The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-06
SPICE OF LIFE IN MAINE,
Variety of Queer Sayings and Odd
Do. DOinEs Recently Noted in the sun
rise State.
From the New york Sun

DolhEb Necentiy NoteO IN the sun
rise State.
From the New York Sun
Bangor, Sept. lone day last week the
entire summer colony of the island of Mon
hogan turned out and helped the fisher
men dress and salt fifty barrels of mack
erel. 1t has been a hard year for the
fishermen, for, on account of lack of bait
and food-fshes the cod fishery has been
a complete failure, and the unexpected
taking of the fifty barrels of mackereI
created great excitement along shore The
fish were small and the weather warm, so
that they had to be dressed and packed at
once or they would spoil
So many men had gone away TO the
mainland looking for employment that
there were not enough left TO care for the
mackerel. The summer boarders volun-
teered their services and men and women
were soon standing about the dories and
spltting-tables, dressed in their Oldest
clothes, and working with might and main
to help the fishermen. Well known men
and women of New York, Boston, Chicago
Philadelphia and Kansas City all piled
the splitting knife and the "gibber," and
at sunset the last maokerel had been salt
ed and $500 saved for the fishermen
An Island Falls correspondent OF an
Aroostook county paper says: "Mr. $.
G. Spratt, who recently purchased and
brought here fine hearse, does not re-
ceive much encouragement one lady here
being heard to remark that she'd die before
she'd ride in it,"
A Mars Hill. Aroostook county, couple
each over 70 years old, drove from their
home to the Tobique river, in New Bruns-
wick, a distance of thirty-four miles. the
other day. gathered two barrels of blue
berries and returned home before dark.
The pastor of the Methodist Church in
PASSPORT announces that on Sunday Eight
ne VIII preach on Conscience, Politics,
Religion, the Old Maid and the Owl" n
is expected that the church will be crowd
ed.
The "donw-easters" are getting to be alb
sentminded. A woman in Marion bunted
the house and yard for her child, and was
startled when informed that she had the
infant in her arms.
The bridge across the Machias river at
Whiineyville four miles above Machias
is up for repairs and the people on the
western side of the river. who are accus-
TONED to do their shopping in Machias
are greatly Inconvenience. One man.
whose family had lived for a week on cod
fish and potatoes. swore that they should
have beefsteak one day, and accordingly
he took a train for Machias, where he
bought the steak. Then, while waiting for
the return train he became absorbed in
conversation with some friends and board
cd the train without the steak which he
had placed on a bench. He did not dis
cover his loss until he had left the train
and was walking up the path to his hous
in WhitneyVille. He decided that he
could not go into the house and explain
satisfactorily. and so he softly tiptoed in
10 the barn, hitched up his fastest horse.
drove by a circuitous route to Machias
recovered the steak and returned at night
after two trips at an expense Of 81 20 for
railroad fares and twenty miles exercise
for his horse. not to mention a long list of
remarks not At for publication.
Up in Andover on the Kennebec, the
people have the habit of putting two cents
into the postoffice along with each letter
maiied-that is, some OF them put in the
two cents while the wicked and careless
trust to luck or the confusion that comes
in the shuttle to carry their letters along.
This mas aroused the postmaster to poetic
protest, as follows, posted where all may
read:
II you degire the letters you put in here
TO go.
II would be a nice idea to put on a stamp.
You know.
For when find ten letters, with only cash
enough for six
II places roe in sort of a peculiar fix.
In such cases | cannot tell which letters
10 send,
So please to the anixing of a stamp at
tend