Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-12-02
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4 Parody.

A Parody.
Oftentimes like to At beside the fire
ANU dream about my college days o.
While visions of familiar scenes and face:
once more.
How plainly l can see the dear old cam
BY the setting sunlight rendered all
While the zephyrs softly whisper through
the pine trees,
Ana the merry students wander to and
fro.
oh lhe moon is shining brightly on the
From the halls there comes the sound of
~, mfth and glee
Ihrough the dormitories cheerful lights
are cleaning,
In my old college home so dear to me.
In my dreams ! see once more the old
stone chapel.
With its stately towers rising toward
And this brings to mind a thousand cher.
lshed memories
Cf the rushes and the games of days
gone by.
Although the happy college days are
over
r. And far across the ocean may stray.
sui the vision of the campus crowned
VIII remain imprinted on my mind for
aye.
-Bowdoin Orient
Not ton of ice now left in the Ken
nebec houses.
The Central Maine polo rooters are
clearing their throats.
Just a month before the Solons will
throng to the Capitol.
1t is in Augusta, Ga, not Augusta,
Me-, that the mills are closed.
Boards of trade are springing up
along the line of the Washington
County Road.
Poor Captain Blanchard cannot tell
us his side of the story.
There are almost as many theories as
theorists regarding the manner in
which the Portland met her fate.
IeoHSSieS UledLleS more easily, now
that the 'Injun devir' or painter has
been shot at last.
frankie Carpenter. polo, dances, card
parties and church affairs are making
Augustus social whirl so great, this
week, that its devotees are fairly dizzy.
The w. c. T. U. will rejoice that at a
recent Thomaston launching a pot of
beans was smashed on the bow of the
schooner in place of the traditional
champagne.
A little Rockland miss, weary of the
slow moving hours of Sunday, essayed
her dolls.
No" eXpostulated her mother. you
must not play with dolls on Sunday-it
is the Lords day"
The child seemed hardly satisfied.
who owns the other days?" she at
length inquired.
They belong to the people," was the
explanation, but Sunday belongs to
the Lord"
We'll, he picked out the longest
day. concluded the child with a sigh
Brunswick is circulating a monster
petition asking the Maine Central not
to give up the restaurant in the new.
to close a street in order that the road
might have room enough to build as
commodious station as it desired.
A Waldo county man who shipped
two coon kittens from Belfast to
Massachusetts. the other day, re-
marked that he has a cat 13 years old
of whose kittens he has sold more than
$l5 worth. This item must have an ag-
gravating sound to the poor cat whose
progeny are promptly consigned to the
slop pail. if she happens to be indoors
While her owner reads it aloud. q
The Old Orchard pier received its
first feal test from the oceans fury
during the recent storm and withstood
the Shock and strain of the constant
fusillade of waves that rolled steadily
at it from end to end for many hours.
That it stood through this siege is
pretty good evidence that it will stand
through most any other that may fol-
low.
Maine has had no such terrible story
of shipwreck and loss of life to report
as that of the Portland since the
British schooner Royal Tar went down
near Fox Island Thoroughfare with $50
passengers and a large menagerie on
board. This catastrophe occurred on
October IL. 1886. and was by fire. not
by storm. though the wind was blow
ing a gale. AS the story has come
down to us the first and second en-
gineers. mates and a part of the crew,
seized the long boats and made for Isle
au Haut when it was found that the
boiler was red hot, and the captain and