Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-09


LIS. JOHNSON d Co. ~ Custom House Stu Boston.
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They're Out.
All! now that the season of school it is
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In Wilderness arrayed there are maidens
galore,
Who're surfeited with knowledge from
many a college
But-alas, will they know how to mop up
the floor?
They are versed in the languages living
or dead.
They're conversant with planets and
things overhead;
When they're out, what a hustle they'll |
make-can they hustle
And do up the dishes and bake proper
bread? |
Troy Daily Press.
The unshorn hay fields look greener. |
Now if 'twould settle on settled
weather!
Poison ivy and toadstools mistaken
for mushrooms remain for those who
survived the cannon cracker
In Ashland two-year-old child eanl
sing several tunes correctly. lie isl
destined to become real estate agent
in that the future metropolis of the
northeast.
One of our State senators to-be has
learned to successfully straddle a bike
since his nomination. Signs of Che
approaching season of lawmaking
multiply.
We are panied to note in the lamen-
tations of Pishon's Ferry that fivel
people Whereabouts are suffering from
boils. The exact location of one-on
the nose-has been made public.
Capitalists think there'll be business
on the decline at Old Orchard il they
build a chute" there.
We rejoice with the tax collector of
one Maine town in that the taxpayers
were never before SO prompt in pay
ment We would mention the name of
the town only it might place the rest
OF the State at n disadvantage.
1t lemained for a Damarscotta
genius to discover why editors are like
the weather-"because it is impossible
for them to please everybody" Ha,
Ha,,
They do say the Bangor man who
shoots every bird that steals his
cherries is about to receive the atten-
ton of the society with a long name
He should scare them away to return
and steal some other day.
The time may come when the farmer
will exult over the whiteweed in his
fields, as an attraction for the aesthetic
summer boarder.
An ex-teacher in Winthrop suggests
preparatory farm school in each
town, where the usual branches of in
struction might be combined with the
theory and practice of agriculture. An
enhancing picture is drawn of "a
breezy upland farm, with cows and
horses and pigs and hens as the pets of
a crowd of school children variously
employed in field and garden and
dairies and Kitchens surrounding their
school rooms, between which the pupils
were passing their time and getting in
struction and refreSnment in a place
far away from the dust and democrat
ization of the village" Strange as it
may seem Just such a place for sale
cheap" is also suggested to this
teachers mind. Wouldn't some of us
who passed our time and got 'instruc-
ton and refreshment in a place far
away from the dust and demoraliza-
ton of the village" just like to visit il
and marvel upon the changes wrought
by time!
Over in Bridgton Civil Engineer Cor
don is said to have a Gordian knot for
solution, in endeavoring to fix sidewalk
boundaries according to careless sur
veys made 20 Or 80 years ago. One
resident will not know whether his
house is in the middle of the street or
on his own land until one of two al
teged boundary marks is decided to be
the right one.
Doubtless the Skowhcgan Village
improvement society would like to
hold spanking bee, in which event
they would seek raw material among
the urchins, who exploded all the nice
new refuse barrels recently placed on
the street by firing cannon crackers in
them the eve of the Fourth
IL there are any gossips in North
Arson what picnic they must have
enjoyed recently!
Flower thieves at Camden; also
more summer visitors.
South Paris is to have board OF
trade.
One hundred years ago today the
town of Castine was incorporated. IfI
the incorporators can note, on this
occasion the cpIahrafiop Of tic 1a0tl,