Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

All the firms Bath has invited to &C.
| cupy her new shoe shop want the earth
and someone else to pay the taxes On
it. In consequence the Bath factory
remains ~unoccupied.
When Bucksport's Browning club
took up the study of bird life in that
vicinity and blossomed out as the Au-
dubon club some thought that at last
something of practical value was to
be learned. Matters went merrily un-
til at one meeting a strange bird was
seen sitting on the branch of a tree
near the house where the meeting was
an opera glass and all the authorities
were consulted. The conclusion all
came to was hat the bird was a stran-
ger. Not until a small boy had climbed
the tree and cut down the stuffed form
of a golden pheasant that had adorned
the 'whatnot" in his mothers parlor
did the club realize that Browning is
less risky thar Audubon.
One Bath editor looks for the acct
dental shooting of chaperones now that
the girls of the Shipping city have TAX
IN up the fad of cunning expeditions.
A band of sp%iritualists are searching
for Capt. Kidd's gold. What a repro
bate old Kidd was and must be still,
otherwise he would have told some
medium of the whereabouts of that
treasure long ago.
If it be true that detectives in floats
floats to see if they violate the law
what sport it must be all around!
The Winnegance woman who smelled
burning feathers when a hen coop was
burned a mile distant would probably
turn up her nose should anyone sug-
gest that she was intended for the To-
cal smelling committee.
When Maine is covered by a network
of electric railways, or even the prof.
ects so glowingly set forth in the col
uIlS VI tuc newspapers dIlu ulSCuSSCu
at the corner stores become realities,
what opportunities for reciprocities be-
tween the city and the country cousins;
a couple of theatre tickets from the
former and a brace of pumpkins from
the latter, for instance, need not be Of
uncommon occurrence. A York Har-
Dor correspondent recently entertained
W of his country cousins who came
to town OF the new electric railway.
Before that was built they hadn't been
able to visit him for a long time and he
enjoyed their visit very much. More
over, he let's it be known that he hasn't
much respect for those who said the
new road would bring into town only
the cheap trash.
A Pressure Isle drummer was thought
less enough to tell some of his friends
that his firm had notified him that they
were to send him a fine carriage. The
other day a carriage came billed to him
and unsuspectingly he paid the freight.
1t proved to be the worst looking old
vehicle that had appeared in town
since the very same carriage was in
active service thereabouts, years ago.
Since that time it had been reposing
under the Congregationalist church un-
til the practical jokers dug it out for
this purpose. AT last account the
drummer still held the firm response
BILE for the joke.
The Narraguagus Times trots out a
rooster on the strength of the report
that the Washington county railroad is
to be built.
The Portland detective in searching
for that firebug evidently acted on the
idea that all things come round to him
who will bait Waite.
The A. O. U. w. label is an o. X. on
field days or other of that orders I'M
dertakings in this city.
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