Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-13
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Pennington has decided not to furnish
free vaccination.
Several Dover young men have started
a movement for the organization of an
athletic association.
!. The warrant for the Lisbon town meet
Ing. was about six Ieet long. and con-
tanned siXty-s!x articles.
! William F. Emery of Bangor, has a silk
banner which has been in his family for
over 50 years, his father having come into
possession of it over half a century ago.
It is valued piece of property, being
Jackson banner.
Pejepscot Is being rapidly built up with
good substantial looking buildings, not
the cheap class seen in many places OF
somewhat similar prospects, great adj
vantage to any new industry as 1t is more
likely to bring In a better class of people.
Eleven years ago X. H. White gave a
the understanding that when the boy be-
came twenty years of age Mr.. White
would pay fifty cents for the almanac IL
the boy would present 1t to him. The boy
has now attained that age and last week
the almanac was redeemed by Mr.. White
by paving the sum stated. That boy Is
now BoWNo1n student and If he follows
his hand he will make mark in the
world.
A queer accident happened the other
day to Freeman Weldon of MI. Desert
Ferry. Mr., Weldon has very poor eye
sight, and while passing the cupboard,
denly imprisoned by something which
held it in vise-like grip. His cries soon
brought his sister, who found that live
lobster which she had left on the cup
board held the hand tignt in its claw,
mangling it terribly. Quick as a wink she
seized a hammer and ended the lobster $
existence. Mr.. Weldon is completely
Frustrated by the accident.
John McRav an ingenious prisoner who
has served several thirty days sentences
in Machias jail for intoXication, has
whled away the days of has, confinement
by making many useful and ornamental
articles. Mrs. ellison. the iailor's wife,
has several articles of his handwork on
exhibition. Among them is an ingenious
~ wrought picture frame 2X2ls feet. In
this frame, which he says was made for
a picture of the Maine, is more than 600
pieces of wood ingeniousiy connected.
When his sentences expire ne leaves his
is resumed.
Maine will become domestic money order
offices on April LIST: Benedicta. Aroostook
county: Falmouth. Cumberland county;
Eoleb, Somerset county; Hudson. Penob-
SEQ, county; New Sweden, Aroostook
county; North Auburn. Androscoggin
ty; Rumford Point, oxford county; South
Harpswell, cumberland county; Sebec
Station, Piscataquis county: West Au-
burn. Androscoggin county; West Levant.
ington county.
The annexation of Deering solves II
problem which has .ong confronted the
city of Portland and its solution will
Portland almshouse will undoubtedly be
transferred from Portland street to the
farm now used for the Deeriug almshouse
near the Westbrook line and the Portland
almshouse will be torn down in time and
the land which it now occupies will be
put into the market. On the Deering
farm an entirely new set of buildings. ar
ranged after the most approved fashion.
will be erected and the cost of their con-
struction will be betrayed by the sale of
the land which the almshouse now occu-
pies in Portland.
One of the most severe hardships yet
reported in connection with the Water
vile smallpox scare. is that of one of WA
tervi.Ie's young men who has a sweet
heart residing IN the neighboring town of
Oakland. For long time 1t has been MS
pay his respects to his lady-love, going
on the train leaving Waterville at 80
and returning at 40. When the scare
reached its height and the board of
health of Oakland refused TO allow any
one from Waterville to visit that place,
this young mans visits were stopped and
he board of health has only just allowed
them to be resumed. The course of true
love never does run smooth
With a system of roads not excelled in
the whole State of Maine. and a tax rate
as low as any town, the taXpayers of Or
rington are well satisfied. The town is
free from debt, each years obligations
are paid as fast as they become due and
only sufficient money is raised each year
to pay for such repairs and improvements
as are absolutely, necessary for the wei
fare of the place. The past year the to-
tai amount of money raised by the town
was less than $1,000 and the tax rate was
but .i6. Practically every dollar as
sessed has been collected by the town
collector, John e. Bowden, and he made
ms final settlement with town treasurer.
recently. The greater part of the money
raised In the town each year is expended
upon highways and the result Is excel
lent. Bicyclists who go through Orrlng-
ton always speak in the highest praise OF
he roads.
The latest device of Hiram S. Maxim.
the celebrated Maine inventor, is a proc
css for making a species of carbon
which closely, il not completely. reSem-
bles diamonu but will be lar less expen-
sive than the natural diamond. The sub
stance. when obtained, is used in the
manufacture of iilaments for high-Volt-
age incandescent lamps, which require a
carbon possessing Ugh resistance and
Acting on the principle that carbon dl-
oxide may be kept in Il liquid condition
at a pressure of from 500 To 500 pounds to
the square inch, but when converted into
carbon monoXide requires much greater
pressure to confinc. Mr.. Maxim places III
strong, tightly closed vessel carbon III
oxide III a llquld or Sollu state ana some
form of carbon. such as gasoline or other
hydrocarbon. Decomposition is then ell
iectcd by the action Of the electric arc.
and part of the Oxygen of the carbon d.
oxide unites with the carbon and fur
nshes carbon monoxide. Inc pressure
thus becomes very high, and the carbon
at or near the conductors is converted
into Il very hard substance in the form OF
diamond scales. The process may re-
qure considerable time, and the quantity
of the hydrocarbon must be properly reg
uIated The diamond carbon thus formed
has very high resistance, and it may
be so perfectly crystalline. as TO prevent
altogether the passage OF current. The
carbon produced by this process is re-
duced to a fine powder, and then made
into filaments in the usual way. If any
body ever really finds the Philosophers
stone it will be one of these Maine inven-
tors.