POOR BRAINS. i ——————— BRAINS OF CRIMINALS AND OF THE IDIOTIC AND IMBECILE, Home Annlogles Observed Which Are Startling and Significant <The Incor- rvigikle and Morally Insane The “Jukes,” of New York. {Lucinda B. Chandler in The Current} It is not, perhaps, as universally under. stood that poor brains burd un society with imbecility and idiocy not only, but with criminality as well. Enlightenment has wonderfully modified the estimute of the root of evil in humanity, snd that the ha man heart is by uwature wicked ” is, if not an absolete a frail article of belief, and wel to pleces as a basis of ethi a: or reli teaching. The study of poor brains is helping to advance general intelligence ward the re-ordering of will eventually eliminate Bh tional Conference of haart 1 0 Louis last Cetober, Dr. I. N. herlin perintendent of the 1:stitute for ldiotie and Feeble-Mioded Children in Elw.n, Pa, read a ; paper upon “ Provision for Idiotic aud i eebie- Minded Children. ”° Au interesting and highly suggestive point referred to is the simi. arity of brain in idiots and criminals Te further establish a doubt as to our present interpretation of the nature and origin of crime, he considers the researches of « patholog.st, Morez Benedikt, “signi ficant In his published “Anatom cal Study of the Brains of Criminals” are describes (he couvolutions of twenty brains le found in these a marked pocu- iarity. a tende icy to run into each other, terms 4 “con uent fissure type—not a for mation of new nis by th mend of Lew convo. utious, "uk spreraiely enet, quite nigh gone 1OUs Low soctely thn them Al tin 5, hed Sil. most valuable Iwo of the principal fissures producing what he ures up of a comparative convoiutions by the tf ary i or the usually existing bey thus distineti ivi SSUTeS, mits, ormal for mation of th it. ace (the part the brain, ’ “Hardly amined, of 1 an HAS Deen ex SAYS cease Scotland centum exiib ness in epee a tually insane Dr. Kerlin, it ori ious JUKe an i ther 1) OW half To elimi tdeted and Wiis y vital 4 ¢ SAE INAay se v of 80¢ ety, HTH veciie and 1a1otic i IES T e ) rine’. Mechanical Bird, Ary was interg 5 sssions of gratitude to and (uses empress The in no way disconcerted, a d kept up its warbling till he : i ov amoer A Denver Game, Exchange A Boston man who lately made a mar risge and went west on his bridal tour was approached by a person at Denver | with the inquiry | “Jist bin mard?” “¥en” “Marry rich?” “She was worth $100,000, * “Is her father living?” “No.” I I'M send you $25,000 worth of in a silver mine for $2,000, lier money will pay for it, and you will be $23,000 ahead It's a game we play al most every week, and the parties are gen erally from Boston,” Making Charcoal |Exchanie The best quality of charcoal is made from oak maple, beach and chestnut Wood will furnish, when Riupty charred, about 20 per cent of charecal A bushel of charcoal frou (lose weighs twenty-nine pounds: one from hard wood weighs thirty pounds. 100 parts of oak make nearly twenty three of charcoal, red pine about twenty-two, white pire twenty-three, Awfully Lonesome, [Newman Independent | Lord Chesterfield says. “Choose the company of your superiors” Thats just what we have been doing, and it makes us awfully lonesome. London's Sandwich Industry. ft andwiches are a great staple iy Lon don, Forty thousand women ars dal'y engaged in vending them, not to mentiou the thousands who assist iu thelr peepee 2. | material FUNERALS IN RUSSIA, Respect for the Funeral Corpse at Church—Lamentitions, [Khol's "St Black coftins are seldom used in Russia; collins are generally bfown, but children have pink, grown-up unmarried girls sky blue, while older females are mdulged with a violet color, Among the classes the collin is adorned with pine branches; while among the rich, the whole way from the is strewed with the same The coffin is earried to the church un tovered, that the acquaintances who may fappen to meet it in the street may have a last glimpse of their friend's The lid is carried “before. The coin'is fol lowed, even in the day time, by a band of torch bearers, with broad cocked hats and euveloped in long black mantles All those who meet the funeral proces sion take oft their hats, and ofler up a prayer lo heaven the dead? and earnest are the that they do not replace tl until the has disappeared from sight. This mark of respect is shown to every corpse Russinn well as to