The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-12-08
OBBs OBSERVATIONS
what He Sees and Hears During His Ira
els About Town.

what lie Sees and Hears During His Trav-
els About Town.
Now that the coming Spring elections are
beginning to arouse lively interest it is timely
to say that the primary elections should be as
sacred and as strongly afe.guardod from
frauds Of every kind as the balloting on
election day. Much has been done in recent
years in permissive way-leaving it op
tional with party committees to avail them
selves Of the law or MOTTO promote the
purity of primary elections; but much re
mains to be done to give that assurance Of
absolute fairness which is universally felt in
regard to our general election system.
A well known citizen asks me why it
would not be good idea to vestibulc the
motorman instead of the motor car, using
flexible armor with headpiece similar in out
line to that worn by divers, and so con.
structed that the breath would not reach the
eyeglasses. This, he aiiirms, would give the
motorman a practically unobscured vision,
freedom Of action, and better protection than
any vostibulc that would be safe to adopt. l
pass the idea along, without favor or preiu-
dice, to whomever it may concern. There
may be something in it for all / know
In a Girardville eating house they are
nothing if not enterprising The proprietor
hung out a sign the other day making the
grand offer that a bowl of soup would be
given free to the man guessing the nearest
number Of bowls of soup sold between the
date of the offer and Christmas. A guess
goes with each bowl of soup.
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The grip is evidently upon us in epidemic
form, and is moreover represented to be
contagious. A correspondent gives the
following precautionary advice: 81 have
found on former occasions that quinine
taken regularly morning and evening in
moderate doses, had the effect Of warding of
the malady, and have since had no reason to
lose faith in it, Two pills, two grains each,
taken morning and evening, is the quantity"
The proverbial perverseness of inauimate
| objects is well illustrated in the following
experience OF a well known citizen.
Probably half the men who read this have
had similar occasions to wonder why it is
! that things without lips seem to have SO
much life seem to have so much of the
stubborn quality that men and animals are
heir to. 81 carry my keys on ring" said
the man in question. "The lock on my front
door is Of the kind that takes one of those
small flat keys, with little notches ON one
side. On that same key ring there was
another key Of the same pattern, which
opened my desk. These were the only two
keys of similar kind on the ring A gambler
will tell you that when there are but two
objects from which to select at random there
is a fifty per cent. chance that one will gel
the right one the first time, and that in the
long run half of the time the object one
wants will come to hand. Now, l am some
thing Of poker player and believe in the
doctrine of chance as put down by Hoyle
but my experience with those two keys, one
of which will and the other will not unlock
my door, has made me just bit skeptical
/ dare say that l have unlocked my from
door five thousand times. out Of tha
number of times not 500 times have l pu
the right key in the lock the first tim,
trying, l tumble at my keys, find one of tn,
notched ones, and it is nine chances TO on,
that it is the wrong one. 1 can't explain tn,
reason, but it's a fact" OBE,