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.
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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.
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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<ld daughter
of Samuel Falk, a laborer ai Temple, in com-
pany with Miss Mary Brown, climbed up the
stack at th: Temple furnace. Mus Falk was
in advance, closely followed by Miss Drown.
On resc ing the top of the stairs, instead of
turning to the right she stepped jorward,
dirert'y into an opening in the fl or, and ell
a distance of tuirty feel. She sirack a large
pipe and then glanced off and fell on her bead
on the iron plates. Her head was cut and she
was injured internally.
AT Pittsburg, William Hyer, an alleged
embezz'er, who is wanted in Jersey Cay,
escaped from an officer who was bringing him
East from San Francisco,
Many Horrny, a half demented young
woman, of Mt, Carmel, was found lying in an
unconscious condition near a railroad station
in thet tows. It is claimed tha: she was given
drugged liquor and assaulted. Heary G.
shopp has been arreced charged with having
been implieated in the affair. :
A xusmnun of miners in the Seranton diss
trict said that one-half the mine Jaborers in
tho distriet wors foreigners, and this labor is
driving out Americans
Tar indignant taxpayers of Scranton, who
are wanking war on unequal assessmonts, held
another meeting at the Court House, and ap.
pointed a committee of thirty prominent men
who will net with the assessors and try to
have every property assessed wt its sctual
value: A fund ot $5300 is to be raised by
private subsoription to meet the expenses of
this commitiee of thirty, Y