The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-03-14

Tho first thing in boot is the last.
Chicago papers say that no mans Life

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sweetest. liz ever man sleeps IN
sleep Of the iuSts u IL when he's Jus
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A Michigan paper says Tramps on
this way live ON the choicest meats
Every one OF them ggta warm tongue o.
most every house.
: AZ Tracy City, Tenn, recently, Johr
Mangua, a baker, cloeed himself mp II
his own oven and was baked 10 death
cremated 10 cinder.
: Tlse Atlanta COnsfikiftion thinks that
the gold yield Of Georgia. which is now
half million . year, may be raised Ia
the Same amoHnt monthly.
Immense beds og copper have been
found nj Blue Hill, Me-, and In the
neighboring town Of Sedgwick silver
veins OF much promise have been un-
covered, the orc aspaying from 800 10
$500 ton.
The former private secretary Of Presi-
dent Polk has been discovered, old
and poor, in Santa Fo. He was vel
acquainted with Andrew jackson, and
relates how he once saw him praying
at the grave Of his wife,
One Of the largest shoe firms in Bos-
ton has Just concluded an arrangement
with the Peruvian government 10 fur
niAh 80, 900 pairs OF mems shoes. The
firm had previously flled an order for the
same government for 10000 pairs Of
shoes.
What beautiful example of Eimplici-
ty In dress is shown some Of the follow
ers Of fashion By that domestic animal
the cat. which rises in the morning,
washes it's face with It's right hand, gives
its tail three jerks. and liz ready dressed
for the day
An exchange says good way 30 man
age fierce dog In - b seize him by the
under law, with stiff thumb under his
\ tongne." AS en- amendment we would
suggest that the dog be a very small one,
and not old enough 10 have any very
definite ideas as 20 the use Of teeth.
GiImanton, N. H, has Lady farmer,
Mrs. J. ID. Piper, who, though over sixty
years of age, owns and manages a farm
Of seventy-hve acres. The past sum
ner ehe has herself dOneall her farming,
planting, hoeing. harvesting and other
farm work, with the exception OF hay
ing.
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When hss thee on tlly Hps,
Tvs ay own love 60 impart;
Tor beswben tlose Eweet Fose-bndE
Lies the doorway of thy heart
Wbsa kiss thee on thins eyes,
-TSs 70 bid thy l0ve-gsdes roll
For benanth th0ee velvet lids
AnB IhH fountains Of tho soul
A sehoolboy being requested 10 write
a composition upon the subject Of pins
produced the following " Pins areyery
useful. They have saved the lives of
great many men, women and children
IN fact whole families" aow so p
asked the puzzled teacher. The boy
replied: why, by not swallowing
them
docs this razor 20 easy ?" asked q
barber Of victim who was writhing un-
der clumsy In strument, whose chief
Recommendation was a strong handle.
Wei, replied the poor fellow. " that
depends upoH what you cali the opera
tion. IL you are Ekinning me, II goes
tolerably easy, but il you're shaving, II
goes rather hard
In 1876 snakes and wild animals IN
India killed l9,2T8 persons and "a. $50
head Of cattle There we're slain q, ,549
wild animals and 2I2, 81 snakes, rewards
10 the amount Of So, 2s7 being pad for
their destruction. There were killed
by slakes Is, $40 persons. by elephants
81, by tigers al7, by leopards I56, by
bears l23, by wolves 8S7 and by hyenas
80. The animals destroyed were Ele-
plants 4; tigers 1,6o3; leopards 8, ,76s;
bears 1852; wolves 1916 and hyenas
1856.
Walter s. Harley and Robert Fish
burne, OF WATERFORD, s. c., we're
brothers-in-laE They quarreled In
consequences OF some opprobrious Ian
guage addressed by the former 20 the
latter. Fishburne sought 10 make Har-
lev withdraw the offensive words. he
declined 10 do so, and challenge fol-
lowed; they met at q point few miles
from Savannah; Harley discharged his
pistol in the air, and Fishbugne sent a
bullet into Hariey's body, inAicting
mortal wound.
A narrow escape from n singular acci
dent occurred in the hunting field in
England the other day. The Atherstone
hounds. q celebrated pack, we're in Pur-
suit Of a FOX, which tried 10 escape by
leapfn9 into q stone quarry, eighty feet
deep. but was killed BY the fall. The
leadipg dog Of the pack also leaped IN
and was dashed 30 pieces, and the others
would have followed had not the men
employed in the pit, seeing the danger,
formed line upon the brink and driven
the dogs back.
Cotton seed some years ago was con-
Sidered worthless, aud immense piles OF
il accumulated on the Southern planta-
tons. For a number Of years Il has
been utilized, however, nd has become
n valuable source Of income. IL yields
per ton about seven hundred pounds OF
cake or meal and thirty-five gallons Of
oil. The meal is worth SIS per ton, the
" cake from S24 10 SIS. and the oil in
its crude state. thirty-eight cents per
gallon. Much fthe " cake "is exported
For many years past in an eastern
city . letter addressed TO Philip
Gregory, Esq, has been dropped every
day into The mail, with no indication of
the place oF residence of the person for
whom il was intended All began, Ny
own darling Phiiip," and ended, "Your
faithful ana affectionate Mary, and ex-
pressed the writer's undying love and
confidence that her lover would return.
Now suddenly TIE letters have ceased.
and the clerks in the dead letter Office at
Washington really feel lonesome and
sad.
Cooking by means Of solar rays has
been tried successfully at Bombay, and
an apparatus has been contrived to cook
chops and steaks in the open air as well
and expeditiously as over an ordinary
fire. The apparatus consists of copper
vessel, timed inside aud painted black
outside, with a glass cover enveloping
the vessel with an inch of hot air, and
fixed ON 70 the bottom OF a conical re-
flector lined with common silvered sheet
glass. II pnOperIy covered over it VIII
retain the heat for full three hours and q
half
Mrs. Angela Podesta- Onetta died re-
Gently in Cincinnati at the remarkable
age Of one hundred and nine
years and one day, after being confined
TO her bed only three days. For about
three months previous she had been