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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03

ALL attempts to pass the Apportion-
ment Bill have been met by the Repub.
lican members by flibustering and dill.
atory motions under the lead of that
Congressional nuisance and obstruc-
tionist, Conger, Of Michigan, for which
there was no excuse, as the Democrats
offered to meet them fairly in the most
liberal terms of compromise. The OBJ
ject Of this course is TO force an extra
session of Congress. The failure of
this bill will also involve the necessity
and expense of extra sessions Of the
legislature in more than one.half of
the States of the Union at a fearful
cost to the people. The Republicans
are thus making n record and estab-
fishing precedents that will certainly
return to plague them in the future,
and why the sensible Republicans, if
there are such, do not curb the ofiicious
blatherskite who leads, is a mystery
that can be accounted for only by par
tisan blindness of the most ultra and
inexcusable character.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03
Book Notices.

The most striking things in the March
ST. NICHOLAS are Mrs Oliphants admira-
bic paper giving the touching story Of
Lady Jane Grey 90 be followed in
April by the companion article on MARY,
Queen of Scots" an illustrated account
Of two sturdy Icelandic bows and their
desperate "Encountcr with "a Polar Bear ::
Mary Jane Describes Herself" an Illus
trnted autobiography Of SundAy.school
scholar new scientific indoor amuse-
ment called THE Magic Dance: an Incl
dent Of Adelna PATHS childhood, when
travelling in the United States, in 1854.
with Ole Bull and Maurice Strakosch and
the four serials, the fourth installmcnt Of
Rossiter Johnsons story Of "Pbaton Rog-
ersr" In which is described that young in
yentor's disastrous "horizontal balloon.as-
sension DR.. Oswald's stirring "Adyen-
turcs in Natures Wonderland" Mrs
Clara Erskine Clements second paper of
"Storics Of Art and Artist" with six
pictures and the anonymous "Mystery in
Mansion, Story Of an S. s." There
are more than fifty illustrations, a page Of
music, and All Anglo Chinese story for the
boys and girls TO interpret
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03

RUFUs L. SHAPLEY, Mayor Stok-
ley's private and official counsel, and
one of the ablest and most eloquent
advocates of his reelection, turns out
to be the author of that exquisite po-
litical satire, "Solid for Mulhooly."
Mr.. Shapley wrote the book when his
chief was dancing attendance on the
Reformers, and was the candidate of
the Committee of One Hundred. By
the time Mr.. Shapley got his book into
print Stokley had changed partners
and was the choice of the bosses.
Thus the strange anomaly was wit
messed of i3hapley on the stump for
Stokley, pleading with his Mulhoolies
and Blossom Bricks to support his
candidate, while Pattison, Caven and
others we're using bis own ammunition
to defeat him. As political Butter
cup" Mr.. shapley is a success. He
had things badly mixed.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03
TnE National Banks are making a

THE National Banks are making a
vigorous appeal to force a veto of the
Funding bill, recently passed by Con-
gress, providing for the issue Of 3 per
cent. bonds, which are made compul-
sorry as n foundation for bank circula-
ton. But the banks presuming upon
their mastery of the Government and
the country demand that this bill shall
not become a law, and in the event
that their demand is not needed have
threatened to retire their circulation
in order to achieve by panic what
they fail to obtain by protest. Let
them do so better this than sink the
independence of the country, and ac-
knowledge the mastery of these soul
less tyrants. The bill they war against
anticipates and provides against these
raids upon the Treasury and assures
the domination of the government
over the banks. We remember that
nearly the same opposition was
made against the 4 per cent. certifi-
Gates, under the plea that no one
would take them, and yet when they
we're placed upon the market, the rush
for them was so great that the supply
was found to be inadequate, and thou
sands we're disappointed and unable
to purchase even at premium.
Every one will remember the rush for
their certificates even in our own lit
tie town. This demonstration Of the
banks to coerce legislation is another
warning which should not escape pub
lie attention. II was against this as
sumed power of the money kings that
Andrew Jackson interposed his great
name and invincible power of will
and patriotic duty to crush out, and
we doubt not that in due time another
jackson will appear to save the gov
ernment from the dangers that now
menace it from the same source.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03


