Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-19

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The Prize Formula of Prof Dixi Crosby, Md, LID.
Makes the Stomach Right.
firm in Boston. A few days later he
got this reply: I'VE mail you herewith
check for the value of the veal, minus
81. which the apples fell short of pay
ing expenses"
This is said to have happened in
Maine on a street car: One of those
nondescript Arabian women who peddlc
small goods from house to house had
got aboard, with two large and heavy
laden baskets. AS she rose to get out,
at the mead of certain street we'll
dressed gentleman sprang up and taxi
ing her baskets carried them out and
handed them to her, after she had
alighted, with a kindly smile and
polite bow, and then resumed his seat
in the car.
A Belfast lady mistook gentleman
for Mr.. Small whom she knew, but
she saw her mistook as soon as he
spoke, especially as he told her his
name was Little.
The most rigorous action against the
cigarette has been taken by the school
authorities of Gardiner, who announce
that any boy who is found smoking
cigarettes on the school grounds, will
be suspended or expelled from school.
Such action might not stand the test of
law, but it is good sense and good
ethics. The decadcnt cigarette does al
most as much harm as the barbarous
foot ball.-Lewiston Journal.-The l.. j.
must be joking III it's comparisons.
About the only thing To he said in favor
of such rough sports as football is
that the boys who take part therein
can't smoke cigarettes and otherwise
abuse their health.
Save my canary if you let the house
burn" exclaimed Portland woman
recently when ii looked as if the whole
establishment would 90 up in smoke.
Some of the bystanders laughed but
why should they?
Temperance lectures are not confined
to the platform and occasionally they
are brief but to the point and come
from sources where they are least ex-
pected. 1t was forty years ago,
said well known Portland citizen
the other day. that | was in bar
room in Boston, which was kept by
notorious bruiser. but who had some
what of the reputation Of the late
Harry Hill for doing things one would
not naturally expect of him. y man
before the bar had refused Ia drink at
the solicitation of a friend. ana Was re-
peatedly urged. refusing again ana
again, declaring that he was trying TO
reform. But his friend. as in such cases
generally, would not accept his rcfus-
al and continued to urge him. Sud
denly the pugilistic proprietor. who
had been an attentive observer of the
scene. leaped over his bar and knocked
the fellow fiat who was 50 determined
to ruin his friend. He followed this up
with Il terrific tongue-lashins apd
lecture on tempting a felloWman.
which, coming from the source ii did,
made a lasting impression upon all who
heard it,.
There We're about $4,000 cases Of va
rious kinds of fish packed on the Maine
coast during %. This year it will fall
short nearly 30o.0 600 cases But if the
grade is better. as has been promised
il may eventually be worth more To the
packers than the big packs indifferent
ly packed.
There can be no blow holes or other
vulnerable places in the case hardened
consciences of the fellows who stole
glasses from grave in a Prospect
cemetery the other day. Good impress
sions to have effect upon them would
need all the projectile of the new
guns for our coast defences.
The 30 new looms that have just been
added to the equipment of the Vas
salboro WOODEN mill indicates faith on
the part of the management that a
protective tariff viii pass the next
Senate.
Travelling libraries are a new thing
in Maine The Dial club of Fairfield.
has prepared circulars setting forth
the plan. which they will send to each
member of the next Legislature asking
his support of the movement. 1t is pro-
posed to ask the Legislature to appro-
pirate not less than $4,000 for the pur-
chase of books. which Will be divided
into libraries of from 20 to 50 books
each, which will be loaned To clubs and
oranges in various parts of the state.
One of the papers published by a
grammar school in the State contains
an article which states that steam
navigation was known as early as 1921
This will create terrible tumult
among publishers of histories and
those who had concluded that the date
| of steam navigation was one of those
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