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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02
Curious Facts.

Thirty-two thousand seed were one
counted in the head Of poppy.
The Chinese make glue out of a COM
mon kind OF seaweed on their shores.
The American Bible society has pro-
cured a new stop-cylinder press, upon
which aione a whole Bible can be printed
every minute.
There is a cave in Monroe, Conn, in
which, at depth of fifty feet, has been
found a spring of water, and an antique
trap for catching wolves.
A woman in Kansas, while at work
clearing away some bushes near her
house, was stung by wasp, and the
effect is such that she has been entirely
paralyzed.
The object OF the greatest inte lest in
the Orkney islands is the cathedral OF
st. Magnus, at Kirkwall. which dates
from the twelfth century, and is still
entire and in nm excellent state OF
preservation.
A field-glass, lost in Prickly Pear val
ley, Col, last winter, was found few
weeks ago, and the trees, vegetation
and small stream, near which the glass
lay, are indolibly photographed on the
glasses.
At Macedonian weddings the groom
leads the bride into her new home by n
halter, and when she enters he knocks
her head against the wall, as a warning
of what she may expect if she does not
behave well.
Hair often falls out after sickness, and
bleaches suddenly after severe nervous
shocks, but a white-haired elderly lady
was lately surprised to observe that the
hair which had fallen out during an
attack'pneumo1ia was being replaced, III
not by locks of raven hue. at least by
those of a dark color, such AS had mot
adorned her brow for many years.
The monks of the Greek church, who
live in solitude, subsist upon fresh or
dried vegetables, and are allowed fish
only on Saturday and Sunday. Once in
great while they indulge in the
luxuries of eggs and cheese. Each
monk is required to support himself by
some sort of Gmanual labor; their prin-
cipal occupations are the manufacture oi
clothing and wood carving,
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02
In Royal Life.

The Emperor and Empress of Ger
many see each other as little as possible.
1t is somewhat curious how few mon
archs do get on with their wives and the
wives with the husbands, for they sell
dom adore each other. The Empress of
Austria is seldom seen in society, and
when out riding or driving carries fan
before her face, even when returning the
greetings of her royal admirers. She
seldom attends the theater or opera,
but when the circus .comes to town Is
then seen in her box every night. She
knows only one passion. and that is her
love of horses and equestrianship. She
has her own especial riding establish
ment, and here she reigns supreme. She
will drive tandem team before her at
n relentless pace around the ring, having
fresh relays of horses every few min
utes. She hos place fitted up in the
stable of her favorite charger where she
can sleep If she feels 30 disposed, and
where she frequently dictates her letters
TO her private secretary, while her ia
vorite horse looks over from his stall
and is patted fondly by his imperial
mistress.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02

that the five s.vages had gone on his
trail up the creek, just as he had sur
missed they would, and had been so con-
fident that they would find him, that
they had lett only this squaw TO sit by
the ponies.
Markhead thought over the distance,
and concluding he had IL full two-hours
start of them, resolved to take it easy
He made the squaw unpack some cold
venison which they had in one Of their
sacks; and the two strange COM
panions lunched very convivially to-
gether, for the long run Markhead had
taken had given him n good appetite.
Assisted by the squaw, he next packed
up all the Indians peltries, and lashed
them on the backs of the ponies, max
ing up sort of pony train, at the head
of which he placed the squaw. Then
collecting his own property, he mounted
his horse and set of, driving the whole
train in front of him-master of the
situation-leaving, in fact. nothing of
any value behind.
Once out On the plains, clear of the
crags and timber, Markhead drove his
sill gular cavalcade on at great pace,
and travelling all the rest of the day and
all that night with but brief halts,
reached -post-Laramie fort,
prcbably-toward the end of the next
day. The feelings of the outwitted
Blackfeet on their return TO the place
where they had left their ponies,
after their unsuccessful chase after
Markhead, may perhaps better be left
to the fancy of the reader.
The young trapper realized about six
hundred dollars from the sale of the
captured ponies, peltries, buffalo robes,
and other property.
The squaw was some time afterward
reclaimed at the fort by n Blackfoot
chief, whose wife she had been when
captured. On Markhead being pointed
out TO him at the post, he said: " He big
warrior. He play beaver on Indian"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02
Address 10 Winter.

