Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-14
Maine Gossip
Youth.

/ I.iltS in the ringing ram.
DripS in the Showery trees,
Lisping together.
Lyrical. too. art thou.
Blossom of living beauty.
Rapture upon thy brow.
JOyousness all thy duty,
Sorrow may WOO in vain
Seek thee in sun or rain
Stab thee with laughter now,
Stay her with beauty!
Louise Morgan Sill in Harper's Weekly.
Summer makes its official arrival,
one week from today.
Most Of the commencement gowns.
this week, are mackintoshes.
Many automobiles are being bought
| in the country towns, this spring.
Bath is planning to send a special
| train loaded with people to 1.-The First
| Crusade" at Augusta.
A big moose held up a passenger
| train near Blanchard, one day recently
and the obliging engineer brought it to
a complete stop rather than kill the
proud monarch Of the forest.
| Among the deaths recently chron-
icled at West Dover is that of the
| parrot which had been in the family Of
| Wilbur Judkins for 80 years. and which
knew more than lots Of people do.
| Almost every place visited by the
| circus loses a boy or two. hut the
| missing lad very soon gets enough Of
| circus life and makes his way back to
| the comforts of home.
Every living dog in Newport has
| been accounted for and Gully licensed.
1t is very doubtful if any other of our
cities and large towns can say as
much.
| The choice Of superintendent of
| schools is making rs much of a stir in
Portland as a municipal election or 4
military carnival.
They are planting barrels Of seed
| oysters at the mouth Of the Saco. in
compliance with law OF the last Lee
| gislature, and the experiment will be
watched with much interest.
Sheriff Achorne of York is puzzled
over what disposition to make of the 60
barrels of cider he seized at North Ber-
wick. last week. According to the laws
! of Maine all malt liquors that are
| seized by county officials are spilled on
| the ground. The law also provides
| that spirituous liquors seized shall be
disposed Of to some rectifier. but there
is no provision for the disposal of cider
| that may be seized.
| Beside being a fine city to live in.
| Portland must also be considered a
| good place to die in, If we are to judge
by the number who core here to end
| their Observation-Disclosures Sunday
| Telegram.
1t will show great forbearance and
consideration on the part Of the pert
photographers if they do not use the
above as a text for unkind digs at the
Forest City.
Manager Yates of the or Orchard
pier has had an EXPERT. exa thinning the
structure for four days. He says tina.
the columns of the pier are good for rs
| years. Below the wafer all the work is
as smooth and sound as when it was
put in. The rust on the ether parts of
the work is a growth, rather than a de-
cay, some of the work measuring half
an inch larger than when II was put in.
The upper work on the pier which has
been exposed to the air, spray and
dampness, though strong enough now.
will have to be replaced by new work
a few years later. The pier is pro-
nounced perfectly safe.
Two young men, rugged, with
bronzed cheeks, the very picture of
health, came into Mayor Bakers office
at the city building the other morning.
They told His Honor that they had
Travelled through IL states and four
territories and had four mere states to
visit. This tour was being done for
wager of 5000. Tho young men to
| make the trip in IS months, starting
without a cent, and bound not to beg.
borrow or work for money. They are
earning the necessary expense by SELL
ing a souvenir card receiver on which
| their pictures have been printed. TIL,
young men, c. NJ. Darling. aged 20. and
C. c. Murphy, aged u, whose homes
| are in Jackson, Mich, started on the
long tour on May 2, 1904, and in the Is
months have Travelled Just 1910 miles
From Portland they will wheel to
Haverhill, N. H., thence 10 Burlington,
VT, thence to Wheeling, w. Va,
thence to Columbus, Ohio. to Louis
Vile. KY, and then to Indianapolis,
where they will start for home. They
had with them letters signed by the
Mayor of one city i'll each state, AMI
their business with Mayor Baxter was
tn obtain a letter from him certifying
that they had called on him. They OBJ
tanned the letter.
"Let me tell you a story about sea
serpents." said Geo. f. Andrews to the
Riddeford Record. IT was in 1866 that