4 J it THE FATHIR OF WATERS, Tribute Fail by the Poet of the Blyeras to the Mighty River, fone 1 Miller's Lattar.) { have « ixraverved a city hero, not far from tue Meaaon seas, which is built below the loses of the river, I have betore ine a city hers where the wells ary built above the ground. 1 have coun upon & «iy here of nearly a quar- ter of un willion of peopls, where the graves are bu it on top of the earth. And the dead le in these graves which ave built on the top of the ground in the heart of this mighty aod antique city outnumber the living. But no: wit hstundin all that this city isa bealthtul and delicions city. The water is mt so bad after all. I have not yet trie t.e graves. New Orleans, on first sight, reminds me of a very jretty girl with a smudged face. Anli isto be admitted that she is a pretty oid petty girl, too. And he hows a tremendous lot, ean tell you. But for all that, she is a girl that you can't help falling In love with at ust sight to save your life. ty the banks of the mighty river-— It has a moutn, and can speak for itself, 1 hear you say. My friend, take off your hat, and be serious in his presence, Millions of thoughtful men of Europe would gratefully bare and bow their Leads here. ‘ihese waters come down to us from the stormy north with their story of um ouriy thirty states, Ahey have nourished : 1. ministered to needs of a hundred ne llhions of people. Their work is done for this year. They are on their *w¥ 10 the seus to rest. They arg en- 11 led to resp et, I have bask on the banks of the Amazon, gone all the way to the Ganges to soe the worshipers of water, made wy home on the ranks of the Nile, but nowliore bgve « wound a river at all like 4his | have come upon here. It is up and doing and entirely alive, It is an American river in its fullest sense. An independent river is this, too; running on its own account, turning aside for | nether Republican nor Democrat. May Le it is rouning the Independent ticket May be it is for St. John, the cold-water man. And bow few Americans have seen this mighty river, or either source or mouth I know plenty of pretty eastern ladies | who are willing to be counted well-trav eled. Not one of them in ten ever saw this greatest natural wonder of the world. It is hard to escape the intense fasei- nation of this vast, surging, sweeping river before me here: hard to conse say- ing things of this tremendnus stream, this artery, the life-blood of our broad ublic. And, oh, how the poets of old—the poets when poets were upon sarth-—would have loved this river! There is not a poem in the world worth reading that has not rivers running all through it, from the Meander and the other little rivulets, around Troy. on down to the story of the unhappy Aca- dians, whose final place of rest I can almost see from my housetop. All such places in the Bible are made green with running rivers. Paradise, that it might he of matchless elegance and eternal verdure, gathered the three great rivers in one. The wondrous river here, like all things that are great and full of power and of splendor, is very still, very docile seemingly, as if it might be ecsily man aged, led, or driven anywhere But contemplate its vast volume as it swee, 8 mst! Its depth 100! 200! 300 feet! at is the Mississppi river. And yet, you American mud-heads, you faiiroad makers, you hardly know we have a river in the country. Shame on you! But, sirs, you may need it, need ail of it, every drop of it to— water your stock. A Thorough Education, ' {M. Quad's Lotter.] Do not sigh for “a thorough educa tion,” unless you have a target beyond it. There are plenty of thoroughly edu- cated men who are a heavy burden on their friends. Without having deter- mined on & profession they rushed off to college, graduated with the highest honors and walked out info the world agein to find themselves worse off than De ktopets are pai for 1 kee are paid for being ac curate, honest and Pablo The Phe chant never asks to see any specimens of their Greek translations or essays on physiology. Cashiers may have spent twenty years at ovllege without receiving than a man who If the in medi- the , we demand no it said of a man opportunity to take the position of a traveler for a wholesale house. He had been educated without any aim beyond it. Homanece of Bogenle and Napaleon, {Pittsburg Dispateb. | It was at a ball given by President Napoleon at the Elysee, some nights be- fore the coup d'etat, that Mlle. Eugenie met her future husband. A romance is connected with the meeting Wishing to avoid the crowded ball-rooms, Louis Napoleon, with the