Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

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South Portland family, and we cannot
help wondering what move win be next
made. When the man of the HOUSE
went home recently. he found stuck in
the corner of the looking glass, where
he would he sure to see it. a note from
his wife. Where l cooked before l
married YOU" it ran, II was always
given an afternoon off. Hereafter ]
shall take ednesdays off, just as
did then" He tore the note up, ana
put in its place one that read as fol-
lows: Before | married you, / used to
stay out late whenever | wanted tc
without being required to made an ex-
PLANTATION. | shall begin that jolly
habit again tonight. Please don't sit
up for ane. 1t isn't nice to find a wife
sitting up for one under such circum-
stances. and you know that tears were
never becoming to you
Machias Republican,: oh Pa, how ]
love to maui himi" That's what the
boy said who was found maltreatins "a
woodchuck some one had Killed. The
Shore Line Railroad is now catching .
like post mortem flagellation. ~
mortuis, etc, also Requiscat Eft cetra
The Lewiston Journal in its most
faeetious vein, tries to poke a iittls
fun at Portlands celebration, and
|samong other things remarks: There
is only one regret expressed: If thu
supply of coal carts hadn't given out
the procession. instead Of two, might
have been over three miles long
An Onawa correspondent walls that
ilies aud tramps We're never so thick
as this xear.
RockIand complains that the new
woman movement in that city resulte 4
on the Fourth in the early rising of the
young ladies who joined the boys in
shooting off crackers and pistols and
ringing the bells.
Between the druggists, ,le Epworth
Leaguefs and the Knights Of Pythlas
Portland is having a great week of it,
ard so soon after its glorious Fourth
| too.
The small boys zeal to ring the bells
the night before the Fourth made los
al excitement. In Auburn one janitol
| drove them away with shots from :,
lievoIver, and in Bucksport they storme,
the churches in true military style. dis
! lad a ID.
ment, and held the belfreys against al
| corners.
The Maine game laws are pretty
strict but they say nothing about chas'
| ing deer with a railroad locomotive. So
nobody can be fined for the latest Knox
county tragedy.
| What has become of the wild pigeons
| which were once so plenty in the Statt
of Maine? asks an exchange. Many OF
! the older people con remember wher
| they were here in countless numbers
but now we rarely see pigeon. 1t is
20 years or more since they have beer
| here in any numbers. The BURBERRY
plains were their great feeding grounds
and they Were caught in nets and mar
kcted to quite an extent. Pennsylvania
| was formerly one of their greatest
| breeding grounds. but the birds Were
| liarried and prosecuted by the pigeon
hunters during their nesting season I'M
til they were driven out entirely, and
their next great nesting place was
! Michigan. There the persecution was
kept up and they We're destroyed at the
| rate of 100000 a week. The next nest
| ing ground was in British Columbia
/ but even there they found no resting
| place for they We're Still pursued and
| like he buffalo We're doomed to be ex
terminated. What pity that man is
so greedy.
The Boston & Maine people were moi
prepared for the crowds that went from
Biddeford and Saco to the Portland
celebration. They sent 500 special tick
cts to each of these cities, but 1871 were
, sold at Biddeford and 800 at Saco, the
extra ones being at regular rates which
resulted in kicks loud and long.
! A Newport man who celebrated the
Fourth with seven sticks Of dynamite
all at once has been spending the weak