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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
Rise Of the Hand dkerchief.

Until the reign of the Empress Jose
phine, handkerchief was thought in
France so shocking an object that
lady would never have dared to use il
before any one. The word was even
carefully avoided in refined conversa-
tion. An actor who would have used
on the stage, even in the
most fearful moments of the play,
would have been numerically hissed :;
and it was only in the beginning of the
present century that celebrated actress
Mile. Duchesno;se, dared to appear
with handkerchief in her hand. Hav-
ing to speak of this handkerchief in the
course of the piece, she never could
summon courage to call it by its true
name, but referred to it as a light it's
sue. A few years later, translation of
one of Shakespeare's plays, by Alfred
de Vigny, having been acted, the word
handkerchief was used, for the first
time on the stage, amid cries of indig-
nation from great part of the house.
doubt If even to-day French etegantes
would carry handkerchiefs if the wife
of Napoleon /. had not given the signal
for adopting them. The Empress
Josephine, although really lovely, had
ugly teeth. To conceal them she was
in the habit of carrying small handker-
chiefs, adorned with costly laces, which
she continually raised gracefully to her
lips. OF course all the ladies of the
court followed her example, and hand
kerchiefs have rapidly become an i'm
portant and costly part of the feminine
toilet so much so that the price of a
single handkerchief of the trousseau of
the Duchess of Edinburgh would make
the fortune of necessitous family.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
Glory.

Gloryi The name resounds like a
surging sea. 1t daZzles us with a blaze
of splendid meaning. 1t is the end and
object of all the triumphs that human
power can achieve. 1t has been fiercely
fought for by nations and by men it
has been pursued throughout all time
it has been sought more passionately
than even love or money. And it tempts
not only actors, but lookers-on as well,
for it corresponds to an inperious
necessity which acts on every one of us
it satisfies that irresistible disposition
to be sometimes enthusiastic about
something-no matter what-which is
at the bottom of all natures, however
ponderously placid they may be. The
world is of single mind upon the sub
iect and, on the whole, the world is
right to be unanimously convinced, for
glory has been so singularly useful to
its progress, that we may reasonably
doubt whether We could possibly have
arrived at our present state without it.
Its rarity, and the extreme difficulty of
obtaining it, have so largely added to
its value that no reyard on earth can be
compared to it. Most other prizes may
be competed for by any man who has
ambition, strength, and intellect /;
wealth, rank, and power may be won
single-handed, by personal capacity ;
but glory, unlike those easier SUBMITS,
cannot be climbed alone-no solitary
traveller can reach its brilliant heights.
The reason is, that while each of us can
fight our own way aIone-on the one
condition of being strong enough-to
every other success in life, no man can
seize glory for himself. Glory is not a
diadem which any aspirant, whatever
be his force OF arm or will. can lift un-
assisted on to his own head it must be
placed there by applauding nations, and
the whole earth must ratlfy the crown
ing. And if individual claimants can
require it only by the acclamations of
mankind, so, inversely, nations are de-
pendent for it on the actions of their
citizens. 1t is as essentially joint pro-
duct of men and States as baby is of
its two parents; neither of them can
create it without the others aid. 1t
must be earned by them collectively,
and be bestowed by them reciprocally /;
its sources and its nature are, con-
sequently, identical in each of its two
forms, personal and national it is only
in its consequence and its applications
that differences arise. This unity of
its elements facilitates its study, but
still it is so huge subject that the at
tempt to discuss it here is ike trying to
put the Mediterranean into the dip of
Piccadilly.-BLack'CoOd's Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
A Druidical Wedding.

The following description of a mar
riage in the Druidical days is given in
Saintine's "Myths of the Rhine"
At place where two roads meet the
cracking of whip is heard hogs, sheep
and small oxen are driven aside to make
way for kind of procession. consisting
of grave and solemn men and women.
1t is a wedding.
Two young people have just had their
union blessed by the priests nader the
sacred oak. The bride is dressed in
black and wears a wreath of dark leaves
on her head. She walks in the midst
of her friends. 4 matron. who walks
on her left, holds before her eyes a
white cloth it is a shIoud, the shroud
in which she will be buried one of these
days. On her right Druid intones a
chant in which he enumerates in solemn
rythm all the troubles and all the snx-
ieties which await her in welded life.
From this day, young wife, thou
alone wilt have to bear all the burden
of your little household.
You viii have to attend the baking
oven, to provide fuel, and TO go in
search of food you will have to pre-
pare the resinous torch and the lamp.
You will attend to the COW and even
to the horse if your husband requires
it.
Always full of respect, you will wait
on him, standing behind him at his
meals.
If he expresses a wish to take you
with him to war, you will accompany
him to carry his baggage, to keep his
arms in good condition, and to nurse
him if he should be sick or wounded.
Happiness consists in the fulfilment
of duty. Be happy, my child.
What is still more strange is that this
dolorous wedding song but slightly
altered, is still in some parts of France
at this day addressed to brides by local
minstrels.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
SeIf.COnceif.

