. THE WORLD'S FAIR. | UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCES OF A PARTY OF SCHOOL TEACHERS, ! Southern Courtesy Exhibited in the Street Cars—The Landscape as Seen from the Car Windows ~The Ex- position Grounds. ——— I L] ' Be - 4 New Orleans Cor. Chicago Tribune, We waited twenty minutes at the cor- per of Canal and St. Charles streets for a non-smoking car, and were finally re warded. The cars seat about sixteen for sengers each, snd this one already had that number on board. Here the women bad thelr first experience of that southern chivalry of which we are all so proud. The men immediately vacated their seats, bowed politely, and crowded out of the way until the women were all seated More passengers go! on until the car wa packed to iis utmost standing capacity. About two miles out the crowd had thinned, and traveling became more com. | fortable. Here a stout colored girl got in, | but southern chivalry draws the line at negroes. Nobody odered her a seat Aft erwards an old woman with w big bundle | —apparently a washerwoman--got in also. Southern chivalry seemed to draw another line at washerwomen. However, | one of the Chicago girls gave her seat to | the old woman, and a tobacco chewing knight-errant gave his seat to the Chicago girl, and thus » happy compromise was effected. The view fren the cars was | more varied than picturesque. A long row of white frame houses, all ex- sctly alike—probably constructed by the same carpenter and painted out of the same bucket—with green blinds, wide alleries, and a wood paling in front of | e door. Here and there great magnolia trees, their loads of green leaves shining with opature’s varnish. Then a bleak piece of swamp. with a foreground of sev- eral little half clad negroes and two or three mauve.colored, serious looking te Then several beer-saloons for right near there is a street car barn sod some tumbledown colored lodging houses. Then an orange orchard, so de lightful to northern eyes. Then pretty | frame houses of airy structure, set in the | midst of well-kept gardens of blooming | flowers and strange-looking, giant leaved plants. Then we pass more pieces of bare swamp, more gardens and orchards, more saloons, more miserable frame shanties, until we reach the vicinity of the exposi tion grounds. Here are a host of for lorn sideshows, with a big panorama building for a centerpiece. CUlrculur rail roads, merry go-tounds, tobaggan slides, roller coasters, dime museums, mermaids, and monsters, and freaks, are collected bere from all over the country —a regula town of them. Nobody visita them even the peanut and lemonade stands have deserted them. Their proprietors #eem to have almost given up hope: the sattle of the tin drum and the blare of the showman’s voice grows fainter day by day. Vere is a painted clown grimacing toa crowd of hall = dozen little negroes, a melancholy picture There a little dwarf stands on a pedestal unheeded, ing enviously on the audience at tracted by his rival, the clown It ls uestionable if one of the whole host of ows have yet taken in a cent Our car passes a long row of saloons and restauragts, snd fin. up at the main entrance to the grounds The journey of six in. . occupied an hour and three uait real; for five cents. If the road had not teem blocked we might have doue it in an hour We pay our fee of 0 cents s head and ps the turnstile. Before us is the main ifiding, nearly a quarter of a mile wide. Flags and bunting float from every point and corner of its low, irregular roof. The front is painted a gray or drab color, with the panelings sad projecting woodwork a reddish brown. On the front of the ele vation over the main entrance there is a statuary group representing the progress of America Columbia robed In flowing wn; in her left hand a laurel wreath {u er right hand a wand upon which is af fixed the siar of empire, stands ma jestically pointing out the path of prog gress. America, av an Indian maiden seated on a wild buffalo, seems tightening her saddle-girths for the first heat Civ ilization, represented as a woman in mod orn costume, with a shea! of wheat in one hand and a bouquet of roses in the other, stands ready to encourage het up the rug ged path. A North American Indian sits on an ad ‘acent rock resting his elbow on his war club. At the time of our arrival a ladder leaned up against the side of Co lumbia. on the top of which stood an ar tist laying on bronze paint with a white wash brush. On each side of the group and at a lower elevation two tall metal fig ures are placed in niches, but who they represent is otill a matter of con ecture. One of them is popularly supposed to be the Father of His Country, but which one it is, or who the other one is, we don't know. A bard asnbalt walk leads from the en- trance gate to the building. To the right, nearly half a mile off is the government building a long, low structure painted green. {1a glass sky lights looking like a slated roof. To the let, about the same distance off, is the horticultural hall, its glass roof