A STUPENDOQUS RIFT. | THE CANON OF THE COLORADO, FIVE HUNDRED MILES LONG. A Maximum Depth of 6,500 an Average That Exceed. A Maddy Ribbon the Depths Feet, 8,004) nnd | in Cor. Boston Transcript Probably few rivers are less geserally known than the “Colorado of the West” Rising in Colorado and Wyoming, it runs through a country of peerless beaniy-—- | through pleasant valleys. rocky noun tains, high plateaus and ard dese. ts, finally debouching iuto the alifornia gulf, nearly © 000 miles from its sta ling place. It drains an area of nearly Ww square mies It is the river oi canons From the junction of the Green and Grand rivers to Col ille it has but few breaks in what forms probably the most stupendous rift in the world rite hun. dred miles in length is the cut, w.th a maximum depth of 6.00 an average that exceeds 3,00 mericans are Loo apt to overlook their own coun ry and travel to other lands in search of i the pictures ue. To the geologist, the | earnest student of nature the artist, or to the mere sight seer, thi country lers inducements unparalleied Looking south across the louse valley, in northern Arizona, a few broken bluffs, about ten tant, apparently about twenty Only five or six of these scatiered atirregular inter als. There liesthe canon, Riding across the level plain toward the blufls, one finds it hard to such a canon can exist, with so few signs of existence. Here and there we are obliged to make long detours, to avoid vawning crevasses that streams have worn on their downward rush to the t ol orada, The country caped the grand glacial that elsewhere Dharrowed this tinent level, and lilled ap the post tertiary wash outs { ntil we come within half a mile of the canon we get no hint its existence. Gradually it unfolds to nearer advance, until on iis brink its ful sublimity burgts upon wi walk out upon a pro'ecting tongue of rock, we gradually, dimly, begin to ap preciate the chasm. Great rock walls around us on every side stretch down- ward, seemingly fathomless Far below, looking like a muddy rib bon, lies the river. At first sight mind is incapable of grasping the mensions of this gorge Men whom have seen declared stoutly, * bat can’t be the Colorado, for the Colorado is a good 200 yards across, and that creek isn’t over six feet at most. ” lar below floats lazily a bald so far that he re sembles a mere speck, and yet he isn't half-way down. A stone about as large as one's fist turns the course of the river at 8 certain point Were we down there we should find that stone to about three times as large as the Boston post office On the loose of the banks grow thousands of century plants, with tall stalks, reminding me of the pictures of the Jewish candlesticks 1 used to see in the big Bivle at home when a youngster. Pulling up one of these, we send it whist ling down into the abyss It grows smaller and smaller until it vanishes and presently a puff of dust announces it has struck. And yet these “yant” measure six feet across Opposite where we stand is the mouth of the Colorado Chiquita, Where it en ters the parent canon it Is of the same depth as the latter; and yet it starts scarce | 300 miles away, and up toabout 100 miles distant flows on top of the ground The walls of these canons furnish the most magnificent rock-peintings I ever be hela. Black and gray porphyry, white and pink limestone, broad and narrow veined marble, sandstone from vermillion to light gray, and sturdy eld granite blend their many strata in colors no painter dare imitate. At sunset aod sun rise, when the sunbeams strike slantingly across the rocky face, the effect is inde scribable t is as if the gates of heaven were thrown open, and the city. with its asper walls and dazzling gateways, shone before us Probably long before the earliest of human history this river fretted and chafed its rocky bauks While Europe was plunged in ignorant night, this coun try saw the growth of a civilization second only to that of today. While the Old World nations were yet in their