Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-01-21


running high all winter the ice bills
| will run high all summer. But who
| cares anything about next summers
Ice bills when he has to pay the coal
| trust 81 ton and then shovel the
stuff to keep warm?
All in all Bowdoin has had fair
weather sailing with her lawsuits over
bequests.
The last term of court in York coun-
ty was called the plaintiffs term be-
cause every case was decided in the
favor of the plaintiff
The Gardiner women did not a little
work in behalf of securing subscrip-
items for the new shoe factory. Per-
haps that accounts for the success of
the enterprise.
He is a member of the Brunswick
| fur club, but he wishes he wasn't
since he chased a large black cat one
day recently under the impression that
/ it was a fox.
The Bangor Commercial is just ach-
ing to pay the small boy for shovelling
a path to the sanctum, and remarks
with emphasis Give us the snow and
| darn the eXpenSe!
Since Sheriff Ballou's experience with
the belligerent Bath Cinnamon his
friends are asking him why he is like
a billed" shirt and. without waiting
! for a question, reply: because he was
| done up at Chinese laundry"
1t is rather tardy.-this announcement
but it seems WORTH relating. just be-
| fore Christmas Portland gentleman
| walked into the pestoffice and hap
pened to notice huge pile of parcels
| that We're held by Uncle Sam because
the postage was not sufficiently pre-
| paid. Here" said he to the post
master. 'please take every one of those
packages. have a clerk stick the nee
| essary stamps on each. bundle them
out on the first mail and send the bill
W IIIe. y uSl tilllh VI lut merry SIlIlSt-
| masses that may be spelling there
There was so much debate in Old
Town over the question whether one
| or two sessions of the high school was
needed that a canvass was made of
the children's parents and one session
decided upon.
There is in the town of Norway a
| dog, that takes daily rides on the
''electrics." He halls car. gets
aboard and rides to South Paris with
almost daily regularity.
Those Portlanders who are excusing
themselves for staying away from
church because the women who sit in
front of their pewS wear big hats and
obscure their vision of the godly man
in the pulpit are simply 'horrid mean"
Next the woman with the big hat will
not be allowed to walk the street OBJ
scuring the sunlight.
The Rockland young women are hard
to suit. Only short time ago one in
answer to matrimonial advertise
ment went to Biddeford but returned
by the next train after seeing the
would-be swain. The same or another
Rockland female answered the adver-
tisement of a Bath man in search of
wife and went on to the Shipping
city to meet him. He did not come
up to her romantic expectations and
she returned home minus her car fare
and her IDEAL
Gardiner man who works in the
paper mills at $1.75 a day and supports
family of children subscribed to the
shoe factory fund.- A man with ability
to do that under the circumstances
ought to have financial management of
the new concern.
The British vice-consul astonished
his Portland friends the other day by
appearing on the streets wearing a
straw hat He explained to all he
could that he left his tile in the Office
where were several cattemen and
when he returned the cattlemen and
the tile were gone.
Here's recently revived incident
that occurred in York county many
Years ago and as many probably have
not heard it the telling may not pe
amlss. In a Baptist church, a mis-
slonary appeared. He had iron chains,
balls. grapple hooks, stone images of
several designs that he exhibited,
which interested us children, if not
the older ones. very much. In closing
he begged of the audience to give and
give literally to help to build ships to
carry the Gospel to the heather. The
hat was passed to gather the contri-
buttons. In one corner of the church
an Old white headed man sat- When
the hat was passed to him. he stood up.
took out an old copper cent. held it up
above his head and says in loud
voice: Here is a cent I give to the
heathens." and dropped it in the hat.