Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-09-30

| for the water" Truly, "Out OF the
| mouths of babes and sucklings thou
| hast perfected praise. south Paris
Democrat.
| There is a slight local boom in the
South American market and more car
goes have left Portland for the conti-
nent Just south of us this season than
| for a few years past. The boom does
not extend TO any of the other lumber
shipping ports, for South America has
| brought in the seven months ending
August last but little more lumber
than it did last year.
The growing prevalence of divorce
was Illustrated during the recent term
of Supreme Court in Bangor. On one
day a man, his wife and daughter ap-
peared for DEGREES of divorce. The
parents had previously been divorced
and now as Mr.. Weller would put it,
sought divorce from their second wen
lures while the daughter wanted a di-
Vorce from her husband. Rather sad
commentary on matrimony in Maine
Piscataquis Observer.
one hundred new residences in sea-
son for a place of Baths size is quite "a
respectable figure and the shipbuilding
city is congratulating itself upon this
increase in the number of domiciles.
This is especially gratifying, for when
people build homes it argues for the
permauency of future growth of the
place. 1t means that they expect to
stay there and that shows that there
| is content in the hearts of the work
men and Il feeling of security for the
years to come.
While Edgar Morrison of Foxcroft
was staying at farm, recently, he was
| taken with the toothache and, not
wishing to go back to town, he devised
an original and novel method Of eX-
tracing il. He tied fish line around
! the troublesome molar and then fas-
| tened the line To a hook in a post of
| the piazza and sat down quickly. and
! the tooth was left dangling on the fish
! line and Edgar slept soundly that
| night We understand he does not
| contemplate having the process pat
| ented.
Mrs. Il. S Huston of Falmouth is
! the owner of a large and thrifty col
| lection of house plants. Her collec-
/ ton of geraniums, numbering so kinds
! or more. contains many rare species
| and colorS including one with lavender
| blossoms. She has also a great many
varieties of Rex Begonias, whose size
and beauty proclaim the care and at
! tendance which they 'eceive. Mrs.
| Huston cut a large lea. from a Rex
| Regonia into ten pieces and inserted
each piece in the soil and eight out of
the ten pieces are now rooted and
| ~ n ~
the experiment
An insane man who was taken in
charge by the Lewiston police. this
| week. ran upon a peculiar vein. He
| thought that he had no stomach and
could not eat or drink. He suffered
| severely from hunger now and then.
but when he ate anything was con
vinced that the food did him no good.
He has been living with his sister. and
has been peaceful until Monday morn
ing when he became violent. and in
sisted that he was starving to death.
He threw the furniture about in his
agony. and slammed right and left,
breaking things up until put under
control.
1t is often asserted that women will
drive a horse without having any
thought as to whether ii is fed, or not,
but this calumny is refuted in the case
of one member of a party of Caribou
ladies' who went on a days drive and
picnic recently. There We're two black
horses, each driven by its respective
owner. discriminating eye would
say that they are very unlike in ap-
pearance. But one horse got two din
ners and the other got none until his
mistress found out her mistake and
purchased for him a second quantity
of oats And even after that she at
tempted to pat the bride on the wrong
horse when the time came TO so home
Build up the waste places should
be the motto of every citizen in each
place. Every person who has it in his
lpower to improve the community in
which he resides is greatly at fault if
he neglects TO do his part The oppor-
tunities may be varied. The business
man has his opportunity by investing
money to such advantage as may give
employment to hundreds who otherwise
might have to 90 away from their
native place. Others may build up
their place by being Of a contentcd
mind and patronizng home Industries
rather than going elsewhere 10 maze
such selections as could be purchas ID
as cheaply in their own place. Let US
all see to this that we have
hand be it ever SO small. in building
up the waste places" even in our own
city.-Old Town Enterprise.
+. X. Rice of Charlotte, has novelty
in the potato line. The tuber is about
the size of a large walnut and at one
end is a small growth between which is
firmly embedded q ladys gold ring in
good condition. How the ring grew
there is not so remarka bic, as the fact
of it being lost for so many years and
then to return in such q way. Nj.
Rice says that his wife lost the ring
just II years ago in a straw bed while
they We're living at Pembroke When
he moved to his present farm house in
Charlotte the straw was used for q
i. year as bed and then dumped on the
ground that was farmed for four years.
Grass was raised on the same soil for
seven more and it was plowed up three
years following. 1t was in this soil
that the small potato succeeded in
capturing the ring lost Is years ago.
and < ha pynaptpd Mr IRE