Bellefonte, Pa., December 5, 1913.
NAMED BY MISTAKE.
That Is What Happened to Three of
Vermont's Towns.
It is not often that a town is named
by mistake, but about 150 yeurs ago
this thing happened—not to one town.
but to three towns in Vermont. At
that time a grant of land was made by
New Hampshire to some Connecticut
settlers. This tract then, us now, was
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divided into three townships—Burling- |
ton, on the hillside of Lake Cham-
plain; Colchester; just north. and Wil-
liston, east. The three towns were
chartered on the same day, and it was
at this time that the names were
mixed.
The Burling family took up their
land In the north section (Colchester).
and it seems to Le true that their name
was to have been given the town. so
that it should have been called Bur
lington. Other settlers took up the
eastern portion (Williston), and the
rest remained in the part by the lake
(Burlington). Among these last was
the Willis family, und there is evidence
that they expected to call the city Wil-
liston. However, there was so much
confusion in the entering of the rec-
ords that the town where the Burlings
settled was called Colchester, the town
of the Willis family was named Bur-
lington, while the town to the east was
called Williston. And so they have
remained to this day.—Ladies’ Home
Journal,
Late at the Play.
We know from Pepys and from pas
sages In the plays of contemporary
dramatists that the manners of thea-
ter audiences in the restoration epoch
were not nice, but there is no reason
to believe that even the fops habitual
ly arrived at the theater late. Mr.
Sparkish, Mr. Novel and their fellows
would talk loudly while the play was
going on to show the superiority of
their wit to the poet's, but they likely
were on hand early to lose none of the
fun In later epochs of English the
atrical history theater going was a se-
glous undertaking, not a mere pastime.
One an tell from the beginnings of
old plays that the authors counted on
audiences closely attentive from the
first. Lady Randolph is the first speak-
er In “Douglas.” Orestes in “The Dis-
tressed Mother,” Almeirn in “The
Mourning Bride.” The custom of “play- |
ing the audience in" with a short piece
was of still later origin. Perhaps about
that time the habit of going late to the
theater became common. “Half price”
for late comers was a custom of Thack-
eray’s time.— Westminster Gazette.
Driving a Bargain.
Old Mr. Beeman was decidedly penn-
rious, but as his premises were hecom-
ing overrun with rats he decided to en-
gage a professional vat eatcher. when
the following conversation took place:
“There, Mr. Beeman.” sald the rat
catcher, “I've cleared your premises
of the varmints. and | take ‘em all
away with me. You'll have no further
trouble with rats, | assure you. and
you won't have to bother uhout the
dead ones either. I'll put ‘em right in
this box. The bill is $5."
Mr. Beeman peered anxiously over
the rims of his silver rimmed specta-
cles. “Don't I get anything for the
rats? he inquired.—Denver Repub-
Hean.
Reduced Him.
A London advertising expert was
praising in New York the change that
bas come over the advertisement. “In
advertising, as in other things.” he
sald. “it has been found that honesty
pays. and today, throughout the world, |
the successful advertiser is modest
and conservative in his statements.
Advertising is no longer mistrusted,
Things are no longer as they were in
Phatt's day, He weighed over 400
pounds, Well, he saw sun ad. in the pa-
per—'Fat folks reduced, $£5'—and he
answered it" “Did he get any reply?’
asked a listener. "Oh, yes: it was
Just as advertised.” “That's good.
How much was he reduced?’ “Why,
Just ns the advertisement sald—$5."
HOME MANNERS.
The old saying thst people never
know one another until they dwell
under the same roof is a true one,
for nothing so severely tests the
ispositi constant intercourse
the and tear of every
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‘This nappened to a social worker.
She had been interested in the case of
a needy family. The father had been
“sent up" several times for short terms
for minor offenses, but was now sup-
posed to be “out” and working at a
steady job. One day she thought to
Inquire.
“I haven't seen your father for some
time,” she remarked to the eleven-year-
old daughter. “What is he doing
now?
“1 think he's doin’ a year, mum.”—
New York Post.
Won Their Pargons.
and Pythins various reawons for tem-
porary release from jall have been giv.
en. It Is reluted that in the Napoleon-
lc era u soldier confined in a military
prison for a minor offense against the
service during a brief time of peace
was released in order that he might
be preseut ut the christening of his in.
fant son, born during his imprison-
ment. But Napoleon. in order to test
the intensity of the man's desire, made
him agree to serve a year longer for
the privilege of a three day furlough.
The soldier gladly did It and when
be returned found a pardon and a cor-
poral's warrant for his infant son, to
be valid when the son had “served
with credit six months in the emper-
or's army of the future.” Frederick
the Great released an audacious cap-
tu. under sentence of death so that
the captain might “tell him a few
beneficial things about himself.” The
things told fuce to face influenced the
great king to pardon the blunt death
defying soldier. -New York Sun.
Beecher Found Them.
