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

| to the Klondyke gold fields. He says
the rate from Seattle To klondyke is
| 5000 and a ticket from Portland 20
| Seattle costs SSl.25. thus making the
! total cost of transportation 1891 %.
| Passengers will be allowed to carry 100
| pounds of baggage free and viii only
| be taxed ten cents additional for every
| hundred pounds of excess baggage they
/ carry providing that the total amount
| does not weigh more than 1000 pounds
I have received a circular giving the
list of supplies necessary for man to
| take who is going TO the gold fields and
| the cost of the outfit is rated as fol-
I lows: Groceries, $40: clothing, $50 ami
/ hardware. $50. making a total cost Of
1 $40
/ a Chicago man brings the following
Indictment against the city Of Port
land: "Out in Chicago. where / live"
says the Westerner. II can get all the
beer and good beer. too that | want.
for five cents a glass. Here in Port
land | have to pay ten cents for it, /
call that being sand bagged." And
now the good people of Portland are
1 wondering where in that prohibition
city this wild-eyed son of the Woolly
( West found a chance to be sand
| hagged" at ten cents a glass-or any
other price.
It's said the Canadians who come TO
Old Orchard are for annexation to this
country, almost TO "a man. Coming to
Maine for the summer and coming to
the United States for prosperity are a
least two evidences of level headed
ness among our Canadian neighbors.
Harrington has just concluded she's
fully recovered from her Tooth anniver-
sary. 1t takes time to be a centenarian
and time to get over it.
Brownfield stands ready to furnish
anything in the mosquito line and pro-
poses to underbid New Jersey.
a one-legged parson may be all right
but a two-legged one in a one-legged
pair of pants is usually sent to the
pound if found at large before dark.
Alexander and also as one Of his odd
jobs, occasionally may be found lend
ing a neighborly hand to the man who
runs the creamery. is the victim of the
following incident. While they were
computing the specific gravity of sui
phuric acid the other day. some of it
was spilled on the shepherds trousers
and before he could counterfeit the
.fe. H..
eaten one leg of his trousers off and
left him thankful it hadn't taken the
leg
This is the vivacious story which a
Spruce Head correspondent tells in
connection with recent unfavorable
turn in the weather: The big shower
Friday, struck us head on without any
warning. Edgar Maker and Sidney
jackson had load of hay all loaded
on the rack when that shower arrived
here. 1t would have made you laugh
to see them claw to get that hay under
cover. Ed struck for home and COW
cred his load up with bed clothes, but
Sid being too far from home to make it
before the rain struck, just turned his
rack up side down and crawled under
the load and waited until the shower
got out into the channel. 1t is an awful
dark night when Sid gets left.
Lewiston Journal: They are telling
of practical joke rlayed on a farmer
at South Lewiston by three of his hired
men. one of whom he had thrashed.
After the affair the two other men
came into the house announcing that
the hired man in question had drowned
himself in chagrin and sorrow. Thew
seized board and blankets and reap
peared with the dripping form of the
third man under the blanket Solemn |
ly they carried it into the stuffy little
sitting room and deposited it on two
chairs. The conscience stricken farmer
walked about the building with white
face. The hired men volunteered to
lay out the body after supper. and fhev
spent an hour in the room. After darl,
one said he would go out and harness
the horse while the other sat by the
body to watch. IN moment the head
OF the watcher appeared in the door |
way OF the dead room and he asked the
farmer II he wouldn't sit by the corpse
a mlnure while he stepped to the door
Tor breath. The farmer went in and
sat down as near the door as he could
get Alter few minutes he was horri. |
lled 70 see the blanket move and the
corpse slowly and steadily sit up under