THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED KU RTZ, . Editor. Osta Hari, Pa., Fa 1383, Demooratic County Committee, NW 1.7A Shaffer dacob Runkle Wm, Harper <andiord lehman Bellefoute * Alexander Howard Bo rou Milesbn ie ye Boron reek nal William 1x hier Honry IL Barnhat Weaver Fast . : Me Cormick ARSON, . I W Walker wire, North ; aawiohn Hosman Greg. south. ohn ¥ Condo : Haines, East bw Orador! Haines, West. asswasatdl i Hail Moon ssunnsanusd Harris James Ww mawabb Howard. on — hiael Confer Charles Marray I1 Delong ~oJohn Ishier Reuben Kramer Leo, W Behrs Samuel Ard . das nes A Ke ler oseph Gilliland NON, Snow Shoe Nuaw Shoo, | Spring Tay! SUCKWH Was Done Whils the Bird-Owner Wen What to Dinner—Insauity. knows the genial itv hail who owns SO canary min a big cage at his » South park, and it takpgs half ood] to keep the little yellow re Li ive from week to week w day the bird-owner went at din- t an's in Ferry street half-pech g filled with choice returning to the city hall, his desk, Then some him to walle across the y other friendly eat in the bag for sharp got r and then id liot at the ;whent, Next iis clerical du- of the mistake that when 12 urn the bn wk Then walk across jew with the of the y tho see absence Ary resumed ¢-clerks pon them Oo posed fo ret e the ssedman thunder. led upon to again nr bis inter turned rd man § ' the setoniehed woudl: ve tne buckwhaat for? ing th MI. red at the seed bay on his hands and and oh sug- " Conary reply and fol- YW hile he wos buckwheat Kk, and say rosie going Relies Fond on Draddock’s Field. On the north yore the Monongahela where the Brit defeat, I have oe excellent stone up in a small , which I think river, a short distane fab trooms Crosses afte Lifferent Che speciments. A ravine that cuts into the : was a favorite place for the manufacture of stone imple ts by the Indians I believe this from Bav foun! consicierable quanti- ties of chips of flint and a few weapons that appear | their manu- factire evidently made by a process of or chipping. lifully applied blows of a properly stone. In this art the aboriginal manufacturers were very export. The blows were apparently made vertically to the sur- face of , and the fragments chipped off so as to produce a poayiiar conchoidal fracture, which is characteristic of all genu- ine examples, In some instances the weapons thus formed were smoothed by rubbing, but seldom sufliciently to efface the marks of the chipping Only when made of soft matecial, such as slate, were they highly polished, and then probably only for sym- bolle or ornamental purposes. In my collee- tion of the Braddoes. field implements are four pieces consisting of bored stone, Two of them are finished with much skill and care, One of them has some interesting carvings in the shape of a wolf's head. The collection also contains somes specimens of broken pottery, which are especially inter esting from the archaic charactor of their ornamentation. This consists of parallel etraizht lines, sometimes in two crowing wories, and of rows of rude pits. There is no curved or angular lines, and no simpler or rudder idea or ornament eonld be conceived, wor, Pittsbarg Commercial Gazette, Hinstrations for the Dally Papers. “This pictorial business in the dally papers ie something of recent origin,” remarked an artist connected with Harper's Weekly, “It is purely an American idea, so far as I know, The London papers, with the exception of The Pall Mall Gazette, confine themselves to maps of the countries wherein the English armios are engaged in war, It remained for the Americans to make illustrations a de- partment of the dadly papers, “Iho New York Star, I believe, was the first paper to make the portraits a feature of the delly issue, Then came The New York Truth, and following after came The New York World, and a Philadelphia and paper. At first the portraits were simply chopped out. the