Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-02-17

The proposed faR OK tIle new Gormmu
Empire Il black, white, red, and gold.
A Minnesota editor having been eloot-
| ell Clerk nf tho House, his wife iA run-
ming the paper In his absence.
A Berlin Telegram states that the Ger
man war expenses amount 10 1000, 600,
thaleFA, or hay EIT0, 900 ANY.
| Carloita Patti has loss greatly by Epu.
rious tickets at Rio Jhneiro. Seven hun
dred dollars were taken On one evening.
srR Roderick Murchis0n hns received
a letter from Africa giving positive intel
hgence Of the safety Of Dr, Liyingatone,
THE Wisconsin Assembly passed. by
an almost unanimous vote, d memorial
10 Congress against tts repeal Of the In
come Tax.
Two Belgian carbinearg have beer Gh0t
by FmBcs-iireurG In consequence of
/ the outrage, the local nufai0ritiea aEresf
MI Francs-tireuB found ON Belgian ter
Fitory.
| The cheese manufacture Of New York
is growing 10 stupend0us proportions.
Twelve hundred factories nrn now Inn
operation, making one million pounds
yearly.
A Cincinnath woman, melancholy be-
canBe her husbands circumstances were
not a. good nm she supposed, opened the
veins Of her arms with her scissors and
perished-
A man i'm Minnesota had got nll ready
10 be marg1ed, when he received letter
from his wife in Maine which reminded
him that ha was already in the holy es-
tate. He had entirely iorBottea the cir
cnmgtance.
The cause of woman suffrage is stead
lily progressing. A teacher of Rn Amherst
:mnhOol has made II a rule that The boys
may wash the girls faces with snow III
the girls are as big as the boys." That
is, il they can.
Kansas leads All the States I'm the
average yield of corn, il being 48.4, fol-
lowed by Nebraska with AZ and Cali
fornin Ala. She mlso stands third I'm
yield OF wheat, barley, potatoes and hay,
and seventh in buckWheat
A ERurAL man in Marblehead, Mass,
went homo drunk few weeks ngD. aud
thrust his wife out of doors and broke
her leg II was set, and might or two
ago he went homo. drunk again, and
broke her leg again in tw0 places
The Atlanta lSua asks "Why are we
not to-day the richest people IN the
world ?" The Is0uisyille .JonrN1l pre-
sumes il IN chiefly because there mrn 9th
er people In the world who have the ad-
vantage Of Us in point Of property.
A lad In Bridgeport had three fingers
of his right hand taken or few days
since, by drop-press IN q brass shop.
Looking upon his bleeding hand, the
brave little fellow exclaimed, "I'N bet
mother viii cry when she sees that
An advertisement in q newspaper
il n good barometer Of the condition of
business. The other day an ''ad" for
carpenter published three times in q
Boston paper brought two hundred let
iers and forty personal applications
About lJD JDrepresentatives attended Che
quarterly session Of the Grand Division
Of the Sons Of Temperance OF Eastern
New York. The total membership OK
the order in that division ia ~. .aAA. The
treasury now contains about $4,000.
Two fools in Illinois dared each other
10 marry. Each th0uRht. up to the last
minute, that the other would back down
but both were plncky. Now that they
are married they are IN peck Of trouble,
each being engaged 10 another person.
THKRE is a Tumor floating about in the
German papers that an importer from
New York, who sailed for Germany ON
the steamer Hermann, 10 buy goods, be-
came insane almost immediately on land
ing and died few days afterward Of
congestion OF the brain.
The golden goose has made its reap
pearance. The wife Of a jOuTneyman
carpenter, in the London road, South
wark. purchased goose for her family
al moderate price per pound. and on
examining the inside fortunately discov-
cred secreted two sovereigns Of the reign
OF William Nv.
The apothecaries Of Boston are NOV
ing for a law requiring a diploma from
a college of pharmacy or certificate
from mn examining beard, after an APP
premiership of four years in a dispen-
sary, as a qualification for engaging IN
the retail drug business
A roUxa gentleman, after having paid
his addresses 10 q young lady for time,
popped the question. The lady in
frightened manner, said, You scare me,
sir" The gentleman did not wish 10
frightea the lady, and consequently re-
NAMED quiet for some time, when she
exclaimed, Scare me again.
There is a remedy for Group gong the
rounds. which may, perhaps. prove eff
cacious. Ii is simply allspice tea, the
lea being made of whole grams Of all
spice. According 10 all accounts IL gives
almost instant relief in cases where other
remedies have failed, and seems at once
to cut the phlegm loose and relieve the
child.
OrF1urAI. returus show that the total
number Of passengers arrived IN the
United States during the year ending
Dec. 81, 1870, was 413. .6S5, Of which
354. 169 were immigrants. The net I'M
migration for the corresponding period
OF 1869 WIS 3S5, ,2S7, showing decrease
occasioned by the war in Europe, OF 81
lis in 1870.
"My dear friend,n said q gentleman
10 bankrupt the other day, 81 ann very
sorry TO hear of your misfortune. Your
family has my warmest sympathies-"
{" Oh. don't trouble yourself about my
family. L looked out for them, you bet !
Just save your sympathies for the fami-
lies of my creditors. "
They mix things considerably In Chi
na. A man-tailor may be seen working
diligently at lady's dress for about SIX
cents a day, and washerwoman viii
wash and iron your clothes Mt I'll q hum
dred; while boatman's wife may be
seen tugging at the oar or handling the
sails like man, often, too, with baby
ON her shoulders.
A CASE Of convulsions resulting In
death occurred at Worcester, Mass, q
few days ago, by which physician OF
Twenty-Five years of professional life was
needlessly puzzled. Immediately after
birth child was suddenly placed in the
lap of little girl, between three and
four years OF age, who screamed, went
into commissions, and died.
A member of the Connecticut legisla-
ture was told by fellow member that 1t
was I" good day for the race. /" What
race ?" said the victim. Human
race. " said the Joker. The man was so
! impressed with the sell that he tried i:
on d friend after the following fashion
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