Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-04-11
CONDENSED NEWS.

Whistling is very beneficial to the
luugs.
Springs ballny breezes will soon be
waiting.
In Ireland there are on the average
2cs rainy days in the year.
Sewer extensions will be among
Danville's improvements this summer.
The average English woman is two
inches taller than the American.
London has over 600 postoffices and
the mail delivery amounts to 727, 00O,-
900 pieces IA year.
Arbutus should be i'll bloom in ten
days more.
: me forms of animal life are SO
tiny shat 9, SOC. 600. 600 could be put in
space of one -thousandth part of
cubic inch.
Trout fry are being distributed. But
what about fried trout?
Tie laboratory of Nature is very
hnsy spot jnst now
Tramps have NO use for existance
these DAYS.
Many people dig their graves by
tickling their palates.
Most men aud women are only grown
up children.
a gool book is friend that never
proves untrue.
The chronic liar Is in sorry plight
when his memory fails him.
True kindness often has rough hands.
The American Car and Foundry
company, at Bloomsbury. has been
awarded contract for TIC cars for the
Snniharn Manchuria railroad of Rus
sia
Mayor McCaskey. Of Lancaster, re-
commends that the salary Of the chief
bf police be raised to elo0 per month.
lieutenants to 485 and serReants to $40.
With 4lle first week of April past
business conditions are reported as de-
cidedly better in nearly every line.
A general strike of tailors and cut
ters, inrolving 10. 900 men, has been
inaugurated throughout Germany.
New York city used last year 1885,,
$50 tins Ct anthracite coal, at a cost of
el.753. .36l. and Al. 600 tons of bitumiu
ous coal at cost Of $l4l 900
Hlnuah Wilson. S-year-old daugh
ter of Samuel Wilson, of Airville,
York county. died from the effects of
drinking csrbolic acid.
Sheriff H. Roberts, of Northampton
county. found two valuable pearls
while eating raw oysters i'll Naz-
areth restaurant
The useful man seldom needs to hunt
job
The useful man does the hardest
thing first.
rhe useful m.n never gives up to
discouragements.
Everybody wants to make friend
OF the useful man.
The useful man is a priceless bless
ing to the world in which he lives
1Ub uS6IuA Uuhu HdS
friends for every one the ornamental
man counts
Daniel Knorr, of Cooper township,
las one of the best laying turkeys i'll
the county. it has layed an egg every
day for the past week and on Sunday
az layed two eggs.
Lord Ayebury Of England, is firm
~ IN the belief that brain workers need
at least nine hours sleep.
The dead letter office returned a
third of million of misdirected let
tiers to their writers last month
The discovery of now bullet proof
cloth comes just in time to get shout
of welcome from the base ball ..um-
pires
Serious injury to the fruit crop in
central Virginia is reported from the
cold snap.
In the enactment Of the two-cent
fare law the Republican party has full
filled one of its important campaign
pledge. here are others.
New York City is to have IS mile
of salt water mains, from eight to
twenty four inches in diameter, with
S,02l hydrants, for fire protection
The mandrill baboon has the most
brilliant colorings of any quadruped.
1t shows blue, red and purple Of the
most vivid tints
The Indiana legislature has enacted
law that makes it bribery to give
tips to the Pullman car porter
Some prayers as we'll as some yarns
are aptly described by the character
ization "old phonograph" used over
and over again.
An imitation diamond will not shine
in the dark; neither will an imitation
friend. Ii takes the real article in
either case.
Hamburg is said to have n fire record
larger than that Of any other city in
the world
Twenty-seVen thousand vessels enter
the port of London in the course of q
year.
Cauada's trade with this country is