Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-01-23
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1t is a good thing for this world that
Providence is at the helm.
Many a fine fellow is wholly undone
by the misdirected zeal of foolish
friends.
Congress is going to try to learn
who gave Artist Reuterdanl his IN
formation about the navy,
Physicians of York estimate that
there are 5000 cases of grip and l, 900
of measles in that city at present.
Nagasaki, Japan, now has in use
four motor omnibuses which were
made in Springfield, Mass.
The manager of the theatre in Savan-
nah, Ga. has adopted the rule that no
late corners will be seated hereafter
until the end of the first act.
Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
is likely to be a candidate for the seat
in the United States senate now oc-
cupied by Senator Clay.
There is complete sex equality in
Finland, women being eligible to any
Office in the grand duchy except COVER
nor general, and that is filled by ap-
pointment of the czar.
Louisiana has 1000 physicians, ll9
of whom are practlciDg without di-
plomas. Naw Orleans has 705 of the
total number.
The Japaness emporer declared in
his recent speech from the throne that
he sincerely desires peace with all the
world
Kepcers of statistics announce that
the lynchings in 1907 numbered fifty
seven as compared with seventy-three
in 1906
According to the report of an expert
who was employed to audit the ac-
count of the Alabama Agricultural as
sociation. there IS an apparent short
age of about $50, 900 in the accounts
of 1906.
Experiments are under way in Della
ware with building roads of mixture
of clay and crude OIL
The secretary of State at Washing
ton has asked congress to increase the
salaries of the assistant secretary and
bureau chiefs.
The national debt of France is al
most Sc, 900, 900, 600. Russia owes be-
tween 81, 1000, 900, 900 and $1,000, ,ooo,-
900.
The newly chosen supervisor of reg
istration in the city of New Orleans
is appropriately named Wisdom.
Mayor of the town of Meigs, Georgia,
for fourteen years, E. Wilkes, has just
been reelected by majority of ten
votes.
The report that Booker r. Washing
ton is soon to make a speech or write
a letter denouncing Secretary Taft
may safely be set down as work of
the imagination.
This country will get about one fifth
of the nearly 800, 600 which the Grand
Trunk railway, of Canada, is parting
with for new locomotives this winter.
A scandal is developing in the State
institution for feeble-minded children
at Lincoln, Neb. growing out of the
mysterious and serious burning of sew
eral children.
Austria is going to tax visiting au
tomobiles according to the length o.
their stay and to use the money il
road mending.
George Mccullough, a native o
Glasgow, Scotland, who landed il
Australia just sixty years ago will
less than $25 in his pocket, died re
Gently worth a million.
New York City's reservoirs hold {
sufficient supply to meet the usua
needs of the city for II weeks.
They have COW at the Wisconsin
Agricultural college which has pro
duced the raw material for 1,20
pounds of butter during the past year
In fire at Longview hotel, nea
Pottstown. about 200 badges of Civi
war times besides autograph letter
from President Lincoln and man
prominent union generals, belongin
to the late Annie Wittenmeyer, VIII
had been a famous army nurse, wer
burned
Caddo parish, Louisiana, has vote
for prohibition by majority of Al
The city of Shreveport, which is locat
ed in this parish, gave majority c
300 against prohibition, but the aC
verse vote of the parish overcame thi
and little more.
In Belgium 10 per cent. of Telegram
messages are delivered in from one
fifteen minutes.
Cabbages in Cuba grow to such siz
that single head often weighs :
pounds.