Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

II they are to be as good -natured as he is
and send the autographs at all they will
have to make O similar rule
The maddest man seen in Lewiston for
a long time was the fellow who tried,
few days since, to kill himself
with dose of aconite When he re-
covered strength enough to speak
after the doctor had finished pumping
him out he, "iawed" the doctor up hill
and down for his services.
West Paris is tickled over the prospect
Of company to manufacture wooden
rims for bicycles. There are other com
munities waiting to be tickled in a similar
manner.
Maine raises 1000 bushels Of blue
berries annually. This industry serves to
drive away the blues from many a ham
let.
Portland Advertiser: Those articles on
getting married on ten dollars week
ought to be suppressed, as preventative of
pauperism. Two persons, save in q
country place, can not live on that sum
even in health, and it Is wrong to per
suade them that they can. Lovers have
little enough sense of prudence without
any such encouragement as this. In a
small place that sum Is equivalent TO
twice as much in a large one.-Gardiner
Reporter Journal.
1t Is to be feared that If this rule were
applied, there would be comparatively
little marrying ana giving in marriage
The statistics show that the great ma
Jority of working men, with families, do
not average ten dollars a week in wages.
The average given by the annual report
OF the labor commissioner of Maine. lust
published, is sl.7l day for 2l2 days in
the year. That is less than ten dollars a
week but many families manage to live
on it somehow.
oxford Democrat This vital statis-
ties law preserves lot Of invaluable his
torical data, says Undertaken Thayer
" but there one feature Of it that comes
a little bard on me. that Is the death Ger
tiilcates. The doctor CUTS Nay fer making
ii.
but all the penalty for neglect is On the
undertaken. I've chased g doctor around
sometimes for six moaths before / could
get certificate that it wuuldn 3 take him
three minutes to make ont: and there
only one doctor 10 the vicinity that is al
ways prompt about returning them.
Berwick is mecca for tralnps and the
town hasn't funds enough to run its
schools. The hobo object lesson is ex.
pensivc.
They are explaining the inactivity of a
Biddeford politician in this way; he
ordered bis whiskers dyed beautiful
golden brown. This was done but when
be woke up the next morning the golden
brown had turned n fiery red and the
politician has since lain low.
Bath is to have local polo league.
Having established the championship of
the Shipping city the vlctors will seek
new worlds to conquer.
A Waterville man with an aching tooth
attached strong cord to it, hitching the
other end of the string to his foot, and
then gave kick which sent the tooth
lying across the room. He was not quite
so much OF fool as the Bangor man who
was troubled with two toes and coolly
amputated them with his iackknife Blot d
poisoning and lock jaw were probably
yer considered by either
A lookup; to have or not to have, is the
question agitating the town of Andover
to it's very center.
The Biddeford consumptive who is
being treated with DR.. Edson's new cure
for consumption, Is already better and
hopes of her recovery are entertained.
Report comes from South Paris to the
effect that many of the ladies remove
their hats in the court room. If South
Paris will build theatre we all will
patronize 1t.
Saturday there is to be launched at
Bath schooner, the largest by 81 tons
that was ever built on the Atlantic coast.
1t Is the four master, William B. Palmer.
Is 257 feet long, AZ feet in breadth and
mas gross tonnage of 1s05.73.
Citizens of Bath! Remember that the
way to endorse Names candidate for the
presidency is for every man Jack Of you
70 vote the Republican ticket next Mon
day.-Bath Times.
That's good logic in other municipal
tiles