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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-08-19

81 UNDERSTAND, Uncle Amos, that
you have quit preaching" said the
Secretary Of State to an old colored
man who for years has had charge of
a church in Little Rock.
"Yea, boss, Use stepped aside.
"Why did you quit?'
"Wa!l, dar was numerous pressures
brought to bar agin de ole man. D&
charged me wild stealth ham for
one thing, and 'vised me ter quit.
"Why, they couldn't prove that you
stole the ham, could they z
"No, sab, da couldn't, and eff L
hadn't 'knowledsed it Ga neber would
have prubed it.,
"Why did you acknowledge it ?"
Cease da found de ham under my
bed, san" h."-Arkaasa,o Traveller.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-08-19

WHAT SHALL We EAT?-This is
an important question in these times
of high prices. The cheapest article
of food at present prices are bread,
butter, molasses, beans and rice; 25
cents worth of -four at 8 cents per
pound contains as much nourshment
us 1926 worth Of roast beef at Is
cents per pound, and that a pint Of
white beans, costing 7 cents, has the
came amount Of nutriment as 3i
pounds of beef at Is cents per pound
or, in other words, that the roast beef
diet is twelve times as expensive as
the beans.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
Religious New. ana Notes.

In the Indian Territory there are
ninety Baptist churches, with about
5000 members.
A Christian church has been built with
stones from the ruins from a heather
temple by the native converts connected
with the Madura mission os tho Ameri.
can board.
The National Christian association,
which wants the name Of Deity inserted
in the Constitution of the United States
and is opposed to all secret societies
held a national convention in Gales
burg, ILL.,, December l and 2.
The grand total of Lutherans. accord.
ing to the Lutheriche kalender for 1882,
is 5000 ministers, 5,s65 congregations
and 73S. .302 communicates an increase
during the past year of I25 ministers,
ls2 congregations and 81, ,SS4 communi.
cants
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Tennessee reports the following staiis-
tics: Clergy, thirty-hve; parishes.
thirty-two, baptisms, 394, Of which
eighty-three were adults confrma
tions, 2sl Sunday-school scholars. H.
40; parish-school scholars, 2Os com.
municants, 2.73s. Contributions for
all purposes, s3l ,6sL14
When the news of the massacre Of
twelve native missionaries in New
Guinea arrived in the other islands
OF tho Pacific, and request was
made in the island Of Tahiti
that three mon should be sent TO sup.
ply the place of those who had fallen,
all the students in the college vo!un-
teered, so that they bad actually to cast
lots who should be the three to go.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Industry need not wish.
Truth ia the basis of every virtue.
Avarice is the mother of many vices.
The path Of truth is a plain and safe
path.
Old injuries are seldom cancelled by
new benefits.
He that cannot live we'll to-day can
not tomorrow.
The fountain of content must spring
up in tho mind.
Falsehood sinks us into contempt
with God and man.
The road to home and happiness lies
over small stepping stones.
less demonstrative when deserted, and
remains longer inconsolable.
The touchstone by which men try us
is most often their own vanity.
There is long and wearisome step
between admiration and imitation.
A man explodes with indignation
when n woman ceases to love him, yet
he soon finds consolation woman is
It is hard to personate and act part
long, for where truth is not at the
bottom nature will always be endeavor-
ing to return, and will peep out and
betray itself one time or another.
He understands liberty right who
makes his own depend upon that of
others. True liberty does not permit
the enfranchisement of ones self
through the enslavement of some one
else.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
Some Monsters Of the Farast.

Near Stockton, CAL, is tree that i
e25 feet high, and two in Victoria,
Australia, are estimated TO be a2s and
$50 feet high.
A great elm tree that had been blown
down near London, with large ball of
earth at the roots, settled back into it's
original place after the branches lad
been cut Of.
A cypress tree felled By n. d. Jordan,
of High Hill creek, S. O., measured
twenty-five feet in circumference ct
the butt. Il took two axmcn ave
hours 10 cut it down.
A black walnut grove that was planted
by q Wisconsin farmer about twenty
years ago on somo waste land was TO.
Gently sold fer s97,OO0. The trees are
now from sixteen to twenty inches
through.
A tree that was eight hundred feet
in length, ninety.six in circumference
1t the base. and sound to the very heart,
was felled in California recently. Five
men we're twenty-five days in doing the
work. After IL had been comPlstaly
severed By anger holes Il still ssood
unmoved, and required blocks, pulleys
and tackling 10 bring it. proud bead 10
earth.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
1 IlIlnE MONKEY.

