Bellefonte, Pa., August 5, 1910.
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Antiquity of Shorthand.
Shorthand is apt to be looked upon
ss an essentially modern art. The
predecessors of Pitman—Byrom in the
eighteenth century. Mason in the sev-
enteenth—are dim and distant figures
beyond which it seems useless to ven
tare. Cicero dictated his orations 1.
his freedman, T. Tulllux Tiro. aud was
inconsolable when temporarily deprin
ed of his services, He cocnlained i:
a letter to n friend tbat, while “Tir
takes down whole phrases In a be
signs, Spintharus (his provisional =ul
stitute only writes in syllables.”
peed nt, however, suppose that he
“nota: Virontnnae” were actually i
venti Ly the freedman in quesiion
As )M. Guenin points out, the Roma:
created very few of the arts of peace
contenting themselves, as a rule, Ly
copying from the Greeks. M. Guenin
however, indicates the banks of the
Nile as the cradle of the art.—T. P.’s
London Weekly.
A Benevolent Censor.
A tric of young ladies spent some
weeks last year at an out of the way
village in the mountain region. They
found the village postmaster a quaint
old character, whose ways were as ori-
ginal as they were startling, so that
the daily trip to the postoffice became
a real event.
“Is there any mail for us, major?”
asked one of the young ladies as she
appeared at the window one morning.
“No; they ain't a thing for you all
this mawnin’, Miss Mary,” was the re-
ply. “They wasn't nothin’ come for
you but a letter that looked like adver-
tisin’, an’ so I opened it, and sure
enough it was jest some advertisemen:
about somethin’ or other, and I says
to myself, says I, ‘Now, Miss Maury
don't want to tote such stuff as that
home with her,’ and so I throwed it In
the waste box."—Youth’s Companion.
Snuff and a Crook.
Robert Pinkerton once told a story
of his father, the founder of the de-
tective agency, which illustrates the
elder Pinkerton's caution. A noted
criminal was detained In Pinkerton’s
Chicago office. The elder Pinkerton
feft the room and when he returned
took the precaution of holding a re-
volver in front of him ready for use.
He saw the criminal standing by the
door with a snuffbox he had picked
up from Pinkerton's desk in his hand.
“This is good snuff” affably re-
marked the crook as he took a sniff.
“For the eyes or the nose?’ asked
Piokerton, who knew that the crook
bad intended to blind him in un effort
to escape.
“Well,” remarked the criminal, “I'm
sorry to say that the nose gets it this
time.”
Appius Claudius.
Appius Claudius, surnamed Caecus
(the blind), was a Roman statesman
who lived during the third century be-
fore the Christian era. He was a Ro-
man censor, 312 to 308, and consul,
807 to 206. He commenced the Ap-
plan way and completed the Appian
aqueduct. From his Roman juris-
prudence, oratory, grammar and Latin
prose date their beginning. He abol-
ished the limitation of the full right
of citizenship to landed proprietors.
In his old age he is said to have be-
come blind, whence his cognomen
“Caecus.”” He was the author of
works In both prose and verse, of
which almost nothing is known.
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No Pure Water.
Owing to the extremely solvent pow-
ers, pure water is never found in ua-
ture, the nearest approach being found
in rainwater, which, as it Is formed in
the upper regions of the atmosphere,
is the purest that nature supplies, but
in descending it brings with it what-
ever impurities are floating near the
surface, which in the neighborhood of
cities are always numerous; hence per-
fectly pure water is hardly to be found,
£ven the artificially distilled being only
approximately so.
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| Where to Begin.
“Look here.” said the reforming hus-
band; “we must have things arranged
4n this house so that we shall know
just where everything is kept."
“With all my heart,” sweetly au-
swered his wife, “and let us begin with
your late hours, my love. 1 should
very much like to know where they
are kept.”—Stray Stories.
—- A Boomerang.
“Call that art!” exclaimed a would
be critic, pointing to a painting In a
studio. “If that daub is a work of art,
then I'm an idiot!”
“The latter part of your statement,”
rejoined the artist calmly. “would seem
to furnish conclusive proof that it Is a
work of art."
Rivals.
She~John is a very considerate sort
of fellow, isn't he? He the rivali—
Oh, yes, very! He has that keen tact
and loving sympathy which a chauf-
feur displays toward a helpless crip-
ple.— Life.
Biank Verse.
Poet—You published a poem of mine
last week. You pay according to the
kind of verse, don't you? Editor—Yes.
George, give the gentleman a blank
check.—Judge.
A Good Reason.
“What makes you think, sir, that I
will not be able to support your daugh-
ter?”
“Well, I haven't been able to my-
aslf.”
him a reason for. He never made the eating .
least of that trouble which so abounds hate he found the custom of coat: Children Cry for
f bapless editor from narrower things chocolate so prevalent
A If you wanted | that he said the people of his city Fletchr’s Castoria.
a thing changed, very good. he chang. | = e———
i A i Nations. «= 4 something in the line to learn from us.
ting | that while we
Robbins’ Circus Coming.
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Odd Shaving Habits.
it 1s said that of men who shave
may be added other curious facts
about the shaving habits of the aver i
age man.
