Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-02-16

represents.
Elias Hartz, the veteran goosebone
weather prognosticator, is in his
glory, having predicted that there
would be heavy fall OF snow about
the middle of February, to be follow
ed by series of billiards..
Rev. r. w. Mottern of Mt. Holly
Springs is visiting his old home here
and enjoyed a hunting trip up White
ID 'er creek, in company with Jud
Diehl, this week.-Watsontown Re-
cord. Richard is q native of Dan
vile.
In spite of the Berlin professors
assertion that the "bite of a pretty
girl" VIII kill quicker than the bite
of rattlesnake, there are lot of us
that will go right on risking it.
81 have noticed" remarked an old
hunter, "that the skin on all the
squirrel is unusally thick this season.
Whenever this occurs it is sign of a
severe winter to come"
Over 10, 900 bills have been intro
duced in Congress already. If all of
them were to become law, a man
would be obliged to sit up night, to
obey them.
John ID. Rockefeller has dumped
another installment of tainted money
on the Chicago University. See mar
ket, rage in day or two for revised
price list on oil
A bulletin issued by the United
States census bureau states that one
hundred in every thousand persons
over thirteen years of age in this
country are unable to read or write.
The income of John d. Rockefeller
for the last year amounted to $40,
600, 600 from the Standard Oil Com
pany; but it is believed that the poor
man is not without some other trihing
revenues.
Chas. Drake, the gentlemanly
Superintendent of Achenbach and
Moores, bowling alleys, is nursing a
bruised index fuger on the right
hand, which was recently caught be-
tween two balls on the return track.
Should Aunt Peggy Sechler sur
vived until Oct. 29th, 1906, she will
be one hundred years old. The old
lady is now residing with her daughter,
Mrs. Simon Kocher, on Bloom street,
in Mahoning township.
The Pennsylvania Game Commits
sion is dickering with some of the
Southern States for large supply of
quail. North Carolina has sent word
that Pennsylvania can have all the
birds it needs for breeding purposes
from that State.
A Chicago woman on whom an lei
Gle fell, was saved by her elaborate
hat. The moral of this is one which
no clever woman should fail to i'm
press upon her husband.
Nobody had any idea how dull
news sometimes becomes in Chicago,
until one of the papers of that city
printed story about man who lost
his voice talking to his wife.
The necktie worn by youth in
Newburg, N. Y, is reported to have
stopped bullet. There are neckties
worn by some youths that would al
most stop a limited express.
A young man was arrested for
thinking of breaking into a jewelers. S
window. What kind of an offense is
that? Lots of men have been guilty
of thinking of organizing a heef trust
and have not been arrested for it.
A woman at Sterling ILL.,, sued a
man for s5, 900 for a kiss, and the
jury awarded her S139. While this
is real bargain counter reduction,
yet we can see how she can make a
fair income at that rate if she gets
real busy.
The family that keeps its backyard
as clean and tidy as in tie front of
the residence never annoys its neigh
bors or gets into trouble with the
health authorities. They are very
generally pleasant people to live
among.
A New Jersey minister has request
ed the women of his congregation to
keep their hats on in church. He
probably thinks that the chance to
display fine millinery will be an in
centive to get more Of them to the
services.
A clergyman asserts that man who
receives more than S25, 600 salary is
a thief. 1t was Senator Ben Wade
of Ohio who said twenty years ago
that no honest man could accumulate
more than $50, 900 in lifetime. To
both imputations we plead "Not
Guilty"
Town pride is the strongest factor
in the building of town. All the
natural advantages ON earth will not
build a town if the residents of the
place have no pride in the fact and
are not willing to tell the visitor to
ltok over the town. Let us all work
to upbuild Danville and make it a
nice town to live in.
In. the past six months taps have
been sounded over the graves of 2S,-
006 pensioners of the Civil War, ac
cording to a statement of Chief Pen
sion Commissioner Warner. This he
says is an evidence of the rapiditS
with which the veterans are bein.
The total number OF
pensioners on July /, 1905, was 6S4, =
COS. On December 31st it was
656, 603.
Gossip is humming bird with
na ula wiuus and a ynioa EEa n Co.,