Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-15
ITEMY OF INTEREST.

80 hh Oh1 ilkAS blA wives.
Truth lies-Wben 1t Ia crusho 81
earth. -NeU York NeUs. T"
A miserable man generally ma,.
to make Others miserable.
Five children of Charles Dickens gr-
vive him-threc sons and two daugh
ters. ush-
TO avoid the first wrong step, let vou,
first step be n right one.-BSsL,n
Traveller. >''''"
Modesty is 10 worth what shado,v,
are in painting; she gives 10 it strength
andrelief. k'H
AS many fabrics and accessorios no,v
enter into bonnet as into the ron",
elaborate dresses.
The Chicago Tribune has discoyor,a
that petrified body indicates thai tIa
man is stone-dead.
Mr.. Mori, who was once Jan,,.s.
minister at Warrington, has been sent
to the cort of st. James.
"Day-After-To- Morrow" is the na,oo
OF Cherokee Indian chief. He ia ,Le
brother of Procrastination.- Wa'erino
ObseTUtr.
Hard speech between those who have
loved is hideous in the memory, like Tho
sight OF greatness and beauty sunk into
vice and rags.
Thirty-eight thousand five hundred
and forty one persons by the name of
Smith draw pensions from the United
States government.
The Eureka (Nev) Sentinel SAWS three
Chinese gambling games are CONSTANTS
running in Chinatown, each paving
molthly license of $75.
Asmany women learn to know the;,
husbands, they wish they had learned
TO mo" them when they wee onIv
sweetheartS.-aeubenriHe He; ah
France consumes now seyenty.fou,
million tons OF coal. against seven mil.
lions in 1850 The English miner raise.
nearly double per man what his French
brother miner raises.
Bells were first set up n churches asa
defense against thunder and lightning
The first bell hung in England was n
9f5: Chimes were invented in Belgium
in 1857.
That was indeed n smart postmaster
/ whJ, when asked by young adv
which was the first mail quicklyre.
! piled, Adam, madam ~ Y1alIrs
/ Salesman.
There is not Turkish family. rich or
even in easy circumstances, which has
not certain number of women and
children in bondage. There are black
slaves and white.
The Cane Growers association I'm.
| shed its deliberations at ST. Loui. yes-
terday. The other association for rais.
ing Cain Is still in session nj Washing.
ton - Chicago journal.
lie that embarks in the voyage
life will always wish TO advance rather
by the impulse of the mind than the
strokes of the oar. and may founder in
the passage while they lie waiting for
the gale.
4 fashion letter says "pinchod waists
are now thought vulgar Fashion let
ters ray say what they please but as
long as Che owners Of the waists don't
make fuss about it, young men viii
/ continue 10 pinch 'em-NorTiaolcl Her
aid.
The number of paper mills in Tie
United States have Increased to sI2. en-
ploying %. 600 hands. and their aver
age annual product il estimated at
3l7, ,3s7 tons Of paper, valued al S67.-
600, 900, and the capital invested in
them is placed at S43. 500. 600.
There are over $1,000 carriage manu-.
facturers in the United States, who en-
ploy upward of IO0.0O0 hands, pay
out from SIS. .o00. 900 TO S3l. 900, 600 for
labor annually, and produced during
the past twelve months upward OF
200, 600 carriages, amounting in
value to sl25. 0O0. 900.
A walnut timber boom is going on in
Tennessee. Every water mill and
saw-mil is saving il fast. Already
$50. 900 worth has been shipped from
Lewisburg. There is large demand
for it in London. and Tennessee people
expect great things of the European
market.
The proprietor of the circus in Champs
Elysees. Paris, was NJ Deiean. whose
death is announced at the age of ninety
four. He started life as butcher, and
his good looks brought all the cooks to
his masters shop, who, on retiring. leit
him the business. Amassing fortune,
he started n circus which he has owned
halfa century. He was remarkable for
his strength.
IL appears from the statistics drawn
up nj the prefecture of police that the
number of cases of dog-madness certi-
fled last year in Paris is 5o2. They
WeTe ulsITlOuteu among tne louI stHr
sons rs follows: First quarter, IA;
second quarter, LIS; third quarter. lS3;
fourth quarter, fifty-three. To judge by
these figures, there are fewer cases in
the summer and autumn than in the
winter and spring.
Jurics sometimes give very curious
verdicts. One of the most remarkable
was found by Washoe jury in ease
of milk-stealinR. The prisoner was
tried on a charge of stealing milk from
another mans COW. IL was proved that
he had frequently milked the COW at
night, thereby causing his neishbor
great vexatiJn and annoyance. The
jury desired 10 express in their verdict
their sense of the aggravated nature oil
the offense. They therefore found the
prisoner IS guilty of milking the COW in
the fret. degree. " Faoo (7e1as) Ioie-