The Recorder, CENTRE HALL, ~The Florida orange has so far sup- planted those from the Mediterranean that they will be shiped directly from Florida to Europe. In the Liverpool (England) market they bring nearly double the price of other oranges, - PA, — The study of the Hebrew language #8 increasing in this country, asserts the believers in Judaism, but ar ong Christians. Rabbi Schwartzberg says that an acquaintancs with it is indis- pensable to scholars, that it is learned, rasily and that it conveys a branches of science. ———————————— Librarian Spofford of the Congres- sional Library at Washington out a curious error in the pedia Britannica, which, ing state legislation in Virginia with national enaciments, that the United States Congress passed seventy acts authorizing lotteries. points E ieyclo- confound. states The textile indastry seems to by doe veloping qaite rapidly in some of the In especially noticeable, and the number foreign countries, issia this is of new factories that have been es- tablished the past year show that this country in this line. is gaining rapidly 1821, when Mexicans rid themselves of Spanish rule, they have bad, the New York Herald, three regencies, two emperors, Iturbide and Maximilian; visional government, 26 federal presi- Since according to one pro- dents, 10 centralist presidents, 10 dic- tators, 10 constitutional presidents and six conservative presidents. eight new governments in 70 years, one almost for every year! : Sixty- Krupp, the fainous German cannon maker, is of the opinion that Chile and the Argentine Republic cannot maintain amicable relations much lon. ger. public of South America and would Each thinks itself the mode! re. be very willing to get at the other's throat would not have so easy a time of it as she did Peru, but her victory would be most dearly bought. ————————————— in erder to prove it. Chile with her other neighbor, An association called the «Hitz mm. dorfl Institue,” von Holtzendorfl, the eminent author. after Professor Franz ity on criminal law, who died in 1889, has just been formed for the scientific study of international penal procedure and prison The will offer priz 8 fo. essars svstems. institute dealing with this science, and will also grant travelling expenses fo any qualified persons willing to visit foreign coun- tries law procedure abroad. in order to stud y the crimina The St. Louis Repnblic has present- ed in brief some appalling statistics. It starts with the statement that one. eighth of our population, say 7,500,- 000 are young men; and it discovers that only fifteen to every hundred go regularly to church, and out of every hundred some It this estimate is correct for the whole 70 never go at all. country, there are 250,000 voung men in this city, of whom 187 500 never go to church. ed many refrain from the same indulgence on Bundays. And to these mast be add. thousands of older men who Pedro's death the most interesting of the «Kings in exile” in Europe, observes [Harper's Weekly, is ex-King of Spain. In every way he is quite unlike the Brazilian monarch, for he is so small in stature that he seems aimost to be a dwart, and le is not noted for any nobility of mind. He lives at Epinay, apart from his wife, ex-Queen Isabella, who ocenpies a handsome mansion near the Arc de Triomphe. Francis is said to be one of the mean- est of men, while Isabella, despite all Sinee Dom Francis her hospitality and Kindness of heart. The Manufactur:rs’ Record of Dal. timore, Md., which is devoted to gathering statistics of the Sou hern states, publishes a table showing tht the assessed valuation of progerty for the purposes of taxation in the four. teen states of the South was in 1880, $2,013,486,005; in 1880, 84,220,166, 400; in 1890, $4,503,56566,5686; in 1891, $4,816,306,896. The exports from the four ports of New Orleans, Galveston Charleston and Newport News in. creased from £150,762,183 in 1890 to $1566,845,4562 in 1891, and the total value of exports from (twenty-four Southern ports for 1801 was $200,- 557,610. The South is growing rapid. dy, and the prosperity of that section ~ secins to be pretty evenly distributed. | SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EYERY-DAY LIFE, tures Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. A gextrnesaNx who has just come to | Winnipeg, Manitoba, from Rat Portage, | Minn, tells of a desperate fight made by two Indians and the killing of the latter by thy animal, The Indians were hunting near the Luke of the Woods and came across a band of