Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-27

Putting your money in your inside
vest pocket and your vest under your
pillow, where the burglar is sure tt
look. is habit almost as extravagant
as burning dollar bills.
4. Those midnight marauders must be
chuckling in their sleeves to think how
easily they raided the pantries and bed
rooms of such peaceful and confidne
communities as NorridgewOck, Oak
land and the Capitol city. But what a
compliment they unconsciously paid to
our thrift and to our cooks.
Two village corporations for Bruins
wick would be, in the opinion of some
of the citizens. none too many.
Calais Is progressive. \ number o.
the young ladies of the Calais high
school have formed class for the
purpose of becoming proficient in the
art of cooking and meet once week
at each others homes where many
dainty and tempting dishes are pre-
pared by the young housekeepers. TIC
make the whole complete they should
make their graduation dresses and
bonnets. Never mind if the boys only
know how to play ball.
RetwiXt lobster cars moored in
sewage and the pestlential smells
arising from certain rag repositories
Portland's board of health has been
extremely busy of late, if we believe
local reports. We had always admired
Portland's cleanliness
There is more talk in Maine cities
and villages every spring and fall
about scarcity of rents than can be
heard in almost any other state in the
Union.
State Senator Hovey didn't need to
do it in order to demonstrate his ability
to run WELL" but he did it, walked
from Burnham station to Pittsfield on
a wager with a lawyer friend that he
couldn't do it in an hour and a half.
Mr. Hovey had 10 minutes to spare
The distance is miles.
The instances of unrewarded literary
genius are too numerous to attract
much attention but the experience of a
Deering family may be of interest
The girl of the family developed poet
ical genius and recently received 81
from n Boston paper for one of her
illusions. Her father spent $5.45 for
copies of that paper to distribute
among his friends.
West Franklin thinks a lookup and
flux of tramps in that town.
A school in Machiasport was discon-
tinued recently because the family
that supplied all the school children in
the district moved out of town.
A married woman in Brewer has
been appointed weigher of ice. This
might cause GOODNESS in some
families.
The burglar who is now doing"
Maine is a most disappointing individ-
ual. He is recklessly destroying the
romance and prestige supposed to
surround his profession. He positively
refuses to be found under the bed and
he has so little regard for sIeuths that
he coolly goes through the larder and
scatters the crumbs along his pathway
with impunity.
Aroostook farmers shouldn't be the
victim of extremes. The report tina.
they will not plant one fourth of the
acreage of potatoes planted by them
last year would seem to indicate dan
ger of rushing from one extreme to
another.
1t is said that the bears did not take
to their dens the past winter Wonder
how they feel to have missed that long
winter sleep.
The whir of the mill wheels along the
Penobscot will be heard again. begin
ming this week.
The genial Mr.. Loring. of the firm
OF IIOrInS. Snort a. Harmon, VINO re-
Gently returned from a trip among the
Windward Islands, came near settling
the Venezuelan controversy and doing
away with the need of an international
court of arbitration. a few days ago.
Judging from the following which APP
pears in the Portland Press: lat st.
Kits. a little incident occurred. The
passengers on the steamer had the
stamp collecting craze. and on arrival
at st. Kits descent was made on the
little St. kits postoffice for stamps
In making change the English post
master said he couldn't give them
British gold in exchange, he should
have to give them American gold. A
burly Englishman spoke up and said
he'd as soon take American brass. :"
This riled Loring, and he told the Eng
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