infancy, the dwellers on the Vin of this stream were adepts in casting metals, in archi. tecture, in sculpture, in gold and siiver smithery, and in mosaic painting. Their feather paintings have never been ¢ ualled The river witnessed their southern migration and saw the sacred fire die from the estufas on its banks Jt saw the whirlwind of northern tribes, that swung like a whip upon the Moquis and Zunis and force! them dwell in forts: that chased the mild Coconinas un. til, in despair, they found refuge in the deepest canons and breaks, where a wretched remnant still exist An) feel and lock one notices miles dis feet high, oC I conceive how nere, probably 08 i‘ IU ( I con ol aw us, AS us eagle be soil often date to Cashmere's Capital and Its People See Chieago Herald, | Cashmere, which has just been vastated by an earthquake, is a kingdom jn the northwest part of India, including the vale of Cashmere, made famous by the poet Moore. Feringur, the ca) ital, has a population of about 145,000. [t ex- tends about four miles along both sides of a deep and placid stream, about 300 feet wide, From fits delightful situation and innumerable canals, reringur has been called the Veni e of Asia; Lut the city is, for the most part, extremely filthy. The houses, which are generally dilapidated, are built of thin bricks, with timber frames, many of them three stories high Sixty thousand persons can worship in the mosque. The capital is the center of the shaw! manufacture of Cashmere. The men are tall, robust, well-formed, and industrious; the women famous for thelr beauty and fine complexions. They are a gay people, fond of pleasure, litera. ture and poetry, but are represented by many travelers as peerless in cunning and | avarice, and notoriously addicted to ly jog Notwithstanding the beauty of their va'e, the population, since the be ginning of the present century, has been reduced from 800,000 to 200,000 by pesti- lence, famine and earthguales | nder the treaty of Laliore, in 1846, the British overnment came into control, but imme Sintely sold the country for $8,550 000 The present ruler, by a compact made at the time of the purchase, is to be assisted by the British in defending bimseif against his enemies de Nearast the Pale. The farthest point norih ever reached by man was by Lieut. | ockwood, a mem. ber of the tireely expedition, who went 84 degrees 24 miuates, or within 458 miles of the pole. Ll Calcutta is now the second largest tea exporting city in the world, the leader be ing Foochow, | a man could | every two or three years thereafter | us long as the | bark ane | square, | fte tenderness, Gordon's Queer Religions Views, [Foreign Letter] Gen, Gordon had queer religious views, He held that the fruit of the original ap- ple eaten by Lve still affected the blood, and contended thas the virus could only be subdued and counteracted by frequent participation tu the bread and wine of the sacrament. But so material a view did he tnke of this rite that he thought the more ingest, In quantity, of the consecrated food the better would be his chances of expurgating from his physical organism the folsonays corpuscles of the forbidden apple, Having foreseen that there would be little or no opportunities of receiving the gacrament in the Foudan, Gordon re solved to take ns much as possible of the gncred elements before starting. He therefore occupied himself the *aturday before his last Sunday in England io as certaining the hours at which commun jon would be administered in the various churches within reach of the place where he then was, and, rising early Sunday morning, he went from church to church in turn, partaking of the sa rmment in each, aud thus reecived the elements some half-dozen times in succession, beginning at 6 o'clock nn m. and ending at midday A Crd {New * kK Sun “[ raw an crab race once." put the listeners, “It was on the west const of | ngland. There bad been a g of discussion in Lon lon whether crabs hud any sense and some one gested that a trial be