likeness to the original not being apparent. Later more care was taken, although the Poor quality of thie spring pring broken in implements were pecking by ski haped tim stone PIrOCesR she pletures. "88, Paul Pioneer Press “ COLONTAL COINAGE. FREE AND EASY OLD TIME MINTS OF OUR COUNTRY The E Amerien— A Silversmith's nrliest Colin Struck for Shillings Mint and Six pences—Massnchusetts’ Mr. Jefferson's Report—Bullion. The America was a brass muda or Bummer islands, in 161 and enrliest coin struck for shilling, for the Ber On the the legend, very obverse side a how “Sam XIL under M asens shilling. John Hull was the 11:int stood on his land pieces struck were WAS mer Island.” with On the reverse was a gail firing 8 gun In H hysetts the Pine mint master and in Boston, The mere planchets, stamped on one side N. KE. and on the other with the X1ild, Vid, Id October 10, 1652, U3 yoars ago, the Pine Tree money was On the ehverse was a pine tree, In closed by n with the legend, “Massachuscets in” and on the reverse a double ring and “New England, An. Dom." with the date in figures and the denomina tion occupying the field within the inner circle. Ten vears later a twopenny piece was added to the list. The coinage was dis- ventinued in 168, but strangely it all bears the date 1652 the shillings, sixponces, pnd three rile all the twopennies are inated 1t Virgil the value, ship, coined i ree value, just 2 coined, double ring OTR in in 1773 bad 8 well-executed cop- Ee In the reign of George 1 a coinage was fasued for America by Great Britain, The pisces were known as “Hosa Ameri and were of mixed metal resembling bra In 1753 a silversmith in Annapoll began the manufacture of shi pences and threepences. The shilling had the obverse two clasped ha legend, “I. Chalmers, A on the i in another their beaks During the period of the 1775-1787, the power to vested not only in the per cont MINAS, field a serpent and branch in nnapolis” The reverse has in one part two birds holding a confederation coin wns but money federal oom Many of in ross, in the several «tate took advantage of 1t June, 1755, Ve Coins In ben Har money for sue oCOpper rmont gave to Hen to make copper te for two years, Hs men rat started a mint that be Vermont consi and made comnts we an all ited to Hopki orld § ig at to oon L this app red 1 fn Hive branch modified, appeared inter after the adont sstitution coin dns, smoun The firg iver coins wore 15 of that vear, There was a vex, In 1798 the dime and quarter dolla were added to the silver coinage. Ti consisting of small coinage of hal dollar appeared in 155 The coinage of th pended till 154 and was not 1296. In 1851, the This, the List : The shilling and 4 61 worn coined hy the U Htates, A great many experimental have been fsued that were not of the au thorized coinage. The shillings and «ix ponces coined by the states were long in cir » silver d cont to the coinage with ¢ coins, completes the federal minta be eg cert nitevi never cnlation, but we have not seen: one current for more than thirty years—8an Francisco Alta Where the Pecan Tree Flourishes, The pecan tree, in the United Bates, grows chiefly in Louisiana, Texas, and In dian territory. The nuts grown in Louisiana rank the first in quality. These nuts are shipped to all parts of the United States, and into Canada. There is no European market for them. The trees grow from sixty to seventy feet in height, sometitnes higher They yield a heavy and durable wood, French Report on Hydrophobia. In a report on hydrophobia, lately made to the Academie de Medecine by M. Leb lanc, attention was called to the fact that the disease increases in proportion to the lax application of the prefectorial laws conoarn- ing dogs. In Berlin, where the laws are ex- ecuted with precision, there was not a case of hydrophobia during the past year New York Sun. Helloing © Over a Hundred Millen Telephonic communication has been