The Recorder.
CENTRE HALL,
Micisanisnaoms sma
PA,
Merchants in Belginm are urging
their Government
the duties on raw cotton and
those on manufactured goods.
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to reduce greatly
increuse
The thorny question, “Should an
Ants- Vivisectionist Lat Meat?”
been the subject of a debate by
London Vegetarian
ciety.
has
the
Sos
(England)
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The loeal authorities in some of the
Italian
alarmed at the excessive emigration
of the
coming less and less frequent.
country districts are grossly
peasantry. Marriages are be-
A recent writer ealls attention to the
Swiss method of insuring an interest
in elections. A fine of about 20 cents
is laid on those who abseut themaseives
from the polls on election days.
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The Royal Dotany Society of Eng-
land is anthority for the statement
that 110,000,000
500,000,000 use tea and 2,000,000 use
people use coflee,
coffee-ten, or prepared coffee leaves.
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State Senater Durban of Wyoming,
gays that “rustlers” have ruined the
cattle business in that State, and that
a war of extermination is likely tc
goon be begun against the thieves by
ranchimen,
es —————————
The University of Derlin, Germany,
with 6000 students and scores of
famons professors,
but £720,000, Its |
that of Countess
£150,000,
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Editor De Young of
cisco Chronicle, one of
its
has a capital of
rest endowinent,
Dose, is
the ouly
the San Fran
the commise-
sioners of the Columbian Exposition,
thinks it would be a good idea for the
government to coin silver pieces of the
value of fifty cents, which might be
used to pay the price of admission to
the Fair.
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te London (England) Iorticul-
tural
bv asserting that American apples arg
Times caused some alarm
HE
poisonous, owing to the limbs ol
trees being syringed with chemical
insects. A de-
Board of Trade
the * importation of
golutions to destroy
maad is made that the
shonld restrict
apples, as in the cas» of pork.
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Miss Willard, the
ance crusader, pays a high tribute to
the quest and to the work of women
ecially
Frances temper-
who wield the quill. She s
favors those newspaper women whose
n
i
the por.
quills are not borrowed from
3
i
cupine, but rather from the wing of
some angel seeking to raise humanity
to a higher plane. In a humorous
vein Miss Willard
writers to use quills taken either from
the of the
American eagle.
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exhorts women
dove or from the wing
becoming
of United
circulated
Canadian bankers are
alarmed at the gunantity
States money that is being
in their province, amd have resolved
to petition the Canadian Parliament to
impose a tax of 10 per cent. upon it.
No doubt, cominents the New Orleans
New Delia, the people who use it as a
medinm of exchange will have some-
thing to say about this, as it is purely
a scheme for the benefit of the bank-
ers who derive a large profit from the
cirenlation of their own notes, which
would greatly increase if American
money were driven out of the country.
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A United
that no armor
that will turn an enemy's shot fiom
Recent
100-ton
naval officer says
devised
S.aies
fins yet been
the enormous modern guns,
experiments
show
with English
guns that 16-inch projectiles
through 44 and one half feet of de.
fensive material, consisting of layers
of sieel, iron, granite, concrete and
brick work of various thicknesses,
Such guns have been found too un-
wieldy for advantageous use on ship-
board. The limit of size is said to be
13-inch 60-ton guns,
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Considerable difficulty was experi-
enced recently by the Frenchmen who
paid the King of Dahomey his annual
pension of $4000, becanse Le could
count only as high as one hundred,
Eventually the silver, in which the
pension was paid, was done up in
packages of twenty five-franc pieces
each (equalling $20), and these pack.
ages were delivered one by one to the
forty chieftains whom the king
"had summoned to see that he was not
swindled. Upon the delivery of each
~ package the chieftain who kept book
Jaid aside a shell. When forty shells
had been laid aside, the bookkeeper
indicated to the other chieftains that
the payment was complete, and all
then affixed crosses to the receipt pro.
sented by the French agent.
ER IN THE WORLD,
Miss Kittie Wilkins Tells How She
Got Into the Business and Gives
Interesting Information on Range
Breeding.
Miss Kittie Wilkins enjoys the distine- |
tion of being the only the
United States whose sole occupation is
horse-den Sho is a tall and stately |
blonde, with a profusion of light golden |
eves,
woman in
'
ine.
regular features
firmness
hair, ¢lear blue
and a moth and chin denoting a
no doubt acquired in her business. ‘A
head for business and an eve on the
world,” one could truthfully Her
manners are perfectly lady-like, though
frank; i tne.
tainted, and she possesses a great fue.
