Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-01
FOUR RACES
Pulled off, Thursday, at East
ern Maine State Fair.
2.35 Money Divided--J Johnnie Wilkes,
Rhoda and Joe Calm Win.
The Usual Good Crowd and the Usual List
Of Attractions.


stand TO the throng of people that ell
bowed through the great room. AT
seconds notice you can reckon from
time 10 to l. times a without the least
possible chance for Il mistake"
That is an accurate reckoner?"
ventured a man to ask
Sure thing. Never known to make
a mistake was the prompt response.
Then tell US how many people
there are at the fair. this afternoon.
If you can do it | Will buy one of them
things
This pleased the fakir whose only re
Spouse was: Talk sense" No Won
der the poor fellow was at a loss 10
| know what to say for the newspaper
boys had been puzzling their heads
over the attendance 1t was about the
same size of a crowd as on the prevl-
Gus day, though some said it was not
50 large. These latter people, now
ever who judged wholly by the grand
stand. There were not quite so many
people III the large stand as on
Wednesday. but over the grounds in
teams ana on foot there We're thou
sands of people.
If the place to which sinners are to
be condemned is any hotter than the
grounds We're, during the afternoon,
the said sinners are to be piticd more
than the people who We're here. 1t
waited around so that The 20 cent com
pleXions on the Midway attra
who in abbreviated skirts showed their
dislike for conventionalities run down
their faces and painted their barred
shoulders Il ruddy hue. 1t made the
horses on the track think they had
been sweat out" in grand style and it
wiItcd the collars of the men in n way
that had never been thought of before.
And then there was the dust Of the
Midway and the side paths. The
track was all right. for it was sprin
killed.. Heat and dust made the day
anything but comfortable.
Thinking there was not heat enough
in the warm weather and the warm
| fair, nature sent along a little blaze
| over which n few men had chance
| to perspire. The fire was in an i'm
mense waste pile over near the cat
| tie sheds. Spontaneous combustion set
| it afire. Wednesday night. or possibly
| it might have been a spark from one
| of the pieces of fireworks. The men
put out the blaze or they believed they
had. but it blazed up again, the lat
| ter part Of the forenoon. ana it was
| quite an effort to put it out There
was talk of calling out the Bangor fire
department. but the chief arrived and
| looked after the work Of cXtinguish-
| ing it.
Those who were Interested in the
| cattle had sport galore in the forenoon
| out among the pulling oxen. Then
! there was an exhibition of trained
streets that to everyone was pleasing.
The young cattle were driven about
minding every command as though
they We're human leings. They We're
shifted and the cart was placed be
fore them in the same manner as we
have all heard of putting the cart be-
fore the morse or the OK as in this lat
ter case.
BY the way, it seems to the city in
| diVidual that the oxen ought to have
protectors to defend their eyes from
| the goad stick. If you have ever no.
ticed it every time the farmer swings
his goad the oxen will close an eye or
two, and thus they are kept continual
| ~ squirting. 1t will result in time in
| the degeneration of the cattle's eye.
| Perhaps it will be called the OK
! Suuint Eye" but it is d sure to follow
as the bicycle face will grow upon the
bicycle fiend.
The judging in most all the classes
was completed with the exception Of
| the materials in Exhibition hall. Here
| the flower committee worked all day
under the most trying circumstances.
! There We're several disagreements be-
tween them and the exhibitors about
| the meaning of the different classes as
| defined under the rule Of entry, and
| this Kept them back greatly. Other
! wise nearly everything was completed.
today.
one discovery was made by the
Journal man and that was one that is
likely to be 2 great aid to science. 1t
was in the shape Of man who is the
nearest approach in appearance to an
animal that has been seen in Maine
since the days before the Pilgrims es-
tablishcd q station on Monhegan Is
land If one would see this new dis
coverv. which is thought to be the long
looked for and many times found miss
ing link. ne must visit the minstrel
show OF Diamond Lew w alldce. Dla-
mond Lew. who throws out a thou
sand of rays from his mouth every
time he smiles. on account of the dia-
monds set in his teeth. has three shows
here and one is n minstrel show with
90 negroes in it. one of the comedians
is named Munkus. on account Of the
appearance of his face, which the most
resembles q monkey of anything that
has ever been seen on human being.
| Munkus is proud Of the resemblance,
| too.
| Competition is the very life of trade.
so we are all assured. This is what it
is doing with the lemonade dealers
there being several very near together
and all try to Guido each other in the
great struggle for customers. One man
| in shouting his wares, today, very
neatly remarked that he was selling
cheap and he could afford to do so, be-
/ cause he stole the lemons.
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