The self conceit of the young is the
source of those dangers to which they
are exposed. and it is peculiarly unfor-
tunate that the age which stands most
in need of the counsel of the wise,
should be the most prone to condemn
it; confident in the opinions which they
adopt, and in the measures which they
pursue, they seem as if they understood
Solomon to say, not who knoweth, but
who is ignorant of what is good for man
all the days of his life ! The bliss to
be aimed at is, in their opinion, fully
apparent. 1t is not the danger of mis-
take, but the failure of success which
they dread. Activity to seize, not sa-
gacity to discern, is the only requisite
which they value. And, bigotry fol-
lowing, prejudice is but step further.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
NiSCELLANY.
Too Severe Punishments

III sabre and bowstring, implement,
burrying alive, or blowing from the
muzzle of cannon, would put an end to
crime, then the Khans, Shahs and Sui
tans of the east would long ago have
succeeded in making their turbaned
millions by frman and fetwa. The
Knout in Russia, the Persian bastinado,
and the subtleties of Tartar proficients
in the art of giving pain, have failed to
e1tirpate the deathless crop of offences
against law. In China, Siam and Japan
much perverted ingenuity has been e1-
pended in devising penalties excep-
tionally appalling, but fortunately there
is a limit to the sensitiveness of the
throbbing nerves and luivering flesh,
and arbitrary power struggles in vain
against the fstilistic apathy which is a
marked characteristic of the widely
spread Mongolian race. Almost the
climax of absurdity, In pressing the
argument of those who advocate severe
punishments, is reached when we find
it easy in China to hire a substitute
ready to undergo any penalty, even
death, in the place of a criminal who
can afford the luxury of vicarious suf-
fering. Poor Chang knows that the
cangue, and the scourge, and the
dungeon, constitute an ugly perspec-
tive and he is no more desirous than
other people of receiving the stroke of
the sharp sword-knife across that sup
pie neck of his. But he cannot resist
the offer of the money that buys him as
sheep is bought. He spends by an
ticipation, every grain of silver in the
bag of glitteripg dollars that is the
make weight for mis- poor life, but not
selfishly, according to the ethics of the
flowery land. Those ten taels are Lil's
dowry. The tailor who is to marry
her asks more it is true, but a little
haggling will close the bargain. Then,
when the daughter is established in a
respectable position, it is time to think
of clever young Ching, the pig tailed
hopeful of the house.
A sharp lad Ching, who can recite
already good deal of poetry, and who
paints the neatest verses on every scrap
of tinted paper that he can beg or steal.
1t would be Thousand pitIes to ap-
prentice so promising youth to some
beggarly barge captain or prosaic cob
bier, in default of the thirty dollars
for which his tutor, promises to
turn him out q scholar a budding
mandarin. Then three are the JOSS
sticks, the incense, and red paper to
burn at the tiny altar before the images
of revered ancestors who will be en-
nobled SO soon as aspiring Ching wears
the glass button and the peacock S
feather of graduate. Add to these a
few opium smokes, some good dinners
of sharks fin and sea slugs, an evening
at the theatre, treat of fireworks, a
match at kite-hying, and Ching is ready
to kneel and bend his shsven head and
passive throat for the sweep of the
scimitar. the Year Round.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
Sayings Of Che.fOO-tain.

