Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-19

plainly. but 7 thought / recognized the
outlines ,!Mn {. OF Jim: and kissed him"
That's what would like to know"
What makes YOU doubt it?"
oh"
Jim never had one
end the little widow looked thoughtful.
Spare Moments.
Richard Mansfield was discussing the
subject of vengeance. vengeance as n
rule" he said, "shorld be left to the gods
| can't help sympathizing, though with
the vengeance that a stage villain took
on his manager last year in the West
THE villain was supposed, at the end
OF the fifth act. to plunge knife in his
heart ard to die very hard. rolling and
kicking all over the stage.
when his cue came he did plunge in
the knife. but then. instead of dying, he
lay down on the floor, crossed his legs
and burst into loud long laughter. the
dagger still sticking. mind you, in his
breast.
The audience was amazed and stupe-
he'd at such unreasonable conduct. The
actors on the stage could not go on for
they were amazed and stupefied too The
manager, nearly beside himself. Missed
from the wings in loud whisper
You fool. what are you laughing at?
This is your death scene"
Death scene" said the recumbent vii
lain. Yes. | know it is, and with such a
salary as YOU give me death comes as a
HdpiS itItiSt -.NtW lOIh Tribune.
Please state to the court exactly what
You DID between and ? O'Clock on
"Wednesday morning" said tn" lawyer to
delicate-looking little woman on the
witness stand
Well she said. after a moments re-
fection. 81 washed my two children and
| got them ready for school and sewed
button on JohnnyS coat and mended a
rent in Nellie'S dress Then ] tfdied up
my sittingroom and watered my house
plants and glanced over the morning pa
per. Then / busted the parlor and set
things to rights i'm ii and washed my lamp
chimnCys and cOmbed my baby'S hair and
Sewed button on one of her little shoes.
and then | swept out the front entry and
brushed and put away the children's Sun
day clothes and wrote IL note to Johnnys
teacher. asking her to excuse him for not
being at school on Friday Then fed my
canary bird and gave the groceryman an
order and swept off the back porch. and
then | sat down and rested few minutes
before the clock struck 9. That's all =
Pittsburg Gazette.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson. of Princeton. at a
dinner party was describing the absent
mindedncss of a certain mathematician.
This man." he said. was so absent
minded that once he walked along for a
quarter of mile in the gutter instead OF
on the sidewalk. He would have kept
on in the gutter indefinitely had not the
polished back of a proughan that was
drawn up before a shop brought him 10
la halt.
The mathematician stopped within a
foot of the hroughan. He looked at the
black smooth. lustrous surface before
him, and ii suggested to his mind black.
board. Accordingly he drew piece OF
chalk from his pocket, and he began TO
work out an abstruse problem.
ION and on he worked. covering the car
riage with figures. till finally 1t started
of. Still working, the mathematician fol-
lowed it: he held on to the body with MS
left hand; and not till the pace became TOO
quick for him did he realize that some
thing was wrong. Then he sighed looked
about him in dazed way. pocketed his
chalk and departed homewards.'