Protestanis ¢ | Catholics. In the the corps again set o al priests, el inl { white, and holding in hands wax lights enveloped in eraj ply the de yih Petersburg. | face for KO ' $ aevolions eir hats enlvaead church tin st and the tank HACK ld d with 1 necessary fe the ourney fillet ornamented hnage In his bund wux or other substance head is placed a holy wd fA Cross ol n receives the passport of une “RUWS stuck He the Even a rise fin I'hi a! disl Onsis:s ol into a wit Ty forme slre pid Are Made, NOTrmons i Slew to Lear Paper Slippers youd, suitable 1a or which ¥s united to the upper by means of cement, glue, or other adhe material. The upper is creased, embossed or perforated at the instep and sides, whieh renders them somewhat pliable snd prevents their cracking while fn use 41Ve Delay in Flogging. Exchange By the exertion of the late Capt. Mar ryat (mainly instrumental in suppressin the vile system of press gangs) no nay a officer may Innict flogging until twenty four hours after the commission of an of fense, so that punishment may not Le the result of passion. In Scotland, by an act of ficotge I, no semtence of death can be inflicted on the south side of the Forth in less than thirty, and on the north in lese than forty days A Dead Crage. [Chicago Tribune | The sunflower craze, florists say, It quite dead. The sunflower had 10 pas: away, of course, soon after Oscar Wide, the gentleman with a hand lke a ham, but we have the consolation that the seeds are just as good as ever for chicken feed. And what this great nation needs is an egg diet, Sclentific atting. [Exchange | Science has come to the aid of base ball layers, and announced for the benefit of tsmen who are ambitious to make heavy hits that the ball should be struck at the angle of twenty-three degrees in order to send it to the greatest possible distance, A Convenient Verb: The Mongolian language has a con venient verb, “10 thus," meaning, “to act ih this fashion. ® “I thus it, you thus It, be thuses it; I thused it, ” etc., making it an attractive com jugation, Frooessk n~The | poorer habitation to the church | Mise'y Loves Company. [Chleago Herald, ) An incident at the new opera house the sther day exhibited to good advantage a | phase of human nature. A loiterer stood { gazing in at the open door in the rear of the stage lmmedintely below the door was an open cellar window, out of which u workman occasionally threw a shovel ful of dirt, ff course, the loiterer was not aware of the workman's operations, but in a few minutes he received notifiea tion thereof in the shape of a mass of dirt colliding with his legs He ste ped back, but another loiterer took his place, In afew mnutes he, too, was brushing mud from his pan‘aloons, while No. | walked away, grinning Still another man came up, unaware f the his predecessors and soon had an experience identica! with theirs No. 2 then walked away, in his g ec at the mishap of 0 entire'y forgetting his own soiled ments Th x1 ( ras a fut, fashily dres<ed ! in, who wears good rot l of them Hi Loo, peered in i i tare door iad posed as if Lhe might be th ropr.etor « ths building on dress But the 1 seen wield ate of gar cloth i | in the cellar | Lat TL reached Hie f « r of th ( and | mo st juart d profusely upon i from f ofl com « fun aul y OU Wateh with One Wheel. I SOAS he mn with more are now definable the southern sphere, in which, as in the earth, waler widely spread than in sphere There is, for example, a south orn exceedingly like the Baltic ia and there is another and still more remarkable sea, now defined by the ob servations of many astronomers, one near the equator, a long, straggling arm, twisting, almost in the shape of an S laid on its back, from cast to west, at least 1,000 miles in length and 100 in breadth. hie Case also y be much the n« pecs Lu irthern hemi sen shin A Crushing Cri! lolam, [Mx changs. | The April sun, which had borrowed from July some of its intensity, was pour ing its melting rays into the back yard of the McGush family. Rosaliod, with her hair in crimping ping, sat on the back piazza suggesting to her mother how the carpet should be properly flayed “1 think, ma," said she, sweetly, “that right on that breadth that was in front of the sofa there is some dust yet, ” “1 should say so. When I was your Age, young tlemen knew enough to wipe the mud off outside rather than use the car; et for a door mat, ” Rosalind, crushed, stole