Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-27

w ny not make letter Writing on the
stage within hailng distance of the
tedium of real life?" asks the genial
press. Probably because it would add
to the tedium of the. play.
If we We're to have the real genuine,
unadulterated article in a modern play
we imagine the audience would be
quite ready to sing the TIE Deum when
il was over.
A Brewer philosopher who has neg
lected to take his last summers screen
doors off. says that now the shortest
day is past. and that it is nearer to
next spring than it is to last summer
he will not take the trouble to unhinge
them now. He says that they act very
we'll as storm doors this winter, keep
ing out the snow quite as well as they
did the flies
An exchange informs us that the
clerks in Belfast grain store carry off
the record by killing II rats in the
srainery one stormy day last week
while waiting for customers Rats,
Orren ID. Vittum of Scion, Me. claims
in a letter to the Boston Globe to have
served as justice of the peace 50 years,
which he says is longer than any other
person in the country has served in
that capacity.
This has been an exasperating Win
ter thus far for the small boy with his
with his big sled. Happy is the man
who never outgrows his boyhood,
An out of town bunco man. who is
stranger in Calais. tried to work the
grand flimfam game at some of the
stores in. that city recently. His
method was 10 offer, at a store, money
of high denomina tion in payment of
some trifling article. so that there will
be change due him. When the clerk
hands him his change. he asks, as q
favor, that some of it be still further
exchanged for money of other denoni
nations. After this request has been
complied with, several times, until tea
chances to one. the clerk is so confused
that he does not know whether he is
afoOt or on horseback, and the sharp
| goes out of the store with more cash
| than he brought in. He had poor sue
| cess with a lady clerk in one store, who
would do no better than give him sixty
| cents for dollar. A gentlemen clerk
| in another place, however, is still
| ciphering, in a vain endeavor to learn
just what the financial status of his
employers business is since his caller
| left.
| In recent interview Mr. Edward F.
Kicker says of Names growing sum
mer resort business: There are 200, 900
visitors to Maine and New Hampshire
every summer, and they leave $40 each
or more. We secure $S,000,000 a year
| from them. Taking care of these peo
pie is the largest industry in Maine at
the present time. 1t pays better than
| farming or numbering, or mining or
| fishing. And yet it is in its infancy.
The business has grown so rapidly that
| we have not been able to build suitable
hotels. In few years the palaces Of
| the world will be in our State"
| Death has interposed and f. w.
Sawyer, Esq. one of Milbrdges best
| known citizens. no longer can claim
! the distinguished honor of owning the
most venerable and famous Thomas
i cat. in Washington county. When Mr.
| Sawyer went to his store one morning
last week. he found the aged sire. who
/ had kept vigil over the cheese box for
| II years, dead on the Office floor The
| Cherryfeld Times says that the HUI
name owner after according the brief
! eulogy Tom was good one" gave
him funeral such as his long and
useful life deserved
The following prophetic lines are
! posted at the foot of a stairway in "A
/ Bar Harbor block:
| A baptism in Hades depths
AS hot as boiling tar.
/ Awaits the man who quits thus block,
And leaves the door ajar:
| But he who softly shuts this door
Shall dwell among the just.
| Where the wicked cease from troubling
| And the weary are at rest.
There is really nothing to criticise in
/ the sentiments expressed in this ap-
pealing couplet. Poetic requirements
would be better served. howeyer.-ana
the sense in nowise impaired. if the