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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-12-13

HIGHTuS, Jan. -. lss2.
The Rockford watch purchased Feb.
1879. has performed better than any
Watch ! ever had. Have carried 1t
every day and at 40 time hss il been
irregular. or n the least unreliable. ]
chccrfu.ly recommend the Rockford
Watch. HORACE B. HORTON,
at Dlchton Furnace Co.
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No party ii p:l!t!ss, nsT any ssct!n religion
THK GREATEST ANp THE REST.
THE LARGE DOUBLE WEEKLY,
g. RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR.
new YORK OBSERVER
E.,ahl..hsd 1924,

No papet in the conbtry has mufs ENrFH1EScEn ANp
avs oonrs ~ RnivoHs Dr ffenRus Prime stands Al
the head af the editorial fraternity and his letter. and
eAsflals still enrich The 0hErvaH Othef sinong ~
etoru have hal the training u quarter of ceniufY
Cor their uofk
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The Department 81 AaHfcrITuHE. BUSINESS, sUSnAT
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expafta Who write clearly aud 10 the point The 90
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K.-krnrn No. Covr.Nr.

BY HD~M EE !. HIILAND. Sec.
Having most thoroughly tested the
Rock ford Quick Train Watches for the
last three ycsrs, offer them with the
fullest confidence a. the best made and
mo-, reliable time keeper FOR the money
that can be Obtained.
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i; seems BariruT can { be beat We
fsw displayed in front q bic Carriage
Works & spiel-srauking new "Buck
wagon, marked $50 Something new, too.
and said to be the easiest riding wagon
ont
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Speech of Speaker Carlisle.

bN'' N'f'N"ft p 'FiF HiAh an l'l'3AhAh -
officer Of the House 90 Monday, Mr.
Carlisle spoke rs follows:
Gentlemcn of tho House Of Represen.
tatives: thank you sincerely for the
high honor conferred upon me 10y the
vote Just taken. To be chosen from the
membership of great body like this,
to preside over it's delibcrntion, is "A dis.
tinction upon which any citizen might
properly congratulate himself, and as.
sure you that your kindness and partia-
lity are fully appreciated, At the
same time, realize the fact that the
position to which you have assigLed me
is one of very great labor and respon.
s.biily, nnd, while profoundly grateful
to you for this manifestation Of your
confidence. ! shall enter on the dis.
charge of its duties with q serious dis.
trust Of my capacity to meet in an accep
table manner the requirements Of this
Office promise you, however, TO de
voto to your service all the zeal and all
the ability, Of which am possessed.
Gentlemen, the maintenance of order
on the floor Is essential-ahsolutcly cs.
sental-to tho intelligent and systcma.
tic transaction OF public business, and
! earnestly invoke your assistance in
the enforcement Of the rules adopted
Tor the government OF our proceeding.
Tho largo addition TO the membership
OF this House, resulting from the late
apportionmcut uf Representative,
makes this duty even more difficult than
it has been before and without your
cordial cooperation and support can
not reasonably hope evenly to discharge
the ordinary daily duties Of this Office.
That YOU will chccrTuly cooperate with
me IN every proper effort to preserve
order and 60 facilitate the business Of
legislature. I have no doubt. But, gen
tlcmcn, ! shall ask something moro Of
YOU than mere cooperation in the die
charge Of my duty Assuring YOU Of
my earnest desire at all times to be iust
and impartial, still / cannot expect to
avoid mistake. and shall be compelled
therefore, frcqontly. no doubt to rely
on tho friendly fo-bcarancc Of gentle.
men. that all matter % legislation pre-.
.en,od during ihi- Corfrcss will rcccjy"
from you such careful consideration -
tho magnitude and character of the in
tcrcsta would require. and that your nc.
,iou upon them viii hc wise, conscrva.
tive and patriotic. sudden and radical
changes i'm the laws and regulations
affecting tho commercial interests Of
the people ought never 20 bo mad" ur
less impcra,iyclv demanded hy some
public emergency. and in NV opinion.
undertaking cjrcumstnnco, such chan.
goa would no, he fsvorahly received hy
any considerable number of those who
have given serious attention to th"
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-Pilcs and piles of Gents and Boys
Goats. Pants aud Vests are displayed 81
levin 6 Co.'S. You can get anything
YOU want there.
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Quick Railway Time.


