NR AR NTIS CENTRAL AMERICAN PESTS. The Bold Garrapotas, [Fanny Brigham Ward's Letter.) One may prepare for mountain lions, i bgu-constrictors, alligators, centipedes and tarantulas—but to be totally vanquished by ticks is defeat too rious for Christian resignation! Not only is the earth infosted with fleas 80 fk that 1 dare not de- scribe them und so numerous that our donkeys, wading for days through the hot sand, became literally black | with them-—and gnats, mosquitoes and stinging insects abound in ineredable numbeps; but the ven- turesome traveler is obliged to protect himself from a thousand before un. heard-of burrowing and crawling creatures by wearing a thick veil, so closely tacked inside that no spot on face or neck is come:at-able, long leather auntlets, aud the tallest eof rubber ts securoly tied at the tops, Betsy and I did not pride ourselves much upou style, as we sallied forth on mule back thus caparisoned —than which “even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” and 1 decline to take a Bible oath that we entirely es caped despite.all precautions. There 15 a tiny, innocent-looking fly {or rather there are billions of them) which comes singing along in the wildest and most absent-minded mar ner, and goes by witnont causing you to susp that he has so much as noticed your ex istence. But the little wretch manages to get in his work by probing you una wares with a long, mvigible lanes, and leaving under the skin an infinitesimal epg, which at first produces no pai or other sign of injury. This ege developes with astonishing rapidity into a worm, which becomes a healthy grandfather in ten days, and the whole interesting family increase in equal ratio, and wriggle beneath your tortured cuticle until your courage rises to the point of having a sizable steak amputated to get rid of them, One poor soldier of our escort was so careless of pre eantions that before the journey through Lower Campeche was hall accomplished his human in divine had undergone 80 many carvings that he resembied that Abyssinian cow, which Stanley assures us kept alive as long as possible of persnbulating shop slices cut from her quivering sides ever steak was required But even worse than thew wandering flies are the garrapotas, for they enter boldly “where angels fear to tread.” and bury their whole disgusting body under the skin before the vielim can sav Jack Robinson. And then there is no remedy but to amputate another pound of Hesh, or to put on a poultice and wait for the oft to die and be drawn out. In this narration I am reminded of the sympa thetic old lady who, listening to a tale of bair-breadth escapes in tired tearfully, “and did you live, honey We did, bur returned thinner if not wiser women and with no disposition to repeat the ex periment. a sort having when teat "The Queen of Madagnsent. [Now York Tribuoe.) Lieut. Shufeldt, of the United States navy, who recently crossed Madagascar was presented fo the queen, whom he thus describes: “She is a young woman of medium graceful movements, and distinguished by majestic bearing, though g appearance. She has dark waving 34 3 risa hair ‘fhe Innocent-Looking Fly and Its Egge uterfor of a Russian Home=Suites and THE RUSSIAN AT HOME, Heception-Rooms, (New York SBtar.] The interior of a Russian house is not familiar to all, so, onder fevor of the Lares and Penates, wo will enter the | sacred domicile, first premising that a well-kept house in Et. Petersburg or Moscow is exceedingly comfortable, A tall, portly suisse (house-por- ter) admits you, when a fool man ushers you up a most spa cious, handsome staircase, often of marble: and after passing through the usual double doors, you are introduced into an ante-room, where you leave your inevitable garment—your fur cloak. The reception rooms are then entered, and these often seem interminable; eight or nine in number in the house on the Palace or English quays ate not un common, generally opening into one another. The inlaid parquets of the rooms