Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-24

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linear Guilford are two ponds. For
years fishermen have noticed that on
4 day when the fish are biting freely In
lore of these ponds no bites can be had
| in the other, and vice versa.
1 Several years ago Pittsficld learned
n costly lesson but one which it has not
| forgotten. A wealthy citizen opposed
| the purchase of needed fire hose. IT
happened that lack of one extra
length of hose at fire that fol-
llowcd a few months later with discs
trous effects to the town. caused loss
Of hundreds of dollars to him who had
defeated the appropriation.
| 1t was Bangor couple who recently
earned the distnctionof having adopted
a very novel method for escaping the
post wedding hiarity at the expense oil
| tie newly welded, also the irritating
PARTICLES of rice. They left the house
Inv back window via a Romeo ladder
| passed the night in the house of a
/ friend and escaped to the cooling
breezes of Mt. Desert by an early
morning train.
| The Calais municipal court was en-
| tertained by an hysterical witness thu
other day. Her cries could be heare
| for block away and the court ad-
iourned for an hour while a physician
worked over the woman. She was thf
! plaintiff in case where she charg I'd
| ,,r;t y1r. 10y. fta.y n
herself and her son-in-law. because The
latter would net pay bill. Perhapi
| she succeeded In conveying the impress
sion that she had been badly scared.
| An instance Of well directed persis-
tency was noticed, recently, in Water
Vile. A farmer drove in with load o.
| hay. Night came and he had found NJ
customer lettering the horses to tn,
| lead so that they could feed therefrom
| the owner repaired to neighbornt
grocery where he purchased fruga
lunch of crackers and cheese. This eat
ell he dug hole in the hay and securec
a good nights steep. No one stole tn,
horses or the hay meanwhile and in tbs
morning the farmer sold his load for
good price and went homeward whis;
ling as he went.
Portland Press: The veterinarian
who examined the Bluehil COW need:
to take a lesson in going slow
! A Vinalhaven man who refused tn,
tomato plants handed to him at tn
store and insisted on having othel
plants on sale there. but which he sup
: posed to be a better variety of tbs
+ tomato plant. was somewhat EN-
! barrassed by a neighbor a few day!
after The latter wanted to know wha
| the man expected to raise from thos'
verbenas he had set out in his garden
| All the prominent men in Rumforl
! Falls signed a petition during one
| the many recent wet weeks addresse,
| to the street commissioner and askint
/ him to stock the various ponds
formed in the hollows Of certain street,
| with young salmon fry. The published
reply of the commissioner was that his
/ foreman had carefully considered tn.
I matter and concluded that the petition
i crS were not Responsible parties.
| 4 Bucksport man who believes tina
| tle laborer is worthy of his hire, pro
/ vided he takes his pay in rhubarb, finds
/ ii difficult to secure competent help
| His hired man had built two hen coops
| beaten a carpet and made two Hover
beds when the employer came out witt
two more carpets and the remark :"
haven't any money to pay you for youl
work but there's plenty of rhubarb over
in the garden that you can have" The
laborer who thought the employer
+. should have thrown in the sugar tt
sweeten the rh,ibarb pies, Immediately
/ struck for n different currency. The
lrnubarb currency is only little more
objectionable, however, than the 50-ceni
dollar. That employer is probably
+, believer in fiat currency and thinks the
government ought to stamp each of
i those rhubarb stocks a dollar. If there