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Pictures and Legends from Normandy and Brittany.
T.. Katherine > end IhuliIs NIcgIotL 1yD. Nc.y Iliy
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NDrsL. Ilpp and Finn. BY Frank vincent IT. octave
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STfTISTTCS or ARRIT4LS.

ARRIVALS OF VESSELS FROM FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE
MONTH OF NOVEMBER
EEw YORK Nov SOWe give below the number OF arrivals
o. vessels from i1ra IN countries AT l' port for the moll ~
November, u-UishnE their class and nationality. THIS
table compiled from The DOObs VI the Government kept ~
t!n Llrgn Office DIV Ar-L IlL.c. bl1r-uE 0L-Ccr:
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IvIsON. pLAKEMAN. TtYL0R 4 90.
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The Golden Book Of Tales Reading, IA the LcseHilry
an Nations Edited bE william ~wiuuu and Geo
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HARPER Il BROS,
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The Fate OF MADAME La Tour story ol Great SAT-
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JA3IE~ R. OSGOOD Il 90.
Famous Painters urI PaintilTy ~ Mrs. IA 4.
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80 Broadway
The Letter OF Credit. BY Mis-. Warner StoFy. l2mo,
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LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.

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ARRIVED
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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

A well-fed frog is more susceptible to
poison than one which has been tasted
for weeks.
Corals often permanently chang
color, when subjected TO different con-
ditions of living.
The Japanese bronze brass by boiling
it in solution of sulphate of copper,
alum and verdigris,
A concentrated beam of electric light
carried seven miles has furnished sun.
cient light to read by.
The solar atmosphere contains sodium,
iron, calcium, magnesium, nickel,
barium, copper and zinc.
According to Ehrenberg cubic inch
of water may contain more than s00,-
600, 600, 900 of animalculm.
Platinum when alloyed with silver
becomes soluble in nitric acid, which
does not affect it while unalloyed.
Pig iron contains from ninety five
to ninety.seven parts of pure iron, and
three to five OF carbon, with small guam
titles of sulphur, phosphorus and sill.
con.
Hay, like most vegetable products,
contains much material which is soluble
in water. On this material its nutritive
value depends, and its removal by damp.
ness seriously Injuries the crop.
The floods and droughts of the pres
ent time will probably lead farmers and
others to q careful reconsideration of
the question regarding the proportion
which wooded ought to bear to cleared
land.
From surveys taken in the province
of Ufa, Russia, it appears that the
former forest area OF 17,577.O0O acres
has now been diminished by more than
3.5OO,OOO acres, and yet the population
is only three to the square mile.
Last year the German wire mills sup.
piled England with 10000 tons of wire,
and Russia with 10000 tons. France
received from Germany from Il, 600 TO
10, 900 tons of steel wire for sofa springs,
and America not less than 81, 900 from
the same source.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
Thanksgiving.

cart-loads Of pumpkins - yellow a. gold,
Onions In silyery strings,
Shining rod apples sad clusters Of grapes,
mt and host Of good things
Chickens and Surkeys, and Fat little pigs
These Afe shat Thanksgiving brings.
= "ork is forgotten aud plAy-time begins;
FROM Office. and schoolroon, and hail.
zfathsrs and mothers, aud uncles, and aunss
Nieces and ncphewE. and all
7specd away home, a. they hear from afar
The voice Of old Thanksgiving call.
Now is the time 10 forget al your cares.
Cast every trouble away
Think Of your blessings, remember your
joys,
Don't be afraid 10 be gay
None are too old, and none are too Young,
To frolic On Thanksgiving day.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

