The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-08
Items Of Interest.

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Items Of Interest.
In Minnesota twelve per cent. lis pro-
posed as legal interest,
Men are not doing a good business
when making bad debts.
Sweden has declined to take part in
the Paris Exhibition of 1878.
To keep moths out of old clothing II
Il recommended t0 give the clothing 70
the poor.
The question "a, did the horaeman
that secured the plain put soap IN the
aands
The biah0p of L0nsslAle's directions for
the way b. heayen Y0u lave only 10
turn 30 tae right and ~ straight for
ward
The California friends Of DR. W. III.
Jones, who went Themes 20 Australia,
have received letters saving that he had
been eaten by New Guinea caunibals.
The Athenialla erected large statue
II Esop and placed hila, though nRlave,
on lasting pedestal, 10 show that the
way 10 honor lies open indiherently 10
all.
| llno oy people ho fond 0y contradik-
shun that il would not surprise ne at all
10 hear them disputiug with glide
board about the distance t0 the next
town.
Women have often successfully hid
valuable in their hair, and n young
French lady lately found i thousand
franc note in her deceased mothers
chign0n.
Monsieur reads the paper 10 madam
q Another crime q woman cut in pieces. !
Madam fqnicklYl- by her husband n
Monsieur fiun0cently1 - +" Who else
Wuald you expect =
The Grand Duke Nicholas threatened
10 shoot number of Russian officers who
asked either for the opening uf the cam
g1aign or that they should be- sent into
proper winter quarters.
+" What are you fencing III that lotfor,
Pat? A herd 0f cattle would starye to
death on that land. And sure. your
honor, wasn't tencin' il In 10 iape the
poor bastes out 0y u =
In q dilemma--Ihe bachelor who re-
marked thai " L. never would marry
aEy woman be didn't respect, and he
certainly couldn't respect any woman
who was willing 10 marry him.
A lady who assumes 10 know how boys
ought % be trained, writes as follows
+" Oh, mothers hunt ont tie soft, tender,
GENIAL side uf y0ur boys nature.
Mothers often do with en- old shoe.
Johnny. have won learned anything
during ths week p aske3 a teacher of a
fire-year-old pupil . letll'm." Wen,
what II ifg" i" Never to leai a small
trump when you hold both bowers.
General Newton has Just finished plans
for erecting new bridge whick il 10
cross the Hudson nj peeksiill III viii
lpe one magnificent span of / ESQ feet.
end the ho0r viii lie l65 feet above the
water.
Worcester Preat: Young people
who bet kisses ON the result of the eleC-
ton needn't necessarily wait till March.
They can have them now and the one
who loses can pey when the matter IL de-
cidel "
The Doylestown tPennsyivauia) Intel
kigeRcer savs that ''after all there j. no
heat like that from a hickory wood fire.
Yon wait awhile. adds the Detroit Fress
farcss. hickorv wood isn0thing To it, and
the Bible says -.
MrS Louisa Mccall, of Canton. Ohio,
hns been chosen director IL the bank Uf
which her late husband WAS president.
and il tile second female national bank
director ever chosen, Mrs. j. nj. Brad
lev. of Peoria. III, chosen two yeaEs
ago. being the first
About this time farmers are sitting In
the evenings hy their comforting fire.
sides. with O pitcher Of cider. plate Of
apples and pan oi nuts before them. In
the interim between their eating and
drinking they look solemnly upward and
exolAirn " What awful hard times =
Chlnrate al potassium and iodide Of
potassium are separately harmless meti-
cal doses. hut the Journal of Pharmacy
warns physicians not TO administer them
together. because IN the stomach they
combine 10 make iodate Of potassium,
poison. Mixed I'm any other way they do
not thus act.
A Canadian woman has inst taken re-
venge in d novel way on female board
cr. She didn't abuse her, denounce
her. scratch her. or anything uf that
kind-oh no; she quietly took scls-
sors. went 10 the closet and cut mp the
hated ones best silk dress into strips Of
size for making rag carpet.
A large lot Of wine viii he sold out
shortly 10 close nm estate I'm Georgia.
Some of IL was bottled in lT96, and none
~ il il likely "a sell for less than S25
per bottle. How this simple announce
ment will cause thousands of those fel-
lows who travelled with Sherman i'm 1864
) 70 weep over their carelessness.
- Grandma, DO you know why can
see mp in the sky 80 far 2 asked Charlie,
q little four-year-old, of the venerable
lady who sat on the garden seat, knitting.
No. my dear why is il n Because
there il nothing in the way, replied the
vuung philosopher, resuming his astron-
omicai search, and grandma her knitting.
Courbet, the man who has been con-
demned for numbering woman In the
Rue Taitbout, in Paris, to twenty years
imprisonment, has addressed letter to
the president Of the COURT Imploring
that the sentence should he changed to
one Of death. lie declares that person
guilty Of such q crime M his il not worthy
20 live.
This il how Offenbach dedlcates his
book to his wife, Herminie Offenhach:
You have desired that should make
book from these letters written ut odd
times. This is the first sorrow You have
caused me. Still, bear you SO little
ill-will therefor that dedicate You this
volume, not for what it is or may be
worth. but because / love to write every
where my esteem and affection for you.
A French court has compelled the
family Of peasant to pay S6S.6O for the
absolutely necessary expenses of his
funeral. The items were Three
priests. S8: tolling bell, S1.2O; draping
the altar, 80; litter, So; cloth for sigma
ture table, s.; female mourners, SO;
burial fee, eighty cents; coffin, So; four
bearers, s. 40; tapers, $500; hearse,
S24; "a days work, 81; total, S6S.60.
The cunning that seems to be a part
of insanity il illustrated in the killing Of
Erskine Barrett, keeper in the insane
saylum at Northampton, Mass. Tie
was found with his throat cut in tine
ward of which he had charge, and one
or more of eight maniacs did ii; yet it
is impossible TO ascertain the facts. Sew