Hn' horo you come TO make rs wheeze;
| ser our fingers on the trees,
AID Car you shouting on tho breeze
The storm clans slogan.
You'll soon be here to nip my toes,
And paint my cheeks with sunset glows,
And fresco this old chin and nose
With blue and purple.
Ihear you've been, you rowing fellow,
Among the Australasians yellow,
And soaring with your blatant below
The Polynesians.
Touch them kindly. Kindly deal
With those who most thy rigors feel:
In trembling suppliance they kneel
And crave thy mercy.
Bluster around the rich mans door;
Make him unlock his golden store,
Each year increasing more and moro
His deeds OF kindness.
You're getting rough; fear you pass
Your time too much with Boreas,
And that star-mantled gypsy lass,
The summer Solstioe.
Old friend, together many year
We've journeyed on through foul and clear,
And now, old comrade, lend an ear
To my petition.
This year, pray thee, leave thy SHOWS
In cold Arcturus with thy blows;
Oh! Winter, gently come to those
Who have no shelter.
Roar round the miser till he quakes;
Nip him and strip him till he shakes;
Freeze him and squeeze him till he makes
A big donation.
And in the cause OF science, pray
Keep out the ioe from Baffln's bay,
SO that Polar " savants" win their way
To frozen glory.
Let those We love, though they abide
Far from us now, come to our side
Happy and well at Christmastide,
And We will bless thee.
Guy II. ApeTy.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02
The Blue Doctor.

Sarah Bernhardt has been succeeded
in the gossip of Paris by DR.. Chirou,
called the "blue doctor" This name
he obtained through being called in TO
see a lady who was on the point Of
death, as was supposed. from some mys>
terious weakness. He sent at once, not
for medicaments, but for an upholsterer.
and ordered this tradesman at once to
reiurnish the whole OF the lady's rooms
with stuffs and carpets dyed with in
digo. He clothed her with stuffs simi>
larly dyed, and ordered that none should
approach her unless clad in indiRo>dyed
garments. The result was, 20 the story
goes, that the lady recovered. and that
M. Chirou received the name of "le
docteur bleu." He is not liked by the
regular practitioners. who do not scru>
pie to call him a quack; but he has
made some wonderful cures by wonder,
full methods. One of these cures has
just occurred with the wife of an cmi-
nent English statesman. This lady had
long suffered from an apparently incura>
bic cough OF very distressing nature.
She went 10 the blue doctor, who for
three months made her iahale daily a
mixture of chloroiorm and the fumes of
some strong acid. Every day she was
chloroformed to insensibility. and ut the
same time was acidulated. with the re-
suit that she is now quit well.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02

In Breslau, Germany, there are three
thousand people who do not receive
their correspondence until 1t has been
examined by the police. II any of our
readers are on writing terms with any
of these three thousand Brcsi -ars we
advise them to write Hor .ce 'Ireeley
sort of a hand, In order to compel the
police to earn their salaries and per-
haps TO commit suicide Norvis.osOss
Herald.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02

II ives 30 cold in the vicinity of the
North Pole when Lieutenant Schwatka
was there that the breath of the party
IN the Esquimau huts condensed and
tell in small snow>storm around them.
This comes very near TO the story Of the
mans words which were frozen so bard
that nobody knew what he said until
they melted the next summer Detroit
Free Press.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02
MARKHEAD'S EXPLOIT.

