The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-02-21

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~ Inc governor oA mAh10u
$4,000 for o sure remedy against hog
cholera.
The oldest house I'm New Eneland is
said 30 be I'm Guilford, Conn. IL was
built In 1889.
A householder I'm Charleston, .. O.
:: was fined the other day for allowing his
chimney 10 take fire.
II cost the Northampton (MaSs. bank
$50, 600 10 arrest and convict the men
who robbed its safe.
Printers seldom follow the hounds,
and vet the chase takes no imposing
form without them.
The Central Pacifle railroad company
have ordered 100000 trees 10 be set ont
along the line OF their road the coming
season.
Turkish soldiers have recovered from
their wounds In marvellous manner, in
many instances, owing 30 their strictly
temperate livea.
did you ever know OF q crack that
was too small for a spying old woman 10
peep through, Tom " "Yea, John. the
crack Of whip " ....r
The firht interviewer IN the Onlted
States was Mrs. Ann Royal, who edited
the Hnntress and Paul Pry, in Wash
ingtOn, fifty years ago
By Michigan court il has been de.
eided that oysters are hsh; but very few
people. however. will think Of going
hshing when they want oysters.
A number Of superb seal sacqueS have
been floating In Newport harbor. The
seals had 'em on, and no furrier could
have improved ON the it.
Coculns indicus, q viruient poison, In
| largely imported into tails country, yet
il N NOT known 30 be used In any manu-
( facture except that OF lager.
4 The best pumpkin-piea and healthiest
girls are raised in the countEy. AIRY
one can tell this IA 20 the minute be
tastes Of one. The pies we mean.
japan has no system Of patent laws.
4 The Japanese, with their native skill and
I ingenuity. copy very successfully many
( 0f the machines sent 70 that country.
7 Living ffty.four years IN one village
aud during that time repairing 1900
watches. for each of which he received
pay, is the history Of a ieweler Of Sandy
Hll, y. G.
4 A gentleman coming into the roOmiof
\ the late DIR. Barton, told him that Mr..
/ Vowel was dead. What !" said he,
N Vowel deadl let uH he thankful IL was
either u nor /.
The principal articles exported from
the United States % Europe are grain.
pork. lard, savings bank presidents,
meat, butter heiresses, weather pnedic-
tions and horses.
The Turk has an immense horror OF
ampufation, preferring DEATH For a
long while Osman Pasha refused 20 allow
I the surgeons 10 dress on even examine
the wound in his arm.
The farmers Of SaalA And, LOs
, Angeles county, Cal, are building a
canal fifteen miles long By ten feet vide
nj a cost Of $50. 600, By which 1870
arrea OF land viii be irrigated
John Fletcher, Of Tennessee, fred at
his nephew with 1donble- barreled shot
gum a few days ago, and shot out nearly
all Of his teeth, destroyed both OF his
ewes and shot his nose or The ply
sicians think that the youth viii live,
tlhns diaagured and totally blind
Captain Boyton has achieved another
great feat in swimming, having descend
/ ed the Loire from Orleans to Nantes,
where he was received by en- enthusiAs-
I tic crowd assembled 20 greet his arrival.
/ He seemed quite worn ont from excess
Z OF fatigue and his wrists were swelled
and painful.
/ The very latest = Turkish Atrocity " is
20 be seen in Cheapside, IN London,
where q peripatetie vender Of penny
wares ia carrying about a tnyful OF
q Bulgarian ears, = made OF hesh eolored
! india rubber, and imitAtine, with fright
4 ful fidelity, a human enr severed from
hrmMn head. s.inno9
whMt's in q nameP A Uhinaman in
I San Francisco found there were thirty
daFa He stole q Frisco mans door
plate and fastened il 10 his own door as
/ an ornament He didn't know that the
name would tStray him, a. he thought
that was merely carved On for the beauty
OF the thing. The Chinanan now Ian
auishes IN the bastile, another victim 70
the mysteries Of English oEthography.
laI ss A COLORADO EPITAPH.
Er A clerical friend in Colombo sends rs
the following. copied from 3 grave-stone
nj Fairfax, in that State. After giving
the name and age OF the defunct, follows
this verse '
sf Great Gsd what torrows must feel.
CMnaad by o pitnhfEk tine.
Which wounded my poor hnsbands q heel
Ana died in six week. time
tfr lnA a--aHwp@s AggdEsac
PIiny and Paladius Rutihus, In their
writings. describe reaping machines to
have been used by the Ganls- Ii has
been thought by some that. the Pha-
raohs Of Egypt were acquainted with the
application OF steam as motor TO ma
chinery, and that they even had their
steam carriages; bat of this there IS no
sufficient proof. But that the reaping
machine. in some form or other, was
used as early as Christianity there can
be little doubt The identity Of the
machines described by the two writers
1 is manifest IT appears that an the lapse
OF over fourteen hundred years only
some slight modification OF the original
has been effected.
Il A cruel outrage was perpetated ON two
\ Chinese gardeners At Ffanktown, Cal,
recently. Two desperadoes attacked
them one evening at their cabin, bound
their hands and feet, demanded that
Z they should reveal where their money
was secreted. and on refusal cut off the
right ear of each and his che. The
( Cinnamon were then gagged, and the
+ villains proceeded 10 search for the
money, which they found, and made of
with 81 200, which had been secreted IN
Z mattress. The poor Chinamer had 10
pass the night in their gagged and mutt
lated condition. but were discovered and
relieved in the morning. The thieves
were masked and cannot be identified.
Z In northern China, people OF all ages
are diving OF actual starvation by thou
sands. The famine extends over dis
/ trict which includes al least 5,0OO villa
ges, and il is said that at least 800 die
daily. Houses are pulled down In every
village TO sell the timber aud thatch
i in order TO get food. Those who can get
husks and dry leaves ordinarily used
for fuel. are considered well of, Most
of the poor young girls have been sold;
/ old men, middle-aged men and young
men, and children die daily OF starva-
+ ton and others freeze. The dead can
not get a burial they are too many,
and none can afford the expense so
! they are cast daily into large pits. The
,,ao,,la az Shansi are said 70 be living on