The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-06


first disturbed they were active and
dangerous, but in the scorching heat
of the sun they became comparatively
harmless, and were killed or covered
up in the dump by earth and stone
Every day and every blast since
similar punches of reptiles have been
uncarthed Those that escape the lab
orcr's picks crawl off and die among
the rocks. Hundreds have been killed.
Among them are reptiles six and seven
feet long and as large around as a
mans wrist. Scores of people visit the
quarry daily to see the slaughter of
snakes.
JUST SAID ASIDE.
The Honcsdale Independent man,
who is close observer of things,
states that a woman is more apt to
lose her pocketbook than her pickles
at picnic.
Very few people reach 40, remarks a
writer, without recalling that at some
time or another, in reaching too high
or bending too low, they felt some
thing snap within them, and haven't
felt well since,
Seasons change, but spring lambs
last all the year round.
vertsng the fact that causes trouble.
Tell me not in mourntu numbers
Life is hut empty dream;
Half the men You meet are fuller
Than at first glance it would seem.
SOME FAMILY REUNIONS.
The Benson family reunion will be
held in StarruCCa on Tuesday, August
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The descendants of James j. Dunn.
sr., formerly of Edinburgh, Scotland,
will hold their second annual reunion
August IL, on the lawn at Dunn's
lake at Ararat.
The sixth annual reunion of the des-
cendents of the late Richard Denny,
sr, will be held at the residence of
Jerome Denny, in Ararat, August 16.
The annual reunion of the Easta-
brook family will be held at the home
of William r. Lamb, in Gibson, August
23
The fourth annual reunion of the
Baker family will be held in Finn's
hall at Clifford on Wednesday, August
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HIS SOUL GOES OUT IN VERSE.
When the news of the slaughter of
the Great Bend club in Susquehanna
on Saturday last reached the Bend our
gifted friend Editor Moore, of the
Plaindealer, set down and wrote the
following soul-stirring poem:
Once on a time, not many years gone by.
The Great Bend hall team had reputation
And SusQuehanna bit the dust (no o),
And had the sympathy of this great nation.
But now the scale has turned, we know not why,
And SuSquChanna plays like all creation;
Their chosen fgurCs-thrty-onc to one
Beats Billy Bryan's platform for imitation:
Moral-We might better let well enough alone.
IN A LINE OR TWO.
The quetude in the streets of Hall
stead is so dense that you can hear
it.
They are killing fifty-two inch black
snakes in the borough of Montrose.
The Tucker and Dow annual reunion
will be held at the home of A. U. Tuck
er at Ararat Aug. 0.
1t is expected that be game of ball
to be played in Duke Park on Friday
and Saturday between the Susquehan-
ma and the Archibald teams will be
close and exciting. Both clubs are
playing good ball this season.
Candidates for county offices are be-
ginning to keep the cross roads hot
The Laneshoro man who beats his
wife calls it pound party"
A CLOSE CALL.
Near Gulf summit a few days since,
a little child was playing on the Erie
track, The child did not see the en-
Eine, nor was it seen by the engineer
until he was upon it, He reversed the
lever, stopping the engine, and both
he and the fireman jumped off with
banched faces, both expecting to see
the mangled remains of the little one
lying on the track. But what was their
surprise and JOY when they found the
little one lying just behind the driv-
ers apparently uninjured. 1t was
drawn out at once, when IL was found
that besides a scratch on the face it
had escaped all injury. 1t seems that
when the tender knocked it down it
feH between the rails, and the en-
gineer stopped just in time to save it's
life.
...-.a- ALL SORTS.
4 vicinity newspaper has an article
on THAT Dam Dispute" But it was
about a water privilege.
Stealing second-an eloping vidower.
Soon you'll be wondering what in the
world you did with your summer
wages.
A Susquehanna county woman, less
than forty years old, has had seven
husbands-one at a time, of course.
A Cascade woman, SO years old, fell
out of tree while robbing a birds
nest and broke her back. Nice thing
10 put upon tombstone!
In great many obituaries at this
time of the year this should appear:
Departed by the ice water route"
A vicinity milkman has Just bought
COW with an iron tail--a new $40
pump,
AN ENGINE AS A BOOTJACR.
oWalt Coleman. an Erie railroad
brakeman on a freight train, set out
one bitter night last winter to flag a
passenger train near Great Bend. He
was out about half an hour, and when
he oame back his fingers and ears were
badly frozen After he got some whis-
ky down him and rubbed his hands
and ears in snow, the trainmen tried
10 remove his boots, but his feet were
30 badly frozen that they could not be
pulled off. Coleman was an economi-
cal fellow, and he would not allow the