duke of La Mos- went into the Elysee gardens, he stddoult came upon a radiant, girl. was tying up her hair a [Sli in the con- r come down the crowd was too of her reaching the She had glided Ne Cincianat Boiron) { : J One of the most important fur-bearing animals that we have is the common oat, and it is astonishing to know the num- ber used in ¢ rs, over 1,000,000 being thus utilized last year. The kinds most preferred are the pure white, and black fat Maltese sell well, while the ellow and parti-colored cat skins are dyed and sold under a variety of fancy names, There is every thing in a name; for example, over 850,000 skunk skins are made up into furs every winter, bought and worn, but not as skvnk. They go off ns Alaska, sable, Chinese mink, or xomething of the kind. Ohio and New York provide the most of them and, as in the capture of the lion and tiger, brave men are required. The fur, however, is beautiful, long and glossy, and by no means the cheapest of furs, The muskrat, over 8,000,000 and some- times 5,000,000 of which are taken every year, is much used in the manufacture of hats. The New York muskrats are worth 75 cenis, while Delaware and Maryland produce an animal worth twice as much. This ‘innocent creature is often utilized by dealers as seal, and, when dyed, =o passed upon the publie. Cheap grades of furs are made from the Siberian squirrel, muskrats, rabbits, wildeats, badger and ‘coon. Of lion skins 500 are consumed by the trade every year; while 20,000 bears, 500 tigers, 100,000 buffalo, 100,000 chinchil- las and 6,000,000 squirrels have been used yearly in various branches of *rade. Beavers to the number of 20,000 are yearly sacrificed, and it is safe to say that in fifty years the animals will have become extinet. To all, over half a million foxes are caught yearly, and it would seem that they will follow the same fate. A Patrnt Spotter, {Indianapolis Journal.) A new cash and ticket men. { from their proper destination: being ! intended to prevent conductors from | fobbing moneys collected on the trains, {and keeping and selling uncanceled tickets, the appliance at the same time furnishing the company with a full and complete record of all passengers carried | on the trains, whether they pay cash, i present tickets, or hand in trip passes It of a box with a glass front, one of these boxes being placed on a panel between the windows under the rack, for each double seat. In this box the conductor places the ticket, which falls into one of the two upper compartments, and remains in sight in that compartment until the lid is again raised for the reception ticket, when the first one falls into the lower compartment, still remaining in sight, but inacces<ible by any but the Consists pointed. As each new passenger takes a seat he drops into the lower compartment the ticket of his predecessor in thal seat, A whether or not a sent is really occupied ; and if it is being “‘hogged”’ (or occupied by some mythical “friend” of the pas senger in the next seat) he can readily disprove the occupancy. time, a passenger who leaves his seat at a station, before his journey’s end, has his right seat reserved to him, but he train. (Exchange. } From a natural platform at the very 308 feet. It feet from this natural plat toot of the falls, over fort} form to t the volume of water compressed into soon As it passes it is transformed into snowy fleccy foam, and from below rises a thick mist as the water is hurled upon the rocks that break its fall Grand as are the falls themselves, the Grand canyon really gives to the scene its unrivaled charm. One may see tur- rets, towers, pillars and cones, and hun- dreds of other fantastic shapes, accord- ing as the reins of fancy are loosed. The colors of the rock include every tint of the rainbow, Below this is a statum of brown rock, gradually shading into red. Then come orange, or yellow, violet and white limestone. Yonder is a bright red tower, and besides it is a pillar of black flint stone. Below is a white cone, above a purple arc. The Mind-Reading “Pin Triek.,” {Labouchere in London Trath.) a pin, the whereabouts of which is known to the subject. The trick is gen- erally performed in a room full of le, who also know where the pin is con cealed. Collusion, therefore, is ible. This, however, is not necessary, for if the performer be adroit he knows where to go, owing to the unconscious indications given by the subject. Nothing is more easy than to prove this. Let the subject be blindfolded instead of the performer, and the latter will never find the pin. 1 asked Mr. Stuart Cumberland whether hé