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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Miscellany.
BabyIon's Hanging Gardens. /.

Our pretty hanging baskets, with
their suspension wires completely
draped in delicate climbing ivies and
standing mosses, with their masses oi
beautiful trailing plaats, their dropping
grasses, vincas, mimosas, musk-scented
and covered with brilliant golden flow.
ers, though liliputian in size, are liter.
ally hanging gardens. But even should
they be made a million times larger,
their plan is SO utterly different that
they could never suggest the faintest
notion of the hanging gardens of Baby
lon, about the very name of which
there is a ring of poetic grandeur and a
flavor of oriental magnifcence. They
were literally paradises, for though our
word is from the Greek pdrddiesos, the
Greeks borrowed it from Persia, where
to this day the rich satraps rejoice in
their paradises or pleasure gardens.
Xenophon mentions those of Belesis,
governor of Syria and such as he be-
held them, apparently, We find them
described by Chardin and other modern
travellers. The hanging gardens OF
Babylon were simply a very costly
variety of the paradise, such only as
princely wealth could afford. Their
origin is attributed to Semiramis by
some; others say that they were in
vented by king of Syria to charm the
melancholy of one of his wives of Per-
sian origin, who sighed to behold again
the verdant mountains of her native
land. Strebo and Diodorous SECULAR
have written about these famous hang
ing gardens, Philo of Byzantium-if,
indeed, he is the author of the treatise
on the seven wonders of the world, by
some attributed to him-and many
others.
They were called hanging gardens,
doubtless because of the huge branch
ing palms and other trees, overhanging
the balustrade on the summit of the
high walls that enclosed the paradise.
These walls were about one hundred
and thirty yards long on each of the four
sides, twenty-five feet thick, and fifty
cubits high, or over ninety-one feet
according to the Hebrew cubit. The
terraces were upheld by immensely
strong galleries, whose ceilings were
formed by hewn stones sixteen feet
long and four wide Resting on these
stones was layer of reeds, mixed with
a great quantity of asphalt, and on this
was floor of fre-dried bricks laid in
mortar finally, floor of lead plates to
prevent any moisture from penetrating
the foundation of the terraces, the soil
of which rested upon the leaden floor,
and was of sufficient depth to hold and
nourish trees of fifty feet high, and
thousands of rare plants culled from all
parts of the known world. ALI these
were kept in a perennially hOurishing
condition, we are informed, by water
raised from the Euphrates through the
aid of machinery concealed from view
in certain rooms made in the galleries.
The galleries, also, contained many
royal apartments, variously decorated
and furnished. Decently lighted, they
could not have been; but one can easily
imagine that walk around those upper
terraces on q fine moonlight night, the
senses charmed by soft music, and by
waves of perfume rising from the will
derness of flowers and shrubs below,
must have been enchanting.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
French Dreams Of Royalty.

Under the old French Monarchy the
title of "Dauphin" was borne by the
eldest son Of the King in the latter
years of Louis XIV. it was borne by his
grandson, afterwards the unfortunate
Louis XVI. The title was originally
that of the sovereign lords of the
province of Dauphine, which, in the
middle of the fourteenth century, was
presented to France by the last of these
lords on condition that the heir appa-
rent to the throne should be called
Dauphin of Vienne, and actually govern
the province. Almost sovereign powers
were exercised by the Daupsiu at first,
but gradually his title became one of
honor only. Originally it was derived
from the lords of the soil having the
figure of dolphin for their crest, the
name of which was gradually transferred
to the province. The Count de Cham
bord, who, because his grandfather was
King of France, claims the crown as a
right, wholly ignoring the fact that the
French people ought to be permitted to
choose their own sovereign if the Mon
archy is restored, is childless, but, now
that the Count de Paris has acknowl-
edged him as head of the Bourbon line,
returns the compliment of writing to
him as "Dauphin"-that is, one pre-
tender to the crown of France gives to
another title which belongs only to
the heir of that crown. At tho same
time that crown is but shadow of the
past. The throne which it symbolizes
is in the dust. De. Paris addresses
De Chambord as "your Majesty" and,
in return, the Bourbon addresses the
Orleans pretender as "My dear Dau-
phin." They settled everything between
them. De Chambord as King and De
Paris, the heir-presumptive, as Dauphin,
may sound very well, but the will of
France stands like an inaccessible
brazen wall between these gentlemen
and the realization of their dream of
ROYALTY.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
MIFFLINTOWN,

