FROM A RURAL POINT OF VIEW. Criticising the Engraver's Work-—At the New Orleans Exposition-—In Antwerp, [Chicago Tribune. | There gathered in a room at the Sher man house one evening after a meeting of the state board of agriculture several membhors and thale feianda wha ware lank. ing at the third or fourth erg Pf the artist to get un a head to the fair bills which might be up to the standard of ra ral Illinois, Cue with Lorsas and cows in abundance bad been re ‘ected because the animals were not full stocks but common every-day horses and cows which the en raver had knowa in early childhood be. ore the war, and before the Herefords and Short-Horns and various other un leasaninesses had brought blooded stock into every barnyard “That horse reminds me of a job a New York engraver did for me,” a guest remarked, pointing to a peculiarly ungainly animal which was helping pull a heavy plow with its center of gravity askew. “I had a cut of a reaper aud wanted horses attached to setit ofl, | gave the man the cut to fix up. In a few : he came into my o'tice with a proof of his work and confidently asked me how I liked it. The horses were good horses, a very fine team indeed, but in: stead of being hitched to the machine they were facing it “ ‘Why in thunder did you make them that way? Why aren't they pulling the reaper?” 1 blurted out when | had got over my astonishment * ‘I was going to do it that wav.’ he re plied, ‘but horses look so much betier when they are facing you, you kpow.'” “When I was at the New Orleans expo sition, ” put in ano'lier, “I saw a combin ation of pictures as bad as that It was in the Mexican art gallery. Directly above a very good picture entitled “The Cruci fixion of Christ there hang a gaudy and flaring picture of a cock fight. I called the attention of the Mexican attenda t the incongruity, but he could see nothing out of the way in it, even “after I had reminded him of St Peter, Those Mex cans never can see anything “That puts me in mind, ” said Samuel Dysart, the connoisseur. from [Franklin Grove, “of 4 picture 1 saw in Antwerp which was called “The ~avior at the Carpenter Bench When 1 it there was a great crowd in the gallery admiring the painting, which was undoubtedly great work of ast. When 1 had looked at it a while | turned a man standing before me whose face spoke raplures " ‘Lont you see anything wrong in that picture" said L * *No; certainly rather shoc.ed manner if 1.were an os aed | ® *You sce a man hard at work planing, the perspiration running from his brow and yet there is not a to be seen.’ “ ‘Perhaps he was working by the day suggested a worldiy. minded by grestion which turned the into other fie.ds thas that of a to "n wv to he replied in looking then ol al Me as scrap of The “C Washingt n Cor rop Stick" Crave. Baltimore Ame Among the ultra fashionable Washington, the $ back riding season looks like a cane wil lower end sawed use it when they od for and what A) our « I men of the Oil. esponuent surd im 18 most ' in it, of course. } rand, those who ride and i of thing, carry w ih whicl whip in the houn Vell, tl whips are fastened on t sti bent look ng course, it is al right where they this sort of whip Yet they want to fashion. anl take discarding the lash, for they cannot have even an excise. These ‘crop sticks,” you see, Lave ea h of them a stick fastened over the end, as a place for a lash; but the lash never put on. There is no need for it “And they carry these abanrd clubs for use [ their Lores ceatly correspondent “Yes, indeed but its silly. ent jt?" You might as well take your heavy cane for a ridiog-whip. but that is what they want, an we let them have them. They cost all the way from $1.50 to $14 in fo hunts y long whip : is h 4 Canes f have any but they Ape the which is whips for asked th ed inno 20 Indians Ga herring Grasshoppers, hico Ch oniel During the present week there bas been a large band of Indians along | uite creck gathering a grasshopper harvest The mea and children have succeeded in capturing large quantities of the pests, and yesterday they brought to town twelve large bags of them. They drove them into pits with branches from trees aod the catch wes easily wade. The Indians have a way of taking the legs and wings from the hoppers by presging upon bags containing them, lea ing only the budies The harvest is turned over to tie 3 juAws, who convert it into our and then into bread. The hoppers are ground inte a fine powder in stone mortars, fashion of grinding their maize. Old timers who have eaten gras;hop e bread say that it has a pleasant tasie. not unlike that made from wheat four. and that it is just as wourishing The In dians prize it more highly than wheat bread. The process of drying ihe hopper is an interesting sight. The insects are spread upon canvas stretched upon the ground in a sunny spot, and are turned aod returned with the same care that a perfect cook would Lot cakes to keep them from scorching The insects un dergo this srt of treatment for early a week, at the cod of which time they are as dr 88 leaves and easily powdered To the Indians this is ow «land of plenty, since grasshoppers can be cap tured by thousands with Lut little effort. after the New York's Loss [Chieago Tribune, | New York has gu “ered a grave loss in the death of | mperor, a horse trained to conduct himself properly when ridden by 8 grand marshal in a procession. The average grand roarshal is not per oetly at home on lis curveilng steed, you the aver age grand marshal wants his steed 10 curvet for eflect’s sake. Emperor would do the thing imposing! 