{ J # vender them supple + & bh * y - ’ / A | ’ “BLACK YOUR BOOTS!" POLISHING THE UNDERSTANDING A THOUSAND YEARS AGO. The Mixinee Used In Pliny's Day ents of Modern Blacking ~The When the Old-Fashioned Black Disappeared, Ingredt Time Boot. Cincinnati Enquirer, | It appears to have been customary to imbue shoes with an oily mixture of some kind before the time of Pliny, that is to say, before the commencement of the Christian era. In the fifteenth lwok of bis “ Natural History” the great Itoman bock maker states that Cato recommended the dregs of the olive, after the expression of the oil, to be used for bridlesreins, leather thongs and shoes ts The same author in the thirty fifth book of this same series of his, describes a mixture which appears to be the very foundation of our modem blacking. This mixture he defines as a compound eof lamphiack, gum and vin- egar, which could be used for shoes, and for ink to write with and he makes much of the double of the invention. That very compound with the addition of oil and would make the blacking we use wows days That such a mixture was in ‘use in Pliny’s day is shown by the discovery, among the old Reman remains in Eng land, of leather which had as well utility which still preserved a dull posh the present day was unknown. made of vegetable fiber and hair are men. tioned by Homer, but Acclimating Game in Amerioa, [Demorest's Monthly.) Bome of our rich sporting men are try ing to naturalize foreign game birds an animals in this country. Masseni quail and English ph ts have been tried, but our winte oved too severe for them. At Jol = N. J.. Mr. Lorillard and ofher gentlemen claim they have successfully acclimated the English partridge and the French red-legged par tridge. Mr. Lorillard has also brought cast large tlocks of prairie chickens from the west, These ought to do well, for they were very common fn New Jersey over 100 years ago. - This flue bind is soon to be acclimated if possible in Hugland aod on the continent. Thousands of our quail are being sent abroad to see if they { will not thrive in the old world. Among those that are interested in io troducing kmglish game in America ure annointing | cleaning modasses Leen covered | with blacking, smd some fragments of The first blacking was doubtless rubbed on the leather with the fimgers or a cloth; for, at the time it origimated, the stiff brush of | Brushes from the designs Mr. Garrett (toach, pheasants and part ridges, ou Long island; Mr urd | Muser, pheassat and r , in. New | York state; Dr. AL Watts of Boston Mr. Hutherferd Btuyvesaint, pheasants and pariridges, on his large preserve at | Allamuchy, Warren county, N. J.; Mr A. E. Godefroy and Mr, E. Motk, hares, rabbits, pheasants and partridzes, in Or | ange county, N. Y.; Mp. B W. ¥igkard, English ree deer and piriridges, in the | Adirondack region; Mr. H. R. Sterling, | partridges and ricaspits, in nogthern | New .ersey, and the sporting club on | Fisher's island, Long Island sound, part i ridges and pheasants It is curious to neéte that as our coun | try be omes settled, additional efforts ace making to preserve and multiply game birds and animale. Sporting ciubis are | organized for the purpose of buying up thooting grounds, wo as to check the dep { redations of the pet hunter | great dell of land in swampy and the vest hilly and breken that can be put 88 no better use than be- ing turned inte preserves for the tection of game which have come down to us, these could ' not have been used for polishing. The stiff Wristle brush several centuries ago, but it was for a polishing tool, either. in the present century that brush was bhrmeht into use In whalebone fiber blacking brush patented, bet it seems to have been a fail ure. Split quill brushes hawe tried and feund wanting, This 1842 Modern glacking seems te originally