Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-14
does evince disposition to cheat old
Father Time.

| does evince disposition to cheat old
Father Time.
The atmosphere" as some call It,
of this choice bit OF sketchy cores
pondence from Milbridge. in the Bar
Harbor Record. will with many, recall
memories worth recalling and sug-
| gests to others how their life really
| appears. well, after the holidays
then what? The people down here on
! the coast haul up their vessels, shut
| down their fish factories, close the
back door. and go into winter quar-
| ters to come out with the frogs in the
spring. That's about all there is to it..
| Oh, WE'LL for comfort, there is the
| blazing CRATES, the family newspaper,
| and dish of big. red apples upon
| little table near by. Take one. There
| is also good sized barrel of cider
souring and hardening in the cellar
but as it is not considered temperate
| in these so-called temperate days to
drink cider we contentedly crunch our
apples-not swallowing the juice of
course-by the swapping fire, and let
the cider turn into vinegar. We will
eat it next summer on our beef, our
cucumbers, our lettuce. and our fish
hash. Then for amusements there is
the inSufferable card party where you
are allowed to look wise from over the
top of your extremely poor hand and
wish that spades were trumps instead
of hearts. OF course no one is per-
mitted to speak during the evening
and you go home to tell your friends
next day what a delightful time you
had. Such is whist. The dance party
offers stronger and more pleasant in
ducements to young folks and these
are frequent in town during the winter
months. The village dramatic club
after rehearsing all winter, usually
gets out its long, pink posters in the
spring and people are given a rara
avis in the way of a home made trag-
edy, comedy or farce. Frequently the
musical world gets to revolving on its
little circuitous orbit. and then look
out for an operetta or cantata. In this
fashion the long. dismal winter even
ings are usually shortened and life is
kept aglow with social brightness. 1t
is immense"
Lewiston and Auburn figure up over
$500 expended during the past year
in building in those two cities. All
things considered that's not a bad
showing for Lewiston where 100000 of
the amount was expended.
Bddeford had Is drug stores that
We're said not to pay and now is to have
three more. Well 16 isn't an unlucky
number-eXcept in the ratio of IS to /
whereas - is. Presumably Biddeford
druggists are superstitious.
Intimate friends of the late Gen. Beal
recall the wish. he invariably expressed
when speaking of the subject, that
when he had fulfilled his life work he
might go quickly. His wish appears
to have been granted. though those ac-
quanted with him find it difficult to
feel that his life work, great and mani
fold as it had been. was fully accom-
plished.
So Machias and Westbrook are to
participate in the duties pertaining to
the n G. S NJ. Never mind the coast
defences, let Spain do her haughtiest.
We're ready!
The average reader who devours all
the big items let loose from the pens of
country correspondents is in a fair way
to make a hog of himself
Wanted-A capacious. up-to-date
hotel at Bath Large, respectable pa
tronage will be ready by the time the
hosiery is.
a man at one of our principal no
tells last evening. undertook to cut
piece of meat at the table. He had
the knife edge up hy mistake and in
bearing on harder than he needed to
cut his forefinger almost to the bone
Portland Argus. There was a sharp
edge on somewhere, Whereabouts
Eastport Sentinel: According to an
item in the St. Croix Courier as far
back as 1855. the cry was raised that
something must be done to protect the
fish, otherwise the fnny tribe. or at
least that part of it that is edible
would be exterminated and year after
year the same wall goes up. and num-
berless fish still swim to he caught
When the sardine factories first be-
gan operations, the prophesy was
made that in a few years the supply
of herring would be exhausted, but
now after more than twenty years OF
fish packing the catch is larger than
ever and with each succeeding year
the pack has grown larger. until last
year it reached nearly a million cases,
requiring over $4,000 hogsheads of her
ring to fill them.
Bangor Commercial: How those