Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-22

seaport lOWU SdHlOt ~ uoNh SAA>SN
nowadays without someone asking him
what it would cost to dock raft OF
granite at his wharf. The other day
fellow business man telephoned him
that he was to have a raft of granite
arrive and wanted to know how mucn
the dockage would be. The person adj
dressed actually hustled round to esti-
mate the cost and returned answer
when a hearty laugh at the ether end
of the phone brought him to his senses.
A woman in Hope keeps loaded
rifle standing in one corner Of the room
with which to defend herself against
insolent pack peddlers and tramps. It
will go off some day and scare her
worse than do the tramps.
There was some recompense. so far
as the granite quarrymen were con-
ccrned. in the mild weather of the
early winter. They are able to work
to much better advantage and the
stone comes out in better shape.
Workmen engaged in repairing an
old house in Biddeford found bees
nest with several pailfuls of honey
stored away in it. The accommodations
usually found in the old houses are not
of so sweet variety.
The steamer Penobscot had to ploW
through considerable ice to make her
way out of the river Monday. Water
communication on the Maine rivers
has already tarried wonderfully late.
Bridal parties fatten the passenger
lists of the west bound steamers from
ter? u
One of our exchanges will have to
keep closer watch over IT'S Prospect
correspondent for that individual
seems inclined to give away good Bit
of free advertising. Here is an illus
tration: "Manzoni Lanpher, is done
with his oxen and wants to sell them.
They are fat and good beef Mr.. Ian
pher ought to have wife. as thera
are women enough; but no poor ones
need apply"
Orrington appears to have secured a
popular postmaster. He no sooner re-
ceived his appointment than he bought
a building for a postoffice and asked
his neighbors to help him move it
mile to where he proposes to dispense
stamps and courtesies. They responded
a. ,,.;D OF u-nr
hitched to the structure and they took
that building a mile in an hour and
half. Then all hands just enjoyed a
collation. and a general good time.
There must be lot of fun in officiating
as postmaster in Orrington.
Perhaps it isn't too late to relate an
occasional incident of the woods. the
big game. the guides. the wardens. the
poachers, etc A man has confided j
secret to one of Portland's newspaper
reporters, how when he was in the
woods this fall he sat down on log
to fill and light his pipe. and looking
up, he saw big buck walking right in
his direction. The man says he shook
like an aspen leaf, that he felt as if he
were the hunted anu the uSeI ti'S'
hunter, and after the buck had passed
on into the forest great. overwhelm-
ing sense of relief was his. He
gathered himself together and noticed
that his pipe was on the ground-he
had bitten the stem in two A com
panion story to that comes from
Franklin county where a big deer
waited for the hunter to try one cart
ridge. which missed fire. to throw out
the shell, put in a new one, take care
full aim and kill. Another instance of
an animal committing suicide, prob
ably.
These who went to private must
Gale in Bath on recent evening didn't
get the musicale but they had thor
oughly enjoyable evening. The
musicale got sort of stuck up or stuck
together so it didn't work. The young
lady that was to preside at the piano
was unable to do so having burned
her hand in making the molasses
candy and peanut taffy, the young
lady that was to sing had a cold and
was following the old prescription,
stuffing it. The taffy was broken into
such big hunks that it completely
filled the mouth and those who came to
sing were only able to humble and get
their mouths back into shape for more.