The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-12
CURRENT TALK
BY whitney
STRANGE STORIES OF ROSTERS
AND FARM DOGS.
A Snake Swallows Blanket-Cor-
ner Stone of Church Is Laid.
What Daniel Webster Said-News
in q Nutshell--Various Nuggets,
Poetical and Otherwise.

Poetical and Otherwise.
Susquehanna. Nov. 9--Political pow
er Is so heetirg in the country that
hope springs eternal IN the human
heart. The victor OF this battle may
be the vanquished of the next, and he
must belong to some utterly out-of-
thc-way side show who doesn't get
chance to jollfy over a political VIC
tory once in Il while Let the winners
jubilate and let the defeated pay their
bets and look pleasant.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Herrick Centre has q rooster that
climbs Il tree by using his spurs. as
telegraph lineman uses his leg spikes
in ascending II pole.
Near Forest City farmer owns
dog which has a queer taste in select
ing his playfellows. About 9 O'Clock
every afternoon last summer he went
to a point some distance from the
house and there met "a small garter
snake. He played with this snake for
half an hour or moro and then re-
turned home. The snake never failed
to meet him.
Mrs. Tremanc, Il Gulf Summit wo-
man, one night recently arose in the
night to shut Il blind. and her husband
bobbed dp and fired six shots at sup
posed burglar
A SNAKE SWALLOWS A BLANKET
Farmer Adam Little, Of Glenwood, is
winterins Il twenty-foot boa constric-
tor and a bear for the proprietor of a
one-horse n1enagerie. On Tuesday
night the snake got away with Il dou-
BILE woolen blanket. The snake had
not tasted food for some time and
Farmer Little left hin, crawling about
on the soft white blanket, and when
he returned the biariker was gone, but
his snakeship figure was not as pretty
as it used to be. He was all bunionS,
knots, and balls. and had evidently
grown much stouter, when the truth
dawned upon the farmer that the rep
tile had swallowed Mrs. Lttle's s.
blanket.
Medical aid was summoned, and the
snake was given Il gallon of cider with
which to wash the blanket down, anf
at last accounts he was as chipper and
frisky as a 2-yenr-old The doctor
claims that it will be just as easy FOR
the snake to digest the blanket as the
live chickens and rabbits. feathers
fur, bones and all, on which he lives
y new blanket was furnished the
snake but this time it was nailed
down to the floor of the cage. The
blanket has been working its way
down the snakes body. and by Satur-
day will get near it's tail. 1t is pro-
posed to consult a surgeon. win q
view of cutting a hole near the snakes
tail and pulling the blanket out rather
I, %, -
digestion.
THE NEWS RECORD.
The corner stone of the First Con-
Eregational church of Oakland was
laid on Thursday afternoon. With the
usual ceremonies. Colonel Charles :.
Pratt, of New Milford, a liberal con-
tributor to the church. laid the stone,
and Rev. Dr. Edward Tyler Rev. Macy
McGee Waters ana T:av. Thomas Clay
ton, all of Binghamton. participated in
the very interesting exercises.
Quite II number Of prospective local
telephone companies seems to have
been nipped in the bud.
Mrs. Ether Gallowing died at her
home in Great Bend township OH We'd
nesday night, aged "a years. The fun
eral will occur from the home on Fri
NdS ilttIHooil. INeN. Joiii NH"eSloI,
of Hallstead, officiating.
The proposed telephone line between
Susquehanna and Sherman appears to
have died a-burninG."
DIR. F.. A. Goodwin. of Susquehanna.
was on Tuesday elected coroner of
Susquehanna county.
WHAT GOD-LIKE DANIEL SAID.
The following is reported 10 have
been part of Il speech delivered by
Daniel Webster at the opening of the
Erie railroad at Dunkirk in May. 1851:
"I have been over the New York and
Erie railroad; was driven by loco
motive from the Hudson to the Della
ware; to the Susquehanna by the en-
gine; to Hornellsvile by the iron horse
and from Hornelsville to the great in
land seas by q 'bullgine.' If this
speech is authentic, and it is said to
be, it is in keeping with the tradition
that the Godlike Daniel was hilariously
full when he passed over the Erie on
the memorable OCCASION
IN A NUTSHELL.
Never try to make yourself great by
making another small.
Farewell TO the campaign orator, and
a long, long farewell to the campaign
liar! The cool, quiet shade of innocu-
Gus desuetude yawns for them, and the
weary public will need Il rest.
The giddy girls We soon shall forget
Campaign Lie and Election Bet.
A girl in Montrose has sued man
FOR breach OF promise of marriage and
has estimated the damages at exactly
Si99. The girl that can figure things
out to close as this ought to set one
dollar more thrown in as present
to make up the even $500,
MADAME, are you woman suf-
fragist?"
No, sir; haven't time to be-"
Haven't time, Well, If you had the
time whom would you support"
1.-The same I've supported for ten
years"
"And who is tl.at?"
my husband"
THIS AND THAT.
In Susquehanna, coal has dropped