Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-01-02
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Tho passport system dates back :. to
the time of the Crusaders .-t
Race prejudice may be natural. not
il isn't Christian.
This would be mighty dreary world
il il wasn't fer sentiment.
Clean streets are not an impossible
ity, but they cost money.
Death is "A foe whose dart may Strike
one in All unlocked for moment.
Seventeen countries Of Europe have
1900, 600 goats.
The world is full OF ideas, some OF
which are not worth much.
The newspaper which studies ac-
ouraoy does the public real service
A little previous forethought is
worth a bushel of after repentance.
The circle of ones friends is apt to
contract as age approaches.
The Mikado and the Grown Prince
of Japan are each having an album
made of the photographs OF all the
military and naval officers killed IN
the war with Russia.
Members of the church defense COM
mittee of England are pledged to make
church and school the foremost con-
sideration in voting at elections.
John Bull figures out that his coun-
try has been successful in 8? per cent.
of the battles in which it has been
engaged
motto on the coins is not nearly
so important as sincerity in the hearts
of the people.
Providence has the highest regard
for those who try to answer their own
prayers.
The British war minister asserts that
England must keep navy equal to
the combined navies Of Germany and
the United States.
The American survey of the Phiiip-
pines, while still incomplete, has dis
closed the fact that there are l,4Oo
more islands in the group than the
Spanish survey showed.
Nearly every steamer from Europe
brings over a number of young women
destined to become the wives of i'm
mirgants who have made stake and
a start in the New World.
1t is asserted by the Omaha Bee that
an Oklahoma man was defeated for
speaker of the legislature because he
wore high linen collar.
Gary Brooks, the oldest resident of
Fairport, N. Y, is dead, He was born
in July 1906, and was thus in his 102nd
year at the time of hi" death.
In the North Central States there is
percentage of 30 unmarried men out
of every 100, to 1873 of unmarried
women.
New York city has the reputation
of carrying more bedbugs in its pub
lie couveyances than any other city in
the world.
The professor of chemistry and
physics at the University of Berne is
woman only 20 years old
The commissioners of Columbia
county have paid ont in bounties for
weasels $3.50 for foxes S24 and for
minks $25 since the law placing boun-
ties on the heads of these animals was
passed.
Hiram Kuntz recorder of Luzerne
county. died at his home III Hazleton,
on Saturday morning from uremic
poisoning. Mr.. Kuntz was a promin in
ent republican and also prominent
Mason.
Elmer J. Shofflet,a silk weaver who
says he never saw bank check until
few days ago, was arrested on Fri
day upon a dozen charges of having
passed forged checks in Allentown
and Reading.
At the Wingert home in PennsbuIy.
Montgomery county, artificial snow
under q Christmas tree caught Ere
from a candle in the hands of Kate
Wingert aud she and Ammon Lightly.
who came to her aid. were badly burn.
ed. The tree, an organ and the furnit-
ure in the room were destroyed.
Mrs. Sarah MoClenehan, aged 81
years of Hokendauqua. Lehigh coun-
ty, who was an invalid, was on Satur-
day taken to the window of her room
to watch the funeral'of her neighbor,
Mrs. James McAllister, rass by. A few
moments later she was found dead.
Cameron Cool, of West Pittston, a
wealthy owner of race horses, had his
skull fractured by burglars, early on
Friday morning. in his rooms over his
stables, and on Friday night he died
Of his injuries. 1t is known that about
$24O in money and gold watch were
taken.