The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15
Items or Interest.
The great nensos-taker-run.

The debt Of the city Of Philadelphia is
over s72, 900, 900.
A man with east ia hiB eye il not out
of place in an iron foundry.
When two trains attempt To pass each
other ON single track, one must go
under
A Philadelphia woman Gwore that her
husbands conduct was enough 10 irri-
gate an angel.
Ha-Whooze sweet 2 5he--Boaf OF
us. He--Whooze plum pudding la % 7
She-Ooze.
Success don't consist in never making
blunderH, but in never making the same
one the second time.
The genius Of liberty and poetry
brought into action the brightest powers
Of the human mind.
There In one trait of young gentle
man that In always possessed by the girl
lie ioves-his portrait.
There ia room for 10000 more
farmers ia Texas, and each one eln have
b farm with a race course On II.
I'm Pennsylvania there are 5,5s5E
miles 0f main and branch railroads, and
2, 1884, Of second AMI side tracks.
Husbands and fathers viii be pleased
70 learn that ~ small checks are 10 be
fashionable for eilkR this summer
One II the snbalterns of the Grand
Duke Alexis ship staggers under the
uneuphonions name Of BOnlkopRky.
Tie fund for the family of Haywood,
the bank cashier who WAS murdered 1t
Northheld, MINI. has reached SIT, 900.
An italian philosopher il of the opin-
ION shat a good many people in this world
suffer torture in order not ~ die of star
walton.
Work j. progressing rapidly on the
building f0r the Paris Exposition of
1878, and April ] of that year il am
nounced as opening day.
There were l0.G36 births in Boston
last year, 1881 marriages, and 400
leaths: decrease of 39a births, 5gT
marriages. and 755 deaths over 1876.
Rhode Island passed law legalizing
lie marriage Of blacks and whites; then
they repealed the Law, and finally fhey
feoonsidered the repeal aud re-eIaaeted
the Law.
A Detroit tramp gets hia beer for
nothing by touching the baFteBdeT's
heart with the remark. " Why, / thought
i0r an instant that Daniel Webster bad
returned 10 Life. +"
Actor (in popular melodrama1 I
must steal away should be discovered
am lost A voice (from the gallery
On the contrary. If you are discovered,
v0u are found Curtain.
Remember whom you are talking to,
SIR. said an indignant parent to re-
fracsory boy: = am your father.
Well. who's tc blame for that ?" said
tie young impertinence; faint me "
Little girls disturbed an old man in
San Francisco by playing ON balcony
close 60 his room, which Was III q fourth
story. He ran out, caught one Of them,
aud threw her over the railing. She WIS
s.illed.
The golden fleece. As the gold yield
~ Australia decreases the woOl crop
grows more valuable Last year Tire wool
product ~ that country WAS $40, COO, 600,
more than four times as much o. its gold
product.
Jennie docking III d niIliner's Window
-" Don't you think they are very
prettvf' Lizzie fwhose thoughts are On
llle other side IL the street l--" Very, es-
pecially the one with the lung, black side
whiskers."
The mikado, On emperor, of Japan,
Las Just celebrated his twenty-seyenth
year. He IL the one hundred and twenty
third representative ot dynasty of rulers
who can boast Of an unbr0ken succession
for twenty-five centuries.
" Smoky Jones. known throughout
tire Black Hills as q vagaboud. has bS-
come suddenly wealthy hy discovering
and selling gold veins. He gained his
nickname by long disuse of soap, and
wealth makes DO change in bis habits.
John Stevens ran away from his wife
in Elmira thirty-fonr years ago. Re-
Gently she discovered him in California.
where he had accumulated 500. 900 and
another wife. She j. willing he should
retain the second wife, but she demands
a third Of his fortune, aud il likely to
get it,
A daring Brooklyn man who ventured
to kiss a Boston girl thus terseiy depicts
the resulting phenomena She rose ln
sectlons-rigid, awful. snblime--towered,
Medusa hke-fixed her stony stare mo
ment on nothingness. then telescoped,
collapsed. scooted. aud / saw her no
more.
Among the treasures recentlyunsarthed
at Rome was a little gold bell having on
its sides the inscription - am made
~ n preventive against the evil eye; !"
and il il supposed that the Roman
mothers hung these bells round their
children's necks to keep them from
harm.
An apple woman In New York, who
recently died, requested three hundred
and fifty dollar funeral, and left the
money to pay for it, besides distributing
three Thousand dollars among her rela-
tives, and vet there are people who COM
plain that nobody j. making money
nowaday.
Two women and a. raan are under ar
rest in Philadelphia They comprise
the Charity Relief Association. They
hired a house, put ont sign, collected
money from benevolent persons, and
pocketed the proceeds. They are said
to have operated i'm the same manner in
other cities.
The cattle disease has shown itself in
several sections in Silesia in Germany,
and also among the cattle driven TO Ber-
lin for slaughter. The disease il as
cribed to che influence of foreign cattle.
imported in disregard OF government
regulations. These are TO be more strict
ly enforced in future.
A glazier was putting pane Of glass
into window, when q groom who was
standing by began joking him, telling
him to mind and put in plenty at putty.
The man bore the banter for some time,
but ut last silenced his torment0r with
" Arah. now, be off wild ye, or Ill put
pain in yer head without any putty.
John Clerk, the Edinburgh lawyer,
and Raeburn, the painter, were great
cronies in their younger days, both be-
ing poor as church mice One
day Clerk asked Raeburn to dine. On
arriving the latter found the landlady
spreading the cloth and setting ON the
table two dishes, one containing three
herrings, the other three potatoes.
"And il this all ?" said Clerk. IAN,
said the dame. "All Did I not tell
We, woman, he cried, "that n gentle
man was to dine with me, and that ys
were to get six herrings and six Pota-
toes p
On one occasion when Henri Monnier
was acting in the provinces a terrible