Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-08-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

IImEL1 IOflCSs
No less than seventeen wife beaters
were convicted and sent to prison in one
day at Rugby. England. Three women
were also charged with assaulting their
husbands. Two ofthese militant matrons
were discharged, but the third got her
month snug, just rs If she were man.
This lady had borrowed an antique hint
from the fighting females OF New Pallas
and polished of her liege lord with n
loaded stocking.
The Ogden (Utah) Freeman says that
during Jay Gould's recent trip in the
West u band of desperate train robbers
posted themselves along the unguarded
plains on the line of the Union Pacific
: Railroad with the idea of catching him
rs he passed through TO Ogden. The
robbers proposed to take him into the
British possessions and there keep him
until he should pay an immense ransom.
Gould heard of the plot, literally re-
warded his informant, and made his
escape.
The frigate of war Constitution.
now eighty-iive years old, and lately en-
gagged i'm the peaceful occupation of re-
turning exhibits from the Paris eN-
hibition. has been rebuilt so often that
not piece of the original wood re-
mains. So say the naval officers. In
this respect the oil craft resembles the
constitution of man, who mt the age of
Cichty-tive is not supposed 10 retain a
particle of the substance he started out
with, but in the latter the change is so
gradual and continuous that il goes on
without his laying up for repairs. On
the whole the mechanism of man is
more perfect and wonderful than that
OF any known production.
The heirs and attorneys representing
about 10 lineai descendants of Robert
Edwards, who owned at one time pro-
perty in New York city. now valued at
$50, 1000, 900, have been il conference in
Akron, Ohio. John A. Edwards, of
Seward, Neb., represented fifty of these
heirs. and II. W Ingerso,l. of Akron,
and Capt. Henry Edwards, of kawaka,
Canada, the remaining ninety. After n
full comparison of facts and views. n
satisfactory conclusion was reached that
the documentary and other proofs at
hand were sufficient to warrant lega
proceedings whenever they choose To in
stitutc them. One of the heirs is
washcrwoman, named Sherbandy, who
lives in the suburbs of Akron.
Complaint is often made that garden
seeds do not sprout into plants with that
certainty that the flori @cataloguc of the
scotsman would lead us to expect.
Peter Henderson. the veteran scotsman,
thinks he has discovered thecausc and the
remedy is certainly simple enough. Be
fore the recent convention of nursery
men and florists he said that if seeds
when planted in spring are pressed firmly
with the foot after they are under the
ground they will invariably grow.
drought or no drought. Peter says that
although he has been in the business for
over quarter of century he only dis
covered this simple truth a few years
ago. This information may be rather
late for this season, but it is in first rate
time for next spring.
Five ancient cities-dcserted and for
gotten-havC been discovered i'm the
Great Desert. beyond the River Jordan.
a report made 10 the Royal Asiatic
Society, by Mr.. Graham, an Englishman
lately returned from travels in the East,
gives the particulars of the discovery:
They were rs perfect rs If the inhabi-
tants had just left them-the houses re-
tanning the massive stone doors which
are Characteristic Of the architecture
of that region. One of the cities Is re-
markable for a large building like a
slstle. built of white stone beautifully
cut. Further eastward other palaces
were found. where every stone had in
ScIiptions in an unknown character.
bearing some apparent likeness to the
Greek alphabet formerly in use in South
ern Arabia"
In order to secure accurate vital statis-
tics General Walker, Superintendent of
the Census, to be taken next year, is TAX
ing measures to obtain returns from all
the practising physicians and surgeons
in the United States numbering sixty
thousand or seventy thousand, rs to the
deaths occurring in their practice during
the year ending on the 3lst Of May. IssO
To each practitioner Is sent "A book con-
tanning twenty blank forms and page Of
explanation. If more than twenty four
deaths occur within the year in any ply
sician's practice one or more additional
books can be had. The blanks call for
the place and date of death. the name.
sex. race or color, age, with date of birth,
and occupation Of the deceased. the cause
or causes Of death. or the symptoms
where causes cannot with certainty he
given. and the fact that post-mOTtCm
examination was or was not held
Almost every day some strayling IL
pick up by the New York police and con-
signed for temporary shelter TO the
motherly arms of Matron webb, Mt po-
lice headquarters. And almost as often
rs n waif is rescued from the street it Is
reclaimed by parent, brother, siaer,
relative or friend. So rare Is ii that
lost child j. 4 sought for that when It
occurs the matron is Mt loss how 10 dis.
pose of the charge. Occasionally child
Il found xvhpaa apunoranpa tpIfnafou ;ta