Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Flags are employed for signaling at
sea.
Every bakers shop has the stomach
cake.
William Tell was an arrow-rninded
man.
A shot tower is usually about 1S0 feet
high. :
There are 1O7, 900 Hebrews in New
York.
There are about 600 newspapers in
Russia.
The only thing which is constant
Change.
A man Of push-The wheelbarrow
trundler.
The serpent was subtle, but the army
trader is sutler.
In the year 1923 there we're but three
miles Of railroad in the whole United
States.
What is the need of being told to rise
with the lark7 The lark ses abo
3,000 feet.
II in safe enough 10 tickle q wasp un
der his wing, il you do it with very
long straw.
The river Yuken, in Alaska, never has
been surveyed, but has been navigated
for 1000 miles.
Pocahontas is TO have a monument
over her grave at Graveeend, England,
where she lies buried.
Nothing does so much for peoples
looks as q little interchange of the
small coin Of benevolence.
III you sweep your own doorsteps
clean you win have little time to criti-
else those OF your neighbor.
It is the work Of philosopher to be
every day subduing his passions and
laying aside his preiudices.
"That's the long and short Of it," AZ
the street Arab remarked on passing a
tall wife and little husband.
"Pa," said Pet, "may det up and
twot on your knee ?" Certainly" was
the ready reply, "let the little gallop."
A somnambulist in Fountain City,
Wis, cut of his finger with an axe
while asleep, ielon being the incite-
ment.
II is a most mortifying reflection Of
any man to consider what he has done
compared with what he might have
done.
Electricity is found to be a delicate
test for purity OF oils, which are judged
Of by the resistance they offer 10 the
current.
The French are acquiring a more
atable government every year. Paris
slone consumed IL, ,2l9 horses for food
last year.
"You ought.to husband your coal
more" said the charity woman. 81
always does. ! make him sift ashes and
pick the cinders."
Even the most religious man, who
would scorn to worship an idol, takes
a peculiar delight in being vorshiped
az an idol himself.
The leg Of q "Granther Graybeard"
(which is a species Of spider retains its
vitality one or two days after being sew
cred from the body.
One hundred and three boys between
the ages OF fourteen and nineteen are
now confined in the California State
prison, at San Quentin.
Beware Of prejudices, they are like
rats, and mems minds are like traps
Prejudices creep in easily, but ii is
doubtful If they ever get out.
A muddy pool, rippled by q breeze,
will sparkle quite brilliantly while in
motion but when quiet il is seen the
more plainly TO be only q shallow pool.
Stopping TO deny denials is as profit
less as stopping 20 deny truths. 1t is
consenting to leave an Affirmative for q
negative position, which is a removal
from the strong side to the weak.
To know q man, observe how he wins
his object, rather than how he loses IL
for when xe fall our pride supports us
when we succeed il betrays Ms.
PIletier, the French chemist, discov-
cred quinine, the active principle of
Peruvian bark, about sixty years ago,
and was awarded prize of 81 900.
In the course Of recent libel suit the
English attorney general said "There
is at present a mania in literature, art
and philosophy TO say something which
cannot be understood"
A San Franciscan, who was sued for
the value of half-a-doEen shirts made 10
his order, pleaded misfit. and appeared
upon the witness-stand wearing one Of
the garments. he won the case.
The jackson Miss Oornet remarks
that there cannot be too much gratitude
10 the North and West for aid given the
yellow fever sufferers, but there can be
lar too much poetry on the subject.
Hood, in an article Of singular humor,
states that the phrase "republic Of let
ters was hit upon 10 insinuate that,
taking the whole lot of authors together,
they had not got . sovereign amongst
them.
An exchange grimly asserts: An inn
possible feat for female pedestrian Is
10 walk Thousand miles in thousand
hours. past one thousand millinery
stores displaying the latest styles OF
spring bonnsts.
There are published in Sweden 900
papers and periodicals.. Of which eighty
four appear In Stockholm. There are