When friend corrects fault in you,
no does You the greatest act of friend
ship.
Next to silence comes brevity y--the
wise mans strength and the FOOLS
refuge.
Fancy is Imagination in her youth
and adolescence. Fancy is also excur-
sive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
The best kind of revenge is that
which is taken by him who is so gener-
ous that he refuses to take any revenge
at all.
Is there ono who has not to repent
ONE slight, thoughtless omission of
duty or kindness toward those whom
they love?
Never fear to bring the sublimest
m olive to the smallest duty and the
most infinite comfort 10 the smallest
trouble.
Be what nature intended you for, and
you will succeed; be anything else and
y on will be ten thousand times worse
than nothing.
Let men call you mean, il you know
you are just; hypocritical, if you are
honestly religious; pusillanimous, il you
feel that you are firm.
The will OF self.control does not di-
minish, but constantly increases in
strength, and there is scarcely any
limit to its attainments.
Whoever is an imitator by nature,
choice or necessity, has nothing stable;
the fexibility which affords this apti-
tude is inconsistent with strength.
Sincerity is to speak as We think, to
do as we pretend and profess, to per
for and make good what we promise.
and really to be what we would seem
and appear TO be.
It is beautifully remarked that a
mans mother Is the representative Of
his Maker. Misfortune and mere crime
SIT no barriers between her and her
son. While his mother lives a man has
one friend on earth who will not desert
him when he is needy. Her affection
flows from pure fountain and ceases
only at the ocean Of eternity.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
Wounds OF the Heart.

II is fenerally supposed that wounds
of the heart kill Immediately, and
correspondent has sent TO us a stag's
heart with the left auricle practically
annihilated and the upper half of the
left ventricle torn completely through
By bullet; so that three fingers can be
readily passed through the wounds into
the cavity. Notwithstanding The extent
of the injury 1.-The stag ran about sixty
yards, the first ten yards up hill" The
fact is that wounds Of the heart are but
seldom Immediately fatal, il ever so
We know of no case Of absolutely in.
Simultaneous death from wound of the
heart, in any part OF however extensive.
The experience in the battlefield cor
responds with that OF the sportsman,
who never saw a deer shot through
the heart that did not run some
distance. Wounds CT the apex kill
comparatively slowly, in from one
hour upward; and in one case
mentioned by John Bell, in which
the apex was completely severed
from the rest of tho organ by a sword
cut, the man lived twelve hours. In
deed, ont of twenty-nine collected cases
of injury to the heart, only two we're
fatal within forty eight hours, and in
the others death resulted in periods
varying from four to twenty eight days
Recovery may take place even when the
wound Is extensive, for bullet has
been found imbedded in the substance
of the heart after a lapse of six years
from the date Of the injury. the patient
having died from disease Of an organ
in no way connected with the lesion.
Some little time elapses before the
blood wholly escapes from or fails to
enter the cavities, and the walls con-
tinue to contract and propel some OF 1t
into the vessels for . much longer
period than Is usually thought to be the
case. London Lancet.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
4 Village In India.

Outside the entrance OF the single
village street, on an exposed rise Of
ground, the hereditary potter sits by
his wheel, molding the swift.revolving
clay by the natural curves Of his hands.
At the back Of the houses which form
the low, irregular street there are two
or three looms at work in blue aud
scarlet aud gold, the frames hanging
between the acacia trees, the yellow
flowers Of which drop fast on the webs
as they are being woven. In the street
the brass aud coppersmiths are ham
mering away at their pots and pans;
and further down, in the vernnda of the
rich mans house, is jeweler working
rupees and gold mohrs into fair iewelry,
gold and silver earrings, and round
tires like the moon. bracelets and tab
lets and nose rings, and tinkling
ornaments for the feet, taking
his designs from tho fruits and
flowers around him, or from the
traditional forms represented in the
paintings and carvings Of the great
temple, which rises over the grove of
mangoes and palms at the end of the
street, above the lotos-covered village
tank. At $3.50 OF o'clock in the after.
noon the whole street is lighted up by
the moving robes Of the women going
down to draw water from the tank, each
with two or three water jars on her
head and so, while they are going and
returning in single file, the scene glows
like Titian's canvas and moves like the
stately procession Of the Panathenaic
frieze. Later the men drive in the
mild, gray kline from the moaning
plain, the looms are folded up, the
coppersmiths are silent, the elders
gather in the gate, the lights begin
to glimmer in the fast-ialling dark.
ness, the feasting and the music arc
heard on every side, and late into the
night tho songs are sung from the
Ramayana or Mahabharata. The next
morning, with sunrise, after the simple
ablutions and alterations performed In
the open air before the houses, the
same day begins again. This Is the
daily life going on ell over western
India In the village communities of the
Dakhan, among a people happy in their
simple manners and frugal way of life,
and In the culture derived from the
grand epics Of religion in which they
live and move and have their daily
being. and in which the highest express
sion Of their literature, art and civiliza-
tion has been stereotyped for 1900
years.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
The Plug Hat.

