Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
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Pithy Paragraphs of Late News in Con
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new L ork Is LETT In temporary darkness
because the authorities are taking down
the dangerous poles and wires.
The Gar is now performer on the
violin. If this does not clear the Winter
Palace of Nihilists nothing else will.
Farmer Hudson, of Templeton, San
Luis, Obispo county, Cal, pulled beet
the other day that weighed 154 pounds.
1t was seven feet long.
A conference will assemble at Mel
bourne, Australia, in February, TO discuss
the advisability of forming confedera-
ton embracing all the Australian colo
nies.
A new Philadelphia man who went
west and became faro gambler, accumu-
lated fortune of S5OO,OO0, but played
rashly and lost it all. He is now insane
in the county infrmary.
The day after Harrison's extradition
t'eaty was sent to the Senate Michigan
doctor skipped to Canada with $50, 900
OF other peoples money. He was evil
d2ntly II close reader of the newspapers.
Mr.. Carnegic's intimation that he may
b able to accord Mr.. Cleveland his dis
tnguiished support in 1892, in case the
latter is the nominee, can probably be set
down as Il delicate touch of Pittsburg
irony.
At meeting of the School Directors of
Schuylkill county, at Pottsville, a resolu-
ton was passed favoring Hon. Henry
Loucks as the successor of the late DIR. E.
L. Highbee as State Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
Zo'a reports that his attempt TO reduce
his weight, which was very great, by not
drinking, resulted in reduction of ten
pounds in eight days. AT the end of
three months he had lost forty-fve pounds,
and was in much improved health.
The New York weekly Mail and Et-
press has given $4,000 to the Grant Me-
mortal Fund and all subscriptions to the
paper are to be turned over to the associ.
alton. Mrs. Grant says the tomb Of her
husband is finally located at Riverside
Park.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has
served longer in the United States Sena c
than any of his colleagues. On April 5,
1890, he will have been in the Senate
without "A single break "a years. Mr..
Edmunds will he G2 in February. He
looks his age.
The epigram of Mr.. Speaker Reed, to
the effect that "the Senate is where good
statesmen go when they die" sounds
telling, but it is not correct statement
of the facts. The Senate is where big
mllllonaires congregate when they wish
to SHOW how much. strength their barrels
can exert in politics.
Australia is reported to have got a new
explosive which is one-third more ex-
plosive than dynamate. and is expected
to work wholesale destruction In the
field. The inventions of destruction will
soon reach point which will wipe the
defeated army out of existence and break
up the victorious one by its cost.
Among the collection of relics IN the
National Museum is an enormous punch
bowl which once belonged to George
Washington. The more we stu'y the life
of this great and good man the more cvi.
dcnce do we find of kindly and genial
nature which softens the somewhat
grave and austere aspect in which history
presents him, and renders Lin still more
dear 10 the memory of his countrymen.
Goliah,' one of the big trees of Cali
rornia, is "A solid tree measuring twenty
three feet through at the ground, twenty
feet at five feet above the spreading base,
and seventeen feet still higher up. 1t has
been estimated that its weight is about
100000 tons, and that it would make
100000 feet, board measure, of clear
lumber, the branches and top piling up
100 cords of wood
The citizens of East Bradford township,
Chester county, are stirred up by the un-
earthly cries of wild animal that is
roaming the fields and woods of that part
of the county at night. The farmers and
their families are awakened in the middle
of the night by cries that curdle their
blood, and none are so brave as to hunt
the animal. 1t is supposed to he a Wild
cat.
Over 300 old soldiers of Westmoreland
county met Greensburg Thursday TO
discuss questions of Importance to them.
Resolutions were adopted that the per
diem pension bill should become law /;
that the arrearage bill should have its date
so changed as to allow all applicants for
pensions their arrearages, and that all
soldiers and soldiers widows who have
been allowed pensions by SPECIAL acts of
Congress should be allowed aIrearages.
Rev. Mr.. Talmage says If Solomon :
He had at his command gold to the
value Of SO, 400, OO0,O 900, and he had silver
to the value of 50, 145, ,0OO,3 ,317, yet Sole
mon was not happy" Well, when it is
remembered that he had several hundred
wives, 1t doesn't seem surprising that he