Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-03

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Lines That Are Seasonable.
1T likes me well-December' breath,
Although its kiss be cold,
Nor yet the year is sealed in death,
IT'S only growing old"
Nor yet the brooks have ceased to run,
The rivers freely flow,
And over fiowerless fields the sun
Still wreathes roseate glow.
1.-The year Is dying. ay, is dead,
But yet DEFENDERS breath
A glory and glow car shed
Irradiating death"
Ice forming on the shores of the
rivers.
Buck fever may now be safely at
tributed to the weather
People rubbed their ears yesterday
but their hearts warmed toward the
clear sky.
How fair Brunswick will blush over
the ring Of the postman.
Craft shun the icy embrace" of the
Kennebec
A Brewer grocer wanted to lick the
man who appended this placard to the
finest gobbler in his shop: Small, but
takes the turk. May be bought cheap
er as it grows older" 1t does not re-
lieve his feelings any now that his
friends insist on lecturing him upon
the evils of an ungovernable temper.
AT an Auburn experience meeting an
old gentleman became so interested in
his appeal to the unconverted that he
exclaimed: IF you knew how delight
full it is, by George, l believe
every one of you would start on the
Christian journey this very minute.
Comments were unnecessary but the
smiles of the audience were excusa bic.
The fact that no marriage intentions
have been filed lead to the depressing
thought that a Thanksgiving romance
has met with disaster. A BiddefOrd
man advertised for wife. He repre-
scented himself as the owner of broad
acres. but forgot to mention that they
weren't very long or numerous. Moth
ing was said about his personal APP
pearance the beauty of which seems
scarcely sufficient to induce the
buxom female. who wrote from Rock
land. in reply to the advertisement. to
pay her fare to Biddeford for the sake
of looking at him. She came. however.
and as pictures hadn't been ex-
changed he was directed to wear a
blue ribbon when he came to the train
to meet her She espied the blue rib
bon. which. by the Way,Was the bright
est blue obtainable in town. and rushed
for il. But when she came to take in
all the details of its background she
shrank back percepthly. However
she allowed herself TO he hustled into
the team and they drove away.
MachiaS is in the throes Of ecstatic
bliss over the blessings of the new
telephone. In the words of the local
scribe: "A man can do the same
business with Rockland or Boston in
five minutes that would take him half
a day under the old system to accom-
plish. 1t only takes 80 minutes to get
doctor. night or day. while hereto
fore it would take at least an hour to
in the night"
The sale of reVolverS to the yeo-
several farmers returning from market
were attacked by tramps.
a Pressure Isle citizen attempted a
short cut through the woods the other
day and after d bewilderng tramp of
more than an hour came out where he
started
The ring of the axe is heard in the
woodlot.
Good weather for getting the ice
house in readiness.
In reply to the charge that has been
widely circulated, to the effect that
some of the players upon the Portland
and Bangor High school foot ball
teams were not members. the principal
of the school says: Il have only to
say replied the principal. that no
boys have played on our foot ball team
who We're not regularly registered as
pupils at the opening of the term, and
who have not been pursuing full
course of study here. In other words,
every foot ball player has been reg
ular student of the school" He does
not deny. however that pupils have
gone to school only during the foot ball
season and presumably for the pur-
pose of playing on the team. He does
recommend, though. discontinuance
of such practices.
Handsome Homemade Tablec1Oth.