'o yel with safety to his rider. 1.e wou fo a shuddar. ing ghoces when on his back to look like a fleld marshal, and koew enough to take always lis proper in the procession, It will be perceived what a loss the death of such a horse must be. Steeds trained to carry grand marshals inposiogly with- out throwing them are among the crying needs of the age. ———————— io Josh Billings: The man that is all wuss reddy to follow advice iz sure to follow the poorest tbat offers. known, leather is the toughest leather not much used, | little | weather | apart wilh | and narrow | tusk | have a farm | | | | i | matter to a soft soapy carbon c sul i : | process of transformation fron / ¢ Esquiman Candy, (Lieut. Eehwatka in St, Nicholas] It would seem very strange, and per: haps not very pleasant, to my young readers to hear a tallow eandle or the shin bone of a reindeer called candy. And vet these things may really be considered as Esquimau candy, because they would lelight the children of the cold in pre cisely the way that a box cof bonbons would delight you There is a ceriafh kind of water fow! in rode couniles “nown as the dorekie h fs about the of a duck, BW quite black, bas a prominent white on wings, and fis webled feet ure of a brilliant red. When sitting in rows on the edge of greenish sock these little red feet are very con iplcnous. Sometimes, when the men have killed a number of dovekies, 1h Esquimai w men cut off the bright red feet, draw out the bones, and, blow ing into the skins, distend then as much as possible so as to form pouches, Wh these pouches are thoroughly dried the; wre filled with reindeer tallow, and the bright red packages which | on much sicer than they taste, are Loreas candy In very the $s uimau children ea! grat quantities o fat and ubber; and this fatty food, which seems to us so uninvit ing, helps to keep them warm and well The only other kim! of candy that the Esquimmu children have is the marrow from the long lez or shin Lone of the slaughtered reindeet Of this also they are very fond. Whenever a reindeer Killed sod the meat has been stripped from the bones of the legs these bons are p'a ¢! on the floor of the igloo and cracked with a hatchet until the marrow The ! are then "| the hands and the marrow Is lug out of the ends with along sharp, spoon made from a walrus | have eaten this reindeer marrow rozen and cooked, and alter one omes accustomed to eating frozen ment it tid bit vhile ¢ id sid stripe its usare ) ook is 8 eX posed ¥INes ore be acceptable served it raw is really an oked and be a delicacy anywhere wo nicely The Latest Engines of Destraction. Hy 3 infomuation on the same diferent parts of Two items of From wo merit 8 pass that experimen nitraflledse have The new gut venti M lous unusual capacity ther Hem of news « i ys that Turkey rpedo subject, but the world, ried lenfelt vienna carries with lestruction wes from Marseil) ered in mn Of RUG SAVs coal, where table wmiaale and the latter gra lual ignite and then again the bituminous form Pennsylvania Schuylkill \ alley chasgiog to soft coal of Goalong tl ve Tent F430 rail road, {between the first passenger station of that | find system and the new one and you wi a force of men cuiting d the | bank there cighteen or twenty feet high i | fo and amid those rocks, perbaps three feet above Lhe raiiromd track you will ob serve a black seam That black sam is a lab.ratory of nature, From above, before the Mor un house was removed and the s irround ng bank, big trees seal their rools dawn through the soil and thea through the crevices of the rocks till they reached the seam in question, which in tine they filled with roots and fibres. The trees above diad and the roots and fibres con fined in the seam began to work chemical change: took place cxrbon was evolved and coal was the result. The la oratory was opened by the building of the mil road before the slow process was fully completed, 8) tha! ven ean find there the segetalde and carDonized aaaiie i lignite and coq! provide indeed that mi grows is tr 0» together the Pp opasiar- Liou 1 A Too Par "a ] tres v Indiana went Chi go to buy a stock af eroceries start , had but 1 1th and was asked what oonur ty {ve who A man fron to h could wl { be hus nes did own a sawmill." he re ut you don’t now?” 0, it was sold ona mortgage. - “ I diel “Is that gone, too*™ “Yes, went on a mortgage ” “Got a home?!” “That as gone with the rest, ” “Any wild lands " “1 hal 100 acres, but its gone, ™ Then you really have no security, * «00k a bere, mister, "sald the Hoosler, as be stra‘ghtened up “after a man has buen used 10 doing a mortgaging business twenty five years he cant change all inn mioute If a chattel mortgage on this stcck a'n’t security enough for you I'll look around and find some house not guite so particular, * . The Student In Engineering. Exe wn “Huppose,” sald an cxaminer to a sin dent in enginecring. “you lsd built an engine yourself, performed every part of the work without assistance. and knew that it was in complete order. but, when put on the romd, the pump would not draw water, what woud you dot" “| uld look into the tank and sscertaln if aere was any water to draw, ” replied the student, England Ahead, b Cheng Hera 4.) spite the heroic olorts of the Ger man students, England still retains her reputation of the greatest deer drinking country in the world Some recently compiled statistics show that, while Eng. land's 27,000 breweries prediuce V50.000.. 