LIFE IN THE COUNTRY, [Puck. | “The farmer is busy threshing; 1 heard the muffled blows, And also the fellow yelling Who gets the flail on the toes. X heard the partridge drumming Among ths beeches dense, And | see the chipmunk running Along the old rail-fence, And out in the russet stubble The quail doth sweetly pipe, And upon the breakfast table The old slapjack is®ipe. WNEW YORK'S HUNGER FOR PIE. Weminiscences of a Veteran Ple-Makeor— Growth of the Trade. {New Yor Tribune. | “Does New York eat many pies?” adked a reporter of a veteran baker, “Well, I should say she does, a fow,"” fae answered. ‘I've been selling pies fiere nigh on to forty-four years, and wlow’t think she will, either, for there are some good people here —you strike one wow and then —and all good people love gies. 1 used to feel uneasy about New York's destiny, but since she has taken s0 well I ain't afraid to bet on her.” “Yes," he continued, “1 began the buse eness in 1840, Houston street was then away up town, and I used to think it was a long way from the shop to Broad way and 1 rince street, where | used to drive « very day with for Mr and Mrs. Niblo, who stood behind their Jittle co | sold them to eustom ers off the head of a by remem Ber Mrs, Niblo's white and the pretty cap she wore len was enclosed with a rough chee “My sal i day I drove ¢ great &rade, but shops and lun scattering from Hous! @irand stree wehicl Ce You r to pie resi ples inter an I 83 BN § rooms I've down Broa Many a time member where Bam sereetl and \ BE as fo Row this state would go =o railroad: those days ‘raph lines News and steamboat Rumor Clay was elected and there was great jubilation. Half the town turned wut to celebrate Mr. Frelinghuysen, his second on the ticket. The vice president elect came out and made a speech in his mightshirt Next day leading politicians gathered at Horace Greeley's office to ear the latest news from Albany. A messenger was sent to the af the boat had come in with the news that the state had gone against Clay, and that Polk was elected Mr. Greeley didn't say a word. He turned his back toward the little crowd Lis saw great oa the paps were tele post came that nor came by wharf to ses He returned pad leaned over desk | tear drops fall aK. “Well, we've and I'm still selling pies, @G0 every day The Crust, 06 barrels of flour We we every day twenty-five barrels of ap # he was read e then, We make 20 moved along sine materials? week, avery ’ po. ruts in proportior } | Ha, , R40 dozen eggs, 2.6840 1,400 quarts of milk, Ary articie n ples other wounds of Ig pounds of lard and other 1 “ FODOGHT propo on How It Is Managed. " G 2 Ife of | orate lothes, ; requent! SOME SW a alaries aver of the Fr hat is what I interpos this on your replied, “tw if | had a year ] 1 sa : WwW do you siall salary of the » ays solitary my way « | LL enjoying The Flesh Side Out. Exchange the advantage gained in having the flesh side of the leather soles of boots and shoes outside is mainly the peculiar fa cility it affords in the application ol grease for preserving the leather, since the pores are so much larger, besides permitting the introdaction of fine sands or fron filings, ete., which ingrease the rosistance to wear. Again, if the more wompact portions of the leather be out side, when the outer layer Is worn away it leaves the interior in a soft and tender state, which abrades very rapidly, while if the soft side be first exposed it ma be protected, as above mentioned, a when removed leaves a compact layer, even when worn down almost to the thinness of paper, New York ladies eat lumps of loaf sugar satufsted with cologne between the acts ut theatres, Aman others wisdom by financial Joss. Like n Fazor, he issharper for be ing struprnl | habitual abuse and hostility | the she hase t gone bac 4 ¥ | 8 he hasnt gone back on them yet. 1 | is hardly a day that one does not | trol publi 6 00 THE LONDON TIMES, Some Interesting Points About the Great Thunderer. [London Cor, New York Times) The Times, while never a partisan pa- por in the just sense of that term, hae always at heart, since my recollection of it, been a Liberal paper, but under the old dispensation it was a Liberalism which was invaded by social influences, and its momentary attitude could never be predicted, Mr, Delane, with all his extraordinary abilities, was sometimes captured by personel ities which were not worthy their momentary Success, It is becoming, under the new regimo, a less impulsive and more consistently progressive paper than it has ever been before. The worst abused and most read paper in England, and wielding an influence greater than all the others combined, it has of course, drawn on itself the of nearly and ther hi ar lamentation over the falling off of The Fimes. tis as frigid a habit as com pliments of the weather, for many years, and yet for a which has so steadily gone to the dogs, entire English press, | it maintains its position singularly well, The fact is that The Times undertaken the reforming land, but has aimed to be the exponent of higher feeling on all that interests England. It rarely undertakes to con though certainly never Eng- Has work of opinion unylelding IDPOS mm to Disrael Pur being drawn asceriain tion ournal in accoun things the reminds most i ‘asmyth hammer which ers or a bomb shell with % it has been mor '.3 h pr. 4 ndest living reader 0 say that it has rated is to suppose that } ‘4 Rf it has for the decay are as supremacy. Mistaken for it is not directed Hib ssed to be su h, lamenta- Ons over its old as ils ROTI Believers in Lueck Civilization Mas Its Drawbacks on if ’ It is said that n ness of visi L only has the acute im of eiviazed men falle n x | low the standard common among savage A German technical journal says that | ” nations, but at the same time the eves of civilized men often depart from the normal or approximately spherical for mation, either becoming flattened from front to back #0 as to bring the retina too near the surface, or elongate from front to back, so as to remove the retina