Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-25
We Can't Help Saying 1t.

We Can't Help Saying 1t.
There certainly appeared a sign
Ihat their designs he'd foil
When Hazefs fifty thousand fine
Landed on standard Oil.
But oh. how soon that laugh is eonet
1t doesn't seem SO nice,
Now that amount is added on
70 common wholesale prieei
TNote.-Our recent paragraph request
ing that Andrew Carnegie, if puzzled as
$50 received for travel allowance and
witness fees. over to us. was condemned
by the Journal Editor-in-chief as un-
seemly leTity and frivolity. Consequence
~, IN the face of such anSterity, We
were naturally somewhat surprised by
Mr. carnegie's prompt and generous re-
Spouse. Why. We We're not even certain
mat he was daily reader of the jour
mar However, We wish to assure him the
check viii be used promptly i'm the pur.
chase of plaid caps for ourself and kits
Tor our assistants
The Duke has changed his mind and
will go To Washington after all The
President will receive him Thursday
az the White House. The news Will
| make MAJOR Butt glad.-Biddeford
| Record.
We Connaught help Butt Reid be-
tween the lines.
On Wednesday, January 10. the
Biddeford Journal said: It's lucky
pine grosbeak that isn't mistaken Tor
a robin these days. On Saturday
January 20. the Lewiston Journal. IN
its semi-editoriai State Chat said:
It's lucky pine grosbeak that isn't
mistaken for a robin these days OF
course, this is just a coincidence for
the Lewiston Journal is TOO big a pa
per, with too much newspaper talent
at command, to descend to the I'M
professional expedient OF putting the
"fresh-laid" label on cold storage eggs.
-Biddeford Journal.
Sic i'm Tise, lie bit Your father
MINITONAS. Man.-Nuggets of
gold have been discovered in the crops
OF chickens killed ON the Elliot farm.
EAGLE LAKE, Tex-While eating
an oyster, \. b. Hitler found a pearl
which he has just sold To a Houston
lapidary for $500.
ANSONIA, Conn.-Mrs. Andrew
Johnson of Coran av., Shelton, was
about to place a leg of lamb in an
oven pan this noon when she heard
something drop. She picked it up
and it proved 20 be a diamond with
out a blemish.
Perhaps if We examined our butter
more carefully we would uncover a
full jeweled watch, adjusted for tenn
t1cn TXa nd
nism.-Boston Globe.
Worse things than that have been
uncovered in butter
SkoWhcgan, Somerset county, Maine,
reports the birth of a thirteen and a
half pound boy, and promptly sets
| up the claim that this infant was the
| biggest male child ever born in Maine;
whereupon West kennebunkport, York
county, in the same state, comes for
ward with a boy born the same day
and weighing fourteen pounds, and a
| Biddeford physician AYERS that in mis-
city babies weighing fifteen or six
| teen pounds at birth are not uneom-
mon. Far be it from us to disparage
| the infant Industries Of our sister
! state: yet we are bound to remark
that no less than a half dozen Man
chester babies born on the same day
weighed fifty pounds.-Mancheste
| Union.
| And were their silver spoons made
of 1910 nickel? AS juggler of figures
you're a rival of our Lamont.
An Indictment has been found
| against certain Illinois men who have
| been charged with having shipped hui
man skeletons into Chicago as natura
| history specimens, thereby eVadine
| the railroad rates. 1t is hard to UNI
| derstand why there should be such 6
demand in Chicago for skeletons. Mos
of The first families already have one
or more in their closets Boston Ad.
| Vertiser
True! But most of those close
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