‘I'nere is the president of a trust
in a corner of the room and |
ing the wall. He was a poor coun- |
boy and. like most boys, bought a
on the sly. ‘There was no mir
his bedroom and rather than
people know what he was about
faced the wall and scraped away
sense of feeling. Once accustomed
is method he never needed a glass.
There is a United Stutes senator,
formerly a farmer, who for many
shaved himself sitting on a milk-
ing stool and looking at his reflection |
in a bucket of water. That was what
be did as a boy and man on the farm,
and he says that he couldn't shave
standing up.—New York ‘I'ribune. i
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“Tolerance” In Coins.
The mint allows a certain degree of
“tolerance” in coins. For example, the
gold double eagle's standard weight is
516 grains, and the “tolerance” allowed
is half a grain. A coin of this denom-
ination may weigh as little as 515%
grains or as much as 516% grains, but
never less than the first nor more
than the second figure. The standard
weight of the sliver half dollar Is 192.9 |
grains, and rhe tolerance allowed Is 1.0
grains. This coin may weigh as little
as 191.4 grains and as much as 194.4
grains, but never less than the first
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| Bellefonte, Thursday, August 11th.
The Grandest and Largest Circus Ever Seen Here.
A Circus That is a Circus.
New Acts, New Faces,
New Names, New Feats,
New Apparatus.
| Scores of Foreign Chan
L | pions in Every Line of
Trained Effort.
YOUNG HERCULES
In his Wonderful Act of
Gatehing Gannon Balls
One of the Rarest and
Costliest Animal Ex-
hibitions on Earth.
An event of ——
Sensation
“MONO”
The Greatest and Only
“Skid Diver”
the world has ever known =—
—) GRAND (—
Fige alee F Parade
2 Performances Daily 2
Rain or Shine
at 2 and 8 p. m.
nor more than the second figure. The
standard fineness of all gold and silver
coins is 800. In the gold colas a devia- |
tion of only une one-thousandth from
this is allowed and in the silver coins |
of only three one-thousandth. The so _
called five cent nickel colin is really
only 25 per cent nickel, the rest being |
copper. One cent pleces are 95 per!
cent copper and 5 per cent tin and
zinc.~Philadelphia Record. i
Sir Walter Scott's Debts.
The Ballantyne fallure threw upon |
Sir Walter Scott the responsibility for
£130,000, or $650,000, and the grand old |
man immediately set about the mighty |
task of paying it; but, notwithstanding
the most heroic efforts on his part, he
pever succeeded io paying it all. He
did the best he could, but he bad to
depend solely upon his writings, and
the task was more than mortal man
could accomplish. As his powers fail.
ed he became possessed of the idea
that all his debts were paid and that
he was a free man, and in this belief
he happily remained till his death.—
New York American.
Better Dream On.
“Isn't that a perfect dream of a
bat?’ she demanded of the man by
her side.
“1 said,” she repeated after some
seconds of silence, “isn’t that a dream
of a hat?’
Stili silence from the man.
she ventured reproachfully:
“Why don’t you say something?"
“My dear, you seemed to enjoy your
dream so that 1 was afraid of waking
you up,” the man thes replied.
The Paulie:
Many years ago n new clergyman
was taking Sunday duty in a remote
hamlet among the Yorkshire wolds.
After morning service the old clerk
came up to him and observed: “So ye
calls them ‘Sanums,’ do ye? Noo, we
never knew what to make o' that ‘ere
P. We allus calls ‘em ‘Spasms.’ "=
London Scraps.
Then
Grit.
Grit is the grain of character. It may
generally be described as heroism ma-
terialized—spirit and will thrust into
heart, brain and backbone, so as to
form part of the physical substance of
the man.—~Whipple.
Same Effect.
Innis—Do 1 love her? Why, man, 1
can't sleep nights for thinking about
her. Owens—That's not proof positive.
1 get the same effect from my tailor’s
bills.~Boston Transcript.
Discouraging.
Jester—Poor old Skinflint has his
troubles! Jimson—-What! Why, he's
waking barrels and barrels of money.
Jester—I know, but the price of barrels
has gone Gp.
is not found In self com-
Happiness
templation; it is perceived only when
it is reflected from another.—-Johnsen.
Groceries,
Groceries.
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85-1 State College, Centre County, Pa.
Yeagers Shoe Store
Oxfords and
Low Shoes
REDUCED
Everything----All Styles,
All Kinds and All Sizes
at a Big Reduction.
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
LYON & CO.
Early Fall Dress Fabrics.
The early Fall Dress Fabrics and
Tailor-made Coat Suits
are here.
We invite all who would like to see
the early Fall Styles to come in our
store.
All the new Shades in fine Dress
Goods are here. From now on you
can see something new. Our Fall
stock will be replenished as we are re-
ceiving new goods every day.
Summer Goods Must Go.
Summer goods must go now in
order to have the room for our new
goods.
We have made greater reductions
on all Summer Stuffs.
The greatest bargains and money
saving prices on all Summer goods.
LYON &
Allegheny St.
COMPANY,
47-12 Bellefonte, Pa.