Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-31
Maine Gossip.

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Temperance meetings have not gone
out of fashion and the Portland Wash
ingtonan Society and the Catholic
Total Abstinence Society are to have q
rousing temperance mass meeting IN
Portland before long.
The knights of Modern Times orlgi-
mated in Hallowell recently and have
esta blished there lodge of the order,
it is said. This should be an improve
ment on the Nights of High O'd
Times that has large membership in
some cities.
A display of horse sense was wit
messed at Kennebunk the other day
when a drunken man attempted TO
drive his horse over a railroad embank-
ment and the animal positively refused
to go.
According to the PASSPORT overseer or
the poor here are some of the applica-
tions made to him: Pick me out some
supplies for the family. Send up
corned beef, flour. canned corn. etc,
etc. Also give me pound of mixed
candy for the children and a piece of
smoking tobacco for my wife. I'll take
a cigar, as Il pipe hurts my mouth.
What's that? You haven't got EN-?
Well, send out for {; boy. as I'm coming
to see you often this, winter The
overseer looked at the: man. of nerve
and said: win you wait for the
goods?" NO: send . en- up to the
house. Haven't you got a team for de:
livering. anyway? Besides, I'm going
to the rink to see the races. and can't
stop. What yer think the citizens pay
yer for? To sass the poor people?"
So long as children exist so long will
some quaint or unimaginable saying
be credited to them. A tiny miss in.
by her aunt, and looking up exclaimed.
Il know what's the trouble With you.
Auntie. you've got nervous prosperd-
ton
We heard the other day of dog that
fled in alright when he encountered
clay model of a pug. but Houlton Cat
seems to have had no such supersti-
tons. Her master procured for his
show window enc OF these clock-work
cats with head that moves and eyes
that blink in a natural but somewhat
defiant manner. The genuine pussy
itrI I,ot
when her owners back was turned
pitched into the mechanical intruder
with deplorable results. The imitation
fur flew in all directions and the owner
only returned in time to save the
framework.
East Newcastle is not different from
many other localities in needing a mis-
siorary that shall teach the advantages
the idle folks down that way for lack
IF or Discrimination to other and decent
amusements have been writing letters.
signing other peoples names to them
and leaving them under the doors Of
their neighbors homes. Trouble is
brewing down here for the guilty party
whenever he may be caught.
In West Rockport as in some other
places of more pretentions there lives, a
man who is of the dead sure" kind
When he knows thing he knows it
and declines to argue the matter. The
other day he came to town and a little
later missed his ulster from the wagon.
He knew positively that he had left the
garment there but a few minutes be-
FORE and so notified the police it was
stolen. On arriving home there it
was hanging on the very nail where
he had left it.
A Bath cigar dealer has noticed that
whereas the fathers are content with
his five-cent cigars none but the. ten or
fifteen cent variety viii do for the
sons The eader is at liberty to make
deductions.
A Machias blacksmith has been
troubled with corns, in fact. was sorely
distressed with them when last heard
from. He had noticed that veterin-
afianS successfully stredteu tne corn On
the equine hoof With a compound OF
oakum and tar and thought it would Go
no harlH to try "a similar application
On his own foot. He did so but durir.,
the day the tar soaked through the
stocking. sticking the latter fast to the
boot When that worthy vulcan sought
to sSetire that night he was co(r)n-
founded by dilemma, he could not.
get that boot off and for the first time
in his life was compelled to go to bed
with his boots on.
Meddybemps is having revival of