Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-29
TIMELY TOPICS.

The king of dentists, as he calls him.
self, is Philadelphia curiosity. He
wears jeweled crown and gorgeous
robes, rides In respondent chariot,
and extracts teeth without charge.
While a glib-tongued attendant sounds
his praises, the king takes out teeth for
all who apply, sometimes pushing them
out with the point of his sword. Then
he sells an ache-destroyer at fifty cents
a bottle.
The preliminary workings for the
tunnel under the English channel.
uniting England and France, have had
the most satisfactory results. The pro-
moters have sunk their shaft to the
stratum in which they prop ose TO bore
the tunnel, and are now going to sink
another shaft, and lower all the ma
chinery for the bore. Ip eighteen
months they expect TO have reached two
kilometers (about two and a quarter
miles) under the channel, and in three
or four years TO have completed the
task.
Idaho Territory holds court at BOISE.
where is located all the government
offices, and is the home of the United
States marshal. He goes TO Lewiston,
400 miles distant, twice year to attend
district court, and also twice a year TO
Malad for the same purpose, travelling q
distance of 525 miles 70 reach there. To
simply attend the courts in the three
| districts requires him TO travel 3.700
miles. But TO do all his official work
last year caused Mr.. Chase TO travel by
| stages 5000 miles.
The slang phrase queer fish" has
been realized in piscatorial form in
California. At Monterey some fisher
men cought it in seine. 1t was about
nine inches long. The first half of the
fish was a mountain brook trout, hav-
ing the eye, head, scales, spots and shape
OF the fish. 1t had pair Of fins at the
usual place behind the gills; an inch or
two back of this ii suddenly changed
into silver eel, the shape, color and
absence Of scales being perfect. 1t will
probably find a resting place on the
shelves of the San Francisco Academy of
Sciences.
A German paper relates that at BIZ
berich, recently, quite a crowd gathered
TO witness the novel spectacle of a
drunken driver being taken home by his
horse. The man was so intoxicated
that he could scarcely stand, but the
faithful animal pushed him onward
with its head. Now and then the driver
attempted to turn into side streets,
but the horse seized him by the coat
with its teeth, and thus piloted him to
the stable. The horse had great deal
of trouble with It's master, but finally
got him home safe 1t is said that this
valuable animal has acted the good Sa-
maritan for his master repeatedly be-
fore.
An excellent instance of the way in
which the children in the average pub
lie school learn without learning is re-
lated by Barnes Educational Monthly.
A teacher in one of our public schools
has been accustomed TO require her
pupils to say: THE equator is an
imaginary line passing Iaround the
earth" etc. Il never occurred TO her
that the boys and girls of her school had
no idea what an imaginary line meant.
until one day visitor asked them how
wide they thought the equator is. Scme
thought it was 5000 miles wide, others
1900 and others thought they could
jump over IL. The visitor then asked
how they thought ships got over it. One
pupil said he thought they got out and
drew them over, and another said he
had read that a canal had been dug
through It'll What is the name Of this
canale" was asked. "The Suez canal!''
was the answer.
On the road from Albuquerque to
Silver City (New Mexico) is Cooks
canon, in which the Apache Indians of
Victoria's band have been in the habit
OF waylaying and slaughtering white
people attempting the passage. A pri-
vate letter OF recent date from Silver
City says Il at $40 white settlers, miners
and mail carriers hav been butchered
and scalped in the canon By the
Apaches. A fortnight before the letter
was written the Indians killed a party
OF eighteen persons and burned their
wagons. They also slew the driver and
three passengers on the mail coach and
destroyed the vehicle. A detachment
OF soldiers surprised FIVE Apaches in the
canon n couple of days after that occur
renee, killed and, Il il said, scalped
them. Among the Indians killed on
that occasion was the fifteen-year old
son of the renowned chief Victoria.
The lad fought desperately as long rs he
coulo it' r land to strike. The people
of Silver City are greatly exercised
about the Apaches, who have made
mining in that vicinity extremely haz-
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