BRILLIANTS, There are nettles evory where, But smooth green grasses are more common still; The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud, ==(Mrs, Browning, The children lying in their grave Asleep beyond the rippling sea; The treasures that I gav: to God Seem nearer to me now than he. The busy, rushing, careless world Another to its ranks has won A man to meet life as a man, But I bave lost my little son. w{ Mrs. McCaloh, Boating Into the Theatre. {Washington Post | “Bay. mister, gimme yer check, " greeted a reporier at the National theatre the other evening when he stepped out be tween the nets to enjoy a cigarette, The speaker was a street gamin of the | most pronounced type, and his twinkled as there was tossed him the mvs tic piece of pasteboard entitling the bearer to admission to the performance “Well, } hanged, ' old lounger at ti liery ent sighed W hy when | wa no such chances The door keep tickets, upon stamped in make could ome out up into the rallery In minutes ue and show his chums ometimes the mark was a plain cross, then again it would b star, or counterfeite Simply duplicated this mark b on the m LL piec we charred the cork and Was stamp Nearly al get Ih S0mu« every with folks. ticket, they would probably bez, steal, or borrow 5 cents, and give it to the er of the stamp for the evening, and he would put on the required mark. The check was seld refused, but after awhile the door-kecpers dropped on us and we had to quit. Now they change the checks every night and use an adver FELT ! Hou nave « audi a few s Check-grabber, we dun t f of up Ont be trusie ( 0 Cone something easily did we do about hott I her the | (T white woud Id of other night these th compaged CHeCKS We i ie OWl1 Hi tisement of §] we can't imitate I. rs Around Washington know the old cork trick many of have used it afford to puy their way, aud they lik beat in, ” sone ts of fell em who could 1 ‘ § Another Use for Paper. Popular Science News One of the most remarkable uses to the manufacture of zylonite, un substance which, at the will of the manufacturer, may be made in imitation of horn, rub ber, tortoise shell, amber, and even glass. The uses to which zylonite is adaptable are almost infinite, but perhaps the most extraordinary is the manufacture of cathedral windows The discovery Was made by an Eaglishmau named Spills about fifteen years ago, but it was only about five years ago that a company was formed in London for its manufacture The basis of zylonite is a plain white tissue paper, made from cotton, or cotton and linen rags. The paper, being treated first with a bath of sulphuric and other acids, undergoes a chemical change. The acid is then carefully washed out. and the paper treated with another preparation of alcobol and camphor After assumes an appearance very much like parchment. It is then capable of being worked up into plates of any thickness rendered almost perfectly transyarent, given any of the brilliant colors that siik will take. It is much more flexible than either horn or ivory, and much less brit tle Combs or other articles made of it. in imitation of tortoise shell, are sail to be so perfect in appearance as to deceive the | eye of the most practice | workman in that substance Leprosy and Its Microbes (Ran Francisco Bulletin A gentleman recently arrived from the Hawaiinn islands siates that for the first | of the lands the thoroughly excited time in the history whites have becom over the sub ect of lepros The disens« is increasing rapidly. lepers being fre quently seen on the streets of Honolulu, and in all the early stages of the discase The general opinion has been that the | disease is not contagious, but of late those who bave closely studied the matter are coming to another conclusion The physicians on the islands have been iving careful study to the subject, and it | 3 £ y $ believed that they have discovered the microbe. At any rate, experiments being made with something thet has been discovered, and an eifort has been made to cultivate the microbe, that vaccina tion for leprosy may be practiced. An experiment is now being tried in the case of a condemped criminal, who has been inoculated, and whose case will be care fully studied, in the hope that something definite may be learned concerning the the dread disease. So much attention has been given to the subject in Honolulu, and the disease is spreading so fast the white population. as above stated. has become aroused to the necessity for doing something to protect themselves Are De Young and the Monde. Philadelphia Presa Charles De Young, who was shot b young Kalloch in 1880, was singular y affected by the appearance of a blonde woman, especially if she wore glasses He kept this fact from his family, and evan his brother, Michael, who was recently wounded by young Adolph Spredkels, was not aware of the fact atthe time of the shooting of his brother Charles De Young, in 1871, was pass ing the Labor exchange and had turned foto California street. It was just dusk A young woman, with blonde hair and glasses, stopped him “Are you