The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-09


died in Reading Feb /, aged So years.
lie had in charge the work of erecting
the famous Starruca Viaduct in Lanes
Doro. What a monument he has left
to his memory!
Hallstead is afflicted with measles,
burglars and toll bridge. The lat
ter only is chronic.
A Fist Social" was held in East
Great Bend grange on Friday evening.
Susquehanna had a fist social a few
evenings since. but the county author
tiles came down upon it like a Turk in
the night and knocked all the sociabil-
ity into a cooked hat.
Sundry citizens Of Great Bend are
rushing into print with notices that
they will not accept certain borough
offices, II elected. They seldom do
that in Susquehanna, where they fall
over each other in a mad rush to catch
anything in the shape of an office.
The Hallstead Herald says that "Sus-
quehanna has raised fifteen cents in
money and three barrels of wind to-
wards organizing base ball club"
Susquehanna can usually raise all the
money necessary, but, If she gets short
of wind, she can draw upon the i'm
mense storage reservoir in the Hall
stead Herald office.
SOME SIDE ISSUES.
A little Susquehanna girl heard
visitor telling Of some one having a
severe cold. "Oh, dear!" she exclaim-
ed, Il do hope it won't turn into ap-
pendicitis."
The champion ignorant man lives in
Hallstead. The other day he asked his
employer, who was reading a paper:
Say, boss which does you read, the
black or the white?"
A Susquehanna man recently sent
the manufacturer of a noted patent
medicine this unique testimonial:
Dear Sir-My son had not slept for 10
years. He took one bottle of your med
icine and he has not woke up yet
Yours respectfully, - -"
The boy who is well spanked fully
realizes the deep meaning of stern JUS
tice.
A Montrose lawyer wrote as follows
to widow: 81 cannot tell how panied
/ was to hear that your husband had
gone to heaven. We We're bosom
friends, but now we shall never meet
again."
A Iinghamton firm advertises to
Supply any musical want" A number
of Susquehanna people have sent orders
to be supplied with an ear for music.
They have just discovered a mica bed
in Kentucky. A Susquehanr a woman
for weeks had discovered a Mike abed
when he ought to be out shoveling off
the sidewalk.
The only men who hang to a New
Years diary are the chaps who lend
money to their friends. They must
| have some sort of a book to write down
dates and amounts in.
Now is the season when the sturdy
| wood chopper will be judged by his az
A Susquehanna minister, in a recent
| sermon on Angels" alluded to them
| as IAN extinct race"
WHAT IS 1T?
A. Wilmot, of Bernice, while out
| hunting the other day, saw a queer
| animal short distance ahead of him.
| and he shot it and brought it home.
| The body resembles a dog, with long
| hair on the breast and shoulders. The
back and sides are hairless. The ears
| and nose are like a raccoon's. The
| tail like an opposum's, and the feet
| like a wildcat. All hunters and ma
turalists cannot name it. Which is it ?
| RAILROAD SUNDRIES.
| A special newspaper train of three
| cars, carrying the New York Journal,
| ran from New York to Buffalo in eight
| hours and twelve minutes, beating a
similar train on the New York Central
| road by thirty-three minutes, and
making double the stops of the latter
| train. The actual running time of the
| Erie train was Ga 5-S miles an hour
| +. II. Motifs History of the Erie
Railway" will soon appear He has
| been engaged about three years on the
work.
And now they do say that a certain
| popular operator at jefferson Junction
is soon to commit matrimony. Con-
gratulations in advance!
| The Leslie steam snow eXcaVators
one of which is stationed in Susque-
hanna, cost $4,000. When snow drifts
upon the track are ten or fifteen feet
high, the monster machines are worth
the money.
| In Port Jervis they have organized
a railroad chipples' association" Sus-
quehanna could organize a branch.
Port Jervis will be made the central
distributing point for ice for the Della
ware and New York divisions of the
Erie. The ice house will have a cap
acty for 5000 tons.
There is the usual calm in railroad
matters. This is between hay an6
grass"
Conductor Philippi, of the Jefferson
branch of the Erie, Las a new code
of railroad signals, sale to be original
They resemble the sign language, anG
are made with the fingers. The sig.
nails Will come into general use, for the
reason that they are cheap,
SOME OTHER THINGS.
Eagan and Shew. the confessed mur,
derers Of Farmer Pepper, have separ
ate cells in the county Jail. ,"hey have
the papers, and do not appear to real.
ize their peril. All the same, il will
take good lawyers and mig lty hare
work to keep their necks out of tn,
moose.
Three Montrose young men hav,
started for Klondike. If they dom
find gold they will discover cold.
Within a week or so, Great Benz
and Binghamton men, aged 80 and 8
years, have committed matrimony
IT'S never to late to m-arry'
No need yet of squabbling for the re
ward offered by the county commits
sioners for the apprehension of tn
murderers of Farmer Pepper 1t will
not be paid until after the trial, wh!cl
? will probably occur in August. The
= the amount may be divided amon
three or four persons.
Ten days ago a Kirkwood coupl
were married. The day following tn
ceremony the bridegroom went to tn