Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-03-28
COA.GNSED NEWS.

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Have you started to plant your little
garden?
Don't these fine days make you want
to clean up?
The victims of Spring Fever are
now in evidence.
Few of us are willing to profit by
the blunders of others.
No university education will make
up for lack of brains.
The Easter garb is just now absorb
ing the thoughts of many
The man who is master of a good
trade is also master of his fate.
The little ones are in their glory in
the Easter novelty stores these days.
The folly of the foolish is sometimes
more prudent than the wisdom of the
wise.
People hope there will be no delay
in the reconstruction of North Mill
street
Manchuria last year purchased sl2.-
200, 600 worth of goods from the Unit
ed States.
1t is said that buzzards and vultures
can scent their food at distance of
forty miles.
Shallow wells giving out good
quantity of oil have been discovered
around Mexico City.
1t is estiamted that the gowns worn
at the New York horse show represent
ed a total cost of $500, 600.
Whaling is growing industry in
the South Atlantic, centering around
the Falkland Islands.
Twenty million dollars is the esti-
Iuatod value OF tho dob-i1 loft by tho
San Francisco catastrophe.
In the forests Of Canada a motor is
in use which is capable OF dragging a
train Of 200 tons weight of logs at a
speed of twelve miles an hour.
The regular first class travel rate in
Spain is cents per mile. Mileage
books, however, are charged for at the
rate Of two cents per mile.
German, which is spoken by upward
of rs, 900, 900 people. ranks third in
number among the four leading langu
ages of Europe proper.
Some of the greatest authorities on
radium are now inclined to believe
that it is compound rather than
chemical element.
According to late figures the total
number of industrial workers in Bel
Rium was /, 265, 600, of which 295, 600
were women.
Edwin +. Frizzel in charge OF bridge
building for the Boston and Maine
railroad, has lived on a railroad car
for twenty years
Over 100 miles of trees are to be
planted between Winnipeg and Cal
gary by the railroads for snow banks.
Is there any good reason why boys
from eight to fourteen years of age
should be on the stretes until 100 and
1000 at night?
People should be very careful of
their regulations, especially when it
is all they have left.
The indications are that there is 60
ing to be more than the ordinary num-
ber of residence changes in this city
next Monday.
Silver, lead and plumbago have bee
discovered near Shamokin, says a news
despatch. Still, Danville is good
enough for US.
During last week the deaths in Phil
adelphia numbered els, a decrease OF
seventy three from the preceding week
and twenty mine more than for the
corresponding week of last year.
Miss Pauline Romanski. of Nanti-
coke, Luzerne county, was terribly
burned by pouring gasoline on kitch-
en- fire to hurry it up.
Men and women who steal babes
ought TO be imprisoned for life if they
fall into the clutches of the law.
New York city's milk supply comes
from S6, 900 farms, situated in six
states. varying in distance from the
metropolis from ten to four hundred
miles.
DanvilIe people who plant few
trees on the arbor days designated by
Governor Stuart will be thanking
themselves about three or five years
hence.
Madrid lies higher than any other
European capital. Its height above the
sea is 2, 900 feet
The average annual death rate of all
the standing armies of the world is 8
in 1000. :.
A good many persons are anxious for
the passing of Easter so that they can
get away from an enforced goodness.
England spends $3.50, 600, 600 a year
on her navy. This is So, 00c, 600 more
than the combined expenditure Of
France, Russia and Germany
The average weight of full grown
elephant is 200 pounds.
Fine music is being prepared for
Easter by Danville choiTs