Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-06

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for revenue would be incomplete without
those pictures.
Several lives were as greatly endangered
by a fusilade of rocks from blast III
Portland, Tuesday, as they would have
| been in some of the recent Oriental battles.
An English tramp steamer loaded with
coal from Cape Breton for use of the
Maine Central is at Portland unloading.
With the duty only lessened from 75 to &C
cents "a ton if Canadian coal can compete
with ours, it demonstrates that much less
of the proceeds finds its way into the pock-
cts of the Canadian laborers than into
those of his brothers in the states.
Bangor objects to the accusation of the
Biddeford Times that Portland and Ban
gor are the heavenly twins. Their foot
ball players in deadly throttle the other
day looked more like the Siamese twins
A Whitneyville man said he thought
chicken would be good for Thanksgiving
| His wife heard him say so and supposed
she was to buy one The hired girl heard
the same remark and supposed she should
buy one, and the son thought he would
see that a good chicken was had. Each
bought chicken and that family has been
having chicken pie and chicken soups
ever since.
One man who Dragged about getting
the finest turkey in the market for his
Thanksgiving dinner, has since counted
the cost and found it equal to that of
barrel of -four.
| One of Baths ''finest' stands six feet
| four inches in his stockings. Such fine
specimen must be wary of the pitfalls
police are falling into nowadays. 1t
| would be too bad to lose him from the
force.
The weekly pay roll of the Bath Iron
Works is $4,000, equal to that of three or
four of the big ship yards of the old days
in Maine.
1t wasn't pleasant Thanksgiving fol-
the young fellow at Bath, who engaged
the minister for his marriage that evening
but when the time came his girl backed
out.
| Tramps are getting to be very particu-
lar nowadays. Several of them had free
beds in the Richmond lookup, one night
recently, when bricks blew down the
chimney, clogging it and filling the cells
with smoke. How those tramps growled,
sneezed and kicked!
Caribou is discussing new opera
house.
| There's no lack of shrewdness among
the good people of Aroostook county, and
some of his friends were surprised when
a PresQue Isle trader let poverty
stricken individual have a barrel of flou1
on credit without the slightest security
But the lank, hungry buyer allowed that
he had just found a bear track and If he
could get the flour he would follow that
track till he got the bear, when he woulo
turn the carcass in towards the flour
A bear on foot in the wilderness and only
the promise of suspicious individual t.
turn brllin in on account if caught, isn't
commonly considered good security but ii
proved to be in this case. Two week
later the bear hunter settled as he prom
| ised.
One of the first skaters to venture OIL
the ice of Aroostook river this winter, was
Geo Ross of Caribou, aged 20. He hadn't
been on skates for 40 years but enjoyed
it hugely.
An old lady who has spent her life in
Belfast, hadn't until few days ago, beer
on the main street of the city since she was
15 years of age.
Inmates of the Old Ladies' Home at SAGE,
are blessing man who brought them a
turkey the other day. He won that tur-
key at a rattle and his wife, pious soul,
wouldn' cook it for him, so the Old Ladies'
Home he conceived to be the only alterna-
tive for the fowl which cost him 20 cents
Portland is said to be pleased with the
results of it's street commission.
The honest police of any city ought tC
feel gratified to, have the black sheep
under brass buttons weeded out, if it be
done impartially.
The Gardiner Reporter Journal thinks
reverting from a city to town is a back
ward step for Ellsworth or any other place
and makes pretty strong argument in
support of its position.
OF the IS prisoners in Bangor Jail, the
Bangor people hardly know what to make
of one, the Rev. Mr.. Luce who suddenly
departed from Brownville with money
that belonged to other people. As he took
only the proceeds of one nights entertain
ment by the Jubilee Singers, instead of
that of two nights, as he might have done,
and as he was doing well in Brownville,
these circumstances taken with his pro-
testations that he acted upon an impulse,
he couldn't understand and as he appears
genuinely miserable, and sorry without
can't, incline some of the good people to
pity the young man.
Col. Harrington, the State inspector of
rifle practise, tells the officers that SO