composed chietly wax and probably lamp black therefore, somewhat similar blacking. It was a Europecn and was Grst used in Frane A Mr. Kichard Martin got recipe for it while on his when he returned to England he partnerskip for its manufacture Mr. Charles Day, in 1501 This since acquired world wide eclebrit the title of Day tin Anothe portant blacking manufactery ward established by Mr. liobert Another was subsequently f Mr. Everett, who commenced business in King's Head court, Helborn. All parties connected establ shing three firms acquired large fortunes Each maker had, of course, proportions and methods of mixing peculiar to him self: but the chief materials, namely, a black coloring matter and certain sub stances which acquire a gloss by friction, were the same in most cases. In England not nit It wus only the about been tallow, and was, to invention, and Italy hold of [ travels have ol and LAER ¥ with was after Warr n. ounded by the these " n they generally consist of bone black, sugar or molasses, sperm oil, sulphuric acid and strong vinegar. The bone black, in the state of a very thia powder, and the sperm oil, are first therorgily incorpo rated; the sugar or molasses, mixed with a small proportion of vinegar, is now added, and well stirred into the mass; strong sulphuric acid is then gradually poured in the vessel The mixture is then diluted with an additional guantity of vinegar. Paste blacking is now made in precisely the same way as liquid black ing, except that the last portion of vi ar is not added. Jt can be upderstood rom these ingredients h oy who re cently undertook to eat three boxes of blackingon a wager, could die in terrible convulsions Jaron Liebig siates that in Germany blacking is made ir the follow ing manner Powdered bone black is mixed with balf its weight of molasses and one eighth of its weight of olive oil, to which are afterward added one-eighth of its weight of muriate acid and one fourth its weight of strong sulphuric acid. The whole is then mixed up with water to a sort of unctuous paste In the days of Sim Tappertit, London and all other great cities were dirty and badly paved, and bootblacks were as abundant as they are at the present day They haunted the corners of the busiest streets of london a Paris, and me few, like Mr. T were installed in shops and little boot They pedestrians it q | Honor!” . ! r shoes never had have it and lest wit Wa d A ypertit i | Your sir ana wkin nh IRY ip cared | 89) having ots blacked ( i “li Were and foras re of years the pub black was unknown. Then he began to crop up again and grow foward the army forme today. In Paris most of public bootblacks ate old women, and in Germany they are young ones There wre no bootblacks in Spain, for the men there wear patent leather shoes entirely, The manufacture of these shoes is a vast industry in France, whesee the Spanish market is supplied b ON me h lic | nd oot that the too i "OH he \ Nuecessfal Editor, Philadelphia Call, ) A St Louis editor, whe started with out a cont {rity years ago, is now worth $100,000. His fortune is all owing to his own energy, industry and fragulity, and the fact that an uncle recently left him $00,900.99, (ncomprehensible, (Baron Nedrol, | | can undénstand why petple sttond a ball, but why anybody should give a ball Is something entirely yond my compre hension, Boston Globe: Who can tell why bad taste in dress and manners and all the walks of life is severely frowned wvpon, while in langungo it is ignored? The Current: Among the toys of the m has been a bullfrog made of caoutchowe, (South American for ker chug’) 30 P5811 A opin tpi, 1 / was invented | blacking 1801 a was also been in harness the The Zhoh Valley. Cor. London Do not imagine un green but a sandy, less, Times] fertile valley Iate-looking plsin, tr bare, about twenty to running