EarEfayI, Ill.,, Jan. l>sO.
Ti5g o. IN certify hat urs have ayyoinrd
F-mE T. H.1iv, s5Le agent far uS faLr = o1y
Q,ark Tram Ra,va1d Watrics IA the io,rr
AZ BllLfau'S.
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The Rockford Watch runs very &C.
curately better than any watch ever
owned. and have had one that cost
$50. Can recommend the Rockford
Watch to everybody who wishes = fine
timekeepcr.
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The Java Earthquake.

.sf aH5ta gsa HamHsr ral ss Earsl.
.I blade vlrH EHaia yu4 Hau 3 urrAHsI
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
How Bananas are Raised.

How Bananas are Raised.
AS every body knows who has eaten a
banana, the luscious pulp is seedless.
The plants are propagated from other
plants, so that the stock is not likely to
run out. The plant requires for vigorous
growth deep rich soil, abundantly wa
tered. With these conditions present
there is said to be no risk OF crop in
the hot regions where alone the fruit
is produced. Nine months after cut
ting has been planted purple bud ap.
pears In the center of the unfolding
leaves that shoot out from the head OF
the parent stem. The stem ON (which
the bud appears grows rapidly above
the main stalk. As the bud increases
in weight the stem bends downward by
a graceful curve, on the extremity o
which the bud continues to grow till the
purple blossoms falling of, little shoots
appear as the embryo fruit Each fruit
has a yellow blossom at its outward ex.
tremity. At the end of from three tc
four months the fruit has grown to ma
turity and is picked long enough before
it is "dead ripe" to preserve it in mar.
ketable condition. From the roots of the
parent stalk other shoots appear, which
are trina ed out or left to grow. as the
cnltlvator may deem best. A single
stalk, therefore, bears only one buncl
or crop as its life work. Spaniards have
a religious reverence for the banana
believing it to be the fruit of which
Adam partook. This fruit has long ueer
regarded as extremely nutritious. It il
recomen ed above all others for invaiids
who are unable to swallow harder food
An estimate by Humboldt claims tina
44,06O pounds of bananas can be produced
on ont the soil that would be required to-
1000 pounds of potatoes, and that the
anne area that would be required to
raise wheat enoug h for one man would
produce enough bananas to feed 81
men.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04

the scene of the disaster. The only white
man killed vas the overseer of the mixing
room. This makes the third explosion In
these powder works 1ec< 0Bed among the
largest on the coast, employing twenty
white men and 125 Chinamen.
While being towed out of the river in
Chicago, on the 28th inst, the large schoon-
er Davia Vance struck the abutment OF the
Adams street viaduct. knocking q section
OF it sixty feet long of the pier to the
ground 6elo y. a distance OF twenty or thir-
ty feet. A number of persons and ona or
two horses went do wn with it, and several
persons were severely, but none dangerous
ly hurt.
A part of Davis inter ocean circus was
ditched on the Missouri Pacific, near BooD-
Vile, Mo-, and few days ago the band
wagon md chariot demolished. Two horses
were also hurt, and two employees, BROTH
ers, named Th mas, were badly injured.
Loss to the circus about SIS 600.
The Ashville (Ohio) Jail was burned and
one prisoner, name unknown, was burned
to death. he was an umbrella mender, and
claimed to come from the Dayton Soldiers
home and had considerable money, and 1t
is thought he was murdered end the build
ing burned to conceal the murder.
G. s. Titns, of the firm of Titus & Co., OF
Brohdead, Wis, went to Janesviile, Wis,
on the 10Th and obtained contract to tar
the roof of the cotton factory. About 2
o'clock he fell from the roof, striking on
his head and killing him almost instantly.
A balloonist named Prof. Dockstader
was dangerously injured at Lancaster, Wis :,
several limbs being broken, by the collapse
of his balloon when some distance from the
ground.
The Leasdale Touring mills at Batavia,
Ohio, burned recently. Loss, 1000; insur.
ance, Sc, 500.
/ The Texas cotton crop will be almest a
complete failure.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04