az should like to see q world peopled
with men alone, Just to learn what kind
of creatures they would become but l
never expect to. There would be but
one man in it at time. He would
have eaten all the rest.
al should like to see a world peopled
with women alone but / never shall
L would not dare to go near 1t.
al should like to see the most perfect
of human beIngs-but not till after L
am dead and in another state of exist
ence for it is sad thing to have no
character among ones fellows"
II wish that l had ingenuity enough
to steal without being caught at it be
cause reputation and respect in the
world are pleasant things to secure.
81 am told that human breath poi
sons the air, and the trees have to keep
il pure by sucking the poison out. Ii
seems to me that a great many people
are put into the world for nothing but
to make hard work for the trees. l do
not understand it.
"There is another catastrophe that L
am in dread of. / am afraid that we
shall learn some day to read one an.
other thoughts, Inat VIII pe tho Gnu
of society, and of marriage. We shall
have to live alone after that.
knew a man once who did not like
to have his name in the newspapers.
have not seen him since was boy.
think he is dead"
'.When 1 was young 1 had thoughts
of marrying, and began to look for 3
wife whom all women would speak well
of but 1 never found her. L have
wasted my time"
There was place set apart IN
Heaven for good wives who could judge
q wicked thing as harshly when a man
did it as when a woman did it. But II
has never been occupied, 1 believe
81 foolishly applied myself once to
the study of tine laws. 1t is fortunate
that gave it up, for 1 should have
been sorry to loose all sense of justice.
"Since my eyes began to grow dim
and do not read any more, l find my
self daily growing in wisdom.
81 dreamed last night that L hao
three friends. How crazy we are II
our sleep"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
MIFFIINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY PENNA, FEBRUARY

"That's all settled. 1 went first to
mamma, told her my story, and asked
her to bless my suit and to give me her
permission to love and care for her as a
son."
"And-and-you never viii tell any,
body how you first heard of clerk 81 ?"
''Never, though 1 shall always bless
67 as the magic number that drew for
me the dearest prize in life's lottery"
They had strayed now far from the
crowd, and were in a quiet and retired
arbor, where, we can suppose, no one
saw the kiss that sealed the betrothal
which deprived the Dead-Letter Office
of its fairest and youngest clerk, but
gave gallant soldier true and loving
wife.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
Penalty Of Being Poor.

A rich man beginning to fall, is held
up by his friends ; but poor man be-
ing down, is thrust away by his friends;
when a rich man is fallen, he hath many
helpers he speaketh things hot to be
spoken, and yet men Justify him the
poor man slips, and they rebuke him,
he spoke wisely, and could have no
place. When a rich man speaketh,
every man holdeth his tongue, and
look what he saith they extol it to the
clouds but if a poor man speak, they
saw. what fellow is this?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10

An enterprlslng patent medicine man,
who evidently intends to take time by
the fore lock, sdvertises that "summer
approaches. The suns increase power
of evaporation diffuses malarious prin-
cipals. Suffering and body infrmity
increases. Even robust health is inse-
cure without remedy to ward off sick
ness. Have then the antidote remedy"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
POETRY.
1T Is SO.

I've seen many q girl
Who would marry g churl,
Provided he'd plenty of gold,
And would 1--we to repent,
When the money Was spent
When she found that her heart had been so
II is so it is so
You may smile il YOU like
But it's so.
I've known many lass
Who would thoughtlessly pass
Whole hours parading the street;
While the mother would scrub
All the while at the tub.
Never minding the cold nor the heat
1t is so it is So
You may smils if you like.
But it's so.
There is many man
Who will ''dress' if he can.
No matter how empty his purse;
And his tailor may look,
When he settles his book.
For his patron has bolted or worse
1t is 30 it is so
You may smile if you like
But it's so.
L know people 80 nice
They will faint in a tree
II you mention hard labor to them;
Yet their parents were poor,
And were forced TO endure
Many hardships hfe's current to stem.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10

In the German postal service an or
der has just issued directing that
certain words derived from the French,
such as poste restante, shall no longer
be officially used, and defining what
German words shall be the equivalents
of these.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10

No TRAIT of character is more valu-
able than the possession of good temper.
Home can never be made happy with
out it. 1t is like flowers springing up
in our pathway, reviving and cheering
us. Kind words and looks are the
outward demonstration, patience and
forbearance are the sentinels within.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10

At the season of balls and parties ap-
proaches, boys begin to feel gallant
and girls buoy-ant.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10

JACOB and Mary were playing near a
tub of water in the kitchen, when Jacob
tripped and fell into the tub. But,
instead of helping him, Mary began TO
wiring her hands and scream. "Oh,
come herel Come here Jacob VIII be
drowned in the tub" cried Mary. But
Jacob had no intention of being drowned
in the tub. He raised his head and
hearing Mary's screams, said "Why
don't You help a fellow instead of stand
ing there screaming? Finding that
he did not cry, Mary stopped screaming
and helped him out and then Jacob
said, "Look here, Mary, the next time
1 get into trouble, help me first and
scream afterwards"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10