are often very beautiful-~the floor polisher is an important institution in Russia; of course some rooms are richly carpeted, and do justice to the looms of Turkey and Persia. The silk or damask curtains, wall hangings and coverings for the ottomans are superb, All is luxurious: vases of lapis-lazali, porphyry and malachite, pictures and objects of art in general are in profusion People here all arm themselves for the winter There can be no question us to its severity Double windows ar universal; they are an absolute neces sity. Forthe admission of fresh air, ong pane in éach window is left so that it may be opened at pleasure, The resi of the window is 80 thoroughly se that not a breath of the keen air Ure Cin | entey The LOY 0s by means of ich th heated are Line SLOv itis filled until wh houses ar ted POON vers coust roe LAA rul which ix burned then well «dl, is lightly shut, and it does not requin to be replenished for several days. The minrious off of the hot air are 0 CO waler LA 8) y ' siire the door ' ola ' ated by larg Kept The Ku nading thy ments, Purpose » sl i ars ol i th ns are very fond of prom of apart left for this Ihe winter leing so long being hg FOOtas, Ougn Loeir suites and swple space is i od wrms of warmer climates 1 Yario introduced Hapa bloom, while the preity hyacinths and cousiant raging warm temperature indoors being favorable to | their cultivation. The continental fashion | of living in flats much prevails here Sleeping rooms are not invariably numerous in proportion to the reo plion rooms, but this state of things naturaily improves with the increase of civiliza- tion now sn servant brings with him into a house, bed and settles down in a of some unfrequented corridor, provision for hunself and his effects be ing nil Sometitnes baggage other The picture of his saint has its place | assigned on the wall above, a curtain is | improvised | arranged in front of his lodgment, and there he is comfortal is | established, or, at any rate, contentedly height, of lithe figure and | mo | bright light complexion, and black lustrous | eyes. She dresses in female costume. Her prime minister, and is According to royal ci left the prlace without a larg and much ceremony, When roval prop erty was carried through the streets the people wer: expected to Koen themselves within their houses. [If anybody was met in the street who had no time to run to his house he had to prostrate himself upon the ground until the queen's goods had passa When Lieut, Shufeldt was presented to the queen, she was seated at the ton of a throne with thirty steps. On the first step on each knee with hand ex tended toward the young queen was her husband, the prime minister—a dark complexioned, gray-haired man. She was dressed in a light-pink satin dress and on her head wore a gold crown studded with diamonds, 1 bowed on being presented to but she grace fully extended her hand. 1 ascended the throne and «! her extendwd hand, the first white man to grasp ib" modern Parisian husband th 6 Je old never retinue is Ne rs m she her, YOK Weather and Temper, [Harper's Basar.) Ono *must, indeed, be either very happy or well- disciplined to thoroughly enjoy the Keening of the wind, the pelt Ing rain and murkivess of stormy days, or too young +» have known suffering; but even the sorrowing may find a melancholy allevintion in the gilded at- mosphere of fine weather, which, like a good. natured person, is welcome every. | where. Everything looks uglier and more portentons in the storin and dark. ness: pain is more painful, disappoint ment more bitter, regret mors poignant, poverty more biting; but when the sun returns all the vapors flit like ghosts at cock-crow, poverty and pain and annoy. ance become sore endurable, borrow some luster from the day, and masquer ade in its colors, Two Cnitle Kings [Chicago Tribune. | Miller and Lux, are rated at $5,000, 000 to $10,000,000, and 1 established he uneducated Hing god These are painted colors on pieces of board, and namented with