Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

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| The only speedy and economical treatment
| for itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, and
pimply humors of the skin, scalp, and blood
| (gtiCura
ics s1'e coRs"saGos, Sole PTcpre,or. BOSTON,
~ How to Cure Every Baby HumOr. mailed free
BABY BLEMSnES r';!iHiis ;Hs ' s5sr By
| ers were forwarded from Philadelphia
| and he was ready to begin business.
He visited the neighboring frog-ponds,
| but his efforts were all in vain. Next
| he visited the Italian settlement in
Jonesboro and inquired as to their
method of coaxing froggy from his
habitation. but they objected to divulg-
| ing the secret. So, disheartened by his
hard luck, the gentleman returned
| home and is now contemplating trip
| to the Klondyke valley to seek his for
| tune in business which gives promise
of a speedier realization of wealth.
A saleslady in one of the Portland
| dry goods stores experienced little
piece Of Klondyke luck Wednesday.
She was showing a customer some
| purses and when she opened one Of
them she discovered a 81 and 81 bill.
1t is far more satisfactory to take out
| money which bears the government
stamp. right here at home. than it is
to receive the raw material in some
cold creek in Alaska, where you are
put to the trouble of having it coined.
when came out on my regular trip
the other morning." relates the Lee
stage driver 1.-The only passenger hal
was an old lady of very demure man.
ners. l was most dead for a smoke but
1 had sort of got into my head that the
old lady was a religious and fussy
party. When we got along a piece,
however. l got to lingering my tobarker
ard, by snum, just couldn't resist tho
temptation. So l turned round to the
old lady and asked her if she had any
objection to my taking Whit or two.
She Strengthened up like a monkey on
stick. BY -, young man. she
SHCuttu, YOU We ilIl HE jest WueIS 1
live. I've been a laundering for Il
smoke all the morning. Gimme a
match She pulled out black T. d.
and l tell you. mister. men that old
lady made the stage look like steam
engine going up a grade
THE beautiful lake underlying the
surface of the earth some 80 feet" from
which Mechanic Falls was to receive
her water supply proves to be bed of
clay and ledge and the water is taken
from Waterhouse. brook Experts from
Boston have been drilling for water in
the vicinity and have given up the case
as hopeless. Many of the consumers
will give up the city water and go back
to pumps and we'll sweeps.
A young New Sweden farmer miss
ing his poultry lately, decided to watch
night he saw something moving and
fired several shots in rapid succession
Then taking lantern he went to see
the effect Of his fusilade. Judge of his
chagrn in finding three of his hens
had fallen victims to his aim. Vowing
direful vengeance over what had
caused all this trouble, he again took
up his vigil the next night. This time
he took better aim at the prowler and
shot skunk"
Just now the friends of Col. G. C.
Burrill of Ellsworth, who is doubtless
one of the best known men in Hancock
county, are laughing at little story
which he tells in which the joke is on
| himself In company with his son, f.
Carroll Burrill, he was in Brooklin.
Seated in the little Office, parlor and
general room of the country hosiery
| they overheard a whispered conversa-
ton in an adjoining room. who are
they?" some one was asking. why,
it's Burrill, of Ellsworth, and his
father" was the reply.
| The Bangor Commercial gets up on
its toes in an impassioned plea for the
fakirs. Here Is a sample of its elo-
quence: Let's have the fakirs. And
| do they sometimes win hard cash from
poor gentlemen by their blandish-
ments? Well, and what of that! Who
| shall take the privilege of preventing
us from casting money into the sea or
| into a hole in the ground or into the
pocket of a glib fakir in exchange for a
| gold chain which isn't gold at all or a
pair of scissors that will cut nothing
and nothing else? The right to spend
money like a fool is a part of the
sacred privilege of every good man;
let it not be restrained! Who ever
heard of a sensible citizen attending