Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-08
TIMELY TOPICS.

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vars on every acre of forest trees
sSionted and kept alive. Over $4,000
Pres pres of fruit and forest trees have been
nlanted. and 100000 have been re-
mitted in taxes.
The largest grain elevator in the
world has Just been completed in Chi
csgo. its capacity being 1900, 900
bushels. Thcre are twenty-one eleva-
,ors in Chicago, having total capacity
~ IA o55. .OOOxsay IL, ,000, ,000--of bushels.
huowing 400 bushels to the car load,
these storehouses can hold the contents
of 40 3s7 freight cars, equivalent to n
string of cars $50 miles long.
The year 1880 has been indicated rs
,be proper time to celebrate the 50Oth
anniversary of the publication of
Wvckliffe's translation of the Bible.
THAT wear has been chosen because the
New Testament was then published,
although the complete Bible did not ap-
near until n slightly later day.
Wycklihe's translation was the first
co6y of the entire Bible that appeared
in the English language.
The numb beT Of packages of tomatoes
mt ND in the United States last year
reached the great total of l9,96S 600
MARYLAND leading off with 6,S40. 900;
New Jersey, 5, ,592, eco; Delaware, 1884,
600; New York, 1850, 600; Massachu-
sctts, 100000; Pennsylvania, lS2, 600
Pacific coast, 1900, 600; Western and
other States, 1890, 900. Yet many of
The present generation can recall the
time when the tomato was regarded as n
curiosity.
Hereare DR.. Thomas Guthrie's excel
lent reasons for being n total abstainer
| have tried both ways; speak from
experience. | am in good spirit because
| take no spirit; am hale because use
no ale; take no antidote in the form of
drugs because | take no poison in the
form of drinks. Thus, though in the
first instance | sought only the public
good, have found my own also since I
became a total abstainer. | have these
four reasons for continuing to be one
first, my health is stronger; second, my
head is clearer; third, my heart is
lighter; fourth, my purse is heavier.
Scarlet fever is scourge rs much to
w uItiuth III NOlilltIu illltS us TIE yer
low fever is in the South. A leading
cause the disease being spread is from
ladies visiting houses where there are
cases. or attending funerals of those
who have died from the malady, thus
impregnating their clothing and carry
ing the germs to their own and other
families. This disease should be treated
in 4 manner similar to smallpox as re-
CARDS quarantine regulations. 1t is not
less terrible in its fatality, and not un-
frequently leaves the convalescent
with deafness, blindness, or some other
serious affection.
German statisticians have recently
published an estimate of the total
amount of capital invested in the con-
struction of railroads since Stephenson's
experimental locomotive first glided
over double rail, reyolutionizing the
transport system of our earth. The re-
suit of their calculations is the amazing
sum of seventy-fve milliards of francs,
or $4,000, 100000. The event that in
augurated the expenditure of such an
amount as this-nearly fifteen dollars n
head for every human being inhabiting
theterrestrial globe-is worthier of cele-
bration by jubilee ceremonies than the
anniversary of n great battle.
The past year has been an unusually
fatal one for the Gloucester Mass. }
fishermen. A dispatch from Boston
says: There was scarcely n week dur
ing the year that did not witness de-
struction. Thirteen vessels went down,
li3 men were drowned. fifty-six women
were widowed. and $50 children made
fatherless by the February gale. The
total losses of the year were thirty ves-
seis and 2iO lives. Eighty-eight widows
were made and 2l9 children left without
fathers. This is n terrible record, but it
will probably be heightened. for two
vessels are now missing and grave fears
are entertained that they viii never be
heard from. Since 1890, Ais men and
iOj vessels, valued at Sl,696, 800, have
been lost.
Oiicial whippings are continued regu-
arly at Newcastle, Del, and are re-
garded as matter of course by the resi-
dents. cn the last whipping day five
convicted thieves were punished. The
hrst was German, who was not
severely lashed, and he walked away
smiling. The second was n tramp, who
bore the ordeal without finching. Two
negroes. who came next, writhed and
m1ttered under the pain of severe blows.
The NTH was boy Of fifteen. lie was
80 frightened that It was necessary to
iorce him to the post, and Mt the first
stroke he desperately freed himself by
pulling his hands out Of the staples. A
handkerchief was used to fasten him,
out he got loose again before the pre-
scriDed twenty blows were completed.
and pathetically begged the sheriff not
10 strike so hard.
CincinLati's " Society for the Promo
tl9n OF Marriage" under the auspices of
Nhlch several persons were married Mt
picnic last summer, is failure.
august Myers, one of the victims, tells
story about his relations with the
s?oelety. He says that, instead Of get
ung US to begin married life with, he
sot put s25, and that recently, his wife
naVlng been sick, he sent doctors bill
70 Ihe treasurer of the society, who in-
formed him that the association had
dissolved and the 1900 made of the
great picnic and anniversary. which