Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-02


after some minutes we stopped.
lis this Bordighera? | said to the
guard.
"'NO. It's a cow he answered.
There's a COW on the track
well, after a while the COW was
driven off and we got under way again.
Some few miles We're traversed in a
leisurely way, and then--we stopped
again.
".Another cow / said to the guard,
bitterly.
Ono he replied. THE same one "
arlington Post.
Eyes" said one Of the travelling men
who We're telling stories in front Of the
hotel, II was once out of sight of land
on the Atlantic ocean twenty-o one
days"
"On the Pacific one time I didn't see
land for twenty-nine days" said anoth-
er. A little bald-headed man tilted
his chair against a post and knocked
the ashes from his cigar.
II started across the Kaw river near
Lawrence in a skiff once when [ was
q KID" he said land was out Of sight
of land before l reached the other side.
CAV, come Off" came from one of
the crowd "The Kaw isn't more than
800 yards wide anywhere along near
Lawrence"
81 didn't say it was" said the little
man quietly. 1.-The skiff turned over,
and sank twice.''-kansas City Times.
There is something awesome to me
about this thing Of wireless teleg-
raphy," says a woman who has just re-
turned from a fortnight in Boston. 1t
il uncanny to have messages come to
one out of the empty air. When went
aboard a Fall River boat, going up to
Boston, l felt less uneasy than I've ever
felt before If anything serious hap
pened at home I'd know it before /
landed. If the boat sank people on
shore would know it the minute it hap
pened. About l o'clock there was
knock at my stateroOm door. I flew
out of my berth and opened my Win
dow. A hand came out Of the darkness
and gave me an envelope.
Wireless message. said voice.
Il knew instantly that my youngest
child had found the matches 1 had
carelessly left on my dressing-table,
the message open with trembling fin
gers. 1t was from my husband.
".All well. Don't worry he said.
Think of man that would get you
out of bed in the middle of the night
with a wireless message not to worry!
1t cost me my nights sleep and an at
tack of heart failure, but it's wonder
full thing that one can have comforting
words like that hurled at one, miles
from land.-EXchange
Stanislaus V. Henkels, Philadelphia
authority on books and autographs,
was describing the Governor Penny
packer library.
Suddenly he paused and laughed.
That was an error he said. IF
such an error as that got into print,
would feel rs uncomfortable as the
lawyers wife.
This lawyers wife lived uptown. and
ore evening her husband brought a
friend home with him to dinner
There's only one bottle of wine.
the lawyers wife whispered to him in
the hall. That's a glass around. Don't
ask Brown to have more. He might
accept, and then where would we be?'
Very well, dear said the lawyer.
But at dinner he asked Brown again |
and again to have more wine. Brown, |
though, refused steadily and firmly. A |
dozen times he was urged to drink. A |
dozen times he declined with great de-
termination.
flames, what allied you at dinner?'
cried the wife, as soon as Brown was
gore. Didn't 1 tell you there was only
one bottle of wine? Why did you insist
so on Mr.. Browns having more wine.
more wine, more wine?'
My dear said the lawyer, I forgot
entirely
His wife frowned impatiently.
"'But what did you suppose l was
kicking you under the table for?' she
asked.
The lawyer. puzzled. answered: My
dear YOU didn't kick me-