Miss Wilkins,
say.
somewhat her language is
ulty for conversation,
. one of
ranches in Southwestern
Brown River, in
Ihey have now on the ranch
season's sale, 2.000 head of |
the largest
Id tho, on Owy hve
after this
horses ane 1,000 cattle. The horses have |
bred
wight from
blood in them. are from
American mares originally br
They
trotting stallions;
good judges say the horses formally
brought by her to St. Louis are furabove
t
and
the averaee Western horses, chiefly from
fifteen to sixteen hands high and from
are shown and sold in the
rough, as not
one of them hus ever tasted grain or hay
until they are rounded up for shi
Miss Witkins, whon intervyi
‘Now, I don't ee why it
should interest the
owed ¥y Bu
, ctor zi 3c}
reports Fy BORG
usiness in ne i
Mississippi
cago, al
York i
Riv
long way in giving the ange ani
bred out there strong lungs to siart
Then the whole country is underia
a n of i
nates
limestone which
only the
even the
not gptings and
{
courses but grass itseil, a
abundance of fume
plenty o
climate i= such that horses and cattle
run out of doors the year around.
i the
increasa
larger stallions; if our colts
course, this
f bone. and of good qua
it we
wish to size of our horses
we secur
become too leggy we employ stout, com.
pact standing on short legs.
When we find we have sufficient size and
substance we turn our attention to style
and action. I hold that in open-air
breeding we can obtain just as good re.
sults ns those who treat their colis like
Of course, much can be done
by special preparation, and forced in|
the direction of early marsrity, and this |
is nll very well for high-priced trotters
and race-horses,
“Now, | will give you my reasons why |
I beiieve in range breeding for horses
for every day use. In the first place
they are always in the open air and
breathe no impurities and take into their |
stallions,
babies
system no germ of disease and take all}
the exercise nature intended. You will,
perhaps, understand the principles of
this when I tell you in our whole herd we
haven't an animal with spavin, ringboue,
curb or splint, while distemper, pinkeye,
epizootic and such ailments are equally
unknown. In time, 1 suppose, this
range will be surveyed and divided np,
and ultimately this system of growin
stock on big ranges will come to an end,
but you cun rest assured that by that
time the range system will have produced
a stock of horses that will be found
hardy, sound and thoroughly salable,”
(8t. Louis Republic.
A Rest at Any Price.
A stot} is going the rounds on the
South Side which makes a weli-known
society young man and a millionaires
rotty Saughior the principal characters
” au rather lnughable comedy.
accompanied the young lady to hr home
on Friday evening, and, as all trae
lovers do, lingered vet a little while at
the gate to have a lover's tete-a-tete
with his fair companion. The night
wns beautiful, no one near to intrude,
and, above all, he loved, Why shouldn't
she kiss him?
With meidenly modesty she refused
she still withheld from
piness, The request wos repeats 1 sen
thnes, and so engrossed did ths
failed to notice the approach of a pa
The who had
there himself, and did not care
old gentleman, been
quis tly stopp wl behind a convenient
rosebush aud waited, thinking the young
soon leave. In this he
The tarried over the
request until the patience of the
renticman was exhausted A
young couple well knew nr
om their happiness in a tone of
man would Wiis
mistaken. lover
oid
voice the
waged them
! in-
patient nner by BLY ing
“* Alice, kiss the ve
Chicag
by
him go home! y Inter-Ucean.
THE AFRICAN BUSH.
A Land Where Silence
Frightful,
To see this land typieall
OUISEDIN ol
height on a
crosture stirs
pours down its ray
covered lens
driver has g
Dushes and the
the
lank out vo
it 18 sa intensd
tent of the wage
Prehistorie Canals,
Prehistoric irrigation canals in Ari.
na are really worthy of more notice
Fhe Salt
and Gila River valleys are intersected
by n
in is usually given them
vet network of these canals, which
antedste, at least, the arrival of Coro
nado in 15062, for he
ruins and the traditions of
regarding a once dense population in
this region. Modern engineers cannot
improve upon the lines of these cana's,
nor in the selection of points of diver
from the rivers. The first irriga-
in this seetion, the one that
has made Phenix, with its present §
lation of 206K), : followed
lines of ono of the e 0 d + annls
Their extent may be appreciated when
ver Valley
mentions thea
the Indians
ion
tion canal
apa.
simply the
once aggregated over 200,000 acres, and
the cann's themselves, with their Internals,
kauve esceeded 1.0MX) miles in
This country is filled with pre-
rains, with walls of stone or
fragments of pottery, shell ormaments,
stone implements and other remains of n
in its aggregate. —{ Engineering News,
An Impromptu Dress Coat.