HOOse, consisting of an old bull and ia The Indians were armed with old guns and knives. chot at the bull moose and hit the animal cow and two calves, {hue manner that he could not run fast, They | ran after him, firing again and azain, but with no until at last the moose turned upon them, and, as they had followed closely, they had but little time to get out of his way. The rushed at the Indians, and one of them, as he turned to got away, tripped on a root and fell at the feet of the enraged brate. He at once trampled and cut the man with his hoofs in an most terrible manner, and did not leave him until life was extinct. Meanwhile the other In lian was doing in his power to save his BUHCCOKS, MOOR: 1" ail with his knife, having dizcardod the gun for fear it mizht hurt down. When the moose had satisfied its rage upon the man that was down it turned upon the other und threw him to the earth, where it attacked him as savagely as it did his Indian 1} missed Dy us being useless the man who was companion, and soon the secon They were their companions and a party came just as the man was dead and the animal fell to the earth exhausted from the ma which had been made by t knife of the ietim. ! i one of the largest ever seen wos dead also, up ny he wounds The moose was in this part of the country and stood fully ten feet high to the top of its antlers. last v treated to an Court street {)., Marker amusing market street, Cincinnati, on on This corn occupied by a retail dealer who displays wore in the 3 t 1 & Wn wp ors ' spectacie Vine recent morning. at er is his oysters in tubs, which he has on the Near him is an o'd German Jiothed 1.4 bay horse sidesvnlk woman garden truck She has a bi His ts morning surprised svervbody who sells i standing alone when fers, he horse de the tub and tor dead by he espied the ovs. beratels almost knocked the props sticking his nose into the tubs and inz the ovsterrs ton, who slennin ti had’ take i Ost ung cided tha the de ©1 Jost or ) the bold § a hole in the bottom of ' ing her to fll rapidi on the shal i bricks iH wit hisidle in the ; floated her off and completed his vovage Ax uwful was recently mitted Mancha, Spain A criminal was being conducted to the = he « youd nil ier, mistake COL - in a town of La waen and took refuge in a hospital mission could only be enforced in the wwesence of the civil authoriciea, the Pe was surrounded until the magia. s could arrive. *When that function Y came an aptrance was obtained, and a person wearing a dressing» gown and a nightcap was scen walking in the vard; an alguazil thought he recognized him as | the fugitive and at arrestee | him, The man on being questioned. did not reply, but gesticulated with great ani He was, nevertheless, hurried away and the sentence of execution car. having uttered a It turned out afterward that he place of execution. RCH As Ones which last circumstance accounts for “Ir 12 well known that a cat's fur is | full of electricity,” said a St. Louis man. | be shocked by a cat the same asx by aol | tuic battery? Fact: and I'll tell you how | you can perform the experiment. ‘First | catch your cat,’ to slightly paraphrase the proverb. Get it in a dark room, if you want to see the fireworks, Place your left hand on the felines throat; with your middle finger and thumb | slightly press upon the bones of its shoulders. As vou do this, pass your | right band along its back and you will receive several soparate and distinet though slight shocks in your left hand; ortouch the tips of the animal's ears after rubbing her buck and you will get a shock, The sparks resulting are plainly seen in a dark room. Ar the Royal Geographical Society's meeting in Madr d, a curious pape has beon read oy Dr. Bide, a medical man, who has recently explored a wild distriot in the province of Canceres, still inhab. ited by a strange people, who speak a curious patois und live in caves und in. nooessible retreats. These singular rom. nants of some prehistoric race have a hairy skin, and have hitherto displayed an inveterate repugnance to mix with their Spanish ol Portuguese neighbors. Lately roads have been pushed into the district inhabited by these * Jurdes,” and according to Dr. Bide, they uta be. commodities anl agricultural implements, Disarroixren love drove Franz Min nichsdorfer, n Vieuna ( Austria) cabman, to n He loved Marie mrried another curious revenge, Singer, who loved and cubman, and on the day of the with crape. drove to the church he circled around the procession with his funeral establ und did fancy driving on each sido of the bridal coach. When the party returned he went with them in the same shment eocentric fashion. a restaurant, and while the festivities wore at their height he drove his mourn. ful looking rig into the rooin. The cab. man is now in jail. Mes. J. W. Hosur, of High Bridze, N. J., attended an oyster supper for the benefit of the Methodist Church recent night, and while she was eating oysters from the half shell her teeth struck a hard sabstance. She removed the substance from her mouth and found it to be an extraordinarily large pearl, A Philadelpha jeweller who chanced to bo present pronounced it to perfec formation und exquisite color, end sai on o be of it was worth at least $2,500, Oxg of the biggestrocks ever moved in the railroad construction in this country recently on the line of the Mexican Southern by Colonel Course of Was excavated Lamar. ginnt bowlider was 120 feet in hel measured 1,000 eabic ] mite cartridges were placed under the after the men much earth as possible, The Lower Californian savs the meters, had excavated firea i OR rock, as Alga were one after another, At the ion the big fellow Viera Ziuuus, daughter of Henry Zi Paris, Ind., di } stances, i sixth ex 5 * } rolled out of the way. which her mot} immediately HAUSeR, Oe sumn tion showed without Te the His ni young ind hio River from t : stem ning His § ieutonancy | ae Nd hy i ) hie hore ther trv, and, dared with England, Taylor, wi hie id es Infan when wa ul of men, so defended and Fort Harrison that major was bestowed this time 1840 Taylor life in incessant warfare wi tribes 4 the We st. On the t reaking out of the Mexicap War, of the Army o® the stores were at Fort Drown, and between him and the fort lay an army of Mexicans ready to dispute ey ery inch of the ground With 2,000 men Tavior cut his way into the fort, fighting during the dispute the glorious battles of Palo Alto snd Hesaea de la Parma. The attack on Monterey, Matamoras, the storming of the battle of Buena Vista form a splen- Tay i Wwe perfect until Taylor hd charge His > y : Rio Grande DARN did page in history, coolness, great courage and admiral gon. ernlship made him the idol both of his soldiers and the When peace had been restored he retired to his farm at Baton Rouge, and two years after was people. burnt Samphos. The Chinese are the only manufacturers of this ink. Mastic in made from the gum of the mastic tree, which grows in the Greelan archipelago, Bistro is the soot of wood-ashes, Chinese white is zine, scarlet is iodide of mercury ore called cinnabar.—| American Drag- gist, THE PATENT OFFICE. | Some Novelties Patented in the Las Two Years. Some months ago the American Pat. bad its onc-hundredth birth day, and the last half of the century has witnessed wonderful strides in that di- rection, In the last fifty vears only 12,412 patents were issued, but last year there 22 080, The variety of patented articles is really wonderful, and American in- | genuity seems to be in no danger of ex. itself. Every year inventions vear before; and a few of the patented in the last two years quite amusing reading. The approach of fly-time suggested an A clump like ent-odice Were shows a than the novelties make hnusting i larger number of idea for a cow-tail holder, nu clothe the tail, « tachment fusten the tail to the cow's or to the milking that the id two cords with a snap at. leg, The Nebraska man got his stool. pst patent r a cow-fail holder, a man in for the f sman'stail-h er is of Maine got one Bie purpose, Fhe Maiue an xingle piece of us fo connect the ‘A candle for mixture of inscet powder nd tallow, or cise that will burn, moulded round The wife of President Jackson i ¢ accounted to the cold in the } ) “the Gineral had kicked the night before. But HO JOnUger any excuse . } ssiil a Daag aid be le who “kick the und a spring are ment to the b the covers a ss 1o kivvers of. ns gr rin pring wt { ! tuck y at it. Toil hin desk writing enters to in Louis ir which wa weed ih ©" mnovai; It will do ristening a Cam of ; he men pocketing his pred Next dav the miner told his story. the thieves were arrested, fried before Judge Ly nch, condemned first to ipped and finally t banzel., 1 at the hanging f hey were drawn on a team un der a large oak free. Rope Were placed aroun i their ne ke, a crowd below held the long ends, the Inshed away from the tree and the next minute the culprits were in midair, “la this way we ushered in Christmas of "48, and we agreed to change the name of the camp to Hangtown. Un