Birds and insects are not the only
animals that Ay," veteran New York
tAxidermist said. Here's a collection
I'm making that shows all the animals
known that move through the air with
out wings; not many, TO be sure, but
interesting enough when you come 10
think about it. Now, if any one should
tell you that he'd seen and shot monkey
sailing through the air one hundred
feet from the ground, you'd think per-
hAps he was overlooking you with facts;
but here's the very creature, a regular
flying monkey. He ain't much at il
now. on account OF being little too set
up" with cough Of apology for the
professional joke. Its name is the
colugo or flying lemur. They are found
in the islands Of the Indian archipela.
go. You see, the limbs are connected
by this vide membrane that looks c1.
actly like a great hairy cloak that, il
the animal ldod its arms, would com
pletely cover il up. 1t Is night amt
NAL, like the bat, and lives on very
much the same kind o! food, and spends
its time in the trees. When ii is crawl
ing limb the membrane hangs closely
10 the body, and you would never sus-
pcct it of dying; but let anything dis
turb it, and it's good bye legs. 1t rushes
TO the top Of the tree, out on the end
Of a branch, and dAshes off into the air.
The four legs are stretched ont at full
length, and the skin between them
bellies out like a parachute, and it
moves away, floating down and swing
ing from side.to side, and after passing
perhaps two or thres hundred feet
downward sweeps up twenty-five or
thirty, fastens 10 n limb, and, in less
time than you can tell It, is at the top
OF the tree and has flung itself of again.
Il travels 30 fast in this way that q man
told mo he couldn't keep up with one
by running along below: and in one
case where one jumped from n tree
nearly one hundred feet high it came
down about fifty feet with . rush and
by the force Of It's swoor rose nearly
the same distance again. They carry
their young, generally two, through the
air with them"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The assertion that iron and platinum,
when raised to incandescence, are
transparent TO light, has been proved
false by a series of experiments.
The impression that flowers are never
found double in wild state is an in
correct one, the fact being that this Is
frequently one Of natures variations.
Some engineers OF Dundee, Scotland,
have tried with success new gun fjr
throwing line to a wrecked vessel.
The gun is about two feet in length.
1t is recommended that, as the com.
mon ailanthus tree is diecious, only the
female trees should be propagated for
shade in towns, the male having the dis
agreeable odor.
Insects are often attracted from a dis
tance by artificial flowers, but they
never light on them. leading us to be-
heve that they are guided by some other
sense than that Of sight.
The latitude Of England is the same
az that of Labrador, and the former
country is only saved from the coldness
and desolation Of the latter by the
warmth OF the gulf stream.
M. II. T. Blanford reports that he has
observed white ants in the act Of emit.
ting ryhthmical sounds. Another OBJ
server, Mr.. I. p. Pascoe, has heard a
peculiar found, in fields Of Southern
Europe, which was found to be the song
OF a small lizard. II is generally be-
lieyed that these creatures have no
power of producing vocal sounds.
Herr Hansen has found that the blue
color in milk is due TO the presence OF
peculiar microscopical organisms
known as bacteria-which multiply very
rapidly, and in so doing produce blue
matter resembling aniline. These or.
ganisms render the milk unfit for food,
especially for persons Of weak digestive
power.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
Missionaries In India.

There are $50 foreign missionaries in
India. One hundred and seventeen of
these are American and SO far as is
known they are from the following
States Ohio, Is; New York, 16; Penn.
sylvania, IL; Massachusetts, Z; Con-
necticut, 8; Indiana, 8; Illinois, 4; Ken
tucky, 3; Maine, 2; Vermont, Q; New
Hampshire, 2; Virginia, 2; Tennessee, Il;
Michigan, l; Wisconsin. /; Iowa, |; un-
known, 30. Ohio is the banner State
for missionaries as well as for presidents.
One missionary in India has been in
the field fifty-fve years; 16 have labored
upward of forty years, 33 from thirty
to forty years; 100 from twenty to
thirty years 170 from ten to twenty
years; and 500 under ten years. What
a record of labor this is There are
$50 native missionaries in India, $40, 623
communicates, and probably as many
more adherents, to say nothing of the
hundreds of thousands Of children
under instruction; and tho schools on
these mission fields arc not under cold
hearted state government, but the warm,
genial impulses of q Christian heart arc
spread over the minds and hearts Of
these children, SO that horticulture
goes hand in hand with the develop
ment OF mind and body. This makes
civilization and Christianity indivisible
-Msaondry Tisitor.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
The Champion Eel Catcher.

