The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-05-16

Hard 70 bcat-the spring carpet.
Bnnkwheat In more eaten here than in
any ether land.
The Chinese for "adieu" Il very ap-
propriate -" "ohin-ohin.
There are nineteen thousand female
Patrons OF Husbandry In Texas.
Everyone is IN one thing al least orig
inal-in his manner OF sneezing.
A picture frame just completed by
New JerHeyman, contains ], ,6d2 kinds OF
wood.
Nei0eliss silks have snowflake scatter
ings on dark grounds. The effect is at
trRctive.
London il going 10 build q new bridge
over the river Thames, and 10 pay Si0,-
000, 900 for H.
A five-yaar-old girl waa actually whip
ped 10 death IN Marshalltown, Iowa, by
her drunken mother.
Gortchakoff In I'm hla oighty-Bocond
year-beating Lord Palmerston, who
died IN hmrneas at eighty.
The Blue-b0ok just issued shows that
there are $3.50 civil employees Of the
United States government
A girl working in . paper mill IN
! Orange county, ". ~, recently ripped
e24 in gold ont Of an old hustle.
The present rulers Of the laws Of eti-
Z duette have decided that ID In only good
style TO bow after the lady has bowed.
Austria's peace establishment In put
down at 26T, ,O05 men and AZ, ,S72 horses;
1 in war, $50, ,O26 men and l4s. 40 horses.
The geographerH cell ua that the earth
Is composed entirely Of land and water.
Seems 10 as there are fewrocks thrown
in.
Five of the sweetest words In the Eng
lish language begin with III, which II
only breath; Heart, Hope. Happiness,
aud Heaven
A poor woman I'm Dmnyille, Ill, while
splitting kindling wood. killed heF little
three-year-old chlld by an accidental
blow Of the axe.
There IA a man only twenty-five years
OF age who has already married fourteen
women. he is a clergymen, and mar
ried them 30 their husbands.
In Pennsylvania seventy-one per cent.
Of the farms are cultivated by their own
ers, twenty per cent are worked on
hhareA. aud nine per cent are rented.
Said a young doctor 10 a lady patient:
'sYon must take exercise for your health,
nv dear. /" " All right, said she; "m
jump at the first offer" They were
married about siK months afterwards.
An organ Of the tobacco trade asserts
that il the tobacco consumed annually,
about 1000, ,00O, 900 pounds, could be
made into a roll two inches in diameter,
il would encircle the world sixty times.
June June June =
Low Groom
The brown bees In the clover.
"sNnel swees! EWeetl"
Repeat
The rollins nested over
--Agls Cry ia scribna.
Mr.. II. ID. Afillet, mn American, was
the only correspondent who went
through the Balkans with Gen. Gourko.
The car presented him with the decora-
ton Of st. Ann, which La the highest
decoration given 10 any correspondent
The "Agouy columns Of the Turkish
newspapers mre filed with advertise
ments for lost relations, giving painful
evidence Of the dispersion Of families of
the Mussulman population which has
taken place in the districts ravaged by
war.
The sea holds 60, ,O0O, 000, 600, 900 tons
OF salt. Should the sea be dried mp,
there would be q 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 it to
depth OF 800 feet
Because you flourish In worldly EgAlra
Don't be hA1ghty aud put on airs
With insolsui pride q stRtion-
Don't be proud and turn up your no@e
AT poorer people In palmer clothes
But learn. for the eMke of ycnr minds repoEa,
That weAiths hubhie that comes and goes
And that al proud aesh, wherever Il grows,
l. subject % irritation
MARIA. (" observed Mr.. Holcomb, aE
he was putting on his clothes, Z" there
ain't no patch on them breeches yet.
"I can't fx il now, no way; I'm too
busy" "Well. give me the patch. then.
an I'll carry il around with me-. don't
want people 10 think I can't afford the
cloth"
How strangely JOY and sorrow are
interwoven in this world Pain chases
pleasure like 3 champion pedestrian.
and the sweet tears shed by the maple
tree in spring time, crystalliEed into
sugar, viii give nm infant the stomach
ache equal 20 q doctors bill Of nine
dollars.
Henry Goodrich i'm q music teacher.
He has travelled from place 30 place until
he has Taught music in every State in the
Union. II is said that be has married
seven Of his pupils and most OF the States
are vet 10 be heard from In ClarksburF,
Va, he outdid 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 wear a regular gymnasium dress Of
blue and gray cloth. Besides the lighter
gymnastics, they are taught the heavier
exercises alsos such as climbing. jump
ing and swinging. The girls are said
20 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,
domesficaliy inapplicable, so the iaven
tor OF the new machine was restricted TO
gravitation or elasticity, and he, prefer
ring the latter fierce, has contrived 10
make springs strong enough to keep an
ordinary sized machine in motion, ia is
said for hours. A system OF cog-wheels
Is arranged underneath the surface OF
the table upon which the machine is fix
ed, aud by a handle nj the side the spring
il wound up with facility. The velocity
at which the machine works is entirely
at the option Of the person using it, and
can be easily regulated
The Seven Sieepers.
A lady in Brooklyn asks us what were
the names of the ''Seven Sleepers and
where she viii find their strange story