The Hatisrs Gazette says: An cx.
change paper says that the plug hat is
virtually sort Of social guarantee for
the preservation of peace and order.
He who puts one on has given a hostage
to the community for his good behavior.
The wearer OF plug hat must move
with certain sedatepess and propriety.
He cannot run, or jump, or romp. or
get into = fight except at the peril of
his headgcar. ALI the hidden In
Auences of the beaver tend toward re-
spectGbility. He who wears one is
obliged to keep the rest of his body in
decent trim, that there may be no in
congruity between head and body. He
is apt to become thoughtful through
the necessity Of watching the sky when.
ever he goes ont. The chances are that
he will buy an umbrella, which il
another guarantee for good behavior,
and the care Of hat and umbreIla-por-
petual and exacting a. It must over be
adds TO the sweetness Of his char
acter. The man who wears q ping hat
naturally takes to the society OF women,
with all its elevated tendencies. He
cannot 60 hunting or fishing without
abandoning his beloved bat, but in the
moderate enjoyment OF croquet or lawn
tennis he may sport his beaver with
impunity. In other words, the constant
use Of : plug hat makes man com
posed in manner quiet aud gentle.
manly IN conduct aud : companion Of
the ladies. The inevitable result ia
prosperity, marriage and church mem
berahip.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
A Mether,s song.


Some years ago company of Indians
were captured on the Western frontier
Among them we're number of stolen
children. They had been with the saw
ages for years. Word was sent through
out the region, inviting all who had
lost children to come and see if among
the little captives they could recognize
their own. A long way off was a woman
who had been robbed of her darlings-
boy and girl. With mingled hope
and fear she came; with throbbing heart
she approached the group. They were
strange to her. She came nearer and,
with eyes filed with mother.love and
earnestness, peered into their faces one
after another; but there was nothing in
any that she could claim. Nor was
there anything in her to light up their
cold faces. With the dull pain of de-
spair at her heart she was turning away,
when she paused, choked back the
tears, aud in soft, clear notes began
simple song she used to sing TO her lit
tie ones of Jesus and heaven. Not
line was completed when boy and
girl sprang from the group, exclaiming:
Mamma " mamma T. and she folded
her lost ones to her bosom. So lives
mothers early influence in the b carts
OF her children.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24

There are 100000 Masons in the
United States.
The length Of the East river suspcn.
sion bridge is 1908 feet.
The quantity of soda imported into
the United States from England in 1S47
was 5000 tons.
In an edition of Ptolemy's geography,
1910, double tailed mermaid figures in
one Of the plates
There are seyenty-two national GENE.
teries for the burial of the Union and
Confederate dead.
Among the natives Of India white
quartz, boil ed inmilk, is used as a rem
edy for sick children.
A wire 400 feet long can be made
from ono grain of silver. Such a wire
is finer than human hair.
The ancient Chinese used hydropathy
as cure for certain diseases, among
others chronic rheumatism.
The ancient Persians taught their
sons, from the age of five and twenty,
only three things: To manage the horse,
to make use of the bow, and TO speak
the truth.
The largest room in the world, Under
one roof and unbroken by pillars, is at
st. Petersburg. BY day IL is used for
military displays; by night for a vast
ballroom. Twenty thousand wax tapers
are required TO light it.
Steel needles were invented by the
Spanish Moors, before which thorns or
fish bones, with a hole pierced for an
eye, were used. The first needles made
in London we're made in the reign Of
Henry VIII. by Moor.
The first book published in the North
American colonies was, 1t is supposed
an Almanac calculated for New Eng
land. by Mr.. William Pierce" which
appeared in Cambridge in 1899. II was
printed by Stephen Daye, but not
copy of IL now exists.
Those Of us who in winter complain
that the sun has not power Of warmth
should bear in mind Professor Youngs
recent remark, that II sc could build up
a solid column Of ice from the earth TO
the sun, two miles and a quarter in III
ametcr, spanning the inconceivable
abyss of 93,0O0.000 miles, and IL then
the sun should concentrate its power
upon ii, il would dissolve and melt. not
in an hour nor in n minute, but in a
single second; one swing Of the pendu-
lum and 1t would be water, seven more
and it would be dissipated in vapor.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24

