Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
TIMELY TOPICS.

Forty per cent. of the Chinese of San
Francisco have been back and forth be
tween the United States and China four
or five times. Most of the Chinese go
back once In five years, and rarely any
one stays longer than eight years contin-
uously in this country. Many Chinese
merchants return regularly to spend the
Chinese New Year at home.
Bartholdi, the French sculptor, says
there is no doubt that the great statue
of Liberty enlightening the world will
be ready for its place in New York har-
bor in 1888, the year in which New
York's great worlds fair is to be held.
This statue, when erected, will be the
largest in America. It was presented
to the United States by the French peo-
pie, and Bartholdi is hard at work at it
in France.
The New York Bulletin makes COM
pilation of crop reports which shows
so far as can be shown at this time
that the wheat production of 1880 will
fully equal that of 1879. Iowa and
Kansas will fall off, but their deficiency
will be fully made up by gains in Illi-
nois, Ohio, MINES ota and Pennsylvania.
If present promise shall be verified, that
will be the fourth successive great grain
crop in the United States-a consinu-
ance of prosperity almost if not quite
without precedent.
Buckley is a Texas horse thief and
murderer, for whom the law officers
searched long and fruitlessly. A man
called on the governor, introduced him.
self as a friend OF the outlaw, and said
that he was prepared to buy his pardon
by giving information against other
criminals. The governor was inclined
to make such a bargain, and sent him
to the attorney general, who recognized
him as none other than Buckley him
self The rascal drew long knife out
of his bootleg but was overpowered
and locked up
The New York State fish commits
sioners are advocating the culture OF
carp. The experiments at the govern
ment ponds in Washington have been
very successful, fish that were put in
there three years ago having grown
much larger than in Europe under the
same circumstances. They are AN easy
fish TO raise. Any kind of pond, no
Providing that the water is not too cold
carp thrive, no matter how impure il
is. No natural water has been found
too warm for them. They thrive on
plants growing in the water, on boiled
grain or even offal. A pond may be
dug in arabic land and used for three or
four years as carp pond, after which
the land may be again cultivated.
A correspondent of the Leavenworth
Time calls attention TO the similarity
between the stand storm in Kansas and
one in the island of Sicily, in the Medit-
terranean, two days afterward, and be-
lieves both were OF meteoric origin. The
Kansas dust was composed Of brown
and black impalpable matter, and SO
abundant that on the next day traces of
the deposits could be seen on the surface
of the ground, and on q north porch
sufficient 10 receive the imprints of n
cats feet. The writer says: The near
coincidence of dates between the phe-
nomenon in Sicily and here, with an ap-
parent similarity in the physical proper
ties of the dust, might sug gest a common
origin
The act incorporating the New York
worlds fair of 1888, in celebration of
the treaty of peace between Great
Britain and the United States, provides
for the subscription of Sl2, 900, 600, which
is $4,000, 900 more than the centennial
exposition estimate was based upon,
the commissioners of that celebration
limiting their financial operations TO
$40, 900, 900. This extra $4,000. 600 does
not by any meansrepresent the increased
magnitude of the proposed exposition
over the last one held in the United
States, for 1t is confidently expected
that the receipts alope, owing TO the
metropolitan location of the exposition
and its ready means of access 10 ali parts
of the world, will be immensely greater
than at the Philadelphia exposition.
Besides this, the commissioners having
in charge the projected fair believe
there will be no difficulty in raising
the amount mentioned in the act, or
even more.
Women are doing n good work in
foreign fields under the direction of the
Woman s Union Missionary society,
whose nineteenth anniversary was cele-
brated recently at the Broadway taber.
nacle in New York. In Calcutta and
khjpore /, 1862 women and girls are under
theinstruction ofone lady and her assist.
ants. An orphanagc has been es;ab-
lished at Calcutta, where more than
500 children receive care TWENTY-FIVE
pupils are now boarding at the mission
in Pekin. and there are also large
number of day scholars. Moreover.
village schools are being opened i'm
China. In Cyprus IA school has been
opened for Greek girls, and about sixty
are in attendance In Allahabad. India.
where there are about 45O pupils under
instruction, the earnestness of tho
women in their mission work has been
rewarded by gift of $4,000 from the
government