Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

every bear away within four hundred
miles"
The University Of Maine has just re-
ceived an interesting contribution foi
| its museum, Lieut.. ID. Il. Merrill. lZth
| n. S. Infantry, a graduate of the UNI
yersity in the class of 1885, ana former
| ~ of East Auburn. having sent to Prof.
Harvey a water color sketch, supposed
| TO be a representation of the CrucifiX-
| ion taken from a native hut near San
Fernando. Pampanga Province, LuZon.
Underneath the picture and on the
back are some verses in the Tagalo
dialect. The work is about such as
ten earold American boy might DC
with a small box of toy paints. Lieut..
MerrilfS Maine friends are interested
to learn that he took parte in an en-
gagement with the insurgents near
Dolores on August 10th. The ''Ameri-
can" of August 18th says: Lieut..
Merrill and the squad under him did
some execution directly across the river
from Dolores. Blood and cartridges
can be seen at frequent intervals where
the krag-bullets found an inSurgent
The insurgents We're in full flight and
the last shot of the engagement fired
before Col. Bells command was able
to reach our position"
A pretty good joke is told on the
night Waterman who guards the bust
ness section of Dexter He was pass
| ing a hardware store about midnight
not long since. and walking slowly
when a noise struck his ears as being
decidedly peculiar and seemed to come
| from within the store. He listened
| ntently and the noise continued with
| an occasional let up at short intervals
| that showed to his mind conclusively
| that whatever created it was a thing of
| life ana he could not understand what
| that could be in the store at such a
time. He Immediately sought the
! night watch at Abbott's mill, told him
| of what he had heard and the two men
| made their way to the store ana there
| listened. Both heard the noise re-
| peated and both decided that . man
! was on the inside and that he was
| boring the safe. An investigation was
| conducted and instead Of a man, ii was
| a mouse and the animal had got into
| 1 new tangled mousetrap which turned
| upon the inside in response TO the
| weight of the mouse who was running
| for all he was worth and no doubt Won
| dering when he was going to get to the
| end of the thing. The revolving of the
| mechanism produced a noise similar 10
| that produced by bit when used in
| boring wood or iron.
| Another of those jokes that come
| home to rOoSt is reported by the Blaine
| correspondent of an exchange. 1t
| started when a trader of Mars Hill
| gave a customer. a barber, who in
tie Of paint oil and varnish. fixed up so
| as to appear warranted to be the latest
| and best hair dressing on the market.
| The barber took the purchase away,
| apparently we'll satisfied. A few days
| after when the Mars Hill trader called
| on 1.-THE barber for a shave he had for
| gotten all about the transaction. He
was properly shaved and then his lux
| uriant growth of hair was literally
| saturated with the liquid that was
rubbed in with considerable vigor.
| Then the smell of paint oil and varnish
| was recognized. and the recollection of
| that sale of hair oil came up before
| him, hut no comments We're made as
his locks We're nicely combed and
| rubbed down fiat on his scalp, but the
| merchant got home as quickly as pos
| Sible, where with the aid of hot water
| soap, Denzint. ammonia and a curry
| comb he got the most of if off