Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-07-25
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4 casual suggestion frequently
changes a life's course.
The farmer doesn find much time
for relaxation these days.
The fastest elevators run at speed
equal to about seventeen miles an hour.
Intemperate living in days like these
is equivalent to suicide.
He who destroys innocence accom-
plishes an evil work.
1t takes E, 900, 900 acres to grow the
worlds tobacco.
The worlds population is estimated
at / $50. OOO 900 persons.
On the very next day after that ter
rible turret explosion, the crew of the
Georgia broke the naval record at tar
get practice with the starboard six
inch gun.
Japan is perhaps the only country
womens dress have not changed mat
erially in $500 years.
A company has been formed to pro-
duce alcohol from currants in Greece.
The spirit has proven of great use as
an illuminant for heating and for
driving small engines.
Violent eXertion may be necessary,
but it's neither pleasant nor sanitary
in July or August.
The harvest field is a fine spot for
the healthy young man who wants
bit of exercise.
The African possessions of the
French Government amount to 3,S05.
900 square miles, and those of Great
Britain ANA 600, including Egypt.
Black opals of great beauty are found
in Queensland, Australia, besides 56
other kinds of precious stones.
Drawing six coaches and baggage
car, locomotive on the Reading road
covered the fifty-six miles between
Camden and Atlantic City in just forty
minutes on Friday last.
The popularity of the automobile is
having very little effect on the price
of horse flesh. Horses are in demand
everywhere at prices higher than for
years,
In the United States 1000, 600 SER
wants attend to the wants of 5000, 900
who believe that the homework should
be done by others.
Owen Miller, of Sporting Hill, Ian
caster county, wanting chicken for
dinner on Monday shot one with re-
volver. The bullet passed through the
fowl, glanced from a stone and struck
Samuel Bradley, who was hoeing in
lot one hundred feet away, inficting
a serious wound.
At any rate.the prolonged period of
showers has caused many of ussto al
most forget the terrors of,sthe dust
nuisance.
The man who expects to get some-
thing for nothing is generally the one
to cry the loudest when his plans go
away.
No complaint has been heard as to
the qualityj of the cream and soda
water sold in Danville Other cities
are not so fortunate.
The largest plow ever built has been
successfully used on Texas ranch.
The implement clears a strip of ground
seven feet wide.
One of the national sports of the
mountain canton of Appenzell, in
Switzerland. is the one-throwing
contest, in which rocks of great size
are thrown for prize.
Drowning accidents are entirely too
numerous at our pleasure resorts.
Laundry workers of San Jose, Cal
are still out and intend to remain out
until they are granted their demand
for an eight-hour dav.
Miss Elizabeth Hoffman, q trained
nurse of Selinsgrove, and star vocal
ist, on the eve of her marriage to DR..
Slime, coroner of Lackawanna county,
was drowned accidently on Monday.
The people of West Alexander, Wash
ington county, have organized an anti
burglar club for the purpose of Kidding
the community of burglars and thieves
that have been very numerous for some
time.
Hugh Abernethy, residing near Cope
land, Chester county, whose barn was
struck by lightning last week, has
since discovered that three of his best
horses that were stabbed in it at the
time are entirely deaf from the shock.
Peter Bender, of Oil City, aged Sc
years, who was an expert swimmer,
was drowned in the Allegheny river
on Monday night. while attempting to
swim the stream at one of the most
treacherous spots between Olean and
Pittsburg.