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Bellefonte, Pa., November 10,
General Sutter Discovered the Precious
Metal In California.
“It is not generally known,” said a
mineralogist, “that the discoverer of
gold in California was a Pennsylvanian
and at one time a resident of Philadel-
This distinguished pioneer lies
buried in the soil of Pennsylvania al-
lost forgotten. He was General John
‘A. Sutter, a Swiss, who emigrated to
Philadelphia in 1834 and became a citi-
zen of the commonwealth. His grave
is in the Mennonite burying grounds
at Lititz, Lancaster county, in which
yillage he spent the last years of his
life.
“General Sutter was born in 1803 in
Baden. Germany. near the borders of
Switzerland. Upon his arrival in this
country he speut some time in Phila- |
delphia. subsequently removing to the |
vicinity of Lititz. where, in the midst |
of relatives, he engaged in farming. |
Possessed of a roving nature, however, |
it was not ng before he yearned to |
explore the great unknown land be- |
yond the Rockies. After many priva- !
tions he reached California some time
in the early forties and staked a claim. i
It was in the fall of 1848, after a heavy |
rain, that, attracted by yellowish de- |
posits in a small stream, he made his
great discovery of the precious metal,
The news of his find spread rapidly, |
and the following spring the great |
rush from the east began.
“General Sutter amassed a consider-
able fortune through his gold diggings.
but lost most of it through unfortu-
nate speculations. He returned to
Pennsylvania in 1871 and spent his
declining years in retirement, living
on the pension of $250 a month voted
him by the California legislature. He
died June 18, 1880. Two of his pall-
bearers were Generals John C. Fre- |
mont and Ambrose E. Burnside, who
had been his friends in California.”--
Philadelphia Record.
FATTED SHEEP.
Tails of the Syrian Breed Weigh Ten
to Fifteen Pounds.
It has been suggested that in the
sheep fattening process, which is com-
mon in the vicinity of Damascus, one
might be able to trace the original
meaning of thie Biblical phrase. “the
fatted calf.” Mrs. McIntosh thus de-
scribes the process in her book, “Da-
mascus:"”
“The sheep differ from ours. When
we show pictures of the latter to the
natives they ask what animals they
are. They miss the enormous tails of
the Syrian sheep, in which the fat of
the body seems to concentrate and
. which, after skinning and preparing.
" Wales.
often weigh ten to fifteen pounds.
“Early in the summer the head of
each family buys cr sets apart one,
two or three sheep, according to his
rank in life or his wealth. The wom-
en and children devote themselves
with great zeal to fattening these
sheep. The children fill large baskets
with mulberry leaves and carry them
to their mothers. These several times
a day and also in the night take lit-
tle wooden stools and sit by the sheep.
With one hand they keep the sheep's
mouth open: with the other they cram
in the leaves, forcing them down the
throat.
“Twice a day the sheep ure led to
the viilage fountain to drink, and their
counts are frequently washed, About
the end of September the work of the
women and children comes to an end.
The sheep have grown so fat they
cannot stand up. They are then killed.
Their flesh is boiled with spices and
put into pots for winter use. This
mincement is eaten as a relish at fes-
tivities”
it Was His Mistake,
Mr. Newed (the week before his
birthday)-—Good gracions, here are six
boxes of cheap cigars my wife has evi-
dently bousht me for a present! |
conldn't possibly smoke such vile
things, and still I wouldn't like to hurt
her feelings by refusing. I'll just sub-
stitute six boxes of my best Havanas
and throw these cheap ones away be- |
fore she returns.
Mrs. Newed (the day after)—Oh.
Tom, 1 bought six boxes of cheap ci-
gars yesterday for my dear Uncle Jo-
nas, the sea captain. who lives in
1 have just posted them to
him. They only cost me 5 shillings a
box, but I'm sure he won't be able to
tell them from good ones. Why, how |
funny you look, dear! Are you ill%- |
London Tit-Bits,
Too Much Appreciation,
A blography of Huxley dwells on the
annoyance which he suffered from |
bores. But the plague had its fuany
side. Huxley once wrote to a friend:
“I had a letter from a fellow yester- |
day morning who must be a lunatic, to |
the effect that he had been reading my
essays, thought I was the man to
spend a month with and was coming |
down by the 5 o'clock train attended |
by his seven children and his mother
in-law!” {
Defunct, Arithmetically.
“So poor Dinny is a dead man." i
“01 didn't say that. OI} tould youn he
was half Lilt from a blast in the
quarry.”
“Well, an’ wasn't he half kilt only |
iast month fallin’ down an elevator?
How many halves has he got to 4
¥
killed 7" —Boston Transcript.
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Quite the Other Way.
“Does your wife go to services to
see what other women wear?"
“No,” replied Mr. Cumrox. “We are |
now sufficiently prosperous for her to
go in order to let other women ree :
what she wears.” Washington Star. |
CREEPING CACTUS.
Plants That will
Across a Desert.
“The isolation of the desert lowlands
Curious Travel
{| of Lower California, combined with
alternations of long continued droughts
and heavy rains, has resulted in the
development of the richest and most
extraordinary desert flora in the
world,” says E. W. Nelson in the Na-
tional Geographic Magazine.
