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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-30

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And In accordance with law and an order Of
the Board VI Directors. made on the 9Th dsy OF
Neyember. 1875. 20 many shares OF each pArcrlof
such stock a. may be necessary, will be sold At
public auction. at the auatiuh house q John
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

JAS. u. KENNEDY,
de2lfd arcrftsrv Bullion Mining Comnan
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
French Astronomical Inyestiga.
lions.

One of the Marseilles astronomers
has devised method of determining
the apparent diameter of the stars,
which he claims to be of peculiar merit.
II, through first class telescope, a
star, whose angular diameter is really
nothing, be viewed through a suffi-
GENTLY high magnifying power, the
image is seen TO be bright spot sur
ronnded by the concentric rings of
light and shade which are called diff
fraction nngs. Now, it has been shown
that these rings, If of extreme faint
ness and distance from the central spot
can only be formed when the angular
diameter of the source of light is nearly
insensible f; and, following out .his
very unique suggestion, NJ. Frizeau
has applied to the Marseilles telescope
a diaphragm having two spertGres for
the observation, in suitable manner,
of the fringes produced by the inter
ference.
Now, according to this arrangement,
it is found that if star has a certain
diameter, the fringes will disappear
altogether, and if the diameter is zero
the distances of the fringes will vary
with the distances of the two aper-
lures in the diaphragm. Among the
results of the investigations in this
direction is the interesting fact that
Sirius appears to have q measurable
diameter.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
The Reason Why.

Can you wonder that American wo-
men so quickly lose their beauty Shnt
up in houses nine-tenths of their time,
with either no exercise. or that which
is of limited, irksome sameness, they
are, as consequence, unnaturally pale
soft, and tender their blood is poorly
organized and watery, their muscles
small and fiabby: and the force and
functions of their bodies, as a whole,
run low in the scale of life. A spurious
fullness is often seen in the outline
during girlhood, which usually melts
like snow under an April sun whenever
the endurance is put to the test, as in
performing the functions of a mother.
The change in appearance from the
maiden of one year to the mother of
the next is often so striking and endu-
ring that it is difficult to believe We
are looking on the same person. The
round pleasing shape is prematurely
displaced by pinched angularity, and
an untimely and an unseemly appear
ance of age. And it is all nonsense to
blame our climate for this sad state of
things; blame only their hot house,
enervating mode of life. Englishladie
of rank, who, by the way, are celebrated
for keeping their beauty even to ripe
old age, think nothing of walking a
half dozen miles at time while Amer
ican ladies would think such a thing
perfectly dreadful" If American
women, SO daintily and richly fed, will
sit in dark and sultry rooms the live
long day, they must expect to bloom
too soon, to hasten through this charm
ing period-at the longest in about ten
years-and for twenty five years after,
have the grim satisfaction of being thin
wrinkled, angular and sallow.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
The Mental Attitude Of Primi-
tive Man.

ComprehensiOns of the thoughts
generated in the primitive man by his
converse with the surrounding world
can be had only by looking at the
surrounding world from his stand
point. The accumulated knowledge
and the mental habits slowly acquired
during education must be suppressed,
and we must divest ourselves of con-
ceptions which, partly by inheritance
and partly by individual culture, have
been rendered necessary. None can do
this completely, and few can do it even
partially. Ii needs but to observe what
unit methods are adopted by educa-
tors, to be convinced that even among
the disciplined the power to form
thoughts which are widely unlike their
own Is extremely small. When We see
the juvenile mind piled with generali
ties while IL has yet none of the con-
crete facts to which they refer-when
we see mathematics introduced under
the purely rational form, instead of
under the empirical form with which it
should be commenced by the child, as
it was commenced by the raee-when
we see a subject SO abstract as grammar
put among the first instead of among
the last, and see it taught analytically
instead of synthetically we have ample
evidence of the prevailing inability to
conceive the ideas of undeveloped
minds. And, if, though they have been
children themselves, men find it hard
to re-think the thoughts of the child,
still harder must they find it to rethink
the thoughts of the savage. To keep
our autOmorphic interpretations is
beyond our power. To look at things
with the eyes of absolute ignorance,
and observe how their attributes and
actions originally grouped themselves
in the mind. imply self-suppression
that is Observation-Disclosures Science
Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
Opium Cultivation I'm China.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: ''Opium
cultivation is making such progress in
China that it seems likely seriously to
effect the importation of that drug
from India. The consumption of ma
tive grown opium has also. says Consul
Medhurst in his commercial report on
Shanghai just issued. of late largely
increased, whereas the import of the
Indian drug has been stationary or
nearly so for several years past. The
usual edicts deprecating the cultivation
of such pernicious drug at the ex-
pense of cereals and other crops, and
prohibiting its culture under heavy
penalties, has continued from time to
time, and influential Chinese function
aries have not failed, as heretofore, to
urge the Crown to take steps towards
rescuing the country from the too GER
tain ruin which must be the conse-
quence., But all to no purpose; the
drug is so highly priced as an Alternative,
and the desire for it as sedative is so
general among all classes, while the
local executives are everywhere so easily
bribed into cOnnivance, that the cul-
tivatiOn is persisted in, and it will no
doubt continue to extend until effects
are produced which must eventually
exercise vital influence upon the in
ests of the country at large. The sup
ply from India has for some time been
limited to about an equal rate year by
year, and as it is a maximum in COM
mercial economy that trade which
does not increase must of necessity
tend towards the opposite direction, it
follows that the only too probable
event we have to look forward to is a
gradual decline of our share in the
trade. whenever the Chinese shall have
learned how to grow and prepare their
produce so as to bring it to an equality
with the Indian staple"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
Norway.

