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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
Advice TO Young Husbands.

The Rev. G. e. Goss, during lecture
in New York on THE Honeymoon,
and How to Perpetuate It," said: Look
out for your habits, Young man. Don't
get into the habit of neglect ing the little
courtesies of life in your horne. Just
see the young men in bobtail norse-car
sit forward on the edge of the seat, and
when pretty young woman enters the
car they watch for the first chance TO
put her fare in the box. Why don't you
watch just as eagerly to wait on your
wife Again, my young husband. you
and your wife must cultivate mutual
confidence. Distrust of each other is
the bane OF human society everywhere.
or course, you and your wife ought to
hold different opinions. l was forty
years old before married my wife, and
l knew thing or two before knew
her. When we were married we did
not empty out our brains and become
fools. When she comes to vote want
her to vote on the side opposite to me,
because II she votes just as do what's
the use of her voting She might have
ust as we'll voted through me as we do
now. But don't fight. Husbands and
wives do fight and bite and claw each
ether, and pull each others hair, and
all about little thing that they would
be ashamed Of they hadn't got heated
Cultivate the habit OF cooling down.
Finally, be honest and upright with
your wife, young husband. You ought
to be honest in courtship, but If you
have had an outside for your girl to look
at, and you have all the time kept bit
and bride on your passions only to be
brute after marriage, then you have
deceived her. Be as innocent to your
wife as though she was. a little baby.
You wouldn't hurt a baby. Stand up
for your wife-if any one says anything
against her, knock him down. Well.
I'll take that back-you can knock him
down in your own estimation.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
A Little Friendly Same,

They had not been married long, so
they sat down to play checkers. In the
middle of the game she ssid:
Then do lump these wo men and
get kingP OF course ] do. Crown
me. I've got the first king" and she
chuckled hysterically.
"No, you amt. either. didn't mean
that move" said he. "If you can't play
checkers without cackling like hen
you lad better give it up. rlltake that
back and move here; now, so. Now
you can move
"Over here" asked the wife.
Certainly. That's very good, and
her husband gobbled two men.
81 didn't see that. I'd rather put IL
here" she demonstrated.
TOO late now" said he. pegging
away for the king row. "You should
study your moves first.n
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
A Big Melon Patch.

Missouri boasts of possessing one of
the largest and most productive melon
patches in the United States. 1t is situ-
ated on the borders OF Scott and Missis-
sippi counties, and equals If it does not
exceed in size and adaptation of soil and
climate the famous melon patches OF
Georgia, Indiana and the eastern shore
OF Maryland. The ST. Louis Republican
describes it as a tract of sandy prairie,
four miles wide and ten miles long, with
a thin, warm soil, Just adapted to the
cultivation of the melon, and such
melons as are raised nowhere else in
that region. There is much richer and
deeper soil all around there, but 1t is not
adapted to melon culture. This land is
capable Of producing I,COO melons to
the acre.
At place called Diehlstadt, in Scott
county. there were shipped the past
season 43s carloads of 1000 to the car,
and Bertrand, in Mississippi county,
shipped lsOcar-loads, mostly to Chicago,
The melon county was visited by twenty
five commission merchants from
Chicago, who paid as low as $40, and
as high as $40 per carload, being an
average of $40 per Car, the market price
varying with the advance of the season
and the number of melons ripening at
the same time. Most of these melons
were shipped over the Cairo and
Vincennes and Illinois Central rail-
roads in fruit cars, properly ventilated
and arranged for the purpose. These
melons found their way not only % St.
Louis and Chicago, but to most of the
lake cities, and even to New York and
Philadelphia.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
The German Census.