east and high, stony barren h to the morth and { south. Oa the south side there gre a num ver of mud villages to the hills and a geod deal of cultivation, the pearance whic w of india 3 5 the least understand he ly-looking 1 is divided int small plots with foot high, wh ¢ mot notice ible at a distance L the proper time ear seed is sown, and cach of these lit Its flooded in rotation by epening wm ] ya one Lo The dos and thirt Hes Across til close ol howt cence Rai tout a losing small dams fr wader bel onven | chanre them { cither by divertin 5 damming | pecessary quantity at pecu red I his ‘her made channels ; ng supplied 1 distance andi rex up small hil wrevalls in the valle vetom SYsiem becomes Deaut bears crops sometimes from ten teen feet high. which the hot sun sod are soon cut the whole of ground again assumes the as pec a desert. The time at which cul tivation takes place depends, as in Scinde ou he rising of the 1 through melting of snow in the hills, or upon the rainfall, or, in hilly regions, where there are perennial streams. upon the best sea son pening the crops. In Scinde the rainfal is almost nil, as all depends on the river rising Lhe The “San Franciseo Alphabet.” Fx hange meeting of the California association A. L ure on & proposed Sacramento niot the address cha showing propo r revised I's 1584 This een vowels, four diptl and twenty four consonants Ti tem may be summed up ae tie statement that it is ‘shorthand a long way The character the ordinary alphabet, resemb letters now in u ner \ croft expiained t claimed for the A Variety « f advar At State croft new SAVE were “an glish spell fe i the late Teachers delivered a alphabet. The “Previous striouted Francisco aiphabet f an fo ai the scheme of thir . a Coal as a Tonle, the | hailed the | few As tl wt juire, nited to tl 08 re ty of she | defiance police infrequently happens that their eagerness tosell lures them out and then, if caught, they are brtight to court and fifled, M ats they oa je ul it To Be Looked at Broadly. {Benton Budget. | Any public document, no matter how brilliant and legical the writerof it may be, ean be picked to pieces if itis mens ured by a six-inch rule. It should be looked at broadly, and ¥f its general ten. dency and drift are correct minor faults should be overlooked. .If a speech o document intended for the general public was writtem with the precision of & law paper, no one would I¥ten to it or read it excepl members of the legal fraternity Joh Billings Aging. wlinter Ocean Josh Billings, who has abandoned housekeeping and removed to the Wind. sor hotel, New York, is now about 65 fear old, and begins to feel the burden of ife, irrespective of its probabilities. He has been lecturing twenty four seasons, and has furnished a New York weekly a half or quarter column miscellaneous con tribution every week for the last ninsteen years, Lost Power An actual and esreful test shows tha 55 per cont. of the power exerted in driv. oe propeller of an ocean steamship i ‘adhier It as yet wnacoounted for. ] ing Tie! ? 5 dRWOR & We bave a this country, some pro- | ripen rapidly in | down, when - POLITICAL ORATORS. BTATESMEN WHO WERE NOTED POWERFUL STUMP SPEAKERS. Pierre | The Tendeney nn the Benante to Read rays ~ What Carpenter Said of Writ- ten Speech ~The Three Most Voluble Senators, INew York Sun,} There are fears that the oratory of the stump may belong to the atiractions of the past. Either committee would have one fur down into its bank account could t have secured a stump orator like the late Senator Nye. This giited man way a tower of strength to hepubliean man agers, He would brifig in the farmers, threugh min and knee-deep mud, for many wiles, and the bal could never be found big enough 10 hold ull who wanted 10 hear him, His bamor, sarcasm, ane dote, pathos, nod scorching invective