— 8X MILLION MILES OF FENCE. Costing %2,000,000,000--A Brief History of Fence-Bullding, [Augusta te.) Cor. Boston Herald, ] According to the best estimates, there are 6,000,000 miles of farm fences in the United States, costing over $2,000,000, OO, cost more than the huildings standing on it, and that, wo, where lamber is abund- ait and cheap. The amount of labor and morey consumed annually in building and repairing fences —few are aware of it much taken from the product fve interests of the eountry Poth law and custom prescribe fencing It is an anc.ent tradition lenies in Massachusetts rst fencing known in They were erected to protect planted ere p: against damages from crea tures going ut large. It was said before a ~{8 (USL 8 Kave us ALT ers club at New York, in country were farmers in this under the system of fences; under the no tion that a man {8 bound to protect property by fencing out the world, that the law bas no power, and that there is no general ros ect for the right of prop. erty. but that you must fence out all in truders and guard your wails and {ences It is ail founded on fiction. does protect a maa’s property estate aud products are whether fence or unfenced, they under protection of the law. In continua tion of this matter the correspondent says that most New England farms are nclosed with fences—straight, erooked, and irregular—good, bad, and indifferent Most farms $0 subdivided as to resem le a checker board, Everything scems to be fenced. The fences are The law His real its his, and ol our re We rall fence is tue pioneer; then the log fence, stone wall, stump fence, pitch pole | fence, worm fence, and the post and rail ence, Not less than four feet in height con. | stitutes the the ma.n setts, and * alne fence are the f large most ell would last lawful fence. Stone wall is fence in Maine and Massachu- perhaps in (onnecticut also has the rail and the and the bush fence Rail cheapest. The roots and trees, set up also. board edgewise, make feuces. The stone forever, if it were well and care. ully laid fn the first place and the frost did not play havoc with it commonly built, the stone wall will keep out all kinds of stock except sheep, is insisted that stones could be cheaply disposed of than by wall form. ective A Novel Speculation. New Yer: Sur “I have a memorial here which I wou'd like to sell you. ” sald a peddler toa lady whose door bell he had rung in Brooklyn. He held up an engraved memorial sur rounded by a cheap frame the lady, who had died a few weeks be fore “How did you know I had lost & child?” she asked. “Oh, I saw it in the papers ” reply. “That is where we got the age and other information required. ” “It's a good thing, ” said the man to a reporter. “We look over all the news papers and cut out the notices of the deaths of children. After two weeks, when we think that the we get up a memorial and take it around It is solely on our own responsibility that selling. when we approach them, but as a general thing they buy. We sell them at § apiece, to be paid for at the cents a week. Now, between you and myself, they cost us about £1 each ” The Traffic in Church Living London | etter The traffic in livings still goes on in Fugland. The presentation to the rectory of Crayford, with well timbered pleas ure grounds and a net income of nearly $5,000, can be had for $42,700, Yald ing, near Maidstone, yields $11,000, and is quoted at $60,000, “subiect to the life of the incumbent, in his Nist year." For a $7,000 living in Yorkshire £73.000 is asked, but there is “a prospect of | mediate possession”"—{ ¢ the ciergyman who was put in to keep the place warm is dying. In Lincolnshire there is a living for sale, the income from which is small, but there are “beautiful grounds, with vioerfes, orchard melon house, kennel room fo: ten dogs, a church in perfect and, above all, “perfect inde pende rpiscopal jur sdiction, the benefice a donative " The living, it is added would suit a gentleman wishing to com bine the positions of squire aad parson. eight Protection Against Lightning. E (hea 1 It is said that three or four pe or unpainted, and laid upon one another are utterly impervious to lightning substance, whether liquid or solid. how ever combustible, inlammable, or ex. osive, that is protected by a covering of this material, can possibly