At Bismarck (Dakota) the mountain
men often tell the story of Markhead's
exploit with the Blackfeet.
1t is the same Markhead who, five or
six years later, was treacherously muir
dered by the Mexicans, near Taos. At
the time of his death he was not more
than twenty-seven years old, and he
could hardly have beer more than
twenty-five when he had this Blackfoot
adventure.
The old pioneers of the upper Missouri
speak of Markhead as a most remark
able boy, 80 muscular aud of such
powers of endurance, that he would run
fifteen or twenty miles without appar-
ent fatigue. Indians he held in trifling
regard, and delighted in skirmish with
them; though he bore the scars of not
less than a dozen of their bullets and
arrows.
At the time alluded to. he had gone
on trapping excursion for beaver, up
one of the head creeks Of the Yellow.
stone; a locality not much resorted t.
by other trappers, on account of the
deadly hostility OF he Blackfeet, who
were very jealous of he white hunters,
and killed every hunter they could sur
prise.
AS was his custom, he had his horse
with him, for carrying traps and pro-
visions, and at this time had made his
camp in a clump of cottonwoods, on
the bank of the creek, near the foot OF a
range of bluffs which fronted the stream
on the east side.
That morning-it was in the month OF
Ootober-he had set off early to look to
his beaver traps, of which he had line
both up and down the creek. He had
proceeded but short distance. when
he found one OF his steel traps missing
from under the bank where he had sea
it.
There were bear tracks lin the mud
about the bank; very large ones, lead
ing back into the cedar bushes, toward
the bluff.
The trail was fresh. and Markhead
followed it cautiously, through the
cedar.
Coming at length to the foot of the
bluff. he found that the animal had
turned aside, and gone further up the
bottom. But just at that moment he
thought he heard it thrashing about in
the cedar little way ahead.
So he carefully mounted the side OF
the bluff. twenty or thirty feet, hoping
TO catchisight OF the animal over the
tops of the bushes. From this point he
saw large grizzly, sitting on a broad
hat.rock, not more than forty or fifty
yards distant.
Watching the creature n moment, he
found that it limped painfully, and that
1t walked short distance on three legs.
Finally. it turned about and limped back
To the stone again; and Markhead now
perceived that the grizzly had his
beaver trap hard and fast on one OF his
I, -pDsws.
The bear was much annoyed by the
trap. 10 sat down on the stone again,
and from where he lay, Markhead could
sec him examining it attentively, hold
ing it close up TO his nose and grayely
turning his paw over 'and over. Then
1t would tip its head to one side and
look at the trap from out the corners oi
IFS eyes, in most comical manner, as Il
at an entire loss 10 make out what the
novel and painful appendage could be
that had got such fast hold OF his toes.
Amor, the puzzled animal would Try
TO step on it foot; but instantly took II
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02

snips and pastes among his exchanges
now. The beautiful vision that for II
moment dawned upon him has left but
the recollection in bis heart OF onesun-
beam in his life, quenched by the shower
of tears with which she denounced him
as brute" and went out from him
forever. BTooklyn EnQle.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02

Isn't slightly sarcastic 10 tell n blind
man that he Is looking wells--Eht Con-
tyibator.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02

Hal horo you come TO make us wheeze;
sec our fingers on the trees,
AID Gar you shouting on tho breeze
The storm clans slogan.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28
THE lesson OF THE MAINE ELEC
TON.

The intelligence that a split has occurred
in the Greenback party of Maine may cause
uneasiness to such of our readers as come
hastily to conclusions, without carefully ex-
aiming the grounds upon which those con.
illusions are based. But there is no ground
for alarm. The late election in Maine has
done its work; it has shown that those who
sustain republican policy and favor a further
extension of republican rule are vastly cut
numbered by the Disconnected, the dissatis-
fled, and 1t is in that lesson that the moral
effect of the recent election is conveyed. 1t
would be otherwise if 1t were necessary for
the democrats to Carry Maine in the Novem-
Der election. If the seven electoral votes of
Maine were required to elect Hancock, the
democrats would fall into a panic of alarm
at the prospect of a split among their Maine
allies, a split which contains in it The posi-
bility of the election, by a plurality vote, of
the republican electors; but fortunately no
such necessity exists. Even surprising that
the greenback split proves to be formidable as
well as permanent, something utterly i'm
probable, by the way, what results Why
simply that Maine drifts back to the position
she has always been assigned. Previous to
the election of this month Maine was never
classed among the doubtful states. The DEM
ocrats, confident as they were of victory,
never counted on her assistance; and now
that it has been promised, even if it should
be withdrawn the democrats will be in no
respect weakened in the strength upon which
they had originally relied and counted on as
sufficient to place their candidate in the White
House. But We do not believe, even admit
ting all this, that there is a prospect of Maine
turning back and undoing the good work 50
nobly begun. The situation, as tersely stated
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28
WASHINGTON.


