o LITTLE LESS THAN MANIAS, The Passion of Book-Uollecting—Uns out Volumes=Antographs-fReollcs, [St Louis Globe-Democrat.} Out of literature have, directly or in- directly, grown a number of callings which, innocent in themselves, when pursued in moderation, have, when care ried to the extremes sometimes noticed, become symptoms of a diseased mental condition too unmistakable not to at- tract attention. Take, for example, the passion of book collecting, which, in moderation, is commendable as an indi- cation of a cultured mind, when carried to tha excess sometimes seen becomes little less than a mania, Some years ago there was sold in London a library of uncut volumes, Now, a library of uncut volumes is, of necessity, a library that no one had ever read, and who but a lunatic would have ever thought of collecting a library of books which he would not read for himself, nor allow other people to read, because he the books to remain uncut value as an uncut Library might be as- sured. But the book collectors have by no | | tives means confined their attention to uncut volumes. Some have turned than to their contents, have them for the sake of the outside rather than the inside, and amiable lunatics have been known to buy any kind of a book so it had the particular style of covering they were in the habit of purchasing to ornament their shelves. In some cases this may have been affectation, in have been caused by ignorance, and in others again by ignorance combined with a desire to gratify a showy taste, as in the ease of the parvenu in New York who CASS: was utterly indifferent abou thie prices and the cost, stipulati that about half of them should and the rest either of gold. The heap up or away useless or triv ial object tach a fictitious value to them, is = to be strong in some species of ity, and may not the mania fo buying and hoarding up be of this species of 1asan ty, oit oped, but not so often noticed, sin charitable mantie of a literary ta too often spread over it by a n eriminating public Akin to book gathering and 1 is the fashion of collecting autographs Every man of any prominence what an insufferable bore the autograph greet or oa desire to aor to} oarding » Knows hunter is, and how utterly impossible it* | is to elude his clutches. Take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utter- most parts of the earth, even there, also, is the autograph man with his book and fountain pen, ready for your signature and determined to give you no chance to escape. Now, by no sort of possibil ity ean an autograph do him any good, but the desire for it is by stifled by that fact, for the business of collecting autographs goes on with as much zeal and earnestness as if auto- graphs were gold and their collectors bent on getting rich by the quickest yrocess known to man. This also must described not only as vanity, but as a vanity approaching madness. if, indeed, it is not A within its confines. Under the same head may be classed the business of relic-hunting, for it has, of late years, really reach: of a business. Not as pursued by a professional, for that is mere trade or | | 10ar Ramsey, died. rter, but as followed by an amateur. The eagerness with which people will break off chips from anything, or cut off pieces of wood from any noted tree or structure, amounts almost to a mania, character, is yet sufficiently related to the kindre profession of the book-buyer and hoarder to be worthy of classification under the same general head. Relics are, in fact, a sort of reminder of the days when men were idol worshipers, and a relic is but a fetish in disguise, and perhaps all the more appreciated because it offers a tangible object for our adoration with- out actually receiving the worship under a the neighborhond are very indignant, antl $0 balu a form. A Left-Handed Barber Wanted. (Milwaukee Sentinel ) “Is there a left-handed barber in this shop?’ asked a man as he walked into a | tonsorial establishment on Grand av enue early in the week. “We have one, sir, take a chair.” A rter watched the strange cus tomer as the left-handed knight of the brush scraped his chin, but could not discover anything different from the manipulation of a right-handed man, but there was, just