The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-22
MINOR FACTS AND FAncIes.
For reasons that are obvious the follow.
ing floating quatrain of dOggerel is espec
tally applicable to Scrantonians:
Sing song Of sixpence
Pocket full Of tin:
Better take it to bank
Footpads SCOOP it in

Pocket full Of tin:
Better take it to bank
Footpads scoop it in.
900
Judge Lynch, OF Luzerne, is quoted iu
the Wilkes Barre Record as telling this
fetching anecdote aJ the expense OF Dis.
trict Attorney Randall, whom many Of
the older lawyers remember. Randall was
grutf,sbut kindly, and made up in vigor-
GUS language what he lacked in oratorical
ability. During the trial of case in which
| Randall was opposed by clever young
| lawyer, the district attorney made some
rather uncompllmentary illusions to his
| colleague. The young attorney got back
at him in pretty good shape when his turn
came to close the defense. During his
speech he referred to Randall as ''O!d
| Necessity Randall jumped to his feet
by what right sir, do you refer to me
as "Old Necessity"
Because" replied the Young lawyer
calmly, necessity knows no law"
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An engaging writer in the Harrisburg
Patriot thinks there Is good deal of truth
and philosophy in The TKIBUNE's recent
remark that SCrantonians can never be
morally sound while the rotten wooden
| block pavement remains as a source Of evil
thinking. Says the Patriot. "a bad
| pavement is worse than bad street, be-
cause where excellence ought to be found
and is not, remark,s excited and where
none Is expected its absence is not disap.
pointing. Scranton's rotten pavements
are annoying to all the people OF that city
who are compelled to use them and this
annoyance is not conducive to morality.
i Lpr ba coil OP NJ ~, ,k
haps we had better say individual virtue
for the sake Of individual virtue, then,
Scranton ought to lay down better pave.
ments. A man who is only an ordinary
man cannot drive over block pave
ment full Of holes and at the same time
| placidly consider the best way Of adyanc-
ing his future welfare"
900
Mayor Hendrick, Of Carbondale, has
blossomed forth as the champion statistl.
clan of the anthracite region. Replying to
a Democratic congressmans remark that
If Pontius Plate had drawn and saved a
salary Of 500, 600 year from the time OF
the crucidxion to the present. it would not
foot up rs much as the profits of the
Carnegie Steel company under three de-
cades of tariff protection, the mayor
writes "lf Pontius Plate had saved one
single cent of his 500, ,00O salary on that
memorable year OF the crucifxion and had
carefully put that little cent out at inter-
est at per cent. per annum, interest pay.
able annually, in advance, and had
safely invested the ACQUIRING inter
est at the same rate from that
day to this, his fortune would
have enabled him to buy cut the
Carnegie company aud have sufficient
money left to pay all our national, state,
county, township, public and private
debts and then buy up the entire United
States and Canada, and all that is in them
then cross the ocean and sail around the
world in every direction where invest
ments are to be found and pay all the ma.
tional state, province, public and private
debts to be found all over this broad
world, and then buy up all the property
of nature whatever under the light Of the
sun and still have SO much money left
that he would not know what to do with
it. In fact he would be compelled TO seel
some other world TO find room in which
to store it,'
Mayor Hendrck estimates that after
Pontius had made all the above in.
vestments the balance on hand would ba
so great that if it were in gold coin ali the
railroad cars in the world aud all the shius
upon the waters or the wotld could not
contain it, In train OF railroad rars
reaching clear around the world there
would be about 8 $50, 900 carl, and each
car would carry $4,000, 900 wotth OF gold
coin which would altogether aggregate
Sls, 75O, O0l 600, 900. But several uch trSins
would be required to carry the sold Tbs
mayor makes the value Of eeHt at 6 rer
cent. compound interest at tho and ~
1884 years to be $jOI, 120 Oh 60AeO6 on7
0i3, los, 292 0S2, ZIG. psi. 032, seq 2al, ,dEl II
ought to DO obvious from these deur.s
that economy is wealth"