The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-03-28

The man who would hke 70 $50 ""
The blind man.
Boston contains the only cymbal FAC
tory In the land,
A Lecture Field that no man has yet
tAken-Kate Field.
A good, heavy farm horse In Scotland
IL worth $3.50 IN gold.
Do not outertain visitors with your
own domestic troubles
Motto Cor the oriHpins-" Strike till
the lnAt armed foo eHpirear
Thieves Ian Quebec steal the fur caps
from the heads Of the paasara-by.
"Oh, mamma r. said little one. 81
eat 20 mnch IL spoila my appetite"
The man who takes the most interest
in his business-sthe money lender.
The great dfficulty In skating In 10
maintain nnAnimity among yguF feet.
Colored embroidery i'm appearing ON
the broad cufis and collars for spring
wear. ere
Napoleon believed that whoever pos
sessed Constantinople could govern the
world.
A shoemaker advcrtisea /" Medicinal
boots" The virtue is supposed 10 be
Ia the heal.
1Old Nick iR none other that Gickr,
the dangerous wnter-demon of Schndi-
navian legend.
At the funeral Of Henry Meigga, In
Peru, 900 carriages and q, 900 people
| made up the procession.
There il now an establishment in New
I York city devoted solely 10 the business
Of hiring out dress-coata. e
The rats in an Ohio barn rose I'm their
might and killed the dog thmt had been
sent In 10 exterminnte them.
There IN a parish In Wales, near the
I famous tubular bridge, named Slanfair-
Observation-Disclosures.
There will be 40 international show Of
/ breeding stock In conjunction with the
universal exhibition at Paris in 1878.
J There are now s5I manufacturing es-
tAblishments i'm San FrMncisco. whose
aggregate products nmoEntto G82, 1885,
900.
Great Britain has l54, 584 acres in or
chards, IS, 957 acres in market gardens.
| i. .Og2 acres in nurseries, and ?, Is7, ,07s
/ acres In forest. seAi
The Ashtabuln nociddnf cost Che Lake
Shore and Michigan. Sguthefn railway
Mnpany sass, $40. and all the claims
ON account Of the accident have been
I 6ettled.
The worst we ever heard-That is tho
difference between a man struck with
amusement and q leopard's tailf One IL
rooted b the spOt, and the other is
+ spotted 10 the root.
He-"By J0ve. you kDow-upon my
word--n / we're 10 see ghost, You
know, would be chattering idiot for
1 the rest OF my life. She" Haven't
you seen N ghostg"
] The British government has entered
4 into a contract for the supply Of large
number Of telephones. and the intrOduc-
ton Of the new invention into the postal
service promises 70 become general
John Ehoiea, an English niAer. living
as Hounhl0w, died renantly nh the age OF
eighty, leaving $500. 600 10 various
I London charities. He dressed like A
tramp and systematically starved him
self.
CURR PoR SLKEPLRssxRss. Eat an
onion or tSo previous b retiring a.
night. Also 9 spesi6c for All diseases
Of the kidney and bladder. Il indnlged
in freely for some time, where other
remedies have failed.
Bad luck is simply q man with his
hands in his pockets, and his pipe In his
mouth, looking on 20 ses how II In com
ing ont. Coed luck In q man Of pluck,
with his sleeves rolled mp, and working
% make il come out right
Reduced TO 81, remarked Jones. ~
he passed a fashionable tailor's store
and read the nbcTe statement promi-
nentls displayed on an overcOat.
That's nothinR; am reduced 10
much smaller SHm than that myself.
Yen can sell your cat for ten dollars
in the Black Hills II win cost you
eighty-Eive dollars 10 get out there with
the cat, and get home again. but then
Won viii be rid OF the cat, aud that Is
worth one hundred and twenty dollars
30 any one.
TIME PoTkrn4
Tn careless potato. and care mot pin
How into ex4etenum I came
IL they planted me dFill-wise cr dsheled me
To me tis exactly the same
The bear ana The pea NAV more Ioftly tower
Bas 1 care not n hzftOa for then
Defiance nod with beautiful noWcr
when TIE earth b hocd up % my stem
-1a.on4ss Moore
The banvmn tree Of India is sometimes
found to spread out ap as 10 show with
one parent trunk three hundred and
fifty stems descending, and again taking
root in the ground, each stem equalIng
large oak tree, while there are thousands
Of smaller ones. This tree is 80 expanded
a. 30 form a small forest Of itself, where
in 1000 persons could stand
An Arkansas shotgun is sometimes
more raerciful than an Arkansas hns-
band. The other day n ruffiAn. deem
ing his longtime bed-ridden wife an
I incumbrance, undertook 90 shoot her,
but the weapon refused 10 explode.
Then seiEing il by the muEzle he was
about 10 dash out her brains. but the
stock struck on the head-board Of the
| bed and the contents Of both barrels
were lodged in the brute's body.
! A singular discovery has been made
ON board the Irvine, fuil.rigged vessel,
recently i'm dry dock at Rotherhithe,
I London. The ship had recently arrived
from Peru, at which place the body OF n
woman was found imbedded IN the cargo,
which consisted of soda. The body is
/ in a good state of preservation, and is
supposed 10 be that Of q victim OF an
earthquake which occurred many hun
dred years ago in Peru. Rings are in
serted in the ears
The Edenburg penn. Herald relates
story about a commercial drummer
from Pittsburg, who, considerably un.
der the influence Of liquor, mistook his
route and drove his team upon the tres
tle-work Of the Edenburg. Summit and
Clarion railroad, supposing it to be the
wagon road. Tue trestle bridge is sixty
feet up from the ground. and about the
same length, but the horses made the
crossing, feeling their way i'm the dark
ness, step by step, every foot striking a
tie securely, until the distance was trav.
ersed and they stood in safety on the
other side; and Just in the nick of time,
too, as the night express came thunder
/ ing by In FIVE minutes after the team
had left the track.
Statistics lately made public show the
sheep In the various countries noted be-
low 10 be as follows: LIN the United
Kingdom in 1876, there were 81, 252, $40
sheep in Russia, in 1870, there were
/ 40 IQn nnn IN Eaw4oanw 4, 1912 khara