Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-06
Hare and There.

Here and There.
DR.. Brickett reports that while driving in
the country Sunday he passed through cuts
in the drifts higher than the horses head
AHgEsta Journal.
Some Of the drifts in this vicinity are
higher than doctors fee. 1t 10 unnecessary
to add that everybody tries to get around
them.-Riehmoad Bee. sas
Tough folks ike editors are not supposed
to know much about doctors. We had gath
cred from hearsay however that il was the
length rather than the thickness Of such bills
that usually "broke the camel's back" A
drift of this sort would not cover the horse
but It would be mighty tedious
thing to wade through. How
ever, brother, we have occasionally
thought that if any men under the heavens
fully earned their money il was the doctors.
We do not envy them in the least, even when
the editorial heart is sad and the scoop scrspes
dismally on the bottom Of the -four barrel.
The editor of the Eastern State thus dilates
paper In northern Maine:
IAN editor must not only dig pretty lively
for facts concerning all local matters and
general questions, but 10 liable 70 be called
upon in case Of big stern to shovel his
compositors out Of the snow drifts, to set the
facts up. We succeeded after an hours
hard work last week Friday morning, in
excavating one Of ours. Another one ID
hopelessly showed under, but we hope to get
her dug out in time to help set up the next
issue. What is sitting in = city sanctum
and writing articles on the Tariff and
Fishery questions compared with this sort of
newspaper enterprise!"
The coming term of court At Bangor this
month will be an unusually interesting one.
The newspaper men will surely "be there, "
for they have taken 4 contract to see the
Stain-C Cromwell case to the end and will never
give up.
The elegant cottage at Bar Harbor now
about completed for Col. +. w. Bass, OF
West Point, will be brilliantly lighted with
electricity. The house has been wired fol
As lights, which will be displayed in beaut;.
full chandeliers and wall brackets. The din.
ing room will contain eight lights.
The buildings that are going up are nearly
all Of the most substantial and elegant char.
acter and are evidently meant to be perma-
nent fixtures. The outlook for larger crowd
thai ever before at this famous resort mex,
summer is exceedingly bright.
The Bath Times tells the story of young
gentleman of that city who was badly smitter
with fair Woolwich damsel. He found il
rather difficult however, to get an introduc.
ton and exercised his horse on that road un
til people thought he was working out hi
tax.
At length q brilliant idea penetrated hi
light Derby. Driving up, he hitched hi
horse and knocked at the side door which wa,
quickly opened by the lovely girl in person
"Have--have you any-black, wooler
yarn rolls to sell ?" he stammered.
1t is needless to say that she hadn't. and h,
hasn't called since.
The bronchos which the McCaferty broth
ers brought into this State last season to tn,
number of 290 are said to be giving Stock
Commissioners good deal of trouble and il
these troublesome little animals do not star
many cases Of glanders in the State it viii
be wonder. Quite q number Of these
horses have been found to be afflicted with
this disease, and have been killed. Unit
this year only few cases of the disease
were ever reported in Maine and those were
very isolated. These same men who brough
the bronchos here have written that they in
tend to come next season with 200 more.
is to be hoped that this matter will be
thoroughly looked after. The CHAMBERS is &
disease fatal alike to man and beast, and i,
said to be contagious.