Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-12
nlaine Gossip

Lies Seesaw.
People ccldly pass you by.
Heads in air.
Fixed rs every CLASSY eye
In a stare
Easy quite to guess how this
Comes about
You have gotten down | WiSt;
Down and out.
Fortunes with you take a turn.
SEE en- smile
People you no longer Spurn
Or rcvile
Mankind en- YOU fairly beams
With grin.
You have gotten up. it seems;
Up and in.
Washington Herald.
They say there are few big snow
storms still on the schedule.
The kicks about the kicking in "Piff
Palf Pouf" packed the theatres in every
Maine city where the play appeared.
The division of that Francis reward
is a reminder that the famous negro
convict is doubtless planning on a little
fun when the snow is gone.
Those big advertisements which the
Portland boomers are putting in the
Maine newspapers are certainly an ex-
ctption to the rule that figures will not
lie.
An exchange tells of a Maine mother
who cured her young son Of cigarette
smoking by the laying on of hands"
A slipper or leather strap is also eff
fective.
There is frequently a hot time when
the jolly drummers get together, but
that Auburn fire which destroyed the
quet was more than they had counted
Jn.
Saturday. May IS, has been selected
as the date for the annual field day
sports of the four Maine colleges
which will be held in WaterviIle This
year. This will be their 18th annual
meet and Of the earlier 12 Bowtloin has
won 10 and L. of Maine two.
In cutting open green Hubbard
squash that was perfectly sound. Miss
Margaret Berry Of Brunswick was sur
priSed to notice that the seeds which
the vegetable enclosed were Sprouted
Examining them still further she saw
at the end of each sprout a formation
like a tiny leaf.
Bath is the only city in New Eng
land which contains an accurate seis-
mosra ph-Which is the name OF an
instrument by which vibrations of the
earth's surface are measured and re-
corded-and observations will be taken
there for the government. Those in
charge will have to take great care not
to get fooled by some of the political
disturbances for which Bath is famous
Mrs. Chauncey Rea Burr of Portland
has presented the Maine Historical So
ciety piece of beam Of the historic
Moore House." at Yorktown. Va.
where the surrender of Corvallis was
was removed by Jonathan Cruikshank.
then the owner of the place to make
an addition to the house and lie pre-
scented 1t to Mrs. Burr in 1901, to-
gether with two Revolutionary war
bullets and one of the Civil War;
The society has also received a dona-
ton of a silver spoon once the prop
erty Of John and Rebecca Brewster of
Kingston. Mass. The approximate
date Of the spoon is 1882. With the
above came a piece of the collins Of
Miles Standish obtained when his
grave was opened in 1889. in the pres
ence of descendants.
a Maine man. Loomis F. Goodale,
has just been appointed supervising en-
sineer of government railroad con-
Struction in the Philippines Mr..
Goodale was born in the town of Lin
coin A. years ago, and for many years
has been in the employ of the Burling-
ton & Quincy with headquarters at st.
Louis His salary in the Philippines
will be si2 900
The Maine colonies of the Pilgrim
Fathers Will meet with Enterprise