silver or gold niers a room or s for th bohgs pictures of saints, ca them Russian « I lat business be of the utmost tis to salute the or crossing himself mportane his Arst mn san bowing A Fortune in (st, "Beeswax." Louis Globe Democrat “Did ve eter hear of the or ginal ais foughnut mine at Tomb Well, he was a regular tender foot from ‘way back, and workin’ with two pards on the claim, an’ one day he came up from the bottom of the shaft an | said he, played out, and | ain't got no in this racket. | allow as long striking anything like ore 1d out here, but may ye spit on ant working his pards a piece of rock th with a brown substanes as coverer of tiv stone’ Was says he, ‘Bovs, oie heart as | Was stand it iy graveif | DOs Wax \! | showed iekly cover | dud un YO Take 85h of his pards HH and so the the quitciain nderfoot lost a NK commonly like wax Will for your share ‘Bet ver sweet stuff was deed made out. an’ the t fortune. The thing he wx was chloride of silver, an’ the rock went $15,000 the ton Tell said Litt life 1 w= handed over took for wos to Vi stranger, it ain't every man's a fudge of rock,” One Woman's Meredon, NwYork Tribune } Doubtless the late postmaster goneral of England owed his suecess largely to | the ability, energy and devotion of his excellent wife, But there is no trata in the current story that she once had ber finger erushed in the earriage door hinge | #8 she was riding to the house of com- mons with him, and bravely endured the torture in silence rather than dis turb him with the knowledge of it, and thus imperil the successful delivery of the great speech he was about to make, Such an incident did indeed occur, but Mrs. Ben amin Disraeli was the heroine | of it, and but for ber fortitude then her | heaband perhaps nover would have be. | come ear! of Beaconsfield. The story | was first told to the American { many years ago by the late N. I*. Willis. Two cattle kings of the const, Messrs. | ; publie How Old the Trees Grow, (Boston Herald | The eminent botanist, De Candolle, HE erecpers i winter is | and | corner | Russians | CAITY, to a great extent, their fanaticism | Loaneed | turned t} | have not the means § | ers Are i publi ! ae A —s sn Moonshining In Ireland, The place selected for the operations of the distiller is usually some natural hollow, or a sheltered spot partially hid- den by some overhanging rock. But occasionally there are much more habit able places prepared. A favorite exam- ple of this is an artificial eave dug out in the side of a high bank close to a stream, the proximity of which is al ways necessary for their operations, The entrance is generally concealed with great ingenuity by a luxuriant growih of furze and other shrubs, Inside, raised seat of earth, on which some heathor has been strewn, and a rudely built chimney complete the structure, The functions of the chimney are not by any means exhausted by being brought up to the natural level of the earth, As is well known, burning peat has an easi.y recognizable odor, and if this drew attention to a wreath of smoke ascending in the midst of a field, the chances of a ng life for the still-house would be very small, Instead, there fore, being directly brought out, every conceivable artifies is employed render the smoke invisible, Sometim w it is led into a drain; at others, into a thick growth of underwood: azain, it is carried for some stance and allowed | to make its escape in such small quan | imperceptible. | in on which we knw the house was underground, in the vieinits | the owners eo tae yoand addy antagze of | this was taken to conver the chimne up the earthen fence and effet a june tion with the flueof the in a ——— of Lt fitien as to be practically still. | : DANG On 544 i Kitchen BOD CRses a awailing aouse 1s Dosen in sucha lo a nito dofy occured in Win ity PETE LP] EEE distillation Ano town for n fngion, ik market LT wl wir mn an within a hund: tant constabulary il Ls ih i { For ought th CARs assed COIR Honey sinilar instances shirey + hiding 1 through treach t would be my wa shown by SET HACE 4] How Love Makes Vools of Men. Now bh < lott A good while ago on men in Ameri jnaintance a deal a pail a of attention. and was delighted at the outlook sh grown tired of the or love-making, and thought the introdu tion of the new element of brains might make this affaiy more tolerable than its predecessors There were several char m ing evenings in mixed company. whe very tender things were in bright fashion, and the lady began to think there was a good! deal of fun in 2 flirtation after all The dear man got oun well, but before fate granted him the opportunity of » teto-a-tete with his flame. it called him a neighboring city, sand in a ma hour he wrote, and he begun his letter in this style : my ever thunk of her absent That settled the whol INAryY routing i sail very io “Does ugar-plam That | busines {| nice plum might have gone on and dis tanced Ingersoll and Evarts for wit and vision She never read one sentonce nore that long letter She gn of transfixed ai that first gre ting, and she sited the V-writien on iazing grate, and when that man whe | 80 good a chance arrived in town nd called promptly, the told m her mistress had Jeft word for Mr she wouldn't be at fore the early part of 1887 But my name is not Plum,’ of Towed shreds servant ium hat home Ra d the That's what you're ealled hore’ bouncer, “You're the never speak pass by, and the lady will never forge® that sent “Does my pretty ever think of her absent sugar -plam!” i 4 a man.’ Sa “they as they 4 TR A fife Pulure of the Interview, American J A man to write and ve not vel to b raslist } a book and hi to lecture, d SONY redd of the to the gn pablie : reddy been thiseoov- | :! to i. We with : £4 in the interview! As that fora of publication 1 fo talk beans Le fu i} 111) ' pari of th Wi ay be conveved of th integizent : talk 3 #i Cr, Is all yol, } % tisy n make the snggestion mn doubt, wh ma ol, Jet us adit, also occasion But it has a ature befor For newspapers ean do with Is 0 All CAs | and propriety what books can never do | ax naturally They ean act | as a telephone through which the wider | may be present at the conversa. | tion of our bed men, well oF as Fox Hunt Yelayed. (Pobindeiphm Call} Young Pinks Ab! m'deal follah, so delighted to see vou, Bay the wav, when does the aw fox-huuting season open this yeanh! Master of Hounde—Can't give the ex. | date, but it will be early. i “Gilahd to hesh it, I'm soah. Just | dying for » wun. But why cawnt you fix the date now, bah Jove!" “Well, you see, the whipper-in got sick and did not start for England until Inst week.” “Aw, we have to wait until he gets back, eh! Too bad, too bad. Bah the way, what did he go to England foh''’ “For a fox.” i A ——— Letter Writing Extraordinary. (Kinderhook Tough Notes) Mrs. Blinker asked Matilda, the house servant, a few nights ago: “What dreadfal scratolring is that oat in the kitchen! it must be the dog try. pretty one | Bloater Herring, per doz | 21bs Canned Corned Beef | Tapioe Flake or Pearl | Granulated Sugar ‘ £, BROWN, - JR. & C0. No. 8 and B Bishop St., Bellefonte. GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FLOUR & FEED, SALT, FISH, &o. CHEAPEST STORE To buy Groceries in this sec- tion of the State. + LOOK At a few of OUR PRICES: Lake Herring, 1-4 bbl, 82.00 Vienus Flour, per sack White River Flour 1 Back Best Roller Flour Oak Hall 1 356 1.26 3 Cans String Beans 25 Lima 25 Corn 25 Tomatoes Pegs 3 Bottles Catsup 2 1 Can Finest California Peaches 1 “ Apricots ] Pears 3 pounds Sultana Prunes Sugar Syrup Choice Rice 1 “ Good Table Peaches 1 Ib. Baking Powder 1 1b. Pure Pepper 1 “ Glacose Syrup Lump Starch * Corn Starch, per pound 1 pound best Coffee Bardives, 3 box» for Sealed Herring, per box Loose Valentia Raising - French Prunes 2 he, for Olieni Soap . 