SUPERSTITIONS. Poor, Distraught Carlotta. [London World.) The recent death of Col. Vandevelde is | a great misfortune to the poor distraught HOW CREDULOUS OLD PEGPLE (N® | TERPRET COMMONPLACE EVENTS, Some of the Weather-Wisdom Handed | Down from Generation te Generation “Old Wives' Fables —Thelr Origin. «Various Other [Baltimore Herald.) Seat—whaek! There was a sudden howl a3 if a fog. porn had been seized with a nightmare, and a something that bore a decided re semblance to a cat's tail disappeared over the back fence of a >t. Paul street resi- dence like a streak of yellow lightning “1 don’t like to sce a catlying in the sun in February,” sail the old gentlemen, as he slam p down the window and re sumed his hair by the firepla e “Why?” asked an incredulous visitor, “It forebodes a stormy March, ” was the response. “Why, that's a proverb I've heard since | was a chi d, and I've never | known it to fail. But here In the city, and particularly here in St, aul | street, they laugh at a fellow when he hauls out his country saws That shows their ignorance, for goodness | knows a farmer knows more about the weather in a week than they do in the «ity for a month, There's another true saying, that when the north wind not blow in February it will have venge in March with rain in this cold spell in May. The old proverb says that when the snow lies in the ditches is waiting for more, and when it falls in the mud 1t remains all winter. for rain when the flakes grow large. as they fall. Of course, you remember the time-honored remark about the while Christmas and the lean graveyard docs its re Look out You people never pay any attention to these signs, but the farmers, the truckers, the milkmen—people whom you brush past every day on the streets or in the marke —believe in them, because taught them to do so Suppose every 4 month has it asked the incredulous visi he gazed incredulcusly at a nickel horseshoe suspen led over the mant “Every one of them,” was the reply, “and a few of the m ancient and lea known I will recite for your benefit. It is said that if gruss grows in January it will grow badly during the rest year, Sy origing for Mar that if signs?” ww, lated 4 D : of the SAW VE * mont Lf OS ou lieved. Loo, lust was worth this was a rather April it fills the cellar and May brings nothing “A dripping June sets all tl When it rains in Aug it rains hooey and wine. If the first day of September be fair the month will be a good one A warm Uctober brings a cold February Ice in November forbodes plenty of sleet and bad wenther during the winter Chri The first t its weather. When it clears on Sunday it | will be clear unti Wedopes ls and if it | rains on the first dog«ay there will be a | flood for forty days thereafter n spring a tub of rain makes a teaspoonful of mu but in autumn a teaspoonful of rain m a tubof mud We Leard a thun two weeks ago 1 A POOr year lor mapie year for fruit “Do you Know how to foretel certainly, " he asked out of roaches 1 } comes | tL with said aml af warm sLmnas in bree days of any season Ay sugar | rain ¥ and without walch the a po ny KCL doors? When en Just chirp their nosis Ht you frost. The first Comaos ex wtly six first Kkatydid frosts in . une CUTIOUS frost, weeks after 80 I man rFeoru T me- Worn “Madonna Probably a Libel. sewing has | in Ph in that city freq in the bac f ~ La] 1D 1o the « It i i 5 i in © troduced in the girls’ schools phia, married men find the opening wed ghters having mis iperture for an shirts s ! 3 Lai ition the neces rear ’ \ this may be a Libel on Lhe Quite Shallow D trol Enough trust Lhe lay Ww essly « 1st to | scours wun hope tly formidable if you, a y remarked a young Detroit clergy man to a lady mem ber of his congregation the other evening “Oh, no It was shallow enough for comioria wading, thank you We (quite H : Ange the Arrived as ; EB Limits of aring. ntl re limits of hearing powerful metal The vibrati which proved faintest sound Fe were stem iis on ACTUNTEG i ns reached 72, n to be the highest or rather that cofild be heard 1 ile Gnas, But No Water. The governor of Arizona says that ter ritory has grass enough for 5.000 00 head of cattle, but fully