The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-18
WhllNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
MR.. WHEELER DISCOUNTS KAN
sAs GRAssHoPPER STORIES.
Seasonable Fish neutrality-suspicious.
ing Islands Again Appear--In
Favor of Brass BANDA Marrow
Escape - Inventions without a
Patent-Personal Paragraphs
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

| Special TO the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, July 17.-Charles T..
Wheeler, of Greene, has just received
from friend in Florida an immense
grasshopper, probably the largest of
all that tribe. The hopper is about ten
inches long and Stands six inches high
in its stocking feet" His voice is
much like that of a venerable bullfroG,
and, with proper culture, he would
make a good basso profunda in a
| country church choir. 1t is estimated
that dozen of this species of hop
pers will eat an acre of corn stalks in
twenty-six hours. Mr.. Wheeler has
built large wire cage for the hop
per, and, if he can secure sufficient
forage he intends to keep him and
place him on exhibition at the differ
ent county fairs next fall. 1t is the
boss hopper from Hoppersville.
LATE LOCAL ETCHINGS.
The Susquehanna ball club will play
in Windsor, N. Y, on Thursday or
Friday, with the local aggregation.
The Crescents of Csrbondale will
play ball in Beebe park on Saturday
afternoon with the Susquehanna club.
1t is expected that the new chair
| ldClOly dl I1dllSltdu Will DtSll OptL@
ations this week.
The Erie conductors will picnic In
Sholola Glen, August s.
An excursion from Forest City will
run to Riverside park, Lanesboro. on
Saturday next.
At Barton, N. Y, on Monday, Nor
man McCollum, of Susquehanna,
caught pike weighing seven and one
| ha1 dc IL hull
head for bait. editor Taylor and
take noticeD
FLOATING ISLANDS.
The famous floating islands in n
pond near Honesdale have come to
the surface again, after a disappear
ance of several years. They are
masses of decaying vegetation, form
ing layer of peat on top of which
is a thin covering of clay, bound to-
gether by the roots of vegetation. 1t
rests in the clay bottom of the pond,
but sometimes some force, supposed
to be in the gases generated by the
decaying matter, causes 1t to rise TO
the surface. Its extent sometimes
reaches a quarter of an acre, and it
rises and falls with the water, until
finally it sinks out of sight again, to
be gone probably for several years.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
There is one thing to be said In
favor of brass band. 1t never
hangs back and bushes, and protests
incompetency, when asked to play.
In a town of 300 inhabitants, says a
close observer, 299 stick their heads
out of the windows to see a stranger
go by.
Home is said to be the place where
we wear our old clothes and are not
allowed to tell our old stories.
Charity may cover a multitude OF
sins, but it is not its regular business
1t seems paradoxical that while q
woman's full dress costume costs more
than a mans, yet it doesn't come sc
high.
NO PATCH ON THIS.
, A Susquehanna woman, who takes
pleasure in her poultry, has adopted
a simple but excellent method for keep
: ing her chicks at home. She ties {
small corncob to one leg, allowing it t.
, | dangle at a distance of about si2
, inches. The fowl can scratch and ge
about with ease, but, it is said, will
, not attempt to fly over polings Of
| squeeze through crack.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
I'm 1874, when I was pulling Eri
passenger train No. 1, on the Delawar,
. division" said William ]. Hail. the vet
eran Susquehanna engineer, lone brigh
, afternoon in April, espied, near Lord
= vile, N. Y. what l took to be a dol
, away ahead on the track. AS we ap
preached it the object straighteneC
up, and facing the engine, revealed
bright, two-year- child, who having
wandered away from her home, foun,
amusement in playing with the peb
bles on the track. She did not move
and smilingly watched the powerful
engine bear down upon her. We di
not have air brakes in those days, an
1 whistled down brakes" reverse
the engine, and did what I could t
stop, though, and the train struck tn
little one at a speed of about twent
. miles an hour. The "Gowcatcher." o
v pilot, was built low, fortunately, an
I the child was thrown INTO some tai
! grass by the roadside. The train wa
stopped and the child picked up-no
dead. but crying and kicking at grea
. | Idlt. "A SllSHI DlulSe was all Sne buS
= tained, and on our return trip fror
Port Jervis the next day she was play
c ing in her yard. Altogether, 1t was on
of the most remarkable escapes fror
. death ever witnessed"
3 NEWSLETS.
g The eighteenth reunion of Corps /
141st Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers
p will be held at the Jay House, in NeV
d Milford, August %.
@ Lieutenant Rogers Post, c.. A. r., G
q Brooklyn, will celebrate its twenty-firs
Q anniversary today.
The Five States Milk Producers AS
: sociation hold occasional meetings. !
this county, but the result of thei
doings is not given to the public.
Principal Charles l. Thorpe, of tn
Forest City schools, who was recent
seriously injured while alighting fror
the cars at Green Ridge, Scranton. ha
nearly recovered.
Principal Pease, of the Hallstea
schools. was in Susquehanna on Mon
day.
There are quite a large number {
summer boarders from the cities in thI
immediate vicinity They are a
charmed with Susquehanna's pictuI
esqueness.
A number OF fresh-air children froI
New York, are in the towns along III
Jefferson branch.
HARTFORD.