could find a pin under those condi tions. Being an honest man and making no pretense to do more than closely fol. low indications, he replied that he could indieator is | attracting some attention with railroad | The device has for its object the | prevention of a diversion of cash receipts | | ferentially . handed her a bill of fare i it thoughtfully as she held it in both of i her tiny hands for a time and then said of another | proper agent at the place or station ap- | passenger can tell from the “indicator” | | ficial refinement of her charges | instance, after the boy had been silent | | for some time, he raised his eyes witha | ¢ At the same | { as he bowed to an old lady who trotted | down the cannot reserve two seats at onee in the | - ibaa roll | mammal Rainbow Rooks of the Yellowstone | She holds her nose in the air and ber { eves half closed, and just rushes right | | ahead without looking where she ix go- edge of the lower falls, the sight seer can | look 400 feet upward to the top of the | heavily wooded banks, and down to the | and looked eagerly down the room. The 8 NOt | cratic little old lady of whom he spoke © other side of the river, znd | g | waiters for leaving it in the way, this narrow space is enormous; but as | | Macaulay, “for your courtesy | to say that the pain in my head has con. | siderably abated.” Take, for instance, the trick of finding this. BOARDING-HOUSE CHILDREN. A Boy and Girl Who Are so Self Pose sessed that They Will Die Early, {Cor. Chicago Tribune} We were seated at a round table in the middie of the dining-room, where covers were laid for dive, Three seats were vacant. The door was opened by the attendant and two children, a boy and girl exquisitely dPesssd walked in side by side, followed’ hy their mother, ar] foatared and aggressive looking woman, who bowed on either side as she walked up the aisle between the tables with great frigidity and solemnity. She swept to her place in the middle of the three vacant seats at our table, and the children were lifted into their chairs by the waiters. | was conscious that the little girl's eyes were upon me and glanced down at her. Bhe bowed gravely with an air that said plainly, “1 't know you, but | consider it only proper to bow to strangers at our table,” unfolded her napkin and began to chat with her mother. 1 looked at the boy, He raised his head, said *‘good evening, sir,” politely, and then turning at once to his mother remarked in the quietest tones possible, ‘Mamma, Mrs, Blank is evidently waiting for you to recognize her.” The mother turned with seemed and lined visage over her shoulder, showed all of her teeth, and bowed with cast-iron politeness to a lady who nodded smilingly from across the room, I forgot to eat while | watched the children. The girl was certainly not more than 7 years of age, and the boy less than #. They were delicate but not frail looking. The characteristios that made them most remarkable were their entire ease and self.possession. There was none of the robust, vigorots, and careless flow of spirits which usually distinguishes Fh ig but a tranquil and even demeanor, Not that they were at all solemn or melancholy, On the contrary, they laughed and chatted with one another brightly, but always in the quistest voices and never with un. due hi‘arity. The waiter leaned de over the Nitle girl and She scanned CORCisely “I'll have some bisque of erab, James, a little striped bass, and-—and —(turning to her mother: | suppose you will never allow me to have croquets of veal again, mamma, will you?” “No, dear; they are too rich for vou.’ “Well, then, James,” continued the child, turniog to the waiter, “yoa'may give me some lamb and & Boman punch, you know, and just a mouthful of roast duek, and, I say, give me no end of fruit, particularly grapes, James." The man bowed, took the card from her hand and went to the boy, who or. dered a dinner that would have one of our Puritan forefathers gasp with amazement, The children sat therm with conversed steadily with dress, but who nevertheless looked com- mon and was without even the super quizzical sort of an expression and said room: “I never see Mr Dash come in here that I don't think of her last winter in Rome. Don't you re- member the day she fell out of a cab, She always seems so blind ing. There! There she goes now!’ As be spoke be loaned over the table had just over and kicked a champagne-cooler was expostulating with the Both of the children smiled and then laughed quietly: but the outburst that one would uaturally have expected from little ones of their years did not oceur. The boy reminded me of the ancedote we have all read so often of the wonderful com. mand of words which Macaulay exhib. ited in his childhood. He tried to walk down stairs one day, lost his balance on aceount of his diminutive stature, and tumbled to the bottom. He was taken to the numery and soothed, and the lady of the house went to him a few hours later, and said: “My child, how do you feel?’ “Thank you, madam,’ said the infant I am glad “God bless the child,” said the hostess, | “how very old he is.” Macaulay lived for many years after The First Maridian, [Albany Express) The original idea of a universal first meridian belongs to France, and as far back as 1632 a decree, signed by Louis XI, and sed by Card nat Riche lieu, established a universal meridian on the island of Ferro. This meridian was ultimately abandoned by Cassini to gratify Louis XIV's pride, and the Paris one was retained by the metric commission in 1793 under the pretense than an are of this meridian had been measured for determining the length of the unit of measure. An Interesting Case, Three medical celebrities moet together to consult at the sick-bed of General X, the general rings for his gh oll, Jacques, you wed those out; what did "Ah, t seem to or with each Yen, | fat one that they must have a little hence. and at the autopsy ~ whatever ma Would ad out whet minde | Inone |’ §. BROWN, JR. & C0. No. 8 and 8 Bishop St., Bellefonte. GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FLOUR & FEED, SALT, FISH, &o. h Cm + THE CHEAPEST STORE 70 buy Groceries in this sec- tion of the State, LOOK At a few of OUR PRICES: | Lake Herring, 1-4 bbl. 1 Vienna Flour, per sack White River Flour 1 Sack Best Roller Flour . Osk Hall . i | 3 Cans String Beans their | bright eyes roaming about the room and | their mother, ! who was gorgeously arrayed in evening | Lima Corn Tomatoes Peas 3 Bottles Catsup 35 30 1 Can Finest California Peaches Apricots Pears 35 3 pounds Saltana Prunes Sugar Syrup { Choice Rice 1 “ Good Table Peaches 1 1b. Baking Powder 1 Ib. Pure Pepper 1 “ Glucose Syrup Lomp Starch Corn Starch, per pound | 1 pound best Coffee . | Sardines, 3 boxes for Scaled Herring, per box Loose Valentina Raising - French Prunes 2 hs, for Olieni Soap : Bloater Herring, per doz 2 Ibs Canned Corned Beef Tapioca Flake or Pearl Granulated Bugar ‘ The abuve goods, when quality is taken ea oS we oi: Ap Ae bigs in need of the A goods, or anything else in the line togive usa onll as we feel confident that we can please you. Remember the Place, No.3 and 5 W. Bishop St. ER Sma We also have’ in connection with our store a first-class Meat Market, w « SEER EER And sell CHEAPER than) Groceries, SUGARS —Girnnalsted Sugar Sc a pound Ail other grades at lowest prices, SYRUPS Good bargaine in of) grades. MOLASSES, Finest New Orleans at 80¢ por gaflon, COFFERS. Fine assortment of Coffons, both green and roasted, Our rossted Collees are always fresh, TOBACCO, ~All the new and deeirable brands, CIGARS. Bpecis! stiention given 10 our cigar trade. We try to sell the Lest Lior Lo and Ge cigars In wwn, TEAR Young Hyson, Oc, 80c, §1 por pound. Tnper- al, 80, Bog, #1 pound. Gnnpunder, 0c, Sr $1 per pound ung, 60c, 80c, $1 per pound. Mined green and black, Goce, 80c, §1 per pound A very Sane uncolored Japan tos. Also, a nll (odd Bs Hoyson st 40¢ per pound, —— CHEESE Finest full cream chem at 16c per pound, VINEGAR «Pure old cider vinegar made from whale cider, One gallon of this goode js worth more than two gallons of common vinegar, SECHLER & CO., Grocers, Bush Howse hl the dh oh ah we a eh ¥ SN SNP GR A Rr SECHLER& Wo party {n politics, nor any sect in ro’igion THEGREATHET AND THE BEST, THE LARGE DOUBLE WEEKLY, RELIGIOUS AND BECULAR NEW YORK OBSERVER (Established 1823.) No paper lu the ARLE conve oF Enron the bond of the sditorial fraternity snd hie jetlers and editorials still enrich the Onsaven, Other stmong ite editors have hind the training of & quarter of § century for thelr werk, Tus Connusronpenys of the Osserven ars from all ands | and the ney, carefully prepared from letters and telegrams, furnishing a complete view of the con. dition of the work each week Soman reac xe and RELG008 work are copdoctedby experta, who write clonriy and to the point sen vem does not S11 its columas with long essays and old sermons, bul sims 10 be A LIVE NEWSPAPER. | tions, entonrmgement and truth; and a Epctras Exner | cowtaining all the new, vigorous comments Spon cur. A 1 rents events, and a great variety of cholor reading The price le 8310 a your. For doa mids xpw stOB “Lams ave Levoans,” as elegantly bound