Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-02-06
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None OF US CAN nave tIiihSS "i'"J '
the way we'd like.
The bitter pills one swallows in life
are sometimes the most helpful
Law politics aside when you come to
vote for candidates for council.
The State railroads of Italy have
mileage of about T.. 300 miles.
The Grand Trunk Railroad of Can
ada has ordered ninety new locomo-
tives.
There is a demand in South America
for America laundry machinery.
American tobacco plants are being
introduced in Burma.
Not much trouble being experienced
with corner loafers these days.
Burma planted rs, 743 acres of pea
nuts last year.
Norway is a good market for cotton
seed oil and oleo oils
There is guild of dealers in eggs
in Spain
The dowager Queen Margherita, of
Italy, has just sold all her horses and
carriages and transformed her stables
for use by motor cars only.
Venezuela has thirteen railroads. the
longest III miles long, and no other as
much as fifty.
Andrew Carnegie has sent $500
check to Centralia, Columbia county
to help pay for new pipe organ Tor
the Methodist Episcopal church.
The ponular demonstration at Ha-
vana the other day in honor of Gov
ernor Magoon, was as fine compii-
ment as could be paid to any mau.
Thieves in johannesburg, South
Africa now ride about on bicycles
and snatch purses and handbags from
women and watches and pins from
men.
Report says that smart Mexican
iudpe recently sentenced a woman to
a months silence. That is sentence
that bears striking resemblance to
some laws. 1t cannot be enforced.
Cold Water, Mich. belied its name
recently by voting against prohlbitlon'
But Booty, Va, evens up the score by
prohibiting the saloon and all Its
works
Thieves broke into the home OF Rev.
II - FlaptXUnn6 RpTEg
county, and stole $50 which the pastor
had collected for missionary purposes.
Dark as the outlook is, it is not with
out its bright possibilities.
Twenty-Five offices are to be filled
next fall in Schuylkill county, and
already there are over fifty candidates
announced for the spring primary.
with prospects that there will be over
two hundred candidates.
There are movements in progress
for establishing two more national
banks in Lancaster county, one in the
village of Intercourse and the other
in Millerrville, the seat OF the Mil
lerSVlIle Stat6 HOTHlhl sShOoi DOuh
are wealthy agricultural sections.
British Columbia's new railroad
from Kamloops to Salmon River-forty
miles lcag-will tap 285 acres Of gyp-
sum cepo-its.
The bye-olectiJns occurring in Great
Britain are show ing that there is
rsvulsion of sentiment against the lib
eral party.
With 900. 600 inhabitants Holland
has / 900 600 wage earneIs.
One Amsterdam factory alone cuts
400 900 diamonds every year.
The Kimberly diamond fields have !
been developed only since 1871.
Ten pounds of blood ore sent through
the human system al eroh heart beat
A Norwegian inventor las patented
fabric which applied to suit as
lining will support the weprer in wat
er.
The Saiar Grande salt mine in Chile
covers an area of so, COO acres, aud con
tains IA 900, 90. 600 tons of pure salt.
An unofficial estimate places at about
600, 600 the number of telephones
now in use in the world.
Pheanes Thomas, tax collector in
Cleveland township, Columbia county,
has ola leg OFF and the other is par
alyzei, 50 that he is Obliged to get
around on his hands and knees, yet he
is one of the best tax collectors in the
county. Last week he settled up his
duplicates at the commissioners offices
and in the taxes amounting to 81 ,O66.
he asked generations tor only IS
We are told that there are seventy
six square miles of floor space on Man.
haitian Island. And it is pretty near
Iv all utiIi1a1 Boo