superstitious?” she inquired, her eyes flashing and in excitement DeYoung who was naturslly a man, replied, although a litle | this interruption “No, why?" “ Because there is a curse hanging to you for sending Halpin to an untimely grave, and I am going to follow you to the end of the earth’ Halpin was a forger who had committed suicide, and DeYounz had a strange pre sentient after meetiug this woman that a great evil was to befall him, and be never saw a blonde with glasses that he did not scrutinize her keenly to see if she was his promised Nemesis - brave nervous at Inhospitality Toward the Bishop. [New York Tribune | A Canadian Episcopal bishop of Scotch birth was the guest some time ago of a certain rector in Buffalo. Speaking of his visit afterward the old gentleman sald: “They were all good people and most Kind I am sure; Lit do von Know, my dear, they unve me 10 drivk at the table bow fai going to lol sail} bal Leen » horse © Waller eyes | theatre | Instead of paving 25 cents for a | | the | glance) of a national which paper bas been put of late years is | tis at | ot that | COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES, New and Bewildering Processes by Which They Are Turned Out, [Philadelphia Times.) “The photographed eounterfeit bank bill is very common,” said Jolin 3. Dye, government counterfeit detective, to wu seporter. There are two processes, the ‘old’ and the new.” By the old process the whole of the back of the note is copied and appears in black on the photograph. These are then tinted with peas and brushes by band. The black, however, can be seen under the tint, which on the seal is blotted and covers the white lines which appem in the genuine note. The numbering is also blurred with color, and the whole of the tinting on the back of the note badly done and incomplete { “The detection of photographed « | terfeits depends upon a critical observa | tion thelr character and appearance Unless they are perfectly new they are off color, und show the reddish br | | far to faded photographs, B | process the seal, numbers whet is un of wn pecud 0 the Uack, ont out with a check | 1 iting 1t | or cheek ind | } 1 ha tion, 1 ee hen sionally cu the | nestly coemenied over | poor counterfeit fifti made pass ’ “How y between genuine bills une “Wel 1 rem value, back 1 3 y RS are oe pubhii Of cour | bility of sto eral public was 1 appearance of genuine { stantly to Ix to detect spurious ones the counterfviter's occupation would gone. Whenever a counterfeit (with exception of a photogr spbic, lithographie, and etching or pen-made ove, any of | which frauds should detected al a bank bill appears, the genuine bill is as rapidly as possible with drawn from circulation. The fact that a | counterfeit has been ‘shoved’ is published | as soon as discovered, and it is the duty of everybody thereafter to refuse or be very careful in accepting a hill of that de. nomination. We are even now expecting that in a short time a new spurious bill be ‘shoved.’ its origin are on the his Lirle In the be but we} lookout Ve our eyes open and Friees on the Wing. Denver News Changes in the weather may be detectad by a thermometer, und also by the price of chickens, but much quicker by the lat ter. On a hot day recently a Larimer | the price of | street grocer man was asked | chickens “They're only 10 “Why are they so low “Oh, the thaw makes | { they were 20 cents ” “Are they fresh “Certainly. Just look at them At this point a cool breeze sprung up “1 guess I'll take a cx uple of them. * “Them’s 15 cents a pound, nad not over fresh “Why, only 10 “Different weather then By this time the weather to a blizzard, and the gathered th fearing they might be sold, with the remark “Them s 25 cents a pound, and so poor alot of chickens as conld look at. Know they wouldnt satisfaction ” The conversation and the weather had occurred | seconds cents toda Yesterday NN I thought you sald they wer ents had changed store kee r ¢ fowls You want 1 give you the changes in ust 27} in A Cave of Marvelous Heauty, Lond fn News \ remarkable i grotto has been discov ered al Dorgali. in Sardinia. It comprises a vast hall of such magnificence that it ex | torts an exclamation of wonder Sixteen columns with vari colored rise | from the marble floor and white roof, frem which figures of birds, guns of fruit and a thousand nature Jut the most striking object is an altar ornamented with enormous baskets of colored flowers. and which are large candelabra and a shrine 80 exactly imitated that you are tempted to try to open It in order to sce | the chalice within capila’s ’ depend the serpents, baskets other tricks of on hang festoons of flowers, which reach down almost to the altar, as if attempting to conceal it. The most wonderful thing in the ball was, however, the petrified skeleton of a majestic stag, which was partly destroyed by visitors, and the spine | of which has been sent entire to a pro fessor of natural history in Cagliari he | grotto contained six other large chambers, decorated with arsbesques in stalactite, | and full of pillars, human