The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-08

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age to squeeze a number twelve hat
on his head now.
A Jackson farmer has an odd way of
protecting his daughters. He rubs their
teeth with an onion.
A man who has travelled says that it
didn't take him long to learn that the
ticket agents in the small stations
owned the railroads, and the clerks the
hotels.
Susquehanna railroad man has a
pet turtle. He fed ii from his hand
few days ago. a sufficient time has
elapsed for the turtle to digest the
thumb, and the turtle is still alive.
The year is fading, and no mistake,
and yet as it fades. there is beauty in
it all that is thoroughly pleasing and
enjoyable. What's better than pumpkin
pies, spare ribs. Bartlett pears and
buckwheat cakes? Let her fade if she
wants to. let her fade
Seasonable "pome" by an unknown
bard:
The oyster down on his bed of ooze
Walked with a start from his summer
snooze,
Opened his shell and said with a yawn,
II fear that our season of safety is gone,
For my pleasant dreams were disturbed
by the jar
That always is caused by the letter r.
And ] krow by the keel of that hideous
That some of us will shortly be in the
soup"
SOME QUEER ANIMALS.
George Fango, of Rush. has a hen
which laid twin eggs a few days ago.
The two eggs were attached to each
other. la Siamese twins.
Hannah Miles, of Hopbottom has a
chicken, four months old, that has no
feathers, except on the wings.
Lemuel Snyder, of Ararat, has a ma
tural curiosity in the shape of pig
which came into the world headless and
hairless, but with a horn sticking out
from the end of it's neck like the tusk of
an infant rhinOcceros. It's feet are like
the hoofs of a horse, and there is a
lump sticking out from it's back, which
is supposed to be the missing head. The
pig has one eye 1t lived for a week
and was apparently hearty, but is now
preserved in alcohol.
NIllANbp.
Monday being Labor Day, the Erie
shops were closed.
The Erie's mines at Forest City are
on full time.
Chauncey w. Gardner, years ago a
popular superintendent of the Susque-
hanna division of the Erie, died on
Wednesday last in Bradford, Pa.
Engineer 4. L. Smith will remove
from Susquehanna to Port Jervis.
The Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western shops in Hallstead have been
placed on eight hours time, the same
as the Susquehanna shops.
The Delaware and Hudson surveyors
are at work near Windsor.
There is no let-up on the Eres big
freight traffic.
The Erie is said to be "spotting" some
of it's passenger conductors. A Susque-
hanna division conductor recently fell
under the AK.
CAUGHT EN- ROUTE.
There is more pleasure in giving
than receiving" This evidently refers
to medicine, kicks and advice.
Binghamton paper states that
Bernard Martin, after eating his sup
per sat down to read the paper and
dropped dead" The paper is believed
TO have been the -.
A Jackson man took home a freshly
painted wagon. Three cows licked the
paint off and died the next day.
A Susquehanna man has a dog twen-
ty-five years old. He was originally a
mound, but he has remained with the
family so long that they call him a
tarrier.
One of our merchants set his UNI
brella against tree while he stepped
into a saloon to ask a question. When
he came out the tree stood there. No
one had taken it.
The day has gone by when you can
chain a grasshopper to an astronomers
telescope and make the star gazers be-
lieve that they have discovered a new
breed of horses in the moon.
POSTSCRIPT, AS 'TwERE.
Evangelists Schiverea is drawing
crowds in Hallstead.
The Montrose fair will be held Octo-
Der 81.
The Suspuehanna County Teachers
association will meet in Hallstead Sept.
IS.
Prohibition meeting, to be address
ed by a Scranton spell-binder, will be
held this evening in the Stevens Point
church.
II. a. Gillis, at one time master me-
chanic of the Delaware division of the
Erie, has been appointed general super
intendcnt of the Richmond Locomotive
works in Richmond, Va.
The full term of the Susquehanna
graded schools commenced on Monday.
Quarrymen near the Cascade on Mon
day unearthed a den of rattlesnakes
and killed seven of the reptiles.
The Great Bend team defeated the
Susquehanna club twice on Monday,
once in Susquehanna and once in Great
Bend. In the championship series the
Susquehanna club is still one game
ahead. Whitney.
Buffalo Live Stock.
East Buffalo, Sept. 7.-Cattle-Steady;
choice to prime steers, $5a5.1O; fair to
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