found their great field and stimulus on the stump, and men could never tell whether they hud been listening to him ! for minutes or kours, | President lamcoln was regarded asa stump speaker of remarkable power long { before Le came inte men's minds in con | nection wilh the presidency Indeed, | many regard him as the greatest orator | ic country hus produced, Mr. Edward Mel herson being one of these. Greatest, they mean, #f the supreme lest be in the | power o! Mmtiuencing the hearer. Mr, we uslike many men of command | ng intluemce on the stump, found his power not limited to this kind of oratory dt was said of him by an emipent writer that his remarkable faculty of putting things, his intellect, capable of the cl and most subile annl ysis and the use of language so ns to put kis ideas in the clear | est and simplest | his public | ellorts a weight and Inauence sud bh as no public man of thos country hal Mr with whom ‘ries of rim. gase Wo be ever ougias, | fore uttained Mr Lincoln carried on joint [] mi of « rib i whom many re | ing s; eaker { writler m ght | Spisex] a that he I AO Ton cage, at : bars. He believed in preparation i in prescriptio Mr oukling while the senate, never laid his m on his desk He never nd, like Mr, Carpents for a word Yet both these orators ne spoke without thorough prepar Mr. Edmunds seldom makes long sp rarely EIR aks WH is Anuscript open rend a speech r., never hesitated ver exceeding minules extemporanecysly he stenograp! RIWAYS Dever revises proof slips hn write his speeches Logan nor Senator Hoar The three most vo Morgan and Viumb spe lally prepare their the fa ing Lo gather 1h ex Possession « { 18) however makes Oratoru | ench singuar in er and the s sion | ered vitl in excepto the speech ren Speake rise, two Kelly na Mr | members of prominence i their speeches The it has had that is in | evitable: it gives the speech reader very slim audiences generally, The essays are rea’ in 4 monotonous and almost inaudi bie tone, and the cases where a speech that 8 read is accompanied by any of the of elocution are very rare. Judged )y the accepted standard of oratory, hardly a member of congress who reads his speeches can be ranked as an orator, i from manuscript years ago, Judg the on Y who did not read Wer ha! one eTect The Pace and the Speed. [Chicago Herald.) M. Marcy, experimenting and studyin the march of French soldiers, discove that low Leels has a favorable influence om the pace which a person walks and that thie rythm of the step has an impor tant influence on the » The rythm was studied by means of an electria Well, actuated by a pendulam of variable length to enable the subject to keep an exact time, and the distance trav. cled was recorded on the odograph by electria signals sent along the line eve fifty motors traversed It was then f that the length of the step increased little until sixty-five steps per minute are taken; it then increases until seventy-five, and afterward decreases as a higher rythm is Lyeached. The speed ‘of | I with the acceleration of the rythm up to | vighty five steps et mite, B+ de Corenses at Migher ry The Christian Union: It I no more good journaliem to print everything than sest | Projessional | CAIVIN M Cards, EYER, ATTORNEY AT.LAW ollofonte, Pu Office with Judge Hoy xo, HH Onvis, CoM. Bowes Ellis LL. Oxi BOWER & ORVIs, ATIORSBYB AT-LAW ( JIVIS, Beileloste, Pa. Ofice opposite the Court House, ou frst floor of oodring’s Block J M 7a ATTOBNEY A LAW, Bellefonte, Pa OFFICE IN Uaumax's New BuiLvixg, KEICHLINE, Clnitus Ki Prompt atiention to collection | | HARSHBERGER, (S.ecess o 10 Yooum & Hushbergor ATTORNEY A LW OMce XN KE corner dian oid, next door to Fieonng « Tallortug Betablmbament. Bollefo A buy, J. L. Branotes | { SPANGLER & HEWES, ATTORAEYSAT-LAW, VELLEFUNTE, CENTHe COUNTY, Va pein stiention w