Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-11-03

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There are three. George +. Clark ant
one George s. Clark in the city. How
would you like to be the letter carrier?
queries the Rockland Courer-Gazet;r.
There are now % miles of rural dellv-
cry from Gorham postoftice. Two car
ricrs have been added to the service.
Their salaries have been increased from
$500 TO $500
The parents Of children who attend the
Saunders street school. Portland are
somewhat worked up over case Of scar
let fever which was not discovered until
the child was nearly well and had been
at school all the time.
The meanest sneak thief thus far re-
ported in Eastport. was the one who on
Il recent evening carried away small
pile of hard wood from Il neighbors yard
and did not leave enough to start up i
fire the next morning.
John S. Lyman of Bar Harbor and Ru-
fus II. Young OF Hancock have b"ed
trapping in the Reeds Brook neighbor-
hood. The first night they set twelve
traps and caught six foxes which beats
their record.
With Ernest Seton Thompson, the nat
uralist. 'Dr. Stuckenherg the sociologisl
and f. Hopkinson Smith the artist and
burn this season, ii looks as if those
cities Were waking up a bit-or ought t.
wake up, 20 appreciate them.
They talk abou, a special frock or
jacket for sportsmen to prevent dcci-
on Monday, but | want to know what
Won are gong ~ % wltn the men VINO
Will shoot a scarlet sweater under the
impression that they are firing at red
deer
partridge has disappeared from this To-
cal:;y. None are to be found in the
woods this fall. tniess they are ,'-o-
tected by a stringent law This noble game
bird will soon become extinct. Twenty
years ago the woods were swarming with
them.
Lewiston sun: Fred Foster ot Norway
told Mrs. Albert Coffin she could have
pick in a day. Mrs Coffin visited the or
chard and picked 70 bushels and il kept
Mr. Coffin pretty busy. hauling them
home, She thinks the giving OF the ap-
Mrs. John L. Palmer Of Portland has
just returned from Europe. While there
she Witnessed the Pas sion Play at Obcr-
ammcrgau and mas brought home very
of the same, each autograph being OBJ
tanned personally BY Mrs. Palmer from
the actor. a ;hing that but few persons
would take the trouble to do.
The Yarmouth correspondent Of a Port
land paper can't b.. popular in his towA
now. This is what he said about IN IN
tertainment given there the other night.
The costumes were rich and rare and
over transformed the young ladies into
blushinG, beautiful maidens, much -
the amusement OF the audieuct'
Another spring Bath and Brunswick
may meet on i clearing between the tWo
towns and lay out some golf links that
The fact that the Bath golfers did not
purchase any land for links last season
have nervous Drostration. for they had
counted on selling their poor old pas
ture lands AZ klOndikc prices. says the
Independent.
William Cooper. the Milo tdxidermist,
has Just finished u piece of work that he
has been putting mis- spare time on for
some time. l. is a fox watching a duck.
The duck is in the water, Just ocN Gid
some grasses. while the toX Is pHctn-,
over 4 rock on the shore and is ready 10
make the spring. The piece is very LIE
like showing as it does, III. .lccth"oS II
the duck and the cunning OF the 'oX.
The whole is in a glass case.
A prominent Auburn man in speakins
of = horse epidemic which struck the
city ~ years ago, said: That year there
was scarcity of equineS in this city;
there would be days at a time that not
one horse would be- seen on the streets
the farmers were afraid 10 drive in an
all of the horses in the city were af-
fiicted with the disorder which was prey
alcnt. one OF the srocerymen was fort
unatc enough to own A mule and this
uuadruped escaped the diStCmper, and
was used to deliver groceries. Other mer-
chants delivered their goods with oxen.
NJ. Kervin of Linneus, is trying 10 fig
ure out an arithmctical problem which Is
Il sticker. Last week four of his cattle
got out of the pasture and wandered
about TWO miles away from home Men
were sent after them and in less than
two hours time the cattle were brought
hpr
Gus thing about the whole affair is thal
Mr.. kervin was called on to pay for a
and five barrels Of apples which Tne
neighbors claimed had been eaten by the
cattle. II any one can figure vut for Mr..
kervin how tour cattle could eat so much
and such a variety of stuff in Sc short :,
time. and come home alive, he will Oa
greatly obliged
A Lewiston bird hunter who loads his
own shells out of economy is NOT goinf,
10 do so any more. The other morning
he started out with a pocket of brass
shells, freshly Loaded. Coming TO the
edge Of the brush he broke his gun and
put in i couple. With the closing of the
breerh came a stunning report and re
coil which nearly threw the gun from his
hands. Investigation showed the caps
not set firmly into the shells, which in
turn were sweled so as not to fit closely
into the barrels. The brecch-loCk had cut
the caps just enough TO discharge the
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| longer the hunter though of what nigh
have happened had he been with a com
| panion the more he felt that loading ole
| brass shells was an expensive economy.
| Piece by piece the old cobble stony
| pavement is disappearing from tn,
| streets of Portland. AT present the las
| of this old paving is being removed from
! Portland street, where il has long veXec
the feet of horses and people. 1t wa!
never satisfactory. making the roadway
| rough and uneven, though for heavy
teams it offered a firm foothold for the
| horses. This advantage was neutraliz.G
| by the extra effort that was required I,
null "A load over so rough street II
different parts of the city here and there
will be found a bit of the old cobbie ston,
pavement bit il will not b. long before
| il will entirely disappear. II may be not
! IL in pasSing that tha method Of lawns
the square granite blocks is improving
| ..om scar t. year, and now by the us'
| of cement u firm and lasting .oa1way Il