“Cactuses of many kinds abound,
varying from giants standing with
massive fluted trunks fifty to sixty
feet tall to little straggling stemmed
species too weak to hold themselves
upright. The fruit of many of these
cactuses is edible and much sought for
by birds and mammals. They were
' inclination to self desiruction, which
once one of the maiu crops of the In-
| dians who lived In this arid region.
The cactus forests often form thorny
jungles through which it is impossible
“to pass.
“After months among these thorny
plants we supposed we had seen them
in all their eccentric variations of
forms. One morning. however, while
crossing the Llane de Yrals, in front
of Magdalena bay. | rode out from a
dense growth of bushes into an open
area and pulled up my horse in amaze-
ment at sight of the most extraordi-
dinary of them all. Before me was a
great bed of the creeping devil cactus,
which appeared like a swarm of gigan-
tic eaterpillars creeping in all dirvec-
tions. These plants actually travel
away froin the common center of the
group, and | saw many single sections
| twenty or thirty yards away from the
others. The part of the stem resting
on the ground sends down rootlets, |
and the older stems die in the rear at
about the same rate as they grow in
front, so they slowly move away from
the colony across the flats where they
ive.”
A SECRET LIBRARY.
Important Papers That Were Stored
Awzy by Queen Victoria.
Within the walls of Buckingham pal-
ace and constructed on the “strong
room” principle is a room known as
the “secret library,” and in this ave
stored documents and private letters
which were they sent forth to the
world would doubtless set the whole
universe talking
From the very commencement of her
reign Queen Victoria assiduously
stored away in nice order all family
and other hmportant papers, her only
assistant in this duty being a secre
tary, who entered her service within
fourteen years of her accession to the
throne and who retained his place un-
til her majesty’s death, though he him.
self had no access to nine-tenths of
the papers which are docketed, the
late queen alone retaining the keys of
the safes and cabinets in which her
| wgecret library” was contained.
Just before her death her majesty
added to the list of her papers a batch
of letters of the most private and con-
fidentinal kind, addressed by the late
prince consort to his brother, the Duke
Ernest of Coburg. and it is a well as-
cortained faet that when possible xe
acquired every scrap written by her
late consort to his private friends. It
is said Ly those who are qualified to
surmise that the “secret library” not
only telis of royal marriages, births
and deaths, but that it is virtually the
private history of Europe during the
last half of the nineteenth century.—
London Tit-ilits,
European Civilization.
The first pavements in Paris were
laid about the year 1200; in Loudon.
about 1417. Berlin was without pave-
ments far into the seventeenth cen-
tury. No houses had glass windows
as the fourteenth century anything
NAPOLEON AND SUICIDE.
His Draft of Poison and His Com-
ments on Self Destruction.
It is sald that when all seemed lost
to Napoleon in 1814--the year before
Waterloo—he thought of suicide as an
end to his career. He actdally took
a draft of poison. but the essential
element in the concoction bad lost its
efficacy. He, however, conquered his
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he ever afterward held in abhorrence,
even during his hopeless exile at St
Helena. When during his first con-
sulship one of his grenadiers killed
himself Napoleon issued an order to
the guards:
“The Gre.adi-¢ Gobain bas killed
himself owing to a love affair. He
was otherwise an excellent soldier.
The first consul commands that the
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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Could Hardly Hear
ALSO GREATLY IMPAIRED.
1 was afflicted with catarrh,” writes
F Kansas: “1
EDEN Rm mS mR) mm Sm ZR ZS
several
guards should be informed that a sol To Se vi
dier ought to conquer the grief and could hardly hear, taste or smell. [was
bitterness of his passions: that there about io Sive up in despair, “Ri aking
is the sume courage in enduring with three bottles of this medicine I was cured,
patience the pangs of the soul as in and have had no ret of the disease.
facing bravely the fire of a battery. To | cures, not si because it contains Sar
saparilla, but because it combines the ut
give oneself up to grief without resist-
ance or to kill oneself to escape is to; d ferent in ¢ ents. There is no real
. g substitute for it. An i
abandon the field of battle before being ne] A hy prepa Joi 3
besten: a Ie
P # » i 3 - ¥
In a conversation with Goethe, Na-| oc ob i vial id form. or
poleon blamed the poet for allowing Sarsa
Werther to commit suicide, and in 1816 | = ns a
hie said to O'Meara: l Plumbing.
“Suicide is the act of a gambler who! —rermmmee
has lost eversthing or of a ruined
Good Health
profligate. 1 have always thought that |
and |
a man shows more courage in support: |
ing the evils thar afflict him than in |
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
getting rid of his iife.”
TRAGIC IN ITS BREVITY.
The Story cf the Duel Between Hamil-
ton and Burr.
The story of the [Hamilton-Burr duel |
is tragic in its brevity. The little party |
of five—the principals, their seconds
and the surgeon—wis on the ground |
not long after sunrise. The prelimi- |
pariex were soon arranged. As Pen- |
dleton, Hamilton's second, gave him |
his pistol he asked. “Will you have the
hairspring set?”
