Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-01-23
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valuable ~ The practical newspaper
men.
When IL comes ~ telling stories Of
big porkcrs. Mrs. John u. White Of
Unity, age rs years. wants to be heard.
a pig which she had fed and cared for
was killed. last week. at the age Of nine
months. and dressed 451 pounds.
The Maine newspaper men and
women are still wondering what be-
came Of the big blizzard. last week,
that always accompanies their winter
session.
The other evening fire was discovered
In the chamber Of Portland tenement
occupied as lodging house. and when
the firemen got there and put out the
fire. which WAS In a bed, they were
astonished when voice from the other
bed in the room said: Get out Of
here. 1 want to go to sleep, you fellows
make me tired" They found a man
named Feency In bed. He calmly ex-
planned the occurrence. It Is a small
room and there is a table between the
two beds A lighted lamp was on the
table. In some way. he could not tell
how. the lamp was knocked off and the
oil fell on his bed. setting IL on fire.
Finding. as he said. that ''it was get
ting mighty uncomfortable" he got up
and took possession OF the other bed,
pulled the quilts over him and went to
Claan The n1ltoido ft1
building in time to save his life. When
asked why he did not get up and put
out the fire he replied I'm no fire.
man." The firemen left him to his re-
pose. No man in a hot place could
have been cooler than he was.
Edward Boyd Of Bangor, has in his
possession an old pistol which is at
tracing lot Of attention, and causing
good deal Of argument as to it's his.
tory. There is no doubt but what it is
old but how old is question. Last
summer Mr.. Boyd and several COM
panions were camping on an island at
Lake Onawa. and were digging deep
into the sand to get foundation for a
wharf, when MIR. Boyd unearthed a
the wooden butt entirely rotted off. 1t
is "a flint lock, made of iron roughly
finished. with a very small bore. There
are great many legends in connection
with this locality. about two Indian
tribes that were constantly fighting
and a battle said to have taken place
between the French and the Indians on
the lake, in which the latter were
beaten. All this is mere surmise. and
the origin of the pistol will probably
remain a mystery.
The Cumberland court seems to have |
felt that there was some point to the |
that Patrick Murphy, who
had just pleaded guilty to killing his |
drunken wife had great provocation to |
a display Of temper. as it took off two
years from the maximum sentence for
According to the evil
dence presented this was another case
where an Industrious young man mar
ried dissipated and immoral young
and proved incapable Of the
difficult task of raising her TO his own
level. or to the only a little easier one
Of bearing his hard lot with patience
former level
The Lubec Herald passes along this
story told by an Eastport doctor about
i've eases of grip he was called upon to
.reat. The patients We're the crew of
small coasting schooner and were
'rowded into the forecastle suffering
severely from the disease. When the
loctor entered he found only one well
man who proved to be the captain.
The physician prescribed for the men
and then stopped few moments to
listen to the captain who kept repeat
ng Il don't see where nor how all nv
men could have caught the grip"
suddenly one of the men, who proved
10 be the mate. spoke up and said, Il
,an tell YOU where ! caught this dis
ease. it was down in the hold where
YOU sent me to steal coal from the
'argo while YOU We're saying your
prayers in the cabin" That mate was
ooking for another berth the next day.
Speaking from the standpoint OF a
,eologist this town is one of the Oldest T
bits of earth in existence. says the I.
LuDec Herald. Long before the land II
Europe and Asia appeared /.
above the water. there was a narrow
strip Of land along the Maine coast. Fl
md including what is now Lubec. upon /:
which is found fossil specimens of the E1
earliest form of animal life. At West T!
Aubec near the lead mines is a perfect (
cemetery of these rocky old inhabit-
lnts. Excellent specimens of fossil Y
rilobites and Silurian brachoeopods
nave been found. These animals were
fery small and We're covered by a
shell. They had no vertebrate, but
we're the highest form Of life existing :
It the time. which is computed to have /
'een some 1O.OOO.OOO years ago. At
hat time there were no fishes in the |
ea nor any vertebrate animals or yege- |,
able life except a few sea weeds. i