Official inquiry has now apparently
we'll established that one hundred thous-
and lives were lost by the recent earth
quake and volcanic eruptions in Java.
History does not record an equally cal
amitous convulsion of nature. The
earthquake of Lisbon on November 1,
1855, caused the death of thirty thous-
and persons; and the great earthquake
that occurred in Sicily in 1893 killed just
double that number. Another formid
able earthquake was that of Riobamba
in 1897, which swallowed up fully forty
thousand human beings, and the NOR.
tality resulting from the two shocks in
Calabria in 1873 was exceedingly great
though there seems some doubt about
the exact figures. The most formidable
volcanic eruptions alone, mentioned in
history, as beyond all doubt the great
eruption of Yes ,vius described by
SPliny, which buried Herculaneum and
Pompeii under the layers of ashes and
lava which covered them for centuries.
The fact that the volcano and the earth
quake combined to heap ruin upon the
unfortunate people of Java, explains the
exceptional mortality caused by the
recent terrible visitations, which in de-
structive force and intensity may be
compared to the violent cata a;lysms that
SO often labored the surface of this PLAN
ct in prehistoric times.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
The ALLIGATOR Story.

"Did ever tell you my adventure
with the alligator" said Sam to his
friend Tom, as they stood on deck of
the steamboat Henry Clay, as she went
putting and blowing throwing up the
muddy waters of the mississippi.
II guess not" said Tom.
swell, it's sometime ago, before your
steamboats, scared the creters way back
into the dry settlements. the alligators
used to cum out on the river, and bark
at the dogs on board our broa:i horns,
and if ever a brave fellow of dog Gas
they did sometimes) jumped over after
them, they'd gather up their tails, which
you know, does them for hand, and
raising their upper jaw, they'd chew
him up handsomely; indeed, the var.
nlints seem to love dog meat better than
any other, and they were sich
devils that they used to try to climb up
into the boat to git. at our dogs: we used
to stand guard to keep them off every
night. Well. as was saying, we were
going up the Mississi ppione night in q
fine new boat, the current was running
pretty much as it Is now, and we had
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
. A Mexican Adventure.

I wanted to get a box of liver pills, as
the climate of Vera Cruz is slightly tine
tured with malaria at all seasons of the
year, and was anxious to carry home
as good liver as I had with me when I
left the white settlement. We found
drug store with little difficulty, and, mp
on going in, the first object which at
tracted our attention, aeide from the
distinct odor of 1900 different smells,
was the appearance of the drug clerk.
He was q long-necked young man, with
resplendently oiled hair and eyes like
docile gazelle's.
'tHoW am to rake this Mexican
heathen understand what want?" 1
asked Capt. Wicks; land, by the way,
what telegraph pole of a neck he has
got on him. Looks like giraffe"
"Or swan" }" suggested Wicks.
+ stSee bow he is creased" observed.
''just as though he was ready to be swal-
lowed by an anaconda" &
He does that" said Wicks, "and
what q magnificent sign he makes for an
apothecary shop
.....'What q champion he would make to
run sausage stuffer," continued; but
how am / going to get the pills?"
8 Ask for pildores, "said Wicks; that's
Spanish for pills z
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04