grigvensly into the house and played “ Chopin's Op, 45" in the minor key. A Cinhed Historian, [Chicago Herald.) Capt. John A. Sloan, after writing a subscription history of the North Caro. lina troops in the war and securing onl fourteen subseripbers, returns them thelr mony with a letter, in which he says: “I shall fold the old flag around the manu. script and put it away ina vault, with this epitaph on its wrapper, ‘Soldiers, here lies your history by your side in this vault, all that is kaown or written about you; so fares it with your cause; it, too, sleeps ns s dead man, . stone for ita pillow,’ * " Ory | Ine | (WRVIS, BOWER & ORVIS 0) H | LAW | Fleming's Tall QPA he Professional Cards. HENRY KELLER, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFONTE I'A ce wit DLS Kernen i 48] } CALVIN MEYER. Ld ATTORNEY AT-LAW Bellvfontie, Pa OfMee with Judge Hoy HH. Orvis, OC. M. Bow ga ELLs | OEYis ATP OUNEYEAT-LAW Bellefor te Office opposite the Court House, « Woodring's Block Pa n first floor of (Successor ATTORNKY HARSHBERGER, eo 10 Yocum & Harshbergor Office NE. corner Ulamon ring Estallis it AT J. L. BranoLen NGLER & HEWES, ATTORNEYS AT- LAW, CENTHE COUNTY, vA CELLEFONTE pecial attentl i ¥ } is, Consultation tu German or K€ glisl f F. D. ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE, Office in Conrad House Allegheny street the collection of ty ractics in all tt FORTNEY, PA Init ely pecial attention given t All business attended te promg J G. LOVE, ATTORNEY-AT LAW ULLOUGH Hany STINGS & REEDER " he AT HNEY ’ & RELLE¥F iH ’ » & GEPHART, k AT WWM P MITCHELL, KACY Al RY R PD y | L Eps M.D, Propr, \ENTRE COUNTY OMPANY BANKING Bo nuNes Preset y annie. Cash'r JiRsT NATIONAL BANK OF BELLEFONTE, Allegheny Street, Bellefonte, Pa, CHRISTIE'S 11 School of Business. HIS institution is devoted to the specialty of imparting business know- ledge, and to qualifying the young and ig duties of business life, Rates moderate. Advantages super- ior. For particulars address, 8. N. CHRISTIE, Principal. Lock Haves, Pa. dle aged of both sexes by pew and | practical methods for the responsible | | and ppastial descriptions of | Isa book of Bond Valentine, General Insurarvce and Real Estate Agent, aA Bellefonte a. CPFICE IN BUCH ARCADE, IND FLOOR, All Fire fia COMIN LEH reprezented | are first class. Traveler's Life an Accident Policies, Special attention griven lo Keal Estate. THIRTY HOUSES HUNORED LOTS fog mre Joomted / nou Tver ve ary and TWO F'OR SALE. Hflerent parts of nd in loca arr, Mas | are good ing. Tie of the Tf The —- po eo a - -’ (o TS,S00. STATE COLLEGE. Winter farm begins January 7, 18% nett uton only ' f aol thers ur th sexes HN | JOB OFFICE Ii ET i Iss, Barl rusty Ni 50) oni } ¢ Address, Di W ielphia, Ps AYNE & SON Old by Druggists HUMBUG OUT fraud on ita very face If vou doubt our business or sur ] on, We have : mrticle 4 hi Beads and APPrecs THE BIGGEST willa'wareshow yelper w ’ YOR THINOnNe a uiy § ge mpes seat Pitteburgh, Ma , r ‘ EE SWELDICE RTS 0 Cork Shavings For Mattresses. the ¢ t nee the f og in met tresses and we would recommend CORK SHA V INGS a» being the cheapest and most durable sr. ticle that cay wed 40 Th, will fill a Inrge be For Bale Ly ARMSTRONG, BROTHER & €0.. Cor. 24 and Railroad Streets PITTSBURGH, PA. Lovetts Guide to Fruit Culture Of all the publication of nurse ryman, there i» no other thet can be compared with * Lovett's Fruit Calture™ It is really a valuable work on Horti culture giving, ae it does full instructions for plantin, proving, culture and managem «ot of fruits of all kind worthy varieties. Tt over 70 pages, with an illuminated cover elegantly printed and embellin: off with handreds of engravings and several colored pastes true of nature Price with colored plates. 10cts without plates, 5, cis ~~which i but a part of the cost. Everybody at all Interested in fruit culture should send to J. T. Lovett Little Silver, New Jersey, and gets copy. HARDWARE, ! —— WILSON’ McFARLANE & CO. pi DEALERS IN STOVES, RANGES » HEATERS. we ALSO « Paints, Oils, Glass and Varnishes, {= AND; BUILDERS HARDWARE Guide to | JASSMORE HOUSE, Front and EB race Btevsin PHILIPEBTRG, PA Good Meals and Lotging st moderate rater stubiling stiochod tf JAMMER PAREMORR, Prop QWAN HOTEL, |S Barney Coyle's NEWLY REMODELED HOTEL, PHILIPSBURG, PA A Bret class sialling Cae House. 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