In Germany, as in England, the cen
sus is taken in one day. Schedules are
furnished in advance to be filed by each
male inhahitant. which are collected by
officers. This fulfillment is insured by
making each owner or agent responsible
for the occupants of every house com
plying with the law. This method is
declared by ststisticians to be tie least
subject to incorrectness, and 1t Las been
adopted since the creation Of the en-
pire. The last census was taken on
December /. Though not yet COM
pleted, comparisons sufficient exist 10
show that the population has increased
to a greater degree than in France, or,
in fact, any European nation.
In 1871 the whole German empire was
found TO contain population Of AL
o5s, 1872. During the next term OF four
years the national provocative power
was certain TO experience a shrinkace
corresponding TO the adult males in the
Franco-German war. For st least two
sNsAAs Va ttaS ehAAAN I'7A tOh .NAt " ~ Aas0
a great drainage through emigration 70
America. Nevertheless, in 1875 the
number of inhabitants had reached AZ
727, $50 In the interval between the last
and the present enumeraiions the
German bureau of statistics hasIkept s
careful record of births and deaths, as
well as of emigration, with view of
determining the net gain at the end OF
every twelve-month. 1t was deducted
from these investigations that the regular
yearly increment of the population is
not less than $50. 600 souls. This infer
ence is confirmed by the last census
taken; for although the details are not
compiled, the broad result is known,
namely, that the German empire now
comprises from forty-hve and a halt to
forty-six millions of inhabitants.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
Calendar for the BOYS.

The sports and games OF boyhood suc-
ceed each other in unerring regularity
although it is difficult TO give any
definite reason why. 1t has occurred
to us that sporting calendar would he
Of great service 10 the boys:
January: Make snow forts, garrison
them with snow men, slide down hin
and get your feet wet. This takes NJ
all the month.
February: 30 skating, fall into the
danger" holes and get nearly drowned.
stay in the house three weeks with core
throat and fever.
March: Fish through rotten ice. and
run all the risks possible. Get your
hawkey sticks in shape.
April; First week, play practical
Jokes till you get some one mad enough
TO lick" you; "hawkey" and baseball
the rest of the month.
May: Paste up few kites, smiling
the paste all over the carpet. and try
to fly them; marbles Il good dcal. hon
scotch and boiler
June: A little croquet, not much:
get out your fish poles, 90 in swimming
| and worry your mother out Of her
senses; insist on going barefoot; Sun
day-school picnics; play circus.
July: Tin horns, irc-crackers, hur-
rah, blow yourself up, and start in on
your long vacation; little fooling
around in the sea, picking huckleber-
ries, etc.
August: Up at grandpa's playing in
the haymow, eating green apples,
taking paregoric, getting chased By
cows-in your dreams.
September: Marbles again, general
trading season OF the year, Jack. knife
swapping "sight unseen"
October: Political Campaigning.
Drums, torches, jack o. lanterns, capes,
professions, badges, Young America Z"
let loose, setting an enthusiastic ex-
ample TO "old America" which is
.ollowed.
November: Clappers, tam bourines,
shows in the wood-shed, testing thin
ice, a general stuff of turkey, plum pud-
ding and the natural consequences.
December: Snow balling the schoo!
na'am, breaking window glass, brag-
ging about Christmas coming" gowI-
ing because it served you no better
when il did come.
The above is subject TO cyclones Of
tag-playing, jumping, leap-frog and
tornadoes OF new and brillian; sports
that appear on the surface for a brie
time and disappear as suddenly as they
oome.-ReIo HdUen RegiNtcT.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
Atlantic Cables.

The lengths of the several cables be-
tween the United States and Europe and
their locations are given as follows
The three Anglo-American cables now
in use run from Ireland to Newfound-
land, 1850 miles, and from Newound-
land to Sidney, over 300 miles-a total
distance of about 9, $50 miles each; the
Anglo French cable from Brest to
DuNbury, by way of st. Pierre, Is about
1899 miles long; the Direct United
States cable from Ireland to Torbay. and
from Torbayt TO Rye Beach, 1890 miles /;
and the new French cable from Brest to
Louisburg, 2,490 miles, from st. Pierre
10 Cape Cod, $50 miles. and from Brest
to Penzance, Isl miles--a total length
of about 3,46l miles.
Preparations are being made for Law
ing two new cables to be operated in
connection with the land lines of the
American Union Telegraph company.
They will connect with the land lines AZ
Cape Breton. about 2,4OO miles long.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03

1t would save n great deal of embsr-
rassment, says Burdette. and perhaps
add to their emoluments, if clergymen
generally were TO charge tixed rate for
marrying couples-say s5 for the first
offense, $40 for the second. 800 for the
third. and so on. They might even issue
tickets as hey d in milk fac ories, with
reduction to persons taking q quantity.
In order to encourage II ,tul wedlock,
the job should be done vlry cheaply to
young couples, but the clergy should
take It out OF widowers and old bac4-
elors.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
Mourning Costumes.