four-fifths of it is not available because no water. ™ He thinks, however, that most of the country may be made productive iu the cattle in terests by means of artesian wells of Blizzard and Thaw, The Washington Post observes that the thermometer at Savannah, Ga, fell to 39 degrees and it was called a “blizzard. ” The thermometer at Pierre, D. T., rose to zero, and the Plerreites congratulated themselves on a “January thaw.” How Doctors Eat Although doctors, as a rule, are par. ticular in warning others not to attack too any lute dinners, there is probably no other body of professional men who find as much honest pleasure in gathering around the festive board Great Britain’s Coal. It is estimated that Great Britain's coal supply will be exhausted in about 108 if the i Increase in the rete of years presen | And for every thunder month, there will be a | t | Empress Carlotta of Mexico, who haa | been under his care for many years at the { ( hateau IRouchout. The empress was reatly attached to Col. Vandevelde, and \is death has not been announced to her *he has been told that he has taken a lovg journey on business for her brother, the king of the Pelgians Bhe passes much of her time at the piano and at her easel, but since she began to notice the colonels absence the empress has neither played a note nor touched her pencils, One of the characteristios ¢f her malady, however, is lack of memory, aud it is therefore hoped that in a short time she will have forgot ten her guardian, even as she seems to have forgotten the whole of her past existen e she never speaks of Maximilian of Mexico, nor even of ber father, Leopold | whose favorite child she was Of lat vears she has become absolutely indiffer ent to dress, although in the earlier year of her insanity she was constantly occu pied with her toilet and even while shit was living at the Chateau de Tervueren showed a marked tendency toward (quetry sometimes she would arrange her smartest dresses on the chairs, seem ingly imaginin 2 that she was still the center f a court, and would address the gowns alternately in three or four different lan FUAZes When a little while ago valet—who was with him to the Inst himself beeame insane and was taken Miramer, she fretted about the poor fel low for a few days and then completely forgot him. The athicted lady receive the kindest treatment from all about her, and is frequently queen of the Belgians and the Comte de t landre. Co Maximilian's Jay Gould's Correspondence. (h bite It is rather remarkable, but true that Jay Gould does not employ an aman uensis. He writes all hisown letters. The word “all” does not signify “many,” for Gould replies to very few letters, and the communications he does write are brief He is always in u hurry when he writes if his pen co ild not travel suit him. Gould puts th in as few words as pos races over the paper a steeplechaser in tracing out the chara ers Morosini opens all of G i and throws away all that do not actualy require to be read by Gould or repli by him ' | would not have tims look at the we once a month if he caro T itis and it seems as fast enough to little sible i he has to say and his pen hike 1 8ilellers ina an rious lings to see if the rosint 1s ot px Gould will risk taki B SUC) MA SUTrvive soned or | thing ut the wily Italian, if he nofa package i in the open i d If the boy back whole Morosini will go through the onlents q } y 1 bail Huss ares Or om without a tremor Slaughtering the Song Binds Chicago Time New imi The song b slaughtered in su of their skins, Y ork parties to nets, that parties interested have a law p wed by ng it a misdemea ALY song irds of h bn which are be used it Hg aq made Dot an ole m bir years hort t on I'he pot | to capture the eClive Ways jestroy p placing wher Ihe fe arket va s hunters are bh The Telephone Pye In his very ples to Mexico” | HOW &A guoied in the “The regular i to a telep which is « ! manag ii 0 ¢ through m LL wilh Lhe much § nection Hons a 10 Lhe through 1he Faris was re a friend some said th of rats and mi by intelligent coo tasteful; the fattest pa ul If ened to instantly bx entrap th 3 however, tha! the p ges A Iessenger bird, and