guards 10 keep OFF allieators, as we had
some fine pups on board that we didn't
want them to git at: well, as nigh as
could reckon, twas about midnight, and
mighty dark, with great thick fog all
about us. so thick that you could hardly
walk through it,: we'll / felt q terrible
bump against the head of the boat, and
then the guards sung out, q snag, q
snag!" I went to look, and sure enough
there it was, as big as the body Of q COM
mon~sized tree, through and through
our bran NV boat; SO, saws. !, there's
no use in grieving: so trusted to Prov
idence and went to sleep. About light
I went to see how things were ing.
and bless your soul, what do you think
it was?"
"Guess 'twant an alligator" said Tom.
eyes, hut it was; the varmint had
played the snag, aud run his head
clean through our boat up to the dogs
bed on deck he had eaten them all clean
up but one large pup, who had got cross
ways in the creter's throat, so he couldn't
pull his head out from the boat again
becaus he couldn't shut his jaws, and
was fast, wigeling his tail about in the
water for all the world like whirlwind.' -
''But how bid you get him out?" said
Tom.
"Whv, I'll tell you; We cut his head
off smooth with the deck, and tied up
bis tail-he fitted go tight we did't leak
a drop, but went on"
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04

which are still going on under the di-
rection of Herr Ryniker and Of Profs.
Colladon and Dufour Of Geneva and
Lausanne. Up to 1867, as related by
Herr Ryniker, the district Of Muri has
enjoyed q long immunity from hail
storms, but IN that year and in 1867,
1869, and 1871 it was visite by storms so
frequent and destructive as to rouse gem
era! atte ton. A careful examination
resulted in the discovery that all the
storms had broken at the same. point
and followed the same path-a gap in
the forest of Schlatt, on the crest of the
Lindenberg, produced partly Ly Or
dinary wood-cutting, partly by violent
wind which had. blown down many
trees. The discovery, and the fact that
other districts had suffered in like man
her, suggested to the chief forester the
idea of extending the inquiry to the
canton at large, it resulted from this
inquiry that in the three years
in question damage has been
wrought by hail-storms in Aragau to the
amount of 5000 900 francs, and that in
the south part of the canton, as in the
north, the frequency of haiI-storms was
in inverse proportion to area covered
by forests. In the forest district of
AOnngen, WIN ~ per cent. OF lt6 surface
wooded, there were two slight down
falls which occasioned damages estimated
at &C, 600 francs; in the district of Lenz-
burg, Kuhn, ana Aragau, with % per
cent. of land planted, there were six
hail-storms, the losses arising from
which amounted to 2SO, 600 francs; in the
district of Freimat, with 10 per cent. Of
its area wooded, the number of hail
storms was 10. and the damages amount
ed to 100000 francs. The storms come
generally from the southeast, the west,
and the northwest, rarely from the
northeast, and a hail-storm never passes
a compact forest of pines planted on
height. Hail-storms move in column
and form in the neigh porhood of low
lying lands and well-cultivated valleys
heated by the sun, and take the direc-
ton of the prevailing wind. Scattered
groups of leafy trees, even when planted
on height, are not sufficient to hinder
the march Of column of hail, while fir
woods. even if they are small, make
very effective barriers, especially when
they happen to. be in the path of the
room.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04

The New York Sanitary Engineers re-
ports that during the week ending Sep
tember 9th in thirty-two cities of the
United States, having an aggregate
population of 7 ,O50, 900, there died 1881
persons, which is equivalent to an an
nual mortality rate of 20.2 per 1000, a
diminution from the rate for the previ-
GUS week of 2l.l9. For the North At
lantic cities the rate was 2O.2; for the
eastern cities 22.3; for the lake cities,
1874; for the river cities, 17.3; and in
the southern cities for the whites 1875,
and for the colored 1927 per 1000. The
deaths of children under five years oi
age formed 44.4 per cent. of the whole
number, the proportion of this class OF
deaths continuing highest in tn Q lake
cities, viz, So 2 per cent, or over half OF
all the deaths. Accidents caused 40;
consumption IL 6; Group Is; diarrheal
diseases 1877; and diphtheria 3.6 per
cent, of all deaths. In the North At.
lantic cities diarrboeal diseases caused
1873 per cent. of all deaths; in the eastern
cities 1875; in the lake cities 21.4; in the
river cities, ILL.,; and in the southern
cities for the whites ID 4, and for the
colored 1875 per cent.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04