There are extensive mourning goods
departments iu all of the large retail dry
goods houses, but 1t is said that there is
not, and has never been, but one store
in New York that deals exclusively in
mourning goods. The filling of orders
with promptness is rendered possible by
the keeping in stock of ready-made suits
capable of being altered to suit the
measurements that may be received.
Often families at distance from New
York send for goods, and though their
faces are unknown to the dealers, their
names are as familiar as the faces of
their New York customers. This is
particularly the case where the family
has large kinship. Ready-made suits
in stock cost from $3.50 TO 800 apiece.
The cost of an entire mourning outfit is
frequently as high as $3.50. Outfits for
four ladies in one family, recently filed,
were paid for with a check for $l.4OO.
a complete outfit consists of the follow
ing articles: A suit, veil, cloak, bon
net, handkerchiefs and gloves. Cloaks
cost from $5 up to 800, and bonnets
from S5 up to $25.
Dresses are trimmed with Grape for
deep mourning, and sometimes the dress
itself is made Of Grape. Even outside
garments such as sacks and dolmans
are made of Grape. They are usually
made of the same material as the dress
is made of. There has been no decided
change in styles since last year. The
shapes OF mourning bonnets have fol-
lowed the shapes of bonnets in colors.
The trimmings are the same in style as
they were last year. Long Grape wells
are worn a great deal. They vary in
length according to the depth of the
mourning. Though some ladies begin
to Tighten their mourning after the lapse
of one year, it is considered the proper
thing, dealers say, to wear deep mourn
ing two years before the tightening pro.
cess is begun.
The family must be poor indeed whose
female members do no, 90 into some de-
gree of mourning after death has en-
tered. The ordinary recourse is to bor-
row mourning clothes for the funeral.
In large numer of cases the family has
some branch that is better 10 do than
itself. On such relatives, no matter
what quarrels have kept them away be.
fore, the duty is paramount to lend
mourning goods for the funeral. If the
dresses cannot be obtained in this way
there is good chance that some Of the
neighbors will accommodate them. A
death, like a birth, affords an occasion
when women put aside neighborly quar-
rels, and a proffer of mourning gar
ments is often made by a personal
enemy. The styles of these garments
are such as they may happen to be.
After the funeral the clothes are re-
turned, bu. they are in many cases bor-
rowed again for special occasions, as,
for example, when the mourners attend
church for n Sunday or two after the
funeral. As time goes by and new
clothing is to be purchased, black is
chosen instead Of colors. Black is dur
able, and therefore cheap. Poor women
OF middle age, or past it, often continue
to wear black beyond the time of
mourning for economical reasons. -
NeoO York Sun.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
Between the Green Corn and the Gold.

Between the green corn and the gold,
Between the dawning and The noon,
Love, that at first was pale and cold,
Waxed ruddy with the summer moon;
And hearts beat high and lips grew bold
Between the green corn and the gold.
The primrose, precious key OF spring,
Unlocked the casket OF the year;
The flowers few forth on rainbow wing
Der hill and mead and mere,
To WOO the new year like the old
Between the green corn and the gold.
Between the gold corn and the green,
Between the midday and the dawn,
The summer woods have lost their sheen,
The flowers have withered on the lawn;
And love lies dead where love hath been,
Between the gold corn and the green.
Love is not dead; he cannot die,
Although his eyes be yelled with pain;
The woods shall waken by-and-bye,
The flowers shall blossom once again;
And we-shall we not wake, my queen,
Between the gold corn and the greent
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
A Modern Samson.