shining like an lee palace, with a sweep of giant live-onks forming a back ground. In the for ground tothe left is the Mexican fron building, still a huge skeleton without form or definite out line. Looking directly through the frame work of the bullding one can sce the spars of some vessels lying at the Exposition wharf. Immediately to the left a frame building is being erected for an Exposi- tion restaurant It is here the visitors get thelr first dis appointment. Instead of the lakes, and fountains, and groves delineated in the pictures we soc only an artificial mud trench and a few sickly trees and shrubs Anently transplanted Tuto the swamp Piles of refuse lumber are strewn around. re in a small abeet of water near the government building with a grest stand pipe in the centre the fine spray from which is caught up by the wind and blown a distance of 500 feet. If one ventured to go near it he would not only be drenched to the skin. but would sink over his ankles in mud before he had gone ten ste The ronidy are prosaic—it is better to go On the King's Highway. (The Quiver. | For good, honest interchange of thought and sentiment; for sifting » man cod separating the corn from | all sorts of petty litigation. The Hueard of College Training. [Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.) I would rather my boys would depend on three or tour good papers, that would not cost more than $10 a year, than on $50 worth of Latin and Greek and algebra and geometry. They will be of more benesit to him in the practical business of life. Of course, if he ls to be a profes sional man, be must study the sciences and go to college, but itis a hnzard—a great hazard—to send a boy to college, and the reason is plain. Four Jeurs at school and four more at college takes eight of the Lost years of a boy's life, say from 12 to 20, the very years that his | hysical system needs physical exercise and puys. jcal training; the very years when his habits of life and for life are fixed; the very years when he should mix labor the study and let his brain and his muscle all work along together and susisin cach other. College habits are habits of physical in dolence. A college boy has no education to work anything but his brain when he comes away, snd looks around for busi ness. His physical nature abhors work he cun't stand it. His habits are fixed and habits are as binding as fetters, an | he sees no agreeable opening except the law or medicine or politics and so the land is full of quacks nud pettifoggers and small poli ticians who afliict the people and do no good for themselves, These small law yers sit around town and watch for strife among neighbors like a buzzard watches for a carcass, They nurse aud encours ze The doctors lop off to see n sick patient and keep fm sick until it takes his litle crop two pay the bill. The politicians get up a | rumpus in the newspapers and slander one | another until the people don't know who to vote for, and they don't care. And so it goes, and it would have been better, far better, for the whole batch to have stayed upon the farm and married clever country girls and gone to raising childrea and chickens fo an honest and honorable way The Frospects of Liberia INew York Létter. | Prof. McC. Stewart, of the Liberia col lege, delivered an address, taking for his subject “Liberia and the (ongo in Af rican Hedemption.” He called sttention to the fact that new interests had been awakened among Americans fn Africa's advancement. To day Americans kpew more about it than ever before. “The people of Liberia, ” be continued, are fine specimens of humanity. We have 15,00 American - Liberians, 3.000 liberated slaves, and #00,000 aborigines withiu » territory as large as New england, New York, and New Jersey. The develop ment of our country physically, morally, and intellectually ‘has been exceedingly rapid of late. The inftuence of civiliza tion has been so great upon the sbor igines that whereas years ago war ex isted between them and the American emigrants, now their relations are cordial aud there have been already many cases of intermarriage The people have every thing to hope for from the civilizing in fluence of friemds on this continent *For a quarter of a century the devel. opment of Liberia bas been purely literary Now we go further and enter the agricul tural Bald, and we shall endeavor to de velop the internal industries of the coun try. In time [ believe that the Congo and Niger valley will be united by water, raliroads sod commercial lives of all de scripticns In the opening up of this re ion »v did » work which wiil ren rial among those of earth ie own that the Congo terri + in extent and population tates, and that the river al 1 the Amuxzon and Missls a tent of ils waler ways, one oni importance. God bas laid the a for a sew ecivillzation is Afru w Clder Instead of Beer. [New York Times) It is & wonder to me, and | suppose it always will be, that cider is nol draok more, especially when it is 30 cheap. It hs cheaper than beer, and & good deal more healthful. In fact, Prrscists say that it is the most healthful drink known, when fresh, of course, but a laborer will send around to the corner bar-room and buy beer or ale, when cider is 5 cents a quart How de you account for that! Notwith standing the hundreds of thousands of barrels brought to New York, the figures do not begin to compare with those of beer. Another peculiar fact is that some persons will drink stuff called cider tha! never was cider and never will ba There is not much sale for that outside the bar room, Bowever. If a man wants cide: he need not spend bis money for mits tions this year, that is sure. With vinegar, the case is different Cider vinegar costs money. It must be al lowed to ferment from six months to » year, sod the shrinkage is about 20 per cent. Extensive storage room musi be used, and considerable capital employed But if every year was like this, we could undersell doctored vinegar, which is mad: from whisky, molasses, and other stuff It is cheap, but not harmful, I understand Nevertheless the housekecper who has used cider vinegar wants cider vinegar, sad not doctored stufl. At the Bink. (Detroit Free Pros.) “And don’t you skate, little girl?" he asked as he sat down beside her, *Oh, no, sir " “But you can learn, " “1 guess T could, but I don't want to." “And do you come here just to watch the skaters? “Oh. no—I come to watch Mrs. RR” “Who's she!” “She papas second wife, He don want ber to come, but she will do it. * “And why do you watch her? " Well, jape waated her to protitise that she wouldn't lean on anybody whet she was skating with ‘em, and that she wouldnt flirt when she was resting, but she wouldn't promise, and so | came tc watch her, ese short marks are when she leans, and these long ones when she tirta " “And you show father!” “Yes, and he dates them and puts them away, and by and by we'll have enough to get » divorce on, and marry somebody who can't skate, ” . them all to your Poverty and Culture. [Philadelphia News | To be sure, you get the best touches of human nature from the humble, The r furnish the best lessons of life ose who atruggle for bread or a place in the world teach us the most and tell us the best stories that are written. Culture fs too apt to make us lars Perhaps not in tho offensive sense, but in reality, Te sit on the wheel of fortune and stop at She stile marked style and fashion means a w we are not aot we pid not believe, what ————— Which Tener In America we call men who dabble in dynamite “dynamiters. * Canadian pa ees, cal them 3 uamiteur, * and the nglish press refers 10 them ws “dyn milards, ! ym ONLY A GIRL. [Ruth Hall in Outing.) I beard a sharp ring on the frosty way, And I catch the gleam of a cycle bright, Just a glimpse of a form in Quaker gray, And then, the dear boy! be is out of sight, Ab, out and away, ere the sun is high, While the early clouds are all rose and 1, And sha air like & wine that is bright and And Pe ouly a girl, I think of the hollows whore leaves Ne dead; Of the gaunt trees’ shadows against the Te] sky; Of the ai clear stretch of bine overhead, And the low, lush meadows he rattles Ly. I look on the road with its dusty track, Where thy wind-Zusts meet to whistio an l whirl; And yes, I may look for his coming back, For I'm only a girl I may watch and wait all day for the rin Of his pretty playthings glistening steel; And, dressed in my gayest, may sit nnd sing Over my work till { hear the wheel, Then 1 shall see the eyes o' my lad, And he a cheek and a drooping curl; And—well, yes—perbaps—1'm a little glad, That I'm only a girl A Roene In Actual Life. [New York letter.) There are moving sights in actual life at every turn, and with sad qualities which depend on no prepared devices for effect. William Il Vanderbilt sat at an upper window of his mansion the other morning with a face so glum that | called a friend » sttention to iL "Do you suppose it possible that he seri ously feels the heavy loss from the depre ciation In his own stocks and the financial ruin of one or two of his soos through speculation!” | asked “Possibly he does, " was the reply, “for the shrinkage in his wealth cannot Le les than $80,000,000 if we reckon from the highest quotations of the past down to the lowest of the present. Hesides, be lias had to actually part with somewhere from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 to make good his sons’ disastrous ventures. Lut look across the s'reel. Theres a sight that ought to make him quite content with the sons and the hundred millions which are left to him. " Irirectly opposite the block of Vander bilt residences in Fifth avenue is a llomun Catholic orphan asylum, standing back from the famous street, and down the in clinesl walk toward the gate came a woman and a little boy. That she was a mo:her in poverty and he a half orpb aned son, whom cruel fate and beneficent charity combined to take away from ber, was apparent st a glance. The parting was a ULreakage of the two fond hearts, that was clear, vise the waman would not have hugged the bov