made, and a go deal of cash changed hands on the resut The trial was to test the homing instin A man by the name of (arew, a sport ing « made a wager that ral dropped « verboard ten miles fr i they were caught would 1nd their back within days I Leard ward that he or was tested in this way crabs werecanuzhit al a ¢ al marked and down the coast the marked ct than a week they were « showing that they could bak with ust the sane I heard later that the i sure thing, tot i mo in one of odd dea us to sue oe d uargoeter, OH ve Wol ob dropped In three abs were back, 3 11 ONS ring as he bad hired some y the same thing a m | The Key of Death, ust In the at Venice there pres rved a small golden key, which bes the name of th "1 “hey of Death 1 instrument the " . t44 arsennd i= still invented in whom The needle poison. It was not i A tims could be counted by the sed his secret was discovered The young man ts out in life with a keen wit, a poor opinion of human nature, and a delight in A good thing anybody s cost that wields as cruel Weapon this famous which will not poison his own solitary, miserable od age was sre that who MM saying will and deadly a “Key of Death, only wound others at soon find he as but oa Chinese " White Wax” Arkanas Industry. The British consular agent at Chung King, Mr. Hosle, has made a tour through certa n districts of ( Lina for the of gaining information concerning insect white wax. He has found to be the preduct of mioute like insects which exist, together small black beetle, in exerescoence attached to the boughs and evergreen, called by the ( sect Lee farly In May these ga colle ted and placed the wax tree usually a stump fre immer Ous sprouts The posit a white coating on the boughs and tw gs which often resches a of a uarter of an Inch in ninety or a hundred days. The branches are then lopped of, and the wax is carefully removed by scraping and boiling. The material then poured into molds, and becomes the white wax of commerce, use! chiefly for cand! ® urpose the substance brown. lee with a or gm!) twigs of an ie yin Hea or ereatures so0n Od TE thickness is Gd Found Everywhere, Boentific American It has long been well underste gold is the most universally distributed of metals, being found in all parts of the world, but most readers will probably be surprised at a statement recently made by Professor A. F. Foote, of Philadelphia to the effect that there is more gold in the clay under the city of Philadelphia than would equal the entire va'uation of the city. In 1812 men made 60 cents a da washing the sands near ( hester, on the Delawgre river, where William Penn first landed, and quite recently several dollars’ worth of gold in grains taken from a well 150 feet dewp twenty miles of Philadelphia ol that were within A Perfect Thief. Proof Fence, Chirago Tim A large landholder in England has planted an immense fruit farm, 40,000 plum trees being one of the items set out In order to make a perfect thief proof fence he has surrounded the farm with cottonwood poplars set only a foot and a half apart. By the time the fruit trees are in bearing the trunks of the trees will touch each other, Then he proposes to head off eighteen feet from the ground, and keep the sprouts cut back to this point In this way he expeets to have a living wall eighteen feet high. that will at least last fruit trees in the orchard last, Cork Plantations. [Chicago Herald, | In Sardinia, Sicily, snd the region around Naples, large cork plantations are | being destroyed in the Improvident haste of their owners to realize profit from the superior quality of tannin afforded by the from the wood. The French have planted this valuable oak largely in Algiers, where there is now over 500,000 acres in good condition. The number of trees in Spain is aleo increasing. It con. tinues to grow for 150 years, and reaches the height of some fifty feet. The wood is not valuable o SoA for fuel. It Is thought that the tree would thrive in California SUL an Open Question. fC Weato Journal) As hay Jeft the church he resolved that he would put the important question on the wat home. “Shall we cross the fins Clara, ” he asked with infin. “or shall we go round ft!