The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-10-26

| privilege OF celebrating theNhundredth
anniversary.
A recent embarrassed bride caused
flutter of amusement in the congre-
cation when she replied to the clergi-
mans "Wilt thou?' etc, with an em-
phatic eyes, thank you, very much. "
England Is buying American mules
| for use in the prospective war in South
Africa. She is doubtless doing this
in the expectation that they will match
the Beers in their stubborn qualities.
Many who do not believe in compul-
sorry "higher education" for either
sex, will sympathize with the New
York girl who ran away from the
home of her millionaire adopted faith
er rather than be sent to Vassar Col
lege.
The emancipation of women may
have its drawbacks, after all. A wife
in Cleveland, Ohio, who is being sued
for divorce, has been ordered by
the Court to pay 81 week alimony to
her husband pending the decision of
the case and $40 attorneys fees.
1t is said to be the right thing now
to use buckles instead of collar but
tons. AS most persons have no desire
to know how it would be to have u
harrow sliding down ones back, it is
likely they will continue to fasten their
collars in the same old way.
The many friends of Rev. Harry X.
Ash, of New Bloomfield; will regret to
learn that he has been in i'll health
for several months. Mr.. Ash was To-
Gated at Burnt Cabins, and served the
appointments on that charge very ac-
ceptably three years, leaving there
two years ago.
An oil derrick nine stories high,
made out of thirty pieces of hewed tim
Der, has been constructed on the Glib
honey lands, at Duncansville, Blair
county. The outfit includes a cable
line 1000 feet long. The operators will
begin to bore for oil this week, 1t is
an open secret that the precious fluid
exists there, but whether the same can
be procured in paying quantities forms
a question which only the present OPP
erations can determine.
The other night burglars stole 5000
in cash, a gold watch, and some checks
from Mrs. John l.. Replogle, of near
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valuables in her bed and did not dis
cover her loss until Monday of this
week, when she went to the bed to get
some money. The robbery may have
occurred last week. There is no clue
to the robbers.
1t is as difficult to understand why
dog runs on three feet, instead of four,
as it is to comprehend why woman
will wear a skirt cut so long behind
that she must hold it up all the time,
when she might avoid all the annoy
ance by making it little shorter. But
If the dog prefers to trot on three feet,
holding up the other, and women pre-
fer to go about grasping their skirts
with grim determination, it is proba-
bly, their own business, and poor frail
man, who chews tobacco and spits the
juice on the sidewalks ought not to
complain.
Twocarloads of Wilson College girls
from Chambersburg had narrow es-
cape from death in Carlisle Tuesday of
last week. They had been visiting the
Indian School, and their cars had been
put on the Cumberland Valley railroad
freight track When the cars were be-
ing pushed up by the engine to connect
with the regular train, they collided
with a stock car which had gotten on
the main track. Conductor Watts, on
the rear platform, saved himself by
jumping. None of the young ladies
were seriously injured, but few were
bruised considerably.
John Swope, of Alexandria, Hunt
ingdon county, has killed lO3 wildcats,
four of this number having been killed
since July. On Monday morning of
last week Mr.. Swope brought in three
gray foxes, six minks, three skunks,
five opossums and one coon. In 1896
the county paid this old trapper 81 300
for scalps of trapped animals. In ad-
dition to this he realized handsome
sum for the hides, which he tans him
self.
A boy in one of the country schools
was asked to write an essay. For his
subject he took '"rhe Newspaper, and
here is what he wrote: 81 don't know
how the newspaper came into theworld.
l don't think God does, for he hasn't
got nothing to say about them, and
editor is not in the Bible. think
the editor is one of the missing links
you hear about, and stayed in the
brush until after the food and then
came out and wrote the thing up and
has been ever since. | don't think he
ever dies. / never saw dead 'un and
never heard Of one getting licked. Our
paper is a mighty poor 'un; the editor
goes around without underclothes all
winter, don't wear no socks, and pa