But, despite what some allege of her
humility, ostentation and a love OF
splendor are said by others to have been
among her weaknesses but such are
pardonable enough in beautiful wo-
man.
At court she appeared in all the state
of a royal princess. Her apartments
were more extensively decorated with
hangings of silk and taffeta, with furnI-
ture and tapestries, than those of the
Queen, Mary OF Anjou. She had a
larger and more splendid retinue of
servants than her royal mistress, and
had quite as much reverence shown her.
Her couches, her linen, her vessels of
gold and silver, her rings and other
jewelry, all surpassed in beauty and in
value those of the Queen. Even her
kitchen surpassed that of the neglected
wife; '.for with this woman, called
Agnes, whom have seen and known,
says the author of the 'Chronique des
Dues de Bourgogne," ''the King was
terribly besotted.-'
Her robes were more costly and LeI
trains were longer than those worn by
any of the royal princesses and it was
remembered that to show the extreme
fairness of her skin and beautiful con-
tour of her bust, she had all her dresses
more decOiletees, or cut lower in front,
than had ever been the custom at the
Court of France.
In some burst of temper, Agnes had
been accused of having SO arrogantly
disregarded the feelings of the Queen
that she was struck on the mouth by
the son of the latter, the Dauphin,
afterwards the cruel, subtle, and savage
Louis XL., in whose whole character
was but one undeniably redeeming
point-a love for his mother, with
tender reverence for her memory.
Agnes died in the year 1450, as many
historians have affirmed, of poison, a
common suspicion in those days, and
for long after De Mezerai states the
broadly and clearly, that
when the King was at Jumieges, four.
teen miles from Rouen, where there
was then vast and famous abbey con-
tanning no less than two thousand four
hundred monks and lay brethren, "they
q. G., the courtiers) poisoned his dear
Agnes de Soreau, without whom he
could not live one moment"
1t is stated that Francis l., who lived
about century after her, believed in
the gentleness and patriotism of "the
Lady of Beauty" as she was named,
and, finding picture of her among
others, he wrote the following lines
under it
'Gentille Agnes. plu- f'honneur tn merites
La cause etant de France recouyree,
Que ce que peut dams un cloitre ouvrer
Close nOnnain. GU bieu devote hermite" i
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Enthusiasm Necessary TO Success.

In his "Getting on in the World,
Professor Matthews says there was
never, probably, q time in the world s
history when high success in any pro-
fession demanded harder or more IN
cessant labor than now. Men can no
longer go at one leap into eminent
position. The world, as Emerson says,
is no longer clay, but rather iron in the
hands of its workers, and men have got
to hammer out place for themselves
by steady and rugged blows. Above
all, deep and burning enthusiasm is
wanted in every one who would achieve
great ends. No great thing is or can
be done without it. 1t is quality that
is seen wherever there are earnest and
determined workers-in the silence of
the study, and amid the roar of cannon ;
in the painting of a picture, and In the
carving of statue. Ability, learning,
accomplishment, opportunity, all are
well; but they do not, of themselves,
insure success. Thousands have all
these, and live and die without benefit
ing themselves or others. Men, on the
other hand, of mediocre talents, often
scale the dizzy steps OF excellence and
fame because they have firm faith and
high resolve. It is this solid faith IN
ones mission-the rooted belief that it
is the one thing to which he has been
called-this enthusiasm, attracting an
Agassiz to the Alps or Amazon. impel-
ling Pliny to explore the volcano In
which he is to lose his life, and nerving
Q vernet, when tossing in fierce tenn
pest, to sketch the waste OF waters, and
even the wave that is leaping to devour
him,-that marks the heroic spirit and
wherever it is found, success. sooner or
Later, is almost inevitable.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
The Market for Old Clothes in
Paris.

