The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-03-07


snoring Il now politely described ~
indulging IN sheet music.
Peirolenm Is the fagorite illuminatoF
In many French households.
About %. 900 Italians annually immi-
glnte 10 this country 30 fettle.
Turkeys experience IN that iron clad
heeta do not amount 10 ahnckR.
Every cloud, and every prosperous
pocket-book, has silver lining.
DIR. PeterInann, the leading geogra-
pher Of tue world, places Stanley fore
most among Al explorer.
A London paper estimates that during
the latter 200 days Of 1877 that human
blood flowed al the rate Of forty gailons
M hour.
A Chicago German, who wanted to
add postscript 10 letter after he had
mailed II, was found trying 10 dig mp
the lamp poet.
A paper speaks Of horse that eats
meat Harry says that he has never
seen q horse actually eat meat, but has
seen one running for y stake.
Lient. Flipr er, the only oolored graz
naEe of West Point, I'm 10 he appointed
military inHtrnrhnr uf the colored brancli
nf tlle agricultural and military college
OF Texas. t..
This country imported from Japan,
last year, through the port Of San
Franeisco. 4, 100 900 pounds Of tea.
From China we imported only s26, coo
pounds. sl
A patent has been taken out upon al
most everything of value, but there In q
fortune waiting for the man who patents
O boot-jnck that will kill two Thomas
cats at one time.
An IniianA farmer missed 800 pound
hog and found him, after thirty-hve
days. under boa that bad fallen and
caught him under Il. The hog lived,
but be only weighed 200 pounds when
found.
"Why didn't you put ON n clean col
lar before Won left homeg" called out aD
impertinent young f0P 30 an omnibus
driver. "iGause your mother hadn't
sent home my washing, wss the extin-
gushing reply.
There was 3 shower of worms IL
Michigan, one day recently. Some days
previously there was q shower Of hsh.
And now, II Nature understands her
business, shower of fish-hooks is next
ON the programme.
The total dividends paid last year by
mining companies, banks, insurance and
express companies, and other CONNER
cial enterprises on the Pacific coast, not
including the Central Pacific Railroad,
was S34, ,S66, ,000. an increaseof 81 $50. 600.
A deserted Ute squaw. grieved by the
hearflessness 0f the Indian who had
only few montha previously taken her
10 his wigWam, drowned herself. Before
her suicide, she formally and elaborately
cursed hira. The Indian belief is that
such q curse il VI potent.
The Times Paris correspondent writes
that the French government viii allow
American rifiemeD 20 shoot in France
during the international exhibition. The
French law against the Introduction Of
weapons Is very strict, but the American
rfienien will emily be called upon on
,lmldinE 10 Justify their nationality.
A Fnenrhman has analysed the dust
aud debris OF tine streets of Paris and
Florence. and has tound that thirty-fve
per cent. of that collected from the road
way is iron given or by horses shoes,
and that from thirty 30 forty per cent
uf that taken fnoa the sidevslksis giue.
he proposes 70 utilize both the iron and
the glue. r-...~.
In the hArbor al San Francisco wave
struck n fishing boat, and overheard
went two disciples cf Ike Walton. Some
parties Who happened to be in boat
close by vent 10 their assistance, and
rescued the bali drowned pair. On be-
ing questioned how the accident occur
red they replied. g We didn't capsize;
we only vent down 30 see Why the tish
wouldn't bite. .
Oswteo, n. Y, has the champion
HomnnunbuIist i'm the person OF George
Peckhmm. who not long ago walked
twelve miles 40 Fulton without Rwaking.
aud who the other morning awoke 10
and himself fully dressed and aboard
the Midland train about to start for New
York. He dreamed that he was going
10 California. and was awakened by the
lar OF the locomotive as it coupled on
the train.
John Bright wrote, lately, q note IN
which occurred this passage I" III
children nj school can be made 10 under
stand how IL is Just and noble 10 be hu-
name even towhat we term inferior ami
mails, IL will do much 30 give them
higher character and tone through life
There is nothing meaner than barbar-
ous and cruel treatment Of the dumb
creatures who cannot Gnswer us or re-
sent the misery which Is so often need
lessly inflicted upon them.
PoP COIN.