Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-08-01
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fuses to let go is success.
The man who abuses another for de-
Tending the law is an anarchist.
The long-expected message from
Mars has not yet arrived
There is a difference in ones plans
when somebody else has to pay the
bills.
Even in a country like this the law
needs to be constantly vigilant,
Honesty does not always pose before
the public eye.
The lodge is a useful institution,
but the home is better
Somebody has counted the laws en-
acted by the New York Legislature
during its recent session, and finds
there are 761 of them.
The girl who speaks insolently to
her mother may repent in sackcloth
and ashes when her own child imi-
tates her ugly example.
Black hand outrsges are becoming
entirely too frequent in this country.
1t is in order to put the black cap over
the head of some of the fiends.
The most good natured of public
servants sometimes find themselves
tempted to momentary surliness.
Men are tested in the fires of temp
tation in strict accordance with the
great law of the survival of the moral
ly fittest,
Liberty is worthless unless it be re-
gulated by wise laws
Obedience to parents is a virtue all
children should practice.
The parent who wishes to be re-
spected must be respectable.
The electric fluid is getting in it's
deadly work these days.
The wise wife treats her husband as
though he were a great man.
There are 26, coo letters posted with
out addresses in England every year.
New York City is now growing at
the rate of about 4l5 persons each day.
Science has cut down the diphtheria
mortality in few years from fifty to
ten per cent.
The average weight of pair of
elephant tusks is $50 pounds, but a
single tusk has been known to weigh
200 pounds.
Experiments are being made with
brown sugar which is said to increase
the adhesive properties of mortar
greatly. Equal parts of sand and lime
are mixed.
General Grant and p. \ Collins are
among those Americans who have en-
joyed the freedom of the city of Dub
lin, distinction recently conferred
on Richard Croker of Tammany Hall
fame.
The town of Arson, Sweden is with
out taxes. The necessary revenues are
derived from a forest reservation.
The Austrian salt mine at Wieliczka
has 900 miles of galleries and 5000
miners 1t has been worked for six
centuries.
AS near as can be ascertained the
unappropriated and unreserved public
lands of this country amounts to 792,-
23S, 7O7 acres
Four thousand graves in South AT
RIGA of British soldiers who fell in the
late war still remain unmarked
Vienna has only 80 inhabitants to
the acre, the city ground, comprising
AZ, 5o3 acres and the population being
1875, 600,
From Puy de Dome, an extinct vol
cano, in France carbolic acid is pro-
cured for commercial purposes.
A little thing like million dollar
fire is merely an advertisement for
Coney Island. The ruins will rise
more attractive than ever.
Statistics show that train wrecking
does not pay. Railroad wreckipg US
ually does, but requires larger capital
than the train wreckers can command
This is the season for furniture
sales. A seat on the New York Stock
Exchange has just beeu sold for the
bargain price of s71, 500.
Mrs. Howard Nagle, of Reading,
early on Monday morning jumped out
of bed, screamed "fire'' and leaped
out OF a second story window to the
pavement below, sustaining severe
jars and bruises, She said she had
dreamed the house was on fire.
A couple of thieves stopped for
short time on Saturday night at the
hotel of E. W. Kerr. at Cambridge
Springs, Crawford county. and on Mon
day Mr.. Kerr was in Pittsburg try ing
to locate and recover about So. 900
worth of diamonds that disappeared
with the transient guests.