G. @. Fulton writes from Paris to the
Baltimore american This is called
the Marche du Vieux Linge. 1t is a
market for old clothes and stuffs, shoes
and tools, and is q very extensive affair.
1t is about seven hundred feet long by
two hundred feet broad, buil} in iron
pavilions, and contains two thousand
four hundred places for dealers, each of
about thirteen square feet, and each
and all these stalls are filled with deal
ers, from which some idea can be OBJ
tanned of the scene here presented.
This was built as a speculation, the city
granting the contractor the right to
build it and receive the rents for fifty
years, at the same time paying the city
two hundred thousand francs perannum,
and the whole to revert to the city at
the expiration of fifty years. 1t cost
the contractor three million five hun
dred thousand francs. The new stalls
set up for the dealers are so elegant,
and the articles offered for sale so Gle
verify renovated" that the visitor can
scarcely believe himself to be in an ''old
clothes" mart. 1t has been a very sue
cessful speculation and the poor man
Noh hSAO R2oSuAC NCIy
outfit for a very small outlay. These
dealers are constantly on the lookout for
the contents of rubbish rooms, old
clothes, and all the odds and ends that
accumulate in an easy living household.
The space occupied by this structure is
two entire blocks, the street passing
through it being rooted over with iron,
glass and zinc. 1t is a very elegant
structure, built on the moIel of the
Grand Central market, entirely of iron.
The roof is about forty feet high, with
a greater elevation in the centre, where
there is an immense open gallery,
reached by two flights of iron stairs.
Seeing that there was crowd of people
up there, we ascended, and found a
doorkeeper, who required one sou ad-
mission. This proved to be place for
the sale of old clothes too far gone for
renovation, and the articles were piled
up in lines along the floor, through
which the purchasers, to the number
probably of a thousand, were circulat-
ing. Both buyer and seller pays one
sou admission, which defrays the eI-
pense of this branch of the establish
ment. Musty-looking old shoes by the
cart load were here, shocking old hats
and all manner of woman's apparel. |
They were doing an extensive business,
however, and during our ramble we
were frequently invited to purchase
some threadbare garment, from which
it may be judged how shabby the Eu-
ropean traveller gets in his outward ap-
pearance by the time he reaches Paris. |
The goods DISPLAYED in the two thou |
sand four hundred stalls below looked
as bright and new, almost, as the dis
play in the windows on the boulevards,
though many of them were slightly out
of fashion" ...
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Mrs. Browning's Greatest Poe m

am disposed to consider the "Son-
nets from the Portuguese" as, if not the
finest, a portion of the finest subjective
poetry in our literature. Their form
reminds US of an English prototype,
and it is no sacrilege to say that their
music is showered from a higher and
purer atmosphere thar that of the
Swan of Avon. We need rot enter
upon cold comparison of their respec-
tive excellences; but Shakespeare per-
sonal poems were the overflow of his
impetuous youth his broader vision,
that took q world within its ken, was
absolutely objective; while Mrs. Brown
ing's Love Sonnets are the outpourings
of woman's tenderes. emotions, at an
epo n when her art was most mature,
and her whole nature exalted by pas
sion that to such being comes but for
once and all. Here, indeed, the singer
rose to her height. Here she is alb
sorbed in rapturOus utterance, radiant
and triumphant with her own Joy. The
mists have risen and her sight is clear.
Her mouthing and affectation are for
gotten, her lips cease to stammer, the
lyrical spirit has full control. The SON.
net, artificial in weaker hands, becomes
swift with feeling, red with ''veined
humanity" the chosen vehicle of a
royal woman's VOWS. Graces, felicities,
vigor, glory of speech, here are SO crow
ded as to tread each upon the other s
sceptered pail. The first sonnet, equal
to any in our tongue, is an overture
containing the motive of the canticle
mot Death, but Love" had seized
her unaware. The growth of this hap
piness, her worship of its bringer, her
doubts of her own worthiness, are the
theme of these poems. She is in q
sweet and, to us, pathetic surprise at
the delight which at last had fallen to
her:
"The wonder was not yet quite gone
From that still look Of hers."
Never was man or minstrel so honored
as her ''most gracious singer of high
poems" In the tremor of her love she
undervalued herself, with all her fee
bleness of body, it was enough for any
man to live within the atmosphere of
such a fool In fine, the Portuguese
Sonnets, whose title was a screen be-
hind which the singer poured out her
full heart, are the most exquisite poetry
hitherto written by a woman. and Of
themselves justify us in pronouncing
their author the greatest of her SEX
on the ground that (the highest mission
of female poet is the expression of
love), and that no other woman, ap-
preaching her in genius. has essayed
the ultimate form Of that expression.
An analogy with I'm Memoriam," may
be derived from their arrangement and
their presentation Of q single analytic
theme; but Tennyson's poem.-though
exhibiting equal art, more subtitle rea-
soning and comprehensive thought, lis
devoted to the analysis Of philosophic
Grief, while the Sonnets reveal to us
that Love which is the most ecstatic OF
human emotions and worth all other
gifts in ife.-Scribner's Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17