the same, and here it is: “You see,” maid the Loss barber, “when a man is shaved all the time by a right handed barber, the beard is ushed over toward the right, and when it grows out it looks like a lopsided mop The left-handed barber counteracts this tendency, and the roots are directed in the way they should go. A left-handed barber is a new wrinkle, but he isa good thing to have inthe house.” Increased Use of Tropleal Frulis, {Chicago Times.) “ne Gf thé best evidences that the American people of this generation live better than their fathers did is found in the steady and rapid growth of the trade in tropical fruits, It is not mony years since the great majority of the people scarcely kuew what a banana was, and considered oranges and lemons as luxa. ries to be afforded only in sickness or on t occasions. Now not only these other tropical fruits, are bought and eaten almost as generally and freely as apples, and the consumption of melons, fhebies; pears, plums, and berries is on e same universal and extensive seals, nm ARN DIA ranted | that ‘their | their | thoughts to the bindings of books rather | bought | not a few of these | | sworekeorers will others it may | Faith all the tnsan- | ] that they wi { made for the relief : | and gentlemen o no means { and The Index- Appeal, the only the dignity | | remnlorcements to {lowers cn be A THREATENED FAMINE Over a Thousand People on the Verge of Starvation in Virginia. Five Large Cotton Factories Closed sn Aceounnt of Over-Production, The Pla! Condition of the Unfortunate Operatives, Perenssuna, Va, Oct. 11.—There are In this city and Immediate vicinity five large cotton factories, namely: the Bait raon, Tt tric, Natocka, BEwift Creck and Petersburg, which stopped work some time ago in cons sequence: of overproduction. At the time these factories closed they gnve employ. ment to over 1,000 male snd female opera. tives, A large proportion of them have large families of small children dependent upon therm, Ouite a considerable number are widows, so that at the Jowest average estimate there are now at this moment fally L500 people who are on the verce of dire wantin want of bread to keep them from starving. None outdde of Petersburz know the true sidition of thoss poor nnfortunata operas The merchants » ith whom these poo. ple dealt while at work have allowed them swedit for small guantith sof mont, flour end nto keep them door, but mnless these mills pesume work very soon, or the operatiy elsewhery, thess w them hang rom death's work n ie unable to eradit any loner, as their pagouress ar pnd to the protracted strain The grest question, in fact g ton. to be considerad is how long the only ques will thess t to ha wry han closed, ered what is be EU | factories be ne to yerotect this halplem « i ror and the et i 2t hand From one who is ther facts of the « nerati Creek cot! thout two as ¥ perso are be they must be fed Tha condit { made known to a conn ts action in the heir sugeest they could for POs Lie ini U logs sire, : which ication will be made to 8 3 EH for these sufferers oa city o« il & small iving in Petersbure, been some few pecaniary cos { the charitably disposed of the con A week or more agoa numbes this city. army for an ’ sutertainment to be given for their benefit De Ws pa pa published here, has extended the free vee of its columns to extend Last night this Aca lemuy of the mtertalnment took jac: at the Music, when “‘Pinvior ” was put upon my mtertaluments for the sufferers will soon be given A Mother's Strange Tondunet, Vaxparia, LiL, Oct. 11. Last Fridar a itthe child of Mra. Michael Wagoner, liv ! The fact did not bex mown until four doys later, nor discovered the dead body Orne when a neigh. of the ~ Bd was dead, and that she “have to throw hifm out pretty soon.” The then. Wagoner had been dead three days, with ng: “Noone bAs a right to interfere me and my dead.” When the coroner orderad | the body to be interred she stoutly protestad { ind declared that she would keep her hus mund in the house thirty days. The people leciare that Mre Wagoner, if insane, most ther quart rs, Under an ¥rou-Clad Agrecment, Frerspvng, Oct 11 Mr. Philip Dorner, & well-known labor con. tractor of tha city, who recently broke