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

Msnbsrs Of the tOn--OOal dealers

you cannot Phynicia education Without
them. Sat Night
The proverb, "out Of sight ont Of
mind, :" X no where more applicable than
In the case OF an advertisement.
r. III. Babcock, blind man, has been
made doctor of medicine mt Chicago.
He graduated with high honora.
Everybody" says mn exchange,
"lIken radiahes In japan" It's mis-
take. We don't for one. We like ours
here.
GaribaIdi, 10 far from lying dyingIat
Capnera, is preparing 10 visit Paris dur
| ing the Exposition, when be will be the
guest Of Hugo.
TEenty.fve thousand war claims are
on Ole in Washington, and Il Is stated
! that eighteen years viii be required tC
adjudieats upon them
What Is the difference between a
tenant and the son OF widowi Tho
tenant has 10 pay rents. the son Of @
widow has not two pa-rehIa.
The world can maintain sixty thousand
millions OF people. It haR never bad
more than two per cent. Of that number
living at any one time on IT. surface.
The value Of fruit crops in the United
States IN estimated by the government
statistician nj $40, 600, 600 annually. or
about half the value Of the wheat crop.
The nohlest lssson taugAt By LIFE
To every great heroic soHl
Who seeks 70 conquer 10 the strife,
Is sslf-eontrol
There are about one millin operators
engaged In the iron industries Of the
United States. The entire value 81
manufactured iron for one year is $780,
000. 900.
The passengers In a train Of cars leay-
ing New London, Conn, the other day
took a vote on eternal punishment.
Twenty believed IN ID. tan did not, and
sixteen were neutral.
The population OF London il upwards
OF A, ,5O0, 900. More people live IN Lon.
don than in the whole Of Denmark or
Switzerland, more than twica as many as
in Saxony or Norway, and nearly a.
many As in Scotland.
Under the new army regulations every
PrussiAn soldier has 10 carry IN his
left trousers pocket the plaster, lint and
bandAge necessary for first dressing Of
4 wound, so that in an emergency each
can help himself or . ooEarade.
The most expensive railway car in the
world cost So, 900. was completed last
autumn by the Pullman Company, and
has since been used in various parts OF
the country by tourists able 10 pay for
lis lururiea. IL is N French fat In
miniature
There is m very curious race OF sheep
living upon an island N Englishman's
Bay, coast of Maine. They are nearly
a. wild as deer, living almost entirely
upon sea-Weed in the winter, also de-
vouriug the small branches and shrubs
that grow upon the island
New-mown hay has 4 peculiar smell
which is not perceptible while the grass
is growing, because this smell proceeds
from the whole herbage. and seems 10
escape from the orihces II its containing
cells only when the surrounding vessess
withdraw their pressure from change In
condition. When this scent Of new
mown hay ia concentrated, il becomes
the favor of bitter almonds.
WIZ HE DID r..
He stood ON has head In crowded street,
AtRp place where tho knights Of the paste-6ruAh
meet,
And attracted mob around himi
A riddle he couldn't wen solve on hin feet
Stared HIM full In the face. and 90 not 70 b
twas thus on his bead found him-
The cause was as plain as the rose on y6ar face.
Ta,ourif ueYhnus Won a have thought Il lunacy
And declined any further to hsea a;
Bat the faea was a sticksr Of hills - hurTy.
Had posted = hn upside down in his fairy,
SO he stood on his bead % read T.
Some stupendous figures are furnished
by the recent census Of the British
Empire. It's total population il 2S4,-
75O. 600, or nearly double that OF the
Roman Empire in its palmiest days.
while it's territory, T,T50.0o0 square
miles. ia almost five times rs great.
sixth OF the queens subjects are Chris
tiMns. A little more than q tenth Mdham-
medans, over t~o-tifths Hindoos and
fourth heathens of various sects. Tie
titled property holders Of Great Britain
number 1s6. 600.
"Hold the Fort may be \ grand
song, but is not appropriate for all &C
casions. At least 20 some people thou sht
when a worthy deacon. on some ami
versary occasion, formed his Sunday
school in line and marched them along
the aisies himself in front, aud all vigor-
ously singing I" Hold the Fort. The
consternation which seized all parties at
the second
"see the mighty host advancing,
Satan leading on
can be better imagined than described.
Mr.. Lanfear, a man engaged In breed
inr camels In Texas, says Of them that ~
is no more trouble 10 raise them than II
is 10 raise horses or cattle. The colts
for the Arst three or four days require
close attention, bat after that take their
chances with the herd They feed on
cactus aud brush, eschewing all grasses
that cattle and horses eat If the favorite
cactus can be had. Mr.. nanfear says
there is one camel in his herd that hRs
travelled one hundred and fifty miles be
tween sun and sun, and that almost any
weIl-broken camel can travel more than
hundred miles in day.