The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

deserted nest and kept the eggs warm
until the chicks were Matched for the
thirteen eggs, and cared for them un-
til they were taken away.
THIS AND THAT.
As you write, o bard inspired,
BY this simple rule be led:
Pen no line which can be posted
On you're tombstone when you're dead.
--Floatlet
IT was a lyric who remarked that
the man who knows how to hold an
umbrella over a woman doesn't gener-
ally have other kinds of sense.
The wife, says an observing en-
change, who can persuade her husband
that a necktie does not become him
can do anything with him.
The man who boasted that he was
regular as the sun" forgot that that
luming rises only twice in the year
at the same time.
Eagles and a few people move in
the highest circles"
A man may hear what is going on
around the corner, but he can't see il.
even with a circular saw.
A sure sign of spring: Wipe your
feet"
OTHER COUNTY NEWS.
Republican candidates for sheriff are
materializing with charming regularity.
Let the good work go on"
County Mercantile Appraiser Ralph
Howard is attending to the duties OF
his office
Religious revival meetings are being
held in Starrucca.
Hallstead Methodists are to have a
lecture course.
Montrose expects her soldier boys
home about March ~. Then there'l
be hot time in the old town.
Montrose is holding "Hobson parties -
The good people over there appear &c
be anxious to offset the inducements
held out by the Mormon elders.
Some of the Spanish war veterans
from Susquehanna county are already
applying for pensions. There is nothing
like taking time by the front hair.
Great Bend people have of late beer
mystitied by strange, moving lights on
mountain overlooking the borough
Probably tramps, with lanterns, looking
for work
The News declares that Forest City
wants 100000 converts. In order to get
them it will be necessary to annex
Vandling, Richmondale, Last Chance
and Saltwater.
A TALE OF A TAIL.
Not long since, Mrs. McPhaT, of
Uniondale, threatened furnishing hel
children for stealing molasses from the
family jug, which they most emphati-
cally denied. She thought best to in
vestigate the matter little. and found
to her astonishment that the family
cat was the thief. She watched the
animal for an hour the next day and
saw it place its tail in the nozzle OF
the jug and lick off the molasses. Then
the cat was killed
Truth is strange" than fiction-be-
cause there is less of it.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
"One hundred years ago." writes the
North Jackson correspondent of the
Susquehanna Ledger" there was not {
public library in the United States; now
there are at least five in Susquehanna
| county" True; and one hundred year,
ago there was not a saloon in Susque.
hanna county. And now there may be
The Forest City News laments be.
cause there is "a defective water pres
! sure on the hill" That is not at al
| alarming, so long as the beer pressure
| on the side hill is intact. Never ge
| frightened, Brer Gilden, when the sup
ply of Forest City reservoirs is abun.
| dant.
Press dispatches inform us that -
four-legged fish" was a few days since
caught out of the Delaware river nea
Cocheeton. Catfish or dogfsh?
1t is stated that Philadelphia capl
talists will, in the early spring, go ovel
the proposed route OF the Tunkhan
mock, Nicholson ad Lanesboro railroad
1t will be a nice trip for the Quakers
but the railroad project aforesaid /.
probably deadern the great grand
mother of Judas Iscariat.
1t is possible that Carbondale vii
soon witness prize fight. From now on
a good many people will feel that lf,
in Carbondale is worth the living.
There is a movement i'm this COUNTY
to repeal the dog law Of '92. A move
ment to limit the production Of howl
ing, swapping. snarling, biting, danger
Gus ours would be immensely popular
Some farmers ought to quit raisin,
dogs and begin raising sheen.
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