A Leavenworth photographer has
been explaining the altogether-too-elab-
orate way in which he procured q
spirit photograph. He says he first
took q picture of Mr.. Harris, and painted
his whiskers out. Then he cut the face
out of a lady's photograph and pasted
Harris face in. He made o negative
from this, and then transparent posi-
tive. He next held this positive before
Q sensitized plate in Q dark room and
the ghost-picture was made.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Sunset.

We call material this fair world Of ours,
And 50 it seems to gross, material eyes,
That see no beauty In Earth's forest aowers,
No heavenly splendors in her sunset skies.
But are there not, in yonder gorgeous scene,
A beauty and 8 grandeur rot Of earthf
A glory breaking from yon cloudy screen
Revealing to the soul its nobler birthi
Csn things material such fair forms assume,
And thus delight and charm the human mindr
Or doth the Spirit with its rays illums
Their inmost depths, from matter now refined,
That man may thus with its communion hold,
And learn Of higher things than sense has told ,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Death from q Yellow Jackets
sting.

A daughter of Geo. Murphy, of
Vienna, Scott county. Ind, was eating
some apple-butter, when yellow jacket
alighted upon it and was inadvertently
swallowed. The insect stung her in
the throat, which at once commenced
swelling, and in less than an hour was
completely closed, causing her death by
suffocation.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17

The Indianapolis Journal says: "As
an instance of the increasing value OF
walnut lumber we note that the stand
ing walnut trees on q half section OF
land on Eel river, in Miami county, was
recently sold to q lumber dealer for
ST. 600. There is large amount OF
other timber on the tract which is not
included, only the walnut timber being
aold."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
CRoss-xoRp ESIdMA.-

CROSSWORD ENIGMA.-
Ny first is in skein but not In silk.
NY second is in water but not in milk ;
MY third is in noun but not in verb,
NV fourth is in stock but not in herb
Ny fifth is in sad but not in pity,
NY sixth is in song but not in ditty;
Ny whole is the name of a very large
city.
1,s,,e- .-Eauaoa
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17

A citizen of Danville, Va, recently
bequeathed $1,000 each to five churches
of different denominations, Of none OF
which he was q member.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Youths Column.
To Whom IL May Concern.

