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

Stray Thoughts.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, June IA Susquehan-
ma teamster was on Tuesday a wit
ness to n singular encounter between
a buzzard and a raJtlesnake. While
driving his team to a rocky point
near Starucca he heard a peculiar
Shrek given by an eagle engaged in
contest with one of its kind. Alight-
ing from his wagon, the teamster dis
covered, nearby, an eagle battling
with a rattlesnake fully five feet in
length. The carcass of a dead lamb
lay on the ground, and the eagle had
evidently been feeding on 1t when it
discovered the snake, which, no doubt,
had been basking in the sun on
rock. The eagle, with its large, blood
red eyes almost dlating from its
sockets, and wings half extended,
would walt for the snake to coil and
strike, and then eludng its stroke
with wonderful dexterity, would dart
at it's antagonist, and batter 1t with
wings and talons before 1t could re-
coil again, and would then retract
and wait for another opportunity to
attack. The fight was waged in this
manner until the snake, torn and lac
Grated, stretched out lifeless, but the
eagle seized 1t with its claws, and
with n shrek of victory, flew away
with it's prize.
WHERE THE MONEY WENT.
When the accounts of a Susquehan-
ma county township treasurer were
found short, there was the usual ex-
ctement and the usual number of
theories were advanced as to how he
had used the money.
Gentlemen" said the supervisor, II
know where the money went to, and
I have no pity in my heart for such
a rascal"
did he gambler"
"Oh, no."
Speculate in wheat?"
"No."
"Go into mining stocks?"
"Never owned a share in his life"
Must have gone into horse rae
ing"
II think not. No, gentlemen, he was
too deep a rascal for that. The de-
signing villain has invested that
money in buying patent rights, and
the most valuable of the dozen is I
machine to punch the worm holes out
OF harvest apples"
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
The Mormon elders claimed to have
made quite a number of converts in
Susquehanna county, but none of the
fools have yet departed for Utah.
1t may not be generally known, but
the fact is nevertheless true, that the
man who will beat a carpet in the
back yard is greater than he who
stays down town until midnight talk
ing politics.
And now doth the small boy knock
picket off a fence to use for a bat,
and when he gets a swift ball on the
end of it he lays it down and rubs
his hands against his sides and looks
sadder than the before using" por-
trait of an anti-lean advertisement.
\ Susquehanna man, going home
late the other night, saw bayonet
in the moon, and Immediately pre-
dlcted another war. His prediction
was suddenly verified. for as soon as
he reached home his wife remarked,
Drunk again, eh?" and the war COM
hiNii'Su' IL was SilOili oidlp anu ue-
cisive.
IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
1t is claimed that at least two Sus-
quchanna county editors would be
glad to go to the legislature.
Montrose expects to be filled with
summer boarders from the city. 1t
has many attractions for city people.
Hallstead expects quite boom from
the coming chair factory She can
stand it,
What became of the proposed pro-
iect to build short railroad from
Burnwood to Fiddle Lake?
The project to build a railroad from
Lanesboro to Tunkhannock and
was too good to live.
An agent passed through the west
ern portion Of the county, a few weeks
since, selling a hair wash of some
sort. As a result quite a number of
aged persons have luxuriant green
hair.
A STRING O. THINGS.
The private car of the late Colonel
James Fisk is used as a tool car on
the Erie.
The sweet young girl who graduates
in four languages and sixteen founces
will soon be heard from.
Paris green does not always kill po-
tato bugs, but it so seriously impairs
their intellectual facilities that they
c'tcr eat Canada thistles.
The Binghamton compositor who
made it read, I'm the midst of life we
are in debt" was not far out of the
way.
person has been ARE sted in Texas
fer the murder of a man named Smith.
Any attempt to decrease the Smith
family will be resented in Texas as
elsewhere.
The census man is doing a mission
airy work, He causes many family
Bibles to be unearthed and busted
off.
An Elmira girl swallowed a pin six
years ago, and last week surgeons ex-
tracted 1t from her foot. Utica Globe.
Last fall a Susquehanna woman broke
off a cambric needle in her hand. On
Sunday a surgeon extracted the piece
from the side of her twin sister.
Whitney.