In its general aspect Norway presents
the most unpromising conformation of
surface for farming operations that can
well be conceived. Mountain ranges.
with plateaus whose altitude precludes
cultivation, and from which rise
mountains that reach an elevation of
s, 300 feet above the sea, prevail gener-
ally throughout the country. Except
in the south, the mountain tops are
covered with snow for the greater part,
if not all the year; their slopes, when
not absolutely inaccessible, are far too
rocky and abrupt for farming settle
mentS. The deeper valleys that inter-
sect these mountain ranges, and which
ramify with the contortiOns of these
hills, are channels up which the sea
sends its tides; above the level of these
fjOrds are other wateT-worn valleys.
which convey the overflow of the noun
tain lakes, subsidized by countless
streams that in varying volume leap
from the hills as waterfalls, or rush
foaming down the mountain side-the
imperyions primitive or metamorphOric
rocks that are characteristic of the
country not permitting the absorption
of the melting SHOWS or the summers
rains. There exists, therefore, very
extensive superficial area that presents
physical as well as climatic difficulties
of character not to be surmounted by
the most enterprising cultivatOr. With
few exceptions, the homestead of the
NOrsk farmer is built on the lower
slopes of the hills, where, in fact, the
wash of the rocky surfaces, in broken
stone and silly soil, has accumulated to
a sufficient depth for the operation of
the plough; or-on the embarked level
of loamy soil, the deposit left by an
cient rivers, or when rich lacustrine
alluvium is met with, or where mo-
raines are spread out at the embOuch-
ure of glacier grooved and expansive
valleys, forming suitable sites of scat
tered hamlets and little farms.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31

Here is domestic drama from Paris.
A young girl was about to be married
to iourneyman carpenter, whose suit
was by no means agreeable to her.
She had refused and protested against
the match, but her father was ineIora-
BILE on the subject, and insisted on the
marriage, though the mother would
willingly have yielded. At length the
bride-elect appeared resigned to her
fate, and the father, pointing out the
happy result of his firmness to his wife,
trinmphantly exclaimed, "I told you
so." Next day. however, the poor girl,
having left letter at home explaining
the cause of her action, jumped off the
Bridge of Austerlitz into the Seine.
She was, however, saved, and carried
nome by two sailors. The father re-
turned home just as the dripping girl
was placed in safety beside the paternal
hearth, when the mother, with perhaps
more point than discretion, simply oh.
served, 81 told you so."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31

