Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-08
TIMELY TOPICS.

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The Clinton Qowa) Herald says the
following Is the way they hurt the feel
| ings of the street loafcrs in that city :
Copies of the city ordinance forbidding
loniing or congregatng on the streets.
printed in large type on cards, have
been hung In some of the corner win
dows with salutary effect. Once In II
while fellow braces himself for a
square "loaf" before the window, and
ms his eye mechanically wandcrs over
the conspicuous warning card he sud
denly grows uneasy and soon has busi-
ness down the street.
The bravery of Roman stole was dis
played by Police Judge Tilden, Of Cleve-
land, Ohio, when he tried his son for
stealing coat from n juryman and
found him guilty. 1t was trying
ordeal for the judge, and when he re-
fcrred to the sad spectacle of father
prosecuting his own son he burst into
tears, while his powerful frame shook
with the violence of his grief 1t was II
mournful scene and called for sympathy
for the Judge in his ailliction, not less
than admiration of his courage in thus
showing that love for his offspring could
not stand in the way of his duty TO the
State.
Mr.. Horace White, English consul at
Tangicrs. says: In the contemporaries
Gus account given by Jackson of the
plague which dcpopulntcd Western Bar
barry in 1899 and 1900. he states that n
Mogador, mt his recommendation, many
persons had recourse to a remedy which
had proved most cfiicacious in Egypt
namely. amounting the body with olive
oil. and he knew of no instance of its fail
ing when properly applied and sufficiently
pcrscvcrcd i'm During the outbreak of
the plague among the Egyptian troops at
Boyrout i'm 1896, the inhabitants Of n GER
tain village attributed their escape from
disease to the flct that their clothes and
persons were generally well saturated
with oil
There has been an extraordinary nat
ural phenomenon mt Rappcsdorl. viii
lngc near Erfuft. Il fortress in Prus-ian
SaNony. \ lake near the hamlet sud-
denly rose with violent boiling move
mcnt and ovcrilowcd its banks. a vii
lager saw a column of boiling water rise
Ia considerable height from the middle
of the lake. when it broke and was scat
tered in every direction. Oncunqcstion-
able fact j. that during the sudden and
unexplained rise of the water many per
sons heard subt"rrancous noises. Deep
iissurcS opened all round the lake, from
which sort of steam assembled. Tho
ground over which the water spread was
covered with small shells and dead fish
Who wouldn't take oysters on the
lalf-shcll from the Broad river. 5. G.?
\ man in Beaufort was rcgaling him
self in this WAY in front of counter in
an oyster saloon, when the luscious hi
vulyc gritt"d 80 har-hly under his teeth
that lac was induced 10 find out the
cause. He asrcrtancd that the mollusk
contained n mass Of pearls. which upon
being counted turned out To- bc thirty
four in number. and ofthc sizn of grape
seed. besides the one he unwiitingly
| swallowed. Thirty-four genuine pearls
the size uf 4 grape seed are n prizc
not to dcspi-cd. But thi, is q world of
deceit. and there are ~ many suppo-,
! titious pearls in it ~ genuine ones.
\ singular instance Of human
| credulity j. reported from Munich The
| actress, Adele Spitzedcr. who was sen
tcnCcd there about six months ago To n
/ term Of imprisonment for having swim
died the public out Of many millions by
| her banking institutions (the Dachaucr
Bank"n), conducted as she asserted. for
/ the urthcrnnco of the interests Of the
/ Roman Catholic religion. tried again.
after her liberation from prison. io earn
a living on the stage. Finding tha, this
could not be done, she has returned Ia
Munich and ag'in opened bank. de-
| pOsits, on which she pays eight per cent.
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abundance. aud, ofcour,e, another Catas-
trophc will occur.
The editor Of London Truth believes
that land in England is diminishing in
I value for agricultural purposes. and gives
I his reason thus The reason why land in
/ England must become less and less yalIia-
/ bIc for agricultural purposes is that rapid
/ communication Is destroying distances,
/ and the cost Of the transit of corn from
/ California and other places where II can
/ he produced on plains that pay no rent
and that require no "high farming" i
| every year diminishing. and every year
/ will still further diminish. The reply
/ for long was. Yes. hut land will ALWAYS
/ bc valuable for grazing purposes"
| doubt this. The impoTiations both of
/ live stock and Of dead meat are assuming
| enormous proportions.
! While Americans, the most restless peo-
| pie under the sun, wander from State to
State, from East TO West, and the Atlantic
coast 10 the Pacific SLOPE, there arc not
wanting positive proofs that Europes<
emigration is again setting toward the
| United States, and that the tide, now that
II ia beginning to turn, will in future ex-
hibit gradually increasing volume Dur
ing the first quarter Of 1879, just ended, the
total arrivals at this port reached 1894 /:
Of thesc II ,22s were aliens and 4,7l6 citi.
zens Of the United States. During the cor
responding period OF 1879 the total number
Of passengers landed at this port was H.
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