Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-10-02

live lobster that is bright red in color.
This ought to be warning TO any green
thing bent upon painting Portland red.
The Boothbay sardine Gamers say they
are encouraged by the strike at Lubec and
Passport, a. the price is slowly rising and
they are putting up better stock and in
better shape
A Monmouth capitalist, who believes in
home Investments, is said to contemplate
opening a summer hotel and erecting cot
tages on the shore Of the lake another sea
son.
A Bath ship joiner lost toe the other
day by standing over an augur hole when
the augur came through from below. One
needn be superstitious to regard his a
a bad augury.
The Bath Independent thinks it costs
three times as much to light the city with
electricity as 1t formerly did with gas,
although it admits the city is better
lighted.
II Is said that Bath Is with difficulty,
able to get anyone to represent the city
at the State board meetings. This must
have been before the board of trades recent
entertainment. In the future, the ques-
ton will be, Whom will it do to leave
at homer"
There would seem to be utility in
spiritualism under certain conditions.
Biddeford man inherited an alarm clock,
which he never winds but which keeps
on ticking and striking alarms. The new
owner is convinced that it is wound by
the spirit of the former owner and de-
clares that the spirit communicates with
him by means of the alarms. Perhaps
some of his fellow workmen in the store
where he keeps the clock could enlighten
him regarding those spiritual manifesto
tiOns.
Two Portland men attempted to cele
brate wedding by drinking a compound
of potash and ammonia in bottle with
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whole 1t Is safer to confine ones self to
the label
There is IA Piscataqpis county family of
father and mother and twelve children
the oldest of whom is 43 and the youngest
90, whose combined weight is 1884
pounds and combined ages $50 years
That family ought to be the picture of
good health and content ment
Coons are thicker in Androscoggin
county than for many years before it is
said. Doubtless coon hunt will be the
excuse of moro than one Lewiston and
Auburn man for staying out all night
Winthrop and Rcadield are anxiously
awaiting a decision upon that disputed
town line at Croigs Point.
Old Orchard Is to have local board of
trade and hopes to get shoe shop. They
believe In winter as well as summer at
fractions down that way
The passengers from Bangor, were
laughing Saturday morning, at a scene
In the Bangor station. A local reporter
on one of the city papers accosted the
train news agent with q proposition to
dip and see whether he would pay ST. 90
or nothing, for certain novel. The
news boy was sporty and accepting the
offer, pitched the coin, and 10, the news
paper man was stuck. Not only beaten
at his own proposition, he squealed so
badly that the whole crowd had the laugh
on him, and he wouldn't produce the
dollar even then. Now the scribe doesn't
gamble any Moore.
A young hunter who visited Northern
Maine not long ago was discovered later
on purchasing supply of game at Ban
gor market. 1t is sometimes expensive to
secure the reputation of being success
ful Nimrod but there are few men who
essay to hunt who would be without it,
The Topsham tax collector was threat
ened with knife In the hands of delin-
qucnt the other day but by the aid of a
revolver collected the tax and SO besides.
Anyone in search of adventure should
visit Topsham.
The gongs Of the electric cars have
wakencd the Sabbath slumbcrs of South
Portland and some regard it as sacrile-
Rious innovation, while others take the
cars for church.
This seems to be an unreasonable time
Of the year for such fish stories as this,
which comes from Phillips. An elderly
Nimrod with more garrulity than grace Is
telling how the fish which he catches In
the winter freeze up but on being taken
To a fire thaw out and are as lively as ever
Bath Times: An exchange asks What
shall Aroostook raiseg' We would say
she better keep right on raising potatoes
and statesmen and leave raising the devil
and other industries of similar nature