Henry Ward Beecher used to visit
bis old friends once a year for many
years, but io the Iatter part of bis life
he was not able to do this. In his very
last vear, however, he was able to
spend a day in Indianapolis and went
round the place That evening he was
received by the ministers, and the
chairman in welcoming him said:
“Doubtless you find few of your old
friends here In Indianapolis after so
many years of absence. hut we who
are here welcome you just as warmly.”
Mr Beecher in reply said:
“Your chairman has xaid that | have
found few of my old friends here in
the ity. It i= true | found only Mr
—, Mr, — and Mr. —" (naming
four or tive of the oid men of the city).
“But this afternoon we drove out to
Cedar Hill" (the cemetery), “and |
found them They are all there. sleep-
ing just as peacefully as they used to
do under my sermons
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Speed of Animals,
According to the naturalists, no ani-
mal is known to bave exceeded the
speed attained by the famous race
horse Sysonby Instantaneous photo-
graphs show the full length of one
complete stride of about twenty-six
feet. In the stride of the fastest racers
the hind quarters and limbs are raised
considerably higher than the shoulders
and from this relatively great height is
brought downward and forward, wide
ly separating from each other, as a
sportsman says, “to avoid striking the
fore legs.” The hare which is hunted
with fast dogs has not in reality the
speed of the dog The dog. on the other
hand. does not attain the speed of the
horse The giraffe is sald to run at the
rate of fifteen yards per second under
the most favornbie conditions. The
elephant, going at a rate of two yards
a second. earries a weight approximat-
ing that carried by six horses.
Perpetual Silence,
A curious mourning custom obtains
among central Australians. who, al- |
though representing perhaps the low-
est and most degraded type of human
beings. have managed to evolve a most :
complex system of rites and ceremonies
which governs almost every action of
their lives When a husband dles the
widow paints berself all over with '
white pigment and for the space of a
year must not exhibit herself to a male
member of the tribe on pain of death.
For the rest of her life, unless she mar-
ries again, which is sometimes allowed,
she must not spenk. but communicate
with the other women by means of a :
sign language, consisting of move
ments of the hands and fingers. which
has been developed by these savages to
a marvelous extent and by which their
limited stock of ideas can be fully ex-
pressed.
Fancy Mice,
That the rearing of fancy mice can
be made not merely an interesting
hobby. but also a source of substantial
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the past in the fact thut Henri Roche- |
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and In that character presented a have 3 2
poem, together with a letter of lntro- : with of happiness
less =» literary master Pierce's Favorite
than Berauger, Whose reply. cusetully | the pain ad Testored th |
preserved by the distiuguished journal. | following SION:
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“ical be roe Beranger wrot, | (ESosburt Centr). Enon, Vi, writes:
“that you are only sixteen? If I bad ' brought me great relief. During the
written verses so well turned at that | page 1 found f t and in
age | should indeed have believed that rapidly tailing heal 1 dread-
a greut destiny wus in store for me. fully bloating and urinary difficulty.
But then you college gentlemen are
brought up, as it were, in forcl
houses. whereas when | wus sixteen
hardly knew how to spell. Remember, | Jout twel
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development of your faculties and do | your instructions. I began to im
uot be too uplifted by vanity at the | immediately, my heal
praises of an old rimer, dazzled by your : lent, and | RL
compliments.”
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And the letter concludes with a com. and rode all I could, and enjoyed it. I.
mendation to the young aspirant to re- | had a short, easy confinement, and have
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turn to his studies and not to chal | Fneaithy baby boy.
lenge serious criticisin by premature |
: ——Have your Job Work done here.
publication. Wesmiuster Gazette. | — sm
To See Through Paper. | Medical.
A very remarkable experiment which |
any one can repeat with very little |
trouble has been unearthed by a Ger- |
man. Take a plece of paper of such |
thickness that when it is laid upon a i
plece of printed matter the characters
Just show through, but cannot be read.
Placing it over a printed sheet. impart
to it a circular motion to and fro, and
to your surprise you will find that now :
you can read the print below the pa- Corroboration
per. It is rather dificult to expla'n this |
peculiar effect The explanation of-
fered is that the paper has thin places | For months Bellefonte citizens have
in it. and by rapidly moving it over the Ban these Lowimus enthusiastic praise
print every part of the printed matter { dents, ran prominent people
remedy that had not proven
is exposed in turn underneath one or recommenda Bot p
the other of the thin places in the pa- | reliable? Would they confirm ars
per. and thus the entire print can be |
rend. However that may be, the ex- |
periment is Interesting and very sim. |
ments after elapsed if personal
at the Jeme 0
the mind of every reader:
ple, requiring for its performance only | Mrs. John Andress, 245 S. St.,
the simplest means imaginable —New | firm the pu A ah 1 gave 's
York Press. | Kidney two years ago, after
| had benefited me I
i this remedy at Green's Co.,
Helping Her Mamma.
