Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1907-02-08
Brief News Items.

Had sleigh ride yet?
Look closely over the candidates.
The ice man has another respite.
Pretty fair ground hog weather,
isn't it?
The merry jingle Of the sleigh bell
is heard everywhere now.
sDeath has been cutting wide swath
M-ing the first five weeks Of 1907.
{ 1lhe real friends are never blind to
our own faults.
A woman can forgive an injury more
easily than slight.
Many there are who loudly praise
virtue to disguise their own lack of
it.
The boys and girls of Danville are
entitled to the best education that can
be provided.
1t is a great temptation to laugh
when a person is seen to fall on slip
perry sidewalk.
j., d. Cotner, of Washingtonville,
gave this office business call yester~
day.
The days are perceptibly longer
now, and the coal man smiles at the
gas man.
The so called elite OF many com
munities cultivate every thing but the
mind and heart.
Squire Jackson Levan, Of Hamburg,
Berks county, has served as justice of
the peace and notary public for over
forty years, and no appeal has ever
been taken form his decisions.
This Thursday morning the ther-
mometer registered as low as 20o be-
zero, at certain points in this locality.
There will be good ice harvest this
year.
of Stouchburg, Berks county, was
shredding corn fodder his right arm
was caught by the shredder and torn
off at the shoulder. His condition is
critical.
Mrs Russell Sage will now be both
cred more than ever by impecunious
people, and be obliged to hire an ad-
ditional secretary to look over her cor
respondeuce, or dump her mail by
wholesale in the waste basket without
having it read or sorted over.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness January 81, 1907, the total debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
1927, 442, 206, which is decrease for
the month of $3.50, 57l.
Chicago is having an epidemic of
diphtheria and scarlet fever. The filthy
and unsanitary conditions of the
streets are alleged to be the cause of
hese contagious diseases.
In the last five years the population
in France-39, 337, 235-has increased
only 200, 322, or three quarters of one
per cent. In tn, last five years Ger
many has added 750, 600 to her popula-
tion.
Earnings of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific for December broke
all records The net gain iu Southern
Pacific for the six months amounts to
he full.dividend requirements for that
period.
Allentown is pluming itself this
week over the new federal building
opened for the use of the national gov
ernnent at that place.
Bills for the cost of the uniform
primaries are commencing to come in
at the Auditor Generals Department
and the idea is growing that the cost
is going to run pretty close to half a
million dollars. Under the law the
State has to pay to counties every cent
they spend for primaries.
Major @. f. Close and Captain O.
r. Firth. royal engineers of the Brit
ish government, have come over to
study our geodetic and coast survey
system, which, they say is far super
ior to those of Europe.
The entertainment given by the
ladies of the b. n. Sodality of St.
Joseph's church, on Wednesday and
Thursday evening, was decided sue.
cess and great credit is due the sisters
for their untiring efforts.
Its poor sort of storm that escapes
being entitled the "severest of the
winter.
A petition asking for the reappoint
ment of State Zoologist Surface ant
signed by over 100 members of the
house, regardless of party, has beer
presented to Governor Stuart. The
petition was circulated by Representa-
tive George Mcscrip, of Bradford
county, and was readily signed.
The mail order houses reach the peo
pie by advertisements which set fortl
what these houses have for sale. TIL,
merchants of a city must meet thu
mail order houses on the same footinl
and let the people know what the,
have to offer.
Colonel John Jacob Astor now ha
eighteen motor cars in his garage an,
is reported as content with that mum