so desperately nor be have clung to ber as to his last hope of happiness Shen 8 sister, in the somber garb of her order, emerged from the maylum, spoke a few words 10 the sorrow ing ones, gently separated them, sent the mother away and led the boy indoors Vanderbilt's eyes rested on this incident hat whether it made his loss of millions seem & trivial mishap | do not know, » The Lapp sad His Melndeer. [Foreign Letter) The mountain Lapps of Norway have learned to drink coffee snd wear stout Norwegian cloth but they sed as much store by the reindeer as ever. A poor family will have fifty and upward in a flock, the middle classes 300 10 (00, and the richest 1,000 or more. The reindeer ls as much beloved by the Lapp as his pig by the Irlahiman, and the reiodeer often sleep in a but in much the same fashion The Lapp will whisper to his reindecr when bharvessing hi 10 his sleigh, and will tell him where be is Lo go, and declares be understands him The reindeer 8 much tike a stag, only smaller. all the se, saimals and trees ku Lapland sre dimieu tive, ihe men are mostly under Ove feed high. and the women under four feet nine loches, so great are the rigors of the climate {no this as in all countries under the arctic, and the cows, sheep nnd goats are unall in propertion, In summer the riindeer feeds upon grasa, and give excellent milk; io the winter they feed upon moss, which they scraich up under great depths of snow with marvelous lostinct. When winter draws near great numbers are Killed, and the feah is dried and smoked ww provide food when the ground is covered with snow, and but few birds, lke ptarmigan, Rar Aiges and capercailzie, are met with, he flesh ia very outritious, and after a course of grass feeding It is surprising how soon the reindeer become fat and plomp The skin makes their drosses boots, the sinews their thresd and fishing lines, and the horns their spoons and domestic utensils, Austria's Heterogeneous Population. [New York Times | Probably no government in Europe has more subjects or rules them with more difficulty than the cabinet of Vienna The Ruthenians of Galicia, the Croats and Wallachs of the lower Danube, the Slavs of Dalmatia and the Trentino, the proud and warlike Hungarian Magyar, the Transylvanians, whose chief ranked among the sovereigns of Europe barely two centuries ago; the Czechs, of Bo bemis, who formed Sidon and powerful kingdom when the head of the Hapsburgs was still an obscure German knight—all «tse and others besides are beld ther w Austria like the staves of a rickety cask, which fly in all directions the mo ment the confining hoop is jarred by a heavy blow from without Stirring Magnant Waters, (Exchange | Hecen! researches hd¥d own (ht rapid motion has a remarkatid #ffect in destroying the organic impuritios in water, This leads Mr Mattien Williams fo re mark that the steamboats on the Thames, of which complaints have been made be. cause they disturb the bottom, are really Yefy valuable agents from a sanitary polit of view, for the violent agitation they pfoduce, The steam tugs which agitate Otherwise stagnant canals must also be regarded ae great benefactors Where Matearites Originate, [Evatpange. | Professor R. 8. Ball, astronomer royal of Ireland, declares it to be his belief 1 the masses of stone and irom which fall to the earth as meteorites were originally thrown out by terrestial volcanoes at a re mote period in our planet's geological history. If so, the fragmenty must have been projected beyond the igtiuence of the carth’s attraction by explosions givin them the tremendous initial velocity of six miles a socond. Doubling Their Wealth, the English statistician, omys that, while En has doubled her wealth since 1845, France has doubled hers since 1856, and the United States haw doubled theirs since 1864. Another Warning Smokes are war ed by ow celebrated optician from readiog and smoking si tae sare time. The blue of the smoke im! poses unequal work upon the two eyes, Ducks’ Eggs Forty Years Old. [Cornhill Magasine.| We bad beche-de mer soup, sling sea. slugs, which does not sound mice, but hich really is like calf's head. Then there were sweet soups and small stews sud ragouts of every concelvable mest ex. cept beef, which is never seen at a Chinese table. oxen being sccounted too valuable to the farmer to be consigned to the butcher. As to cat, rat and dog, those curious in such matters may procure them at restaursnts fo the city; but | under stand that they do not grace the festivals of Chinese gems. What with turtle soup, soup of ducks’ tongues, macaroni, fairy, rice, skins of pigs mouth, dragon whisker, vegetables, cte., we found an ample succession of gastronomical inter est. No bread is eaten, but all manner of delicate little preserved fruits and pickies are brought to eah guest on tiny sliver plates to play with between the courses, Une of the greatest delicacies provided for us were ducks’ eggs, hard boiled, Julie black, and of inealculable age. nate deluvian perhaps, as nothing is considered respectably old in Chion