Il won't stay at home till I'm faded and gray;
will see the world. declarel"
And the mouse stuck his tail in q desperate wsy
through the hole at the foot CT the stair
Ny father and mother can travel about
But must stay here till die
They say I'm too simple-too small to go out.
And think they are wiser than l.
I'll show them If can be trusted or no
III m not as cunning as they
The things they call cats will not find me slow
But can keep out Of their way.
81 sha'n't lose my breath. a. my mother has done.
Nor my tail. as my grandfather did
Ine trui d IS, they re getting too old for run,
While i am Is spry kid"
So he twisted about with his stiff little tail
Ii ] IL stuck where his head was before
Then started to walk TO the old kitchen pail,
That stood Oh the bright yellow door.
Twas quite excursion. the traveller thought,
As he cautiously ventured ahead
"How silly :" he murmured mice are to be caught
Who should do the catching instead
Let the things they call cats bother If they dare
III carry them home for my tea ~
And the mouse looked about with confident air
For the creatures he thought taen to be.
That gray furry mass y ing there in the sun
Was mountain, without any doubt
He never imagined the thing could be ono
VI the cats he'd been cautioned about.
So he walked to its side in q critical way
As soft as itself and as bold;
When svoopl went paw in his jacket OF gray,
And-well, what remains to be toldy
The old parent mice came home early that night
And passed the old cat on their way:
Her jaws were all bloody, and close at her right
Lay the last final end of the poor little mite
Who thought himself wiser than they.
-Ltffts Corn
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
A CHRISTMAS STORY.

1t was Christ
mas eve. 1t had
taken the Earth
the entire day to
array herself for
the coming fes-
tivities; and now,
IS the last fin
isfiing touch had
been added and
she had nothing
10 do but fold
Ter hands and
ook pretty, she
iound her party
tress very cold,
and shivered
again and again
Us the needless
Night Wind went
whis Ting by,
leaving all the
d oors open.
Earth was very
beautiful this eve
in her soft white
drapery. and her
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17

CRooKs.-"Well, boys, busy as bees
this bright Saturday afternoon, see, u
said MIR. Atkins, or ''Uncle Bill" as all
the boys called him. "What are you
all about ?" he went on as he threw
himself on the grass beside them.
"1'm trying to make mast for my
ship" said Johnny, who was whiting
at a knotty stick, ''but the old thing is
SO crooked that 1 shall never get a
straight mast out of it.
'1'm afraid not, indeed. But what
are you at, Ned ?"
81 was going to make a telegraph,
sir, but the wire is so full of kinks, and
they are so hard, L can't get them out. u
'Look heIe, boys!' y cried Jim, COM
ing from the house, where he had gone
for pitcher of water "isn't this Just
the queerest old pitcher you ever saw
1t looks as though it were making faces
at you"
Sure enough, the handle was put on
all awry, and the mouth was twisted,
Gas if it had been eating persimmons,
Johnny said.
"Ah, boys ~ said Uncle Bill, stake
care of the crooks before they get in so
hard. Johnny's stick was once tender
twig that you could bend any way, and
now you can't get the crooks off without
splitting it all up. Jim's pitcher was
once soft clay, and could be moulded
into any form, but the crooks are baked
in, and you can't get them out, even il
you break the pitcher in pieces. And
as to Ned's wire, the only thing you can
do with it is to heat it in the fire, and
then, when it is red hot, pound them
out. Take care of the crooks, then, lest
God put you into the furnace of sorrow,
and pound them out with many hard
knocks. Or perhaps it may be even
worse than that, for the Bible saws,
That which is crooked cannot be made
straight. Children's Hour.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Poetry.
Autumn.

Autumu.
Ne spring or summers beauty hath such grae'
As ! have seen In one autumnsl face.
4 Can you tell me, Evilo,
What doth make me love YOU sor
Isit YOUTH Oh, that is gone.
Is It beauty: that has fowni
Then, Prithee, tell me, Evilo,
Why It is love you SO.
SPRING. love her violets blue,
And Summer, with her roses, too,
Flushing In the mornings dew
But. OF all the seasons four,
Autumn touches ny hearts core.
With her garnered golden store.
Best, ! love her pensive face,
Best, love her ripe embrace.
Glowing in her mellow grace
Which no painters art can trace.
On her bosom let me lie,
In the South winds melancholy,
Meath october's purple sky,
Where the gorgeous naples sigh
Spring and Summers lullaby,
And with Autumn live and die,
Now you know, dear Evilo,
What doth make me love you so.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17

Why is screw in loose like screw
in tight Because it is insecure.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17

The best style of writing is righting
wrong.
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Too late for the fair-An old bachelor.