Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

per mile.
Prairie chickens are game TO the last
-Ptcayune.
Nice Florida rattlesnakes are worth
s5 each in New York.
Sick people relish broth made from
the hind legs Of frog more than frogs
do.
France has 40, ,OO0. 900 hens, with only
100000 women to throw things a.
them.
A woman who has four sons. all sail
orr, compares herself with year. .beoause
she has four seasons.
OF all the ruins in the world, the
ruin Of man is, most assuredly, the sad
dest to contemplate.
The man who doesn't know his own
mind should be introduced as soon as il
is big enough. PIoayune.
Many tramp would be thankful for
cold ham, but none of them relish the
cold shoulder.-SGiem Sunbeam.
A great many men are cottage built,
that is TO say, they have but one story
And they are forever telling it.
Woman may be skilled In preserving
fruits, but IL is a difficult thing for her
TO preserve silence. Philadelphia Item
John NJ. Mauger. of Pottstown, Pa,
who is eighty years of age. uses a razor
that has been in the family two hundred
years.
In the State of Ohio there are %. .36s
persons on the pension rolls, of whom
2,026 are widows Of soldiers of the
war OF 1912.
Beans are not very largely cultivated
in Russia, owing TO the irreconcilablc
aversion that exists there TO the Poles
Cincinnati Times.
Corsets are said to have originated
from an iron waistband. in which ty-
rannical husbands in early history of the
human family encased their wives.
No matter how poor people are. nearly
every one can afford to keep a pair of
horses-one for clothes and the other
tor wood.-Bdl!insOre EUery Saturday.
Dan Mace can tell almost to the frac-
tion OF n second how fast he drives a
horse, without consulting a watch, and
some other drivers have the same
faculty.
The Oldest living ex-member OF Con
gress is John A. CUthbert, OF Mobile,
Ala, who was born in Georgia in l77s.
He practices law in Mobile, and is said
TO be still hale and hearty.
The American professional beauties"
whose movements are now SO closely
followed by London society" journals.
are Mrs. Chopper, Mrs. Mahlon Sands.
Miss Parsons and Lady Vaudeville.
L think I'll cut across the heids."
said city belle, who was visiting her
country cousin-"the wether permit
ting" she added, as she observed a
demonstrative sheep of the masculine
persuasion.
In the hour Of danger woman
THINKS least of herself" said Nine. de
Stael. Truei When the thunder roars
and the vivid lightning flashes, and the
big drops come down, the woman who
is caught out in the storm devoies her
agony TO the thought that her hat and
dress will be ruined.
Fashionable Galveston young lady
at a social gathering remarks iestingly
TO Gilhooly: wonder how much I
would bring If was put up at auction
and sold to the highest biddere" Just
about g., 900" Why, my iewelry alone
is worth that" "Yes; that's what I
put 1t down in my estimate. ~ Galveston
Neps.
An eccentric Englishman. long n resi-.
dent at Paris, has just committed sui
eide, after having devoted twenty years
to a strange mania. Every six months
he had coffin made for himself Each
was too long. too short. or uuccmfort-
able in some way, until the last proved
perfect. Having no sfurther object in
life, lie killed himself.
A Toronto patent-medicine man re-
Gently ruined the sale-of his "Pulmonic
Balsam" by publishing n testimonial
from man who asserted that his wife
who had not been able 10 speak above n
whisper for five years, had her voice
completely restored by the use OF one
bottle. When the Toronto man real
lied the effect of the publication, he
wrung his hands and said: ~ enemy
hath done this thing"
On the slopes of Amethyst mountain.
or the Yellowstone park, are exposed at
different levels n large number of silici-
fed trees, many being rooted In the
position in which they grew. and from
twenty to thirty feet In height. Some
lying down are OF immense size. The
series of sandstone and conglomerates
In which the irnes are iu,l,n.i.aaa :. No..