Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-24
ITEMS CONDENSED.

Good resolutions must be followed
by correct living.
A cheerful friend is better than a
dose of medicine.
He who undertakes to win by de-
ception usually fails miserably.
Speculation is a pretty risky bust
ness ...
One steadfast friend is a'great trea-
sure.
When misfortune gets on ones trail
it doesn't want to quit.
The mother who takes pains with
her children does Gods work.
Reticence is a trait of character
which has some virtues, too, ....
A mouse seldom lives longer than
three years. 81 sT.f.
Persistence may be neat virtue but
is often a bad fault. na"
Ambition sometimes leads it's sub
ject into queer company. 49,. -.
The man who never sees any good
in his fellows should be watched.
An occasional raw, dull day fore
bodies the future. .5 agsH .f0ag
The politest individual sometime
fails in achievement. uog
Soap has been known to the world
for 8. 900 years. Fi" H.|
Some Philippine cigars are a foot
and a half in length.
London has 80, 600 one-room dwell
lers.
The factories of Japan close on the
first and fifteenth of each month.
OF the worlds population there are
81 TO the million who are blind.
1t is officially reported that vessels
in the United States navy conversed
with each other by wireless telephones
up to twelve miles.
Two Wisconsin counties report that
wolves are making serious inroads on
their deer.
According to the New Orleans
Times Democrat Texan who smoked
an average Of thirty-five cigarettes a
day lived to be II. .... q. .....
Some of the Louisiana bear guides
are peculiarly fortunate in that they
are not in position to have their IL
censes revoked
In East Africa the Germans have
pushed railroad far inland. and in
order to connect it with Lake Victoria
Mama are digging sixty-mile canal
through swampy region.
At Louisville meeting in behalf of
the republican ticket three of the
speakers were Confederate soldiers and
one the son of Confederate member
of congress. g.. g.r r.... 30 .rs.
There is no standard gunpowder.
Every nation seems to have it's own
formula. oh eIsr-r. III. 5,-. .-......
Vanilla comes from a genus of climb
ing orchid which grows plentifully in
the tropics aa-H srr. s.aa..au1
Rudyard Kipling, now visiting tie
British northwest. thinks that region
should be occupied by men of British
stock rather than natives of Asia.
When the herring fishery season is
at its height sometimes like 1000 or
5000 miles of nets are set nightly in
North 500
An American firm from Chicago is
opening the largest 8, 10 and 10 cent
store ever started in Canada.
In steam power Pennsylvania led all
other States in 1905, with 2,0SS. .773
horse power, or nearly 20 per cent of
the total of the whole country. "A
Steam and electric power employed
in the manufactures of the United
States amounted in 1905 to IA, 4,641 54
horse power. n
There were 1873 banks in &c rmany at
the close of 1906, with capital of $780,
600, 600 and reserves of ses9. ATS, GOO.
The gypsies of Granada, Spain, are
unique among the race as cave dwe,.
lers living in recesses followed out of
hill side not far from the city.
The two-year- old daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Rung, of Williamsport, Pa,
hugged her baby sister SO hard that
she broke the infants collarbone.
The Peacock Throne" of Persia is
the most extravagant thing of the kind
IN the world. Its value is estimated
between ten and fifteen million dol
lars.
Fraulein Richter has been appoint
ed lecturer of philology at Vienna
University, the first instance of W O.
man receiving such anCappoi ntment
august Belmont, head Of the trac.
tion interests in New YORK. saws he
In hAA l.