The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-06-27

A man Of parta--The hAir-dresser.
Some Western papers have eaaAonAn'
cd : graashoppcr department.
There are over 400 religions charlta
bic societiea and twenty-seven hosF itAis
In New York city.
Louisville has n secret society called
The Elephape They keep all OF tneir
documents in q trunk.
A sevenIootsr in Kentucky says u
he were given the choice OF means oi
death he would die by inches.
The reason the war was 50 bard upon
the Turks was that every fatal caEHalty
made an average NJ four willows.
To tho American boy there is an aw-
gul, q majestic difference IN weight Do
tween the butt-end of q fishing pole ana
a hoe handle.
One.hmlfofthobeesi in San Monica, Gal.
we're lost last year, says an exchange
Hope It was the tail half, remarks the
| Chicago Times.
vouna lady was undecided whether
to accent the addresses Of James or John
James gave her sealskin aacque. and
she immediately gave the sack to John.
A Mr.. Post, OF Ohio. aged one hnn-
dred wears in missing from home. LIS
friends should look for him m the dead
letter ofice, whore he LIN probably held
for Post age.
A German writer says young girl -
A fahinR. rod The eyes are the hook,
the smile the bait, the lover the gud-
gaon. and marriage the butter IN which
be IN fried.
A Burlington man has invented an
improvement on Edison's phonoEraph.
The machine II 40 natural that during
spring weather ii talks through its nose
and cad't say eb dor cd. -HdUkeye.
Mr. SAWYER. Of Starks, Ne, has q
set Of coat buttons which he has worn
upon all Of his coats for about hity
wears. They are large white pearl, are
valued Mt as each, and were brought
from Italy upon an old surtout many
years ago.
The effect Of eating the poisonous hy
mushroom II that everything seems I'M
mensely large. A straw lying. on the
road, for instance, becomes 40 formidA-
ble an obstruction that person under
the influence Of this Mushroom would
take a running jump I'm order TO clear m
A Baltimore ra1 has discovered
way 30 cheaper property. de crawls
through the skyliEnt in his night-shirt.
and dances over the roofs In the light OF
the moon, The terrified tenants OF the
adjoining premises think IL La spirit
and hunt mp less ghostly quarters. The
nsgnt-shirt mRn invests Ia the property,
the ghost disappears, etc
fa cat doth meet q cat upon a gar
dem wall. and IL q cat doth greet a cat,
o need they both 20 squAll7 Every
Tommy has his Tabby waiting on the
wsll, and yet he welcomes her approach
always with yRwl. And II kitten
wishes 10 cOurt upon the garden wall
why don't be sit aud Eweetly smile, and
not stand up and bawi; Lift mis- precious
back up high, and show his teeth and
moan, as IL 'twere eolic more than loTo
that made that fellow groan-
A SWARM OF BEES.
D patient, d prAyerful. ID humble. mldi
b wise A. a Soion, B meek hR q child
ssndioas. B thoaghtful, B LOVING. b kind
sure yon make matteF suh@orRienf % mind
cautious B prudent, trlKtfnl. B true
careful % conduct. o. money. of time,
Il cheerful B grateful. ID hopeful. ID arm,
b peaceful benexoIenf wiling 90 learn
courageous B gentle. B liberal, just
d aspiring. humble, because thou AEt dlsti
II penitenf c1rcnmrpect sound In the faith,
y active. devoted, B faithful al death
B honest, Is hols, trAnsparent and pure
b dependent, virtnous, and you'll secure
A subterranean river, known as Silver
Springs. is one Of the greatest curiosi-
ties M Florida. IL bubbles up in
basin nearly one hundred feet deep and
about an acre in extent, discharglng
stream sixty 10 one hundred feet wide
and extending SIX OF eight miles TO the
Ocklahawa river. IL forms a natural
inland port. 20 which three steamers
run regularly from ST. Johns The
water Is so clear that il seems even more
Transparent than air, and not only the
Ash that frequent II, but every object
ON the bottom, can be seen with re-
mArkAble distinetness.
The great center Of rose culture in
France IN situated i'm the vicinity OF
Lyons. The quantity sent out yearly
from this point varies from 200, 600 20
I / .Do0. 600 of plants. Nearly all the
roses are budded on roots Of wild brier
fseedlings) with perhaps 10000 on their
own roots and an equal number ON
standards. Some idea Of the extent OF
the rose culture in France may be OBJ
( tanned from the fact that in tie thirteen
conmunes which surround Brie-Comto
Robert more than 2, SOC, 600 noses are
annually cultivated. the number OF
growers being about a hundred. The
number Of varieties grownis stated from
! TOO % 500. although NJ il only limited
number Of the most robust, and the
greatest favurites which are most eKten-
siveIy cultivated.
GaribAldi, the italian patriot, was
educated O mariner. On being exiled,
IN 1894. he vent 10 Marseiiles, where he
made voyages 10 various ports, eventual
I ly reaching Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In
| ls4S. be returned 10 Italy and was ban
/ ished from SardiniA in 1850 be arrived
i'm New York that summer. and earned a
living by making candles in manufac-
tory on Staten Island, TIL an opportun-
ity occurred of resnming the occupation
OF a mariner. He made some voyages
in the Pacific, and in about three years
returned TO New York IN command OF
Peruvian bark. Having lost his mother,
10 whom be had confded the care OF his
three children, he accepted an invitation
to retlrn to Nice. where he lived in re-
tirement and formed a corps for the
Sandman government, called the THE
Hunters Of the Alps.