suffer in any wise from lightning or from any acc wental spark or Jet of flame from without, An Arithmetieal Experiment, Fxchange. } Take a «'ip of paper and place thereon, n figures, your age in years months, weeks and days sum by two, then add to the result ob tained the figures 8,768; add two, and then divide by two. Subtract from the Multiply the result obtained the number of your years | on earth, and sce if you do not obtain figures you will not be likely to forget Legoand of the Tea Mant. The ancient Chinese legend relating to the origin of the tea plans tells us that the first teabush sprang up from the spot where Confucius had thrown his eye lids, which he bad cut off in anger because sleep had overtaken him when he had vowed to keep awake. A 100. Yeur-(d Apple Tree [Exchange | On the ater homestead at Brunswick, N. Y., is an apjle tree which is believed 10 be 100 years old. It is nine feet in ofr. cum. erence, and has been known to bear thirty bushels of apples in a season. A Thousand Feet ee " During all seasons of the year, it fq vald, the earth at Yakutsk, Siberia, is frozen from the depth of fifty feet to that of about 1,000 feet The I vintug Red. The divining rod, sometimes used by well diggers, and at an Surly doy by oil proprietors, dates back to the eleventh century, Whitehall Thues: Original ideas are the lighthouses on the sea of journalism. It is the man whq has the most proj erty that Las the greatest will power, | customers, 4 In many states the fences on a farvi | The Plymouiki | the | this country in | his | of the property, | and by bringing ft property with le | | make the | almost as | varied as they are abundant, The \ irgiods | fences stumps | wall | As | It bad been | gotten up in memory of a little child of | was the or three | grief of the parents has passed over somewhat | ¢ J | illustrated in a we do it, and we must run the risk of not i Sometimes people are indignant | rate of 50 | printer was entirely justified | Judea and India, without { and which is "tother snd | or | repair, ” { dynamite against obstacles. thicknesses | f common wire mus juito netting, painted | No | | sort of thing dropping | To Recover Lost Property, INew York Sun.) “Tow fa it that Tiffany & Co. so often advertise rewards for the return of stolen | property” wus asked of a member of the | firm, “Wado it for the he replied. “They want to have all kinds of people runniog to their houses, authorize us to pay a certain reward is impossible to deceive tution of paste for real dinmonds, and we cannot be deceived into taking a fraudu- leut art cle of any Kind, When the lost article is brought in we examine it to find if it is all right, and if so, we pay the re ward without asking a question, is possible that thieves this, and have little fear We and in nearly every instance we have re covered the property. The ward is one quarter of the intriosic value That is as much as the could hope to sell it for, to us he avoids the danger of getting into trouble. If less is offered, or if the loser wuits too lon, there is very little chance of recovering lost property. The finder may watch for thief or finder | & reward for three days, but after that he | considers it | thief, he pawns it or melts it up ‘findivgs-—keepings.' If a "Oeeastonally respectable pe wile find a valuable artic'e of jewelry, and we adver tise for the owner, and when he make him describe the article fully before we surreader it. meuse amount of property is year ia New York, and much never recovered becausg the lose Very care An im of it Is I's do not roper e¢llorts to do so." Filthiness of Tmportel Va » Washington Cor, (eveland Leader Great quantities of rags are shipped to the United States from all parts world for making paper, and are sen! from the seaboard to the va rious paper mills through \ The annual importation 530,000 bales Each ba'e 400 to 1,200 pounds of tightly pressed together, tus country securely bound for shi; ping You can have no bles of the sources from which thess rass obtained. A large amount of them come from Japan, aod thousands of bales from Caleutia of the The ¥ are used ut the cou mounts to about contains fr rags. They and come into in unre are They rom the The bodies of nver i oat or they are bat The Calcutta rags are the worst are made up in a large part f zs of