The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-02-15

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California shipped 100000 pounds
Of wool last year.
Many q man blows the bellows Of the
organ that sounds his praise.
"a" II easy enough, but the last
letter Of the alphabet lizard. DO yUu
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Some goodness II like the glow worm
IN this, that Il shines most when no eyes,
except those Of Heaven, are upon It.
A fashion paper says that damasses
win be popular with the ladies this win
ter, and society men have taken freah
hold II life,
A mother remarked: Yes, ! want
my daughter 20 study rhetoric, for she
can't fry pancakes now without Emok-
ing all the house mp.
A philosopher who went TO a church
where the people came "a late said IL
was " the fashion there for nobody b
60 till everybody got there.
Frank Waiworth is still IN the State
lunatic asylum in Auburn, n. T., and sG-
perintendent Gray believes that he was
insane When he hllel his father.
~ AAAMHAAtE AAlA4A4 AAAn~tfHA IT. AsAAAN4s5sH
advertisement, a. How % win 81 poker.
and received for his two dollars the fol-
lowing "Hsld foar aces or don't
poke.
A lazy fellow, falling a distance Of fifty
feet, and escaping with only d few
scratches, q bystandeF remarked that be
was " too slow 10 fall fast enough to hurt
himself ("
The Bashi- Baz0nks have been de-
scFibed as " irregular Tartar troops who
are quartered on the inhabitants In time
~ peace, and quarter them in time of
disturbance"
The State Of Maine pays % bounty
for every bear killed within is limits.
Last year was apparently good, on rather
bad year for bears, for so were killed,
costing the State g., T45.
A postal clerk In Dnbnqne opened a
letter inst 10 see il q certain girl was
very sweet on a eertain fellow. She
was, and the government is also very
sweet ON the postal clerk.
They do business with dispatch in
Texas A man la "a certain neighbor-
hood who had lost q valuable mare, re-
ceivesi the following by telegraph: Mare
here. Come get her. Thief hung.
The tame is al hand when a fellow
buys for his chum's sister highly orna-
mental valentine, the great center ~ al
trnction of which H. a picture 0f the
tabled boy who has decidedly more
wings than overcast
How a ST. Louis bankrupt got nd Of
81. 900 in three weeks Was explained 10
the satisfaction of the creditors by wit
ness, who explained that he was q
genial fellow, that he played poker
and bought lottery tickets.
Norristown Herald Love makes
les pounds Of girl feel no heavier than
a feather ON q fellows knee. Fulton
Times And the same fellow would
have his leg cramped al out OF shape by
seyenty-five pounds OF wife.
els that friend OF yours 2" asked a
New York gentleman, pointing 10 a
party who was sailing rapidly down the
street. Can't tell you til mex; Sss1lr-
day, " returned the individual addressed.
i've just lent him five dollars"
The principal uf n Des MONIES tIR-)
school raised false alarm of fire
as an experiment, jast % see how quick-
IN the pupils could get out of the build
ing. The panic was a striking success,
and several children were slightly hurt.
In the following there is a good deal
Of truth There are plenty % good but
weak women in every community who'll
work. and starve, aud ssrimp, in order b.
furnish their parlors, aud then won't sit
in 'em for fear Of iniuring the furniture.
one pf the beauties of corner lots
comes ont strong ut Plttsheid, Mass.
where the Methodist church hAs about
I. 500 square feet of sidewalk 10 take care
of. and has shoveled 90. coo cubic feet Of
snow from IL, 50 far. with twenty-seven
snowstorns 10 hear from.
The correspondent Of q Western news
paper saws that Clande Burroughs. on
being sent from the Union Square Thea
ter to act IN the Brooklyn Theater wrote
a note 10 the young woman 10 whom be
was engaged, saving that he wished the
Brooklyn establishment would burn
down.
This il q dreadful winter for the poor
icemen. Every time, says the Burling-
ton Hasckcyc, they have raised the
piteous waii that there viii be an
other ice famine next season, the ther-
mometer goes down 10 bedrock, and the
Mississippi freezes from top 10 bottom
and half way back.
Mr.. Holly, the engineer, viii attempt
10 hest the entire city Of Lockport, n.
Y. lIy steam. The city is divided into
districts, and each district is 10 have IFS
separate boiler. Mains from each boiler
are run 10 the different houses, and all
the occupant has 70 do il to turn faucet
and obtain all the heat he wants.
The newsboys of Washington are uni
formed. This is a departure from the
ancient and accepted uniform of the
newsboys, whie. usually consists of
mans coat, one suspender and cigar
stump Sometimes, under stress of very
trying and destitute circumstances, the
suspender and coat may be omitted
Three millions in twenty-dollar gold
pieces arrived in New York from San
Francisco. The weight OF the gold was
six tons, il filed fourteen iron safes, and
il took seventeen men to guard il ON the
way. Suppose Vanderbilt's sixty mil
lions were in gold, weighing one hun
dred and twenty tons, what trouble
some thing il would be 10 have about
the house.
One of Queen Victoria's first measures
ON coming to the throne was to take
steps for the payment Of her fathers
debts, and on October Z, 1889. deputs-
tion from the Duke Of KeRt's creditors
waited upon her TO present an humble
address of thanks. The debts amounted
to some $780, 900. A monument b the
duke in now in course Of erection in the
Chapel Royal, Windsor, at her maiesty's
expense.
The Lake Shore railroad company, it
is said, will contest suits for damages on
account of the Ashtabula disaster, claim
ing that the breaking Of the bridge wass
"an act OF God, for which they cannoh
he held responsible. They will endeayoK
to prove that the bridge was ordinarily
safe, and that cold weather weakened it.
Should they be defeated, the amount of
judgments would amount to about half
million dollars.
Tragical Occurrence.