Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There arc seventeen ladies regularly
connected with the Chicago press.
American corncd beef is supersedinR
al other kinds In the markets OF Ger
many.
Women are archers by nature. Tho
bent oi their inclination is 10 bend beaux.
-Ne,0 York Mai.
The entire population Of Paris. whether
noating or permanent, is counted off,
claly every month.
1t is proposed To erect statue TO Law
fayette in Druid Hall Park, Baltimore.
AT a cost Of sl2 900.
Truth is the most powerful thing in the
world, since fiction can only please US by
its resemblance TO it.
The cotton factors of New Orleans be-
lieve there will be 10000 more bales re-
ceived there this season than last.
Hundreds Of Esquimaux have been
starving 10 death, o Sing 10 the wanton
destruction Of walruses bY whalers.
"A Fraud in Silks is the startling
head line in an exchange. All! Went
back on you, did Rockl1'ld Courier.
Quite n brisk demand for American
windmills has sprung up in the British
colonies, West India islands and South
America.
The greatest evils in life have had their
rise from something which was thought
TO he Of too little Importance 10 be At
tended 10.
Anybody is apt TO be mistaken. but n
boy never but onoe attempts TO pat a
short horned bull on the head .-NeO
JOTk E.lpycSS.
The BARRIERS razor took hold of his
beard with vengeance, when he looked
up and said, apologctically, Ny dear
sir, ! came 20 get shavcd-not to get a
tooth pullcdl"
An article is going the rounds headed.
" Abuse Of Tobacco" There is no helm
for II. Tobacco must take its share Of
abuse If it isn't strong enough to help
itself-R0nie Sentinel.
The st. Petersburg Globe says tha.
u .S5i persons were incarcerated in the
Central prison at Moscow during the
summer, l0,47 of whom were con-
demned to exile in Siberia.
The man who fell off the fence into
the brambles was much nettled by the
occurrence. We hope thistle be ap-
preciated," says n punster. Weed have
said the same thing.
Louisiana's temperance alliance give
the amount of liquor drank in the State
at Si2, 900, 600 yearly. or Ss .000. coo more
than the value of the combined cotton,
sugar and rice crops.
If you want to convince q boy of six
teen that this world IL all a blank lust
kindly inquire about these days If he is
going TO block out a pair Of chin whis-
kers for tie winter season.-Free Press.
That was an observing little fellow, If
he was but six years old, who said:
Pap. ! wish you'd quarantine against
Tom Jones coming here every night TO
see Jennie. It's got TO be too epidemic"
A Chinaman In Paris committed sui
eide because his toTmentors had cut off
his queue. lie fastened the cherished
brsid with pins TO the place where il
ought TO grow, and jumped into the
river.
The sum received by Rowell, the win
ner of t he pedestrian match In New
York, equalled $3.50 for every "lap"
around the track-a lap being equivalent
10 one-eight of mile. lie made about
90 every minute of his walk.
VIM. Hazlett. of Portland, OREGON. In
the shadow OF fatal illness concluded TO
shorten the fight over his estate some
what by burning 30, 200 in grecnbacks.
lie soon began TO mend, however. and
Is nov as mad rs he can be to think he
got well.
Now, thro' tho woodland coIlonades
The wiiherei bannerets OF June
Float doSuward 20 the lowiy blades
That sigh the summers parting boon,
From many louly meadow nook
The thistle aosts its snowy fakes,
And cotneth TO the faithful cook
A growing hiTst of bnckwhcAt cakes.
- lonksTt Cossffs.
A commercial Traveller At Marseilles.
France, having refused leave TO bic
maidservant to take his daughter 10 tbs
skating rink, they did not appear next
morning, and on the bedrocn being
burst open both were found sufocated.
A note in the maids writing said: You
shall no longer have your daughter;
take her TO better world" Their ages
were twcnty-six and fourteen.