dead bodies dead are thrown when these otherwise wran:i raj in the into be rags gotten ipped here for the paper trade mes impuri ties of different Kinds « reep into the bales In one bale not a long time a dead baby was found, and in other bales other foul matter has been discovered The Egyptian rags are largely tainted with camel's manure; and those gathered from the gutters and streets of Shanghai are foul beyond dese ription. A great can mel RC | amount of rags comes from Japan to us I think there are more now on the way, Some of the mgs sent to this country come from ; which infectious diseases than 40,000 bales are raging, and it is a fact worth noticing that all of the | | which small-pox | vessels arriving here in convenience of our | don't | They bring a description | | of the lost or stolen properly to us and It | us hy the substi. | It kuow | of | | detection in dealing with us, although®we | | never advertise ‘no questions asked, 3 ‘ % . | have offered rewards of from 4 to $1,000, | meeting of the American Institute Farm. | 1859, that the | average re- | educated | s comes we a lost every | and | districts in | has broken out have been vessels carry ing | rags Careless In Penmanship, Chicago Journal ) The importance when writing for publication was recently magazine in London In a clergyman’s letter from Asia, he meant to write the “people of Judea, ™ but the printer made it “the people of India * ‘he manuscript was submitted to an ex pert chirographist, who decided that the The « lergy n, bad an Iin wml of a ide whether the next intended for much man's “Judea, " as stead of a J, ann inst was impossible to de to the last letter was an i, it being as other I cople who write carelessly and tinctly, when writing for writle an e or like one as the indis 1 » Fin, in the ied ” im le of writing distinctly | u, and it | publicatic have nobody but themselves to bilan ! are made persons or pla es. when mistakes g names of in is usually wonderfully expert in decipher ing bad writing, but he miracles AS an ex reader bastily write d can not perform eriment, the wn the dotting the i submit ft let the latter, and then pany of frieads to de fon com cide “which is which - * Dynamite Guunery, Gath’ In Cincinnati ¥ Col. Gabe Wharton tol ago that he bad made fens printing | The printer | words | of | inew and valuable berry originate | Samuel Miller of Bluffion, Montg I me afew days | an excursion to | Bandy Hook to see some of the guns firing | He sad “It is a singular fact that they are dig ging up the old smooth bore pi half buried in the sand, and using this new kind of guonery will not do 10 fire dynamite COrs shells from Consequently our old smooth bore pleces | ucst Are ALAIN 10 TE Said 1 “Io the ofc Hook FRY thoy have got giycerine gunn iy point?” “No, they do not claim do claim that they are very much encour aged. and they think that in a little while to come they will be able to demolish any passing of this dyvamite and down to a perfect that, but they ACToss Lhe Lars New York. * Testing Rallroad Emjloyes Taograr gw har to an observer. The men are marched into the armory one at a time, and are first examined on the strength of the eve sight by reading letters and figures. This is quite dient. The matter of telling colors is tested by showing the candidate a skein of yarn either red. green, or pink, and then after be has told which it is, he is told to pick a number of skeins from a bundle of various colors which will at sll resemble the color first named. To pick out all the shades that may be found in the bunch is no small task, and very few of the candidates pick them all” out There are no very glaring mistakes made by the boys The hearing is tested as well as the sight, New Sot of Peach. Ame jean Grocer We this week saw a curiosity in the shape of a peach from a plantation in Alachua county, Florida In form it is to the peach species what the mandarin is to the orange spe: cles, viz: Slightly flattened at the ends, and the pit partakes of the form of the fruit. It is produced by grafting the peach on to a mandarin orange stump, It is known locally as the pinto, and we see no reason why it should uot become very popular as an ora mental table fruit at this season. the ship ping qualities being nearly perfect Chicugo Ledger: Energy and a hoy dig. glog fish