The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-01-18
LOCAL CURlOS

- 'is' is goo, b.. sso ,.e. + .:iter.
 An egg today is better than two ilens tomorrow.
 He strives in vaia who strives to please everybody.
 Few Ketchikan urchins get dr owned ia the family wash bowl.
 A mischievous cur must be ii, d short--so also a treacherous one.
 The man who never does wrong sell dom, if ever, accomplishes any good. We are all miserable sinners, and the man who says he isn't proves 1t. It takes three yards of elastic to make pair of garters for the average Juneau belle-all owing to the brac- iag climate.
 'The sandal tree perfumes, when riven,
 The axe that lays it low; Let him who hopes to be forgiven FOrglve and bless ms Toe.
 ''She's small woman, is mother, '' said Newtown boy within Curio's hearing the other day, 'but wht n she pulls off her slipper and says 'Willur, come here this minnit,' we boys gc just as though she weighed thousand pounds.
 In remarking that Valdez merch. ant advertises teamed hell" for sale, the Douglas News rises to further re- mark that it had always thought the reverend gentlemen of the missionar, persuasion were the sole agents fol the sale of that commodity in Alaska
 They don't use any snow blows III at Juneau. Whenever heavy fall O snow occu the council simply em ploys a certain one of it's members tt walk once around town on the princi pal streets and the paths he makes al wide and solid enough for all practica purposes.
 This trying to edit the first number of new paper, without mails iron any direction for more than week with no exchanges, and long disuse 0 pen and pencil, is like Artema Wards first essay at writing a Nor mon romance-''rather confusing t the intlleck."
 If there's one thing more than an other calculated to provoke profanit. on the part of batter familias it is be ing complacently told by his bette half after he has vainly tried half al hour in tile cold, dark night to close window through which the chill. blasts of winter are blowing ten o twelve knot breeze, ''my dear, there' stick under it!''
 A smart boy of this town stuck firecracker in the keyhole of the fror door of the paternal mansion a weel or two ago, rang the bell, and .whel he heard his mother coming to answe the ring lit the fuse and ran away The good mother and the fire in tn fuse communicated with each other a the door and the boy shipped as cabil boy on steamship the next day-ilee ing from home because his parent were cruel to him.
 It showed pretty lively the othe day, and when it snows in this town man is very apt to meander witl bowed head. Any how that's the wa! Chris. H-r held his head the day it showed so lively. He was going fol his lunch at the restaurant where h' takes his meals and, proceeding at , pretty lively gait on Mission stre ct failed to observe the electric ligh pole opposite The Mining News. w say he didn't observe it, but that's ; mistake; he did observe it, but no till his knees and chin and the top O his head had come into contact witf it. Then he looked up, and when ht saw the pole he appeared to be some what displeased with it, judging iron the fact that he turned and walked backwards from it, and shook his fist at it, and talked at it in some foreign language, and hurled italic quotation. from the lseaman's dictionary at it, until the water hydrant at the corner of Main street impeded his progress. No, 1t didn't impede his progress, either-for he went right over it, partly sidewise, and sat himself dowr I on the cold, cold plank. Not another word did he utter, but picking him. self up took to the middle of the street and sped for that restauran, with rapid stride and gritting teeth. If H--r wasn't really mild temp cred man and a. christian gentleman, he probably: would have embellished the occasion with few cuss words and then few.
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