figures opaque mirrors, and other wonderful imitations of objects of art and nature. im Papermaking in Chinn. Philadelphia Press Eighteen hundred years ago the Chinese made paper from fibrous matter reduced to pulp own pecullar variety. The young bam- boo is whitened, reduced to pulp in a mor tar, and sized with alum sheets of paper are made in a mold by hand. The celebrated Chinese rice paper, that so resembles woolen and silk fabrics. and on which are painted quaint birds and flowers. is manufactured from compressed pied which is first cut spirally by a keen nife into thin slices six inches wide and twice as long. Funeral papers, or paper imitations of earthly things which they desire to bestow on departed friends, are burned over their graves. They use paper window frames, paper sliding<doors; and paper visiting cards a yard long. It is related that when a distinguished repre sentative of the Pritish government vis ited Pekin, several servants brought him s huge roll, which: when spread out on the floor, proved to be the visiting card of the emperor Englishinen claim that the changeable climate of America prevents the manufac ture of perfect writing paper in this coun. Ty \ mine of magnetic ore has been found 0 Fresno county, Californk: also a spring oar ib that cures the iteh, We have not yet traced it to | fustain a pure | From the roof above | Now each province makes its | From this pulp | IN THE UPPER TIER. GLIMPSES OF THEATRE LIFE AMONG THE “GODS.” People Who Take un Bird's-Eyeo View of the Stage-—~Not -— A So Bad as It's Painted for Man. Chance the Poor [New York Herald The definition of the gallery as the “nigger heaven, ” dates back to” anothes poch in our national history--the time when black men were chattels in the Jand ind when the gaullory and even that only in some theatros—was the only part of the house in whicl colored man pret admittance until the passage of the civil.vig hat he had shit n nt ite could Lo choos: The a does not hold of am for the denize: To the a golden g poetry and s 1) ® 5 semen! Ave we Mu i re without it waste reality bave drawn of it, and if you and thorough! apart an evening and a | dollar, as the case may Ix | 10 the not unpleasant pre perience will be worth more th of an orchestra chair In the cot The re porter spent half pleasant evening unilluminated quite unlike ta Visit and theatre during the run of a high ful comedy. He went early | get a good seat, aod was obliged 10 stand some {ime in a long line of men, young and old, who were in pursuit of a similar end. Eye and took the of the human There was nothing ob lectionable Most of the young men belongs ancient and honorable order of cle There were jectionable among the incomers Quite a nunibx womet. of the lower walks f 10 the as sem blage among then ¥ SUT Rs } n orger Lo Car siring INCasu soul | i Lo the rks [renns 2 few ob sed. and people of the false who know forvign Wi ed nit wer Wrong ag In tar, for ng the mans the trom po inslan os gallery is the best in the theater In of ten the most apprecia tive part of the that portion | which the actor plays is there, and, granting that the air the best, it is worth som« to be urrounded by rapt and attentive listeners, who laugh at the right place and applaud with the their hands sn Between the acts you will sometis hear bits of critical talk that are worth their weight in gold, and sometimes catch reminiscenses that would add brightness to the morrow 's newspaper Some Theat | rical old timer will frequently be encoun tered who has seen the theatrical celebri ties of half a century who is able to dilate upon their a way worth listening always worth believing servation nine Cases out sudience fo is not always of inconvenience bearts in “a and excellencies in to, if not PFrodue » of Petron » Blackwood s Magazine Many and varied are the uses to which buman ingenuity has already contrived to {turn this precious gift of dirty green {earth-oil. At first {ts value was only rec ognized as a lubricating oll for machinery and a somewhat dangerous burning oil for illuminating, commonly called kerosene Now it has been discovered that, by care { ful refining. all the highly inflammable { naphtha, which is the dangerous ingredient, can be separated and made valuable to | painters and chemists, while the oil, thus purified, becomes absolutely safe for do mestic use Another valuable product of petroleum | is gasoline—~a form of gas convenient for | use in country houses Then comes pre cious paraffine, in the form of beautiful | wax light candles, and vaseline, for heal ing broken skin or bruises. For medienl use we have an snasthetic called rhigo- | lene, and for cleaning we have benzine Various volatile ethers have been obtained, | among others a petroleum spirit, which acis as a substitute for turpentine, and which will dissolve 1a juer And, after all these good things have | been separated, there still remains a res iduum of tar, which yields anthracene, benzole, and naphthaline, from which are obtained a madder red, mauve. magenta. and Indigo-blue dyes, which bid fair to