THE President.elect started from
Mentor on his way to Washington to
be inaugurated President of the United
States on last Monday afternoon and
arrived at the capital on Tuesday
morning. A large number of his old
friends and neighbors congregated at
the railroad station TO say good bye,
and Mr.. Garfield made feeling and
appropriate speech to them. He also
spoke from the platform of his special
car at several other points in his old
Congressional district along his route
Of travel. The trip was very quietly
made, and after leaving Ohio IS
without interest or special incident to
attract attention.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03

ScEIBsER for March has number Of
Interesting points. The second part Of Mr..
Burnett piquaBt novelette,, "a Fair Bar
bArian, will be eagerly read by those who
have read the fret part, and will be found
even more interesting. "Ericsson's De.
'froycr, and her New Gun, l. the subject
OF paper, by Charles Barnard, which has
the advantage Of presenting the frst draw
ings Of this long-e1pected piece Of arma-
mcnt, with some fFe,h details. Never
before-engraycd portraits Of Charlie and
Mary Lamb, from old paintings, cmbelish
a short paper by Mr. John Arbucklc. uIn
London with Dickens" is a chronicle Of
the localities Of Boz, including Mr.. Tulk-
iughorn'E house, Limchouse Hole, Jenny
Wren house the Inns Of Court. etc. DR..
b. J.. Martin, who contributes this paper.
writes from personal familiarity with the
places which he dcscribcs Another sini-
lar paper is 70 follow Still further vario-
ty is given 70 the number By 8 second
paper Of " "Recollections Of American So.
eiety, by Mrs. 5. ". Oakley An illus,rAt-
ed paper on Striped Bass, by Mr.. Fran.
cis Eudicott an account of "Proicstsnt-
ism IN Italy, by Rev Washington Glad
den more " Notes Of n Walker" including
discussion Of Shaksperc's natural history.
by John Burroughs "A Dangerous Viz.
tue, striking short story, by Mr.. II. II.
Boycsen and the ffih part Of Mr.. Schuy-
lers "Peter the Great As Ruler and Re.
former, illustrated by Blum, Nehlig, and
others. Among the poems there IL = SON
net l"Two Hoines' by DR. Holland, who,
in Topics Of the Time" writes Of
George Eliot" and "The Metropolitan
Museum, " and takes note Of Bishop Co1e's
exception TO part Of recent paper in
SCRInSER on the Bible Society. "Home
and Society" treats Of "a Mother Duty
TO her Girls," "a New Cooking Stove" :"
and Servants Rooms and Quarters.
"Thc Worlds Work" deals with "AruR.
cial Ballast, Power for Pleasure. Boais, "
Optical Tests for Milk, etc, and "Bric.
a.Brac' has humor and pleasantly Of its
own wcll-established kind.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03

The dreadful catastrophe that oc-
CURED at Scranton the other day, by
which seventeen orphan children lost
their lives, leaves an impressive lesson
behind ii which should not be unheed-
ed. These children were locked in
their dormitory and died from sufToca.
ton. But for the iron bolt that barred
their egress, they might have escaped
the terrible fate that befell them. 1t
Is the custom in many asylums ana
schools for children to lock them into
their rooms at night, and this is not
the first awful sacrifice that has result.
ed from this practice. But it ought
to be the last, for there is no excuse
for taking the risk of burning children
to death merely to save the expense of
a watchman. Ii would be safe TO say
that more than half the children who
have been suffocated or burned 10
death, both in private houses and pub.
lie institutions, have fallen victims to
the horrid custom Of locking them in.
Not many weeks ago, in Western
village, six children were locked into
the house, asleep, while their parents
went to church. The dwelling burned
and all were lost, but the position Of
the charred remains showed that they
had vainly striven to force an egress
through the locked door. 1t is Il hor-
rible practice, and those who follow it
are guilty of criminal disregard Of
the lives of those under their charge.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-17
re ateot n Ws.

