Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-08
TlnKLY rorTCs.

my pOrr1dRe. Bread ana butter and
cocoa Is a very good breakfast for work
ing people, he thinks. Tea is a nerve
stimulant, and on that account, he says,
out of place as breakfast beverage.
Comparatively few persons know how
the White House at Washington got
its name. It was given TO IL because
of its color. The building is con-
structed of freestone, and after the
British burned the interior in 1914 the
walls were so blackened that when IL
was rebuilt IL was found necessary TO
paint them. Ever since at intervals of
few years the whole structure receives
fresh coat of white paint. The cum
brous title Of executive mansion was
very naturally dropped for the short and
literally descriptive name OF White
House, and now. only figures In official
documents and correspondence.
The unreasonableness of mankind is
pretty truthfully illustrated in the fol-
lowing item from the Builder and
Woodtoorker: When n mans house is
building, he never thinks the carpenter
puts in one-third enough nails, and
frequently, and with biting sarcasm,
asks him il he doesn't think the house
would stand if he Just simply leaned it
up against itself and saved all his nails3
Then, n few years afterward, when he
tears down his summer kitchen to build
new one, he growls and scolds. and
sarcastically wonders why that fellow
didn't make the house entirely OF nails,
and just put in enough lumber TO hold
the nails together.
The sewing machine branch of the
nhtsar,, traAa ;a E1.n~.s.w II
Importance in the United States, very
nearly 1900 skilled artisans being en-
ployed in the sewing machine factories.
The following figures show that an ex-
tensive export trade is being carried on
under this head: Germany, $3.50, 600;
England. s465, 900; Mexico, Sl53, 900;
Australia, 10000; Colon bia, sg3. 900;
Cuba, SOC, 900; France, $4,000; Vene-
Zuela. s30.0 900; Brazil. $2l 600; Argen-
tine, SIS, 200; Scotland. $4,000; Peru,
5000; Central America, Sl2, 900;
| Belgium, SiO. 900; Nova Scotia, gil, 600;
Hawaii, 5000; Porto Rico. $1,000;
Quebec, $1,000; ether countries, s29,-
600; total, Sl,66l 600.
A Philadelphia firm some years since
inadvertently failed to return the value
OF certain paper boxes in which their
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value of the whole invoice was S63,-
800 GO. on which duties were paid TO the
amount OF Sl5,o65.67. The duty on the
boxes would have been 1925 .02. A gov
ernment detective alleged that under the
act of 1857 the whole invoice OF goods
could be forfeited, but he mRgnani-
mously offered to settle" The i'm.
porters went into court. and the case,
after eight years. was finished the other
day, the jury bringing in n special YER
dict entirely exonersting the importers
from any fraudulent intent and limiting
the damages to the amount of duty on
the boxes and in interest thereon.
When General Grant had completed
bis trip through Florida, he gave the
New York Tftbttae's correspondent his
conclusions rs to the future OF that State.
think" he said. that / lorida has
bright prospect. Her productions will
be monopoly; and besides her oranges,
| pincspples and semi-tropical fruits and
vegetables, she will in time produce the
sugar for the consumption OF the entire
country. Then she grows the finest
long-stapIe cotton, the best of tobacco
for cigars, and her timber is OF immense
value. Then, when the swamp land is
cleared OF the timber. there will remain
the choicest kind of rice country. The
soil, while apparently barren. is suited
10 the climate. and there are extensive
beds of material for fertilization that
will not only supply the needs of the
land. but viii be 40 article Of export
The work OF the Bible revision COM
mittee, 30 far as concerns the New Testa-
ment Is now substantially ended. aud
the revised text will probably be form..
ally and finally published during the
coming summer. No more apt occasion
could he selected. for the present year Is
the fifth centenary of the publication OF
Wycliffe's translation of the Bible,
printed in 1880. The work has been 90
ing on simultaneously in England and
this cou ltry. The appearance of the
new version will be one Of the summers
sensations. A change that will strike
the ordinary reader In the arrangement
by paragraphs, according to sense, in
stead of the chapter and verse plan of
the King James translators. Work on
the Old Testament will hardly be COM
pleted before 1883.
See me huy his soul for two cents
was The remark of a workman nj Spring
neiu, MISS, about man for whom he
had worked, who was esteemed a gcner-
Gus public giver, and had come into the
shop TO get scme work done. The man
laid two-cent piece on the counter and
turned away. The visitor soon saw the
coin, and, after hastily looking about
the room to see that no one was looking.
picked up the money and put IL in his
pocket. When he came 20 pay for his
repairs he was charged twenty-seven
cents. As he had generally paid but
twenty-five cents for the same work he
inquired what the extra two cents were
for, and. after some urging. he was
gently informed that II was to nay for
the two cents he had picked up. He
seemed ali mt once to have important
business at home.