bait both mean about the sans lag. - yen. them for | Hitted cannon | “andy | | what {among | rottening. | originator of this berry is i Ur le | of the evstem will f Only Temperance Bitters Known, purges the blood of dev pasented discance, Milllons bear testimony to its won. derful curative effects, It In nn purely Vegetable Preparation, made from the native herbs and roots of California, o medicinal properties of which are extracted herefrom without the use of Alcohol It removes the eanse of disease, and the tent recovers his health, It in the great Blood Purifier and if ing Principle; a8 Gentic Purgstiva snd Tonle; a perfect Ronovator and Bvieoretos of the system, world has a medicine been compounded possessing the power of Vixroaan Birrens in bealing the sick of every disease man is helr to, ‘The Alternative, Aperient, Disphoretie, Car minative, Nutritious, Laxstive, Redative, Counter- tant, Sadorific, Auntl-Bi , Bolvent, Diuret Tonle propertios of Vixroarn Birrens ex- X those of guy other medicine in the world No person can take the Bivrens according to directions sud remain jong snwell, provided their hones are not destroyed hy ininersl poiron snd the vital organs wasied ut of repair, HRemitient, Intermittent apd Ma. are prevalent throughout the United ton, particularly in the valleys of our grest w And thelr vast tribttaries daring the Summer | Antumn, especially daring seascus of unusual if and dryness, beyond the Billous, tarial Poves ns nied by ul, 8 purg upon th exerting 80 Organs, is abe. lately necessury There is no eathartie f ‘ to Dre. 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Warxm : wpeodily r or the purpose an Birreas rod y thine stimuiat the secret) nd poy re } me of 1 ver, toring the healthy functions of reslive OTERns, Fortify the body ami fring all its faids with Viszoean Biry ‘ y take hold of 8 svetom thas for 4 It invigorates the Stomach and stim. tintes the torpid Liver and Bowls, cleansing the blood of all impurities, imparting life and vigor to the frame, and carrying off without the 1 of Calomel, or other minerals, a | pois nots r from the system. | adminis. prompt Ig action, and certain in its rt lees is easy of salts, Byspepsin or Indigestion, Teadache, 1i0 in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tighiness of the neumonia, Dizziness, Bad Taste in the Billous Attacks, Palpitation of the nd a hundred other painful symptoms, o at once relieved by Vispoan Breresa For Inflammatory and Chronie Rheam. m, Gout, Neurigia, Discases of the Bi Kidneys and Biadder, the Bitters have i In these, as in all constitutional Dis Warxen's Vissoan Brrrens has shown it ative powers in the most obstinats ntracta * Canes Mechanical Diseases. Persons engaged | ou advance in life, Bowels. To guard against this, take cocasional wes of Vipoan Birrrens Skin Diseases, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, cor, Bwellings, Pimples, Pustules, Bolle, Care whew, Ring worms, Seald-head i toh, Scurfs, Discolorstions, Humors 8 of the Ekin, of whatever name or : iy dug up and carried out of 1 in a short time by the use of the are subject to Paralysis of the Bare SL + [tera Tape and other Worms, lurking siete of so many thousands are mils ' and removed. No system of medicine, vermif no anthelmintios he syslean [row worms like Vispoan Ion Brera Mennies, Scarlet Fever, Mumps, Whoop wt Cough, and all children's disesses may made bss severe by keeping the bowels open with mild doses of the ryote For Female Complaints, in young or I, married or single, at the dawn of woman t tra of lle, this Bitters has no ual Cleanse the Vitiated Riood when its fvpurtties ot through the skin in Eruptions or Sores: ¢ hen obetructed and rish in t #: clean t when it Is foul ir be o sie ¥ , and the bealth In conclusion Bitters a trial will speak for itesif woitle js a hettor rane of its roerits than a lengthy advertise nent Around each bottle are full priuted in different la directions FUKLes R. HM. MePDonnld Prug Co Ban Francisco Jand 0% 50 kb Cor, Chariton SL, New } » Sold by all Dealers and Druggists, Cal —~Jaxnes Vick This d with STRAWHERRIES 4 Mery county, Missouri. : » tracted attention ness and Ld Hansell raspberries, the { kno vn to stand on the ] | after becoming 1 pe, wi itis not on for family use bat for a meas | stands pre-eminently at the