08 20 30 07 The abuve goods, when quality is taken inte consideration, are remarkably cheap. They are all fresh goods and we sordiaily invite all who are in ned of the above goods, or anything else in the line to give usa call as we fool confident that wo oan please you, Remember the Place, No.3 and 5 W, Bishop St. We also have’ in connection with our store a first-class Meat Market, gl andd 95 | PE. “ees, HE 'SECHLER & C0, Gr § Groceries, | SUGARS Granulated Eagar be 3 pound grados al lowest prices All other SY RUPE Good bargains In all grades | MOLASS AS, Fluent Now Orionns af 800 per gallon COFFEES Fins assirisaent of ( Mons, i» fueled Colles ur ih green and rosetod alwuys fresh TOBACCOOK «AH the new and desiraide brands 1G ARE. Bpor We tery town, W) WU ention given ar trade bowed uy oy sell the 2 for wy TEAR Young Hyson, G0c 80c, $1 per pound Gungsow der, How Bi, $1 per posud #1 per pound B good Bargain Sowieg 01 per ponind he, $1 i. Oolong, GM groves sid Vleck, te, wk unexdored Jupas tea. Adu Hyson at 40g per pound, CHLESE ~Finost fd] crown cheese af 100 i VINEGAR «Pu Cre gm fort thle goande Bn» Enllons of re old bor viyiegny mands vidhis tog ih REET ta i —— EE —— i — low mantis ET ell hob 4 bi iA | i BLCLIN Te Jun No party { CT THEGREATEST ANDTHE BEST, THE LARGE BoUSLE WEEKLY RELIGIOUS «ND 85 KEW YORK OBSERVER (Established 1523. No pager in Lit OuaBtry Lines mre EXPERIENCE ABLE Oulrs oF Essvers. Dr, Lronmas Prose stand the head i the editorial frets editerials ot LLAY hie letter (her » gol » goanrtes Hy a surich the RELY £8 sditors have had the for thelr work THE Uns usrorbenmes of the cure ally "SE train (FEsERYYS are from & muds © and the news prepared (rots betters tedograme, farnivhie # CON dition of the work sch week The Depurttpent of AGRorirrRe, Bosiyrss, Soanay Semon Ea mi ve and RELIGIOUS Bor K sre ocondortedby | *Xperia, wh The Op SERVER Jove wot B11 ite onium with Jong emsars and oid seranotee, Lat sites to be . A LIVE NEWSPAPER. giving every week sa Reissmous Sueey fall of Instrue and a FoovLan Baur coniaining all the new vigy OUsInenis upon our rents events, and & rest varety of cholo reading The peice BL 15 a year. For pons ripe xaw #03 SCRiaRRSs we give one dollar commission of a copy the “inex ecs Larrer,” an elegantly bound volume of $i pages, containing & portesit of the suthor. Bamuple copive of the Duna ren will besent to an) addres free Addrona, New York 31 & 32 Park Row, N. Y. wa and miplete view of th write clossiy aud to the paint tiene, snoouragement aod truth; Observer, | PAINTING and PAPER HAGING. WOREMANSHIP THE BRST PRICES THE LOWEST FROMPTNESS AND DISPATCH » WILLIAMS & BRO. DEALERS IN WALL PAPER PAINTS, &C. | HIGH Bt. bet Bpring & Water, Bellefonte | We take this method of informing everybody Ist. That we have In stock the Largest and Best | selection of Wall Paper ontelde of Philadelphia or | New York, vie Solid Gulde, Embosved Bromo | Mions, Fists, Batine, Blacks and Browns, Beaustifel Borders in Great Variety, £6 That we have just received from New York Prod Beck's New Book of Osiling Designs. Wo can | furnish and put up ae Bae and elaborate Osiling De | oration ws are pot up anywhere 8. That we invite ail who intend pupering to onli | | and see sur Hine of goods before ordering slaew here th, We have in our employ frst-clam paper bang ors and pal store, and are prepared to take Jobs of PAINTING, GRAINING, SIGN WRITING, and PAPER HANGING, Large or saonll, and complete the work with westuem teh Sa Trade from the country solicited 108 WILLIAMS & BROTTIER ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Ave you Satarbed at night and broken of your est | by a iek oblld wallaring aod crying with pain of cut | ting teeth? If so, send at once and got » bottle of | Mas. Winston's Sostmiss Sraer ron Oniusses | Taprmewe. Dos value is inoadoniable, Tt will relives | the poor iste saflerer immediately. Depend upon it mothers, thers is no » isthe abomt 10, 11 cures dy outery and dlarthoos, reg ilates the stomach nid bow. ols, euros wind colic, softens the gums, reduces in Bammmathon and gives tone and wnergy to the whole, aystem. Mus, Wivsiow's Soormine Sree ron Onn REN Tarrmins bs