The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-05-03

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On the first Of last January the popu-
lation Of Holland was 3. 800. 927, an in-
crease Of 300. 70s in seven years.
A Yorkshire woman il 10 cleanly that
/ she uses two rolling pins--Ono for the
pastry and the other Tor her husbands
head
Gilt-edgcd handkerohiefa are the latest
/ affectntion. The edge must just peep
from the swell's overcoat pocket on tho
/ port side.
The city Of Constantinople has three
hundred and fifty Mohammedan
mosques and tlrirty-six Christian
churches
Button parties are popular IN the
West. We don't know whence they de-
rive their name, unless IL IN because they
are always sure 10 come or
A donkey carrying load Of books il
ns respectable an animal ns the person
whose head is crammed with learning
that he does not understand
+ A bin has bean passed by the Illinois
Legislature making an appropriation for
the completion Of the monument 10
Stephen A. Douglas IN Chicago,
A gentleman named More proposed 10
a lady by letter, and she asked time for
consideration, closing her letter with
the words "No More M present.
In Japan a man Who cats onions
abseuts himself from society for sixteen
DAYS; In this country he c0mplicates tho
ohense by chewing eardamon seeds.
A Chicago girl. who claims 10 have
proved IL by experiment, says that by
putting a lover ID the light of O blue
glass window he can be made to propose
At one sitting.
Minister (reproachfHlly 10 bibul0us
village barber, with shaking hand): "Ah,
John, John That whisky" Barber
toondolentlyJ: AYE, sir, il mak's the
skin unco tender.
Prom one point Of yiew-Soene, Brit
ish iurY-room. All agreed on their yer-
dict except one juryman (Bho holds Out).
All, thin. Iliv'n more obstinit men /
nivir met in all my loife r.
The disaster that followed a cry Of fire
in a Memphis theater was confined 60
the boy who shouted. He was cuied
and kicked out Of the building, and when
he got home his father added a sound
whipping.
A French boarding school for girls is
mentioned, where a prize Is offered 70
the best mender Of old clothing, IN ad-
dition 20 those for general excellence in
studies. This il the first case ol the
kind chronicled.
The testimony elected as 10 the salaries
paid the officers Of life insurance COM
panieE fully iustifies the belief that, by a
little care and frugality, almost any one
Of them could 60 through life without
suffering from chronic penury.
The Southern hum0rist known as Bill
Arp was recently killed in Texas by fall
ing from a wagon. He was not a literary
man by profession, but was farmer His
quaint ideas were put into shape for
publication by newspaper friend
S0ndan viii apparently never be Of
much value 20 Egypt unless lis climatic
disadvantages can be IN some way over
come. In three months COO Of the 800
troops there have died. and during the
two rainy seasons 2, 400 out Of 5000
died.
A promissoFy note for s., 900 was pre-
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last week for allowance, upon which
interest had been paid at ten per cent for
nearly twenty-three years. The drawer
of the note had paid Sll 900 on 1t N
interest
Zachariah ". Haynes, a deaf mute.
who Was married in August, 1874, 70 q
daughter Of Chang Bunker, one of the
Siamese twins, is q teacher IN the lnEti-
tute for the deaf, dumb and blind in
Raleigh. n. g. He has two children,
both of whom can hear.
A Portuguese At Provineetown, Mass,
while holding a knife in his hand, fell
from q step ladder the other day, the blade
Of the knife entering his mouth and
lifting out 4 tooth, without otherwise
injuring him, with the exception q
slight scratch on the lip.
Now, my young friends, can you
tell me who Leonidas was n Yes sir
YES. sir; he WIS a member Of the LngiE-
lature. And what makes yon think
he was member Of the Legislature,
nv children 2 " Because, SIR, he held
a pass with Spartan frmness.
The brother and heir Of the dethnoned
tycoon Of Japan Is now IN Paris as =
student. he is a gentlemanlv, quiet
young man. The mikado allows him
81 900 n year for his expenses. Cbf
lapsusg Ten years ago, thirty millions
of people tremhlei at his name
An electric belt for ladies, which is
said 20 have tranquiliiEing effect upon
the nerves. is the last invention. For
steady comfort, however, il is not likely
20 supersede the old and popular belt,
which is composed of a coat sleeve with
a Young mans arm inside Of H.
The Little Schoolma'am in 81
Nicholas recently asked her readers 20
tell her what they took TO school for
luncheon. Letters are coming i'm by the
cord, and Il is proposed TO drnw from
them some practical suggestions toward
teaching the young idea how to eat.
William" observed a Milwaukee
woman 30 her husband, " Mrs. Holcomb
fet Is pretty badly now, since the loss of
her child, and wish you would drop
over there and see her. You might say
that all flesh il grass; that we've all got
20 60 the same way. and see il she in go
ing 20 use her dripping pan this after
noon.
Brigham Young has lost the use of his
legs. and his numerous wives take turns
in wheeling him around IN an easy chair.
Their turns come alphsbehcally-Ann
Young wheeling him the first day, Bet
sy the second, and so on. /. is thought
the one whose front name is Wilhelmina
will reach her turn about the middle Of
next July.-Norrist9tCR Herald.
An anti-kettledrummer puts forward
the theory that tea is a Zoe 20 q fine
complexion, because " III tea be mixed
with human blood, tannate OF iron is form
ed, turning the blood black, and If the skin
is soaked IN tea, Il becomes hike tanned
leather. " Hence, according to the
alarmist, il follows that tea absorbed into
the veins will give a dusly hue to the
skin.
The English institution Of game pre-
serves has been introduced into Berks
county, Pa, by local sportsmen's asso-
citation. They have leased 8, 900 acres Of
forest, field, and stream, which they viii
stock with birds and fishes. They pay
each of the fifteen farmers who Own the
land 50 a year and divide the proceeds
Of fines for "poaching with the farmer
on whose territory game is killed. Sew
eral hundred quail aud pheasants will be
set at liberty this spring.
Mr.. Marx, violoncellist Of the French
opera in Paris, lately applied leech to
a I'll