Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-05

A Maine blacksmith claims to have
made record in the horse shoeing
line. Recently he pulled off the Old
shoes. pared the hoofs and put on new
shoes all around in % minutes. Per
haps the horse would have appreciated
it more if the smith had been less
speedy.
The New York World spells a goo
story by its ignorance of Maine geog-
raphy 1t tells how a fat man with a
red face and double chin came into 4
store. He wore a dsreputable ha.
tilted far back on his head, says the
World, and below 1t stuck out frinsa
of hair which had in it some far-off
suggestion of the frazzled ends of
grass rope. He might have been
New Jersey farmer if he had not been
| too fat He was too fat, however-de
cdedy. Moreover, New Jersey farm
| ers seldom patroniZe the Ann street
| secondhand book store where he was
standing driving a hard bargain with
| the book seller for several old French
| books he had taken down from the
| shelves.
| They are s1.75.' said the bookseller.
| Make it s1.5o," he said.
| We'll. | suppose | will have TO-" re-
piled the bookseller, thinking inwardly,
| perhaps, that no one else had looked at
| those particular books in a year.
| Can you express them?"
| Certainly. What address,"
| Thomas b. Reed, Augusta, Me"
Have you read Mr. Kipling's story
| in the August Scribner?' asked a
| Maine railroad man the other day. Tn
| it, in the course of a history of the
| early experiences of a locomotive, he
makes a yardmaster lean out of WIN
dow and shout to an engineer: All
| right, you've got a clear track; go
| ahead. or something like that. In any
railway organization that l ever heard
of, a yardmaster who would give Il train
order like that wouldn't be tried in a
criminal court-he'd be sent to the
nearest insane asylum for a life term. ;
Baths new night Waterman. Mr.
Thistle. will be bad man TO tackle in
the dark
Speaking of the thick mantle of fog
that has wrapped the Maine coast
most of the ummer.-Southwest Har
Dor tells of a citizen, who was born
there and has always lived there, who
| became hopelessly lost in the fog with
in so feet of his own house.
More and more the sojourners on the
shore are taking to cottage life. There
is a freedom, seclusiveness homelike-
ness about cottage life that cannot be
found in hotels, and besides cottage life
is cheaper. Along the Knox county
coast this is especially true, and at
Pleasant Point, Pleasant Beach, St
George, Crescent Beach, Owls Head.
Lucia Beach, Cooper's Beach, Ballard
Park, Camden and all along the shore
cottages are springing up.
Women are workers and accomplish
much in church and societies. They
are great money raisers. Through their
instrumentality recently in Knax coun-
lty the church at Gushing has been
newly painted, the church at Friend
| ship has been thoroughly repaired, in
Rockport a cook book is finding a
ready sale, in Camden a bazaar is in
course of preparation, a successful
lawn party has just been held in
Thomaston. the church at Wiley's
Corner is soon to be rededicated, and
! he half has not been told.
Troop F, Third U. S. Cavalry is to
march from Portland to Bangor after
the close of the New England fair in
the former city and will be in camp at
Bangor during fair week 1t is prob
| able that they will pass through Au-
; gusta either going or coming and it
would be gratifying to the people here
1bouts to have them stop over in this
!. lefty and possibly it would be crafty
ing to them 10 do So Troop + is ra-
garded as one of the finest troops IN
our cavalry service.
The scientist cannot explain all the
deep mystery of dreams. From Port
land comes weird story that whispers
. Of the supernatural. Mrs. Whitcomb
; wife of the man supposed to be drown.