The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-04-19
items Of Interest.

Aear-sightedness increases mp 70 the
age Of thirty.
There are men who wander about with
hopes at half-snast
Postage stamps are Manufactured ai
an average cost of one cent a hundred.
In the year 1876 the seeds received In
Chicago, principally clover and timothy,
were valued at more than S4, 900, 600
The New York Medical journal
claims that bruises DO much better when
treated with hot than with cold water.
Corn IN Georgia II said to be ne high
az a mans head. Corn il apt 10 rise 10
mans head, especially in a fluid state.
One BARRIERS shop in Springfield,
Mass, contains the notice " No talk
ing with q customer, unless he begins
the conversation.
There are said 10 be only twenty ex-
Confedeates-ineluding jefferson Davis
and Robert I0ombs-Whose disabilities
have not been removed.
The pasting Of printed slips on the
back of postal card obliges the recipi-
ent 10 pay additional postage This fact
is not generally known.
Abraham Lincoln, In his attack OF
smallpox. eeid Now 7 ana willing DO
see the Office seekers, for Rt last have
something I can give EN- all. I"
II was stranger with red hair who
opened the spring season at Niagara Falls.
After seeing that be had red hair, noon8
questioned his right TO go over.
Can animals communicate ideas :"
askes an exchange. II they cannot there
Is a vast amount of wasted conversation
o moonlight nights around fences and
back sheds.
In Chicago about s.. 200. 900 worth Of
leather Is produced annually, furnishing
employment 80 about $500 Workmen.
The sale of hides last year, il is thought,
amounted 10 IS. COO, 600.
What Is the difference between the
strap Of G horse car and the conductors
bell-punch The one is an inward check
upon the outer mar and the other ia an
outward check upon the inner man.
A Marlborough young man promised
TO take the affirmative side of n discus
sion before the lyceum if ha could choose
the question. This was agreed 10, and
be decided on VIII gunpoWder eK-
plode e.
Secretary Fish, on a salary Of 5000
a year. lived in . house in Washington
the rent oi which WAS IS. 600. his total
expenses we're about $50, 900 a year,
which his large fortune made il easy Cor
him 10 sustain.
It is proposed 10 use the steamship
Great Eastern for carrying cattle from
this country % England She VIII be
fitted up TO answer modern require
ments, az a cost Of S2J0. .000 She is now
in the Milford docks.
A New England antiquAry found this
entry in a grocer's book Of the last cen
tury "B. B. II. B. b. he traced up
the cipher with great zeal, until the ez-
PLANTATION was reached that Bill Beebe
Borrowed . Bushel Basket.
A resent number OF the Shanghai Cs-
cstial Empire contains the following
interesting item Of intelligence il Ia
said that during the absence Of Ting
Jih-chang in Formosa, the Fan-t'ai viii
act a. Fu-t'ai az FoochOw.
Some one declares that twenty minutes
IN the smoke Of wool or wooden cloth
VIII take the PAIN oui ui the worst case
II Inflammation arising from any wound,
and that no one need die from lockjaw II
this simple remedy is resorted to.
A party who recently lectuTed IN Den
yer appeared 10 be somewhat dissatisfied
with bis reception. Did you have a
large audience r. asked a sympathetic
friend. "No the authorities having
neglectas 60 close the saloons, there was
not much Of an attendance.
An imaginative Lrishman has i'm
proved upon OsSiRn. +. returned,
said be. Ito the halls Of my father by
night. and I found them in ruins. /
cried aloud Ny fathers. where aro
theyg And echo responded Ia that
yon, Patrick MClathery 2 "
A village congregation In Vermont was
disturbed the other Sunday during tho
momentary stiffness following the open
ing PRAYER. by a voice from the adjoining
dwelling exclaiming Mary, where's
the nails p Soon the answer came
In the coffee pot, you fool. =
An Anglo Indian engineer, Mr..
Crompton. has invented a locomotive
which possesses the peculiarly Of being
able 10 run around any obstacle placed
On tie track. and Of righting itself on
the rails again without any trouble. The
contrivance has been tested, and gave
entire satisfaction. n
A new geological fact has been devel-
oped in New South Wales. lt appears
chat gold in sufficient quantity 10 be
worth mining occurs IN = conglomerate
belonging 70 the coal measures, and that
the alluvial gold a the Old Tallawang
digQincs has been derived from the
waste of these congiomerates.
The settled expression OF determine
ton that mantles the face of man who
il lust starting ont 70 have a tooth pulled
Is only equaled by the s1bdued look
that creeps over his features as he pauses
with his hand on the knob Of the dental
room door. turns quietly around, and TAP
toes back through the hallway, ont doors
again.
In China il is said to be no uncommon
occurrence for man TO kiln himself at
his enemy's door, and 10 leave HIM thus
saddled with the moral and legal conse-
ouenees of the death. This proceeding
is, it is asserted, the most terrible form
of revenge a man Can take, and 1t Is much
dreaded by those who are cons eious OF
having done anything to provoke It.
Dean Ramsay relates that at q certain
dinner party the hostess observed that
one of the guests, an Hon. Mrs. Murray,
had no spoon for her soup, and called
the attention OF the servant 10 the fact
The man servant, who was an eccentric
old character, replied to his mistress, IN
a voice which was heard all over the room:
Mum. the last time Mrs. Murray was
here we lost spoonl
Abill has been reported in the Connec-
ticut Legislature giving woman who
pays taxes and owns over $500 worth Of
property the same right TO vote as any
/ tramp who sleeps under the hedges and
robs the roosts for living, and wears
/ the same shirt thirty-six months. There
is something indescribably grand and
impressing in the mighty development
in this age of progress and civilization