The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-26
BRIDEGROOM
and SHAWL
A FUNNY INCIDENT AT A sUs-
ouEHANNA HOTEL.
Career of Binghamton Colored So
ciety Man-The Man Who Went to
See the Editor-A Natural Curios-
ity--Paragraphs of Interest to the
shopmen-Random Observations.


Shopmen-Random Observations.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susauehanna. Jan. ga funny oc-
currence took place few days since
at Susquehanna hotel, In which
bride and groom were prominent ac-
tors. On the morning following TIER
arrival, at breakfast the dainty bride
complained of being cold. and the at
tentive husband volunteered to go to
their apartments for a wrap. He was
told to bring red cashmere shawl,
which hung over the back OF chair,
and in a few minutes he re-appeared
with the garment I'm his hands and at
once proceeded to tenderly place the
same on his wife's pretty shoulders.
Suddenly the bride turned scarlet.
shrieked aloud and nearly fell from
her chair. Every one of the fifty or
so people in the dining room turned
to see what was the matter, and be-
held a corpulent and near sighted gem
teman standing behind a lady's chair.
holding extended at arms length red
embroidered petticoat. The men
laus ID, the women giggled, the wait
crs looked on in amazement and the
bride and groom slid out without fin
ishng their breakfast.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
The Erie pays out in wages over ST.
100000 annually in Susquehanna.
Unless all signs fail there will be
a great shaking up of dry bones at
the next Republican convention of Sus-
quchanna county Discretion would
naturally prompt some people to pre-"
pare at once to take to the woods.
The Erie paymaster will arrive TO-
day and pay the shopmen for services
in the month of December.
The Susquehanna County Teachers
association is in session in this place
today. A musicale was held in Christ
Episcopal church last evening.
SEVERAL SERIO-COMICS.
A Binghamton railroad man has been
to twenty-five dances since October
and sixty-nine stitches have been taken
i'm him. He maintains that a dollar
razor Is as trenchant as a four dollar
one.
A man in Forest City, the other day.
who complained of being overheated
in an engine room. effected perman-
ent cure by drinking six glasses of ice
water without the aid of a physician.
He was cold when the coroner came.
The gentleman who recently proceed
ed to clean out" the editor of the -
Times had consented to postpone op-
erations until the doctors have fixed
half a dozen broken bones for him
and extracted three or four bullets.
A Great Bend lady tied her husband s
hands and feet the other day just for
fun and then went through his pockets
for a certain letter--and found 1t. His
physicians tells him that his face won't
be badly Scared though he may re-
main permanently bald.
A NATURAL CURIOSITY.
DR. II. A. Tingley, of this place, who
Is probably the oldest practicng ply
sician in Susquehanna county, has n
natural curiosity in the form of n
growth of beechwood hearing the per-
feet form of human head and face.
1t was found some years ago under a
beech tree about five miles north of
Susquehanna. II is pronounced one OF
the greatest natural curiosities yet dis
covered, In regard to its origin moth
ing is known, but the most plausible
supposition is that "A human skeleton
at some time laid in the woods and
that beech nut found its way into
the skull This sprouted, the upper
portion. which would have formed the
trunk and branches OF the tree, was
forced to remain and grow in the skull,
and was thus moulded, forming the
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the brain, etc. The radiclo or root
passed down along the space in the
spinal column. forming the single lay
root, which serves as the neck ana
handle, The specimen of What Is
lt"' is twenty-sevcn inches long,
THE SHORT or 1T.
The Erie has extra watchmen guard
ing it's property here.
The Erie boiler shop strike situa-
tion remains unchanged.
The Erie officials and number of
business men of the place on Thurs
day evening had consultation con-
cerning the Erie boiler makers strike
Kcran Moran, of Jackson street, a
popular Erie shop foreman, will on
Saturday undergo an operation for APP
DSnulclllS.
Erie officials profess to believe that
the boiler makers strike will be ami
cahly settled within few days.
SOME RANDOM OBSERVATIONS
A susquehanna girl says there are
two reasons why she Eioesn't trust q
man. One Is because she doesn',
know him; and the other Is because
she does.
Keep your eyes open as you &c
through life" may be good motto
but there is, nevertheless, wisdom IL
being blind occasionally. Some people
are made miserable by seeing too
much.
1t is the fathers who are too poo,
to hire nurse girls who do the carry,
ing trade in the United States.
Little acts of kindness, which W.
may scatter along our path withou
effort, are seeds that will spring VI