Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-17

field Journal a neat little weekly which
appears in magazine form and which
promises well.
Baths new fountain for it's city park
will be an anti-race suicide affair-at
least. it has five birds, four at the base
and one on top, which are evidently
meant for storkS.
The ice has not yet made a move
ment towards leaving the lakes. but
the cottagers are moving into summer
qua rters. BY going early they get d
little peace before the mosquitoes ar
rive.
1t deVolycd upon one of the Belgrade
selectmen to do all the work in assess
ing the valuation this spring his two
associates being in close confinement
as members of the unfortunate Cooper
jury. 1t took him IA days to do the job.
Speaking of sclectmen, an Island
Falls correspondent says that Benja-
min r. Walker of that town is serving
his sd consecutive term as a member
OF the board.
The smartest boy in tho town Of
Palmyra is a five year old youngster
who regularly milks a COW morning
and night, besides doing other chores
at the barn.
One of the leading features of the
Easter number of Harper's Weekly is a
story, The Wood of Brescia.' by
James Edmund Dunnins,the former
Maine journalist who is now United
States consul at Milan, Italy. 1t occu-
pies several pages and has five illus
trations.
The shipments Of potatoes over the
Bangor and ArnOstook railroad during
the month Of March. 1906, amounted to
| .040.9H bushels. This brings the to-
tai crop of 1898 that has been shipped
over the T.. "a. road up to 5,925.319
bushels, an increase of al. .t53 bushels
over the shipments of the same period
p"aring from the fields and gardens of
| Aroostnok and the farmers are looking
| to the time when the 1905 rrop of
srrd9' will he put under ground. An
| immense amount Of fertilizer has been
shipped M over the Northern Maine
| seaport road ana the Is. e. a. during
| the post winter and il is expected that
more ground will he planted to pota :
| toes in ArooStonk county this season
| than ever before. an amount greater
even than would be expected from tho
| natural increase from year to year
| \. V. Wilson of Bar Harbor has had
on exhibition for the last few days in
| \ building on West street a model of A
| flying machine which he confidently
| "yp"cts will prove the solution of
! H"ri%l navigation. The model has been
| visited by many people and much in
| t"rest is manifested in the machine
| The model is 16 feet wide and five and
| onc-half feet long ard is built Of wood
and iron. The completed machine Will
| he - feet wide and 16 feet long, with
| Il tail or ruddcr eight feet long by
| about IA feet wide in its widest part
shaped something like the tail Of a
| bird. Tho machine will have two
| wings with eight feathers or blades in
| each wing. The length of the feathers
| or blades will be 16 feet with a width
of anout II inches. The motive power
| of the machine is to he an air cooled
| four-cYlinder, gasoline engine of about
I2i-horSnpOWer The motor will weigh
| about three pounds per horsepower or
| ~ pounds for the entire engine. The
machine will weigh 740 pounds. in
cluGing the weight of the man who
| operates it and will he built of cast
steel tubing and aluminium.
a rather amusing incident occurred
| in Houlton recently. A resident of
that village was unexpectedly asked to
go to the country to visit friends, but
having mixed bread the night before.
told the person who asked her that it
| would he impossible to leave her bread.
Her friend. however. suggested that
she would take the bread with her in
the sleigh, this was done. and the re-
suit was that the bread was mixed and
kneaded in Houlton, raised on the way
10 ttoCgdon. baked there, and then
brought back to Houlton and eaten.
a novel just issued by the Harpers
| which is attracting much attention is
''The Princess Olga It's author is
| Erwin Wardman. who has a large ac-
quaintance in this State through his
frequent visits to Augusta and Small
Point. MIR Wardman graduated at
Harvard in 1883. finishing his college
course in three years, rare occur
renee in those days. He then went on
| the staff of the New York Tribune. and
| in the spring of 1889 Won national
reputation in newspaperdom by being
| one of three reporters who were the
| first 20 reach the scene Of the terrible
| Johnstown food. Mr.. Wardman's ris ;
was rapi1 after this ana he has now