Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-14
Maine Gossip
me survival Of the Unfit.

While our own, pearl-nandled treasure
| In some otuer ndh-rach stays.
l'Tis the coarse and common fabric
| Goes unscathed through suds and dust
While our best and finest linen
| Gets the cnffee-StainS and rust.
'Tis the weed that's most obnoxious
That is left to spread and grow,
| Fall victim to the hoe.
'Tis the battle SCARED old Thomas,
Who spits and growls and bites,
who STAYS with from year to year,
| And murders sleep o nights,
while frolicSome young Tabby,
| With temper sweet and mild,
Becomes the prey of vandal boys,
| Or is by thief hegulled.
'Tis the friend our heart most longed for
| Who can just minute stay,
| While the family aversion
| Comes prepared to spend the day,
Thus numberleSS examples
| Do not prove one little bit
The correctness of that saying
| THE survival of the fit"
| Frances f. Downing.
| Levi II. Alexander, a Lynn man, who
died few days ago and who was par
ticularly interested in the invention of
airships, was Maine man by birth.
He was born in st. George - years ago
1
Lynn He was a carpenter by trade
and when airships We're talked of sew
eral years ago he constructed a model
of an aircraft. He conceived last year
a plan for raising the battleship Maine
and submitted il to President Taft.
David B. Woodbury. of South Paris is
at work upon a scheme to revise the
| clock. Mr.. Woodbury's scheme is de-
cidedly radical, as it starts out by
doubling the length of the second. This
makes II hours of double the present
length for a complete day and night.
He would have the day begin at what
is now o'clock in the morning, which
he calls l o'clock. Then noon would
come at o'clock and the night half of
the day would begin at Z O'Clock.
There would be no A. NJ. and p. NJ. by
this arrangement and the long strokes
of the clock would all come in the
night. Mr.. Woodbury. says that he
does not expect to live to see this
scheme adopted.
A Biddeford man few days ago
found a dead mouse in his plug of
chewing tobacco. He has written a
protest to the firm that manufactured
the tobacco and is now considering the
advisability of taking up the matter
with the government, believing that he
can obtain damages.
Carl NJ. P. Larrabee OF Pownal. a
deputy sheriff under Sheriff Moulton
of Cumberland county. was Thursday
afternoon, admitted to the Cumber-
land bar. Mr.. Larrabee intends TO
enter upon the practice of his profes-
sion in Wiscasset.
Hon. Cyrus R. Tupper Of Boothbay
Harbor has another three months
job. This time it is assistant attorney
general instead of that of attorney
general from which he resigned a few
days ago to make room for Mr.. Pat |
tangall. Although the last Legislature |
voted to abolish the office of assistant |
attorney general that piece of legsla- |
ton does not take effect until 90 days |
after the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture. While Mr.. Pattangall has pub |
licly declared that there is no need OF |
an assistant attorney general he is not |
at all averse to the accommodating |
Mr.. Tupper holding the Office until the |
law abolishing it goes into effect.
conditions are ripe for a big freshet |
on the Saco says the Biddeford Rec
ord. There is a high pitch of water |
in the river already and according to |
the reports that come down from up |
the river it has been years since there
was so much snow to be carried away
by the stream at so late a date.
Ihe Lubec correspondent of the |
Eastport Sentinel writes that although |
the ground has been covered with |
snow this spring Mrs. Thomas Fam
ming has been enjoying a spray of ap- |
pie blossoms which came from a tree
in her back yard. Having need of a |
prop for a plant she broke a twig from
an apple tree, and this twig, after be-
ing in the earth a few days. sent |
forth blossoms
An epidemic Of measles is sweeping
through Boothbay Harbor. 1t com
menced last week and at present there |
are 25 cases, while at least one death |
is attributed to this disease. Physici |
ans report the cases as very severe.
1t is rumored that DR.. Heber Bishop
of Boston, Mass, who owns a summer
cottage at Clearwater pond, Aliens
Mills. is to make his annual trip to
Maine this year in a dirigible flying
machine. According to the report DR..
Bishops plans are laid out and the
route chosen. A well-known aviator
has been engaged to pilot the party
which probably will be made up of
four persons The start will be made
in the morning from North Adams,
Mass, which, if conditions are favor
able. will bring the party to Farm
ington, Me, about dusk.
Rev. w. o. Holman Of Rockland
Monday celebrated his advent into his
74th year by gracefully alighting
from a street car while it was in
rapid motion. Time is indeed dealing
kindly with the eX-paStOr of the First