for "big1 water on the. lower
Mississippi buy your brooms
and water buckets at Wit
tings. Ireland's revolutiona-
ry state promises to continue
indefinitely The cows Of New
York, Ohio and adjoining
States having failed to come
to time, the milkmaids Of that
section are ''bowed down with
grief = and at last accounts
were engaged in the healthful
occupation Of viewing the see.
merry from the fence top; !;
Neverless, at Writings may
be found the choicest cream
cheese and finest Goshen but
ter at lowest quotations The
whale catch this season hav.
ing proved Improbable, many
wiseacres are laying in a sup
ply Of Writings homeless cod.
6sh-Last week the streets
Of New York were so slushy
that many ladies were carried
over them in good-looking po-
licemen's arms-Ward off the
evil effects Of a damp atmos-
phere by partaking Of Wit
ting's finest imported wines
and liquors, prepared express
ly for family use - The
South America considerations
have fortnightly meets" on
the field Of battle-Chili has
swallowed up Peru-Buy the
most durable and reasonable
cutlery at Writings When
the railroad to Clinton is an
assured fact, will the cows
continue to walk in at the
front door, mother? Not if
you buy condensed milk at
Writings child The up-river
packets are loaded down to
the guards,a fact which seems
to herald a prosperous Spring
things have sold three
fourths Of that tinware spoken
off last week. A score or two
Of good bargains still left
each member of the New Or
leans Mystic Grew will wear
a badge with the words "Wit-
ting's Wares inscribed there
on--The new reduced-rate
ferry has no doubt fastened
two or three prospective mar
riages-Cheap crockery ware
ar Witting's-Cotton is going
up in price, The rice crop
last year was a poor one-3
pounds Of the best for a quar-
ter at Witting's-T The Rocky
Mountain mining camps are
hidden in snow-Oatmeal is
the best muscle builder, try
Witting's-It has been ascer-
tanned through the late census
returns that printers receive
more presents and still more
abuses than any other class
Of millionaires. DO you wish
to increase your weight p
Indulge in Writings Wares
A goodly number Of trav.
cling dramatic companies
have come to grief during the
past winter-Have you seen
the beautiful play Of "The
Best Five Cent Segar'' al
Writings? Played daily te
almost empty boxes -"Tht
Best Five Cent Segar" or the
sugar-cured, air pressed, one
bit Ham The depressing in
fluences OF a rainy day have
often been averted through
the medium Of Writings bes'
coffne-A cun Of GOOD coffee
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-17
STOLEN.

Stolen from Forlorn Hope Plantation, on Sun
day night, 9th of February, light bay mule,
Is to Is hands high, A liberal reward will be
paid for the recovery Of said property, and an
additional reward for snch evidence as will con-
Wet the thief. ANGER d. NiCOL.
mar s. y2-uO14 lot
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-17

To House-k eepers-
MY stock Of house furnishing goods, such as
Table Damasks, :, Fringed Table Covers, Nap
kns. Doyles, SheetiIgs, Bobbinets Towels,
Marseilles Quilts, Nottingham Laces, Curtain
mnslins, CretOnnes Window Shades MattiDgs,
Oil Cloths etc. has inst been replenished and
am prepared to sell at prices that dety com
petition. A. ROSENFIELD.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-17

IORSETS-A new supply of Corsets of every
~ description just received at R0senfield's.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04
Travellers in Egypt are surprised at the

Travellers in Egypt are surprised at the
large amount of opthalmia and blind
ness prevalent among the inhabitants.
Want of cleanliness is the cause. An
Egyptian mother, under the influence
of a widely prevalent superstition, does
not wash her child's eyes until eight days
after birth. By that time the organ is
frequently ruined. The teachers in the
American and British mission schools of
Cairo say that Egyptian mothers become
invariably angry when urged to wash
the eyes of their newly-born infants,
and can rarely be persuaded to comply
with a request of the kind.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04
The Calculation of Interest.

A well-known actuary, has devised a
very simple and easily remembered rule
for determining how long it will take a
given sum of money to double itself at
certain rate of interest Divide the
rate of interest into seventy-two and
the quotient will be the number of
years to within small fraction. Thus,
at four per cent. interest, the answer is
eighteen years, which is only one-quarter
of a year too great, the exact time being
about seventeen and three-quarter years.
For six per cent, it may be said to be
exact. This is good rule for editors and
other large capitalists to remember.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04
FOE THE LADIES.
Tissue Paper PnrtIes. aud How They are
COTTON up.

