The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-30

monia, while the other side said that its
principal function and value lies in the
fact that hy the way it hangs can be
determined whether the animal is in
good health or otherwise. If 1t is
curled tight the pig is healthy; If not
the pig is sick and his food should he
changed and the veterinarian called in.
The Judges reserved their decision for
two weeks.
RAILROAD TID-BITS.
The Erie shops We're closed on Thurs
day afternoon and Friday.
+. r.. LoOmis, of Elmra, superintend-
ent of the Tioga division of the Erie,
has been appointed to succeed the late
X. r. Dodson as superintendent of the
Bossburg Coal and Lumber company.
Mr.. Loomis is only 81 years old. and
enjoys the distinction of being the
youngest railroad superintendent in
the country.
Susquehanna Division Engineer Geo
Tracey. who. some months since, was
sent to the Willard asylum, at Oneida.
n. Y. is in q serious condition, ana his
ultimate recovery is improbable.
W. q. MacEdward, of New York,
succeeds S. II. Seeley as Erie passenger
agent of the Susuuehanna division.
SOME NEWSPAPER MEN.
Editor p. A. Barrett, the Elmira Tee-
grams able and alert Scranton rep
resentative, is a born newspaper man.
He knows news when he sees 1t, and
when he writes he says something. In
all of its many editions the Telegram
has no more bright and readable page
than the one written in Scranton.
Hon. Amos J. Cummings is a stand
ard authority on sporting matters. He
is n star writer on pugiliStic subjects.
Editor James II. Dubois, of the In
ventive Age, of Washington, received
an invitation to serve on the inaugural
committee. but private business pre-
vented his acceptance. Mr.. Dubois
has a summer residence and much real
estate in Ilallstead.
\ PASSING GLANCE.
Pastors of small churches are usually
shouters. and the ticket agent N the
small railroad station almost invariably
owns the road. Ever notice it?
The man with a cutter and good
imagination is enjoying the slim sledn'.
Pessimists as we'll as Uptimists had
their stockings hanging handy on
Christmas eve.
Now for ~ resolutions and New Year
bills.
No matter. says a close observer, how
much he loves his wife, man who
spends much of his time in the house
cannot help pityins the hired girl.
one cannot place implicit confidence
in a Sunday school census, taken just
before Christmas.
Great Bend has a widows club. the
purpose of which is to induce the i'm
migration of eligible wdowers to that
borough. The members also keep post
ed in the current gossip.
RATTLESNAKES by THE WHOLE
SALE.
Pete Crandall, of Great Bend town
ship, has captured alive this season
over two hundred rattesnakes, the
largest collection ever brought tOgeth-
er at one time. He has them in an i'm
mense cage. He captured them early
in the spring, when they were leaving
their dens for the season, and when, it
is claimed, they are the most deadly.
owing to the long time their poison has
lain undisturbed in the reservoir at the
base of the fangs Crandall atiirms
that the fangs still remain IN one of
the snakes in the cage, yet he goes in
among them and handles the snakes
with impunity. The din made hy their
rattles when he enters the cage is al
most deafening. Some of the snakes
are of enormous size. Crandall has re-
fused an offer OF $500 for the collec-
ton.
SLICES OF NEWS.
The mercury on Monday dropped to
ten ard fifteen degrees below zero. The