"Good words for the young"-Din-
ner's ready.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10

The envelope was marked Miss he
becca.
"Poor fellow" sighed Daisy, reading
it a second time, what pity it was lost.
though it's three months since 1t was
written, and of course they've settled
matters long ago..
As distinctly as if he stood before her
she saw him in fancy, the strong, manly,
bashful man. Like all city girls she
thought village or country beau1 must
be awkward or boobyish, with red
faces, bushy whiskers, and big coarse
hands, red and brown from work. he
beccal Was she blonde or brunette,
tall or petite What a charming picture
she made of that castle, with its roses
and vines, and as she thought OF 1t how
her girlish heart hungered for home
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-22
= - ---.---.
TOILET ARTICLES.
FOR THE LADIES. ES.-LUBIN'S PESTA.
Il CHIC NUT and dCOhPLEXIcN-PoW-

EOR THE LADIES. -LUBIN'S PESTA.
R. CHIC NUT sKIN-a and dCOMPLEXIcN-P0W-
DER, tL5S -
+, .Lubin's VIOLET POWDER,
Sanndcrs's FAcE-PoWDEB,
So Colgate,s CASHMERE BOUQUET PowOER,
Dorin's BLAgC DE PEPLEp
Dorin's X oUGE DE THEATRE,
-- Haaanis MAGNOLIA BALM, <SsSs
Lafrd's BLOOM OF YOUTH, y
81 Large BRRNCH.PLATE EHA4D,MrRacRs,
Superior BUFFALO COMBa llafRe and stropg.
y Sunerfof ENGLISH TooTH-BRUgHRs,
Afne assortment OF ofSAIE-BHUsHxs,
Handsome CUT-GLAss PUyGENTs,
K sPOWDER-PUFrS and BOXES, 3a
Elegant FRENCH and ENGLISH SOAPS,
" TOOTH POWDERS in great variety,
sr, TooTH.WAsHEs fall the laiesth
HASDKEBcmEF EXTRACTS (a large assort.
4 30 y ment. BIC ESE@T 50! pes 4 ~ 2ss5ti
CoLoGsEs (the most poppsart,.
z Fine SPoyGEs and SPONGE. BAGS,
n TURKISH TOW SIS ifoE a1e hath : -
e Our stock or FAECF kgTf9E3S IL as complete
and well selected as can be fsnch soush OF New
o1s UP POLK gI mil MIL IEa& CO.. apesaecastss
sgi, 80 corner Einlh and isis street.
Stss4aJ.ts ~ f's4A9 80 MIEEER a. RiEkt,3..
ff no 21 sf corner Filth and Aarsox;i sirests.
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AUCrIoa SALES THIS DAT.

ROBERT 3. LYME, 4P. NJ, improved and va
can't property iu Rockets at the foot of Fulton
HILL
GoDDIN, WARREN & CO., 4 P. NJ, two brick
houses on the east side OF Second near Dnyai
street.
AUGUSTINE ROYALL, Pm, building lot on
C0wardtn avenue, Manchester.
WHITEHEAD, DICKINSON q CO., 10k A. ~,
I at 1872 Main street, groceries, &c.
J.. THOMPSON BROWN, 2. M., one hqndred
and thirly.seyen feet OF ground on south Laure
II street aud twenty-nine feet on Pine street.
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CosygYAscss OF REAL EsrATE FOB 4as
WEEK Esprsa NOVEMBER 20, 1s1o.-Lots
fronting: % feet on Lester street for soooS "
116 feet on Pine street near D for yl,soo so so
feet on st. James street corner Consss eo TO. 10.
$3.50; so feer on Sixteenth street and o. lees
on Union street for ssI2 3S eson tWensy, z
street corner Seventh for $500; SO feet On
/ @ street near Federal for S660 803 feet On
Seventeenth street corner Williams for S6v6
24 feet on China street near Pine Tor sSOo
"a feet on China street near Pine for xbv0
All feet on High street between Pine ano
Beiyfders for $500; All feet on High street
between Pine and Befsidese for -; 60 see'
on Pieasants street for S1,4003 50 feet or
TweIty.seYenth street between Land IL fol
$3.50; so fee. on Bloody Rum street fol
s7O8 so feet on Brook avenue near fDuysl
street for 50, 600; % 8 feet on g street be
tween z and r for %, eco.
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RRsfNYAgS.