® “Oh, 1 think we had better out across it," sald Miss Clara; “it's much nearer that way." The important ques tion is still an open question Tenochers of Nee Keoping. In Germany teachers employed by the government travel from piace to place and give instruction in bee keeping. | Sntonrajes you g hints and | New York is | Guarneris at Creme i Tyrol { any other that { exce ' quer | finds that scientifie {ments A 3} | already { but he THE SWELL AND THE WAITER. Outting » Ridiculous Figure—Trylng te Cateh the Fye of the Walter. Brookiyn Eagle.) Of all the curious fashions, that which men to wear high silk shooting blouses in the streets «f the most absurd. The av erage cigarette smoking and spiodie { legged young clerk is apparently never 80 | happy as when he can | blouse and bind it by a belt around his | waist, { per and salt, drab and sometimes almos! | white in color, and are | lous get on a plaited The blouses are of dark blue, pep mos! ridicu garments for elty use imaginable They are accepted ns the proper | acke for shooting and touring in Fogland, bul the the Ang omaniae dudes believe that they are £1 for anything here. A high hat and a short cont is bad enough in any instance but when a man wanders around in busi ness hours in a beaver bat and blouse he cuts about as ridiculous a figure as he well can, Ore man who is ths style of attite busines: in Worth made of very light leather pumps, red and silk hat I'e thus § ine to busine wear ball room alat inte ded for mourning a shoot ackoet He | fat 0 1 wi that is int and end Fe room on rartieularly fond of is the dry goods 'e has a suit material, patent o'alted blouse out atte od in sree! drab hose (UR pers woar and nn pudg dw a scowl banglhity pees sh HY HT ining Live SOCOT oor and strolled between with an a'r of ine "abl us: al toilet \ on of large wu ed and t of his i" csery Wl one into the Astor house down 0 « Fi ron { rer [vit The Then h but entieman of [ire Livy iginated twelfth contury, snd riniized the names of and the Strad and Steinor in violins ard ari na He bas made sixteen ¥ experiments nd A vioiin {8 : 5 struct wit} may cards all former theori lence of old | VArnish, sing wood are the las's mines of ered him #10 snot g Safety N First Hen — There comes the Irive out of her garden Second Hen Yes, and she's picking A stone, Loo Let's ly out First lHen-—-Ng, no, of Second Hen and anger y(n woman 18 up | for us First Hen — Yes, we might get hit andi An Uncertain Roundary Line Exchangs The treaty between En and and Rus sin, made in 1825 for the purpose of de fining the boundary between Alaska snd the Northwest territory, is reported by an officer of the const survey to be so faulty in scientific precision that there are grave doubts whether a considerable extent of border territory beloags to England or the United States A Good Fire Escape Idea [Exchange | A fire escapegjden, and a good one, is seen in Massachusetts hotels All the staircases and landings are marked out pisinly by red lights The bewildered traveler, In case of alarm, has not to ope about or lose precious time in tak. the wrong turning for the stairs sy are always 10 be discovered by the red lanterns Tinlian Coral. [Chieagn Herald | The Italian coral fisheries employ 4, 200 fishermen, who annually secure 36,000 kilograms of coral, valued at $540,000, The manufacture «f this coral into beads and crosses, in which form it finds its way to every part of the world, adds mill fons every Jour to the waenlth of the Italian people ———— as An Od Astronomibonl Chart, In the largest library in the world, in Paris, thore Is a Chizntse chart of the heavens made about 600 years before Christ. In this chart 1,460 stars are found to be corréctly inserted, as corroborated by the scientists of the present day. Weslthy Troops The Dominton Fanitary Journal says that in forty days