Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-29


got an alarming headway in Portland
because some person was SO foolish as u
think that as q little girl only had
| mild form of the disease the others
couldn't contract it in serious form IRON
her. Such ignorance is inexcusable wher
there are so many facilities for obtaining
| information.
There is one workman at the Copsecook
mill Gardiner who will never again be
heard complaining because his dinner
nail isn't large enough His fellow EN-
ployes wearied with hearing that plant
had one built especially for his use. 1t Is
AZ inches in circumference and 10 inches
IN height.
Sailors plenty and wages low, is the re-
port from Bath.
Belfast has citizen, who is addicted
to periodicals. J" When the humof
seizes him he leaves his business, goes to
his home, shuts himself into little
workroom and there enters upon the con
struction of some mechanical contrl-
vance, very likely of no possible use, and
when it is completed returns to his bus
iness.
The tramps who refuse to work in the
Belfast Jail yard are handcuffcl to post
in the yard and are obliged to stand there
until willing to go to work. Serves 'em
right.
A meat dealer in Maine city tells a
good story of a rich citizen who inquired
one day the price of chickens and on being
told, 20 cents, remarked that he couldn t
afford them. The dealer says he looked
the man squarely in the face and asked
him if he really couldn't afford to buy
those chickens The latter replied: Il
can afford to have all the chickens want
if they were Il dollar pound. But l
have got so in the habit of saving money
that it is no enjoyment for me to spend
it,"
OF the bravery of Charles Waterman,
the Boston & Maine engineer whose life
was despaired of few days ago, there
never was doubt and the following story
is the better appreciated on that account !:
At one time he was driving along mod
erately when pony wheel broke and his
engine left the track falling on its side in
a ditch. None of the cars We're derailed,
and the passengers made up a purse of
800 and gave it to him for sticking so
faithfully to his post. He divided with
the fireman, and remarked to the train
Al. ,a6 cf
quickly that streak of lightning would
have been too slow to remove him from
his seat.
Old fashions are constantly renewing
their youth Many remember when the
balloon sleeves now worn by women were
all the rage, and retained their fullness
in some cases by being stuffed with
feathers. The fashions in weather are no
exception and are ever recurring. Our last
storm was of the old fashioned variety
dear to the heart of readers of Whittier
''Snow Bound"
There will be grand good work done at
the Maine Pedagogical meeting in Au
burn There always is when this society
meets. @
The Legislature will be asked to aid the
home which the Children's Aid Society
hopes to establish for girls.
We haven't heard any grumbling thai
the life saving crews along the New Eng
| land coast didn't earn their wages th'
past few days.
Caribou is talking of laying out ;
public park.
The proposition to substitute girls fo
boys district messengers of the telegraph
companies is not a new one in Maine
This change proposed in the great me
| tropolis CT the West as an entirely move
feature has been in practical operation il
the town of Northeast Harbor for the pas
three years, where Miss Rebecca Smallidg
has successfully performed the duties o
that position.
| We don't expect any more Strawberries
grasshoppers or other unreasonable frui
| plucked in December within the conlne
of Maine This weeks weather settle
| that.
Harmony people feel that the contrac
for carrying the mail between that plac
and Hartland was bid off too cheaply an'
are turning cold shoulder upon the maj
who has the contract.
A Boston man who wishes to say some
thing interesting about his family ha
found way without referring to hi
| family tree. He claims to have discovers
| a big rock near Castine and that behin'
this rock an ancestor of his immortalizc'
himself by beating the rata plan whel
the homcspun American army swep
up the cliff under the guns of old For