the strike amony the miners of HH C Prick & Co. by filling their places with foreign miners, has Leen making frequent trips be- tween Pittsburg and Hocking Valley, It has just been ascertained that Dorner hos a ontrac. with the Hocking Valley operators whereby he is to recfve £5,000 if he is sue sessful in bresking the s'rike. The men wipplied by kim already greatly cutnumber tho strikers, and with their amilies occupy ise houses of the evicted strikers. They are being paid at the rate of 5) cents a ton, which is 20 conts cheaper than the old men ware recviving. These men are all experi- mied miners, composal of Polanders, Howe garians aod Germans, and are under an Lonlad agreement Perllovs Position of French Troops in China, Paris, Oct. 11. La Liberte urges upon ne government the necessity for sending Tonquin, stating that, notwitstand ing the victories of the French loroes there, thay sre suffericg a dally re Juction In numbers, while the Chinese indefinitely replaced. I wiys that China, where Ife is cheap, | must otherwise prevail, and that it is evi. | font that a large and costly French army | must bo dispatched to Tonguin to save the | svmnant of the French forces there unless it | is 00 late, [Pittsburg te Mave an Exposition Nullding. Prrmsvra, Oct, 11. At amesting of over i Hamm, of New Bedford, Mass, and Janes of the sity, it organise Besnpng Toole 4 pu of erecting and maiotaining an ex- an #194 building in the city, A commitioe are this morning in making the A daunvy arvaagem nis towards {ecorpora ¥ Thioves Fall Ont, not Glew | | tompanes, | ¥ i Bastinvre i CAs are min 8 | lines of the Penns, lv ania In evYary way oa ne | | to mike the affair a suco ws | Pennsy.vania comjasy | conteact i ther orders of the o { tage before ome of the largest andiences | { ever gathered within the wa'ls of the acd. | It is probable that other like benefit i i will | for a contractor $5 ing |} { $e preparation {lying on the bed in a state of decomposition, | The mother appeared unconcerned, saying { jhe child and though not strictly literary in its | would | | large sewers in th | peculiar circumstances attending the death | » her husband two years ago and her strange | actions at that time elicited much sppicion | i found concealed in the Lrush on | of robbery | with a blunt instrument, | appearance about the place showed that te | of its contents, was found close by. » takon at ones to the asylum or leave for | For several weeks | A WESTERN ROMANGE, The Secret Marriage of a Pretty Girl und n Dashing Young Man, CHicago, Oct, 11,—The prevailing slopes ment § uss tion is the secret marriage of Mis Julia Robbins, the pretty ecusin of the wife of Senator 1. D. Condes, of Hyde Park, and Suwiusl E, Thrall, son of the general ticket ngent of the Northwestern Railroad cots pany. Mis: Bobbins was 17 and blonde, My, Thrall 20 and dashing. The two met and loved, and ran off to Niles, Mich, where they were married nearly a month ago, The affair wis kept a profount secret up to Wednes lay last, when it came out through a sensational report printed in o Lafayette, Ind., n:wapaper, to the effect that the young bride had aleealy tired of hor bargain, and was flirting de peratdly with the young men of that town, whither she had gong on a visit, and was jut waiting for a divores dn order to mary a young blood who had been paying mur) This start tions to sodd attention to her, entire revels both marriage Ory was an and friends of wt know of Lhe the miles parties, who « The ye situation ani V8 134 , pled th sy brldgo- s Way of groom has thu his father, and to mak establish his siden remarkad that th tations of the home at Mn 1 Incidentally i t illeged po t nut fi bride ars denfed in trary, the young ¢ youn . snd, on nn HIER uns Lappy asd vad are living t s+ and con SMART WILLIAM H, A Yery Profitable Operation in Jere sey Centenl, Praranenrma, in Jory i. 11l.