Samuel Gaddis, who lives at the
Smithsown lock, Pa, on tho Bucks
county side Of the Delaware river,
claims TO he the champion eel catcher.
He brings home every morning from
600 to 1000 cells, caught during the
night. The only instrument he en-
ploys is large basket, which be made
himself. II has q wicker cover, with
spring that fastens the cover whenever
IL Is shut down. He says he can tell,
oven in the dark, where the cells are
swimming, and knows all their habits.
When they move out from some ditch
in the river bank, or squirm up from n
mud patch, they start up and down the
river in crowds. Gaddis opens his
yawning basket and dives with II into
the thickest OF the run. Il takes only
a second to I'LL the basket, an then
down goes the lid. The basket will
take in forty cells at time. Rels. Cad
dis says. are quiet in the daytime, and
do most e their travelling 1T night.
They move all night 80 that he Is sure
Of haul. Every time his basket il
full he empties it into the bottom OF
big cart which be keeps near he river,
and there the eels remain unlil norn-
ing when ne sells them.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
Similar TO Guiteau's Case.

The case Of Gniteau is doubtless one
of the most peculiar in the annals of
criminal jurisprudence, but it ia not
wholly exceptional in some Of its as
pccis. Many years ago, in Maine, q
man Of previous respectability received
- he claimed, an order from the Lord
to go some twenty miles mp the Sandy
river and kill q person whom he won 4
find chopping wood on the banks of the
river. He performed the mission and
was arrested for the act. At the trial
in Augusta he pleaded guilty and said
that he deserved and expected to be
hung, although he had only obeyed the
voice Of heaven. The court, after con.
siderAtion, let the plea be entered on
the records, but did no: pass sentence
Of death on the prisoner. The case was
confined for judgment and the prisoner
Was remandedto jail. For something
like twenty years the case came up at
every session Of the court for sentence.
and VAS always continued for judgment,
the prisoner ell the time protesting
against this course and insisting on his
constitutional right of being hung.
He finally died in jail.-BosGon Adrer.
fise-.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
Country Origin of Wall Street Kings.

Country Origin Of Wall Street Kings.
Looking upon the personal history Of
the present stock capitalists, says q
New York letter, It is peculiar fact
that they are all OF rural origin. Rufus
Hatch is from Maine Cyrus W. Field
came from Stockbgidge. Z. ID. Nor
gan was bred on a Connecticut farm.
Russell Sage il from Renss, lear county.
William II. Vanderbilt is 4 native OF
Staten Island, and Jay Gould came
from Delaware county, whore his father
was laboriuus farmer Other names
might be mentioned TO illustrate this
fact. The financial talent of Wall
street is drawn from all parts of tho
country, but is developed here under
the exigencies of The occasion. II is
circumstances that make MEN great,
simply because they bring out latent
faculties, and generally surprise tho
possessors of the latter as much as
they do the rest of the world. How
little. iDdoed, could Cyrus ". Field
have imagined when he kept rag shop
in Burling slip twhere ! first saw his
name) that he would ever reach his
present distinction. He then bought
the daily product OF the street rag
picker. which was shipped to the paper
mills Of his native State, and he did
well 10 clear 81, 900 year, but at pres
ent he clears double that sum daily.
How little also could Jay Gould have
dreamed when he peddled his maps
through Delaware county that the time
would come when he would make every
year more than the entire valuation Of
thai county Here, however, We see
"a thing done, and It seems to be ac-
liahed in very facile manner.
Reader, what IN age we live int
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
The New Year.

"The king is dead Long live the king r.
How of those words renowned
Como back to mo when Joy bells ring
With sweet and cheering sound
Those bells that say, "a year is dead
Another's king to-dayp
Aye. king ere yet tho ochoing chime
ofmidnight dies away.
Aad though the wintry winds on sing
The dead kings funeral song,
We know that round the newborn king
Spring flowers will bloom ero long.
Then be thy sorrows what they may,
Lot hope dispel each fear.
When all who meet thee, smiling, say,
" A happy, bright New Year p
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
A Great Place for Tobacco snd Spongss