1t is hardly yet known that the city Of
Louisville has for IA resident gentle
man who for n long time has enjoyed
the reputation of being the strongest
man living, and certainlyiif not the
strongest, he Is one of the very few
past been showing some extraordinary
feats of strength, particularly in dumb
bells and lifting heavy weights, both in
this country and in Europe, and has
numerous medals as trophies OF his
feats. In 1873, at the Academy Of
Music in New YORK city, at her
hereulean tournament in which there
were competitors OF ali nations,
he won six out oftwenty medals offered
or competition. At tournament in
1874 at Barnum's hippodrome he won
the whole ofthe five medals which were
offered for the best feats in dumb-be
lifting. Also later, at Shook & Palmer's
hippodrome in New York, in tourna-
ment which lasted four days, he won
the championship of the world. On the
2Ist of July, 1874, he startled the spec
tators at an exhibition given at Woods
gymnasium, in New York, by holding
with single hand a monster dumb-bell
Of Dol pounds weight. In Boston in 1875,
at Il performance in the Howard Athe-
neum, he gave a performance, using
kegs OF nails, bars of railroad iron.
shafting, and also with the greatest Of
ease manipulated the famous I90-pound
dunn bell made for the celebrated DIR.
Winship, but never used by him. He is
also great weight litter, having lifted
dead weight with his hands of 800
pounds. He has defeated the famous
strong men of this country, including
p. Kelly, w. Miller. II. Joyrfeny (Bar-
NUNS famous strong MANI, Christol, Reg
liner and others, and also the famous ath-
lete and Hercules of Germany, Martens
Arps, and many others throughout
Great Britain, including the famons
Donald Duntill, who backed out from
competing with him, after viewing his
material. for a grand test of strength.
He lifts horses. holds nalf-ton cannons
while they arc loaded and fired of. pulls
against teams OF draft-horses consisting
of two, four, and even six horses; hold
fiity-six-pound weights al arms length
horizontally from his body with his lit
tie fingers. These and other indescrib-
able feats of strength must place him in
the foremost rank of strong men. To
look at this gentlemen when dressed one
would not think him 10 be the
powerful man he is; but when
stripped he shows a magnificent
physical Development. This gen
tlemen is Mr.. Richard A. Pennell
superintendent and instructor of the
gymnHstic and athletic department OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
of this city. Mr.. PenneH first joined
gymnasium when young man to see if
benefit could be gained in his health,
he having palpitation of the heart at
the time. His experiment was a COM
plete success, an extraordinary robust
ness OF body and great health being
attained in short time, together with
a great development Of physical power,
which he has retained TO this day, and,
although for days at time he has
followed sedentary employment, he
never has had the slightest recurrence
of his old trouble, but, on the contrary,
enjoys almost immunity from sickness
of all sorts.-Lo'stsCtlle Commercial.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03

Many OF the dolls OF the period are
modelled from portraits of celebrated
beauties, and with their wardrobes
complete in Saratoga trunk. are so
costly as to be beyond the reach OF but
ew lit lie folks.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03

The Swiss colony in North Carolina
has discovered that the mulberry tree
grows with IS much luxuriance IS the
cherry, and that the soil and climate of
this State alike foretell the future pro-
ductions ofsilk under the most favorable
conditions.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03

The Safe Deposit company OF San
Fancisco has laid down an iron vault
weighing 100000 poulds. It IL believed
to be the largest in the world.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03

Courtesy suffers from exaggeration.
BY too much courtesy we become dis
courteous, and excess of eivility makes
sn uncisil.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03

"The best imported gloves made
here" wasn't very bad sign; that Is,
morally.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03

White fab eggs from the great lakes
are being shipped to Germany.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-14

THIS city needs a workhouse. The
grand army of tramps and bummers
are being fed and cared for at the
city's expense and they ought to be
made self-sustaining. The city could
even afford to make them small al
lowance above their board and lodg-
ing that would enable them to subsist
for a few days after their discharge
or pay their transportation to some
other place.
A workhouse could be cheaply con-
structed and need not necessarily be
of fire-proof materials. We simply
need large yard where rock can be
landed directly by the cars and where
men can be under shelter, rain or
shine, summer or winter, while break
ing rock. Broken rock can always be
utilized on our streets, and will in fact
be in demand more and more from
year to year not 80 much for the bus
mess streets that are bound to be
paved as for the suburbs where the
periodical washouts render unpaved
streets impossible.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-14
Mormon Recruits.