-~There break when it been Restrained (rom Fartinong, Baltimore a informed t | enstern dis. mot « an order Peoansyivania rangement in i Low Between Ue two and Obie WE over he Jud ce tint the the until {ure New Y comnany McKinnon stat 1 bis decision mint AUTRE 2 Lsery asd trafl fiesit urt Judge Kelley's Labor B11), Wasmiserox, Oct 11 lepresentiative Kalley, of PVennsyivarin, it is understood, iatroduce a bill at the next » soon of Cungress making it a penitentisry offence hire imporied laborers who work at ball the rate of wages paid Americans, who per.orm the same work, Judge Kolley is opposed to the importat on foreign pauper labor, and was incitr J f the Lil myssagation bY the statement, H TOves Roorrect = astracting Olan irts uf Lhe which an that Italian Washington to work in borers were brought i« the City A Jewish Pedier Murdered. Lorrie Rook, Ark, Oct 1 The mur | der of a Jewish pedier is reporied from St wind when a nomber of men want to investi. | | zate the woman refused to admit them, savy. James pari-h, louisiona, The Luly was he bank o The murder was for the purpose The victim's bead was crushed and the general the river aulortunate man had a Jd sperate struggle with his assailant, His jowelory box, rifled There is no clue to the perpetrators, and the body | of the man has not been identified Where Killing was Justitiable, T Oct. 11, -=Will Toomas, a Darras, Tex, flanger, was amauit-l at Bulphar Syringe | Toursday by a negro, who fired a charge froon a double barrel shot gun at him (homas was not hit, The negro then at tempted to fire the other barred, but the ony suappod, whereupon he threw down the gua and atbemple | bo ta ao mtter secured The gun, put a oap on it an shot his assailan: da ih Jaditisble homicide, g «4 Irom cuadod isbon Thomas To oroner's Jur Festir ing 8 YOTuUM and Tix roms was discs Gold Discovered, Wasmxaorox, Oct 14 citement Bas en OCCRsIONn «} inlsorers engaged in constructing the mite tunnel from Great Falls, on tw lo o mae, to the new water roservolr, Just nor bh of the city, by the discovery of goul An assay was made, and the report was wh cs to dash the hopes of those woo Jex weld achieve wonlthy, Thisrep rtshow d ht: cold would pay about mie doldinre wo bo «not enough to pay for mining. Considerable ex among te Fairbury, HL, tu Flames, Fammpuny, Ul, Oct 16 Benjamin Wa « | ton's mill and the business block ad joinlog | The | vers burned early this morning, flares were brought under control at 6 A, wm, is addition to pinces named already, John i | ly discovered t Precker's lumber offloe, Seats commission store and Yom saloon were dstroyed | Total losses about $150,000; partial insur | anew, A Three Mile Seull Hace Wonorsren, Mass, Oct. 1L<All ert A. Ten Eyok, of Pookakiil, signed arth es inst night for a three dle seul race, wit tires turns, to taks placs on Lake Quinsign smd between 8 and Sv. a, on Oct 150k | mand | and what with bad times and oliier ob disnossd | | arrived the cone | 13 {| BOs, EE on TROUBLE IN AUSTRALIA, Unemployed Yramigrants Kolding Public Indignation Meetings, [Ban Frewocisco Call.) Australia just mow is full of people | without employment who have been soming from England by the shipload for the past year. The cities, towns, and country are overrun with poor people in a most destitute condition, I'he understanding made with the home government by the Australian was that mployment would be found for each and svery one of the English working class that would emigrate to the colonies. I'he experiment was started with the first shipment of 80,000 souls, consisting of young and old, married and single. I'he contract stipulated that all should be able people in a healthy state: that on arvival they should be taken hold of by the immigration agency, sand pro vided for until distributed throughout the country, where | was in de «l a fatiure labor The affair has prov acles the people of the antipod hinve at the that the country is not sufliciently advanced or conclusion ! prepared to give homes or « mpioy: one time 1% a fair would re between po {5s to the ports « w South In Sydney and publie grounds ¢ ' : Wale are Tai of 1h unemg ther heir Own I ait the Mass-m by long wore unem as to the obtain redress im every public plot of ground or open thor oughfare were found listening to the showehen condemn their treatment by the Jovernm the citizens affairs They were afraid riots would ensue if some thicg was not done to rectify the un fortunate state of things. When the government found that the drouth did not break up until too late to do any rood for the country