The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-05-09

Knife-grindcrs get their work In dur
ing dull times.
No one but coward strikes In the
dark, and then he only strikes n light
III we're In the sun and you we're out
of II, what would the sun become Bin.
A man In Kern county, Gal, has ten
acre lot OF mignonette, on which his bees
feed.
When fisherman should be thanks
ful-Wben his lines are cast In pleasant
places.
An tho twig In bent the average small
boy In inclined, when IA comes TO pun
iEhment
1.-THE older the tree the thicker the
bark, /" but the older the dog The thinner
the bark.
When a prize-nghter's mill Ia stopped
ealy four hands are thrown ont Of EN-
ployment.
In New York city alone tho capital
employed I'm the los business e1coeda
S5, ,0O0, 900.
The laugh OF the farmer-Hoe !
Hoe Hoe Hackeasack Republican
Also, bay hay Hay
Naturalisis claim that some OF the
trees Of the tropics give unboupded eyi-
dencs Of being over 1000 years old.
What in the difference between o
butcher and gay young ladyf The
former kills 10 dress, while the latter
dresses 10 kill.
Edward Wheeler. who died In Nashua,
N. H, worth sll, 900. ordered the
expenditure Of the whole Of bis fortune
on his funeral and tomb.
1 General Mite, the dwarf, Ia said 30
have earned $40, 900 for his mother in
/ the last two wears. This In q fine Illus
I tration OF the vhlue of ''widOw'smite.
\ PITY the sorrows 0f poor old man
Whose trembling Hnbs would ey the poor
honse door
{ Who failed fos ninety thousand retail plan
Assets, one hundred and twenty, afty-sour.
A Japanese laborer receives 1000
leash" day, and be can get q satisfae-
/ tory meal for forty leash. BY the time
he has saved 100, 900 cash he owns
$40.
A hand-car, with a mast and sail at
/ tached, is in operation on the Kansas
Z Pacific railroad. and with a favorable
VIM 1aS fHAAl4e AHNAc1 AoAt9 +AAaN@ ~
/ hour.
II is estimated that II will cost the
navy department $500, 900 20 send the
goods OF American exhibitors 90 the
Paris Exposition and bring them home
again.
The CEAr has offered prize for the
best hymn celebrating the recent Rus
sian successes, and adapted for the army.
The competition Is restricted to Russian
composers.
A sweet seeding orange-tnee in Her
nando county, Florida, bore two genuine
lemons with its crop Of oranges this
season. II had not been grated with
lemon.
Woman attAins maturity OF growth at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil lat an average age OF
twelve years, and IL il no unusual thing
TO see young man Of twenty-one with a
mother Of thirty-two.
More than 700 persons have entered
the competitive examination for the
thirfy-two additional clerkEhips which
I Congress recently authorized In the
surgeon generals Office.
In paper ON nervous affections of
the heart q recent English writer
charges the free use Of tea and tobacco.
as we'll as certain other excesses, with
being very frequent causes.
II IA saddeuing 10 watch the dying
day, 10 see the Pickering light fall pulse
/ less behind the western hill. liz I'm
harder stall 30 watch for water 10 boil,
over doubtful fire, when in hurry for
| breakfast.
Lord Kinsale is the only peer who
can remain in the presence OF the British
l Sovereign with his head covered on 90
casions Of state. The privilege was
conferred by King John in the thir-
teenth century.
What n blessing the phonogrAph will
be TO editors The bores can slip right
/ into the phonogrAph room, and plead
with the instruments, and the editor can
grind il al out Afterwaris-n he wants
to.-Boston Transcript
The phonograph may bottle up the
voice and pass il down 10 future ages,
bat the smile that twists mp the face OF
n man as be seeks solitude and gazes
upon his name i'm print for the FIRST time
viii always have 10 be guessed at
"It was nv wife's wedding ring. but
cruel circumstances forces me 20 part
with it for Sl.50." The pitying servant
/ girl produces the money, gathers IN q
brass cinclet and the scamp moves on 20
repeat the game az the next house.
Write on vour doors the saving wise and old.
/ - BE bold be bold and everywhere be bold;
/ De not too bold Z" Vet better the excess
Than the defect better the more than leGai
\ Better like Hector I'm the Geld 10 die
\ Than ike the perfrmcd Paris turn and ny.
-Loaqfel0tc.
Russia has recently purchased 200, 900
ounces of quinine in the United States,
and that essential tonic has in conse-
/ quence experienced q sharp advance IN
price. Shaking with the ague promises
TO be an expensive amusement this year.
A philosopher says: eve learn TO
climb by keeping our eyes not on the
I hills behind us, but on the mountains
before us" Another way is 10 take
couple OF rods the start, and try 70 beat
an enthusiastic bulldog over nine-foot
fence.
/ A Lawrence CMass.) lawyer recently
drew mp a will for an elderly and quite
portly gentleman, which containe the
I following clause: "And further, K give
and bequeath 20 my wife all my house
hold effects and oil my wearing apparel
for her sole use.
A German inventor viii exhibit
at the Paris Exposition a patent
scrubbing brush, which can be turned
into a stove with Bed-hot Goals and
everything complete. Originally, he
intended to have added bed, but life
was too short
"Use great prudence and circumsPec
ton in choosing thy wife, said Lord
Rurleigh 10 his son; Z" for from thence
will spring all thy future good or evil;
and il is an action OF life like unto
stratsgem OF war, wherein man can
err but once.
In 1916 Joseph Nieephore invented
photography. He succeeded in securing
a picture printed by light in the camera.
A view Of Kew Church, taken by him in
1927. was the first photograph from
nature taken in England. It is In the
British Museum.
It makes a suffering man awful mad
10 be drawn into discussion about 'the
reconciliation of the dollar of our
fathers" and the necessity of the inter
convertible hi-metAllic currency" He
NAV be Just bursting with ideas, but the
fiow of language in the title OF the bill liz
what throws him.
Eighteen thousand men are now en-