es tablished between Paris and Rheims, a dis tance of about 115 miles, and the transmis sion of sound Is said to be perfect. Five minutes’ conversation costs 1 franc, and in five minutes each party can say some 500 words, Fons Than Fifty Years Ago. As lute as 1108 a child of 9 was sentenced to be hanged in England for poking a stick through a patched-up pane of glass and stealing © pence worth of paint, but he was not executed, Dairy Business of the Country. The capital invested In the dairy business of the United States is to be over 200,000,000 and to employ about 700,000 won wd 1,000,000 horses A Mongolian musician in Nevada City saws off “Swot By-and-By” on a Chinese Bddle without missing a note, Electric lighting of mines i the tlracite gion is pronounced a failure, - sale atMurray's d rug store, if A “Troe Blue” White Thirty Din rs this tu to tne pa Elephant, rinese soldiars sit ut the entrance ery tnoveroent of bis highness, the Sin-pyoo-daw, with the pro- toundest interest. The elephant is a light mouse - color, with leprous looking flesh- color] forehead, and trunk mottled with Blick sot [lis small end wicked looking ey a vallow in the lave wad watch ov reddish uraping there did unt any “pints” those of any riter ventured 1o re The il nbwoiny iris, with a ¢ Twain's § frogs, different from shant, and the w attendant Tha i the mat the a true white elep! ils on each of his his number of and pinkish eve hi he possess all of these pre uliaritl i wiared perfect un sex upon him, he does 1 ra red —Cor., Chloe ertain a whi eves be d When Baby waa sick, we gave Ler Castoria, When she was a Child, she eried for Castoria, When she became Mins, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoris, nn yi gun wh and sud,’ at.” The i t Lhe 1} David Kennedy 8 i nd Prise i i A o>» on thie other dav wishing 10 be polite in enters k. put has light at eanght fire f the of tarned and but for CEE t wife regren if, Park-rs Hair ba wilstoptih a was save tertore thie ceprionniiy pret feet Yirar fapift gional gles and colur, Ex. clean, dressing eb --— SVs Were 10 days each in county while « man ¢ & revolver receive ¥ ken it A KX months ent ot Cs wd OTT'S COD LIVER Aci Sia EMULSION OF PURE Oil. WITH [2 Used in Lun De, Hiram Cadoretio, anf Jacksonville, Fla, seys: “l have for the last ten months preseribed your Emulsion, to pa- tien's suffering from lopg troubles, and they seem to Le greatly | enefited by ils nee.” feb - de - A toarriage license has been granted at fancaster to a boy of 19 and a girl of 15 years, It is the youngest couple to whom a license has been granted io that court 2 Troubles i - “ It is worth remembering that nobody enjoys the nicest surronnpings if in bad health. There are miserable people sbont to-day with one foot in the grave, to whom a bottle of Parker's Tonic would do more good than all the doctors and medicines they ever used, fol ——— - The last of the thirty-nine persons killed by the explosion at the Newburg Mines was recovered on 27 alt, ltd cians Samaritan Nervine, the great nerve conquerer is invaluable in nervous pros- tration, “My God bless yon," said Rev. W. L. Martin, of Mechanicstown, MA, “Samar- jtan Nervine cured my tte” $150 at droggists, AoA I i ASAI The Boliemian outs swindlers have in. vaded Adama county. as . Dag... Ta H. Hand, Mich, C.J Ix oosbury pub- listiesa the “Nows, and mm Him columns strongly recommends Dr. Thonss' Ee lectic Od for conglin, colds, sore throats, eatarrh and asthe, A SA IB AP SATIS SOBA Wedanot mnnd a needless alarm when wo tell youl that the tint of serof- ula is in your blond, Inherited OF pes quired, it is there, and Ayer's Sareaparil- 1a alone will ¢Tacinally eradicate it, eB Nervous weakness, female amnplaints, Tons of ap etite, imngaor wand general de. ression of & itita oan be readily cored oh the vee of Keller's Ostareh Betrrdys i 0111 PRERLEN'T ), \Y dl) A. GLENN & C ; ley Have inst Received a Large Assortment of SILVE "WARE, GOLD PENS AND Pion © Revolvers, &¢. A complete line of CUTLERY at » HATIR, 3 N= : gs pat IP ADT er %y v1 “5%. > slLYe ry AND Ss lcizl SPECTACLES, all €iz%8 selection of GOLD J SIL] ER VW. azo HESa alwai RO KFORD WATCH," HY hotton » ¥ SP 2 gil Humber ve IS (1! t han . 