The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-19

owing TO a rush of business. a num-
Der Of Susquehanna iremen nave peen
promoted to engineers.
A late rumor is to the effect that the
Erie will purchase the gravity road and
Farview for it's excursion business.
Next!
Tell us not in mournful numbers
That the town Is full of gloom,
For the mans crank who slumbers
In these opening days OF boom.
Life is real. life is earnest.
And the grave is not its goal;
Every dollar that thou turnest
Helps to make the old town roll.
LAMENTATIONS OF BENJAMIN.
The defeated candidate has what's
left.
Distance lends no enchantment to the
Office that was not won.
1t is an early fall for the candidates
who are left
In the wall over what did it, the
cry Of the slain will now be the domi-
nate note.
-Honesdale Independent.
FORTY YEARS ON ONE QUILT
w nat no YOU SuIllOSt NY WHY N'N
yesterday" asked a Susquehanna man
of mysteries. Don't know" was the
reply; perhaps got up and built the
fire" mo, sir! But [ will tell You
what she did do. She finished patch
work quilt yesterday that she began
just forty years ago this winter, when
she was a little girl of four years. The
sewing is in contrast, but not more
than could be expected. What Is also
strange. her mother started her MAX
ing it forty years ago and cut out the
squares for her, and her mother helped
her to draw it in yesterday"
MINED MENTION.
A little son of \. Bell, of Fairdale,
recently ate rat poison and narrowly
escaped death. There is a moral in
this paragraph nearly as large as
barn.
According to the Republican, a few
evenings since a very bright flash of
light swishcd through the air in Mont
rose, followed by deep roll of thun-
der. 1t mystihed all who heard and
saw it. Montrose should repent before
it is cVerlastingly too late.
The Honesdale Independent learns
from high authority that the Gravity
road is neither for sale nor rent.
AS a result Of shutting down The
Gravity road and closing the canal, it
is expected that the Delaware and
Hudson will run 1000 cars of coal
daily over the jefferson Branch and
the Albany and Susquehanna road from
the coal fields to Albany.
The Honesdale Citizen advocates a
Greater Honesdale," and Hearns for
more territory. Wouldn't more indus
tries and less territory be preferable?
\ Binghamton fisherman, on route
home from the Delaware river section,
few days since, had among his string
a pike weighing nine pounds.
Alvin Raper, aged 81 years, voted in
Jackson on election day. The aggre-
gate age of five other men who voted
| at the same place is 413 years.
There is a penalty of 800 for any
| person killing more than two deer.
! Susquehanna hunters, who have
| tramped the wilds of Pike county this
| season, consider the law wholly un-
! necessary.
THE SHORT OF IT.
According to eminent authority. a
| goose lives fifty years. Then it be-
| comes Thanksgiving delicacy
1t is a wise old saw that knows who
filed it last.
Gray hairs are honorable, but lots OF
old sinners wear them.
Aim high'-even if you lose your
| hatchet.
The best girls do not always get
| married the soonest.
woman feels where man thinks,
writes Edward Box. That is what
makes man bald.
Adam was for time the only man
And yet he was not happy.
UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS.
Advertising pays. A Susquehannf
man advertised that his wife had lef
his bed and board. She returned hom,
the next day
An Ararat man, in cleaning an ole
organ, found a three foot snake coileC
inside.
n Great Bend housewife, while dress
ing chicken for dinner, found in il,
crop silver dollar dated 1904 TIL,
man who helped eat the fowl said i
and the dollar We're Of the same age.
Binghamton man swallowed |
large dose Of starch, which a suspicion
druggist prepared for him in place o
strychnine he asked for The miser
able man swooned and was sool
stretched upon his bed, cold and stiff
No one but must sympathize with tn
unhappy wretch's despair when h
shortly awoke to find himself still il
Binghamton, and, as the press dis
patch cruelty put it, with his wifi
bending over him." She probably too
the starch out of him.