The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-04-25

yOn cannot fnYntrah euuchtiDn WltnOub
! them. Gin. Sat. Nt0ht.
The proverb. "out Of sight out Of
mind, /" e no where more applicable than
Ia tho case Of an advertisements
III. Babcock, blind man, has been
made doctor Of medicine at Chicago.
he graduated with high honors.
Everybody" says an exchange,
- likes radiahes in japan" It's mis-
take. We don't for one. We Like ours
here.
Garibaldi, no far from lying dyinggat
| Caprera, in preparing 10 viait Paris dur
ing the Exposition, when he will be the
gneat Of H1go.
TWenty.fve thousand war claims are
ON flle I'M Washington, and ~ is stated
that eighteen years viii he required H.
adiudioats upon them
What In the difference between
tenant and the son Of a widowf Tho
tenant has 30 pay rents: the son Of a
widow has not two parents.
The world can MAINTAIN sixty thousand
millions of people. IL has never had
more than two per cent. OF that number
living At any one time on It's surface
The yalue of fruit crops in the United
States il estimated by the government
statistician at $40, 900, 600 annually, or
about half the value Of the wheat crop.
The nohiest lesson taught BY life
To every great, herosc s9ul
Who eeekm 10 nonqneF Ia the STRIFE
L. seif-control.
There are about one millisn operators
engaged in the iron industries of the
United States. The entire value of
manufactured iron for one year is $780,
900, 900.
The passengers In d train Of cars leav-
ing New London, Conn. the other day
took a vote on eternal punishment.
Twenty believed in il. ten did not, and
sixteen were neutral.
The population Of London is upwards
Of 4, 600, 600. More people live IN Lon
don than in the whole of Denmark OF
Switzerland, more than tWice A. many ss
in Saxony or Norway, and nearly -
many as in Scotland.
Under the new army regulations every
Prussian soldier has 10 carry in his
left trousers pocket the plaster, lint aud
bandage necessary for FIRST dressing Of
q wound. so that in mn emergency each
can help himself or q oomnde.
The most expensive railway car i'm the
world cost S35, 900. was completed last
autumn by the Pullman Company, and
has sinoe been used in various parts Of
the country by tourists able 10 pay for
it's Injuries. Ii In n French fat i'm
miniature
There fs n very curious race Of sheep
living upon an island in EnglishmAn's
BAY, coast OF Maine. They are nearly
as Wild as deer, living almost entirely
upon sea-weed in the winter, also de-
vouring the small branches and shrubs
that grow upon the island
New-mown hay has a peculiar smell
which is not perceptible while the grass
is growing. because this smell proceeds
from the whole herbage, and seems 20
escape from the orifces af is containing
cells only when the surrounding vessels
withdraw their pressure from change IN
condition. When this scent Of new
mown hay in concentrated, il becomes
the flavor Of bitter almonds.
WIZ HE DID r..
He stood on hia bead i'm q crowded street,
Al place where the knlghth of the pAste-hFnah
And Attracted mob around him
A riddle be couldn't well solve on hia feet
stared hizn full In the face and 40 not to b
Twas thus on his bead I nIund hun
sbe nanse vas A tilnin A. the nose on yddr facs.
Though perhaps Foad ssihoaghi 4 lnnAcy
Add declined any further 70 bed II;
Bat the facl vas a stislgsr Of bills IN hurry.
Had posted ban upside down 10 his hnrry,
So he stood on his bead % read q.
Some stupendous figures are furnished
by the recent census Of the British
Empire. It's total population is 23i,-
T50. 600. or neatly double that Of the
Roman Empire in its pAlmiest days,
while its territory, 1850, 600 square
miles. il almost i've times as great. A
sixth Of the queens subjects are Chris
tians, a little more than tenth Moham-
medans, over two-hfths Hrndoos and a
fourth heathens of various secta. Inc
titled property holders OF Great Britain
number Ie6. .001
Hold tnc EDfK may " hA@AN
cong, but in nos appropriate for oil &C
casions. At least so some people thou -ht
when a worthy descon, on some anu
versarv occasion, formed his Sunday
school in line and EaArched them along
the aisies himself in front, aud all vigor-
ously singing +" Hold the Fort j" The
Consideration which seized all parties at
the second
sssee the mighty host advancing,
Satan leading en-
can be better imagined than described.
Mr.. Lanfear, q man engaged in breed
ing canels in Texas, says Of them that II
is no more trouble 10 raise them than It
Il TO raise horses or cattle. TIE colts
for the drst three or four days require
close attention, but after that take their
chances with the herd They feed ON
cactus and brush, eschewing all grasses
that cattle and horses eat If the faEorlte
cactus can be had. Mr.. nanfear says
there ia one camel i'm his herd that has
Travelled one hundred and hfty miles be
tween sun and sun, and that almost any
well-broken camel can travel more shAn
q hundred miles IN day.