took it and read, written in lead
pencil, the following:
"The shrevdness of the detective has
been too much for me. It was night
when did it, and fancied the means
put it beyond reach of discovery. /
was mistaken, and pay the penalty of
that mistake freely now. That doctor
is shrewd practitioner. A man does
not counterfeit madness with him with
impunity. Had he been as wise in his
way as the detective was in his, the law
would not have been cheated of its
prey. had my reasons for the deed,
fully as potent as those have for this. "
Here followed the signature of the
suicide, traced in full, bold hand.
/ turned to the physician and the Off
Ger who were with me, and had read
the letter over my shoulder.
I must confess that think my face
showed triumph-triumph at having
succeeded in tracking and taking a
criminal SO adroit and calculating-and
possibly / had some good ground for
being elated.
L did not ask the family of the muir
ucICo IHdu luz u IcWhLu, Dut l. CdAiiCu
away the air syringe, and have it to
this day. have made repeated expe-
riments with it since it came in my
possession, and each succeeding one
but convinces me the more of its deadly
and dangerous character.
There is another thing l must say
before close, and that is this have
solved the mystery of that limp piece
of handkerchief 1 found on the day 1
undertook the investigation of the
affair 1 have Just been speaking OF 4: it
was employed by the murderer to re-
press and keep back the slight foam
that always flies from the mouth of the
subject whenever submitted to the ac-
tion of the syringe.
/ look back upon this adventure now
as one of the most important events in
my career. and take pride in telling
it over and over again. 1t shows what
science is connected with the detection
of crime, and it also shows from what q
slight link massive chain of conclu-
sive evidence may be forged.
say look back to it with pride,
and l can only hope that an intelligent
public will hear and approve my recital
the story of the UNKNOWN DEATH.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
After the Funeral.

II was Just after the funeral. The
bereaved and subdued widow enveloped
in millinery gloom, was seated in the
sitting room with a few sympathizing
friends. There was that constrained
look, so peculiar to the occasion, OBJ
servable on every countenance. The
widow sighed.
"How do you feel, my dear?" OBJ
served her sister.
"Oh, L don't know" observed the
poor woman, with difficulty restraining
her tears. "But / hope everything
passed off we'll"
Indeed it did," said all the ladies.
''lt was as large and respectable a
funeral as have seen this Winter, "
said the sister, looking around upon
the others.
Eyes, it was," said the lady from the
next door. 81 was saying to Mrs.
Slocum only ten minutes ago that the
attendance couldn't have been better
the bad going considered.
"Did you see the Taylors ?" asked
the widow, family, looking at her sister.
"They go so rarely to funerals that L
was quite surprised to see them here. Z"
"Oh, yes, the Tsylors were all here, ="
said the sympathizing sister. ''As You
say, they go but little they are so ex-
elusive"
81 thought 1 saw the Curtises, also, /"
suggested the bereayed woman, droop-
ingly.
"Oh, yes," chimed in several. They
came in their own carriage, too" said
the sister, animatedly. "And then
there were the Rsndalls. and the Van
Rensalears. Mrs. Van Rensselaer, had
her cousin from the city with her.
And Mrs. Randall wore a heavy black
silk, which am sure was quite new.
Did you see Colonel Haywood and his
daughters. love ?"
II thought / saw them, but / wasn't
sure. They were here, then, were
they?"
"Yes, indeed" said they all again !;
and the lady who lived across the way
observed
"The Colonel was very sociable, and
inquired most kindly about you, and
the sickness of your husband.
The widow smiled family. She was
gratified by the interest shown by the
Colonel.
The friends now arose to go, each
bidding her goodbye, and expressing
the hope that she would be calm, Her
sister bowed them out. When she re-
turned she said
'You can see, my love, what the
neighbors think of it. L wouldn't have
had anything unfortunate happen for
good deal. But nothing did. The ar
rangements couldn't have been better"
81 think some of the people in the
neighborhood must have been surprised
to see so many of the uptown people
here" suggested the afflicted woman,
trying to look hopeful.
you may be quite sure of that ?"
asserted the sister. 81 could see that
plain enough by their looks"
"Well, L am glad there is no occasion
for talk, said the widow, smoothing
the skirt of her dress.
And after that the boys took the
chairs home, and the house was put in
order.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
A Remarkable Relic.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: A
bronze fork with two prongs, discov-
cred by Mr.. George Smith in the mound
of Konyunjik, supplies food for some
reflection. If it really is bona fide
fork it is one of the most singular and
remarkable relics of antiquity. That
''fngers were made before forks" is q
proverb the truth of which no one, We
presume, is inclined to dispute. But
we are apt to forget how very long the
people of the west, at any rate, were
destitute of forks and if Mr.. George
Smiths fork is fork, as he evidently
supposes it to be, another and q very
important addition will have been made
to the claims of Asia to early superiority
over Europe. Neither the Greeks nor
the Romans knew anything Of forks for
eating, although that they had pitch
forks from time immemorial and did
not take hint from them speaks little
for their analogical ingenuity. And,
notwithstanding that forks were known
as rare and exceptional instruments in
the middle ages, they were not used
either by carvers or eaters of meat even
so late as the early part of the sixteenth
century among the most advanced in
European nations. The Greeks had
knives for carving. But when they
fed themselves with solid food they did
it with their fingers, which they after
ward wiped ON pieces of bread. When
they took soup they used either a spoon
or a bit of bread hoiiowed out. So
likewise the Romans fed themselves
with their fingers when they ate solid
food, and liquid food they took with a
spoon (cochisar). They had no forks,
although they cultivated carving as an
art with considerable sssiduity.
The carptor, scissor or strucior was a
person guided by rules, who performed
his task to the sound of music, and
with appropriate gesticulstion. In
Wynkyn de Worde's BOke Of Keruynge
too, published in 1913, the author tells
the carver he must "Set never on fyshe,
beest ne towle more thsn two fingers
and thombe," clearly showing that
forks were not in use and adds, "Your
knife must be fayre, and your handles
must be clene, and passe not two fyn-
gers and thombe upon your knyfe. :"
Yet the fork was employed for certain
purposes among our ancestors at least
two centuries before this was written.
One fork is mentioned in the wardrobe
account of Edward /, for the year 1897,
and Edward IFS favorite, Piers Caves
ton, had (Federa, year 1916 ''Irois
furshesces 'argentpur mangier PORES.
LIE Grand d'Aussy (Histoire de la Vie
Privee des Francois" tom. Ill, page
179) says that forks are enumerated in
an inventory of the jewels of Charles V
of France for 1870, and this is the only
instance he mentions during the middle
ages. He also remarks, writing in
1872, that then the knife was commonly
employed to convey food to the mouth,
''as it still is in England, when for that
purpose the blades of knives are made
broad and round at the end" So Mr..
Thackeray's ''Snob's" friend Marrowfat
had ancient precedent at least, and
somewhat modern example, according
to LIE Grand d'Aussy, to plead in eI-
cuse of his memorable delinquency
with the peas.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
How Postage stamps are Made.