“Not this time,” was the significant
reply. and then the men faced each
other.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtures, foul sewerage, or escaping
gas, you can’t have good Health. The air you
breathe is poisonous; your system becomes
poisoned and invalidism is sure to come.
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his second, seized him by the arm and |
hurried him down the bank and into |
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I did not intend to tire at him."
At 2 the afternoon following be bad
breathed his last OFFICE
The Snake Stone.
In most accounts «f =nake charming
in India the snake stone plays an im-
portant part. When the charmer is bit-
ten the stone is applied to the bite and |
is supposed to aid iu his recovery.
Writing in the London Field, Lieuten- |
ant L. Mackenzie gives some notes on
two of these stones, which he bad the
opportunity of seeing. They were tri-
angular in shape. flat and rounded.
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Patents.
© with smooth polished black surfaces.
' before the twelfth century, and as late |
might be thrown out of the windows
of Paris and London after three times
calling out, “Look out!” Shirts were
ed.”
1580. Forks were unknown, and table
| manners were exceedingly “unsightly.”
Occupation of Idols.
Some strange occupations figure on
Indian census schedules. At the last
census in many villages of Halidarabad
and the central provinces enthusiastic
and devout enumerators returned the
| village shrines and temples as “sccu-
not known until! the time of the ecru-
| saders, and the fine clothes which la-
| dies and gentlemen wore were seldom
| washed, but only occasionally “scent-
So late as 1550 there were to be
found in Paris but three carriages,
while in England coaches date from
pled houses.” The occupant was the
idol, whose occupation was stated as '
“granting boons and blessings, living
on contributions from the tenants.”
Other callings returned on the sched:
ules include collectors of edible birds’
nests, receivers of
stolen goods, |
witches, wizards and cow poisoners.—
Pall Mall Gazette.
Stumbled on the Will,
Wills have often proved a stumbling
block to the novelist. One flagrant
case may be mentioned. A popular
writer causes an old aristocrat to have
his “last will and testament” witness-
ed by his butler and his housekeeper,
yet he makes them both benefit under
it. By so doing he renders the will
a But the author does not know
Every Woman's Privilege.
Mrs. Byram-—That's the kind of a
husband to have! Did you hear Mr.
Dike tell his wife to go and look at
some $100 hats? Mr. Byram--My dear,
have I ever deprived you of the priv-
lege of looking at $100 hatx?-Chicago
ews.
Venus will not charm so much with.
out her attendant graces ns they will
without her.—[ord Chesterfield.
They are said to come from the hills of
Tibet and to be the solidified saliva of | ET kee il
the markhor This animal is spoken | ian 116t aon A ronabie stent
of in Lieutenant Mackenzie's note as | ible. Communications are strictly
TENTS, TRADE MARKS, COPYRIGHTS,
&c. Anyone sending a sketch and de-
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the “Persian snake eater.” Its saliva | for en pacents. 60 vears experience. Pat-
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snake poison. The wmarkhor is a spe- | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN,
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Joan of Arc's Bell. 52-45-1y. 631 Broadway, New York.
In the cathedral church of Notre | Branch office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C.
Dame, Paris, there is a bell which | : -
dates from the days of Joan of Arc— Travelers Guide.
“the blessed bell” which sounded the | - err
tocsin when the Maid of Orleans ap- |
peared in August, 1420, and Paris was |
besieged by the English. This historic
bell, referred to by Vector Yugo in
ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Condensed Time Table effective June 19, 1911,
READ DOWN READ UP.
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the cathedral in 1400 by Jean de Mon- | No 1 No5 No 3 No 6 No 4 No 2
talgn. It was refoonded in 1686 and | | ____L_
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“And you like chicken. Sam? 1 »
“Gee! | certainly does, boss.”
“And you get 'em once in awhile?”
“Oh, sure, boss, | gets 'em.”
“How do you get ‘em, Sam?”
“Well, boss, yon know dat ol’ sayin’,
‘Love will find the way. ”-—Yonkers
ELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
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Quick Time. {No5{tNe3 Nel tNo2/tNo4 Noé
Ada—Men are slow! It took him on : - :
nearly two hours to propose to me
last night. Floss—And bow long did it
take you to accept him, dear? Ada—
Just two seconds.
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Consolation.
Binks—Confound it! I've gone and
sat down on that chair 1 varnished
this morning. Mrs. Binks— Well, for ;
once you've stuck to your work.—Bes-
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that means some-
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The
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Every Suit or Overcoat
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bought of us and not prov-
ing satisfactory to wearer,
we will refund the pur-
chase price, or exchange
as purchaser desires.
Do you know of a
safer way to buy
clothes? Do you know
of another store in
Central Pa. that can
show you as large an
assortment of Men's
and Boy's clothes as
you will see here? Do
you know a Men’
S
store in all Pa. that
sells any better
clothes than you see
here? Do you know
of a store any place
where prices are low-
er, Values Greater
than here.
Think this over. These
are all good reasons why
you should be a customer
of the Fauble stores.
FAUBLE'S
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
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