Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-11-28
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The unfortunate are ever entitled TO
our practical sympath.
Don't tempt the burglar by keeping
your money about the house.
The man who is prepared for the
worst often receives the best.
The sunshine of the heart is the en-
during kind.
There is considerable fraternity in
this world which is sham.
Selfshness is one of the most hide
GUS of vices
Everybody is willing to help some
body else-at somebody else's expense
The man who smiles when he has
hard luck--won't have any.
We trust that Santa Claus has not
felt the financial stringency.
The land which forgets its history
is on the verge of ruin.
Each man judges things by his own
conditions No sunrise looks alike to
any two men.
One of the treasures of any COM
munity IS an abundance of pure wat
er.
Those persons who are mortally
afraid of pure air are victims of
dangerous delusion.
The best citizen always has some
spare time to devote to the interests
of his city.
The man who puts off until tomor-
row what he ought to do today will
never have any leisure moments.
The man who doesn't try to make
the world easier for somebody is
miserable cuss.
Nearly 20. 900 automobile licenses
have been issued in this State this
year and it is believed the number for
the year will exceed 20. 900,
The oratorio of 1.-The Messiah" was
given entire by graphophone to an
audience of over thousand persons
in Weymouth, England, the other
night. 1t was considered a complete
musical success.
The London and Northwestern rail-
way engineers have just completed at
Crewe, North Junction. the largest
signal box in the world. There are
1858 levers, all operated by electricity.
A Melbourne shopkeeper displayed
in his window some exceedingly gaudy
tennis shirts. Underneath was
placard bearing the one word "Lis-
ten"
Hamburg dealer has just been I'm
ed for selling coffee" that contained
10 per cent. of ashes and 12 per cent.
of sand.
The Walters Union, of Rome. re-
Gently decreed that hereafter each
member must wear beard.
The skeleton of megatherium has |
been dug up by excavators in the |
Avenue Bosquet, Paris.
"Koepenick" has been adopted by
the Germans as a verb The victim |
of a practical joke or fraud is now
koepeniked.
Having tasted the flesh of various |
animals, a Northampton gentleman /
declares that donkey makes the most |
excellent eating of any animal, the |
favoring of which resembles that of a
young turkey.
The richest orchestra in the world |
will be the Warsaw philharmonic, !
which has just received a legacy of |
$1,000, 900 from music loving Pole.
Mounted on ohainless free wheel
motor cycle furnished with large
propeller in front of the handlebars a
French experimenter named Anzari
travelled at speed of 4S miles an hour.
Wurtemburg is the fruit center of
Germany. The last count showed that
it had s, $50, 600 apple and pear trees
of the 7S. 900. 900 in the empire.
The richest Eskimo woman in Am.
erica, Mary Anerwuk. does not count
her wealth in stocks and bonds like
Hetty Green, or in steel mills like
Bertha Krupp, but in reindeer. She
possesses a herd of over 500.
In some instances at least there is a
better foundation for the statement
that the roads being improved by the
state are not good roads than there is
under the roads themselves.
While cattle are plentiful in Brazil,
and pasturage costs hardly anything,
butter in Rio Janeiro averages about
twice in cost what it does in the
United States.
One of London s newest publications
is 1.-The Albion" 24-page magazine
for the deaf.