Tissue Paper Pprtles, aud How They are
Gotten Up.
Some fashionable lady not long since
planned and carried out "tissue paper
party" The public in general has,
perhaps, not discovered it but she had
found that tissue papers are imported OF
late of most marvellous variety and
beauty of color. With happy stroke
of inventive fancy she determined to
give q party at which tissue paper
dresses should be de ringuer. The idea
was at once recognized as happy one,
and the result was a success so complete
as to surprise even the originator of the
idea. In truth, the dresses conjured up
out of this gauzy material are extremely
beautiful. In the first place, the var
iety of colors, shades and tints is practi-
cally inexhaustibie, so that every combi-
nation and every kind of effect are pos
sible. Then the paper can be made to
initiate almost anything in the way of
costume and trimming-rutfs, plaitings,
founces, fringes and all the indescrib-
able but highly important furbelows
which no man in the world but Mr..
Worth can ever hope to understand
are all given exactly important even in
the gilded circles of which we speak, is
the fact that the paper is unlike the costly
fabrics which it initiates in one respect
it not costly. Probably not woman can
k ow the full delight OF making dress
looking at it with ecstacy-doubting
about it, concluding that it is "hor
rid"-and then being able to calmly
A1,,.D.r- - n A1n,1or,N 81 Al,o
expense, and make another as soon as
possible. The process of making the
costume is very simple, as described to
the writer by young lady herself ar
rayed in a most distracting Vatican
costume, charming in color and miracu-
lous in cut, who said: "You Just baste the
skirt on over the skirt, and then you
cut the waist out of pique"-at least
this is it what it seemed to be. For our
selves, however, we should say that the
making, the trimming, the basting and
cutting might safely be left to the taste
and skillful fingers of the ladies, while
the important thing would seem to be
to get the "correct thing" in the mate
rial itself, which is understood to be i'm
ported by Boston concern, upon whose
wares fashion has set her seal. The
richness, the variety, the wonderful
delicacy of shade and tint make a
"paper party" like a glimpse of fairy
land, and that this really charming
form of evening entertainment is becom-
ing more and more fashionable, speaks
well at once for the taste, the aesthetic
perception and the good sense of $50
ciety."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04

Twilled silks take the lead for both
dresses and millinery.
The lace Of the passing moment is
Spanish, white or black.
Only one kind Of flower is be used to
on bonnet this summer.
The light summer serges have deep
borders in cashmere colors.
Tea gowns as well as cloaks are made
in Mother Hubbard patterns.
All new collars, whether of linen,
batiste, null or lace, are large.
Rough straw hats are to be trimmed
with diagonally striped ribbons.
Maize yellow seems to be suppressed
ing cream color in ribbons and silks.
Young girls still wear their hair in
Chinese queue, fastened by ribbon.
White ivory buttons are used on some
of the new dark green riding habits.
Oblong bars like lace pins are used
or buttons on some of the spring suits.
The closer bonnet is tied the more
fashionable it is, according to the latest
rule.
Some of the new pol onaises are mad
with full, panier-like draperings over
the hips.
Bows of satin ribbon are preferred to
rosettes as q trimming for spring
dresses.
Shirred effects in skirt draperies APP
pear on the most fashionable imported
dresses.
Necklaces of small flowers fastened
by one large rose are worn with high
dresses.
Watered silks win their way but
slowly here, but they are much worn
in Paris.
Some of the new striped woolen goods
have gold threads intermingled with old
gold silk.
Colored cotton embroideries in fast
colors are sold to trim the new satteens
and calicoes.
A dash of yellow, blue or red is
deemed essential to the finish of all
dark toilets.
Jerseys, which have gone out of fash
ion in Europe, begin to receive appre-
citation in America.
Faded rose, pearl and washed-out
water-green blue are favorite colors for
surah and surah satin.
Antique or medieval cutwork, in
shaded batiste, wrought with shaded
floss silk, is new and beautiful dress
trimming.
| The favorite shape for tea gowns of
ceremony is the loose. dolman, visite-
like sack with elbow sleeves, worn
over richly-trimmed demi-trained
skirt.
A bonnet with one string is one OF
the millinery novelties of this season.
The string is long and wide, handsomely
trimmed at the end, and is passed under
the chin and attached to q pendant
spray of flowers and lace on the opposite
side, which does the duty of string.
Among French modistes the most
fashionable method of draping tunics
over plain skirts is either en- laveuse-
turned up in front and caught back
raised on paniers at each side, or draped
at one side only. The back is generally
draped by strings underneath.
Gimp garniture, with clair de lune
Jet, will be much used, but everywhere
the popularity of black jet and gold and
colored beads will be displayed, black
having the preference; some trimmings
are tufted with beads quarter of al
inch above the surface.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04
Olllng ScnrIet Fever Patients.