From no part of the country do more con-
tradictoro accounts OF political affairs come
than from Virginia, and as many believe that
democratic success is impossible without the
vote Of that state, extraordinary interest is
beginning to be felt by the political managers
here in the local complications. One reason
why the reports from Virginia are so unrelia-
biz, l may say for the benefit Of northern
readers, is to be found in the fact that that in
different portions Of the state each of the
democratic factions has great strength. For
instance, in one section the lGadjusters have
control of nearly all the conservative votes,
and think they will have with them many
negroes. In such sections the leaGjusters are
opposed to any compromise or combination
with the funders, while the latter profess a
willingness to enter into any fair arrangement
to unite the party on a single electoral ticket.
Somew here else the situation is greatly re-
versed, and the funders are irreconciIable and
the readjusters, like Barkis, are "willing."
So ] suppose mere than half the prominent
conservatives OF the state are anxious for a
settlement of the difficulties, but unfortun-
ately for the prosp. It of harmony, the min
ortiy have control of tue machine. and backed
by an almost unanimous home support, are
defiant. l do not see any prospect OF united
conservative action in this state this fall un-
less the people shall take matters into their
OWL hands.
The reports from Washington as to the as
sessments on of%iceholdegs must be taken
with grains of allowance. There is no doubt
that some indiscreet officials have used un-
due means to secure contributions, but bv
the most thorough inquiry l have not been
able to find any one case in which a man has
lost his place by refusal to pay over. Neither,
as a rule, have women employees been asked
for contributions, but here again have over
Jealous officials in a few instances, gone be-
yond their instructions, and have done far
more harm to their party than can be ovel-
come by The paltry amounts collected.
Official figures just issued here show in this
country an aggregate of gold ard silver coin
of about S570. 1000, 900, and 500, 600, 900 of
paper, making an aggregate of ST, 27O, 100000,
or $25 so for each man woman and child in
the country.
The attention of the two congressional
committees having headquarters here has
been called to the systematic violation of the
laws on the subject of ''franking.' Not only
is matter which is not "part of congressional
record sent off "franked'' by the ton, but
handstamps are used to produce the sigma
ture of the franking congressman. The evil
is confined to no party. KNOX.
WAsHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. -, 1880.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28

in MurcI,'s speech, resolves itself to the al
Neutrality-suspicious. elect seven Garfield cleo.
tors, or else three Hancock and four Weaver
electors. and fully understanding the choice
before them the voters of Maine will have no
d niculty in making it, and making 1t intelli-
gently.
The fall election of Maine has done its
work, work which can not now be undone.
Its great lesson is the truth pronounced IN no
uncertain tones that the people of the most
northern of the northern states have grown
tired of republican misrule, and have mani
tested in a manrer not o be mistaken their
desire to free themselves from its baneful in
~tluence. 1t teaches us that even the fellow
citizens of Blaine, tie apostle of sectional
hate, have grow tired of the party whose
face is turned to the rear, and whose eyes are
fixed upon the past as it derotes its entire cf-
forts to reviving and cultivating the memories
Of sectional strife, memories which cannot
BE- too speedily forgotten.
As for the result OF The election, we are
now in position to judge. With Il beautiful
regularity the dispatches have steadily low
cred The republican claims until what was at
first a handsome majority for Davis, the re-
publican candidate for governo, is changed
into a fair plurality for Plaisted, the %fusionist
If this operation be extended to reach a ma
jority for Plaisted then all will be plain sail
ing and he will be installed governor, but
otherwi Use Davis will serve as chief executive
officer of Maine. The constitutional amend |
ment establishing as lawful The election of
governor by a plurality vote has been accept
ed by a large majority, as We are informed.
Had Davis received the plurality vote that
amendment would have been interpreted by
republican courts as "retrOactive' in its ma
ture, to the extent of applying to the election
at which it was adopted as it surely should.
But with the plurality vote cast in favor of
Plaisted 1t is safe to say that the amendment
will be declared operative from the official
of the votes cast in its favor, and not
from the election in which the votes were
given. This ruling will throw the election of
into the republican house of repre-
'entatives, which will be equivalent to the
of Davis.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28
TELEGRAMS!


NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-The Herald SAYS of
the Irving Hall and Tammany efforts at
peace making: They are all earnestly and
almost fiercely in favor of union, only they
don't unite. Speaking of the political pros
poets in Indiana, it says the democratic party
seems TO be in an unsteady condition, from
tie account given by the Herald's corres-
pendent at indianapolis, and the republicans
ought to have Il "walk-over" in October.
English, we are informed, is universally dis
liked, and has refused to contribute more
than twenty-five hundred dollars to the CAM
paign fund.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28
Not ID States.

Against the solid democracy Of the state of
New York all republican efforts are impo-
tent. The election of 1876 demonstrated be-
You'd question where a large majority of the
voters of the state stood. We see daily in
our New York exchanges many reports of
accessions 0 the Hancock column Of men
who supported Hayes in 1876, but there is a
complete absence of reports of democratic de-
f%ections. New York is safe for the demo-
cratic ticket. 1t cannot be regarded as in the
category of doubtful states.
Equally safe with New York, and giving a
proportionately larger majority, is New Jer-
sey. The republican claim that that state is
doubtful is simply ridiculous. Ii was carried
by Mcclellan for president in 1864, and again
by Seymour i'll 1868, although in each of these
states it was about a foregone conclusion that
the country would be carried by the republi.
cans. 1t elected a democratic governor in
1874 and again in 1877, and in 1876, on the
presidential vote, gave a democratic majority
OF l2,445, equivalent to $4,000 in a state the
size Of Ohio, or to 5000 in the state of New
York. With the feeling this year pervadins
the New Jersey democracy hardly a doubt
can be entertained that they will surpass all
previous majorities, while republican success
in the state is utterly Out of the question.
Connecticut also, although closer than
either New York or New Jersey, does not
this year present All inviting prospect to the
republicans. The democratic presidential
ticket is very popular in the state, and James
e. English, the democratic candidate for gov
ernor, handsomely carried the state when the
republican party was in the height of its pow
er-before its many corruptions had %alienat-
ed thousands OF men who were its staunchest
supporters. The democracy Of Connecticut
make 40 un!ounded claim wien thew saw
that they will give not less than 5000 MAORI
ty for the presidential and state tickets
Detroit Free Press.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.-Last evening
Jesse r. Grant was married to Miss Lizzie,
daughter OF w. l.. Chapman, at the Palace
hotel. The affair was very quiet, only a few
friends being present.
The president and party on their arrival at
Sacramento last evening were received by IA
committee and a military escort, and driven
to the residence of ex-Gov. Stanford. who en-
~tertains the president during his vis;f to the
capital.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28

Inc LA'nars, Iowa, Liberal ha, chance, -.
politics from Republican to Hancora Th ies
.h i-e'nI,s paper the Seatinei, keens mn
the same old photographic anxiety, Ae'pS up
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28

The Indiana and Ohio elections come this
year OH Oct. II. and the presidential cleo
ton Oh Nov. 2, 20 DAYS later. "Practically."
says The Springfield Republican, "the presi-
dental canvass will be over on the first date,
now 80 days distant. There will be no time
to change the set of the tide when its height
has been gagged III the ballot boxes Of Tie
two great central states.