Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-05
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

There IL "a young iady IN virginia VINO can
write two love letters at once with each
hand
A colorel man at Albany, Ga. has served
TO IS than twenty-one terms in jail for
fghtins.
A gentleman In Pottstown, Pa, knows
of three ndies whose baptismal name is
Hannahette
\ man named Kirkland, living at Spring
Gardens, Fla. has eaten FIVE pounds of honey
AT one sitting and is still there
An liserver oi human nature has dis
cover that when thinauan is pleased he
takes It's shoes ard opens his mouth
Che M gum Las no attraction for Lille
Burro,s u, IN s-year-oli l,iri of Crane. O. She
o4-o, hlotting paper and cannot he per
SUI. ID to Use substitute
You are adomestc servanti' askeda law
yer of female witness in a Liverpool Eng,
court i, other day NO, sir" she ndig-
nantly relied. Il am house maid
A he. longing to a swarm that a Dorset
shire farmer attempting TO hive got down
tho mans throat and stung him, and, the
the throat swelling very rapidly the man
died of s,lffocation.
man in Coshocton. Pa. hes safe that
contains sl25. 1t has been locked up three
years and he has forgotten the comb,nai ion.
Meanwhile he is awaiting the return Of the
agent OF the safe company
Mrs. John Gehnu, n stout woman of Maha-
noy City. Penn, spanked Grocer Goodman
with her shoe because she thought he had
overcharged her boy for pot herbs. The
court fined her six cents in addition to the
$50 costs
A real estate dealer Of Chicago hit upon q
novel way 10 advertise his business and to
celebrate the national holiday July he
held jubilee on his allotment and fired into
the air shyrocket to which was attached q
quit claim deed for a lot. The man Who found
the deed gets the lot.
Peter Malcolm. a Scotch sailor fell over
board in the Indian ocean 800 miles from
land He was reported drowned, but after
two years hobs up to claim u 10000 legacy
and to report that after floating two days he
was picked up by Russian vessel and car
ried around the world.
James Willis was driving home to Bloom
field, Penn. the other day when the left spin
die of his buggy broke and the horse ran of.
dumping the driver and his bulldog by the
roadside The dog made dart caught the
lines by the bride bit and chung there till bis
master had the horse secured
A near sighted amateur photographer OF
Lima. O., took what he thought was very
affecting picture Of young lady kissing a
y-ylug man IN SHADED dell near the town.
When he developed the picture it affected
him great deal more than he hargained for.
u the young lady proved to lie his wife
At Greenville. Tenn. the other night
l. a
shot him in the elbow. the ball CHANGING and
striking him in the cheek As he spit the ball
GU, he said. Look heah. white man. you
quit dat shootin' at me- fus' thing yuh knows
yuh gwinter break some 'spectable pdssons
winder glass"
Soaping the Public.
There is a little grocery up Grand River
avenue, and the proprietor employs boy and
pail of paint and brush and the following
illustrated incident happens about once an
hour all day long:
Proprietor William. have you given the
telegraph pole, hitching post and front door
. fresh coat Of painti
Boy-Juss finished, sir.
.very well. William. Ali There is Q
misgui:ies man slansing up against the tele-
graph pole as he talks. Go out to him, VIII
liam"
Boy Ito misguided man)-Say, your coat is
40 paint
Misguided-vhafl Paint. Why, this in
fernal pole has covered me all over.
YES, sir
"Hsug it, what shall dor
Come into the ssorv, sir. We hav. the
only soap warranted to remove paint without
injury to the goods-fifteen cent? a cake -
Detroit Free Press
- Centipede's Ene0y.
A centipede is afraid Of a tarzntula, and
when be lies down to sleep be always takes
the precautiun To build cactus fencs about
him A tarantuia vii never crawl over
cactus. and thus. securely heigef In his own
corral, the ceutipesie knows be may sleep as
long a be wants to, and his enemy can't get
at him 1t is Imaginable out on the Mojaye
desert TO watch the security Of these cent?
pedes as they lie and sleep, while their arch
enemies, the sarantulas. are looking over the
garden wall, 50 to speak. trying 70 get at
them have seen the tarautulas NOE around
for hours before giving Il up But the cactus
h sure barrier When once they become
saiizfed there is q complete barrier they 20
away and cease to thirst for the gore Of the
ceutipede The latter, however, always tAkss
careful look around before he rsnovo ths
ca0fsn and ventur@ forth True rae.