The Lutherans have only twelve com.
municants among. the coiored people OF
the South.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey are hard
at work at their second campaign in
Great Britain.
The membership of colored churches
in the United States is between 1000, e
600 and l, 800, 600.
1t is reported that the Universalists
of New England have now 40 less
churches than in 1850.
The denomination known as Christian
has $50 congregations in the State of
Illinois, with membership OF $4,000.
The Baptist Foreign Mission conven-
ton of the United States (coloredl will
send three missionaries to Africa on
their own account.
Some 200 Cinnamon are said TO attend
the Sunday-schools of Brooklyn. They
are fond OF their schools, aud soon
show attachment to their teachers.
The entire Bible has been translated
into the language of the New Hebrides
group of islands in the Pacific ocean,
and the natives have paid the whole
expense of printing it.
Missionary work has been done 10y
the American board on such large
scale that the reported receipts of $780,
600 are not enough for the estimated
demands of the work. Efforts are now
to be made for the collection OF 1t least
$3.50, 900 for the coming fiscal year.
The largest increase OF Bapsists since
1870 has been in the fifteen Southern
States, where the gain is T61. AIS,
mostly among the colored people. In
the six Eastern States the increase is
Is, 200; in the Middle States, 81, 904; in
the thirteen Western States, "a, ,TT6,
and in the Territories, 6,060.
The Rev. Sheldon Jackson, d. D., a
superintendent of the Presbyterian
home missions, has Just completed his
third tour of Alaska. He has estab-
lished two new missions, stationed
three new missionaries, made improve
ments in the missionary buildings, and
travelled 500 miles in canoes.
Tho journal of the second annual con-
vocation OF the Episcopal diocese OF
New Mexico and Arizona, presents the
following statistics: Clergy, including
the bishop, 4; lay readers, 8; missions,
q; baptisms, Is, of which was adult;
communicates, 162; Sunday school
scholars, 20; offerings, 81 ,639.63; value
of church property, ss,250.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24

The silver coins OF less face value
than the dollar are issuel for change
purposes only, and are Intentionally
overvalued to prevent their being ex-
ported. The alloy OF the gold and
silver coins, which is copper, is of such
slight value that IL Is not reckoned in
estimating the value of the coins, and
is put in principally to make the coins
durable. As is stated above, the aver
age run of the cut from the coins is
about 1.25 Of the whole weight of the
coin. Therefore, the most accurate
way to get at the value without weigh
ing the coin is to deduct 1-25 from the
exact value of the silver coins given in
the table above Chicago Times.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
BntFaloes Delar a Train.

A train on the Northern Pacific was
twice obstructed by buffaioes a short
time ago near The border line between
Montana and Dakota. and was forced
TO come almost 10 standstilL There
we're number Of soldiers aboard armed
with repeating rifles, and nearly every
passenger had one or more revoIvera.
They all joined in brisk Ere Il the
buifaloes, which numbered sixteen the
frat time and twenty TO thirty the
second; but the animals seemed wholly
indifferent TO the bulIetai None Of
them fell or even showed signs OF being
wounded, and the train was unable 10
proceed until they sas &c 70 turn tail
and snamper OF.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
Oseen yIctorIa,s Long Telxn.

Queen Victoria on October 25 com.
pleted reign Of forty -four years and
12S days. which is Just tho length OF
time that Queen Elizabeth aas on tho
throne that queen reigning from No
vember II, 1858. to March ., i003.
Consequently she has reigned longer
than any other EnEIlah queen regnani,
and longer than an English hing, with
the exception Of George IL. Who
reiened sixty years li7e0- ls20l; Henry
IL. who rtigned lllEs.siz years (laI6-
1874, aad Edward II, ifsy yszzs liaag
-1s77).
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
The Carrying Trade of the World.