volume of $00 pages, containing a portrait of the author Addrem, New York 31 & 32 Park Row, N. Y. niu Observer, PAINTING and PAPER HAGING., WORKMANSHIP THE BREST PRICES THE LOWEST | PROMPTNESS AND DISPATCH, RRL gr ‘WILLIAMS & BRO, DEALERS IX WALL PAPER PAINTS, &C. HIGH 8t bet Spring & Water, Bellefonte We take thie method of informing everybody Tet. That we have in stock the ; sud Best selection of Wall Paper outside o lindelphin or Kew York, vig: Solid Golds, Bmbomed Bronsms, Mions, Piste, Bating, Biscks snd Browse, Beautiful Borders in Great Variety, £8 Pref Becks New Book of Osiling Designs. We oan furnish and put up ae Soe and elaborate Ceiling Dec rations se are pul up anywhere, 3. That we invite all who intend papering to oall and wor out Lime of goods before ordering sleewbere, 4th. We have in our employ Bretciane paper hang. ers and pal nters, and are prepared to take jobs of PAINTING, GRAINING, SIGN WRITING, snd PAPER HANGING, Large or small, and complete the work with neatnes and dispatch. Trade from the vonstry solicited. T3000 WILLIAMS 4 BROTHER. ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Are you disturbed at night and broken of your est by a sick child suffering snd erying with pain of cut ting tooth? If so, send at once and get a bottle of Mas. Wisstow's Scorsiwe Svaur ser Onpasss , Iw value fe tnoalouiable, It will relieve the 1itthe sufferer immodintely upon it there bo oo o fet cke about IL. 11 cures dye the stomach and bow- by oll draggiste hea Sou the word. u bottle, © energetic B. Riconansson & Guava, N, | UHLEY hes a ore LX PERIERCED AND Dr. Irensens Primes standeal | The Op | giving every week a Ravsorovs Super full of fnstrae | scutsrts we give one dollar commision of a copy the | Sumyde | copies of the OppsrEs will be sent to any address free. | That we have just received from New York i So AY AR Block, Bellefonte, — Pa, Provisions, Pr ig FOREIGN FRUITS And CONFECTIONERY. MEAT MARKET in Connection. FTON EW ARE In at buen of 41) the desirable shaper bent quality of Akron were, Tulse tnowt putie : factory goods be the market, ani FOREIGN FRUITS Oranges snd emons frowhest goods to be had. We buy the — Juclest lemons we can Sod, They Letter chanper thas the very low priced plot FRUIT JARS We have the pew lightning and Mason's porcelain lined snd Chae a e "fae lightaing jar ie far abesd of soy thing yet known It be u Vittles higher in price thas the Jor, but it be worth more than the difference in price, Bu the lightning jur and you will EL] it. bave them in pints, Yaris and half gallows, MEATE Fine sugar-cured Hass Fhoulders, Breaks: fast Bacon, nud dried Beef. Naked and txnvessed We guarantes every ploce of mest we well, : OUR MEAT MARKEY. We he drves for our marke! a tert A Rin Tami 4 Stentios 10 gmitiy me bouts sod wlwage try to inven fine Book shoud, Our ad ] depend oh getting nice lumb at olf tases, - BROULER & OD, anocess & mesy HARKSY, Bask House Block, Betletonte, Py, FORKS HOUSEs Coburn, Centre Co., Pa. GOOD MEALS, ) CLEAN BEDS. PRICES MODERATE. — the and and | 83@~ HOTEL WITHIN TWO MIN UTES’ WALK TO STATION. Good Stable Accommodations. | Excellent Hunting and Fishing grounds quite near this Hotel, t JOS, KLECKNER =~ Prop'r. STUDIO, ‘2nd floor Bush Arcade, (Room opy. Dr. Rothrotk's Dents) office.) | Tam now ready to do all kinds of ] PAINTING, Such az PORTRAITS inoil. LAND SCAPES, SIGN and ORNAMEN. TAL. FANCY DECORA TING and GRAINING a SPECIALITY. Batisfaction guaranteed in al | I would be pleased tv have you | and examioe specimens of work, [o- | structions given in Painting. Very Resrrcreviry, | C. P. ICilder. The Department of Aaniorirvns, Bowes, Boxpay | a alm Quick Time. Rockford, Ill, Jan. 1880, This is to certify that we have appoinicd ! Frank P., Blair, sole agent for the sale of ovr Quick Train Railroad Watches in the town { of Bellcfoute, | Railway RI Rockroun Waren Conraxy. | ‘m BY HOSHER 2. HULLAND, Sec. | aving most 1 ly test | Rockford Quick Train ated . last three years, | offer them with the fullest confidence as the best made and most reliable time keeper that can be obtained. for the sovay I fully guarantee wery Watch Bod you FRANK P. BEATE" every day and at 00 time has if irregular, or in the least u cheerfully recommend the Rockford Watch, HORACE B. HORTON, st Dighton Furnace Co. Tavwron, The Rockforg us, Sept, 18, 1681 very curately ; better tha teh 1 ever owned, and | have bod Ai oh cont | $150. Can recommond the Rockford Hatch to everybody who wishes a 'S. P. HUBBARD, 3. p. This is to certify that Watoh bought PF the
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