The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-11

that he never knew where all the
Smiths came from until, riding through
the county one day, he came across a
building about half mile long and
seven stories high, with big letters run
ming the entire length, Smith Manu-
featuring company"
There is no whizzng of the wheels
in the Susquehanna shirt factory. This
extended season of masterful inactiv-
ity Is excrutiatingly depressing to the
operators, to say nothing of the wide
awake projectors and shareholders.
HIGHLY INTELLIGENT ANIMALS.
A rat got caught by the leg in
Susquehanna store and squealed loud
ly for mercy. The proprietor of the
store watched the rat, which continued
to saueal Finally another rat crept
cautiously out and walked up to his
unfortunate companion, and evident
ly took the situation in, for they seemed
to talk with each other, and arrived
at the conclusion that the captured
rats chances were desperate, for the
second one began to gnaw the unfor-
tunate rats leg off allowing 1t to es-
cape, which it did, jumping away on
the trap. 1t almost seemed as If they
had deliberated over the case, and had
reached the only possible means of es-
cape.
When an Oakland grocer entered his
store the other morning he heard
noise behind the counter, and upon in
vestigation found that a clam had
seized a mouse by one leg and the
Ia. to off fnr,t
to escape.
Farmer Winglers COW in Starrucca,
captured a brand new coat of the hired
man. and was caught devouring it.
The hired man gave chase but the COW
kept chewing while she ran, and when
he caught her very little of the gar
ment was left.
1t is reported from Windsor that
catfish meowed so friendly at peacock
sitting on an overhanging limb that
the frightened bird flew to thS stream
and was drowned.
Farmer Nichols, of Herrick, has
game chicken which will walk a clothes
line, turn handsprings, perform peril
Gus feats on the flying trapeze and
personate Nero fiddling during the
burning of ancient Rome.
RAILROAD RACKET.
The advance agent of prosperity has
registered in Susquehanna. Ten hours
is the order in the Erie shops.
The Erie is having an immense freight
traffic. There were 1900 loaded cars in
the Port Jervis yard on Friday last.
The Delaware and Hudson surveyors
have of late been working near Brandt.
A branch road between Carbondale and
Lanesboro is one of the probable things
of the future.
The Eries colleries worked twelve
and a half days last month, which is the
best month the miners have had for
some time.
In the Susquehanna shop several
Glass l" locomotives are being re-
built with wooten boilers.
The Erie is fast improving it's roll
ing stock. All the railroads fear a
car famine" when the grain begins to
move from the west.
NEWS IN SLICES.
The Lackawanna team, of Scranton,
will probably play a game in Susque-
hanna, with the home team, in the near
future.
The condition of Mrs. Rev. w. r.
Cochrane, of the Oakland side, is some
what improved.
Mrs. L. r. W. Searle is seriously i'll
in Newton, Md.
Mrs. c. E. Whitney is slowly recov-
ering from a very serious illness.
a Starrucca man was married and
killed two wildcats, all in one day.
The Enfet and Cox reunion will be
held in Oakland, Aug. &c.
The eX-Cuban Giants will play the
home nine in Susquehanna, Aug. 26.
Great Bend business men gave their
ball club 5000.
The funeral Of Mrs. Omar Olin, Of
Jackson, occurred on Saturday after
noon,
The Stone and Slocum reunion will
be held at the residence of Frank Slo-
cum, in Burnwood, Sept. s.
HERE AND HEREABOUTS.
Down in Great Bend an editor and a
tailor attempted to stop a dog fight,
each grabbing q cur ard pulling in op-
posite directions. The tailor was lac
| Grated by the dog. The editor escaped
| unscathed. Another instance of the
| survival Of the fittest.
For some reason, stock in the Deep
Hollow terra Gotta mine, is not quoted
in the Well street market reports. Wall
street is not up to date.
Susquehanna will send a goodly dele
| cation to the coming National Grand
| Army Republic encampment in Buffalo.
Claude Blessing, of Oakland, has a
collection of fifteen rattlesnakes and
nine blacksnakes, some of them meas
uring seven and eight feet in length.
The great Dimock camp meeting will
| begin on Wednesday, Aug. 25.
Joe Towner, of Hickory Grove, killed
q rattler measuring nearly six feet in
| length. 1t had seventeen rattles and
| a button.
The Susquehanna club will play in
| Great Bend with the home nine, on
Saturday afternoon next.
POSTSCRIPT, AS 'TWERE.
And the trampirg army worm,
where is he?
And even MOntrose is not surfeited
and yearns yearn for more sensations
Every man is religious when he is
scared to death.
A year hence every tramp will be a
Klondike sufferer"
Where ignorance is bliss tits folly ia
| open your husbands letters
A mortgage is not such a bad thing
if you are located at the right end OF
it. Whitney.
WYOMING.