there were only three deaths from disease among the Dominion troops, numbering 5,000, engaged in put tug down the rebellion, Josh Billings: Opinyuns kant be worth match; If they waz people wouldn't all wuss be so anxious 1 give them away. the Professional Cards, | J ENRY KELLER ATTORNEV-AT LAW BELLEFONTS i Lh Orricg wisi DLS Keopen - 11 J CAI VIN MEYER (tF ATTORNEY AT-LAW Bullfonte, P I OMee with Judge iloy Jro. HH NM Bow ew, Fries | K| JRVIS, BOWER & ORVIS | ATT IRNEYRAT- LA & | Bolletuste, Pa Onvis, \ Davis Office opposite the Court House, on fret foo Woods (g's Block | | HARSHBERGER, = | ¢ 10 Yocum & Harehilwrger) ATTO {LAW Office 8 KB corer | ismond, 1 | Fleming's Tuilorin Weta inhi: nt Bete EPANOLeS 1d, L | | QPANGLER & HEWES, En i ATTREREY AT LAW CELLEFUNTE CENTHR COUNTY | fpecial attent®n to Colle courts. Conanltatic it b), Office lu Conrad House special attention given to All business sttendod to promptly J . G. LOVE, Gevinsy vr BK giisl FORTNEY, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, BELLEYORNTE, Pa Allegheny efroet, the collection of El IUNEYE AT ELLER [[ASTINGS & REE] LB ; Mc A sirect 1 bh. Baile HEINLE, : VEY AY ATITUR E, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CK HAVEN, PA 1 y T C. HIPPL W M. P MITCHELL, PRACTICAL SURVEYOR LOCK HAVER, PA wil Clearfield, Contre and Rivtos sltend to all work In counties ME ce opposite Lock Haven Natlors) Band 0 [)R A W. HAFER. ” K. HOY. M PL Ww. ! at RHONE, Dentist, can » off M oe ne P. BLAIR, WATORES All work ally exe soder Brockerhoff Hon JEWELER theny *troet tf Business Cards. ( * EM BARBER SHOP, | Under Pirst Nationa) Bank BELLEFONT Pa Propr, R. A. Beek, may » (JENTRE COUNTY BANKING J COMPANY Recelve oposite evs gh And Allow] B te ®51, tos v and Sel] Gov Securities ames A BAYER J.D. Bpvonny, Osahier Fast “res luent, af ER are : f MANE DY sper All ’ r ofton. w r feat) ore For sale by F. POTTT GREEN brilliant £0 mons, Pres’t 2.0. manne, Oneh'y | [RST NATIONAL BANK OF BELLEFONTE, Allegheny Street, Bellefonte Pa, CHRISTIE'S i School of Business.» | IMPVHIS institution is devoted (o the | Ld apecialty of imparting busiaess know { ledge, and to qualifying the young and | middle aged of both sexes by new and | practical methods for the responsible duties of business life, Rates moderate, Advaniages super. jor. For particulars address, 8. N. CHRISTIE, Principal. Lock Havex, Pa. [an Bond Valentine, General Insurance and Real Estate Agent, Bellefonte Pa. PHICE IA BU 1 ATH Inn All Fire Tnx ¢ are firsl ol ius, FLOOR Tra Accident Policies, griven to Keal Fatale. THIRTY HOUSES HUN! Ther ¢ tough and in Liirg rejirezents d | eler's Life an Special attention I wow have ove TWO and 1 hi t to bay # Id consult me STATE COLLEGE. ings Winter term begins January 7 4 J RITAD gOS ef fhe » Expenses for board an DEMOCRAT BOOK and JUB OFFICE "THE CENTRE NN HIGH REET, BELLEFONTE, PA IPFERING GREAT INDUCEMENI TC TI E Wik} } PR . Navas ez va 4 2 v Plain or Faucy Printing We have ur in) In LAW BOOKS PAMPHLETS ALOGUES PROGRAMMES STATEMENT I= Now FIRST-CLASS ties for printing UT Es VISITR CARDS ON ENVELOPE AND ALL KINDS OF BLANK par Order ftant Rav INVITA1 { I A A y tun i. receive § t the west ting done in Destatlyie, Prin 3 short notice ar sti il rate » Itching Piles—Symptons and Cure [he symptoms sre moisture, like per aspiration, intense itching, increased by scratching, very distressing, particular ly at night, seems as if pin-worms were erawling in and about the rectum; tbe private parts are sometimes affected If allowed to continue very serious re sultsfollow. “SWAY NESOINTMENT" is a pleasant, sure cure. Also fer Tetter, Itch, Salt Rheum, Seald Head, Erysipe Barbers Itch, Blothches, all scaly crusty Skin Diseases. Sent by mail for boxes $1.25, (in IAs 50) conte 3 stamps ' Address, Dr. SWAYNE & SON, Phila delphia, Pa. Sold by Druggists, maozsr HUMBUG OUT To ory oho SS frand on ite very face 1 you doubt our basi ness or eur goods, we will send sample fram, We have an article that every man, woman and child