The Youngs had dropped In unex-
pectedly upon the Baileys just as din-
ner was about to he served Mother.
who was somewhat disturbed. called |
Helen aside and explained that there |
would not he oysters enough to go
round and added “Now. you and I| fnclyfor Doaw's Kidney Pills, the
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will just have sowe of the broth. And! of testimony. 50c_all stores.
please do not make any fuss about it at Roster Milburn Co. | is a, Buffalo. N.
table.” 1. Der the Name." seme v 58-42
Littl: Helen promised to be good and
say nothing. But when the oysters
were served Helen discovered a small
one that had been accidentally ladled
up with her broth. She could not re-
member any instructions that covered
this contingency, so, after studying the
situation awhile, she held the oyster
up as high as she could on her spoon
Hardware.
OF INTEREST TO BELLEFONTE READERS,
and piped out: !
“Mamma. mamma, shouldn't Mrs.
Young have this oyster too?’ — New °
Te Holiday
| Educate the Left Hand.
Dr. Haenkel, a well known German G ]
physician, writing in the Hamburg
Nachrichten, recommends the educa-
tion of the left hand as a method of
mental development by bringing the
right lobe of the brain into activity.
He xayx that in this way we can add
60 per cent to our power and that the Sleds
left hand is actually more deft and has
a more delicate touch than the right. Skates
The violinist and the pianist exact the
same service from both hands. and Percolators
many of the grentest artists. such as .
Leonardo dn Vinci. Holbeln and Lund Nickle Ware
seer. were ambidertrons. The Japa
nese are taught In school to use both Safety Razors
| bands alike, and. says Dr Haenkel, .
“thelr astonishing manual dexterity Pocket Knives
and military genius. | believe, are
| traceable to this alone.” O-cedar Mops
Rochefort Was Reckless. Bissells Sweepers
The late Henri Rochefort was a good .
| deal of a man. although we may smile Electric Sweepers
| At some of the Gallic eccentricities that
marked his cyclonic career. Rochefort Sure Edge Razors
profit, is illustrated by the experience | did one of the finest physial feats on
of a Scarborough (Englands man, bun. ' record when he escaped fron Cayenne.
dreds of whose tiny pets tind thelr way | to which inferno he bad been sentenc- |
annually into the hands of the British | ed for life He was by no means a |
admiralty Tame mice are required | young man at the time. but he swam '
principally for use In submarines : for over three miles in a sen infested
They are exceedingly prone to suffoca. With sharks. some of them following
tion. The Scarborough fancier, Mr | him all the way and actually snap
Beanland. flinstrated this by covering Ping at him Six years later be fought |
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the palm of his band with ordinary 8 serious duel in defense of his sor | ¥
liquid paint and placing a tame mouse | And was badly wounded.— Argonaut.
on it The tiny creature was at once |
overcome by the smell of the paint and | Identifying Himself,
suffocated in an incredibly short time | It is said that ut certain seasons in
| Scotland when the fishing is not very
i Byron's Habits. | brisk the fishermen act as caddies and
| While Byron was in Ravenna, Italy. are eusily recognized by their costume.
he adopted strange habits. It was his | 8 Woollen jersey and trousers braced
custom to rise at 2 in the afternoon. | UP to the armpits. One of these was
| breakfast and ride and dine at 6 | asked his name by the gentleman for
Then he would sit and talk until 5 or | Whom be was carrying and the reply |
6 in the morning. or, If no company | Was. “Weel, hereabouts they maistly
| were there. he would write a bit of A ¢a' me ‘Breeks.’ but ma ‘maiden’ name |
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Magazines, Etc.
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| “Don Juan” But his life was like
that of Aubrey Benrdsiey— upside down
—the day was the night.
In Training,
“Have you been to sea In the last six
. or eight years?"
“Not exactly,” replied the mariner.
“but I'm not out of practice. Every
evening | go to the ciub and spend
, hours In a rocking chair whese motion
has given many men seasickness.”—
Washington Star
Eugenics.
The self made man was speaking. He
said: “My father was a raiser of hogs.
There was a large family of us” And
then his voice was drowned by the
applause. — Life.
We can do what we ought to do.
and when we say we cannot, why, we
simply will not.
i is ‘Broon.’
An Apt Retort. i
| “Fools sometimes ask questions that |
| wise men cannot answer.” remarked
the professor in the course of his lec- |
ture !
“Then that explains why so many of
us get plucked in our examinations,”
said the @ippant student.--Home Notes.
Spring Cleaning.
Jimson—I do spring cleaning at all
seasons of the year. Jackson—How's
that? Jimson—I'm a watchmaker.—
London Tit-Bits.
Opportunity.
Hewitt—Opportunity knocks once at
every man's door Jewett—And it
ought to have enough sense to sing
the bell.—-Judge.
Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.~Thomas Jefferson.
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Clothing.
«IN THE...
hristmas Season
A Young Man’s Fancy Turns to
Thoughts of New Apparel.
The man in search of an Overcoat of distinctive
style will find types of marked individuality here.
Exclusive fabrics and serviceable models are
shown in a broad assortment of coats of the Eng-
lish variety at $15.00 to $25.00.
Warmth and comfort are combined with medi-
um weight. Of roomy, generous design, they will
prove the ideal garment for general utility.
FAUBLE’S
58 The Up-to-Date Store.
Yeager’s Shoe Store
“FITZEZY”
The
Ladies’ Shoe
that
Cures Corns
Sold only at
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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