supersede those already known to com. meree, and even seriously to affect the in terestsof our indigo planters, as they have alroady injured the madder-cultivators of Turkey and Holland A Buraing Question. [Arkansaw Traveler | A magazine writer devotes twenty pages of fine print In showing why society Is likely to improve within the next hundred years. Yes, very likely. but how about | the price of cord wood: A little sockets | goes a long ways, hut cord wood well, | Ita very comtempiation makes» man feel | merioun | {of the rs, the | de employ of dis club has al | Life in Winnipeg. [New York Sun) “The Northwestern Canadian Is vot a visiting man. He spends alls bis time In winter between his house snd his out offices, if he as any. He looks forward to splendid fields of wheat and onis to compensate him for the hardships Lie dures. But be must be careful hos large vields per will Me ess every vear unless farmers manure their lands In Minnesots and lowa { thirty-five bushels of whest to the acre were not uncommon when the lauds in those states were first broken, and now 1 suppose that they do more sixteen Th 0 farm and for all i hued not verge thun American farmers ney lected worked clientitiond th is just the with ure saorl It h Ww 0H! 5 ni (aress for the su ner hi none 1d hot NM city vas laughing a vement near y toned { N whionable juaris dowa town bardly ni until several Years been opened The great breathing place of the city is now com pleted with a few chauges according the plans which | drew “go. had up thirty yoars The Tollet of the Snake. (ood Cheer Prior to shining forth fresh attire, a serpent seeks retirement He becomes blind for a few days, refuses wars to be in a melancholy is ready he be from ving against whatever The first part of the is tedious, but as he pro when he reaches the operation, until finally turned inside in covered bys perfectly of cutie are bright is only while this cutl the eye that the ser i made in the | Ume, any un make beginning one to some are so fastidious as 0 requ re F CONNSE OneY a oftcner, while others. more plebeian, will wear the same garment for six months food, and ap slate gencral gins at the his old may be in his way Process works m ribs they the old skin is shed entire out. and Mr suit His rat sparor i Bia Xiricale himse f adress rresses Le rap dly macist Lhe Snake revels his eves ayer nd beautifu It sun i for ai when they are Wieks old Wish Forrest's Tragic Dietary. Brooklyn Eagle The relation between eminent probably Jectively han in primary man eals srarcely Le « MSsion, nows 1 rather sub form exists can ) imagination or fervor by PTOCESS Or Any transformation that can stated in lan. guage Its truer than most stage traditions that Forrest did regulaic bis dietary by the theatrical programme in his later ears nat least it is vouched for as truth i more trustworthy authorities than generally father these professional egends Macbeth looming up before him his midday meal would be beefstoak very rare Fried cels was dietary pre paration for Iago: lamb and Lear went together and when, in his basso profundo he shook the air with a demand for roast beef, rare with a tremendous tragic roll initinted knew that he would that evening “launch the curse of Rome™ with his sccustomed adjustment any ble Hemi su 3 De | of sound and fury, * A False Weather Prophet. Lime Kiln (ht Extract Hastings offered the following preamble and resolution “Whereas, De weather prophat now in along pre dicted an open winter, an’ led us 0 be lleve dat robins an’ blue binds an' roses would almos’ prove a nuisance between December an’ April; an “Whereas, We has bin basely deceived, an’ frozen hitchin' posts hev take de place of singin’ birds an’ climbin’ roses; now, darfore, “Resolved, Dat Prof. Pendulum Back water, de prophet above referred to, be giben de grand bounce widout pay." Plekles Smith explained that man was liable to make mistakes, and that the pro. fessor should be given another trial, but ona vote being taken the false prophet was decapitated in good shape Old Stamps ta Order. Ban Francisco Chronicle, | A wholesale manufactory of Swiss stamps of old issues has just been dis covered in Zurich. The forgers have about their work very thoroughly. have collected scraps of old letters bear hg J Sntimarke with various dates from 1848 to 1560, and the better 10 deceive the unwary, they have stuck the stamps on to these pieces of envelope Hartford Times: A little off color— The paint on the baok of # man who leaned againet a newly decorated wall, rowing t at Auls were i asphor trees are Quincey, Filia The from \ sshington 0 resplendent ia | new | hem | two | month, and even | food and artistic | What a | nverted into | \T THE —~ LETTRE DENOECRARW Job Office And Have YourJob Work CHEAPLY, NEATLY AND WITH DISPATCH, Now is the Time to Subscribe FOR THE “CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper in Bellefonte. ONLY $150 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. OFFICE: COR ALLEGHANY & BISHOP STS BELLEFONTE, PA.
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