the ibis of Igym storyteller, “this was that to thisday I can never bear pigeon. I always feel as if 1 was de ing the postman ) “an a Lim the « {Oo eal a vour $0 often LS How Their Money Goes New York Letter The sons of some of the very rich men of New York are said to tremendously extravagant iikely to see the bottom of the fortunes acquired by economy and thrift, One gilded youth recently chartered a palace car at $100 per day and took a rity of friends to Now Orleans, this being but one item of the expenditure. Another is touring it around the world In a yacht third, who is “no end of aswell, ” cuts his father dead when they meet in Fifth avenue be living at a ale, and are The Latest of this Sort, (Texas Siftings. “Buckle my shoe, Egbert, dear, sald a Chieago belle to her nearsighted flancee Egbert went down on his knees like a true knight, but as he had lost his eye- gloss his vision was a little ‘incertain, “Is this your foot, dé ling?" he la. yuired. “You bet, ” she said “Aw, pawdon, [1 thought It was the Feber a now disengaged visited by the king and | WORK OF THE PARIS POLICE, The Late Prefect Tells How Every Class of Soclety Is Watched. [Article by M, Andrieux.] The secret agents of police in Paris ure provided with cards, which, in cases of | danger, will insure them the protection of the regular police. They frequent clubs and other meetings, the wine shops of the exterior boulevards, and houses and streets { of ill-fame, and also attend at the senate and chamber of deputies during the parliamentary session In the morning they prepare their reports, generally speasing at the pre fecture, in the archives of which to be found detailed pecounts the career and charncter of hundreds and thousands of individuals in France, These records form colossal pyramids in the lumber rooms, and are alphabetically arranged according to the nates oo the persons whose histories they chronicle, so that when any one comes suddenly to the front or is compromiel in any criminal affair the librarians can Lave culty in laying their bands on the othicial »ummary of his or her antece dents ple te in the collection that the name of the most obscure rag picker in I aris has its chironele as well the president of the repub ic In regard to these secret agents of second category, M. Andrieux picit as he 1s indiscreet. * A man man, ” he says, “a man's mistress, a man's barber, a man's valet may belong to this battalion.’ Many saloon -kee and Louse porters are actually compelled, un is of no di ot ns the eX coach IS US vrs | | i | 1D F. FOR Professional Cards. JALVIN MEYER, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, Bellefonte, Ps, Bond Valentine, ‘General Insurance and Real Estate Agent, CU, M. Bowen, Eiris LL. Oswe | 8, BOWER & ORVIS, | Bellefonte dno, H, Onvis, ATTORNEYBAT- LAW, i ( JRVI Bollefosute, Pa, OfMeco oPjosita the Court House, ou first foer of | i Woodriug's Block. J M. : tye ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, Bollefords, Pa, Orvicn 1x Ganman’s New Buirpiva, Prompt atiention to collection claims, J. OMce with Judge Hoy Pa. OFFIOE IN BUSI ARCADE, 2ZXD FLOOK, KEICHLIN |are first class. Traveler's Life and Accident Policies, Special attention griven to Real Estate THIRTY HOUSES and HUNDRED LOTS FOR SALE. These propertios are in different parts of the borengh and in the suburbs, and io location snd style are bound to please the purchsser. Many of the residences are very desirable and all sre good, The lots will make excellent location for buliding. The houses ramge in price from I now have ov TWO 40-41 | | HARSHBERGER, (Successor e to Yocum & Hurshberger) ATTORNEY AT LAW Office N. EK. corner Diamond, wsext door to Fleming's Talloring Establishment Bellefonte, Fa bU1ly. loontod J. L Li BraNGLes, | ( SPANGLER & HEWES, ATTORNEYS AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY, FA Special attention to Collections; practice in all the courts. Consultation in German or Bu glish 6-28-u P. Hewes PBSOO to PES,BOC First payments small the purchaser, Those deferred payments to suit who want Ww buy should consult me mn wyv INEY, PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Office in