The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26
QUEER THINGS ~ MAINE.
A Sea Serpent v0nohed For by sunday
Sch0Ol-Freaks OF the Animals.

| BANGOR, Me-, July rs The crop Of freaks
and oddities is big in Maine this year. The
| people Of Eastbrook see freak every day
! that is worth looking at-a horse with a
| mnstache.
The horse belongs 10 Winfield Jordan
and wears his must ache where 1t should
| be, on his upper lip. II parts neatly in the
middle and curls away a. either side so
| smartly and symmetrically that one might
think the ends were waxed.
Daniel Briggs Of Mechanic Falls keeps
run OF the weather and lately he figured
! up what has been going on in that line in
| the past sixty-seven years. He finds that
from May 1, 1896, TO May 1. 1903, rain fell
! on $3.50 days and snow on 2,0:5 days, max
ing over twenty-Qne years of storm out OF
| sixty-seven years.
In Union River they have whale that
comes up toward Ellsworth every little
while to sec what is going on in town
! driy ing shoals Of fishes before it. When
the fishes are hard pressed they jump out
of water upon the banks, thus saving the
| lazy men along the shore the trouble of
batting hook to got their dinner,
| When the people are tired Of watchng
back lots and observe the movements of a
bull moose that has for some weeks beer,
proving around close To Senator Eugene
Hale's 500 900 villa.
In the st. Croix River they have a sea
| serpent have il on the word OF a PreIby-
| terrain elder and ffty-tive Sunday School
pupils. all OF whom saw il tho other day
! IT, is anywhere from ~ to l2c feet length
| OF keel, about as big around ar pork bar
rel has head like horse, fins Ike cup
yacht green eyes and All arching neck
decorated with q spiny armor that looks
| like section Of circular saw.
| For speed the serpen: can discount any
torpedo boat, and his general aspect ID
terrifying. The elder. Walter Greenaw
OF Bayside, \. B.. in a total Abstainer
and declares that he saw the serpent and
! that II is a serpent OF the real old sort
One Of the corporations lately organized
under the laws Of Maine is known an The
/ Conscience Law Corporation. and it's pur-
| pose is TO provide a transportation medium
erty. real or personal It's letterbead bears
! the balance scale OF Justice. with Con
science Law" in the lower balance and
F., Legal Law in the upper. Along the side
of the sheet are these notices "The
! foundation OF true success in life il revealed
in the Holy Bible and in no other book :"
do unto others as you wish them to dc
unto you" and As you SOW, 80 shall VOL,
also reap"
Capt. Abner Randall of Portland, native
Of Harrington, Me-, is ono of the old time
/ salts. He is "a and still continues in the
coasting service as skipper Of the schooner
Gen. Banks. His mate is 81, and the
schooner herself il 40.
In the new list of la3 just ices OF the Peace
recently appointed by Gov Hill there are
nine women who are authorized to solemrize
marriages, administer oaths. &c, namely
Leila n. Hunnewell of Kingman, Minnie &
Stanwood Of Pennington, Margaret L.
Megill of Houlton. Gertrude Jenkins OF
Portland. Margaret A. Baker Of South
Paris, Eva l., Shorey Of Bridgton. Eliza T
! Clements of South Newburg. Alice NJ
! Hanscom Of Saco and Gertrude A. Prescott
! Of OrOno.