Christ. mas eve a grand dance was given. One lady was present, and lucky was the man who had the good fortune te lead her in the cotillon, We had a substantial sup- per of coffee, pork and beans, and very little beef.” | Placerville Chronicle. be wl was present of three o thom horses wore three daugling had te hostow, He whe 1840 Shed died Jaly 9, 1800. life and embalmed his memory in the af. fections of his country. Detroit Free Press, A, Sources of Beantiful Colors The cochincal insects furnish a great many fine colors, Among them are the gorgeous carmine, the crimson, seariet earmine and purple lakes. The cattle. fish gives the sepin. It ix the inky fluid which the fish discharges in order to ren. dian yellow comes from the camel, Ivory chips produce the ivory-black and bone. Fhe exquisite Prussian blue is refuse animal matter with impure potas. sium carbonate. Tlds color was discov. ered accidentally, Various lakes are derived from roots, barks and gums, Blue-black comes from the charcoal of the vine-stalk. Lambluck is soot from ocertain resinous substances, Tarke rod is made from the madder plant, which grows in Hindostan, The yellow sap of a tree of Siam produces gamboge; the natives eatel the sap in cocoannt shells, Raw sienna in the natural carth from the neighborhood of Sienna, Italy. Raw umber in also an earth found near Um. brian and burt. India-ink is made from Pumice Stone, Pumice stone i= the hardened scum of voloanoes, thrown out and solidified. It has been found floating on the sen, after eruptions, in enormous quantities, but | mines chiefly in the region of ancient | voleanie disturbances. Chemically it is ‘a glass, and consists of silica mostly, wi hh alumina, soda and potash. Being of the nature of glass, and of an exceed. ingly porous texture, its surface is made Lup of numerous sharp edges, by which it is admirably fitted for its use in the arts as a polishing material, Rearing of Canaries. ———— Generally the male canary is a good arent and helps the hen to feed and even rood the young. When this disposition of the bird exists, the pair are left to. gether, when the cock, on the hatehin of a young bind, will gr to the food an carry some of it in his bill and give it to the young one. But as a rule it is best to be on the ssfe side and remove the male bird as soon as the hen has begun to take to the nest, There are several useful little and ohenp books on the sub. fom of rearing these little pots that ma be procured of fhe dealers. (New Yor AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE, Pursues an Express Train, “Whenever 1 read of a railway I. Wagner at the 1 had taken a Pullman for Meridian, 'Hiss., about 9) eiles away. The train when | boarded it and at It must have been about 5 yelock in the when 1 awoke suddenly. It seemed to me as if there bad been some terrific had saused my sudden arousal, but looking the window the landscape flew once morning which shock mit of miles an hour. 1 was about to lay my head on the pillow again, ‘there second violent shock almost thio ving mo out on the Hoor, I got out of ms berth instanter, and the first thing | saw was the Pullman conductor and porter crouch- the rear part of the looking back over the track. [1 followe tho direction of their gaze, or rather | saw what they wi as I did them ths gray of the big engine i wien cnme n ing down in car 5 4 re looking at almost as soon About morning » i i I feet in up on BWLy loomed thn! see {to my exc imagination to be of moustrous size, ining on us at oy on un nest of iy it put » we could UY of the engin mend wus orn s doo head iinuaeg er | OIG unchanged, whetl hit him ape #0,’ “it » our lives against his. Wy , and ouroos ihe wy Mur catching bu ail the steam we can carr Ww fie we had shot through like a gumpse oi | Cary rigors on the platioring past We were nearing Meri we dd not slack up in an hour's there would be a collision Fortunately o Meridan ag our For fifteen near.y out going Oo on and York cannon bad, One Or two scared an, there was a clear trac k train was the fast eXPress, minutes in the glimpse of some gine behind us. woe gto to catch = life om the None came, it kept its CVEeR growing light sign of PH maining a fow feet behind, The conduc. Our engine was reversed and for a time it was steam against steam. Then conductor said ‘I'm going back,” the cow eatoher, hold, but fortunately peered cantiously into the cab, in suspense. Then the spoed of the both stopped. We all ran back to the wild engine. The conductor was bend- ing over