000 gallons of beer ian year, the Ger. mans, with 2,000 fewer brewerfes, make 900,000,000 galions. a — | alfable reply. him { whom to follow. | store, 1 will send a detective on some sor | of pretended errand, and { day and expenses ission to places of amusement, drinks | often called * Hankey's | | number | sided there | Bouciesalt, A PRIVATE DETECTIVE AGENCY. Wives Who Have Taken to the Spy Sys. tom of Learning About Thelr Husbands. iNew York Cor. Chicago Journal.) The opening of a private detective agency in the midst of the fashionable re- tail trade, where the throngs Lave ten women 10 one man, caused comment a year ago, Now there are three scl con. cerns fh the same neighborhood, and each covers the front of a building with big, bright lettering It is clear from the multiptication of them, and their accupancy of costly premises on tho streets crowded “ith ghonred, that their busi ness (8 chigly with women, Tha fem is that wivek have taken to the Spy system of leyruing about their husbands, and it iv nol at whi vousual for maidens to use the profigred facilities for acquaiuting theutseives with the actual characters of (hel sweat hearts, inorder w get at the subject, Tusked a bright girl to endl upon one of the agencies with the ostensible er ruud of wisblog to have a man shad owed, She assented. ‘Lhis was her ex perience: A boy net her at the entrance, and ushered her into a small room, wher a man politely gave her a chair and in yuired what he could do for her. She replied that, for personal reasons, she de sired to know where aud how a certain { goutleman spent his time outside of busi ness hours “That is fn our line of work, ” was the “Give us a description of toe person snd tell us where he can le scen, for we have to first get a spot on that is, identily him-—s0 ns to know If he is in an othee or then this man will polat Lim out, a8 be quits Lis busi ness, to a second, who will shadow him ns long as ordered, Our charge is £5 a such as car fares, ad in a barroom, or whatever may be re quisite in order 19 keep him under su veillence without exciting supicion. It is safer Lo employ two men, for that guards against his slipping out of view—a thing that will sometimes Lappen, in ease he goes into some house by one door and comes out by another in that the charge Is double, of cours For £14 a any we wi geolieman with two faithtul dete om the moment he CAVES runing until be re turus at night, reporting to you in wriling every movement of his, Inying by jelegraph or messenger, if desired locating him in any plac might care ung him Cnne, home in the m and n« you on 0 Ki east Lhe lucted legitimately About a Fat Printer. luster, while tin It was the f ! It was moonlight Fhe fat had ost Lis cap and the moon gl me on his bald head like unniest sight AW stened dew on ROSES. [George Macdonald.) Roses, roses all my song, Rows In a gorgeous fenst, Rosas in a royal throng, Burging rosy from the east! Romes all the rosy WAY, Roses to the rosier west, Where the roses of the da Cling to night's unrosy ¥ ronat. Out of darkness light Is born, Out of weakne s make me strong For the day when every thorn Broaks into a rose of song, Does Habit Make Dosorey In Dress ? Hondon bed What is It that constitutes decency dress? Clearly nothing but habit custom of the particular society or sub ject matter concerned in ordinary lan guage, convention. This seems strange to some people: but it is most certainly true that there Is no absolute rule as to what Irnpery is or is not decent Even in the swing society the conditions vary enor mously, Use and custom slope mine the becoming. A Turkish lady is shocked if a strange man sees her without a yashmak aod a monstrous: bundle of wraps, So conventional is this covering of the face that a Mussulman peasant woman surprised in the field will often vell it with her only petticoat, Travelers tell us that a well bred can woman blushes to be seen for the time in clothes The unusual of clothing appears her iy decent t ustom, habit, and convention the matter nmong ourselves. A pure cottage girl in Conn mara, who sleeps in a room with men and ever owned stockings, would feel uneasy in 8 ball dross of a princess. The prin would almost suffer death than share her collage for a week, If the daughters of ceonidas went to a drawing room st Buckingham palace in their Spartan tu nics, they would probably canse as great a Hutter as they would feel themselves No one would expect a hospital nurse to do what hundreds of Innocent girls do in 8 panto ine but the danscus Bin would bardly submit to the dations of ward + soul and . i Fin deter Afri first use nt are Lo to dec de ar] ring oit then unspnm H nt As surg a paramount rule 1 cerlaiu conventional prac i he Loadon HMagamufia When his friends came out of 19) they K., him all to which avern thes found pest as tl fixed him," AN mp post Paper for tesla ing Fire and Damp. Reheat For ¢ fire and damp, lierr W avd to ihe yp aun rimJug in the rag en certain salts which, by mutual dec om posi tion, form insoluble compounds. The so luton whch is added first contains zine sulphate or chloride, or calcium chloride, Exchange maki capable of resisting Herre proposes io the process of ad " | Or acetate, whereupon tallow, soap, glue, After having been he mass i« formed into ind alum are added thoroughly mived | paper, which, however, be ore being dried | is on ¢ more passed through a lath of the same of similar composition to the solu tion used for mixing with the puip in the mg and wilimaiely impregoated i of catechu engine Wilh » soul “Hankey's Foliy.