The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-07

Items Of Interest.
A grave error-burying q man alive.
Corn comes mp quick where crows
arc.
At thia season there IL no man 30 poor
that he cant have q bad cold.
whats In q namo9" About twenty
seven letters, II It's q Russian name.
One Of the largest Sunday schools in
the world il in Aintab, India. The
pupils number 500.
A party Of men are 10 60 from Portland,
Me-, 10 Texas, intending 10 take mp
large tract and build a village.
The Empress D0wager of Japan has
contributed 500, 900 toward founding a
school for young mobiles In Toxic.
A sewing machine company in this
country has received an order Tor 30, 900
sewing machines from an English firm.
An industrial college for negroes il to
/ be established in Richmond, Va, the
intention being to teach trades Of various
F, kinds
Three ladies were put up at q rafile in
I Kansas City, but when their photographs
we're exhibited 10 put stop 10 the aalo
Of tickets.
Professor Proctor says the earth is
I growing larger. We are glad 40 hear
Z Il, for real estate has shrunk fearully In
the past three years.
I'm the porgie oil factories In Maine
last year 6l6. 600 barrels Of tish produced
1,6ls, 900 gallons Of oil and 1900 tons
of strap, valued OF SIG, 800
Notwithstanding the late frosta in the
Napa valley, California, the largest yield
Of grapes ever raised In the valley viii,
Ia said, be gathered this year.
During the past winter it Is esti-
mated that in western Texas ], 900, 900
bison have, been killed for their hides,
and the earcaasos left 30 ROT on the
ground.
ReceDt Investigations warrant the as-
sertion that one baby with q cracker
biscuit viii make the couch of Wearied
industry more uncomfortable than fifteen
prize mosquitoes.
A witness on the stand, in reply 30 a
question as 10 what the character Of Mr.
- was for truth and veracity, said :
Well, I should say that be handles
truth very carelessly. "
The citizens Of Winfield, Kansas, turn
"a out ca Daasse lately, heRded by a
band Of music, and fought grnashOppers
ali day. The account says ''As the
people drove clouds Of these pests from
them the band discoursed sweet music.
and mfie the war very amusing and
interesting one.
The youthful astrologer, forecastiHg
the summers delights, sees the con
junction Of the fsh-hOok aud angle
worm rapidly approaching the zenith,
back Of which the consultations family
show forth an omen Of Wet-footed boys
and anxious mothers. But il all goes 10
help make up human life.
=" Money give me money, or shall
be driven 10 a deed my soul abhoEs."
The citizen produced handful Of silver
with tremulous aincrity, and il then oc-
cured 10 him 70 inquire shat particular
form Of felony his benevolence had defeat
ed. " Work, muttered the Wandlirer,
as he pocketed the coin and passed away.
Beaver hunters in California live ia
arks or floating houses, ln which they
move from place 90 place on the streams
and ponds. The ore small room on such
q craft contains benches for several men,
cooking utensils, hunting articles and
stock Of provisions. The hunters are q
lazy. card playing and careless lot, but
liveRcomfortablv and make the bueineas
pay.
A bombshell was plowed up in Morgan
county, Tenn, a few days ago. which
had been fired from one OF General George
Morgan's cannon during bis retreat from
Cumberland Gap in 1862 The finders,
10 test its keeping qualities, took Il home
and put il in the fire. A man about two
miles away on a hill reports the experi- Z
rnent as highly successful, but the actors
in the scene have not yet been heard
from.
A short time ago a lady residing Al
Clifton, England, having an income Of
IS, 900 a year, was so Fsruck by the de-
yotion Of a young crossing sweeper 70
bis mother that she proposed 20 him,
-placed him in the hands Of tutor for
couple " months, and when he had been
intellectually veneered and polished,
married him at Wells cathedral The
experiment was not n success, and the
lady is now suing for divorce.
A little girl, named Bruins. eight years
old. was killed by the cars az Cincinnati
while trying TO save her two sisters,
Younger than herself, from a similar
fate. The two were playing on the rail-
road track and did not notice the ap-
prosching train, when the little girl, see
ing their peril. rushed ont q the house,
dragged them one after the other from
the track, but bad not time 10 save her
self and was almost instantly killed.
Two bodies, tightly fastened together
with a strong cord, were taken from the
Seine at Rouen, France. A young man
whose father was rich had been 50 inlu-
dicious as 10 fall in love with = wurk-girl,
pretty. simple, and l0w-born. A letter
found in the pocket oil the young mans
coat told the tragic story in a single
sentence: "Our parents would not
allow Us 10 marry, and we resolved 10
perish together 10 order that we might
not be separated in Paradise.
The ignorance OF the Turkish troops
is dense. but their officers are well edu-
Gated. There are military schools az
Constantinople, Broussa and Monastlr,
organized by French, German and Brit
ish officers, and the porte has been send
ing its most intelligent students TO Ber-
lin. Vienna, London and Paris for mill
tary instruction. Many Turkish officers
speak French, German, English and
italian.
Nth Eorahaade