“About eight years ago.” raid Auditor
Joseph Brown to the 8t. Louis Chronicle,
of was in Lowlon, England. One day 1
bought a stall to see Patti at the Royal.
A stall corresponds to our boxes, When
the evening came I took the ladies around
and walked in at the door. Bat I did
not get far. ‘You cannot come in here,’
said the doorkeepor. ‘Why not?’ [asked
in surprise; ‘here are my seat tickets.’
‘Well, you cannot enter,’ he replied, de-
cisively; ‘your coat is a frock, and noth.
ing but dress saits are allowed.” I eox.
postulated. 1 told him that my hotel was
u long way off and that the ladies would
be greatly disappointed. Iwas an Ameri.
can and did not know the rule of the the
I'he young man, who is noted for his
handsome ria winning voice,
atre. Finally he told me to go into the
dressing room, where the nttendants
might perhaps be able to fix me out all
right. 1 went, expecting to pay two or
three crowns for the loan of un cont. The
feltow looked at me a moment, whipped
n pin from his lapel, and pinned my coat
tails back, and I found myself in evening
diess. 1 gave the man bulf a crown.”
Pennsylvania Pelt-Hunters,
and hunters of
the Lebanon aud sehuvikill
now reaping their harvest by
skins of the
valent in Berks,
' Lehigh,
them to some of
thie
skunks, opossums,
other
ounties for their fur
The amateur trappers
valleys are
BOCUring
iid animals Bid
Montgom
and other coun
the small w
Lebanon,
ery, Lancnst
ties, and sending
leading
foses,
furriers in Country
Fuecooaus,
me skrats, and animals caught in
5
alone number
thousands annually. In a single season
teading denlers have alone purchased
furriers as high us 20,000 10
and other
SOAK) skins, unimnls
these
have been exceeding y ple utiful, and the
| Lis 5 et
shipments have been very heavy. Some
New York to the centers of
ir tra in Germany and elsewhere,
ind there prepared wecording to methods
i
with which th ae f iversant,
Greater Than Niagara,
s Jatest
brador
he
Philadel;
Kenaston, of W
New 3 ork inst Jit
the existence of
little more than fra
thre
eYeR Were
until months af
gladdened by a sight of th
Mr. Bryant describes the
magnificent The roar
almost impossible,
groat falls,
falls as truly
makes conversation
and they are more thas
Niagara. Anaroid measurements
made, carefully checked by other meas.
we the falls. The
188 feet at an angie o
thirty degrees over ite rocky bed, The
abrupt deacent of the water is 316 foet,
and the river here i= from 100 to 200
foot wile. The column of mist that
arises is very striking unl ean be seen
nt a great distance. The banks are ox.
tremely rugged, Photographs were
tnken., The return journey to the const
was made in seiea days, while it had
twice ns igi ns
were
urements, abo " rive
r
f
Louis Republic,
Home-made Tooth Powder.
——
Some of the best powders {or the teeth
are prepared at home. A simple old |
a ix made of pure charcoal pound.
ed and sifted and mizxel to a paste with |
water flavors] with myrrh, if you like |
the slightly bitter refreshing flavor. 11)
a charcoal paste is used, abundance of
water should be used to riuse the mouth, |
as nothing is more objectionable than a |
residue of black streaks left sometimes
by this powder. Equal paris of prepared |
chalk, powdered pumice stone and pul.
verized orris root make a good paste,
There is no better wash than the well |
known one of a few drops of myrrh dis. |
solved in a tablespoonful of water, bat |
where this is not ble there are
many delicious washes now found for
sale which are equally valuable.—~{New
York Tribune,
White satin ribbons are usel on ful
dress bonnets,
A Musical Well.
One of the most curious wells in the
West is on the place of Henry M. Hen-
derson, on Oakes avenue, This well can
play a tune on a dozen different instru.
nents at the
which is an
human being is known to
game time, and has done it,
aecomplishment that no
The
well is about 100 feet deep. At nearly
all hours of the day or night a wind blows
up from the bottom of it, and whistics
through the eracks in the tight board
When the wind does not blow
out it seems to be sucked in by the well,
PDOSBORE,
i
Covering
An abundant supply of good water is in
the well and where the wind
comes from or where it goes is 6 myst ry
which Mr. Henderson not
One day not long ago Mr. Henderson cols
lected the
ut ull times,
hus solved,
ull musical instruments he
could, amounting to eight, from his
neighbors and frien He bored holes
in the boards co ing the well, and at
srnet, at another
a bass horn, ut another a clarionet, then
a fife, about threo
yards long, made, a mouth
up to the
ufter another
them in.
one aperture placed a «
horn
had
instrome
an immense tin
which he
nts,
organ and other
number mentioned
they began to blow as he put
he hourse growl of the bass horn min-
led with
and
fi clarion
ciarione
or
led
cornet
fones of the
te When all
» i}
Were going
ble, and there
uote sounde
up from
gusts
smusi
ith
rt
How to Make
A Woman's Game of Conversation
ohiect
these talkatis
a point wi
i
guotalion ippropriate
is to ation of
To nd 10
OTe introduce this
Whoeter succeods in getting off the
and when
also tries to head
quotation first is the
cach tries to w in she
off the others, if she sees an opportunity
It is rare sport and affords us
p ents of fun. Todrag the quotation in
badly, inappropriately, does not count.
