Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-02-21
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
The little folks Of Williamsport says
the Times, by each donating a potato,
presented to the Home for the Friend.
less over seventy bushels within the
past year This is certainly an easy way
to raise potatoes" and the home is
willing that it should be repeated
often.
Twelve million dollars worth of pro.
pcrty was burned up in the United
States in January. The losses by food
in February will hardly fall below this
sum. II this sweeping gait Of wet and
dry misfortune is to be kept up for the
balance Of the year it will cut big slice
out of our profits.
The supreme court Of Iowa decides
that wife deserted by her husband
without her fault, and left with no
means Of providing for her young chill
dren, has authority to sell the personal
property of her husband to obtain
money Warrington PreS1.
Boston has religio philosophical
society that believes that disease is
caused by the absence Of God from the
body, and can be cured by the passage
Of the divine efIluence from the we'll to
the sick As they sit with the spincs in
contact. II numbers among its adhcr
ents people OF influence and promin
ence' and some whose names are as
familiar AS household words"
Treasurer Wymsn of Washington,
u. C., received last week, from bank
in Ohio two express packages, each pur
porting to contain $1,000 in money. on
being opened one was found to contain
only $40 and the other merely two
small pieces Of ordinary flannel 1t is
,gppo.ed that the money was stolen
either before shipment or in trausporta.
t.ar.
Gca. Davidson, chief clerk OF the
-u.e.-',nrc department, United States
s.u. .fa,ou.d at Chicago in l-7l and
.-u. ras .rrrsted last week on the
aaH.. o' cmhezzl.ng $500 during the
..tr. named. Davidson confessed his
-at MI wa- held in bail at $500 for
umL
Among the journals recently started
IN Germany Is comic paper called
Hti p.eil,f.
Count Manski, who blew out his
brains at Monlo Carlo recently, was well
known on the houlevards in Paris. lie
lost hundred thousand francs at the
gaming table in one night.
The BJstone Poat says Two young
doctors were recently comparing notes
in the office Of well.known hotel in
this city, and one of them was heard 10
say: lin case OF that kind you use
a certain drug and il will have Ia Ger.
tain effect or itwon't, am not sure
which Z "
The Syracuse Standard relates that a
lady now living at Sodus Village. Wayne
county, at the sge of GO years, is the
mother OF two sons and four daughters,
the grandmother OF is children, and
great grandmother Of two, and has had
eight soniu.lsws, four Of whom are
living.
senator Vest writers on the question
OF prohibition to friend in Clay county
Mo, thus Where the people OF any
community are overwhelmingly in
favor OF no license dramshops. the Law
is always a success but in commun
ity where public opinion Is equally
divided or against the law the result Is
always disregard of the statute and a
mean evasion OF its prosisions.
An exchange says it is a puzzle q
many why on some pieces ofsilver money
directly under the eagle appears a small
s others AN o., others c. c.. and other,
without such mark. IL shows ut what
mint the money was stamped. $. stand,
for San Francisco, for New Orleans, {
c, for Carson City, and at the Philadel
phia mint the money is not marked.
Amedical man in California gives q
curious prescription as safeguard
against smallpox when he says "placc
one ounce Of cream Of tartar in sixteen
ounces Of water and take a tablespoon
fall three times day, and you may
sleep with n small pox patient with per
pcl impunity. II every citizen would
10 this Tor tifseeu days there would !.
IN "a Of smallpox in ANY city.