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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
Variety ana style In Pans.

The latest fans are trille smaller than
those imported early i'll the season,
though the Trianon idea still obtains
over the diminutive things of the kind
fashionable several years ago. The
handsOmest of the recent fancy fans are
almost indeed marvels of artistic work.
They present a delicately beautiful land
scape, of which bit of beautifully
clonded sky forms the background, and
a gay pdrterre. overshaded by trees, the
foreground. upon which happy party
disports at croquet, or some other game,
drinks tea and aherbert in rustic bower
or reclines at ease beside a babbling
brook. Or there is sky view with
cherubim, or a sky and water view with
gaily painted ships, over which cherubs,
birds, aud butterflies hover. The devi-
ces on fans are much more elaborate
than those seen a 'year ago, while the
finest are mounted on mother -Of-pearl,
tortoise shell and ivory sticks, not
carved, but. if ornamented at all, with
flowers of gold and silver pressed in, as
in the fine old Spanish fans, the finest
having the panches, or stout outside
sticks, sometimes jewelled. Yet by no
means have the more simple fancy fans.
presenting rich cluster of flowers, or a
pretty landscape in the corner, declined
in favor. They are, indeed in the
most general use, the above noticed
being the exceptionally elegant. The
latest fashion dispenses with the mara
bout fringe on the edge of the fan,
though at most this is optional. Painted
fans, according to design and quality,
command i'm price from three dollars,
all grades, kinds and qualities being OBJ
tainable between these extremes in
cost; vet there are fans which reach i'm
price, according to the value of the ar
ticle-the art work and finish-much
above the extreme named. Some Ofthe
prettiest of the cheap and simple fans
are of Russia leather, greatly improved
in beauty and finish, as compared with
those we have been in the habit of see
ing. They are usually mounted on rich
dark red silk, the color of the red Rus
sia leather, or on black silk, either plain
or enlivened by lines of gliding, and
are rs light as the lightest article of pa
per and ebony. The fans were very
popular in Russia leather are of the
semi-circular folding fashion; but they
are fashionable still of the round form,
of dark red or black silk, folded closely
together and slipped i'm double Hat case
covered with the leather. For the deDii
soir dress, there is an infinite variety of
painted fans of black, brown, drab and
white silk, mounted Oh sticks of sandal
wood, ebony and ivory.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
Thousand Years at Least-Specuia-
tfOns of Mr.. Alfred Russell wallace.

In an issue of Nature, Mr.. Alfred
Russell Wallace indulges in some specu-
lations on the probable antiquity of the
human species which may well startle
even those who have long since come TO
the conclusion that 5000 years carry us
but small way back to the original
home. In fact, i'm Mr.. Wallace's reck-
oning, 5000 years are but as day. He
begins by complaining of the timidity
of scientific men when treating of this
subject, and points out the fallacy of
always preferring the lowest estimate
i'm order To be OH the safe side. He de-
clares that all the evidence tends to
show that the safe side is probably with
the large figures. lie ridicules the vari-
Gus attempts TO determine the antiquity
OF human remains or works of art, and
finds the bronze age in Europe to have
been pretty accurately fixed at 1900 to
4 900 years ago, and the stone age of the
Swiss lake dwellings at 5000 to 1000
years ago, "and an indefinite anterior
period" The burnt brick found sixty
feet deep i'm the Nile alluvial indicates
an antiquity Of 10000 years; another
fragment at seventy-twO feet gives
20, 900 years. "a human skeleton found
at the depth of sixteen feet below four
buried forests superpoSed upon each
other, has been calculated by Mr.. DOwler
to have an antiquity of ~, 900 years. But
all these estimates palebefore thosewhieh
Kent's Cavern at Torquay legitimates.
Here the drip of the stalagmite is the
chief factor of our computations, giving
us an upper floor which ''divides the
relics of the last two or three thousand
years from deposit full of the bones of
extinct mammalia, many of which, like
the reindeer, mammoth, and glutton,
indicate an arctic climate" Names cut
into this stalagmite more than 200 years
ago are still legible; in other words.
where the stalagmite is twelve feet
thick and the drip still very cOpious not
more than a hundredth of a foot has
been deposited in two centuries-a rate
of five feet in 100, 900 years. Below this
however, we have a thick, much older
and more crystalline ii. e., more slowly
formed) stalagmite, beneath which
again, sin solid breccla, very different
from the cave carte, undOubted works
of art have been found" Mr.. Wallace
assumes only 100, 900 years for the upper
floor, and about 250,000 for the lower,
and adds 10000 for the intermediate
cave earth, by which he arrives at the
''sum of half million as representing
the years that have probably elapsed
since fiints Ofhuman workmanship were
buried i'm the lowest deposits of kent's
Cavern. "-.NdtiOn.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
Ornfthology as n Recreation.

