The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-05-16
Hard 10 beat-tho spring carpet

Items Of Interest.
Hard 10 baat-the spring carpet.
Buckwheat Ia more eaten here than I'm
any other land.
The Chinese for "adieu" is very ap-
propriate -" ohin-chfn.
There are nineteen thousand female
Patrons Of Hnsbandry In Texas.
Everyone u in one thing at least orig
inal-in his manner Of sneezing.
A picture frame Just completed by
New Jorneyman, contains 1 ,6e2 kinds OK
wood.
Nei0etlse silks have snowflake scatter
ings on dark grounds. The effect is at
trnctiva.
London Ii going 30 build o new bridge
over the river Thames, and 10 pay SlO,-
900, 900 for H.
A fya-year old girl was actually whip
ped 10 death In MmrAhalltown, Iowa, by
her drunken mother.
Gortchakoff IL In his eighty-socond
year-beating Lord Palmerston. who
died in harness at eighty.
The Blue-book just issued shows that
there are So, $50 civil employees Of the
United States government
A girl working in . paper mill IN
Orange county, NJ. T., recently ripped
ga in gold out az an old hustle.
The present rulers Of the laws on eti-
quette have decided that il IL only good
style TO bow after the lady has bowed.
Austria's peace establishment In put
down nc 2BT, ,005 men aud 4T, 9T2 horses;
in war, T80, ,O26 men and lAs. 100 horses.
The geographers tell us that the earth
il composed entirely Of land and water.
Saems tO ne there are few rocks thrown
In.
Piye Of the sweetest words In the Eng
lish language begin with H, which is
only a breath: Heart, Hope. Happiness,
and Heaven.
A poor woman in DAnyille, ILL.,, while
splitting kindling wood, killed her little
throe-yeaK-old child by an accidental
blow Of the axe.
There ia a man only twenty-five years
Of age who has already married fourteen
women. BE is q clergymen, and mar
ried them % their husbands.
In Pennsylvania seventy-0ne per cent.
of the farms are cultivated by their own
ere, twenty per cent are worked ON
shares, and nine per cent are rented.
Said a young doctor 10 a lady patient:
lyon must take exercise for your health,
nav dear. " " AL right, said she; :" Ill
jump at the nrst offer" They were
married about six months afterwards.
An organ Of the tobacco trade asserts
that II the tobacco consumed annually,
about 4,O00, ,O00. 600 pounds. could be
made into q roll tEo inches In diameter,
il would encircle the world sixty times.
HJuns Jane June =
Low croon
The brown besa in the clover;
Sweet sweet! Eweetl~
Repeat
The robins. nested over.
-A1ls Cry IN Sorlbnz.
Mr.. F. ID. Millet, an American, was
the only correspondent who went
through thr Balkans with Gen Gourko.
The car presented him with the deeora-
ton Of ST. Ann, which is the highest
decoration given 10 any correspondent.
The "Agony columns Of the Turkish
newspapers are filed with advertise
nents for lost relations, giving painful
evidence Of the dispersion Of families a
the MnssulmAn population which has
taken place in the districts rayaged by
war.
The sea holds 90. 900, ,000, OO0. 600 tons
OF salt. Should the sea be dFied up,
there would be = deposit Of salt over
the entire bottom of the ocean $50 feet
deep, and il the salt were taken and
spread on the land il would cover il 10
depth Of 900 feet
Because you flourish In worldly Affairs,
Dont be hAuEhty and put On airs
With inSolrnt pride Of station.
Don't be proud and turn mp yoar noee
AZ poorer people in palmer clothes
But learn. for the sAke q your minds rcpose,
That weAlth's bubble that comes and gees
And that al proud aeEh, wherever il grows.
l. subject 70 irritation.
Maria, [" observed Mr.. Holcomb, go
he was putting on his clothes, " there
ain't no patch on them breeches yet"
i" / can't hx IL now, no way Tn too
busy" "Well. give me the patch. then.
an I'll carry il around with mo. / don't
want people 10 think / can't afford the
cloth."
klUW NAIA1ENAN 1EN 9GlA 1AE
interwoven i'm this world. Pain chases
pleasure like o champion pedestrian.
and the sweet tears shed by the maple
tree in spring time, crystallized into
sugar, VIII give an infant the stomach
ache equal 60 q doctors bill Of nine
dollars.
Henry Goodrich is a music teacher.
he has travelled from place 10 place until
be has tanght music in every State IN the
Union. III Is said that be has married
seven OF his pupils and most OF the States
are vet 20 be heard from. In Clarksburg,
Va, he oub1id his former matrimonial
exploits BY marrying two girls in the
same village. he is now in jail.
In the Concordia Turnverein Hall, 81.
Louis, there is gymnasium for girls.
There are eighty girls in the class, and
they week regular gymnasium dress OF
blue andgray cloth. Besides the lighter
gymnastics, they are taHght the heavier
exercises alsos such as climbing, jump
ing aud swinging. The girls are said
10 become very strong, active and healthy
by these exercises.
A Vienna mechanician has succeeded
in constructing an apparatus Tor working
sewing machines. Electricity, steam, or
water power are, an the score of cost,
inapplicable, 40 the iaven
tor OF the new machine was restricted 30
gavitation or elasticity, and he, prefer
ring the latter fierce, has contrived 10
make springs strong enough 10 keep an
ordinary sized machine in motion, IA is
said for hours. A system OF cog-wheels
10 arranged underneath the surface OF
the table upon which the machine is FIX
ed, and by handle at the side the spring
Is wound up with facility. The velocity
at which the machine works ia entirely
nj the option of the person using it, and
can be easily regulated
The Seven Sieepsrs.
A lady in Brooklyn asks MS what were
the names Of the 'fSeven Sleepers and
where she will find their strange story