poads and apprecs. ates Every housekeeper and everybody eloe will buy IC Ttpare agents immense profits and gives immense satisfaction, We want | AGENT is cach county, male or female. Mention this paper and you will got circulars snd full information FREE. Samples seat requested Address TER CWIRESEZ NTS 00. Powburgd Cork Shavings For Mattresses. Now is the time to change the Alling in mattresses and we w 4 recommend CORK SHAV. ENGS » being the chonpest and most durable ar ticle that can be need, 40 Iie fl a large bed For Sale by ARMSTRONG, BROTHER & €0,, Cor. 24 and Railroad Streets PITTSBURGH, PA. will Lovetts Guide to Fruit Culture. Of all the publication of surseryman, there (f ne ther thet can be compared with “ Lovetts Guide to Frat Onlture”™ Tt ie really a valuable work on Hort) culture giving, as it dost full instroctions for planting SSMORE HOUSE, Front and Sprice Rirocm, PHILIVEBTRG, PA Good Mesls and Liv'ging st moderate rates, wintiling attacked a7 uf PA JAMES PASKSMORE, Prop QWAN HOTEL, Barney Coyle's NEWLY REMODELED HOTEL, PHILIPSBURG, PA. Newly farnished, stabling nu A first good clase House sid prices moderate (3 ARMAN'S HOTEL, | § Ippoeite Court Hones BELLEFONTY PA TERMESI 26 EK DAY A good Livery sitached il BB! SH HOUSE, ) BELLEFONTE, PA Families and slugle gentlemen, ue well a8 the gen eral traveling to are luvite to this Firetrd find hom 4 commercial men wee Hotel, where they will orm iors st remsonslle rates n and others attending W. ER TELLER, Prop'r IAberal Court reduction to J aryme I'S HOUSE, reer ’ gheny & Bishop streets, ) 3 1 ) { BELLEFONTE, Pa, 4. XU. Lehman, Propr. Qed a Liior, 1s tbry HId ToarS nat, Of Ths for the may { guests. Bates ressousbile IY \ ILLHEIM HOTEL, [! LHEIM, CENTRE CO cate y Penn's Valley " ' wil fro burs Be bry entre and stlion 6 the Lewis reek Halirosd, witheys SUMMER RESORT. the Imp A cab | socom. terme moder «28, 1879-1 5* ngs that make | PLEASANT edinte vicinity At © Mitlhelm Hs ' f lose and ¥ st New Brockerhoff House. [3B KERHOFF HOURE, ) ALLEGUEXYST., BELLEFONTE, PA { i LEN, Prop'r. "i Furst Floor, od from wll Trains. Bpecial rates re 1 Loom ( tENTRAL HOTEL, A. KOHLBECKER, H TRAVELERS reile the 1 t plate U »t al [FIRST NATIONAL HOTEL MILLHEIN, CESTREEOOUNTY. PA S. 7. Frain, Proprietor, RATES—$1 00 PER DAY. FPOT MEETING ALL TRAINS IVERY ATTACHED. Hotel has ely A GOOD 1 This H been remodeled HWincellanecous, Swayne's Pills— Comforting to Sick. ™ from neglet treat B pepsin, Malaria Ap - Henry Disenses, Dr pry, and But to the debilitated burd ' fonstit PIexyY kness. we d “SWAYNE'S PILLS, vy 0 nal pre Pe | conscient url periies remedy | Sent } Ve 3 pi pili Address, LERS IN PURE DRUGS ONLY ZELLER & SON, PRUGGISNTS, No 6 Brockerbof Row Patent Medicines Pre Family Recipes socurately Tramwes Shoulder Braces eo. Ae dar he Standard » and LAMAN AANTA PRITAM Y ARTIC, ONLY $20. ADELPHIA SINGER Is the BEST BUILT, FINEST FINISHED, EASIEST RUNN.IG | SINGER MACHINE ever offered the public, The above cut represents the most jogmlor oly the people which we offer you for the very low 3 of $2 Remember, we do not ask you to pay we have seen (he machine. After having exami i It je pot all wo represol, refute i 50 ue at on expense, Consul your interests and order at send for circulars and testimonials. Agdrem CHARLES A, WOOD & v Ea 17K Tenth #., Philadelphin, I's proving, culture and managem ot of fruits of aft kind | and f over 70 pages. wit! an Maminated cover elegantly printed and smbellioo od with hundreds of Snprati and several colored patos true of nature on with colored plates. cts without p lates, B, ote wwwhich bs but a pact of the com, Everybody at all : Toterontad in culture should send to J. T, Lovett Little Silver, New Joreay, and gota copy. ———— ETI DERES = ———— TARDWARE,! WILSON Mec FARLANE & CO. DEALERS IN STOVES, RANGES » HEATERS. we ALSO - Paints, Oils, Glass and Varnishes, fom AND A2ILWARE fmprryial descriptions of a | worthy varieties, It | we ol
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers