Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-02-28
CONDENSED NEWS.

House cleaning time is coming.
Balmy Spring is fast approaching.
Yesterday made iuroads in the snow.
Are you glad to see winter on the
wane?
TIE merchant who advertises leaves
it to the non -ad vertiser TO worry over
the dull season.
Snow drifts make the life of the
farmer anything but simple.
The back bone of winter is still in
tact
What do you think of the new hos
pital?
As result of his interest in the
Thaw case, Cincinnati man has est
abl ished fund of $3.50, 900 for the
protection of young girls.
Down in Mississippi two jail birds
married two old maids in order to get
bail, and then ran away from their
brides.
The legislature OF Nebraska has pas
sed two cent passenger fare bill and
it now goes to the governor. The pop-
ular brunch of the Minnesota legisla-
ture has passed similar bill.
Reading business men are organic
ing to fight a new license ordinance
pending in the city councils. They de-
clare it is unjust and would be op-
pressive.
Anyone who doubts old" groundy s."
representations must surely be obliv'
ious to the continued cool atmospheric
conditions that are prevailing.
Eloquence that comes from the
heart stirs the heart, but sham elo-
quence is no better than sounding
brass.
1t is noted as a remarkable fact
that few modern babies speak the Eng
lish language.
The government ia about to let q
contract for 900. 900 pounds of dyna-
mite for use at the Panama canal.
Secretary Taft announces that he
will visit Cuba again in April. He de
clares that the situation throughout
the island is pacific and the outlook
for the future entirely satisfactory.
The inhabitants of the villages along
A. IN,
Crawford counties intend to make a
concerted effort to compel trains to
move through said villages at mod
crate rate of speed.
All eyes are turned toward the State
legislature-will it make good?
The new and simplified spelling is
slumbering by the side Of the ground
hog
Overwork is almost as hard on the
system as chronic idleness.
The traveller by land or sea these
days takes his life in his hands.
4 thin coating of snow on an ice
clad sidewalk makes trsacherous
combination.
He who permit Is himself to be de-
ceived by fattery is not wise.
Each day there are 9l0, ,635 fares paid
to the surface. elevated and subway
railroads of New York city.
Wage-earning women in America
are young women more than half OF
them, according to the United States
census of 1900, are less than twenty
five years Of age.
The retirement of Rear Admiral
Sigsbee leaves in active service only
Dewey and Evans Of all the high naval
officers who took part in the war with
Spain
James Bryce, the newly appointed
British ambassador to the United
States. is very much interested and has
been one of the prime movers for the
creation of National University fol-
Ireland
Many modern investigations utterly
fail to investigate.
1t Is a very difficult matter for most
of MS to detect our own faults.
The immense ice houses in the PoconC
region, in Monroe county, are nearly
all filed with the finest quality of ice.
The Mountain Ice company has about
800, 600 tons stored.
A monument will he erected by the
Patriotic Order Sons of America tr
the memory of number of Revolu
tionary soldiers buried in Ellis woods
near Pottstown.
AT Steeltou it is proposed to abolisl
saloons aud establish instead a vast
beer garden on the European plan fo
the benefit of the 8, 500 foreigners EN-
ployed there.
The suggestion that every post office
whether owned by the government o
not. "fiy the flag is eminently pro
per. People ought to see the flag IOor
frequently in the smaller communi
ties.
The bishop of London is authorit.
for the statement that married men i
England are much looser in thei
morals than single men.
A woman's magazine says tn
dainty art Of courtship is nearly fol
gotten. Returns from the marriag
license Office, however, indicate tha
the boys are getting there just til
same.