The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-04-18

The more suita at Law the less tuits SO
on yonE back.
Couuserseiting silver coins has begun.
Look out for them.
Whom did the pastry cook marry
Hia sweet-tart. Of course
France smoked $50, ,O00, 900 cigars last
year, and 1e2 tons OF cigarettes.
eli mankind couldn't aneeEe, what
would happen 10 them when they want
tor
Some people use glasses for the cyes.
Others car not get them above the
nose.
I'm 1872 there were thirty-two circus
shows on the road This year there are
but thirteen.
This In q world Of secondhand goods.
Every pretty girl has been some other
fellows sweetheart.
An editor out West, speaking Of
blind sawyer, says Although he
cannot see he can saw.
Rice Is more largely grown and oon-
sumed a. human food than any other
cereal. II IL said 30 be the main food OF
one third Of the human race.
Chicago has 2,eO0 liquor saloons for
her 500. 900 inhabitants, giving one ma
| loon for every ITS people, or one 10
every thirty Ave adult males.
The number Of children lost daily in
the city Of New York Ia very large. OveI
thirty found temporary quarters ma the
police central station one day recently.
II costs just aix cents 10 paste q
printed slip on u postal card and send
| Il through the mails. The sender con
tributes one cent and the receiver the
other 1--WE.
Josh Billings says lasting reputA-
shuns are q slow growth. The man
Who wakes up fAmne sum morning II
quite apt 10 go 70 bed sum night and
sleep il ell OF
Fond father: Well, my son, how do
Jon like your college5 She has turned
out some great men" Young Hopeful
GuEt expelled): " Yes, sir, she has inst
Turned me out.
In a New York druggists window a
placard announces Ladies afflicted
with pale. faded eyes can now have
thera tattooed black, brown, or dark
biue with India ink.
I'm Kentucky vagrancy In punished
with involuntary servitude. and colOred
offender was sold on the block nt anction
for six months ~ the highest bidder At
Hickman. In that State. the other day.
Life Ia not 90 full Of attractions 10 the
small boy of to-day nv II was 20 hiE
father. A generation ago there were
ueaalv City circus shows on the road,
and this year there are only thirteen.
II is when a man is carrying a pound
OF honey on one arm. and bsg OF eggs
on the other, and leading bulldog by
string, and attempts 10 brush hy Oh
his ear, that be feels no man can be an
expert in all things=
Queen victoris has seven palaces.
Three in Izondon--B Buckingham, ST
Jamee, AMI KAnEington. Her out-of-
town palace are at Windsor, az Osborne,
Isle OF Wight, and at BalmOrAl. In the
Scottish Highlands.
Too much reproAch " DER leaps itself,
and falls on t'other side" Pricked too
sharply, the delinquent, Ike o goAded
bull, grows sullen and aavagt, and the
persecution continuing, ends In rushing
mAdly on the spear that wounds him
There Ia no grove on earth's broad chart
But has some htrd 30 cheer Il;
30 Hope Einga on In every heart,
Although we may not bear H.
And IL to-day the heavy wtng
OF sorTow IL oppresang.
Ferchanos ao-nnrrow's sun win bring
The weary heart soEae blessing.
A man was scared 10 death in Berry
vile, No. BE was passing 3 graveyard
at midnight, when two men sprang from
behind a monument and shouted az him.
He ran home and went 30 bed, but was
so nervous that he could not sleep: and
before morning he died IN couvulsionE.
DR.. @. b. Eddy Of Finchville. KY,
who has recently imported from Canada
drove Of Berkshire hogs, has erected
for them the finest pen I'm the country.
III In made Of heavy stone, and through
il runs q hallway six hundred feet long,
trnversed hY N stream of water. Per-
feet light and ventilAtiSn have been se-
cured, and the entire cost has been
so. 900.
A popular doctor Of Utica while escort.
in0 A ladv home the other evening, At-
tempted to relieve her cough and sore
throat by giving her a troche. BE told
her 30 allow il 10 dissolve gradually IN
her mouth. No relief was experienced
and the doctor felt quite chagrined the
next day when the lady sent him pan
taloon button with note saying be mnst
have given her the wrong kind OF srcshe,
and might need this one.
A fanatic Mussulman al CONSTANT
nople attributes the Sultan's disasters 70
the fact thai Baron Tecco, q former min
lister of Italy in THAI capital. fraudulent
ly purchased for a mere song the
PROPHETS sacred flag and sent il 10
Turin. The Gag certainly In in the pos
session OF the Royal Museum OF that
citv. but it, sacred character and magic
al value are entirely ignored by its pres
ent owners.
A fearful catastrophe occurred Rt Par
ma, Italy. An artillery officer and SIX
men weIe trying 60 uproot an old horse
chestnut tree BY the use OF dynamite IN
the public promenade when, owing 20
the officers carelesSness, an explosion
occurred, killing the officer, two soldiers.
two children and another person, and
wounding sixty-three. Among the seri-
ouslv wounded were four noblemeE and
several gentlemen who were out for an
afternoon walk, and were attracted TO
the spot from curiosity 10 see the
experiment.
OR FLOWERS.
There were no roses till the fret child died,
No rioieta, nor balmy-hreathea tcArts-eaSe,
No hehotrope, nor, buds 40 dear 20 bees,
The honey-hear4ed suekln. mo Fold-eyed
And lowly dAndelioa, nor. stretching WIDE,
Clover and cowslip-cups. like rival seas
Meeting and parting. aa the young spring
breexe
Runs giday races playing seek and hide.
For MI nowcrs died when Eve left Paradise.
And ALI the world was aowerless awhile,
Until little child was laid In earth
Then from its grave grew violcts Tor its eyes,
Aud from iss tip- rose-pctnls Tor its smiles
Aud 50 al f,oEe from that childs death
took birth.
-Maarios r. E9aa IN Srribner
A New Eng and paper tells q curious
story of a dag anl a young pig, who are
in the habit Of foraging together on the
opposite side of a small stream near
their owners residence. The dog dis
covered that there was good feeding on
the other side Of the stream, and CON-
municated the intelligence TO the pig.
who was on'y two months old. As the
pig could not swim, the dog waded into
the river, crouched down, the pig
scrambled on his back. and then the dog
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