Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-01-09
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absurd SITUATIONS.
An impudent child is poor recon-
mendation for his parents.
Constant vigilance is necessary in
our peculiar climate.
Attention to ones own business is
often the secret of success.
The evil step that is never taken
need not be Iepented OF.
Petulanoe is vice which the wise
endesvor to crush.
Selfishness is one of the most pow
erful of human motives.
Neither partisanship nor prejudice
should direct ones ballot.
The only things which will never
be destroyed are invisible.
The life of the spirit alone endures
throughout the ages
Cotton mills in New England are
declaring the largest divisdends in
their history.
Mrs Thomas O. Fletcher, widow of
dead at her home in st Louis. She
was prominent for many years in
temperance work.
The British board of agriculture has
recently published some statistics
which show that England's foreign
food bill has doubled in amount dur
ing the last twenty wears,
Railroad earnings for 1907 will be
long way ahead of 1906, and even now
show but a slight decrease compared
with the corresponding weeks last
year.
Health statistics of the German fleet
indicates that the percentage of. iHsan-,
itY is lowest in the engineering
branch. The most common disease is
eye trouble Heart trouble comes next.
Some of the bad boys who declined
to turn over new leaves at the begin
ming Of the year will be in the reform
atory before its close.
The Russian soldiers are each to be
furnished with pocket compass hav-
ng luminous needle.
The national guard of the State of
New York is to be put on a war foot
ing at once, if the recommendation of
the commission that investigated its
affairs is adopted.
Susan Hartley Swett, writer of poems
and short stories, sister of Sophie M
SWEET, author and editor, is dead at
her home at Arlington Heights, near
Boston
The American ambassador to Austria
gave the American colony in Vienna
an enjoyable reception on New Year S
day.
Sir Thomas Upton announces that
he really means to try to lift the Am
erica cup during the coming season.
Eleven sellers of bogus mine stock
have been convicted in Colorado and
fined aud imprisoned.
The Mexico volcano Popooateperl is
for sale but there doesn't seem to be
any rush Of would-be purchasers.
DR.. W. H. Holdre, of Washington,
Ind, has lost his sight. following an
attack of la grippe.
Report says that famous living
skeleton, formerly with Barnum, has
just died'of fatty degeneration
The authorities of Jersey City have
entered suit against the street car
companies Of that city to COMPEL
them to provide seats for all passeng-
ers from whom they exact fare.
There were 1888 deaths in Cincin-
natl last year, decrease of 8O7 as
compared with 1906.
Lucknow, India is one of the "dry"
towns OF the world During 1907 rain
fell in that city on four days only.
Henry Hertzler, of Conestoga, Berks
county. lost three steers from eating
too freely of green corn.
Israel Wannacott was drowned in
Keene's pond, near Waymart. Lacka-
wanna county, on Monday by stepping
on thin ice.
Zero weather prevailed in many
parts of Monroe county on Monday
morning and at Broadheadsville the
mercury was four below zero.
J. r. Smith, an undertaken of
Quakertown, Bucks county, is ser ous.
ly i'll with scarlet fever, which he con-
traoted at the recent burial of a scar
let fever vict i'm
Hartstown, Crawford county, on the
Bessemer railroad, has been quarantin-
ed on account of an outbreak of diph
liberia and trains pass the station
without stopping.