It must come in aptiy, so as not to exc ite
the i
are playing with them instead of at them
Take, for in.
stance, ‘A primrose by
the river's brim a simple primrose was to
kim. and it was nothing more,” and try to
bring around to that connection the con.
versation of a young man which begins
with “shop.” takes a flight junto firta.
tion, nl eads with the theaters or
horses,
“It tukes some ingenuity, 1 tell you;
and the little mystery underlying all our
remarks, which is known only to our.
selves, gives the gume additional interest
for no women, of course.” — New York
Tribune,
winner;
coming
suspicions of these youths that we
as they fondly imagine
the quotation,
aa
How to Avoid Catching Cold.
Accustom yourself to the use of
sponging with cold water every morming
on first getting out of bod. It should be
followed by a good deal of rubbing with
n wet towel. This has considerable
offect in giving tone to the skin and
maintaining a proper action in it, and
thus proves a safeguard to the injurions
influence of cold and sudden changes of
temperature.
Sit Ashley Cooper, the celebrated
English physician, said: * The methods
by which 1 have preserved my own
Loalth are temperance, early rising and
spon ing the body with cold water immeo-
diately after getting out of bed, a
tice which 1 have adopted for
yoars without ever having tuken cold,
w= Newport Observer,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE.
Willismsport, A shortage of $15,000 has
the Ls
s necusations, and wants Presi
The
y
11 becatise
eetapiished by auiner,
fireen
bank was
Bowman arrested
9 i i the Comptroller had
mined 18 an
I rLXBmner.
own behnlf
, fund hie,
cause he je
Maur i
ever Lhe action of some ne gro inborers,
people are
tion was served upon
slhenan ioah, Girardville
Company by the water
thie former from lsying
over
for $50,000 will
+ and work resumed
nes aod Mini
met at Harrisburg
to leas he selection of an active
Mesnrs
biz exit of
Wiiliams, Merritt and
the anthracite coal
& promised,
MIX Saw, of Conshohoehen,
asved
od from the eficets of injuries receive
March
pork
idgeport, Moun
establishment
was the
ashier Green thinks they n
by a sneak thief
arrested
the chur
over Lie
he consun
redoced the
} QePOoN :
he Wii
opened 11 wy
pEiier Green was ares
pork-packing
Bridgeport, near Norristo
Marcn's
ment nai
blown up by a boiler explosion
were Killed and eight injured.
PROCEEDINGS were begun at Norris
coniest the will of Harriet Y.
Plymouth Township, on the ground
It is
share of her son, Henry J. Shepard
to his children, «6 that it coalki
toubhed by Mr. Shepard's creditors
will is being contested by the creditors
Mrs. R. MoxacHAN, of West
Chester, wife of the missing lawyer, received
a cablegram from Australian in which her
husband went his promised her a
long letter by the 1st 9 March.
signa
the
i
i€5R
ure was a forgery. alley
i that
wos
The
JON ER
love and
21 Plymouth, Father Jakowitz of the Hane
Church, ordered the BL
Joseph Society from the Luilding., They re.
fused to po, but were ousted by Constables.
Armed adherents of the priest are uarding
the building. The church is divided in fae
garian Catholic
Tie West Lehigh mine fire at Ashland is
still raging furiously and appears to be of
almost seventy fet thick. The outlook is
very discouraging, there being no water in
the neighborhood. A stream carried hy means
of hose is turned on the burning eoni until is
is cooled enough to be shoveled inte the mine
care, when it ie removed to the sa face,
Jonx Swrrrzen, of Wilkes: Barre, married
Katrina Gottlieb through a matrimonial agency
of $100 and departed.
Tux condition of J. P, Witherow, ths New
Castle manufacturer, who recently failed and
was afterward taken ill, is improved and may
recover,
Wonk in the Iartford mine at Ashicy, none
Wilkes-Barre, has been stopped. A fire was
discovered in some abandoned workings. The
inside boss was warned of the danger by a
stream of warm water.
nisin II nse A
og at St. Andrews, Scotland,
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