Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-21
Maine Gossip
Whers the River Shannon Flows.

"HeFe INC niNCt Sf'~''''~
danes l. Russell)
There's pretty spot IN lTeianu
I always claim for my land.
Where the fairies and the blarney
Will never, never die.
It's the land of the shil-lal-ah,
My heart goes back there daily
To the girl left behind me
when we kissed and said good-by.
Sure no letter I'll be mailing
For soon will l be sailing,
And I'll bless the ship that taxes me
To my dear old Erin's shore
There III settle down forever
I'll leave the old sod never.
And I'll whisper to my sweetheart,
Come and take my name As-thore-
CHORUS.
Where dear old Shannon's flowing,
Where the three-leaved shamrock grows,
Where my heart is ! am going,
To my little Irish rose.
And the moment that / meet her
With hug and kiss III greet her.
For there's not a colleen sweeter
Where the River Shannon flows.
A full regiment of 1000 men com,
posed of rebel prisoners and deserters
passed through New York last
Wednesday for the West where they
will serve against the Indians.
The number of patients In
the hospital at Washington at present
does not exceed 10000. Ed
ward Sanford and George F. Wheeler
have been injured before Petersburg.
They are of the Sth Maine.
Among the sufferers by the depreda-
lions of the pirate Tallahassee, on
Monday and Tuesday last, are w. 4.
Short, c. P. Ingraham and the
Messrs. Sterling of House Island
Portland Advertiser, Aug. 10, 1864.
Speaking of our coastwise shipplng'
Hon. A. A. Percy of Bath Wednesday
said TO a Times man that he had been
interested one day on a recent visit to
the Percy cottage on Pepham beaoh
in the figures on a wall of the cottage
written there by his father, the late
David 7. Percy. years ago curing ms
visits to Popham Beach. Sept. g, 1881,
David 7. Percy recorded that from the
piazza, looking out upon the sea, ne
counted % vessels, most or them san
ing from or coming into the kenne-
bee: August Is, 1885, he recorded 10
vessels in the bay and August 10, 1886,
one year later, he counted and put
down 90 vessels observed.
No one could appreciate such gift
as was presented by Frank \. Cur
tiss of New York City to Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt Tuesday at Lewiston. 1t
was an 8 1-2 pound Lake Auburn trout,
which Curtiss caught early Tuesday
ia ha
ton after the Colonel ana party had
boarded the Narcissus and they were
waiting near the car barn to start.
What do you think of that exclaim-
ed Roosevelt. Isn't that bully!
Doubtless the ex-President had the
trout served for his breakfast,
Wednesday, for this was the expressed
intention when it was turned over 10
the private secretary.
A Boston family purchased a farm
some years ago in Phippsburg and
reside in it during the summer time.
They brought with them last summer
a couple of dozen fancy hens and
some half dozen of the biddies, brood
ing. went around clucking. The Bos-
tonians wanted to put a stop 70 the
racket and one morning, seeing fat
native passing by, they took him to be
a farmer of the vicinity and called to
him. He stopped and they explained
the trouble with the hens and asked
for his neighborly advice. I tell We,
man," said the native, we put 'em In
a bag an hang the bag up ter the limb
NV a tree an yen never agin be both
cred wild dem birds cluckin'." The
Bostonians did so that same night and
1t was true they never were again
bothered with the clucking of their ex-
uensive biddies. They never saw the
bag or the birds again.
The Bath Times gravely announces:
Bath girl went to doctor for trouble
with her throat. He advised d gargle
which she tried. Another doctor ex-
amined her throat. He inserted a pair
Of pincers and pulled out ffshbone
that had lodged In her palate
Reports concerning severe effects Of
the sting of a small black insect, SIM
liar to a black fly, have come from va
|
Bowdoin man was stung over the eye
by one of these, few days ago, and
that in a few minutes-not more than
hye-he fell to the ground. Assistance
came found him unable to arise, but
able to tell them that, Il feel as If l
were burning up" Examination dis
closed the fact that blotches the size
of a quarter were everywhere on mis-
body. A doctors services were need
ed. Another case Of similar nature is
heard from Machias and in that the
mans recovery was as sudden as was
the effect of the bite.
Frank 3. Brown, who conducts the
camps at Hurricane stream, has shot
a red porcupine, which the old hunters
In that section say is most unusual
color for these animals. The porcu-
pine was or good size and in no other
way different from the average
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