™ Foreign le ! mn Lo thie which sal The (Queen Anne mansion which fs intended preference for there and ia Paria don growing prevails Caravans to moet nis a about thirteen stories high, aod with some | It Hankey, of rooms mab tamed hundreds wealthy bult | y and it is He spent a vast sum of money on the undertaking, aud when it was finshed so was In \ of M. I's and sectors have re Among the latter was Dion was 1 oily Misdizected Ran Francie Mins y Examines Consul (to stowaway who brought before him discharged from prison in Hong Kong, and 1 believe it was not the firs! oc. asion Blowaway-<1 had that mislortune, sir, but loos ye here, sir (raising his voice Its a “and case. 1 can dance a fig on a cella cap from morning to night tattooed all over: | can whistle any toon in all ereation—but yet | cant make a living. Itsa ‘ard case, sir! had An Interesting ¥xhibit, Foreign Letter Une of the most attrsctive objects ex hibited at Turin during the Inte exposition was a burgh of the medi val age to gether with its little town constructed | with the most painstaking fideliy, All the buildings and rooms were, down to | the smallest details, «onstructed according to historical account, and exhibited do. mestic life and trades of the fifteenth cen: tury Sweeping Out, Fashionable wife I'd you notice, dear, | al the party last evening, daughier Clara swept Husband (with a grunt)—Oh, y can sweep info any room grandly ow grandly our into the room. os, Clara suough, but when it comes to sweeping out a room, she isn't there Alfalfa roots in California have vin toward known to penetrate fourteen feet the center of the earth, ;ine sviutions of | heen | «You have just been | I'm | bad | wivers ty more or ios show the street; heggary lenced to the invisible speech ving the the : open palm toward ye | church doors. Florence is not only better dressed on the average than Boston, but with little over half the population there are, I should think, nearly twice as many private carriages in the former city. | am | not going beyond the most non-committal | #i dice in any study of the Florentine civ lization, and I know no more than that it is as it has | northern tourist ey wi l iL or : | SOO8 Mit s of | who steal an ual wen said ever sinee the first them themselves at home to broad | anid | said d scovered that Arve make a show Cre] » to Tres trees Is practice, only worse habit stems and or Driving nails is rightly called a Lar to be surpassed by the still of twisting round the branches Lo keep them back in when newly planted to h growing ATOUS wire he shape id them steady h und If anything niust tar cord surcly is better Lut even thal sometimes will cut into the bark of a rapidly swe ling tree It i= not { only in forming fa: cy plantations round a newly | that the yonug trees, 3 0H stumps ie Um | ire Dut hous are established Ly means of wire snd left to throttle themselves, but it is often | freely used to tie back boughs or bushes overhanging walk« or which have strag gled away from a wall sNo one thinks of | loosening the wire afterward; proba’ ly | Bo one knows it is there till the mischief is almost past repair A Gre dt Seheme (hicagze Trib ar “ve bit upon a great scheme * western editor; “1 neary circulation vesterday * “How did you work itt" “sev that steel s amp Well, | justeut out a paragraph in the local column of the whoe edition, ” “low did that help the circulation?™ “Every woman in town bought an ex tra copy. ” doubled Uses of Glues. Philadelpia Call "Queries Glucose is used principally in the fol lowing ways: For the manufacture of table syrup As a substitute for barley mall in the brewing of beer and ale a substitute for cane sugar in confection. ery and in canning fruit. To adulterate cane sugar. To manufacture artificial honey. in making \ivegar, Good Minners Habit Is strong, and you will always find that the easiest way to make sure of doing right on all occasions is to get into the habit of doing right. Good manners eaniol be put on at a moment's warning. Tue soversment of Nexloo. bisa ‘government of pointed a commission for the scientific In. vestigation of the natural products of the coutilry, sald a | our | As | ~AT THE—~ Job Office And Have Your Job Work i is CHEAPLY, NEATLY AND WITH DISPATEH, Now is the Time to Subscribe FOR THE "CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” ] ’ ‘The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper Bellefonte. ¥ A -— ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR, ADVANCE. OFFLUE HARRIS' NEW BRICK BLOCK. : BELLEFONTE, PA,
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