The process of manufacturing the
little postage stamps is quite interest
ing: In printing, steel plates are used,
on which FOG stamps are engraved.
Two men are Kept at work covering
them with the colored inks and passing
them to man and girl, who are
equally busy at printing them with
large rolling hand presses. Three OF
these little squads are employed all the
time, although ten presses can be put
into use III case OF necessity. After the
small sheets OF paper upon which the
200 stamps are engraved have dried
enough they are sent INTO another room
and gummed. The gum used for this
purpose is peculiar composition,
made OF the powder of dried potatoes
and other vegetables mixed with water,
which is better than any other mate
rial, Tor instance, gum arabic, which
cracks the paper eadly. This paper Is
also OF a peculiar texture, somewhat
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31
POETRY.
Rock me TO sleep.

The subjoined poem-we do not know who
wrote it's one Of the most beautiful of its
sind we have ever seen We do not envy the
heart that does not thrill to it's wild and tender
Inusic.
Backward. turn backward, oh Time, in your
flight,
Make me 8 child again. just for tonight;
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again TO your heart as OF yore-
hiss from my forehead the burrows of care,
smooth tine silver threads out OF my hair
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep
Rock me TO sleep, mother, rock me TO sleep!
Backward, flow backward, oh, tide Of the years
/ am 50 weary Of tolls and Of tears
Toll without recompense-tears all in vain
Take me and give me my childhood again
i have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of finging my souls wealth away,
Weary Of sowing for others to reap;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep,
Tired Of the hollow, the base. the untrue.
Mother. oh, mother, my heart calls for you.
Many summer the grass has grown green,
Blossomed and faded-our faces between;
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long tonight for your presence again;
Come from the silence 30 long and so deep
Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep,
Over my heart in the days that are flown,
No love like q mothers love ever has shown
No other worship sbides and endures,
Faithful, unselfish and patient like yours
None like a mother can charm away pain
From the sick soul and world-weary brain;
Slunbers soft calm DER my heavy lids creep
Rock me TO sleep, mother. rock me 10 sleep
Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with
gold,
Fall on your shoulders again as of old
Let it fall over my forehead tonight,
Shading my faint eyes away from the light
For with its sunny-edged shadows once more,
Hsp'ly will throng the sweet visions of yore.
Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
Mother, dear mother! the years have been long
Since last hushed TO your lullaby song
Sing them, and unto my soul it shall seem
Womanhoods years have been but dream
Clasp me to your arms in loving embrace,
With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep
Rock he to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep,