Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-08-29
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The political situation will soon be-
gin to show more activity.
Fair minded controversy is essential
to progress.
There is a general indisposition to
accept good advise.
1t is nobler to help weak man rise
than to plot his fall.
Sentimental vaporings become not
real men and women.
Nobody in this neighborhood should
object to an occasional rain.
Generous praise of another always
enlarges the life of the one who
praises.
A good conscience is pretty cheer
full companion.
Some public men are as fond of
notoriety as they are of their meals.
Ideas always produce money, if they
are original.
The people of this country are hop
ing that there will be no slowing up
of the industrial activity
A mans good opinion of himself
does no harm if he keeps it to himself
The American who has not yet seen
his own country should visit It's grand,
beautiful or historic spots before do
ing Europe.
The political game is sometimes not
worth the results achieved.
The blood thrown out by the heart
travels seven miles in an hour, or l.,
292 900 miles in lifetime of 10 years.
The Danes seem most addicted to
suicide. Their average is 256 self
murderers per million persons per
year.
Excluding about so, 900 small vessels
the commerce of the world is carried
on by 30, 100 vessels of total tonnage
of about 25, 900, OO0
China and Japan produce ~, 500 tons
of silk annually; but about sixty per
cent. of this is retained for home use.
Japan has %iSoi Danks, with $780,
PA, 334 capital Five new banks have
opened since February.
A birds wing is, in proportion to
its owners weight, 90 times as strong
as mans arm.
The Philippine coal mined at Batan
is superior to the japanese and Aus
tTQlia ana1 ioI ia,
than the Pacific and Alaskan.
1t will be long time before The
Hague gets far enough to prevent war
rumors looming up in Central Ameri-
can.
Travel in these days is luxury, in
deed, compared with the experiences
of our grandfathers
The oiling of several macadamized
roads in Allegheny county, to keep
down the dust, is proving a success.
Selfsnness is a disease which spoiIs
ones pleasure and destroys popularity.
The individual who does not rest
one day in seven shortens life.
This world would be very poor
place il it were not To-, the good ma
tured folks who live in it.
The wiiful retailer of vile gossip is
a virulent pest.
He who seeks to do good to the bod /
les and the souls OF Others receives
blessings for himself.
Vladivostok imported last year from 1
Australia and the Argentine republic |
more than $4,000, 600 pounds of meat.
1t is the fashion in France for school |
boys to have their hair shaved off.
There are now in the New York /
savings banks 1868. .631, 800.
The Chicago News reminds its read |
ers that the capitalists who are pre-
dieting ruin, have made preparations
to buy just as soon as things get down
far enough.
According to the most reliable re-
ports there are 262, 900 Sunday schools
in the world, with a total enrolment
of 26, 900. O00 pupils.
Incidence is fault which fire.
quently ends in self-invited poverty.
There are so many virtuous WAYS of
making living in this world there's
no excuse for the other sort.
1t ism t always the doctors fault
when man prematurely dies.
Enterprise of the right sort reaps a
rich reward
An abunance of work is a soyerei gn
remedy for loneliness.
Science and religion are the best of
friends.
Last year 1900 miles of fencing were
erected by the government in the
Transaval and further 1850 miles
are yet to be undertaken.
The best of men are sometimes hard
to get along with.