Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-13

| hAOuiio VI couo Ilio companions hAu
| arranged to resemble deer, has
stood treat" until he is tired.
| The story of how a parrot endearej
himself to the crowd in Bangor pool
room the other day is somewhat in
what interesting. if true. The bird was
bought by the hotel proprietor with
the understanding it couldn't talk. He
took it to his room and tried to teach
it but in vain. Then he hung the cage
in the pool room and little attention
was given the bird although some no.
ticed he seemed to take deep inter-
est in the games played. One day the
proprietor was playing hot game
| with outsiders. 1t was close. Twas
still nobody's game when there were
three balls on the table. The hotel
mans turn to shoot! Were he not
somewhat excited he would have seen
the proper shot. But in his perturba-
ton he paid no attention to one of the
variety known as dead easy" and
commenced fiddling his cue along his
thumb preparatory to poking at an
across-the-table shot!i The parrot
could bear his suspense no longer.
"Krawwww," he screamed so des-
perately that the hotel-man paused
and looked up at the bird in wonder.
The parrot had one warty foot poked
out through the bars of the cage and
was wObbling it violently. Then he
summoned all his strength for one
hoarse shout, Fifteen ball for the cor
ner pocket" and he fell back gasping
on the floor of his cage. And while
the hotel man was somewhat dizzily
making the shot thus amazingly point
ed out to him, the parrot was still
shouting Fifteen ball for the corner
pocket" and mixing in some of the
most horrible oaths ever heard in that
pool room.'
Gen. Joseph S. Smith tells how when
he was a boy in Bath he published a
paper. He had no press and this is the
way he got around that difficulty:
When I'd get my paper all set UP
and ready for the press I'd lay the
type on washStand, get it all leveled
down well in the chase, or the frame in
which twas locked up, and then I'd
call in the hired girl She weighed |
about two hundred and ten pounds
when she sat down. That's what /
wanted-sitting down weight. So after |
the hired girl came in l linked the type, |
laid over it the sheet of paper, and on |
top of that the blanket. and then po-
pitely invited the hired girl to sit down |
on the wash stand. Two hundred AMI |
ten pounds, remember. The result was |
just as good an impression as you
could get on any 800 hand press made |
in the United States. My edition in |
those days was about 200 copies and |
the hired girl was good for the job At |
one sitting-no at 200 sittings. And |
she took an interest in it. too and was |
just as ready for business every pub
hcation day as twenty thousand dol |
lar Hoe perfecting press would be. |
Why, do you know that girl, were she |
alive now, would be entitled to an
honorary membership in the Maine
Press Association and if they wouldn't |
let her in I'd know the reason why"
Bangor News: The Maine college
football teams are playing a fast game
this year, and what is even better a
gentlemanly game. The sport is i'm
proving with the advent of better
coaches, and the wedding out of unde-
sirable plays.
1t looks as if some of the Portland
merchants are sick of their bargain
with some sort of a trading stamp
company doing business in that city,
and nearly all the retail grocers have
petftioned the city council for a hear
ing. There was opposition to this on
the ground that the board had no
jurisdiction In the matter. One alder
man said the courts of law We're the
place and added: 1.-The merchants
went into this scheme as 1 understand
it with both eyes open. They thought
it was going to be a good thing for
them. When they found out that they
were obliged to forfeit five per cent of
their profits they wanted to get out of
the contract with the company, but
they can't do it. I don't believe that
this board should NEEDLE with this
matter in any way Finally, however.
the city solicitor was required to give
an opinion whether the board has au-
thority to NEEDLE with the trading
stamp company. W.
Shall. short Holsters pass muster
with their jackets off? That's ques-
ton the lobstermen are interested in.
Fort Fairfield is the popular Gretna
Green Of the province. Every man in