Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-15

go hungry TINS winter ana prODa Oily
none who will go up in a cyclone.
Now approaches the winter of our
discomfort, with coal to buy and kind
ling to apply by the dawn's early light.
They are making as much ado at
Bar Harbor over good roads as though
all roads led to that place. That's
right.
The opening night of the Jefferson,
Portland's new theatre, reminds
the Lewiston Journal that while
quite a number will go from that city,
the last two times that Joe jefferson
played in Music hall, and that not so
very many years ago. he drew each
time less than $500, once, we think, $24o
and the other less than 5000 ryu-
A curiosity has been brought to light
in East Friendship, man who has
kept diary since January /, 1872
and never missed day
And now Cherryfield wants a street
sprinkler. Progress down that way
doesn't wait on the coming of the rail-
road
Bath Independent: A young Bath
woman is continually oppressed with a
sense of drowsiness and some one al
ways has to be with her when she is
away from home to keep her awake, as
she is liable to sit down anywhere and
| go to sleep. 1t is a strange case and Il
great puzzle to her physician. Her
parents have been approached by dime
| museum people to secure her for q
| curiosity. We know of several young
men of the city who have an inordinate
capacity for sleep and are regarded on
this point by their families as curiOsi-
ties. Possibly there may be a new
microbe afloat that is preyinG upon
those for whom it has an affinity. We
have long suspected that there was
some powerful reason behind the
apathetic sluggishness of certain men,
bers of our population and perhaps this
theory of microbe of sleep explains it.
Said bright Bath girl at recent
party. "Humph! I'm never going to be
married. I can earn in six months
more money than most men earn in n
year'-and she can, too, say her
friends. SO that's the esteem in which
the dear girl holds man and family :
Probably there are some men who
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| views.
Last week while Rev. M. Andrews
and wife of Monroe were working in
their garden some one entered their
house and ransacked it and found Mr..
Andrews wallet in his trousers pocket
and stole 1t. 1t contained about $50.
The thief wrote on a slate these words:
Stay at home you d fool. and signed
his name John Smith. Mr.. Andrews;
thinks a tramp must have slept in the
barn over night and while they were
out committed the theft. He was an
ungrateful rascal, whoever he was
We have heard of people acting in a
sort of hen-headed manner over poll
tics but never before of a hen that
acted the part of a Popocrat under fire.
There is one in Ellsworth, however.
From the time she was a chicken up t1
two years of age her plumage was
black; when she shed these her next
brilliant array was white as the driven
snow, an emblem of purity; then again
her color changed to black.
Who are the men who are going to
Alaska to dig gold for these syndicates
The carpenter who fell 60 feet from
the roof of the auditorium building in
Bangor and knocked down a picket
fence in his fall is to suffer reduction
in his wages sufficient to pay for the
fence and because he left work without