From recent comparative statement
II appears, omitting vessels Of less than
fifty tons measurement, Europe pos.
sesses forty-two tons to every one thous-
and inhabitants, America forty, and Ans
tralia seventy-ninc, while Asia aud At
rica have only two tons per thousand.
Liverpool ranks as the most important
port in the world, with tonnage of
2,647, 373 this is succeeded by London,
with 1880, ,6ss, and Glasgow with !, ,153,-
GIG tons. The nine landing ports Of
Great Britain have tonnage Of S,724,-
123, while the first four ports OF the
United States have only 1876. $40. st.
Johns, New Brunswick, is in this respect
as important as Boston or Charleston
and more so than Philadelphia. Great
Britain and Ireland possess gross ton.
mage Of nearly twelve millions sailing
vessel tons, and with the tonnage of her
colonies the British flag covers fourteen
millions tonnage out Of the total worlds
existing tonnage OF twenty-seven mil.
lions. The United States. twenty years
ago. carried sixty-six per cent. OF their
foreign trade in their own bottoms,
whereas now they carry something less
than eighteen per cent.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24

Peter Cooper was asked 10 what rules
il life he attributed his success. HOna
xas, he said. '.that / determined 70 aiva
che world an equivaleut. in some form q
useful labor. for ell that consumed
n Il went on and enlarged M bnzi-
ness. al The while keeping ont al dnht.
! cannot reeollecl time whsn could
aos pay whas owea an d.. - rue
uaa: Pay e you 20 Another thing :
slsh . -: ssAlI the money : eve
nade sas ii meehAaieal business. an
not IN speculation.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24

Many people want to know exactly
what mutilatcd coins are worth. They
are only worth their bullion value, aud
that, even when these coins are intact,
is something less than the face value.
The United States government, in
purchasing silver to be made into coins,
bases the value of silver upon the price
in London, taking into consideration
the rate Of exchange between New
York and that city, but generally pays
a triAe less from l-I0 to 1-2 cent per
ouncel than the equivalent of the Lon
don rate. At present Troy ounce Of
pure silver is worth sl.12sl3. At this
price Of silver the exact value Of the
silver coins II sold to the government
4.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
A little Uusy Fec.

A certain restaurant in this city, ap.
parenuy to proclaim the unlimited re-
sources Of it's cuisine, has in its show
window n huge tank, wherein glittering
goldfish, sullen horned pouts, dignified
bull frogs, aud sprawling turtles dwell
together in a greater or less degree of
amity. The other day bee fell into
the water, and was gobblcd By a Cog
gle-eyed fish. Hardly had the insect
bccn engnlfed, however, when the fish
was seen TO be strangely excited. He
leaped into the air. drew in great vol
umes of water and blew them out again.
and acted so insanely that the turtle
scuttled away in hot haste, and the
frogs sumbled OF the rocks to right and
left in sheer CONSERVATION. Meanwhile
the bee reappeared aud crawled out Of
the tank in safety, evidently congratu-
lating itself as II dried its wings upon
it's possession Of sting and lhe pres.
cnce Of mind necessary TO use Il to ad-
vantage In an emcrg .ncy.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24
Unknown Regions.

According to an English geographical
writer, there are four vast areas still to
be opened up or traversed by civilized
man, and which among them constitute
abont one-sevcnteenth Of the whole area
Of tho globe. OF these there Is the
Antarctic region, which ia extent is
about aeventy-Hve times that of Great
Britain; the second Lies about The Nsrth
Pole The third Is in Central Africa, and
tho fourth in Western Australia. The
South Polar region referred 10 Is almost
conterminous with The antarctic circle.
The vast African area reaches on the
vest very closely TO the coast, ard II l.
only near The equator that il has more
than specifically been driven inland.
IN AustmliA the great undessIoped Re.
gion il that which lies west Of the track
explored from norIh to south BY Stuart,
and which now forms the line O tele.
graphic communication across thai con
kinenl.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-24

A Southern journal says this years
rice crop in the Gulf States will reach
one hundred and fifty million bushels.
It Is predicted that the rice industry
viii soon risal that Of sugar growing
in Louisiana.