Vollectious, practice in slit ouris. Consultation in German or K glish 62 PF. Hawes [) F. FORTNEY, . ATTOERNEY-AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Office tu Cournd House, Allogheny street, Special attention given to the collection of clade All bustuess attended to promptly ly Jd. G. OMce in the w. rv l LOVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Bellefonte, Pa rooms forme iy eccupied by the late Ww flwon vol bh Lu YHOMAS J. McCULLOUGH, ATTURNEY AT LAW, PUILIPABURG, FA co in Albert Owen's building, Iu the room form upled by the Philipsburg Banking ¢ LES) good art te pain everything, P.M. HAFTINGS W.¥ REkban STINGS & REEDER, ATTOENEYE AT LAW HA | BELLEVONTE Office on Allegheny street two & J ate frm of Y PA f the uf ute & Hastings, 40 ™ east WILLIAM » HARRY F.wallacy \ WALLACK BAYID A KREns LIAN KE WALLACR TALLACE & KREBS, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE ry 1,18 CLEARFIELD PA ALEXANDER, ATTOKNEY AT LAW on + Ball ¢ in Garma ling l iy TER wEELrRY [EA VER & GEPHART, J) ATTURNEYS AT LAW plies ou Allegheny street, sorb « HEINLE, ATTOKNEY AT LAW BELLEVONTE, PA the leftin the Court House 0-1 W. C. Last door \LEMENT DALE, ATIORNAY-AT-LAW, Belicfonte, Pa twg doors from™Sret 151 wraer DHamond C. HIPPLE, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, LOUK HAVEN. PA | business promptly attended to yy WH P Will attend to Sinton counties OfBce site Lock Havens National Band Al MITCHELL, PRACTICAL SURVEYOR, LOCK HAVEN, PA |, all work in Clearfield, Centre and La WwW ILLIAM All 20-1) McCULLOUGH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLEARFIELD, PA wines promptly attended iy te First BELLEFONT} Nat , | LE jo, M. D., Yon PA | R. JAS. H. DOBBINS, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Allegheny 81 gler's Drug atl BELLEFONTE | R. J. he te. Pa over Is Store FA W. RHONE, Dentist, can i at a office at row North eine three 4 ¢ Kae y ©, P- BLAIR, » wATORES . x kerhoft 11 JEWELER MOORS, JEWELRY A 'T ~ Business Cards. sHOP, First Nat 1] Bank BELLEFONT ! Propr. (x FM BARBER x Under BR. A. Beck AENTRE COUNTY BANKING | COMPANY Receive Poponity _ And Allow Inte "at, Discount “oles ; Boy and Rell Gov. Securities, James A Reaves, President, J.D. Buvannr, Osshier, dar Bo, newes, Pres't, s.r manne, Oseh'r, {IRST NATIONAL BANK OF BELLEFONTE, Allegheny Street, Bellefonte, Pa, ar tiful and tie open Le stgdonie of both sexes, and | | 3 The following Bond Viientine, General Insurarce and Real Estate Agent, Pa. | UFVICE IN BUSH ARCA All Fire lux, COM) ANE reprezented ire first class, "Traceler’s Lite acd Accident Policies, Special attention given tu Real £atate. 1 now have ove THIRTY HOUSES ond TW HUNDRED LOTS FORK SALE These pre in different parts « the Loreiigh nnd | style nee bon ) piewse the IL LID EN IEEE I ote will minke ox ent wal bor HOt son Fangs irom tw PS ed d thie wudomt bin, nisd IB lon er mtd Joale who Maus wre good wi of the 1h panne hems destiatir and al building bo job FSO0O First payments small | debs yments to sul cotisu lt me, bay liek PENNSYIVANIA STATE COLLEGE. Winter tarm begine Jenvary 7, 1885 This institution is loeated in ote of the most bess witht spots ol the entire Allegheny reg offers the owing Courses of “0 1. A Full Bclentific Course of Four Years LA Latin Boientific course PECIAL COUKF E> lowing the Set of the fic ( (a) AGRICULTURE b) KAIUR HISTORY : (¢) CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS; CIVIL ENGINEERIN, & Ashort BPECIAL COURSE in Agricult b A short BPRCILL COURSE in Chemistry Me of two yeu WO YER Beier ency Irae ire 6. A reorganized oor bilan ree ie chan Aria, Con ships th stud § shopwork with study Literatu welder ow fot el} ¥ tals very sige of a upeten iy Frincips r Catalog: GRO widress Presiveny ATHERTON Cenvar Cou Fa TBE CENTRE DEMOCRAT BOOK and JOB OFFIC) ALLEGHENY STREET, FONTE, PA