IT was also asserted that diphtheria
was increasing. slightly but steadily in
the North Atlantic and eastern cities;
1t is about equally prevalent in this
country and in Germany. and much
more 80 in these countries than in Great
Britain. Typhoid fever caused 81 per
cent. of all deaths; malarial..fevers %;
scarlet fever l.5; pneumonia 8. 4; mea-
sles 0.2 and whooping cough 16 per cent.
The mortality in the English cities con-
tinues unusually slow.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
A Terrible Accident.

A irightIul steam threshing machiue ac-
cident occurred on the 26th inst, eight
mills south Of Osakis, MINI. It appears
that the pump was not working satistscto-
rily and the engine was stopped for few
minutes. The men were gathered around
,he engine when the explosion occurred.
The killed are: Albert Garlock, Eauk Cen
ter; Peter Bille1eaux, Leslie; Mathew
Joyce, Orange. The dangerously wounded
are as follows: Frank Ives, scalp wound,
side scalded, wound in foot; amputstion
performed. Charles Ives, fractured skull,
scalced face ana brt asst, left arm disl Gated;
not expected to live. The slightly wounded
are: Mike Riley, Sam. Porter, Chester Gilbert.
All are scalded and bruised. Gilbert aas
blown thjlty feet from the engine. Albert
Garlock was thrown nearly 800 feet and
Biiledeaux NJ arly $50 :eet from the engine.
Both bodies. when picked up. were literally
stripped of clothing, and the e. sh and skin
scalded of. They were punched full OF
holes from the flying pieces OF iron. Math
ew joyce and Frank ana Charles Ives
were thrown down fey feet in front of the
engine. The engine was blown $50 feet
directly over the top OF the separator and
wheat stacks. -so-z-.:. ~
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
g For Salo."

A Detroiter who advertised a horse
last week noted down the objections of
all who called to look at the animal, and
some of them are here given:
'"Too large"
TOO small"
''Too old"
s'Not old enough"
'Too lively"
Rather too sleepy"
Object to the white hind feet"
"Would take her if she had more white
feet.'' r
''Don't like her color"
Color is just right, butshe is too fat"
"Weighs too much"
Don't weigh enough"
"Has bad eye."
eyes all right, but ears too small"
Eyes, handsome ears, but the nose
spoils her."
"Legs all stocked up"
"Legs all right, but feet bad" 4
If Shakespeare had said that no man
knew what he wanted in horse there
would be none to dispute it.-Detroit
Free Press. zZ5.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
New York City is threatened with
prolonged seige of typhoid fever, as it
is spreading rapidly. Defective sewer
age is probably its promoters.

In the United States there are seventy
ne railroads which report an average in
earnings during August of per cent.
over the earnings of the corresponding
month in 1882. This is significant from the
fact that the August railroad earnings of
1882 gave total of 10 per cent. increase
over those Of 1881, % per cent. over
those of 1880, and 81 per cent. over
those Of 1879. Thus for the four years
the increase of August earnings has
been 80 per cent.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04

Z writer in the London Journal of
Science dwells upon the advantages af-
ferded in Germany to technical education
and asserts that Chemnitz has already
undermined the glove trade of Noting
ham, and that in the opinion of many
the hosiery interests of the same town
are being slowly undermined. The in
habitants of Chemnitz cannot compare
either mentally or physically with those
of the English manufacturing centre,
but they have far superior eductional ad-
vsntages. In Boon there is quite an En-
glish town springing up, inhabited al
most entirety by English families who
reside there for the purpose of giving
their children practical education.