Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25
TIMELY TOPICS.


capital invested in the paper trade at
Holyoke is estimated Mt about So, ,000, 900,
and there are annually produced about
$4,000 tons of paper. The mills ara run
hy water power
Henry Face killed the young man who
had wronged his daughter, Mt Clerken-
well, England, and public sentiment
favored him so strongly that a fund was
raised to support his family during the
year and half of Imprisonment to
which he was sentenced. His escape
from worse punishment was regarded
rs lucky, and he went to prison in good
spirits. But his daughter taunted him
with being murderer, and in conse-
quence of that he hanged himself in his
cell
An association, under the name of the
Jasper Monumental Association has
been formed at Savannah, Ga, for the
the purpose of erecting monument 10
Sergeant Jasper, who on the 9th day of
October, l779, fell in the attack of the
American forces on Savannah. The
sergeant's exploit in leaping over the
ramparts of Fort Moultrie, Charleston
harbor, during the hottest part of the
British attack at that place. and fixing
anew the flag which had been shot from
its staff, will be remembered as one of
the.most stirring episodes of the Revolu
tionary war.
A Missouri farmer has been figuring
on the damage done by dogs in that
State. In thirty-two counties lO,6O2
sheep have been killed. lie estimates
the number of dogs in thirty-two coun-
ties to be 462 600; that a hog will thrive
on the food necessary to support an
able-bodied dog, and Mt the end of the
year weigh 200 pounds; therefore, if the
food for these i62, 900 dogs was given to
the hogs, it would make $1,000, 900
pounds Of pork, worth at least six cents
apound, or "a, $50, ,0O0-nearly twice the
value of all the school-houses in the
State, and more than twice the amount
used by the State for school purposes.
The streets of London. England, have
been recently placarded with an adver-
tisement stating that " the art of begging
is exhaustively taught in six lessons by
Prof Lazarus Rooney, who begs to in
form the public that he has founded n
college for theoretical and practical in
struction in medicancy." Among other
practical appliances for the profession
the professor announces that he
keeps on hand artificial wounds and
sores, assorted braces of twins, trained
dogs for blind men, crutches for Grip
pies, and surgical bandages for wounded
impOstors. Information is afforded re-
pecting the most lucrative streets and
neighborhoods.
The London correspondent of Liver
pool newspaper says: THE papers an
nounced the other day that. owing to an
accident in the machine-room, the extra
double number of the Illustrated LOnoyid
Negs, advertised to appear, would he
unavoidably postponed for one day.
As n matter of fact. the NJ cident was
a literary, not n mechanical one, the
proprietor canceling several thousands
OF printed copies rather than allow the
publication of an article by one of it's
editors, rejecting. rs he conceived. with
ill-timed severity and offensiyencss on
the family of the Prince Imperial. In
stantly, on perusing the article, Mr..
Ingram ordered stop press sacrificing
over E2.0O0 TO this delicacy of feeling
The classification Of a company Mt one
of the seaside hotels, by n child who
had not troubled herself to remember
names, has great deal of significance.
To her they were the lady who whincs
who talks about her headache" 1.-THE
lady who scolds the children for making
a noise, and who plays the piano so
much herself" 1.-The kind lady who
speaks to all the strangers; !" /" the happy
lady who draws pictures and lets us look
over her shoulder" 1.-THE Young man
who thinks he Is handsome;" and 1.-THE
boy who always offers to take you out in
his boat when nobody else will take
you" Truly, many things which are
thought to be hid by the wise and pru-
dent are revealed unto babes.
The maddest newspapers of the pres
ent time are those which are published
in the Austrian lunatio asylums. Con-
tributions are received from all the in
mates who have either hobbies or griev-
ances. Those who are afflicted with any
monomania whatever may explain their
delusions and support their convictions
by argument and example. The .Ggic en-
ploYed in an article of recent issue by
one gentleman to disprove the belief of
another that his beard was of heather
and required constant watering. was 80
faultless and incisive as to have done
credit to Regius Professor OF Moral
Philosophy. Alas! he himself firmly be
ieved that his own nose was made of
sugar anu JO prevent lts getting wet,
and consequently melting away, always
drank through n straw w.-NcW York
Tribune.
Even princes sometimes starve TO
death. Recently, the st. Petersburg
papers announced the death from sheer
starvation Of Prince Serge Michaelovicl
Galitzin. employed rs n censor of books.
and removed by "suDreme orders" to
Odessa, where he took lodging in the
house of n carpenter, occupying dark.
damp room, Of such limited dimensions
An inquir ELECTED the fact that for
months he had subsisted on dry bread.
with occasionally a morsel of cheese or
an apple He left no effects save the
rags on him when he died. His mother
is wealthy dame, resident in Moscow,
where she owns several houses. n fine