Conrad House Alloghony street Bpecial sttenticu given to the collection of chalm All business attended to promptly 21y Winter term begins January 7, 1885, Thirinstitution is located in one of the most bean | der pain of forfeiture of their licenses and | positions, to act as the spies of the pre fecture everal journalists, ‘who are the bitterest political opponents in opposition newspapers of the powers that be, an I not a few frantic the mp Wo 10 orators who “do ind denounce amid the cl inlistic gatherings the riminality of capita the workingmen, are in the pay of the po lice authori ics The high born and re ble Imperialist, who mixes in 'rince y and calls him “My r Majesty,” and sj y vio hole of Ary mass fort Lhe leon 11 ' | wers of \ nol SOCIOL i] ety Lord, watt F in his b yoris on on the « f hoof St ip ys for his ¢ ' Knocking at the New York Entrances y Ork Girag OW In hie Pp a } What She Needed sunday Se : The secretary of day school re entl " 1s on iw I | Loreng a The Slate Indust y, The magnitude of the slate industry in this country can be imagined when it is stated that the total amount produced of roofing slate alone year A “square” i100 Ti feet, or sufficient to cover a apace 10x10 feet when laid on the roof It covers the same area as 1,000 shingles liera HA) INN) » junstes 3 r is about & “Cocoa Gunpowder (hieagy Herald The British war department has just in troduced the “Cocon” gunpowder, recom mended by a committee sent to Germany to examine various qualities of explosives It has a mean pressure per square inch of sixteen and a half tons, aod » velocity at the muzzle of 3,010 feet per sccond. Hassin's Salphar, [Exchange | The attention of the Russian govern ment has just been drawn to the existence of extensive deposits of sulphur In west ern Siberia, an expedition Is to be sent to examine them. Europe's of sulphur is now chiefly pohly Le Biodly. \ J { SORE MOVED | dors loft at ! 1 | IW . WNP G. LOVE . ’ Uful sod bealth fal spotact the satire Allegheny region tie J} AL is open be students of both sexes, and offers the fol ATTORNEY AT LAW, lowing Courses of “ty Bellefonte, Pa 1. A FVull Bclenutific ( Office in the rooms forme iy ocoupbed by the late Sop R A Latin P. Wilson S 23 The foil Hf Your uree Yours 1 Beientific courses 3 ng the Bret tw of the re a) AGRICULTURE; (b HIBTORY : (« CIVIL ENGINEERING 4 Ashort SFECIAL COURSE in Agriculture 5. A short SPECT. L COURSE in Chemistry 6. A re Mechanic yours Beienty J. McCULLOUGH ATTORNEY AT LAW, PHILIPABURG ullding, Iu the room "THOMAS PA Office In Albert Owen's | form ory occupied by the Plullipsbuig Banking | fly GR pALY ranized ' v rganis LI PD. HW, HASTINGS HASTINGS wr & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BELLEFONTE, FA y street tw the of firte of ¥ Hastings. 4 A AMES A. BEAVER Eslian GEPHAR ATTORNEY F B* AVER & Ofes on Alleghen) fonte, Pa | WwW.“ { ' for I tion Iress ATHERTON, LL D., Presivesy N ad 1 AT LAV High Belle 1y Cit gxrae Co bs ENTRE DEMOCRA’ JB OFFIC STREET, INTE, PA FFERING INDUCEMENT® IE WISHING FIRST-CLASS Plain or Faucy rinting. THE BOOK and HIGH BEI HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW BELLEFONTE, FA we ‘LEMENT DALE, JLEF( ATTORNRY-AT He GREAT 1 Tr : LE T, C HIPPLE, ave a . ATTORNEY AT-LAW ' BOOKS LOCK HAVEN. FA BA Be » Be All basines: promptly attended ily PAMPHLETS, CATALOGUES, PROGRAMM STATE IURUR { 14 es for printing Is) hi prinlung ES, MITCHELL, MENT PRACTICAL AURYEYOR LOCK HAVEN Clearfield, FA wil Centre and attend Jinton counties (Bos all work y BUSINESS CARL: INVITATION CARDS, CARTES DEK VISITE, CARDS ON ENVELOPES AND ALL KINDS OF BLANKS raers pposite Lock Haven Nations) Bani iy R. A. W. HAFER, I) ER, FR y Kit DY Iai will receive prompt ¥ ' aiten tic pay Printing he beststyle, or hort o anda iowest rate ¢ “ e al Lhe Itching Piles Symptons and Cure Dentist, can lhe symptoms are 1 ™ t W. RHONE. oisture, like per “ a ’ lens Lilt 1g, Increased Ly ¥ A # NE, pariicuisr as If pin-worms were the aflected ser Ie 'SOINTMENT and about the rectum ; L] Gus mail f by in slampe & SON, Phila Sold by Druggists., 5-8-1y FORKS HOUSE Coburn, Centre Co., Pa. (/ 00 DD MEA LS. CLEAN BEDS.’ PRICES MODERATE. Cards, J FUN Iness y Addr del; hia, Pa. boxes £1.. ess, Dr. SWAYNE EM BARBER SHOP BELLEFY 7 a I'ropr, COUNTY BANKING Basen Pies sRnT, Uarh James A 3.0 sa" HOTEL WITHIN TWO MIN UTES’ WALK TO STATION. G \ A ” fions IT GREEN 0. memes, Prost 2. 0. mARRIS, Onsh's Excellent Hunting and Fishing grounds JMRST NATIONAL BANK OF quite near this Hotel, PELLEFVONT) J )s Allsghony Street, Bellofont . h) Ps LR BAGGAGE DELIVER ‘CE 1 - Prop'r Lovetts Guide to Fruit Culture . |AND LOCAL EXPRESSH N Iw Anfounce to my i! ar Pa nt : engaged A the 3 ge orailiv : ave r the Baggage Delivery and | Ex prose bas ta liberal share of pat iI CARE AND SATIS all respects I ow Wo ne | ma pt pages, (with » "i Hess, 81 age PIA FACTION IM ony a that spectinily » WIT GJARANTEED in f ae K Crider elegantly and embellish wile 1 several colores y ' " i nr I failure gravings . Pri which is} i for mle Mee will I hav ret ® with colored pistes 10x { the siture ok ts without § wi, Everybody at & wid send t0 J. T. Lovett get 3) HARIDWARE,! WILSON sien, 5 ots & B iA part frait New ly attended t interests B. F. BARNES, | Litesis Jorwey, and gota McFARLANE & CO. DEALERSS IN STOVES, RANGES » HEATERS. we ALSO «= Paints, Oils, Glass and Vin = AND— ishe All Fire Ins, companies reprezented | | lo 4 | com i i i i STATE COLLEGE. PECIAL COURFE:, of two years | NATUKAL | CHEMIETRY AND PHYSICS; (4) | | Re ESMORE HOUSE, « of Frowt snd Bgroce Biress PHRILIPSBTRG , PA | Good Mesis and Lodging at modersts rates cient stabling witsched, i of, JAMES PASSMORE, Pr SWaA N HOTEL, Barwey Coyle's NEWLY REMODELED HOTEL, FUHILIPSBL RG Newly furnished, stall 57 tf Pa A fret class House, a | good and prices moderate [( JAKMAN'S HOTEL, \ Opposite Court House, BELLEFONTY PA TERMS $1.9 EK DAY A good Livery sttached «11 BE, BELLEFONTE, PA., | [USE HOU J) | Families snd sngle gentlemen, as well ss the gas eral traveling public and commercial men are insige sis Fast Llass Hotel, whore they will find bom ris nd reasonable rates Libera) reduction to Jurymen snd others standing W. BE. TELLER, Prop’ Court TS HOURE, Corner Allegheny & Bishop streels) BELLEFONTE, Pa., 4. XU. Lehman, Propr. This popular hotel, under the management of “Ye | prossnt proprietor, is better fitted the. th sulertaiument of guests, Hales ressonsbie, (tus) 3 2 wv! AUT > rer Vor LLHEIM HOTEL, MILLHEIM, CENTRE COUNTY, PENN A W. 8. MUSSER, Proprietor a ———— The town of Millhelm » located is oul two ms Coburn Fiaticr 0 the Lewis ! aiid BRpruce Creek Haliromd, sith ndings tha! make it a LEASANT SUMMER RESORT. Goud trout Bebing in the immediate vicinity | runs to every trade. At the Miibheiss Hotel » be found Sreteiass and terns un ste June 28, 1876- iw from Centre . P ations w iy* New Brockerhoff House, [3ROCKERHOFF HOUSE, ALLEGUHERY-#T BELLEFOMN G. McMILLEN, Prop'r Sample Room on paret Fi ust all Trains Bpe TE Ps and from s0d JErois alread La AL wite th HOTEL, Badr ome | ("ENTR. LE Fation CENTRE ( Proj MILESBURG KOHLBECKER ike NATIONAL HOTEL Mit LLUEIN, CENTRE COL? 4 S. 7. Frain, Proprietor. RATES—$§1 00 PER DAY A GOOD LIVERY ATTACHED This Hotel has lat ref nisl ’ of ire ” 2 man 4 A 1 acacguarters for Stockdealers, Miscellaneous, Swayne's Pills rN ZELLE LAL a J PU R& i SON, ANA AANRL ONLY $20. LADELPAIA SINGEIL Is the BEST BUILT, FINEST FINISHED EASIEST RUKRN SINGER MACHINE ever offered the put The shove out 1 nts the te] } e poagle which w rs of $20. Remember, we do bot nek yom have seen the machin 3 iF ois pot all we voprese st expense. Consens L your inlerest send or " circulars aad t CHAR “For Nearalgia in 1? back, breast, sade, » anywhere else, take Irn “For Oramp of the Rillonsness, Diarrhoea, or \ a Comgh A TIEN © Front. take I"MLUNA Chronle Nasal Catarrh, Prone chitis and sore Threst take PRRUNA CPERUNA Is the purest, most prompt, and efficient medicine known to man." ‘PERUNA Is the best aggetiser, purest tonic, finest ralor of the xx ‘If you can’ sleep, IT you are wes worried mentally, take PERUXAL" But remember the most Important o ATT that Priva will care Chironje Na If your a "t por on the “Tis of Life," or if you ape aoe not ween i loned — BUILDERS HARDWARE
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