Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-12

1,764. New York heads the list, with
l69. Illinois comes next, with 1853; then
Pennsylvania, with l32. and Ohio, with
ll2.
Mr.. Fambro, of Sandersville, Ky, has
large rattlesnake, about five feet long,
which he captured last October, and
which he has kept in bob with wire
net front ever since that time. Though
he has had it ten months. the snake has
never eaten anything at all since 1t was
captured. 1t Lives on air." and If il
could be converted into the genus homo,
retaining its natural habits, it would
make splendid newspaper man.
A Frenchman. who resides on farm
near Paris, and has fancy for picking up
old animals, has mule aged seventy
three, n goose aged thirty-seven, COW
aged thirty-six, a hog aged twenty
seven, a bullfinch aged twenty-eight,
and n sparrow aged thirty-one. This
last accounts for the millions of spar
rows in the world. A couple of healthy
sparrows, producing twenty or thirty
young a year for thirty years, is some
thing sad to contemplate.
The national association for the pro-
lection of the insane, which was organ
lied Mt the charities conference in
Cleveland recently, has for its object
the introduction of more humane and
intelligent methods of dealing with in
sanity. Great things in this direction
have been done in the past generation,
but much still remains TO be done.
Especial care has been taken by the
association to make il understood that
a frn nj nAt hna
tility to any asylum or officials.
A druggists assistant was charged
before the correctional chamber in
Paris, few days ago, with causing the
death of a man by misreading a pre-
scription. The doctor, whose writing
was very clear, ordered eight drops of
laudanum. which the assistant care
lessly read as eight grammes, or about
a quarter of an ounce. The overdose
naturally killed the patient, and the
court sentenced the prisoner to three
months Imprisonment. His advocate
urged as an extenuating circumstance
that, if the mistake had cost the de-
ceased his life, it had at least provided
him with painless DEATH
State elections will occur this year as
follows: Alabama, first Monday in
August; Arkansas, first Monday in
September; Vermont, first Tuesday in
September; Maine, second Tuesday in
September; Colorado. first Tuesday in
October; Indiana, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia second Tuesday in October; Cali.
fornia Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts. Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi. Missouri, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Texas and Virginia, November
2; Georgia, November 3.
The projected tunneling of Mount
Blanc is engaging the serious attention
Of French engineers, and, contrary TO
common opinion, they characterize it
rs an easier undertaking than that of
the Simplon route. The estimates of
cost for executing such work are. in
the case of the Simplon, about F27 ,0O0,-
600, and in that Of Mount Blanc only
Sl5, 5,OOO, 900. Furthermore. 1t is claimed
that the Mount Blanc tunnel will make
the journey from Paris to Genoa some
ninety-seven kilometers shorter than by
the Simplon route. The location of the
tunnel is a point which has given rise
to various opinions, but that which
meets with special favor from the ad-
vocates of the enterprise is from
Chamounix to Courmayeur.
John Dye, the expert in counterfeiting,
says that close study of good notes Is
necessary for those who would readily
detect bad ones. Some OF the latter are
fully as fine as the former in workman
ship. and it is only by the variations that
they can be distinguished. He repre-
sents counterfeiting rs having greatly
increased of late. and the operators as
backed by plenty OF capital. In the
case OF base coinage, he says that some
OF their product costs more than half its
apparent value to make. He showed a
DIN that had exactly the weight, size
and touch of genuine five-dollar gold
piece; but n cut into the edges showed
that il was a shell of gold with plati
mum filling. The actual value of the
metal in IL was two dollars and a half,
and sthe making must have cost half a
dollar more.
Chung Han, late Chinese ambassador
at st. Petersburg, who was condemned
to death some time ago for having
signed treaty with Russia without due
authorization from Pekin, will not be
exc cuted for some time to come. De-
oember, It appears, Is considered par
ticularly suitable time of year for cut
ting of peoples heads in the dowery
realm, and Chung Hans decapitation
has been postponed TO that month in
Difference to the high rank of the
doomed mandarin. Toward the end oi
each year lists Of criminals sentenced to
NJ fNf M las f<xzz
warded by all the provincial governors
TO Pekin, where the minister of justice
runs bis pen through the names OF those
he sees reason 20 pardon, and the en-
peror himself subsequently exercises his
supreme right to commute sentences oil
excessive severity. There is some
chance. therefore, that Chung Han may
still be let of.
The honors accorded TO the American
exhihit0ra at the fiaherv exhibition nj