Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-10

Every box has two knobs like those on
| a combination safe, and when they arc
| turned so that the given letters arc
opposite the top notch, they release
small slide on the left side of the door
and 1t readily opens For instance one
customer Is given the letters b and w.
another G and s, and still another K
and d, and until the knobs are turned
| to correspond the boxes don't bulge
| Sometimes lovers take the initials Of
sweethearts and vice versa. or course
| every box holder keeps the initials
wrapped securely within his bosom
| which gives to the atmosphere of the
| town the additional charm Of mysti
cism."
The willing Workers of Swans
Island raised through an entertain
| ment money enough to buy the plank
| for a sidewalk but no willing workers
have been found to lay it.; possibly be-
cause they have been unable to see
how any entertainment can fit the
case.
The mania to kill something is
reported to have been unusually wide
spread and virulent throughout New
England this fail. The places that
have suffered worse from it are those
where an occasional partridge or grey
squirrel constitutes the big game
and small squirrels and song birds
bear the brunt of the banging which
has been kept UP necessarily seven.
days out of the week
Caribou rejoices over the coming of
a sign writer to town. We hope he
can spell and punctuate. There's even
place at 1he top of the ladder foI
such.
Waterville and Bath are agitatine
the subject of merchants days. They
might be agitating something worse.
A Portlander who recently had occa-
sion to read a copy of the Advertiser
Of the date September &C. 1897 stumbled
on this unique marriage notice: In
Stratford. by Rev. Mr.. Shepherd. Capt
David Gorham to Miss Catharine Cur.
tiss-after a long and tedious courtshir
OF twenty years. But at last
A gentle Shepherd fast did lock
These loving lambs. from his dear flock
In HymeH s bands to pass through life
AS flesh and bone, as man and wife.
A pin broke in the power house OF
the Lewiston and Auburn Street Rail-
road and the cars were at s,andstill
Monday. How the cab men did hustle
and harvest the dimes, quarters and
halves.
A case where picking up horseshoes
didn't bring good luck was at Camden
the other night when a man broke into
a blacksmith shop and picked up and
carried away 100 of them. When
found in his possession they brought
him to grief in the lookup.
Possibly the poet who wished for
power to see himself as others saw
him would have regarded our present |
limitations as providental could he |
have been one of the male sex held UP |
to view by the women of the town of |
Lyman few nights since. The wom-
en- held a mock town meeting and the
men who attended were brought to a |
realizing sense of some of their short |
comings as never before.
Geese still frequent Goose Rocks |
Maine. judging from the recent shoot |
ing there of one party by another tina, |
mistook the former for birds The |
alarming ignorance of the individual |
who imagines a deer when he sees g |
man is not to be compared to that of |
the man who mistakes a boatload of |
gunners for a flock of birds.
The reports of the secretary and |
treasurer of the Maine Eye and Ear |
Infrmary for the year ending Nov. !,
1897. show that 1909 patients came to
that institution during the yeal
and all but 80 received treatment |
Add this to the previous records and il |
makes the whole number treated 1889.
The number of eye and ear operations
recorded was Ash, which added to those
previously performed makes the whole
number i40S The whole attendance
was 13.02l which added to the previous
records makes the whole attendance
9S,l76. The average attendance was
43 per day. The total attendance for
the eye and ear was 1928. making an
average of 36 per day. The amount
disbursed for the past year was s14,-