Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-13

bottle will prove what 1t can do. "-MR
scales. upon which the person is asked
| to sit quietly. Before doing so, if it be
a man, the weigher will feel him over
| and then guess his weight, and If he
does not come within two pounds of it,
| the person does not have to pay. With
a woman ii is different and all he can
do is to stand off. size her up. and then
guess her weight. Last night a Main
street business man got into the chair
and the man guessed 249 pounds. The
| scales, however, showed 24T. This the
| Biddeford man knew was wrong for he
! weighed himself at the depot and tipped
| the scales al 257.
| The people in Rockland are hoping
| that the Carleton House in that city
will soon have proprietor. 1t is really
| too bad for so good house to go un-
! occupied
Bangor News: Though the new tariff
is not a month old, though it was
| passed too late to affect the prices of
| lumber this year. reports from every
| part of Aroostook county show that
business is reviving wonderfully. Spec
| ial agents of the News who have been
| in Aroostook the past week say the
| business revival is marked in every
village. OF course. money is not plen-
| tiful as yet, and prices have not al
| vanced enough to make any apprecia-
| BILE change. But the people are hope
| tul. They see prospect of selling
| their potatoes this winter. Lumber
| is certain to be in good demand. The
| duty on wool will make sheep raising
| profitable. The value of good drivin.,
| horses has gone up 20 per cent, within
month Above all else the people are
| full of courage and hope. They can
| see something to work for, and they are
| working with will The period of
| mental apathy and depression-th
"blues" which came from continued
| hard times-is over. An honest effort
| will now find fair reward.
| Though good times have not yet come
| to Aroostook county, the people of
Aroostook show every sign of pros
perity. The ark of finance which has
been adrft upon the sea of politics for
four long years. is resting safely upon
the mountain side The scared sur
/
got to work. In less than year
| Aroostook county will be the most
prosperous place in New England.
There appear to be very few emer-
gencies to which the captains of the
yachts and passenger steamers along
| the Maine coast are not equal On a
recent excursion one of the party was
| in danger of having his days enjoy
ment spoiled by a sudden attack of the
toothache. The skipper, however,
| promptly rose to the occasion. He pro-
duced a pair of forceps, seated the pas
| sanger on the rail. told him to open
| his mouth and in a fraction of a second
| the aching molar had gone to the
| fishes.
| A writer in the Portland Sunday
Times tells of a business man of that
city who keeps an umbrella in his office
and has been in the habit of leaving it
standing against washstand. One
day recently he took the umbrella and
went out into the rain. Reaching the
sidewalk, he raised the umbrella to find
that it consisted of the handle. the
IL.
! A rat had climbed to the top of thu
base board of the wall against when
the umbrella was standing, and from
| that perch had torn away nearly all
| the cloth, leaving only enough so tina;
a person taking it up hurriedly woull
not notice that there was anything
wrong with the umbrella. The rat did
the work neatly for there was not a
| scrap of the cloth on the floor. Every
bit of 1t had been taken through a hole
into one of the drawers of the wash
stand, and was found there where it
had evidently been used to make a
| nest.
From the same source also comas tho
following story: A gentleman was at
work one day at his desk in a Portland
office building. On the desk was a
glass OF drinking water. To the sur
prise of the owner of the desk. when he
looked up, intending to reach for the
glass, he saw that the water was al
ready being drunk, a big rat being
then engaged in shaking his thirst.
HIS Ratship finished his drink. moved
slowly across the desk and jumped off
before the gentleman had recovered
from mis- surprise.
4 Ticket Agent Lawlor of tho Grand
Trunk at Portland announces that he
is not prepared to sell tickets which
! will carry the purchasers clear tbr,uet