Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-18


$M@ime Gossip
The Grip and a Paradox.
When your bones all ache like blaZes an
you can't see out your eyes,
An your legs go wabbly like scuttled
ship.
No use to go to doctors with lot o.
what's an why's
'Tis a dollar to "A cent you've got the
grip.
An when your think tanks rusty an the
cog-wheels will not work.
An your intellectual nippers fail to nip.
When you feel less like a Christian than
old Abdul Ham, the Turk.
You needn't wonder why-'tis just plain
grip.
Then's the time for disappearing from
the stress of worldly strife,
For il you'll take a quiet friendly tip.
Though it may be paradoxical. you've
reached point of life
Where the best thing you can do is to
lose your grip.
N. Y. Sun.
hCiS oIC I1cIe >
one we hope will come true and II is
all the way from Greenwood where
Annie Bryant is said to have drawn
several pretty rugs and it is hinted on
the sly she is to use them on a new
floor.
The man whose wife will be deprived
of a spring bonnet because he bet on
the prize fight is not so bad as the
husband of the one who will have to go
hungry in consequence. but he could
be in better business.
There is home missionary in the
little town of Jacksonville, who finds
opportunity to do little good although
confined to her bed. She holds a little
Sunday school of the children every
Sabbath and her interest in their well
fare is SO active and unfiagging that
she forgets herself.
A man whose deiusion was the
building up of Hampden as q summer
resort has been sent to the insane hos
pital. 1t is but fair TO say that his in
sanity was manifested in other ways
mere conclusively.
Gracious. but here is whole bouquet
of MayfiOwers reported from Greene.
Evidently their leaves didn't perish in
the green.
Cherryfield has seen it and here is the
opinion as reported in an exchange:
IF there is anything that will cause
sensible people to sigh for an epidemic,
provided it does it's work effectually
and hits in the right place. it is to be
compelled to gaze day after day upon
the tall young man from the suburbs,
masquerading about town with his
head cover tipped back SO as to expose
to full view a contracted forehead pro-
fusely decorated with bangs that
closely resemble a string of cork
screws. But then it's style you know
and it's o. k
Bristol is hoping ever SO hard that
the good times will make business at
her quarry. for taxes remain the same
and her residents are growing fewer
under existing conditions.
The Lewiston milk inspector thinks
his 1859 tests the past year have tended
to greatly improve the quality of the
milk sold in that town. Now what do
the consumers think?
Lobsters more than half shell are 20
cents a pound in Winthrop and the
Budget advises its readers to wait until
the suckers begin to run. The sub
scriber that indulges in many lobster
newbergs nowadays is not likely to
pay for his paper in advance.
Rumors from Cuba do not begin to
affect the average Portlander so much
as theconflicting rumors thatth mayor
has appointed city marshal.
The latest thing to compete with
sawed boards is the wood fibre box 1t
is made of pulp, something after the
style of fibre wooden ware. 1t is sup
ported by light frame around the
outside, and has no joints except at the
corners. 1t looks as if the time would
come when wood grinding will be big
ger industry than saw milling. Inn
proved methods Of reduction are like
ly to be such that everything in the
shape of wood and bark will be con-
verted into pulp. A concern in Wis
consin now is buying millions of feet
of hemlock to be worked up into fibre.
The wood pulp business, when it reach
es its full development. will utilize
much timber that cannot be converted
into lumber, and thus hasten the ex-
tinction Of our forests, unless vigorous
and widespread measures shall be
taken to cultivate and plant anew.
More New England and New York
spruce is worked into pulp than is cut
into lumber. This fibre business, more
over, will greatly add to the value of
standing timber and timber lands, be-
cause it will render wood salable that
once went to waste, remarks the
Northwestern Lumberman.
It's early to expect the best of sea-