oh' '&Vdhs htpuphN<h
The other day vessel arrived at
New York with 800 Mormon converts,
recruited chiefly from Denmark, Swe-
den and Norway. They consisted of
men, women and children, drawn
mostly from the peasant class, who
had doubtless consented to emigrate
from their homes to better their tenn
poral condition, rather than from any
deep conviction of religious duty.
Mormonism in this country recruits
from Europe at the of about two such
ship loads year, and the New York
payers are troubled about the immi-
grafton whenever cargo of converts
arrives, and they say that this relig-
ious traffic in bodies and souls ought
to be stopped somehow; but howl
The Mormon church has deposited in
the Bank of England large mis-
sionary fund to send their
preachers out proselyting, and to
transport their proselytes to the prom
ised land of Utah. They take good
care of their converts from the time
they catch them until they land them
at Salt Lake City, and there is moth
ing unlawful about that. After they
get there they are subject to the laws
of the United States, and if they COM
init crime they have right of trial
by jury, according to tho American
jury system. If in Utah, one or more
of the twelve happen to be Mormons,
the system is responsible, and proba.
bly, Utah juries come as near to JUS
tice as juries do in other places where
religious matters are involved in their
findings. But the arrival of Mormon
recruits two or three times year are
reminders that there is a pending
Mormon question, which, as Mormon
ism spreads and strengthens, becomes
more and more difficult of solution.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-14

impracticable

ical and impracticable theory
that the law cures everything
ir made strong enough, and all other
considerations were sunk in the one
purpose of framing statute 80 rigid
and comprehensive that it could not
be escaped or evaded. The result is
that the ultra prohibitionists only can
be counted upon to sustain and pro-
mote the experiment, and the great
body of moderate temperance men
and people who would be glad to see
prohibition fairly and thoroughly
tried are compelled to stand aloof or
to give the movement only a passive
support.
The friends of the measure, we
notice, are already beginning to call
for further legislation, which may be
regarded rs a good sign. Perhaps by
the time the legislature convenes, the
effects of the present law will have be-
come 30 patent and so convincing that
wiser and more prudent counsels will
cause the substitution of something
which, if not 30 radical and sweeping,
will at any rate compel popular re.
spect and insure substantial gain for
temperance. Until then, it is safe to
predict, the present conflict will go
on as it has begun, the lawyers reap
ing the principal advantages.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-14

IT is leading characteristic of
American journalism that it Is always
prepared for any unforeseen call upon
it's resources. No emergency seems too
sudden and no demand too great.
With it's thousand newsgatherers scat
tered throughout the country it can
at any moment by the aid of the tele-
graph and railway throw it's reserves
to reinforce any weak position and
meet the demand made upon it by
circumstances of unusual interest or
gravity. Nothing, in latter times,
since the close of the
war has 80 clearly shown
the infinite resources of the
press at the late tragical event at
Washington. Without a moment 8
warning, when large portion of their
regular force at Washington were en-
joying summer vacation, the news
gathers were called upon to chronicle
in the fullest and most complete man
ner the attempted assassination of
President Garfield. Within twenty
minutes after the firing of the shot
the telegraph wires were
teeming with dispatches to
every portion of the continent. All
newspapers of enterprise gave forth
from hour to hour, rapidly succeeding
editions viving such details of the case
and such reports of the president e
condition as could be hurriedly gather
ed. During the day and night sue
ceeding the attack upon the president
nearly 100000 words or 400 news
paper columns were transmitted by
telegraph from Washington with a
rapidity and correctness which will
always remain one of the marvels of
the times.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-14

COLORADO now stands at the head
as silver and gold producing state.
Nevada carried the flag for years; but
in 1880 she had to yield it up Colora-
do. The list runs as follows: Gold
and silver production for 1880 Colo
RADIO, $23, 100000; California, 3d.
900, 900; Nevada, $l5, ,OGO, 900; Utah,
SO, 100000; Dakota, $4,000, 900;
Arizona, S3,5OO,OOO; Montana, $3,-
300, 900; Idaho, $4,000, 900; Oregon,
sl,OOO,000; New Mexico, 5000, 600;
total, $77,6OO,OOO. Colorado in,
creased her production of the pre-
cious metals from $l7 200, 900 in 1877!
to S23, 900, ,oo9 in 1880, and those VIII,
have the best means of judging of tn,
production for 1881 put the amoun
down at s35, 900, 900.