The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, October 21, 1897, Image 6

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    ALL NIGHT SHELTERS.
Metropolitan Lodging Houses for
Poor Women,
Beds Can
Together
Sou!
Where
Sma!l Cost
Keep Body
in New York
Obtained at
Food to
ogethor.
Places
Be
~ith and
r
i
the pla¢
»
d and polish
10d
lis and dormitories. The
nicely carpeted, can boast
organ, tal with tur
oe cloths, and a goodly supply of
and newspapers. Religious ser-
conducted each Sunday after
anda
room i
Of an leg covered
key
books
vice. are
noon vy a clergyman from he Protest
Episcopal General Theological
Scminary. «New York News,
#nt
Dynamite for Icebergs.
Polar expeditions are to carry lce-
breakers and (o deal
f~ebergs in fliture, if the plans of Vice.
Admiral Makarof, of the Russian navy,
sucoced,
an ice-breaker, which will force a pas
+asy as a vovage across the Atlantic
fs for the ordinary vessel. Admiral
Makarof’s invention is said to be pow-
erfui
and as the
the
ot
feet
thickness
thick,
of ice in
to be 1
thought
The
fe
AVOTraRe poin
wegions {8 considered over
feet, he Is
before him
of the
K¢ pt
twelve to have an
WiLy nature of
ney
breakor |
but it
mechanism
1 carefully secret
ught
el uged will probabl
that dynamite
with a double hul
steel
WHY HE CAVE UP HCI4E,
Reasons for Civing Up His
Claim,
A Settler's
ago
can
rther prep
Ceniuses, Ciants or Dwarfs.
Mr Ellis has been
{.pating
the connection
and size
Haveloc! in-
Hetween ges
He comes to conclusions
the
quite conciu
i
powers have
ciremely
man,
that
always been
disconcerting to
for shows
great mental
prone to resid
avers
age he
sively
in extreme.
aor ex-
like Thomas
genius whose
small
Of 41 men
ones,
Moore, of
were more or less giants and 125 more
or less dwarfs How to be clever,
Adopting Indian Tactics.
A French colonel is teaching his offi-
cers and men to crawl on their stom-
The regiment can
without fatigue.
[HE FARM AND GARDEN.
INTEREST
URAL TOPICS,
ITEMS OF
in Fowls by Selection--Capes on Olt
LLECTION OF BOWS
18 now at
in
intellig
Butter, Etec. Ete,
mixture
air-alak
ft well wi
and Fi
THE CABBAGE LOUSE
In a bulletin
plant from
station, attention is ted the
old time enemy, the cabbage louse
This pest appears early in the season,
devoted {to
the Maryviand
injurious
lice, issued
attrac to
for transplanting.
nips and radishes to a greater or less
extent
is greenish gray in color. Flight usu-
ally takes place during very warm
weather, and it is not an uncommon
eight with us to see the air filled with
them in August. The complete life-
history of the pest is still unknown.
The same remedies suggested for the
melon plant louse can be ueed for this
insect. They congregate on the un-
doraide of the leaves in great num-
bers, where they can be reached to
best advantage by a spray directed
with the bent brass extension.
Rattlesnake Superstitic
bereath the
gi regardle
ference, to ard
if be be
within
ia passion
to take her
This
enabled but once
his own tegembles
the
dove's
former in
tongue, which
was similarly employed, and further
more, if one became aware that the
of his heart failed to respond
certain extent use
of a
Geimany
cht.doe
mouth and
snatch a kiss, when the girl's objec
tion or indifference to him instantly
var ‘shes.
Highest Bridge in Europe.
The bridge over the Wupperthal at
to raliway traffic July 1st, is 300 feet
high, 1.630 feet long and has a cen-
tral span of 530 feet, It being the
highest European bridge, with the ex-
ception of the Garabit viadpet, in
Southern France. which is 200 feet in
height,
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THE NATION'S CAPITOL.
Care of the Great Buildicg Oc-
cuptied by Congress,
Functions of the Police and the Cuides.-
Strictness of the
That Been
Persons Kept Out
Regulat
Have Abated«
I'l
immediate]
notifie
on flirta
and
reception
one after
appear in the
The Capitol is still not free
from lobbyists, but the lobby is 8 very
powerful institution, and it would be
difficult to tell where to draw the line
between the lobbyist and the distin.
guished visitor, and any prohibitive
measure would affect a number of dis.
tinguished former statesmen
might prove embarrassing to men of
present position.
Carry
and galleries
lie fi wait in he ladies’
rooms have been notified,
another,
building
again
not to
ent f the Bia #chool
¢
of Paper
iE
ind
bv
ane
rate
top
Ue
ich
arrow at
tion of these separate
ii paper of vory
3 vich is first out,
the Philadelphia Record. into the
] then
moistened and sretched over the woud.
en model Upon the first strip is pagi-
ed another, alec moistened, uver thie
a third, and so on until the necessary
thickners is reached. The moistened
siripe of paper adhere firmly to each *
oth+r and retain their concave shape,
and after being dried constitute hard,
resisting pleces, which are male
weatherproof by oiling, polishing with
tot irons, asphalting and varnishing,
and are then put together in the s®upe
of a round cupola.
ualits
uisite length and breadth,
ing ask for protection against them. --
Washington Star.
Clocks for the Deaf,
One of the interesting items of ithe
State expense charges for July, sars
the St. Paul Globe, appears in the cur.
an
The revised returns of the Russian
cersus give the total population of
that country as 120000000, This
makes Russia taird in rank among na-
; tions, China coming first with an estl-
| mated population of 400,000,000, and
the British Empire next with 208,000,~,
000, -