Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-09

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fox so he suddenly grabbed the ami
mails hind legs, pulled him out. raised
him in the air and brought his head in
contact with the log in such way as
| to quiet the fox forever.
That Sweden pastor who burns 1G
| cords of wood every winter has never
been favored by his parishioners with
woodsawing bee.
Star-Herald: We think any faic-
minded man who has been in Aroostook
during the last nine months will admit
| no matter how many seasons have
| rolled over his head, or in how many
different chimes he has sOjourned, that
no season and no climate ever pro-
duced nine months of more enjoyable
| weather.
One of Biddeford's paupers has re-
ceived back pension but some of the
city fathers don't want to let him 60
because he is so handy" about the
| farm.
| The members Of the police force are
bound to become athletes. To their
equipment OF dumb bells, Indian clubs
and punching bag. they have added a
| set of boxing gloves,-Bangor News.
Reports from Nevada are stirring GER
tain people nightly. We trust they
will not neglect to observe that sue
cess in pugilism, as in everything else,
forbids the general use of intoxicants
drugs or cigarettes. Yet there are
thousands in the country frequently
getting drunk in drinking success to
the total abstinence training Of their
favorite plug ugly.
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The zest that comes from facing the
keen wind sweeping over the ice field,
singing the cheeks into flaming pro-
test, stimulating exercise and whetting
the jaded appetite. all these delights
| the ice fisherman is soon to deprive
himself of. Among the devices which
will enable him to do this is portable
house invented by man in Water
vile. His house is built of matched
boards and is made in sections which
can be easily slowed away in an ordi-
nary pung for transportation from the
city to the fishing grounds. On arriv2
ing there it is but the work of few
moments to- set the thing up, turn a
few thumb screws and a. house of COM
Portable proportions is made strong
and rigid. Inside are two hunks so
that the fishermen can remain on the
ice over night and be all ready for an
early bite while a small stove for wood
or coal will keep the place as warm as
one could desire. The builder has wired
the house for electricity and an incan-
descent light will give the fishermen a
steady light all night, a storage bat
terry which can be taken under the
sleigh seat furnishing power. He has
contrived a line-set which when sprung
by fish taking the bait causes an
electrical circuit to be closed and a
wire running to the house causes a bel!
to ring SO informing the fishermen
who If the day is cold and the bites in
frequent. may be dosing in their hunks,
that their attention is needed at the
lines. Now for some appliance to land
the fish and bait the hook.
A Boston grocer in a recent interview
thinks he has an idea that the sarCine
packers should adopt. 1t is to put up
good article to retail at 10 cents a
box instead ofhsix; the price at which
the PASSPORT article was then selling
whenever it could find a. buyer. He
would have some firm put up sardines
properly cooked and sailed. With good
OIL, let them be carried In a box Of dif-