DEMOVAL.--Theatt attention OF my friends,
IG patrons and the general public IL calisd 70 thS
fact that T have RENovED 70 the elegant snd sSa-l
cjcns et1Ye so. 10 binin street, where 1haye on
exhibition and for sale the largest and moet coms
pIee stock of DgY. GOODS FANCY GoOlys'a ana
viii Continue, as berstofore. 10 sell at ihsyery
lowest price ana respectfully ask cenfi q
fayors at The hsndsof my old pafronss snq CAL ~
and examination OK my stock ,an9 ptIcess0J @ ssi0
p Grest inducenaents are of.red 70 pnrchssers who
viii do wei to give me csll befoEe tnsssnTnggT
''''t.S "''t - JOSEPH STHAUaE,
no 22.Ss .55; Il Eo.' 'IfI6 Main street
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t9l. 145s 81.
EPoR OTHER LOCAL sEB FOURTH pAas.l !

Editors Dispatch Please ALLOW me few
lines in your columns TO cali attention to the
condition OF the streets on Union Hill 10 The
winter or whenever It rains. ALI persons
living north Of Nelson street cannot get to
church without going In mud and water up
to their shoe.tops. Where are our Union
Hill counciImen? Please stir them up, and
their nice shoes out OF the mud. e
. A TAx.PAHRE,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-22

OFFICIAL -RErURss.-The official returns
received by the Secretary OF the Common
wealth from York and James City counties
and the city of Williamsburg show the elec.
ton of Sidney Smith (ConseryatiVe) by seven
votes. +s4-ss 2St !,
Official returns from Bath and Highland
counties insure the election. OF ]. d. Seig to
the House.
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Sought but Not Found.

HONE INDUSTRIES MANUFACTURES OF
RR1cKs.-NoW that the brick-making season
(which commences the middle of April and
closes about the middle of November) is
ended, a statement of the operations Of the
brickmakers for the year will not be unin.
teresting. There are eleven firms engaged
ia the manufacture Of bricks, Dine of which
also do building in connection with Drlck.
making Six firms manufacture in Rich
mond and fve;in Manchester, the Richmond
manufacturers making about three htths
of the clty's demand, the remaining
two ffths being. furnished by the Man.
chester brickmakefs.. The season was short
ened at least three months BY rain in the
spring. a rain generally causes the loss Of
two or three days, the dfying-yards fer that
length of time being too wet to. receive the
bricks. The number of bricks made this
year In round numbers is' 10000 600, OF
which about 5000, 900 remain on hand; and
as the building season may be said to be
closed they will be carried over for next
snrinp,s work. It must not be presumed
frnuI the above statement that only 4,000.OO0
bricks were used this year, ais the stock Of
last year C, 600 000) brought over must pc
added thereto, making this years consump.
tIon 10 000, 900, not counting old bricks used,
the number ofgWhieh cannot be sseertained.
This. years stock Of bricks may be said to
have been cut short at least six million, as
.e the gaues0 eaployed from the start would
have produced that number before the close
Of the season had there not been at one time
a partial suspension Of the building business.
Abort three hundred. men are employed Ia
Iha direct business Of making brlcks, not
eounting the large number Of men epgageo
In the hauling OF them, which Of itself Is q
large yitam with the brieE ana soutio.
ers., 10 burn these ten millions OF brlcss nVe
fhousand cords pine wood were used. 'aa
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q prRsoaAn.-Mr. Thomas Ia. Courtney has
heen eIec.ed master OF finance Of Hines Lodge,
Knights of Pythias. 2.a .s + :. ~,
IN the ease OF McVeigh us. Bapk OF Olo
Dominion, recently decided by the supreme
fourh Judge Christian pressed his entire
Concurrence in tha opinion delivered 6y
Iudge Moncure, and only reserved. .the rign.
n .nnbIlsh id the ne poTts his bHn views as 70
fhs decisions OF the court In tl.e iale Eases o.
ss Hutcheson rs. Tayl0r p and =. ~ ss.
Boyd,n which we're relied Rpons g0 suslai!n p
the gieRs OF 3 ,nsjoEityaof the eousf, ssss q