A distinguished London physician,
writing to the London Times about
scarlet fever, says: The method of oiling
patients during the period of desquama-
tion after scarlet fever has been largely
used for many years; it is far more con-
stantly employed on the continent than
in England. 1t possesses certain def
mite advantages, and whenever scarla-
tina patients are of necessity treated in
private houses it should be adopted, ex-
cept when contra-indicated by the con-
dition of the patient, because it dimin-
ishes the risk of infection to others. 1t
does so, however, by preventing the
ready distribution of the particles Of
skin through the atmosphere; but
neither oil nor glycerine is germicide
or disinfectant, and the scales of epider-
mis- are Just as infectious after as before
their application.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, Cleve
land, Ohio; Chas. 8. Strickland, Esq.
. Boylston street, Boston, Mass; Capt.
Paul Boyton, the world-renowned swim
mer; Prof. o. o. Duplessis, manager
Chicago gymnasium, Chicago Ill;
VIM. H. Wareing, Esq, assistant-gen-
geral superintendent, New York post.
office; Hon. Thomas j.. James, post.
master, New York; Stacey Hill, Esq. Mt.
Auburn Inclined Plane railroad, Gin.
cinnati, Ohio, are among the myriads
who have experienced the beneficial
effects of that most remarkable remedy.
st. Jacobs Oil, and who have testified
TO its efficacy in unqualified terms.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04
News and Notes for Women.

Sarah Bernhardt is accused of using
snuff
There are $4,000 feminine farmers in
Great Britain.
In Alaska the ruling price for good
wife is SIS in trade.
Costumes are still to be parti-colored
says the latest Paris news.
About quarter of the Vermont towns
have elected women as superintendents
of schools.
Dozens of high-toned ladies of Buff
falo make extra pin-money by doing en-
broidery for New York houses.
A Pennsylvania woman has invented
a "wrist and finger strengthener," for
the use of piano and organ players.
Anna Dickinson says she has fallen
before she had time to get married.
Wisconsin girls go out and kill bear,
get posted in the papers as heroines,
and the next thing is a millionaire hus-
band.
Miss Harrison, who is now Lady
Arthur Hill, receives a royalty of four
thousand dollars year on her ballad,
"In the Cleaning" She was formerly
a governess.
The young daughter left by Senator
Carpenter, Miss Lillian Carpenter, is a
very beautiful blonde, with large brown
eyes and reddish gold hair. She is very
stately and elegant in manner, and has
been. most carefully reared.
The Baroness Nathaniel de Roths-
child is painter, poet and musician.
| She and the Duchesse de Brancovano,
the two sisters of the Marquis de Caux,
and Madame Christine Nilsson are close
friends and follow-songstresses
Spanish women are famously viva
cious. "There are no such futtering,
chattering, laughing beings in human
form when they are young; and when
they advance in life age and flesh do
notappear to affect their volatile spirits.
1t is said that Mrs. Senator Logan has
never tasted wine. At a dinner given
TO Prince Arthur some years since she
declined it, and at the recent lunch of a
cabinet lady she was the only one of
twenty-five who was abstinent. She has
DAOuB4Ab up nCl SAAA4Nt4Ch w oAlttA 10 AAC4
feelings in the matter.
Mrs. Polk did away with the ancient
custom of dancing at the White House,
and it has never been revived. An eff.
fort was made to have a ball at the
White House for the entertainment Of
the Prince of Wales, but President Blu
chanan said: mo; the matter has once
been settled. Let it remain SO"
The body of the late Queen Dowagel
of Denmark was inclosed in three coffins
of fir, lead and polished oak-covered
with black velvet. 1t was dressed in the
utmost simplicity; the head reposed on
the white silk wedding dress of the de.
ceased and was crowned with wreaths oi
myrtle, and the body was covered with 9
white satin sheet.
Provincial papers of Germany tell Of
hearty country bride in the village o.
Neckermunde who has been literally
danced to death. Each of the young
men at the wedding wished to have &
dance with her. They took turns, and
so wearied her that she soon afterwarC
became i'll, had to take to her bed, and
after lingering for short time, died.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04

At con6agration worthy cit ize
gazes with stupefaction on the steam
fire-engines. "Well, 1 never" he says
with deliberation. "I never expected
to see such criminal, senseless wasteful-
ness The idea of warming the water
before throwing it on the hames."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-04

A little boy who was to pass the af-
ternoon with the doctors little daughter,
was given two pieces Of candy. When
he returned his mother inquired il he
gave the larger piece to the little girl,
"No, mother, / didn't. You told me
always to give the biggest piece to COM
pany, and / was company over there"