Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

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The birds sing out with a will.
And the herb-lorn lea is swift bedight
| With coWSlip ana daffodil.
| While the ram for an hour two every
Pattcrs and patters and patters away.
! | sing of love, and my strains console
| The wish of the wax ming mind,
! And their echoes roll from soul to soul
/ And grow on my murmurouS wind;
| And hearts with a true love every day
! p.lttcr and patter and patter away.
Pail Mall Magazine.
This is the gala day of the jokers.
Now don't make a fool of yourself in
trying to fool others.
1t is almost too much to expect that
April will he as good to US as March
has been.
fourth of this year has gone and
many of us still occasionally write It
1885,.
The assessors take their books and
START on the Warpath now Of course
everybody is glad to see them.
Tn" first 9S coupons are good today
hu, they are not much good to most
Of US
What a cute little blizzard March
save us in departing. after a whole
month without 4 snowflake.
just decade since the famous biz
storm that blocked up the railroads and
highways for severals days
Calais is the only Maine city to ho!d
its March meeting IN April, anu it .
rot planning on any great excitement
next Monday
What is this? Isn't Portland. which
has been SO frantic for more adequate
defenccs. patriotic enough to man the
monitor Montauk. provided by Uncle
sam?
Now that the Penobscot is free from
ice below Bangor the salmon fisher
men are getting ready for business
and soon some good old fashioned fish
stories will be heard.
The term "a dogs life" evidently has
bitter significance in Thomaston I'M
known elsewhere. Canine existence IN
that town viii not be hereafter the
-rand carnival of former times. From
May to November every dog in that
town must be chained up ortits owner
win be fined s..
Bath has organized a permanent
Good Roads Association. Long life and
great success To it, Would that every
city and town had one like it,
Thee Lewiston Board Of Trade has
gave the matter a great boom at a re-
cent meeting. once under way this
movement can march on only to vic
tory.
Deerng comes to the front With a
yarn about a big muskrat " hich fierce
ly attacked a man as he was walking
along the highway. The man escaped
With his life. and the muskrat. which
is no doubt a maneater. is probably
looking for new victims.
In Bath it was not a muskrat but i
common rat. uncommonly large ana
bloodthrsty which attacked a black
smith. according to a truthful local
paper. The rat had several friends
with him. and they rushed at the
startled blacksmith with shrill cries
like a pack Of hungry wolves" BY the
quick and vigorous use of a heavy
sledge the blacksmith succeeded IN
holding the animals at bay until he
escaped from his shop. Truly, the
Maine rat is on the Warpath.
O, yes, they are honest over in Ban |
gor, You cannot lose anything there, |
even if you want to. An Orland lady
Bangor found she had lost $40 After |
looking about town and finding 10 |
trace. she wrote to her friend in Bangor
who was with her when she did her |
shopping. to inquire at the stores |
w mere she palu blliS, ana dt IL ulN SbhtS |
store, the bill was found She had /!
dropped it on the floor and the pro-
prietor had kept it for the owner to
call. not knowing who il could be.
A rather amusing incident occurred |
in an office of a Bangor attorney the |
other day In the employ of this Jaw
yer is typewriter who, strange as It
may SEEM is bashful. Last week the |
esquire had a business caller When |
assigned to "A seat this caller was 50
placed that one eye was visible to the |
lawyers typewriter who at that mo- |
ment was quite busily engaged in her !
Some cough mixtures
smother the cough. But the
next breeze fans it into life
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