The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-04-26

Some people cant endure n ringing
sensation in the ear, while most ladies
take very naturally 70 ear rings
An average Of 10, 900 letters IS daily
received AT the Boston post-oiiee. A
year ago the average was 81 900 letters o.
day.
A woman was caught with five snug
. gled yiolins under her pullbaek skirts, in
Philadelphia, as she Was disembarking
from steamer.
The enormous quantity Of 420, 600, ,00 O
pounds Of rosin was produced IN the
United States for the year 1876 about
300, 600 casks Of spirits of turpentine.
There is a $50. 600 tomb in Greenwood.
stone mason made H. In the outskirts
Of the city a pauper lies under a rose
bush.-God made it.-DanJtfry Ners.
The richest copper mine-the Calmut
and Hecla--near Portage Lake, Mich, it
Is stated, was discovered by the roofing
Of pig IN an ancient pit some ten years
ago.
Women, remarked the eontemplntiye
man, are as deep as the blue waters a
Won bay" Ave, sir" rej0innd the
eontemplative man, "and a. full Of
craft. I"
At the station house in Waterbury,
CT, they have a Welcome motto
over the entrance 30 the cells, thus max
ing il pleasant and homelike for the oc-
cupants.
The Senate Of Connecticut has passed
a bill giving married women the same
property rights which they held before
marriage, but prohibiting husband and
wife from conveying property 10 each
other
All the male members Of the Swedish
colony nj Houltnn, Ne, were recently
naturalized. There are noW about Elk
hundred Swades in the colony, which is
reported 10 be in q very prosperous con-
ditioa.
Rumor says that Miss Elizabeth Er-
rety, of Minnesota, has fallen heir 10 a
milhon-dollaF estate IN Europe. Young
men, however, should await a condFTna-
tion Of the news before they make "a
bold stroke for Lib-Erety."
"All the worlds n stage, he rumi-
mated, " and all the men and women are
merely players, and most Of tie plays
are fnom Shakespeare, too Before We
were married, Julia and i played
Romeo aud Juliet, and now its mostly
Tempest
When a man in Nevada receives a
notice. signed "60I, telling him that he
must quit that section, he understands
that II lac disobeys he viii be punished
by vigilance men. Seven thieying
gamblers have Just Needed such a COM =.
mand in Reno.
Lady TO servant, who has given notice
three days after her arrival But If you
didn't mean 30 stay why did you take
the placel Servant-W Wen, m, when I
see YOU at the registry Office you looked
so tired and tagged took your situation
ont Of charity like.
A Spaniard and an American were re-
Gently dining together in New Orleans.
The former in passing dish ot brains
TO the latter said What you lack Z"
The American offering the Spaniari a
plate of tongue answered " What you
have a surplus Of. "
BY the new liquor law recently passed
by the Maine Legislature, hotels are not
allowed 20 publish wine lists on their
bills OF fare In consequence Of this act,
the bills OF fare Of Portland hotels have
gone into mouraing, being heavily boT-
dered with black.
Scene in an Iowa court -- Judge
"That point has been decided against
you by every court in Christendom, SIP,
and there Is no use Of further argu-
ment Lawyer " Very true, but your
honor frequently decides against every
court in Christendom.
The Norristown Herald SAYS The
men who have honesty enough 20 resist
the temptation of removing an uncan-
celed postage stamp from a secondhand
envelope and using II the second time,
are the kind Of statesmen We want az the
head of our government
A milk dealer in Chicago has retired
with handsome fortune. When boy
asks him how 30 get ON in the world, h0
says: Don't be discouraged; You
can't get rich all 10 wunst. Look az me
All the capital had TO begin with was
milk can and water pail.
Southwest Texas il filed with a
iogrishing German population. The
inhabitants OF the State have doubled
their numbers since 1870; they now
amount 20 1900, 600, and il the census
we're taken. they would be entitled to an
increase Of ten votes in the electoral
college.
A Rondout chap, having heard Of the
wonderful effects Of blue glass, has had
inserted in his room two pRnes of violet
hue, beneath which he has placed g di-
lapidated wallet containing a 81 note,
and now he is watching to learn whether
it will bloom forth as a new Russia leath-
er one containing 81, 900 greenbaek or
ten 500 notes.
An individual who sold CLANS on the
Lords day defended himself with the
plea that he feared the clans would not
keep till Monday, and II would be better
to pay the costs OF court and enjoy free
conscience than 20 palm OF dead clans
on an unsuspecting people, and suffer
the pangs Of relaorse
A Catskill woman recently knocked
down seven robbers, one after the other.
Her husband watched her from the top
Of the stairs. and felt so brimful of fight
that he couldn't cool or until he jerked
his eight-year-old son ont Of bed and
whaled him soundly for not getting up
and helping his mother.
George Macdonald. the novelist, has
a family of eleven children. Girls and
BOYS have succeeded each other in al
ternate order, and the usual regularity
in the Macdonald family has been util-
lied by giving to each girl the sole charge
of the brother next in age. and expecting
her to exercise over him maternal care.
Count z. de T. married an opera star
of remarkable beauty. His friends con-
graduated him, but gruff old cousin,
who was the husband of an ugly old cat,
observed that he should scarcely care to
have a wife whom couple of thousand
men had right to lorgnette to every eve
ming. "Well, / don't know, said the
count, 81 think it's preferable to having
a wife whom a couple of thousand men
wouldn't look at if they could.
"The baby has got a new tooth, but
the old lady is laid up with a cold in the
head, remarked a gentleman to a de-
feated candidate. "What do l care ?"
was the reply. "Well, said the gentle
man, slowly, "before the election you
used 10 take me aside and ask me how
my family was coming on, and I've been
hunting you all over town to tell you,
and that's the way you talk to me. But
it don't make any difference. / voted
for the other candidate, anyhow"
An old pioneer, who believed that
''what was to be would be, i" lived in