Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — The Legislator's Mistake. [ARTICLE]

The Legislator's Mistake.

A story Is told down East of n comical old fellow who wus elect»ml to the Legislature a decade or more ago. He had never before (tone further away from home than Bangor, and so the Capital city was a perfect terra incognita to him. Arriving there he rather excitedly inquired of the station loungers where the State House was, and for a joke was told to “go over Kennebec bridge and turn to the right at the top of the hill,” and he’d know the big building when lie came to it. This of course, brought him after a long walk to the Imposing front entrance of the Insane Hospital. Here he rapped lustily until some one opened the door and asked what was wanted# “I suppose i’m entitled to a seat, in here somewheres,” he said, and It was a full half hour before they got matters straightened out so as to be satisfied* that l*e wasn’t a really, truly crazy man.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.