk on board the
gunboat Concord, which did good work
in the recent engagement at Manila.
having on board one of the best gum
ners in the Asiatic squadron.
1t is probable that Peak, Cushings.
Great and Little Diamond Island will
have the most prosperous summer
they ever experienced. as the travel to
Long. Chebeague. and the islands in
the vicinity will doubtless be light on
account of devious and dangerous
passages. and because of the length
ened time it takes to reach the islands.
Many people who have cottages in the
lower part of Casco bay will not go to
them this season, but will occupy cot
tages ON the nearer islands. an illus
tration of the old adage. whats ones
los; isanother's gain. Portland Cour-
ier.
The Northeast Harbor correspondent
of the Ellsworth American reports that
the actual breaking out of hostlities
| has had beneficial effect on condi-
tions there. Early in the season. when
warlike rumUrs caused uncertainty
and uneasinesS, the prospect for sum
mer resort business was very diScour-
aging. But now that war has fairly
commenced the condition has material
| ly improved. Several summer visitors
have been in Northeast Ilarbor looking
after their cottages, and expressed the
opinion that more would come than if
| war had not been declared. Rooms in
/ the hotels are renting quite Well. The
cottages are mostly rented
/ Nathaniel Robbins of South Deer
| Isle who passed his ninety eighth
bil thday March Is. is the oldest person
| in Deer Isle. He is a great reader, and
| is very much interested in the war
| news. What is most remarkable is
! that for forty years his head been
/ nearly bald, and the few locks of hair
! remaining were silyered by the frosts
! of ninety-eignt winters. But the past
| winter he has grown a new crop OF
/ light brown hair. from one to tWo
| inches in length. and soft and silky in
/ texture. He says it is the same color
as his first crop was when he was a
boy.
The world is not very large after
all. A few years ago a lady living in
Gardiner went on an excursion to
| Damariscove. where as it is we'll
known. there is but one house. She
with others, visited this house cas-
ually taking from the table an Old
fashioned ambrotype. she was de
lighted and astonished to find ii to be
a picture of favorite uncle, who had
been dead some years Upon investl-
cation it was found that the picture
had been sent from Valparaiso in the
sea chest of a brother of the lady of
the house, the brother being a friend of
the uncle in question, who died in Val
paraiso. and whom the niece had not
seen for years.
A well known Bath young man VIII
probably leave his bicycle at home in
the future when he calls upon his lady
friends. He made call on High
street young lady recently leaving his
bicycle outside. While he was gone, a
little brother, who evidently has Keen
sense of humor. played joke upon
him bv unscrewing the valve caps
from both his tires, letting the air OUT
and carrying off the caps. When the
voune man started for home he found
the tires fat and as the boy was mss
ing about that time, the bicycilst was
Obliged to walk home and push MS
wheel along. He received the caps by
mail early the next morning the
voa1ngster probably deciding it would
he safer to let the mail carrier do the
errand than to risk a personal inter-
view at just that time.
A High street resident, at the re-
ouest of his better half. was spadinS
M the flower garden back OF his resi-
dence for the annual seed planting
and. growing warm and uncomfofta-
ble over the unwelcome job, was rap
idlv becoming out of sorts and few
bad words occasionally We're heafd
when his spade struck ledSe ol