The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-06-20

twenty shillings makes the sovereign
A thief may make bolt for the door
and not be n very good mechanic, ether
The English refuse white horses foi
Army purposes because they are Toe
conspicuous.
Taking things as they come, isn't very
difhcnlt; ii's parting with them as they
go that's hard.
A four-yeaF-old child In Kennebunk
Me, has q head weighing hfteen pounds
ana body weighing ninc.
IL Is time 10 sit on the front stocp
with girl and Japanese fan, and listen
10 the street musician and the mosquito.
MelAnoholia, which has struck the
Czar Of Russia, In said 10 have affected
every autocrat Of his family after the
age Of ffty.
The hen cholera In prevalent in paEts
OF Minnesota. 10 takes chickens OIL
about m fast As the oid.fhahioncd mid
night plan.
4 A western statiStician bas found that
Washington Territory has 10, 600 voters,
!. 400 bara, and 10, 600 bears. by actual
count, Of course.
In the Gasconade river, Misa., the
fish have been dying by thousands, from
eating the worms that drop from the
overhanging maple trees.
"I mean business" said O burglar
I who entered Mr.. PatteFsOn's house, in
/ Startling, ILL.,. $50 do ], said Mr.. Pat
tarson, and shot him through the head.
Tea made from the leaves Of young
/ tea plants growing in the conservatory
Of the Department Of Agriculture Al
Washington was recently served 10 some
/ visitors.
/ OF the $50 American colleges, sixteen
have libraries Of over 5000 volumes.
I The largest college library IN the
country is HArvard's, containing. l6O,-
600 volumes.
A Kentucky man who went 10 the
Black Hills wrote back 10 n paper, say
ing "Otfer . premium at your coming
fair for the biggest fool i'm the country.
and I'll try 10 get there In time.
Good service il prompt service. IL
oeases 70 be a favor when be upon whom
the service is conferred has lost in pa
tience and hope deferred what he might
have bestowed In love and gratitude.
Newton county, Georgia, has al least
cne man Of muscle. Having lost his
horse, he hitehed himself 30 the
plough and hired n boy 10 drive. At
last accounts be had plOughed out two
acres.
The discouraged collector again pre-
sented that little matter. Well, says
his friend, "you are round again.
"Yes." says the fellow with the ac-
count in his hand, "but want 90 get
square.
Statistics show that the annual con-
sumption ~ eggs IN the United States is
about "a. 600, 600 barrels. The poultry
marked or consumed i'm 1877, is esti-
mated at CSC, ,O00. 900 pounds Of the
value Of S6s. .OOO. 900.
Elam Potter is nov pushing the
wheelbarrow from Albany to San Fran
cisco. he wears very long hair and
vhiskers, and the wheelbarrow i gaudi-
Iy painted, 90 that his arrival in q vile
lage causes excitement
The phonograph may bottle up the
voice and pass II down 10 futune ages,
but the smile that twists the face Of the
man M be seeks solitude and gaKes upon
his name in print for the frst time VIII
have 20 be guessed AZ.
On the new steamship City Of Rio de
Janerio. which recently sailed ON her
first trip 20 South America, there IN
machine by which daily supply Of one
thousand pounds Of ice can be manusac-
tured, in addition to furnishing supply
OF cold air for the store-rooms-
Habit" is hard TO overcome. III you
take of the first letter it does not change
"a bit." II you take of another, you
still have I" bat, left. II you take OF
still another. the whole Of Il" re-
mains II you take of another IL is
not /" l. totally used mp. All OF which
goes 30 show that il you wish 10 be nd
Of "habit, you must throw il OF
altogether.
The CITY Of London has ffty Richmond
streets, sixty Norfolk, seventy Devon
shire. seTenty-six Brunswick, hfty-six
Cambridge, eighty seven Gloucester,
iftv East and West, ninety North and
South, fG6 New, l29 Union, ninety-fve
King, ninety nine Queen, seventy-eight
Princes. 100 George, 1i9 John, and
dozens and dFscores which have nothing
10 distinguish them except the district
n which they. happen 10 be.
The Goajira Indians, who inhAbit the
seaooast north Of Aspinwan, are q fierce
and fighting race, numbering about
80. 600. In their domestic lie the most
singular feature is the fact that the
father has no control over the children.
The mothers brother or the next nearest
relation on the mothers side usurps the
authority Of the father. In inheriting
rank or property, and in the distribution
of vAluAbles, the testimony OF the
mother as 10 the rights Of the children
outweighs that Of the father.
In a rural district Of Forfarshire a
young ploughman once went courung
on Saturday night. In vain be racked
his brain for some interesting topic; he
could call mp no subject NJ oil suitable
for the occasion--nOt one sentence could
he ntter. and for two long hours he sat
ON in silent despair. The girl herself
was equally silent; she no doubt re-
membered the teaching of the old Scotch
song. Men maun be the first 30 speak,
and she sat patiently regarding him
with demure surprise. AT last John
suddenly exclaimed. /" Jenny, there's q
feather on yer apronr' 81 widna haze
wondered ii there had been twa. replied
Jenny, "for I've been sittin aside
goose a nicht
A tremendous explosion lately took
place in the torpedo factory Of the Rus
sian Government Mt 0tchakof, near
Croustadt; where several hundred men
were employed at the time. The work
shops, the naval laboratory, and the
storage houses, containing in addition
10 torpedOes an immense quantity OF
pyroziline, were blown 10 pieces and
scattered 10 great distances. The con-
cussion was felt for miles, and 1t was
thought that the English had opened a
furious bombardment. The powder was
removed from the magazine OF the garrl-
son before the flames reached il. All
houses within a circumference OF two
miles were more or less damaged Dlr-
ing the following day peasants brought
fragments OF the disaster from q dis
tance Of i've miles, and steamers arrived
which had picked them up ten miles out
nc sea. The canse of the explosion was
thought to have been spontaneous COM
bustion. Twelve persons only were
killed.
An AerOnaut's Peril.