4 fine 1 Legr™ Ave } 1 celebrated +43 f= Call and se he new CLI vi WING MACHINES. represented a ES Sf fi 6 Sa a a a HARPER & KREAMER, # (‘entre bull, and Children. “Castoria is so well adapted to children that { recom for Infants Castoria enres Colle, Conptipation, Sour Stomach, 1 arrher a, Ero Kills W« , Gives sloep, and po ronotes die gration Vikbout injurious medication. mend it as superior to any proscription Ror $0 me.” JH. A Ancnen, 3.1 11 Bo. Oxford BL Brooklyn, X.Y Tus Coyrarn Cox 152 Falt - FVAAS BRROTIIER AMIssioN MERCHANTS, leiphia, iid be | NARSAPARILLA, 18 Re SC ROFULA fin fe a fo out i will ¢ vert U5 tran AVARILLA. leo the ouly one that 4 AYES Ban ion i» moet popuisr Weekly newpaper devoted (8 w 3 LT 4 ALSAM ence, mechanion, PRFinecTing disooveries, ine : ns and pies ever publiel od. Every num- : we opting favorite for « remdng y illoetrated with splendid engravings. This Ea ‘ cloviag fe on Hiieation furnishes & lwost valuable encyolopadia ¥ 3 wi ray, wad prey ig Dan : reastion which no serson shoul 1 be without wal i Le Dhecases, 7 y ! {| The popularity of the BOm=TIrIC AMERICAN 8 and i= i enol Liat ita cireglation nearly ¢ qu s that of all Ro 1A oiber papers of its close oom od. Price, E15 a Font Nuconnt to Clubs, Sok 8!l pewsdoaiers, alli MUNK & CO, Pablishers, No. 36 Broadway, NY. reid a len, shattered Munn & Co hava i ne oe ATENTS. 5H oi i Melanc! ‘ i ® Eight ygars ST WS. ¢ Weakne anguor, practice eve Fores, and Je al Ihe. fhe Patent Office and have wpared RA | odd ‘ sore than One Hundred Yhoy~ oo + . wd and applicatio wx for patents in Lhe pn PaNea Blutes apd foreign countries, sifer from it Cavenss, Trade-Marks, Copy-righis, ils Assignments, snd ali other papers for ¢ Puri senting 10 inventors their rights in the yew vitadil; i i sats United States, Censds, Fagiand Fravoe, 1, is Germany and other foreign counties. pre. visitor from § 4 von rensonabie terme ; » pated at short notios snd a ad rption, anarill Information an to obtaining paten vor arsapariiia, EEPARED BY or othe wh, Yi fully given without charge. « & Co. Lowell, Mass, oh hy 4 well underanod by a'l persons Who wish to die you swe. 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Something for all, Noautifal and Sabetantial Preminms in Giandard Gold and other Watches, Valuable Pooaka, the Dest Pamily Sewing Machine inown to the trade, and sn unequaled led of objoota of real utility sud instrustion, Rates, by Masl, Postpaid: CAILY, per Year (without Sunday) $6 00 DAIL 4 Joe Month (without Sunday) UND « por Year re EVERY Day IN THE YEAR 7 00 PR KLY, peor Year - . . i 00 = Address, THY SUK, Kew York City. A HAAN A SIRE 000 LIVER OL Bod Hypophospits of Lime & Soda Almost as Palatable as Milk, The only proparation ration of Con LIVER OIL that eats he taken readily aad tolessted for un lumg time bry delicate slomencia, AXD AS A LEREDLY «0% oO i= AT PTO Bi PTY oC] oie i mi! :, Jed ART 4 20d rye 1) Yiivaitiung gomstitlon £4 TNG Wy FoR 9 sal ey a DrucaisTs. RANBOY RUFTURE ns i w vod into and a peeled yo tained, nev “ Xyus Be Won Dar and Sit pi J ford ony : i for giveniaf with toatl sith i owtedal ere vared Bo tha aie hoi Bp RL wpe 13 iy mk 1 FS Ry Wee 8 oh hich Bian Alro Dealer in NO. 1 FULL ROLLER PR(CESS FLOUR. Also Keeps (he Calebinted ++. ORIEXTAL ROLLER FLOUR.... woptl tf a — A A Crxren Dasa Muar Manksr.~The Centre Halil Meat market having a re. frigerator Gomi ties oan at all thos be sup plied with fresh weats, «f the test qual ity, also bologna samage, Next door t» hotel 3 opan day sud es pang, Idmay of Hrxay »
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