this season, and the hospitals becoming full of rhe matics, the jails fall of thieves, and va graucy reigning supreme, then they abled to the home government (to stay the shipment of moee immigrants until those that had arrived were well dis tributed throughout the colony, and em ployment found them. They also charged the agent with having misrep- resented affairs to those that were leav ing their homes for Australia The reply came back: “No such thing misunderstanding in cable messages: ean not stop shipment of people tinme diately; several hundred already on route; other ships chartered to take more, but vill be to draw it mild the following month: will ship the re mainder so many thousands at intervals, say two to three months.” And still they noraige eld i n Lins Sydney the , | 3 : H immigrants to consait to pursue to for their troubles and grievances crowds assembled = bor JAIN] TOUS able and the only COMme : i TOBACCOSE | We take this method of informing everybody satisfaction these poor people have is to | grin and bear it, Those who come oul with the intention of farming have cer- tainly arrived when everything looked its biuest; the country dried up and even the cockatoo and kangarpo, like the grasshopper, after devouring all vegeta tion, have been compelled to live on fenees, Blowing up the Cataracts, (Gen “1 have Stone in New York Tribune, | noticed in the recent dis | Teermine watches that dynamite is being sent out | ~ to Egypt to be used in blasting the cataracts, as they are called. This, which seems so simple a matter, should be very seriously considered if the wel fare of kept is at all to be regarded, Any great change in the cataracts of the Nile might serious’y alter the flow of that river, which is the life of Lower Egypt. The cataracts act as natural regulators of the flow of water in the Nile, Should that flow be made more rapid by changes in the cataracts, it scoms to me that Egypt would be in danger of having both tools and drought, to which she is not now subjected.” ——————. NS Odor and Ozone, (Chicago Times ) Prof. Mantogazza, of Pavia, has late t ozone is generated in immense quantities in all plants and flowers potssing green leaves and agomatic odors. Hyacinth, onetle, heliotrope, lemon, mint, la nar berry, laurel, and the like, all BY RU PS. Good bargains in oll grades ! | COFFERS | setery and diarrhoes, tag dates the stomach «nd bow BERR TRC Sh “4 RS SECHLER & CO., Grocers, Bush Howse Block, Belieforir, Pa Be a a TT NE De SR SECHLER& CO. Groceries, Provisions, FOREIGN FRUITS And CONFECTIONERY. a MEAT MARKET in Connection. BUGAKR «Gravolated Bagger a pound All grades ut Jowest prices other ETONEWARE «10 all sizes of «di 1) ¢ dowirnd is shaper best quality of Akron ware, This Liar Stand windine { factny pouds lu the murket y | FOREIGN FRUITS i freahont goods 10 1 Jucient ranges an : CE the We a 1 F better aod MOLASSEY, «Finest New Orleans of 8c por gallon h haa Ons we can find They chesper than the v ry low pric FRUIT JARRE. We have the now | and Mason's poresisis Vightoing jar in { It de ow Bin igh rth more t Fine sasirtment sid roasted of Coles. both foes st green gir Chur routed ( slwass fresh, All the new sod desirable Lrsgds, Himod sed CIGARS, Spe fom given to or We try 10 soll the bas ww be wad 1 is he thie town, Lanve Lieu whining sar MEATE fast itd wlwwrs try BOYS Cuti dey ¥ AY | FOI Coburn, Centre Co. Pa. THEGREAT EST ir: LAROE boUnLk WEKKLY. | GOOD MEALS. CLEAN BEDS. PRICES MODERATE. 8s HOTEL WITHIN TWO MIN UTES’ WALK TO STATION. ; A ectmm : Excellent Hunting and § quite near this Hotel “|JOS. KLECKNER - Prop'r. STUDIO, 2nd floor Bush Arcade, LIVE NEWSPAPER. | 1m ne reais toro al bins of Fru wes Sees PAINTING, Such. as PORTRAITS neil. LA ND SCAPES, SIGN and ORNAMEN. TAL. FANCY DECORA. TING and GRAINING a SPECIALITY. Observer, TT n—— X. Satisfaction guarsuteed in all cases, I would be pened ty have you call, and examive specimens of work Io- structions given in Painting, Very ResrrcrruLry, C. DP, filder. Quick Railway Time. Lf { Mabie sing grounds { the wie The Depurt Besmoot TEs Rp a uh td oe 8 old sermons, | ’ ny 21 wise @ irs ia Seovias Reery ed Le Non Our. husioe rewding & every week a B Lime, PROOUTER nt thi: an adning all the new, Vigorous & great variety of « a year, Vor poss Mi Sew st septa we give ope dollar comm ivelon ra copy the sex res Levvees” an slegantly bound volume of $i wets tisg f the author pies of the Osstavin will beset! 