Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-08-15
y sHULTZ, NJ.
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There are moments when virtue is
its own reward and others when it
isn't
Many very pleasant and profitable
summer vacation is passed in ones
own back yard.
The person who would make haste
40 get rich often loses all that he has
and gains nothing but experience in
return.
The State capitol will never look
good to the people of Pennsylvania
until the thieves who made millions
out of it are in the penitentiary.
A.Rhode Island assemblyman has
been arrested for violating the automo-
bile law which he had drafted and put
through the legislature.
The secret of the glow worm and
FREELY is yet unsolved by science.
Their light is entirely unaccompanied
by heat.
The Ioftiest city In the world is
Pasco, in Peru. 1t is IA. .275 feet above
the sea.
The date for the dedication of the
Mckinley Monument, at Buffalo, N.
Y, has been fixed for September 5.
Governor Hughes and his staff will be
invited.
Public spirit is essential to the real
prosperity of any people.
The tongue of the gossip is never
silent until death has stricken it dumb.
The wisdom of the wise is some
times nothing but foolishness.
There are times when ignorance is
really and truly bliss.
Prejudice is more powerful than an
The uncharitable citizen forgets his
own frailty.
Ambition is proper and a worthy
emotion of the human breast.
The wise plan is to think about the
North Pole and its surroundings.
The shady side of the street is a
prime tavorite these days.
Some day the true poet will arise
and write the epic of the civil war.
The patrol wagon is the carriage of
the foolish.
Many man is his own worst enemy.
The man who declines to take day
of rest is burning his candle at both
ends.
Lynch law is to be condemned at all
times, but notwithstanding this fact
it doesn't require much effort to get
up bee.
Agitation is to society what the cease
less motion of the waves is to the
ocean.
A good habit is as easy to cultivate
as bad one and much more profit
able.
The study of human nature is cur
ious and profitable pastime.
The wisest of men is guilty of all
occasional folly.
Lava, it is said, retains it's heat
longer than any other known subst-
ance. 1t has been known to remain at
the boiling point foot below the sur
face for fifty three years.
The dogs seem to be aware that these
are dog days. AT any rate they usurp
the right to howl during the still
hours of the night.
A dispatch from Panama says that
the just completed census of the Can
al Zone shows population of almost
80, 900, one-fifth of whom are white.
Los Angeles now claims to be the
richest large city per capita in the
world, her wealth footing up about
$4,000 a person.
The world will never lack for hum
bugs so long as men and women are as
easily taken in as the majority are
now.
The Corean prince who has been
sentenced to death by hanging expect
ed the verdict, but is not seriously
alarmed. He does not believe the sent
ence will ever be carried into effect.
The British Indian government has
increased the pensions of native sold
iers.
One toN of banana -four "a week is
now being imported into England, and
the consumption is increasing.
Automobiles valued at more than
$40, 600, 600 passed through the ports of
the United States in its foreign trade
in the fiscal year just ended.
The Pennsylvania Steel compapy at
Harrisburg has just put into operation
the fifth of its 75-ton open hearth steel
furnaces, the largest of the kind in the
world