HS OFFERING GREAT INDUCEMENT TO 7 BELLE BOSE WINHING FIRST-CLASS Plain or Fancy Printing. We have unusus LAW BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, CATALOGUES, PROGRAMMES, STATEMENT? scilities for printing i CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS, NUTE HEADS, BUSINESS CARDe INVITATION CARDS, CARTES DK VISITE, CARDS ON ENVELOPES | AND ALL KINDS OF BLANKS BE Orders by mail will rec eive prompt | attention. ey" Printing done in the best style, or rates Itching Piles—8Symptons and Cure. The symptoms sre moisture, like per aspiration, intense itching, ibcreased by scratching, very distressing, particular ly at night, seetos as if pin- worms were erawliog in and about the rectum; toe private parts are sometimes affected If allowed 10 continue very serious re sultsfollow, "SWAYNE SOINTMEN1 is & pleasant, sure cure. Also for Tetter, Itch, Salt Rheum, Seald Head, Erysipe Iss, Barbers Itch, Blothches, all seals crusty Skin Diseases, Sent by mail for 50 cents; 3 boxes £1.25. (in stamps Address, Dr. SWAYNE & SON, Phila delphbia, Pa. Sold by Druggists. 5.8-1y FORKS HOUSE Coburn, Centre Co., Pa. GOOD MEALS, CLEAN BEDS. PRICES MODERATE. sa HOTEL WITHIN TWO MIN UTES’ WALK TO STATION. y A f N Excellent Hunting and Fishing grounds quite near this Hotel, JOS, KLECKNER Lovetta Guide to Fruit Culture. Prop'r OF all the publication of purseryman, there is 3 ther thet cam be compared with * Lovetts Guide to Frat Culture Tt in renlly a valush be work on Horti cul ture giving, » it does full Instructions for planting pruning, cuitore and management of fruits of oll kind and Jmpartial descriptions of all worthy varieties. It | Jen book of over 70 pages, (with an iNuminated cover | tlegantly printed and smbellished with hundreds of | engravings and several dered plates trae of nature Price with colored plates: Toots without plates, 8, cts “which is but a part of the cont Everybody at all Interested in fruit culture should send 0 J. T, Lovett Little Silver, New Jorsey, and gota copy HARDWARE, I WILSON, McFARLANE & CO. DEALERS IN STOVES, RANGES » HEATERS. we ALSO « Paints, Oils, Glass and Varnishes i w= AND — BUITDERS HARDWARE j>A 3 , clont stalling attached resi Hotels SSMORE HOUSE, fF OM and ‘ HILIPEBT wt), } od Nexis and Lod Flroute $i10LK Waders taies JAMS PASRMORE, Prop, WadN HO Ll, Barney Coyle's NEWLY ReMODELED HOTEL, PHILIPSBL RG, PA. hed, stati i Hote vimie Ae sly turn ug \WMAN'S HOTEL, Ppogrenni t tt House, BELLEFONTE, PA rR $1.20 KEK DAY AX ty alice 1 SE, BELLEFONTE, PA., sllgle getitiemen, ue well ao the gem aud commercial men are invite this First-Clase Hotel where they will Spd hem mioris at reasonable rates bere] reduction Lo Jurymen and vthers attends wurt W. KE. TELLER, Props UsH HOU i3 railiiloe and al traveling pull JUTTS HOUSE, iH Allegheny & Bishop streets.) BELLEFONTE, Pa., f. XU. Lehman, Propr. bis popular hotel, ender the management of the cant proprietor, 1s better tted thax ever for the tertaiumenil Of guests may 380 \ Uurne Hates reqmnable ILLHEIM HOTEL, MILLUEIM, CENTRE COUNTY Ww PENK'A MUSSER, Proprietor. D fhe town ut twee f Milibhels to located in Penn's Valley miles from Coburn Etstien, on the Lewin and Spruce Cresk Rallroad, with sur thn! make itn g, Centre wading ‘LEASANT SUMMER RESORT. sh trout Beldng in the immediate vicinity. A cals every train. At the Millbheimn Hotel secom be found Aretclasme and termes modes IT iy® fn i Intionr w June 238 New Brockerhoff House, JROCKERHOFF HOUSE, 1) ALLEGHENY-ST. BELLEFONTE. PA + McMILLEN, Prop'r. y Furst } J Room vy . t all Tratue Epecial rates fr . ‘ENTRAL HOTEL, / Pyrgrorn the Vi Ha ho | NATIONAL HOTEL. MILLUHEIN, CENTRE COUNTY Ahad | 5 5S. I. Frain, Proprietor. KATES—81 00 PEK DAY. BUS BRUNE 74 MEETING ALL TRAINS A GOOD LIVERY ATTACEED. 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