The population of Key West, Fla,
inside and outside of the corporation
boundaries, is variously estimated from
twelve to sixteen thousand. II is rs.
serted by persons we'll acquainted with
the place that IL does not contain half
dozen families from the Souther States
of the Union, and not twenty families
from the Northern States, and that Of
the whole population, exclusive Of the
garrison and the United States officials.
there are not twenty-five unacclimated
adults. About one.half OF the popula.
tion are supported directly or inds-
Tectly by the trade in tobacco and the
manufacture Of segars; and the other
half are dependent upon fishing and
sponging. Ine tobacco is brought from
the West Indies and most Of Il from
Cnba. The cigars manufactured from
il are shipped almost exclusively to
New York, either directly by ocean
steamers or through Cedar Key and
FeTnan iina.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26

"Do let me have your photograph"
said dashing belle to : gentleman
who had been annoying her with his
attentions. The gentleman was de-
lighted, and in short time the lady 70
ceivcd tho picture. She gave il to her
servant with the question, "Woald yos
know the original II he shonld call ?"
The servant replied IN The Affirmative.
"Well, when he comes. tell him / en-
engaged"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
A Smart Girl.

Inc smartest girl I've met IN Iowa.
writes correspondent, met yesterday
at Nevada, Story county, Northwestern
Iowa-Miss Belle Clinton. Miss Gin
ton Is bright-eyed. rosy-cheeked girl
Of about twenty, ~ full Of fun and
health and vigor as q good girl can be.
Two years ago Miss Clinton was q school
teacher. Saving up by her teaching
about $3.50, she last spring borrowed
span OF horses from her father, rigged
mp "prairie schooner" and taking
her little brother, started for Dakota.
In the wagon we're a nice, soft feather
bed and mattress, bags Of -four, coffee,
hams, canned milk and small groceries.
Miss Clinton says laughingly to-day,
speaking Of her trip:
"Why never lived 30 nicely in my
life, and never had such an appetite
and such courtesy received every
where Rough, rude men would come
to our camp, and, after had talked
with them awhile, offer to build my
fire, and actually bring water 10 me.
How was the scenery Oh, it was
gorgeousl We rode through prAiries
carpeted with flowers and mSlodious
with the songs of birds"
"What did you do when you got to
DAkota?" asked, entranced by her
story.
But let me tell YOU first how We
went. We went up through the Spirit
Lake country in Iowa, crossing the
Milwaukee and st. Paul road at Spencer.
Then We drove northwest across the
Iowa border into the northwest corner
C! Minnesota. Then we went west,
crossing the Big Sioux and dozen
little rivers, and finally came TO James
river. This is the Dakota wheat coun-
try which they call the Jim river coun-
try. 1t is about 'one hundred miles
east from the Missouri at Fort Sully.
Here in Beadle, Bond, Sphinx and Faux
counties we came on to the finest wheat
prairies in the West.
"Now, you ask me what did. Well,
homesteaded 100 acres Of land. Then
l took up timber claim Of 100 acres
more"
What is a timber claim p
Why, l hired man, and We set ont
ten acres Of trees. This, l say, gave
me 100 acres more. So I have $50
acres now. But must tell you about
those trees They were young locust
apple and black walnut sprouts
soved peck Of locust beans, . pint Of
apple seeds and two bushels Of black
walnuts in our garden in Iowa a year
ago. These sprouts were little fellcwz,
aud We could set them out fast-just go
along and stick them in the ground.
But they are !ust as good. / believe
my 3,00O little black walnut sprouts
will be worth s15 apiece in ten years,
and $50 apiece in fifteen. Ny locust
trees viii sometime fence the whole
county"
"Then what did you do ?"
1--WE built q shanty and broke mp
FIVE acres Of land, and this fall we came
back to Iowa to spend the winter and
here We are :" and Miss Clinton, laugh
ingly, made courtesy, and tipped her
hand like the dancing fairy in the
opera.
"And what will you do in the
future ?"
"In the spring I'll go back with
more black walnut and locust sprouts,
and take up l60 acres more. The trees
are iust what / want TO plant. anyway,
and they'll pay better than any wheat
crop that could be raised, only I've got
TO wait for them ten or twelve years
but I can watt" and her eyes glJwed
with hope and happiness as she looked
into the future.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26

There are in the Canadian provinces
ninety-one Congregational churches
having ffty.one pastors with twenty
eight assemblies not churches, and
eighty-four preaching stations. The
total average attendance at the Sunday
services was 1920.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26

Silver dollars with holes Ia them are
painfully numerous, but they are not
half 50 painfully numerous as holes
without any silver dollars around them
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26

Horseshoes are now being made Of
cork. 1t will be lucky day for the
human race when the hind shoes OF .
mule are made OF the same material.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26

VIII the looming man shut the
door after him7 He win in this Office,
or the going viii go out Of the window.
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-10-14
Wi5;rM..n:a.
NJ SCOTCH IAss1E.