head, well known A . las a horticulturist, having originated The work of examining the Panhandle | £ | employes on color-blindness is interesting | the Martha Grape and other fruits of He has ne which hae not taken rank and held he great value, ver sent ont ¥ new variety ie it, allowed the pla ain the front and the fact that has {any part of the Ix { yous, F No other medicine known so effectually | trated. ¥ rut Th | Home and Social Circle no Jonge | for You, ar Never before in the history of the | A PLAIN ROAD TO HEALTH, Read the Sworn Testimony and Satis. fy Yourself. THE HOW ARD GALVANIC SHIELD 0 made ths Liver, Bt This is the only an directly to the Kidoey dy It during the day by either Man, Won If your ave Weak. Languid, Trritalile rgetful Unsocial, with ; tient your Energies can no | ughts Clou can be Cannes tiger be Concentra fed sud Disconnected, that | tr Have any harms d that Hope is sinus gous Bhivld » \ f t effect Ih The Howard | erably certify that ® al j WE Bans nie atta Sworn aod rubseribed 1885, Iayfase 3 of Commim ° Te iMin county, Pa PARALYSIS AND CONSTIPATION Mily Pa., May ta plesstire as we them | a D. M. CONTNER NERVOUS PROSTRATION AND BLEEFLESSNY u Ww P Gentieman I take plessure althost every k "En retRedy we known that the Howard | Ehield entirely ¢ Ia Aas tend w od) ar ave i ) “r drateful t som tad y refer & we 8 * Your treats : teelves w is as rogue { the ever feel 8 have por rib y { every su AUG. F FELLERNMAN ro me, Aug. ¥. Ellerman the above lot or ¢ Howsr Bw nally sppesred | me known deprses and swears that ne alive powers f 1 L pineal Appliances is (rae ny THEY t+ of Pople is AMERICAN GALV ANIC CO, tL Street | a. ns BRANCH OFFICE, MILROY, PA Penn Roller Mills FARMERS MILLS, PA | LM | IN { MPILETH RUNNING ORDER, PREPARED TO CHANGE FLOUR FOR WHEAT cHory FOR} FLOUR AND FEED ALWAYS ON THE MILL 18 FITTED UP WITH A AND COMPLETE LINE THE NU WILL BL DOSE AS ne HAND, FUL OF CELEe BRATED James Vick to come before the public | s on» of his seedlings is of itself evi- dence of its exeellence, The valuable qualities of this new strawberry may be summed up as fol lows: lst Fine qualily of fruit, vigor and hermaphrodite (or perfect ) blossoms ; 2d, Color, form and firmness great of berry ; 3rd, Ability to remain on the | time without to injury ; stand drought ; 5th vines a long ith, Ability Uniformity of size of fruit, which aver ages large; Oth The rapidity with which it forms newasets; 7th. The glossy and beautiful appearance of the folinge, retaining ite verdure until very late in the fall, making it one of the finest border plants for lower beds that ean be obtained ; 8th, enormous produe- tiveness ; all these qualities uniting to make it the most valuable market ber. ry which has ever been produced, Grown and For Sale by Tun C. L. VaxDusex Nowsgey BB, Geneva, N. Y, Agents wanted ! Permanent positions on salary, and expenses paid, i : 41L18’ ROLLY, AND HAS ALL THE MODERN IM. PROVEMETS KNOWN IN THE ROLLER | PROCESS. THE QUALITY OF FLOUR GUARANTEED RQUAL TO ANY MADE] IN THE COUNTRY. | THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FoR ALL KINDS OF GRAIN vTu20 J. B. FISHER. p10 H Hi Rt, | is Manufacturers ORNAMENTAL v . oye : . Fencings, Railings, Crestings. The mt desirats's designs made from weought and ma lirable iron, and to conform artistionlly to grades nit ond on, round or square corners, Our patents | Cover the mow practical dinstaents for expansion and sovtraction, Alwe, Masufactares of Nellie’ Seif | tocking Fence Post, (for either bark wire orn my Ne tin’ Origins) Harpoon Horse Hay Porke, Geapples, Palless Ae, Little Glant Riding Plows: Nellis’ EL | ectrie Fpring Too bh Floating arrows and Combitied Harrow wid Besdons Spring Tooth Corn Caltievators Balance Horse Huy Rakes, Bond fevelors, Walking Riding & Combined Corn Caltivatons, Post Aigo | and Dlagers, Age’) Steels. be, The alive goods an Band and sasde 19 or Jeg by A. 1. Kelli Oampany- Pittsburg, Pa | T —AT THE— Job Qffice CHEAPLY, NEATLY AND WITH BISPATEH. Now is th? Time to Subscribe "CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” he LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper in. Bellefonte. ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. OFFICE: HARRIS' NEW BRICK ‘BLOCK. BELLEFONTE, I"),
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