Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-12-04

substantially the same. making dealers
responsible pccuniarily for all harm re-
sulting from the sale of alcoholic bev-
erages. New York. Ma no Massachu.
setts and Illinois have statutes precisely
alike.
The Russian government il about 10
introduce one more penalty against
journals published without preliminary
censorship. They are now prohibited
from publishing business advertise
mcnts. The Russkaia PicdrciG says that
the measure will prove n punishment
not only for tic editors. but also for
the advertisers, who, being innocent,
may suffer more than the guilty editors
themselves.
Charles Ar Shove, "A Chinaman, be-
came a tea merchant in Boston thirty
years ago, married an American wife,
grew wealthy. and mixed in cultivated
society. Lately he visited his native
land, and, on returning. says 10 the B0s-
ton Heraid: Every thing in China
seemed almost as strange TO me as ii did
to me when |, first 1nme TO Boston," lie
found few social changes, however.
/" Individual taste, If il leads 10 "A deyia-
tion from the set forms Of society. is
frowned down, and. SO long as this feel
ing is prevalent in China, its people arc
slaves TO custom, opinion and usage
There is something strangely parallel
in the tragic fates Of Donaldson and
Wise. These men were intimately asso-
ciated in former years. Donaldson went
up from Chicago, and Wise from its rival
n L L -.
one companion. Neither Of the balloons
were ever found. and the fate of each
is uattcr Of conjecture, although ii is
thought that both were engulfed in Lake
Michigan. Each of the companions
were found some time after the occa-
sion, each on the shores OF Lake Michi-
gan. one with copy of Chicago paper
in his pocket, the other with st. Louis
paper.
The United States consul at Tien Tsin,
China, in "A dispatch to the Department
of State. reports that two English physi-
clans have had remarkable success in
their practice in the royal family. lead
ing 10 an immense practice among the
common people. The yiccroy has es-
tablished free dispensary and placed
one Of the doctors nt its head. Tie
whole expense j. borne by the yiceroy.
He has also noticed fayorably Miss
Howard. NJ. D.. an American lady. who
holds high rank among the physicians
of Pcking. This liberal and humane
course by the foremost man in the en-
pire will do much To break down the
pIeiudiccs Of the people.
The Nevada Miner says tnat wherever
in any part OF the world silver mines
have been worked they are worked now.
unless by war the invasion Of Indians,
/ etc, the work has been stopped. There
/ il no silver mining region in the world
I that has given out. Mexican mines
worked by the Aztecs before the con-
I quest by Ccricz are still ~ profitable As
ever. The old Spanish mines, opened
/ long before Hannihal's time, are still
worked with enormous profits. The
South American mines have constantly
yielded their wealth for more than 300
years. and are ~ productive rs ever.
! Mines in Hungary that were worked by
the Romans before the time Of Christ,
still yield an abundance Of ore.
The Huncnrians are exceedingly ieAl-
Gus Of their identity rs distinct and
sovereign people. and carefully preserve
their natio' al usages and language.
With the latter. however. they have
much trouble. the tendency being To its
gradual eXtirpation before that of vie
more numerous and powerful Teutonic
rscc. with which they arc so Joined that
one or the other must give way. Ger
man is the official and judicial language
of Hungary. aud somcsof the schools
are not only not conducted in Hun
garian, but that language Is not taught
in them. An effort in the Hungarian
Parliament 90 make instruction in the
native tongue compulsory in the schools
was under discussion some time ago.
and was finally defeated because 1t was
feared that IL might create trouble with
the rest of the empire.
The annual report of DR.. w. W
Strcw. the medical superintendent of the
City Lunatic Asylum. at Blackwcll's
Island. New York. presents an interest
ing and valuable exposition Of the work
Of this important public charity Dur
ing the last year the total number Of
patients under treatment in the asylum
was l,7g7. Of whom 2o4 were discharged
either entirely or partially recovered.
The death rate among the inmates was
extraordinarily low. and the sanitary
condition Of the institution appears TO
have been admirable throughout. DR..
Strew. in his report. calls especial atten-
tion 10 the fact that n benevolent lady
of this city has interested herself in pro-
curing employment for cured and dis
charged patients who, after recovery,
usually find il difficult To obtain situa-
tioDs and eXpressee the hone that other
friends Of these unfortunate people will
follow this laudable example.
A singular fact has been recently re-
ported OF the people of the little visited
country Of AMMAN. an Independent
though tributary state on the south Of
China. Tho natives of the country of
pure descent have the great toes of each
foot separated from the others like the
thumb on the hand, and can and do u &c
their toes in much the same manner h It
the thumbs are used. though, Of course.
Ia n much less extent. In the vicinity
of the seaport of Sargon, where foreign