II had the brush Of angel.
Dipt In colors rich and rare,
! would paint with choicest lirui-s
Ny Scotch lassis fresh and fair,
Fresh b shs ~ dewy morning.
Fair ~ blossom On the SPRAY.
Fragrant ~ the birch-tree waving
In the fresh breeze OF the May.
O my bright and blooming lassiei
Maids more stately web may be
But no stateliest maiden ever
BrcAttcd = smile 10 sweet III she.
o my bonnie, blithc, fond lass'e.
Mid ~ blooln on hawthorn tree,
Rich ~ June, and ripe ~ Autumn.
Flower and fruit in one il xhe.
Saw you ever cOwsIip warmer
When the zephyrx came II woOf
Saw Jun br ght.cypd spoetiwcll ,,eepinp
Meath the hedge with pnrer bluey
Warmer than her keen rulse keepin1
Ituae ~ all things true a,ii good.
Bluer than her blue eyes swelling
In young loves diviMest mood!
e1WtoI u0SsIN no DluIny 0eA-RuII
ThSn her boaom's heaving charms,
Swan on lake not whittier swimneth
Than the Wilderness of her arms.
II had the brush Of angel,
Oirt In rOlOrs rich and rare
No! no trick Ut brush or pigment
Ever nmned form " fair.
Let them linn who live IN dreamland
Where the brn n.horn phantcms swav
nave feested ON the substance.
And the shadow palcs away.
win not make dainty mock ~
With 2 painted thin d.. -.
Of life that breatheA aud burgeona
with the fulnsrs Of the May,
! Twin sse my dear Scotch inssie
In the ny that sweeps the hills,
In the bright far shimmering cream.
In the sllver-dashins rills.
I WIN ~ her where the wanierip.
H. sucks honey from the b.
WheCo the mavis to the NAV.
pouxs his rich ull-thDated Law.
lwill fssd upon the sweetne
On hor presence near to me-.
AID her wealth Of grace that haaeethl
Llks . peach upon tree.
1vill live On the dear memory
OF that hour Of burning bliss,
When she liant her lips and thrilled m
it'll the rapture Of her kias!
-JoHx STUART BIAcxll
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-10-14

nv newa did not seem to produce a. great
an affect a expected. ! looked up again.
All eyes were fixed on me.
.ih?" said the old man.
swell" said the old lady.
$50 on, Tom," said Dolly.
s.H;s wife ia q cousin OF the lady my
rrole married" said I. If you don't be-
,;avs me can offer proof Of the fact. He
"Of course; know that" said Dolly !;
His wife is quite celebrated contralto !: y
knew that he was o married man =,
.aid l. II don't understand you. What
COZ :. And IT'S great deal nicer for Dolly.
.;a NJ, Rrnsle. Mrs. Holly and she
will travel together
:. Mrs Brusle," said l, what dld you
tell me when you came 10 houuoa aa r.
derstood you that Dolly was eng ';ge .h W
Mr.. Holly, and that you were ou'nns 'AA'
wedding dresses. T., 49,, old ,adv
..Gracious me-" cried the oio '"'''
Nothing Of the sort. aid nol,v
=. hid You think that, Tom, SAID oo''S'
asked her to explain. D.. .~ove,
..Why. Tom. have er"asea 10 ,a u", y
with him o. one OF quartet,e co.n aipt,e.
nat he has just formed. A foreign Eer
, and our tenor at church, Mr; . mole' :
and Mrs. Holly and I; and sn rn, %s shet's
aa deal of money, and-oh, on'' '''"'
go s'h., von sent back my letters ;,.o
WY nened my arms, and Doiiy .,,a INV
.,a,n without thinking OF the Qua .oa"l he.r
'nv What miserable wretch l nave 0'''
.,o last 1--WE weeks" said |. .ho,,.
'"l And nd Dolly began to cry upon my '''"''
der. :. :. s;r"I said to Mr..
Brusie. IL am not rich' but '0's D ,
shsll be the happiest fellow Snu Son't MIND
And 70. heavens sake. Dolly 'oA