The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-20
This impetus to industry
Meets everybody's likes:
The wheels of commerce soon will be
AS busy as the bikes!
washington Star.

MtttS tNtINDOuN - lhcss
The wheels of commerce soon will be
AS busy as the bikes.
Washington Star.
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Controller +. l.. Francois, one Of the
late acquisitions to the board of school
control. has during the few months he
has been representing the Second ward
forged to the front as one of the leading
members of the board. He Is a brainy,
progit ssive business man who has
brought to the discharge of the duties
of school controller the same practical
common sense that has distinguished him
in business life. He does not indulge
much in oratory during the sessions of
the board. but when he does arise he al
ways says something and says it in II
way that commands attention. On the
various questions that come before the
board for consideration he is usually as
near right as man can be expected to be-
Ill.
at does seem to me- said the mclan-
choly man at the theater. that the work.
ings of fate are almost invariably attend
ed with inj"stice.''
whats the matter?'
II have been observing the young man
who insists on going out between acts
Rotribution would require that he bc
III tHt sdl'lt loW WIN IL DlS Hdi.
lIut he isn't. 't."-Washington Star.
ill
one of yesterdays visitors in the city
was Henry $. Fleming assistant secre-
tary of the Anthracite Coal Operators
association, which has offices in the Have
meyer building, in New York. Mr.. F'lem-
ing was for some time assistant editor of
the Manufacturers Record of Baltimore
and later served as mana ging editor of
the Engineering and Mining Journal Of
New York. but he prefers the greater
freedom Of his present position and in
It Is rapidly making his ability felt. He
has charge. among other duties. of the
preparation of the monthly minutes of
the association and his journalistic train
ing IS revealed in the admirable mannar
in which he summarizes for that publ
cation the important nsws and current
literature relating to the trade.
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Stage Manaser-Great snakes! Stop.
Don't move that scene yet.
Supc-It's most time.
Stage Manager Don't touch ii. Juliet
is there dead in the tomb. If YOU move
that canvass it will let in a draft, and
she'll sreGzp.
There is bit of irrevcrent but ludicrous
ioEscrol which all OF us have heard at
various times. the authorship of which
has just been revealed. The verses run:
Little Willie found mirror
And he licked its back all off
Thinking in mis- childish terror
1t would cure his whooping cough.
Willie's mother said nc - morning
Through her tears to Mrs Brown
Twas a chilly DAY for Willie
When the mercury went down"
It Is now claimed that the author of
these lines was the late Eugene Field.
Ill.
E,xAlderman I. l.. Post is among the
most enthusiastic members Of the New
England society of Lackawanna county.
He was one of the charter members and
IS never absent when the annual banGuets
are given by the organization Alderman
Post comes from good old New England
took and is descended from the pioneer
settlers of Northeastern Pennsylvania
which was at one time considered as the
far west by the Inhabitants of the ATTAIN
tic coast states. He is justly proud of his
Pilgrim forefathers.
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Jones-How did Brown happen to get
on the jury? He has no prejudice against
circumstantial evidence.
Smlth-Not the slightest; he doesn't
know what it is.-Puck
ill
The tendency to be fin de steele has
reached the kilt generation If the follow
ing can be considered an indication: A
few evenings agoa South Side hopeful, who
somewhere had overheard al graspel
the application of the phrase You can
search me-" was playing about the lower