the lunatic, who lay prone on his forehead. The bullet bad gone home. Well, the sequel is short, The conduc. tor was tried for murder, but of course was acquitted. Hed we gone on at the rate we wore flying for ten minntes more wo would have reached Meridian and a collision was inevitable, ~<[St. Louis Star Sayings. A quaint conceit in card cuses is that of the lizard skin case in the lizard's green color, with a moail lizard of gold und diamonds writhing across one corner of the cover. All the bowknots and true lovers’ knots and hearts are still used as the corner decoration of the card ouse. Fleur de lys in silver or gold are sprink. led neross the corners or over the whole surface of the case, which is corded at the edge with silver, according to the fashion introduced last year. iy i PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS EPITOME OF N¥WH GLEANED FROM VARIOUS PARTE OF THE STATE, AxTHORY Brows, of Pittston, and Harriet of Duryea, fn a Wilkes. barre boarding house the other night. In the morning the girl was ound dead and the man Rutledge, retired It is supposed they blew may re- nearly ssphy xinted, out the guns before retiring. Brown COVPF. Mun, THOMAS Dawsox, of Media, obiained an absolute divorce on the ground of cruelty. her nusbend quarreled before the The husband was 72 years old and the wife 40, Bhe and honeymoon was over Joth are Quakers, AX atternpt was msde by ineendiarics to burn the house of JL F. Kefl, ut by pouring vil over the furniture, The damage Harrisburg, was slight, WATCHMAN GARVERICH was overpowered by three masked men at Lucknow Forge, near They bound him band and foot the Harrisburg, and then extracted £50 from the safe in The thieves «seaped, of Mrs. Heory upper end Mrs. Bhreiner perished office, Ehreiner at of lancaster house Tne White Oak, in the county, was burned, in the flames. Jtissupposed she upset a lamp, which caused the fire, Pirrspunc, Allegheny and Manchester Electric Car No. 102 ran over an dynamite care The car was thrown from the track aod nearly all The in the houses near by were also shattered. There iridze on Beaver avenue, Allegheny. the windows iu it broken, windows were twelve men, employees of the company, on the ear, but uo one was badiy hurt. THE embezzlement cases” of the Allegheny court at Market Hastings is charged officials were begun in the Criminal ( Pitsbure with David 1. Hastings, ex Clerk, on failing to make returns of trial. with money received for The Mayor Wyman for embezziement and stall rents in 1880 and 1580, trial of extor. tion will be tsken up as soon ss Haming's trial is over, and ex- Mayor Pearson's case will Gllow Wyman's. J. A. MeLiox and W. U, Porter, tors of the Beaver Star, of rouriee proprie nv ioted of thiistse myicieq of punish acriminal libel agminst Senator Quay, ing vere sentenced to pay a fine of $600 each and undergo six imprisonment in the ENCE WAS B surprise, 1GAM attempted to levy on Mill Bun and red O'Donnell ys OF Donnell at He s rely resisted when Oo Verpowere i said by the Tungarian, ily News, nugressIman filed reasons for a jury was ion Allen Horn erer of Detee New Orleans. Allegheny nfned. id id, in Fraxcis Huronixsox, three years © fell from a second story ndow of a hotel dlenanagoan, pavement, (went) feet below, but did not sustain & scratch, THE State tax cases were all disposed of in Pleas Court at Harrsburg, but re handed down. Reveral teste were resisied an the capital stock so invested in patent right not taxes 3 of Esston, Northamp ’ rinamy iN GARNET, of the nmitted suicide by Easton, just second day's trial of a suit againet | house at ¢ court AT a meeting of the Pittsburg Presbytery hint Jess the Chicago Fair is closed ou Sundays resolutions were sdopted, deciar 1 Be and the sale of liquor prohibited they would not visit the Fair, and would use their infla. ence to prevent others from so doing A COXPEERXCE of the chairmen and secre taries of the various committees of the World's at Harrisburg the better understanding of of Fair Doard was held for purpose of gefting a the work committed to their charge, and discussing orga iz Lon. TE trial of P.liceman Cranve for the kills ing of Joseph Shadle was conducted at Get. tysburg, a verdict of not guilty being rene dered, A TELEGRAPH operator at Sewickley Sia. tion, near Greensburg, was held up by three tramps, robbed of a sma | sum of money, and then gagged and left. He is probably fatally hurt. Wititam Cowrey, of Mount Carbon, was thrown and then kicked to death by a mule. Miss Axxin Falk, a 17-year