The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-26

neckerchicf. so microscopic and delicate
is the fabric. Considering the costliness
OF the finer kind OF native ncedlCwork, IL
Is hardly probable tnat the soldiers Will
take homo many trunkfuls for exhibition
purposes"
John w. Keely of "Keely motor" fame
who died the other dav was originally u
circus performer and sleight- t-ot-hand man.
His mysterious "motor" which never mot
ed. except on special occasions was re-
built by him 5000 times, and probably
N,WlCW altogether was wasted upon II by
Credulous investors who have their stock
certificates for souvenirs. Like Professor
Coles Electric Eye it was one oi those
things which become suddenly Intangible
just as they are beginning to become SELL
satiorally interesting.
A peculiar instance Of canine affection
Is reported nt Montclair. n j. As An
| tonic Currll1, an italian tcamstcr, was
driving along one of the streets of that
town his horse fell and broke its leg.
Currillo left it lying by the roadside, but
CurrillO's dog remained beside the wound
en- animal. licking it's face and howiinG
so that the attertion Of the police was
| attracted and Currllo was arrested and
| fined Sail due to the dog.
Senators Hanna, Foraker Allison, Bak-
| er, Carter, Allen, Kyle, Elkins, Turpte
and Fairbanks wero all born in Ohio.
Senators Murphy. Plat. Davis, Mason,
Gear, Teller and Clark are nG tivos of New
York. PENNSYLVANIA. too, is the birth
place of numerous United states senators,
| including Senator Burrows, of Michigan
and Senator Shoup Of Idaho, besides her
own two senators.
A lively dairy business ought soon to
develop in Porto Rico. Heretofore all the
| butter in that island has been imported
| from Denmark and Holland and costs 80
cents pound The Susquehanna county
| product ought to sell well in Ponce and
| San Juan at so to 35 cents n pound when
| Americans get things going.
The extraordinary gold production Of
| 1898. as estimated by the director of the
| mint, exceeds every record that has pr =
| ceded 1t in all the past. In 1897 the world
produced s237 600, which was the great
| est IN to that time, but this year the
product will be 1900, 600.
| The Mills hotel for the poor in New
| York, where good rooms and board can
| be had for very small prices, compared
| with the usual rates of New York hotels,
| has I'M its first year paid a 3 per cent diHi-
| dend. This practical charity is described
| as Il complete success,
| The late Harold Frederic became editor
| of the Albany Evening journal at the age
| of 26 The journal editorial char has
| graduated several other noted men, in
| Guiding Charles Emory Smith, Congress
man Southwick and John 4. Sleicher.
The first American newspaper to estab-
'ish II permanent office and delivery ser
| vice in Havana was the Chicago Record.
The Record is surprising everybody these
days by the breadth and liberality of its
management.
| Have you noticed that since Charles A.
Dana's death the New York sun has
gained wonderfully i'm stability and con-
| science? 1t now for the first time carries
| In its uttcrances the assurance of sim
cerity.
Adelbert Dewey. one Of the admirals
| many relatives. delivered a lecture ln
| Brooklyn the other day in the course of
| which he said that the victor of Manila
| was a direct lineal descendant of Alfred
the Great.
1t was a stroke of genius on the part OF
the New York Times to secure Henry
| Norman as its LOr don correspondent in
place of Harold Frederic, deceased. Nor
| mans letters are the n'eaticst in print.
| If report he true, there is need of a few
| DIR. Swallows in Japan. 1t is said that
| one-half the voters of that thrifty island
empire are pun rchasable and make nc
| secret Of thci- civic deEeneracy.