too far from the surface The Mirror-Manufucturing Industry, [Chiloago Tribune. | England is at the head of the mirror. manufacturing industry of the world, producing 750,000 square yards annu ally. France produces 530,000 square yards and Germany 840,000 square yards. In this country the principal manufactory at Lenox Furnace, Mass. , produces om 110,000 square yards a Joar. There are other smaller manu actories in Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri. The Japanese gin when she goes mito company paints her face white, her lips and the corners of her 4 red, wit two slate-colored spots on or a { Banting till the lean Kind deal of | roah Ix | guide and a sage, It has been so | paper | ANCIENT GASTRONOMY., How the Heroes of Mythology and History Indulged Thelr Appetites, {The Caterer.) It has been calculated that a rich man with a weakness for good living indulges in forty times more food than is abso lutely necessary for his health, Nothing, of course, 80 begets disease as this in- tense plentituce; it reacts on the intelli gence, The muses, we know, are chaste, but they are in addition sober The temperance makes the head cool, the ideas clear and the judgment healthy. Lifeis not long, when one exists only by indigestions, It is not necessary that each particle of our food b: weighed, each morsel counted, each drop measured. Nor is it desirable to renew the law of Sparta, which imposed a fine on each eitizen, when a certgin stoutness fixed standard. In Persia, when the ladies of the palace get beyond a certain measurement they are compelied to do Pha Now, hygicue is a not a tyrant BH ial rules that cannot be with impunity, It has ples, the latter very attained, it has it infringed miso it pi unple and | followed hould nor si Appetite or hunger satisfied, never irritated and the quant t food ought to Ix proportion to our digestive powers, Tl stomach has its caprices. The less the food on whic) ! ¢ (i removes Ari HALIS the : f "Wr or or gether (ot allowed company to the purpose of £ 1 e of tab 0s 1 dinner bell signal for dinner was LOT, As that bi wash their hands, as AST WAS really twelfth and thirteer Was on tion 1 had { urions Ocean Fhenomenn A 8 AF CASE reports ’ ment in ING, the facts of fly as follows: The | nited is had been ordered squadron. Ome night in when the vessel was under straits of Malacca, the sea as smooth as glass, and the vessel making hardly steerage way, the officer of the deck observed that the water was milky white, Commander Earl English, now commodore and chief of the bureau of navigation and detail, was in command, and the remark able sight induced the officer of the deck to call the captain from his sleep. When he came on deck he real fzed that the condition of the soa was caused by animaleulw, an instance of which he had witnessed in about the same locality several years before when he was a midshipman. He immediatel had every officer and man called on dec to witness the strange scene, and looked over the rail for two hours un after the vessel passed through it. Another instance of the kind was ob- served by Lient. Sherman, in the sum. mor of 1582, on the coast of Pern, be- ween Payta and Chimbote. The sea n was perfectly and upon in- : tow It was oy to be caused by ra vila, navy depart i | wh briefly States steamer ro iu to the As September, sail in the ch ar atu exceeded a | | sent and reall din | their good behavior | a “meow” in the erowd ave Ir 1 thw " Hoa digestion has to | : . palate When | A London Cat Worth $500,000, {London Cor, Boston Herald. | “Come along," said Miss Fite, a noted dealer in cats at the cat show the other day, “come along and look at a few | raised myself. 1 have taken many { prizes for cats, for this is the sixteenth annual cat show at the Crystal palace, and I've bad cats in every one of them." We pushed through the crowds to look at the cats of all ages, styles and colors Little girls had been brought thither by their nurses, It was as good to hear them exclaim delightedly at the various “hitties,”” 1 never saw a youngster wii did not love a eat, and “pretty pussic’ wits charmed ad lib by the little folks, There were short haired eats, long hatred cats, black cats, tabby cats, Persian Angora, tortoise shell eats, and only one Maltese cat. There wer cats nmiable cantankerous and sleepy cats, and, as if by common cou- r that they were all on Cross cls, cils there was sear ely om tl $4 tiny Kittery led out of it Hn WHO Wa Fork of otlelot ft and looked Singer's Larynx Photographed Herode Cure for Dread DMsense 0 | wa indulge some very funny about diseases and their ings of which they i the common as elongation of the practicing as a newly fledged student in Virginia an old negress called on me one evening. Her hair was pulled back from her forehead and knotted with a cord in a light bunch on the crown of her head. Sho was ovi- dently suffering from a bad cold. “Mars' Doctor,” she smd, “I'so afraid I'se got fallin’ ob de palate. I'se done tied up my har’ as hard as 1 can, but it don't ‘pear to make it no better, an’ | ‘spects mebby | need some pills.” I examined ber throat and found nothing the matter but slight inflamma- tion. “I don’t think you need any pills, auntie,” said L “If you can only mt your hair tied up a little closer for A ] or two | have no doubt your palate will shorten up all right.’ She came in again in a few days and told me she was much better, but her “ole man’ had tied up her hair so hard that she had to sleep with her eyes open, ** ‘cause she couldn't even make a wink.” Was Profits from Sawdust. The sawdust and refuse of the saw mill is now made to yield fourteen gal lons of turpentine, three or four gal- lot of rosin and a quantity of tar pet —AT THE~ DEVOORA®D Job Office And Have YourJob Work Now is the Time to Subscribe FOR THE "CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper in Bellefonte. ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. OFFICE : COR ALLEGHANY & BISHOP STS) BELLEFONTE, TPA)
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