Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Whoever learns TO stand alone must
learn 10 fall alone.
When man attains the age " ninety
he may be termed &c dinghy old.
Does not farmer become canninal
when hf eats his own kineg-Y Yonkers
Salesman.
What, asks the New Haven Reqis
Ter. is worse than freckles?" You
might try boil.
Kanrokuro Naka Yoma, japanese.
has passed q satisfactory examination
for the bar at Boston.
The first iron works in this country
were erected in 1919 at Falling Greek,
not far from jamestown, Va.
There are, it is said, eight translations
of the Bible in the languages OF the
South Sea islands and New Zealand.
The Federal government has spent
over $50 600, 900 since the war in erect
ing government buildings all over the
country.
About 336. 300, 900 gallons Of beer were
manufactured in the United States in
1879, and ,55, 100000 gallons in Great
Britain.
Lady Harcourt, daughter Of J.
Lotnrop Motley, is the first American
lady who has become the wife Of ar
English cabinet minister.
1t is now about 40 years since the
beginning Of foreign missions, and con-
yerts from heathenism now number
about a million and q half.
None knew him hut to love him,
nor named him but to praise yet is
friends stuck all the closer when they
found he'd made raise" y NeiC YORK
NetDS.
What's the use of talking so much
about spelling reform that's an easy
word, anybody can spcI reform. Why
don't they take bar one?-&eitbea-
CtlLe Herald.
A friend writes from The Colorado
mountains TO say that he got as raven
Gus as raven among tie ravines, and
sat down in one of the gorgeous gorges
and gorged himself,
The placing of stamps upside down
on letters is prohibited. Several post
masters have recently been seriously
injured while trying ID stand on their
heacs to cancel stamps placed IN this
manner.
To keep dried beef Do up in 2 thick
brown paper each piece separate; take
box, put in layer of dry ashes. then
a layer of beef, then alternate; cover
the top with dry ashes; set in cool,
dry place
A newspaper out West thus heads its
! report OF a fire: Feast of the Fire
/ Fiend The Fork-Tongued Demon
| Licks with its Lurid Breath Lumber
Pile!-Are the Scenes of Boston 20 be
Repeated P-Loss $50 doll"
The suit with position basque, tablier
overskirt and round skirt, is one OF the
prettiest designs for a simple dress of
Notwithstanding. cashmere, cheviot,
or camel's-hair-to be worn in the
mornings at home, for shopping travel
ing, etc.
A Michigan girl eloping to get mar
ried hated on the way to purchase a
pair Of cotton gloves. and her fath'r had
time TO come up and put n stop 20 tne
proceedings. Hang a girl who won't
get married bare-handed to the chap she
loves -DetToit Free Press
According to the Able Petitot there
are two districts in the Bouches du
Bhone where ali the inhabitants-some
ID, 5,OO0-stammer. He ascribes this 70
long continued intermarriages among
the communities and 10 n consequent
degeneracy OF the race.
An Ohio pioneer. james ID. Covert,
recently died at Mansfield. He went
there from New Jersey in 1907. At
Chautauqua, n. Y, his team gave out
and he and his family walked the rest
OF the way. and arrived with but three
dollars in money. He worked steadily
and died the richest man in his town,
ship, leaving twenty-five children.
ss4sr H..
that the first summer cottage built in
Newport, K. l., was in 1888, and Is the
house now standing opposite the Ocean
house. IL was built by George Jones,
of Savannah, who paid GO. 200 for the
lot. David Sears, of Boston. George
Bancroft, II. A. Middleton, of South
Carolina, and Albert Sumner, brother
OF Charles SUM er, were among the
first summer residents. The growth of
Newport is something astonishing TO
look back upon. Here is one instance.
A plot of ground sold in 1913 for -, 600,
and its last sale was for $4,000. The
first hotel was built there In leza al a
cost of SO. 600, and Abbott Lawrence
was its first patron.
II Is a curious fact not eenerallx
known at certain point on tic Upper
Columbia, close to the waters edge. the
line sand Is continually travelling I'd
stream in ono eternal procession. Talk
OF the great army of Xerxes on the
mafch--whnt was that to the myriad
bat alions that pace on the marge OF the
mighty rivere In comparison will
these tiny travellers what are Tie
!" leaves OF the forest when The summer
IS greenp' This sand Is being con-
tinuaily washed ashore, and as the
water tails away with the dearth OF tho
season Il Is taken up by the winds. car
ried hack up stream. Is blown into the
water and makes another voyage, and