Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
4 tub raco-W Washcrwomen.
Son-shinc---Th made by bootblack.
There are in Texas l75 ,59i 500 acres Of
land.
The peanut crop this year is esimsted AZ
] ,29O, 900 buFhclr
There ere fourteen ex-governor in the
United States Senate
Pipes two feet long are smoked in the
street in Cotton. Cal.
Missouri has sixteen counties in which
there IL not single liquor saloon.
The taking OF the United States cen
sus next year will cost about $4,000, 900.
There is "A population in the French colo
nies, and posAssAions abroad, including Al
seris, Of 5,igs, 40.
1t il very dangerous 10 make up your
judgment concerning young lsdy's weight
by measuring her sighE.
A schoolhouse is to be built at Lead
Vile, Col, which shows that the Lead.
Williams desire TO improve their minds.
Father, is that goose---ihs. big white
birdT' No, my boy, that bird is the
swan--.,hat immaculate giraffe Of the
wave"
Philadelphia, which eight years ago
had only sixteen shoe factories. has now
over 40. Their annual production IL
estimated at ~, 600, 600 pairs.
There a young man in Oh City.
Who considered himself very witty.
He got of pun
To iurtish the crowd iun,
The way they lamined him wa pity.
--Dfrriek
A factory in Hanover. Germany, makes
glass in close imitation of marble. and
the tables. floor, tiles. etc. which il
turns out, are preferable 10 marble
on account Of superior hardness.
The German government has prohibited
lectures on emigration, lest the alluring
piciures Of an easier and happier life il
other lsnds should encourage young men in
escaping the deieFtcd years Of barrsck life.
According io the annual report Of the
Bank Department, the amount due TO the
dcposiiors Of the fwcnty-nnc savings
banks that have failed in eight years
waE PA. .gI0. l07; Of which they have re-
ceived 81. I37, ,59l leaving 60, 772. SIG vet
due. Of which they stand chance of get
ting Sl,436.4s
Now tho noisy woods are stall;
Apnl'- coming up the hill
All the spring y IN her train,
Led by shining ranks oG rain:
lit, Pat, pa;ier, patier.
sudden sun, and Thii~r. pai,>T -
First the blue and then the shower
Bursting bud and smiling Cover.
Brooks sci free with iinkling ring.
Birds too full 81 song 10 sing:
DRY old leaves nHtir with pride,
Where the timii violc's hide
All thing ready with a will
April's coming up the hill
st Mica
One ofthc most remarkable n cn Of the
mountain country is GenIsl Jarvis
Jackson. Of London. Laurel county. Ky.
lie Is ninety-nine years Of age. has his
second sight. and reads the finest print
without spcctaclcs. The old Gentleman
is hale and hearty. Is at present chair
IN an of the board Of trustees, has served
heretofore in the Senate and House Of
Representatives. and has been leading
Democrat for many years in Laurel
county. lie is the issue of the first mar
riagc ever solemnized in Madison county.
Laurel having then been part of this
county. He owns much land in this
section, is n man Of means. and still SUI
pcrintcnds his business affairs without
assistance. lie has been attending the
State Democratic conventions for the
past twenty years, and announces his in
tention. of hcing present at the May con-
vention.-Riohmond (Ky.) Register.
The largest infant at birth Of which there
Is any authenticated record was born in
O on the 18th Of last January. The new
DO n boy was twenty-three and three quar-
ter pounds in weight (the ordinary weight
being about six poundsl, and thirty inches
in height (the ordinary height heing abou,
twenty inches). The circumference III the
head was nineteen inches, and the foot was
Ave and half inches in length. Six year.
ago the same woman became the mother of
child eighteen pounds in weight and
twenty.four inches in height. The size and
weight OF the babe, though extraordinary.
are proporiionate 10 the size Of the parents
The mother, Mrs. NJ. V. Bates, Of Nova
Scotia, il seven feet and nine inches high,
and the father. kentuckian, il seven feet
seven inches high. The London Hospital
Museum can boast no longer Of iis giant
infant, which i only tweniy-four inches
high, with the head thirteen and half
inches in circumierenee.
Rarely has the press been called upon
To record n more cowardly and brutal
act than the murder of the actor. II. G.
Porter, by james Currie. and the shoot
ing of his companion, Mr.. Barrymore. Mt
Marshall. Texas. While these gentle
men were in the restaurant adjoining the
waiting-room Of the railroad station.
with Miss Josephine Baker. an actress,
and all waiting for the train, this rufiian
Curric used improper language to them.
and when told by the party that he must
not insult lady and that they did not
want to have any trouble with him. he
drew his revolver and shot them. II
appears the fellow had two rcvolvers-
was. in fact. n sort Of walking arsenal. rs
II murder was his profession. He was n
railroad detective, too. A pretty sort of
fellow this. 10 be employed by railroad
company. When n drunken rnffian car
ries n loaded revolver. there is no telling
when he may use it. or make the occa-
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