pleasant to (he taste, and is the pre; seription of one © the Olds kod bowl female phywi clans and nurses in be United Boater und is for sale by all draggiet oe on the world. Price 35 cents » bottle, a] SALESMEN ora swt orsmensst Btook. A wplodid Time of mew Specialtion. Good and steady employment given to reliable energetic men. Woitefor terme to KB Ruomansson & Ou, 15. Sexwes Lace Nossonins Gases, N.Y The Cheapest and Best. The cheapest is not always the best, But the cheapest Ammoniated Bone Phosphate that gives the best result is A Cheap and Reliable Crop Produ. cer that has given excellent results for five years. The best practical results have been obtained by intelligent farm. ers who use this brand season after b preference to any other, In this insdanee cheapest ia the best, Bush i i froslinet goods 10 be hued i i : | | Cigars im Lmper. Mixed 1 A very fos | oN House Block, Belleofnte, Pa. SECHLER& CO. Provisions, f FOREIGN FRUITS And CONFECTIONERY. MEAT MARKET in Connection. FTONEWARE To atl sizes of ail the Fowat goality of Akros rnirabile shapes This is the mace satis "nr factory goods in the market FOREIGN FRUITS Clrnsiges and 1 We 4 Lew madd They wre better snd y bow priced goods EE iy the of the JNcihont Sedo we cats Hid thoapor thay the ver FRUIT JARS We have the and Mason's poroslule- dined und glove top jure, Tha Vaghtuing Jur in far sbond of wuyk Yel k Bows It de on Hitdde higher in price they the Man # jar, but Hs worth seore than the 4 fesse iy price Buy hee lighinisg far apd % will not regis it We have thew in pais, guaris aod he f mall ’ ’ MEAT Fine sugar-eused | fest Bacon aod dried Bef Wo guarantee vvery yee new Hghteiug frais jx Hase, Bhoulders Kaukod and + of teat we sell, Td Based OUR MEAT MARY ET drome Lor our sented nites thom te baw We burs fifty Sus laanton 1 We give special v and wiwage ry Gay ” we getting Ba a Boe Bock aig waned ia tw ars Cal Bedi x eats BECHLER & OO hat & mea nl Blok, Beedle bite, Pa — ‘FORKS HOUSE { Coburn, Centre Co. Pa. GOOD MEA LS. | CLEAN BEDS. PRICES MODERATE. sHOTEL WITHIN TWO MIN UTES’ WALK TO STATION. xeoellent Hunting snd Fishing grounds quite near this Hotel. JOS. KLECKNER - Props. STUDIO, 2nd floor Bush Arcade, (Room opp. Dr. Rothrock's Dents) vfow.) I am now ready to do all kinds of PAINTING, Such az PORTRAITS in oil, LAND SCAPES, SIGN and ORNA MEN. TAL. FANCY DECORA. TING und GRA INING «a SPECIALITY. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. I would be pleased to bave you call, and examine specimens of work. In. structions given in Painting, Very ResrecrroLry, C. DP. itilder. Quick Railway Time, —— ~ Rockford, IU. Jan. 15880, y Thiz is to certss thal we have appointed Feank J Blair, sole rent for the sale of our (hick Train Rails . ad Wat het in the boson wf Belicfoute Rock rons Waren Conran BY HOSMER P. HULLAND, See. Having most thoroughly tested the Rockford Quick Train Watches for the last three years, | offer them with the | fullest confidence as the best made and | most reliable time keeper for th money that can be obtained, pe . Ifully guarantee vary Wateh fort FRANK P. BLA IR, No.2 Brockerhoff Row. an Watches of peduced A 4 other A Lh pres, Diaurox, Jan. 27, 1889 The Rockford watoh Pancha Tk 519, bas performed better than any Watch | ever bad. Have carried it every day and at no time has it been irregular, or in the least unreliable. ! cheerfully recommend the Rock ford Watch, HORACE B. HORTON at Dighton Furnace Co, Is Tarnrox, Se i", IR N The Rock ford Watch Rr IL curately ; better than any watch 1 | owned, and I have had one that — | Rao Can revommond the Rock ford to everybody wh i by Ybody who wishes a Sne | 8. P. HUBBARD, M. D. i wihia ) to certify Fro the | Watch bought Feb, 22, 1879. has | very well the past year, Ho Rl | Only twice during that time, jt only variation being three winutes, It has ticipated. It was pot adjusted snd cost $20, R- P, BRYANT, pres W ron very much better than | ever an. % h we
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