1 any address free Address, y New York 31 & 32 Park Row, N, LE a routs events, and The price js $5.15 Pagron 3 purirsit Batujle PAINTING and PAPER HANGING, | WORKMANSHIP THE BEST PRICES THE LOWEST PRUNMPTNESS AND DISPATCH, Rockford, Ill, Jan, 1880, This is 10 certify that we have eppommied pt WILLIAMS & BRO, Femk P. Blair, sole agent for the sale of our DEALERS IN Quick Train Railroad Watches in the town Bellefoute, WALL PAPER au! PAINTS, &C. HIGH Bt bet Spring & Water, Bellefonte Rock rose Waren Coxrany, BY HOSMER P. HULLAND, Sec. Having most thoroughly tested the Rockford Quick Train Watches for the inst three years, | offer them with selection of Wall Paper outside of Philadelplda or | ¢ ' : $oe Now "York, Yin rh Golds, Embossed Hronges | fullest confidence at the best made and Micas, Viats. Satine, Blacks and Browns. Beastitel | most reliable time keeper for the money Bot Bers in Great Variety | : 2 That we have just geocived from New York ! that can be obtained, Prod Beck's New Book of Oelling Designs, We oun furniah and pat up ss Bue and elaborate Cefling Dec- ormtiony as are pat up any where { WM. That we invite all whe intend papering to oall ‘ and see ont Tine of goods bulore ordering vloew bere No a Braekes Lait’ Row. $h. We have in our employ Sret-olens puppet kang UH ot . . 8: - ere and painters, and are prepared to take jobs of | Allother American Worth gs at vedweed PAINTING, GRAINING, SIGN WRITING, prem. snd PAPER HANGING, Large or small, and complete the work with pestoes and diepmtch 151. That we have in stock the Largest and Best 1 fully guarantee every Wateh for two years. FRANK P. BLAIR, i Digcuron, Jan, 27, 1882 | The Rockford wateh purchased Fai. 8a Trade from the country solicited | 1879, has performed better than a y 134032 WILLIAMS & BROTHER. | Watch | ¢ver had. Have carried it & every day sud at no time has it teen irregular, or in the lesst unrelisble, ! ICE TO MOTHERS. ha ke wBDYIOE at night and broken of your est {Shan riully recommend the Rockford by a sick iid suffering and crying with pain of ent nich Ht JRA E B HOR I N, ” st Dighton Furnsee Co ny ting teeth? If so, vend al ono and get & bottle of Mas. Wisstow's Scormive Seager sof Owitsess Tis value in inosleniable, It will relieve the peor 1ittle sufferer immediately Depena upon it Taoxrox, Sept, IK, 1881. mothers, thers is Bo 8 ist ke about IL. J ones d50 The Rocklurd Weteh runs very ae curntely ; better than sav watch | ever owned, and | hve bod that eost £150 reontitioest the Rook ford | 'Wateh wo everybody who wishes & five clans and sarees in toe United States and is for wnle by all draggist. + the world, Price 25 cents | timekeeper, “ thw voi i H . a bottle. sry | S. P. HUBBARD. 8. i This iste certify thay the Rook ford | Watch bought Feb. 22 1870. has run [very well the past yene. Having ser it foniy twice during that me, fis ouly : men. Write for terme to E.R, Ryonanmsox & Oo | entintion being three minutes. It hae a Sexpes Lage Nvnassoes, Gusevs, X.Y | mam very ouch better than | ever an. : | Helpated, [uwas 50° sdjusted and only . eost $20, R- P. BRYANT, ABOUT PHOSPHATES. HERBERT BUTTS There are so many articles offer. PRACTICAL ed that farmers hardly know what H ARNESS M A KER, to buy. But vo one can make a mistake buying an Avimal Bone | Hion Sr, xexr poor 10 Bexzen's Mear Marker, Saper-Phospate for $25 per ton of 2,000 pounds, delivered | 1; prapared to do all kinds of Fancy and Heavy Harness at on board car or boat at Philadel: Making phia. Reasonable Prices and ola, cures wind celic, softens the gums, reduc is i fammation and gives tone and energy to the whale, aysioms, Mas, Wisstow's SooTRING SYRUF FOR UHiLD REX TEarEing be plansant 1o the taste, and in the pre scription of one othe oldest and best female physi fine Lay WARTED «To saliclt raders SALESMEN for om Penit and Orgs mental Brock. A spledid Tine of new Npecialtion. Good wages, and steady employment given to reliable energetic KS HOUSE ‘ » i
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