Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-06
,esu,t Of a fellow citizens action

i standing, thus describes the reflec.
tions of a drowning man. Il thought
If l ever got out I'd swear at that mar
that tipped me in but when l did get
out couldn't swear word. couldn't
even tell my wife what allied me when
got home!'
The small boy with the Jack lantern
is beginning to get in his fall sport.
| Mrs. Jane Davis, an aged lady,
at Pleasant Point, walked nearly two
| miles, one day last week, to see her
first great -grandchild.
| No less than six tramps applied at a
| house in Winthrop for breakfast the
| other day. These fellows appear to be
getting about as numerous in the State
as the locusts of Egypt.
A Bath young man counts among his
choicest treasures over 1000 cigarette
cards Most Of the cigarettes that ac-
| companied them We're smoked by him
self. The most surprising thing about
it is the fact that he is still alive.
Bath Independent: A pitiful looking
specimen of humanity has been in town
this week. telling tales of woe to kind
hearted listeners who have given aid
The man is professional tramp. He
has been from house toulouse, wearing
shoes with hardly leather enough left
to hold them together. He obtained
some very good shoes which he later
sold to poor men who We're more
worthy of charity.
Indiscriminate charity should be dis
couraged everywhere
The two Brunswick young men who
were out for what they term bit of
fun some time ago, one evening on the
lisbon Falls road, and frightened "a fish
peddler by the name of f. w. Nash of
South Harpswell. by using revolver
firing several shots in the air and de-
mandng the fish peddler to drive ahead
of them, did not laugh so much after
they were placed behind the bars of the
Brunswick lookup and had to pay the
sum of SIS for what they first called
sport.
There is something strange in the
fact that most of the fires in Brewer
occur after / o'clock at night There
is another strange fact that many of
the fires cannot be accounted for The
next day after the fire ii is usually
given out that 1t is probably the work
of tramps or is set by some enemy to
the parties suffering loss and that is
usually the last of it,
The Aroostook Star Herald gives the
following excellent advice to the far
mers of that country: When your po-
tatoes get to a dollar don't wait for
them to get to be a dollar and half,
keep them going into the market at a
fair pace. That is the safest and most
business-like way, and it makes good
times by squaring off bills, putting
money into circulation, and giving
everybody courage to do something"
On Monday the startling discovery
was made, says the Bangor News, that
human beings We're being sold in Ban
gor at so much a pound-a low price.
too. 1t is done secretly, of course,
else the authorities would put a quick
stop to the business. This is the
method.
On Monday a man who lives a few
miles out on Saltwater avenue brought
load of hay to Bangor and sold it to
a resident of the city. The load
weighed 2600 pounds and the price was
IS a ton. After the load had been
weighed, the honest farmer drove up
Broad street on his way to deliver it,
and when little way up the street.
and out of sight of the purchaser,
something happened that attracted the
attention of some men on the side
walk. There was a strange upheaval
in the depths of the mountainous heap
of hay, and presently mans arm APP
peared. Then came the rest of the man.
He had lent the weight of his influence
or the influence of his weight, to make
the sale of that hay a profitable tran
sacton for the honest farmer. He had
been sold at IS ton, or two-fifths of
cent a pound AS a Napoleonic
scheme of finance. it beat 16 to l out
The man in the hay weighed about
200 pounds, and thus, at IS ton, he
was sold for so cents.
An amusing incident is told of a
prank played in Portland some years
ago by a we'll known citizen, now zeal
ously toiling in the ministerial fold. 1t
appears that one of the incidents of the
evening was the walking down the eel
lar stairs backward. by young lady
with a lamp in one hand and a mirror
in the other the idea being that in the
glass the young lady would see her
future husband. The wouldbe minis
ter being previously appraised of the
trick secreted himself in the cellar, and
when the young lady reached the bot
tom of the stairs, he stealthily stole up
behind her, and peered over her Shout
der into the glass. She saw the face
and shrieked NO l won't marry him."
and she didn't, although the young
pastor was badly smtten. She tells
the story nowadays with some reluc-
lance.