unless it dates back some thousand years But, joking apart, it appears that the value of these binck eges really incresse with their age The Chines: epicure discriminates Le tween the eggs of successive decades, treating Lic most honored guest to thn oldest and most costly, just us the owner of a good cellar in Britain brings forth his choicest wines The charm of a highly bolled fresh egg Is quite unknown to the Celestial palate. which only recognizes oggs when hard boiled, and much prefers them in an advanced age For ordinary use, especially as a light diet for fuvalids, eggs are simply pre served by being steeped In salt water mixed with either soot or red clay, io which they are baked when required byt the truly refined process is to prepare a solution of wood ashes, lime and salt mixed with water in which some aromatic lant has beea boiled. This paste is rup nlo as tub, therein imbedded in Invers. The tub i bermet cally sealed, and st the end of forty dais the eggs are considered tit for use, but at the end of forty years they wil be still Letter They become black throughout, owing. [ suppose, to the action of the lime. but the white becomes gelatinous, and the whole tastes rather like 8 plover's egg Noses to Order. [Philadelphia Exchange “The nose is simply a piece cf car tilage. ” said & surgeon, “and its shape can be changed with casa A clever Frenchman some years ago invented a machine for that purpose, and | have heard, made a fortune by IL, #0 many peo ple are troubled with noses whose shapes do wot please their owners or their own ers friends The machine consisted of a shell in two parts, hinged together. It is in shape inside that of a perfectly molded now, according to the type of the features of the wearer. Thus you can obtain » {oman, Grecian, rotrousse, a uilive or uy other shape you desire © apply the instrument the nose | first bathed in warm water at bedtime and thoroughly bested and softesed Then it Is well greased with olive oil glycerine, vaseline or other oily sub stance. Finally the nose improver is fixed on snd the sides clasped together, and the wearer keeps it on all night taking eare in the morning to wash in cold water only itis rather a palaful process at first, but after the first two or three appli cations of the improver there {sv no more trouble Tn about a month the noses be gins to lake its now shape and at the end of from eight 10 ten weeks the alteration is said to be perfoet and permanent-- that that is, until the patient becomes tired of baring another. when the same operation with another instrument is necessitated | bave koown people change their noses four or five times in as many years. lo that way a man could change style of bis nose as often as he changed the cut of his trousers Broke Their Gans In Two, [axes Sifuings | Several citizens were out on Onion ereek on last Sunday shooting quail They were shooting wear Si Jackson s place, and Sl walched them intently, * Dey was de curus man eber | seed, ” remarked 81 to Till Johnson, after the visitors had returnod to the city me tropolin “What was there peculiar about them?’ “Nuffin’, "cept Sher Hane they shot at » bird and missed him dey got #0 mad da dey colched hold ob dar guns and broke ‘em right In twa It seems the tlemen had breech loading guns, and Si had never seen any other gun than the old-fashioned muzzle (Gen. James M I cannot believe, try as | may, that Gen. Wright would have done as wel without Sheridan Do you believe in “magoetic” leaders? ldo Gen Wright bad no more magnetism in him thas the Washington monument; Gen. Sheridan was magnetism incarnate. He never made his Sppentunce on the field or in camp that his presence did not thrill the men lke the crackle from an electric battery. Sheridan would have gone into my vision of the army, st random, and would have made them Yorget who they were or what they were anl everything else, dacept that they were ready to go with § “into the jaws of death—into the mouth of hell. " ~~ ——— A ———— Begluning of Home's Downfall, [Boston Transcript.) In the days of Pome's greatooss one Marcus C Ind a large cooperage at pp of Atbien Way op ars HL ; a certain wo of his apprentices Ht to set hich wortkd a a better kég. Calus Antonitite Was the suc coss{ tor, which »o maddened Titus 1 riuk that be knocked in the head of Antotinue’ keg with a beetle Cadus cried shots in his ny as he sur od the rofr that ha horn accotit- plished. “See ®t a rent the envious casker made!” Reww's downfall dated from that day A Philosopher's Renton. (The Argonayt A philosophical individu ence refused point blank to lend $350 to a 'Yosom friend. “Well, I did not expect that of you, * said the would-be borrower, risin oJ prepar ing to leave indignantly; “f will never forgive you for this L" “Of donres you won't, m dear fellow,” replied the philosopher, utmost calmness; “but if I'd én you the #30, you wouldn't have paid mé, and we should have quarreiod about that; #0 it's as well to get the row over at once. 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