Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-10

MOItAL
When times are hard-nO trade In town
Don't get discouraged and go down.
Rut struggle still-nO murmur utter
A few more kicks may bring the butter.
II. s. Baker In the True Reformer
The class parts are being assigned.
The subjects for essays now occupy
the seniors attention.
A Belfast man prizes as one OF his
most valued possessions a map Of the
world which was executed by his aunt.
when a school girl in 1929. 1t is a fine
piece of work and attracts general
notice.
A prominent Aroostook farmer. a
large potato grower. says he will SOW
more wheat and plant fewer potatoes
this year-a direct result OF the roller
mills in Caribou.
Bridgton's young voters" were out
early town meeting day. The first man
to vote was Bridgton's oldest citizen.
Joseph L. Ingalls,. who is 80 years and
II months of age. The next one to cast
his ballot was Stephen Edgerley. who
Is 81 years and seven months old.
A Morrill, hen surprised its owner
recently by laying soft-shelled egg
that measured rs by 3 inches. and
enclosed a hard-shelled egg Of ordi-
nary size.
An Auburn travelling man who came
from Boston to Portland on the boat
Monday night. said that it was the
most terrifying experience of his life.
The storm was raging fiercely. there
was a terrible sea and it looked for a
time as If the boat was in great peril.
The passengers We're terror-stricken.
Nearly all of them put on life pre-
servers and many of them sought ref
uge in prayer. They believed that the
Portland disaster was to be repeated.
An awful weight of anxiety was lifted
from their minds when the boat ar
rived safely in Portland harbor.
Some idea of the enormous trade of
Portland with European ports during
the trans Atlantic steamer season can
be gained from the following data for
February: The exports for that month
included the following: 2.239. 637 pounds
of lard. 3,S35.572 pounds of meats go
7S3 sacks and 5.029 bags of miscellan-
eous grains. 546.4S4 bushels of wheat,
274,9a6 bushels of corn. .453 sheep. s.
265 head cattle. 452 horses. 5.4S7. Az
pounds of provisions. $500 bales of hay.
$500 bushels of peas. $50 bushels of
bushels of oats. 17.57S barrels of apples
3,41O.SOO pounds of cheese, 1.653.052
pounds of hams and bacon, 1887
bushels of barley. S15,037 pounds of
butter and 525.602 pounds of leather
This does not include lumber and
many miscellaneous articles. such as
furniture. machinery. bowels. shocks
and slaves. maple blocks and miscella-
neous food stuffs.
1t is always pleasure to ride
through the town of Norridgewock,
but it will be more enjoyable than ever
this summer since the town has
placed guide boards at the So corners
of direct roads. Fifty dollars could
hardly have been expended in way
to give more general satisfaction.
A Belmont man and his sons have
won more than a local reputation as
successful bee hunters, having to their
credit the largest number of swarms
of bees found in Waldo county. Dur.
ing the past three years they have
found Is swarms.
A fox hound had an exciting expert
ence in Belfast recently. His owner
had left his team in the street with the
hound tied to the carriage by a stout
rope. The horse ran away and the
hound had some narrow escapes from
being thrown on the slippery places.
Had he missed his footing and been
dragged behind that runaway he
would have been dead dog when the
horse stopped. Horse. carriage and
dog all escaped unframed, however.
A Bath firm received an order not
long ago for roll of duck to be shipped
on the afternoon train. The teamster
did not have the team out on account
of the binding snow storm, and rather
than take the horse out in such
weather he slung the roll which weigh
ed over 200 pounds over his shoulder
and carried it to the depot. Nobody
seeing him marching along would ever
have imagined that he had such a
weight on his shoulder for he made no
more of an effort than If it had been
a small sack of flour. ]
An interesting coincidence is reported
by Belfast young man. During the
recent fire in that city which destroyed
the printing Office of the Belfast Age
he picked up two copies of the Pro-
gressive Age, a former Belfast publ
cation, which were blowing about the
street. AS the papers were considera-
bly, charred. he carried them home for
relics. On examination he found that
one was dated in May. 1882, and con-
tanned the notice of his own birth.
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