Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-11

over SIX car loads of furp;turo
.ures nave been brought to Ratb fo. ~. ~ =
ham Beach. ''"se at Pop-
blodeford alderman burned a foot
so badly on the flatiron he carrioa ~
oed with him as to necessitata s,,,.
gical operation. " SUI
There is lady in Woo,w;cb ,,
two ancient plates, one has TIC s wiz mas
III view YORK on it, which are worth s7s
p'ece' SO say the collectors of old ch;na
MILO mas done more in building for
three years than any other town t.,
riscataquis county and the market
prices for farm produce is better than
tnose on Boston market
i,n ne announcement that the new read
ing room of the public library az DIT
land will be open on Sunday .ftor,.c
from l5o to o'clock has called ont a
sreat zeal of favorable comment and the
uecis!on OF the trustees upon this ones
tloh is to be commended.
At a loan exhibition of relies in Ran
gor the other day Mrs. l.. l.. Paine sent
TWO signet rings taken from a mummy
case near Bagdad. One of them is at
least 5000 years old. Prof. L. l.. Paine
also showed coin of Constantine.
It's none of my business in particu-
lar" says an Auburn physician. "bu,
believe that if the one session plan is
continued in the high school, the school
VIII graduate more dyspeptics than
ever before in the history of the
school,"
A grocery bill was presented the CITY
government Monday evening. the goods
al
Tor a period of about forty-five DAYS
which footed up over eighty dollars. This
for simply the raw material for the time
specified looks high to the casual obsery-
er. but perhaps seclusion adds to the gen.
eral appetite.
In June. 1885, Miss Lutte F. Holley of
harrington, lost her gold watch and
chain. She advertised for but failed to
find 1t till last week. and then the watch
was brought into one of the jewelry
stores to be repaired by a French girl
named Flora Goodness. Sheriff Blake
was notified and Miss Holley soon recov-
cred her watch.
1.-The Social Session." a club of half a
dozen young Bath men who seven or
eight years ago agreed that as each
should marry he should give a supper to
the others. One of them was married a
year or two ago and the first supper was
given. the second will soon take place
as another one is about to be Joined in
wedlock.
Prison Inspector Sawyer, from Port
land, was in the city on Tuesday and
looked over the Bangor Jail. He is on one
OF his regular tours of the State. Inspec-
tor Sawyer looked the Bangor prison over
thoroughly, and was enthusiastic in his
praises of it's cleanliness and the perfect
discipline preserved here Mt is the best
kept jail in the State he said.-Bangor
Commercial.
By rule of the postoffieg departmaat
all large distributing offices hkAPQrtland.
month or so. which conta{K BE. record
of what is found loose in the. mail bags.
The number and variety of these articles.
which slip out of letters or packages. ,are(
almost beyond belief. Blythe pbIica ton
of the list many Of the strays
There is every indication 8that next
summer will be the buAesf years
for Bath. A party who Knew whereof he
spoke. last evening celinted up eighteen
contracts which were to.fall, or had fall
len. to Bath shipbuilders. Several of
these. including the cargo steamer. the
big Sewall ships and fhe composite yes
sci for the naval academy means many
thousands of dollars for Bath workmeK
Bath Times. -
A man to whomaEf small deht. bwssi
has taken 3 novel way to collect ~ tpss
IepottSu US llc. LEWIS JUN
Norway correspondent: After blowing
the debtor up on the street in TIE pres
ence of passerssby ana street lQefeIS, he
accosts him whichever he seesSNip If
the debtor notices him he CREDITS him
with so many cents for recognftion.$ ! f
he doesn't notice: him at all IT is one cent
credit. After each meeting the creditor
sends in new bill with the proper cred
it's. The matter hasnlhaked out and ev-
erybody. is laughing about it.
Tramps give sBiddeford a wide berth
nowadays, and it is rare indeed th4ff
one of them applies at the. police..sta-
ton for lodging as was the custom
few years ago, and as the Jhembers of
the fraternity have been doing recently
at Alfred: The rule of giving them
sentences of 60 days at hard labor, take
away the desire that many of them had
to seek shelter within the walls of a
Jail.
Mr. G. A. Callahan, director of the
Lewiston Board of Health, notifies US
that there We're. 81 cases of diphthera
in November, of which 25 recovered
and six died. Only one death occurred
where anti-toXine was used. In four
cases, a physician was not called until
too late Thus far in December only
four cases have occurred. There are
now three cases, and recovery is prob
able in all.
1t is needless to state that much OF the
Western stock brought to Portland for
SHIPMENT by the English steamers IS
quite unmanageable. story is told OF
a number of steers which were left IN a
freight shed during the noon hour one
day. with a man to watch them. A good
many bags of sacked wheat were IN the
shed. When the cattlemen returned at
1 o'clock they found the watcher percneo
high overhead on a rafter shiverins Tor
his life and as for the Wheat-them
steers hadn't done thing to 1t. 1t cost
the Grand Trunk quite sum TO pay for
the ruined wheat and they did not leave
anv more where Western steers could
get at it.
Tn fishing through the ice little device
has been used to indicate when lisri
takes the bait. 1t consists OF small req
flag on a slender elastic support. when
sunport when released flies up ana us
PLAYS the flag. Its defect is that a MP
HE sends UP the red signal as certain II,
as the bite which means business. - ~
remedy this Mr.. Gilbert l.; baliey VI
Portland, has so improved the nIecna ~
ism that the flag will not pop up until the
line is RIM out, showing that nsn IS ac-
tua1Iv hooked. and as the hshlng pores
GENERALLY cover quite an area, TINS VIII
Sove the attendant making unnecessary