Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-15
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Patience Is the art OF hoping.
Tea culture in Floridais receiving a.
ention.
1t is now safe to treat girls with COO
ness-flavored with vanilla.
Samuel johnson defined nonsense To
be +" boiling door with boiled car
rot"
The Territory Of Montana has ALREADY
produced upward of Slt7, 600, 900 in
gold, and 90, ,OO0, 900 in silver.
An English firm sold 5000 freprooi
safes in Turkey before il was ascertained
that the filling was only sawdust.
A leading hotel in Dundee, Scotland
is furnished throughout with furniture
made in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Talk of fame and romance-al the
glorv and adventure in the world are
not worth one hour OF domestic bliss.
The law should be TO the sword
what the handle is to the hatchet; Il
should direct the stroke and temper the
force.
In Paris the fashionable shade is "su,.
phur." There is one other place where.
also. it is fashionable.-Neso York Her
aid.
The deficit I'm the postoffice depart
ment for the fiscal year OF 1879 was
go. .40, ,9l6, which IS less than any year
since 1866.
An oatmeal factory in Dubuque, Ia.
is shipping over IS coo pounds OF mea.
per week TO Scotland at cost OF
soventy-five cents a hundred.
Ii is wonderful how silent a man can
be when he knows his cause is Just, and
how boisterous he becomes when be
knows he is in the wrong.
Two hundred and seventy-two trains
arrive al and depart from Chicago every
twenty-four hours. Forty-four railroads
have Offices in that city.
Grace" am going 10 see Clara to-
day. Have you any message" Char
lotte-"I wonder how you can visit
that dreadful girl? Give her my love
Missionaries report that q town near
Pekin, China, seems about 10 come
over en- masse TO Christianity. They
have been reading Christian books. and
many families have destroyed their
family gods.
Bisset, the animal trainer of Perth,
taught an ourang to wait on the table
and peform other household duties be-
longing TO servants. A chimpanzee has
been trained TO feed and attend bakers
oven fire on board ship.
Philadelphia has Az public SCHOOLS.
instructing l03, ,567 pupils by means OF
2,070 teachers, only seventy seven OF
whom are men. The value OF the schoo.
property owned and in use by the city
is nearly Sc, 6,000,O00
Goods at half price. said the sign.
How much is that teapot" asked the
old lady who lad been attracted by the
announcement. Fifty cents, num-
" / guess I'll take it then" she said.
throwing down n quarter. The dealer
let her have the teapot, but took in ms
sign before another customer could
come in Boston 7Fdnscytps.
An exchange says that the king Of
Siam is coming 10 this country. and viii
bring his suit with him. We'll he'd bet
ter. unless he has friend here who viii
lend him one. The weather is entirely
too changeable for a man TO come so far
away from home without his suit, and,
besides. people might make remarks
about him -MtddletosOa TNdaScTipt.
Did you ever notice the little rag
muffin in the street with supremely
dirty face Taffy. bread and butter
and molasses form the groundwork for
the accumulation of dust and CRIME.
and his cheeks look like twin maps OF
the oceanic archipelago; his hands and
wrists look like animated tree roots.
they are so dirty, and his feet and
ankles partake of the mud they contact
with. or course you've noticed him;
And he isthe lightest-hearted bunch ol
human nature you ever saw. Din
doesn't strike any deeper than beauty,
and within his heart is as clean littiea
soul, and great deal freer one. as ever
grew inside the Iieatest and slickest
young devotee OF soap and water thai
evur lived, washed and su lfered. .-NeU
Huuesa Re0,sfcr