1t is easy to see several reasons which
account for the popularity of ornitho-
logy as a rural recreation. In the first
place, it can he pursued everywhere.
Even the barest common has its birds,
and yet there is just sufficient diversity
among the birds which haunt similar
localities in different countries, to inter
est the mind and induce philosophical
reflection on the causes of this variation.
Indeed, the number of problems which
the study of birds presents is another
reason why il is so generally fascinating.
The mere dilettante can amusing him
self in solving these, while the professed
student finds many which battle his clo-
sest scrutiny. The migrations of swal-
lows, for instance, were until recent
years beset by the same haZiness which
attended them i'm Gilbert Whites mind.
People, sensible enough on other points,
gravely affirmed that the approach of
Winter drove the hiruRdineS TO their hi
bernating quarters, hollow trees or the
bottoms of rivers. The claims of over
tapping species, of partial migration, of
the abundance or paucity of allied spe-
cies in different years, of the curious
changes of color in the plumage of many
shore birds without their undergoing a
molt, together with that special cruz of
most departments of natural history,
what constitutes a species! are speci-
mems of the speculations to which mo-
dern ornithology addresses herself. But
even more difficult and delicate Inquiries
remain on such points as the presence
of instinct and violation of bird life.
The disappearance, whether partial or
total, of different species from the sew
eral provinces of Great Britain, forms
another interesting branch of study. and
others might be indicated if the extent
and variety of questions which impera-
lively demand an answer from the scien-
tific Ornithologist had not been suf-
ficiently demonstrated. Perhaps the
being brought face to face with nature
while prosecuting these and the like
inquiries, and freedom from the druid
gerry involved i'm the use of the micrOs-
cope indoors, enter largely into the plea
sures of the bird lover. And yet Orni
thology demands in the open air minute
and extended observation, large powers
of discrimination and comparison, and
an enthusiasm which never flags at dis
appointment. The ornithologist might
almost be weighed against the compre-
hensive standard of cirtues required of
the angler in the seventeenth century.
He must he untiring and eagle-eyed,
sanguine yet disinclined to believe on
insufficient premises, clever anatomist,
a well-taught disciple of the inductive
method, skillful at forming a hypOthe-
sis, but slow to admit its truth without
the most rigorous collection Ofinstances
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18

The London Standard says: "Many
interesting particulars as to the effect
of recent legislation on the management
of mines are to be found in the official
volume just issued which gives the re-
ports of the inspectors of mines for the
year 1874. The summary of the sta
tistics of all the reports shows that with
regard to those undertakings which are
subject to the coal mines regulation act
there were no accidents or deaths dur
ing the year i'm Ireland. In Great
Britain there was an average of one
fatal accident among every e02 persons
employed i'm and about the mines, and
one death by accident among every $40
persons. Ii will be observed that u
fatal accident simply counts as one in
these returns, although it may kill sew
eral persons. Hence there is a differ
enee in the ratio according as we take
the accidents or the deaths. 1t is also
shown that Isl ,222 tons of mineral Were
got for each fatal accident. 133, Psi tons
for each death. In the preceding year
1S73) the fatal accidents and the num-
Der of deaths from such accidents were
more numerous in proportion to the
number of persons employed, there be-
ing one accident among 526 persons,
and one death from accident among 419.
In nronort;on to the weiobt of mineral
raiiad the t,gures for Is7a showed one
accident for lac s67 tons. and one ,Ie,th
for I33 677 TONS Tins ON the basis of
tbe worI done there was an imnrove-
ment last vear as comnared with Is-3 ian
the ratio of fatal aecidents but in re-
gard 10 the actu,J loss of life the ratio
WIS NOT oujte 81 good a. before tbougb
the difference WAS so sIioht ,s m IN.
s,.arceIv annreeiahIe It Is curious thar
the fatal accidents from the explosion
Of fire-d,mn war, nr,ciseJv the i,n, in
number LAST wear as i'm Inc wear nre-
ceding namely II The uiImber of
fatal scciIen,: from the bre.king of
ronas ana chains was also the same i'm
the two several ve,rs beino eleven i'm
each In some other instances the tvo
wears show almost an exact eoualitv in
the humber of fatal accidents of a sneci-
fed cbarocter Wirb REGARD To tbe
dea,bs from exnIosion of fire damn tbe
fioures show a great increase being l6G
for last wear as against 100 i'm the wear
nrecetlino Rut of oonrse tNoor t6r.e
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
The Dining.ROOnn.

Ventilation is subject that has been
pretty thoroughly ventilated in journals
of popular science; but man is the slow
est of all animals to learn whatever con-
Germs his physical well-being. There
seems to be no simple lesson of the kind
that he is more dull in mastering and
applying practically than the vital i'm
portance of pure air. Of this boon,
which is literally as free as air, he Will
fully or stupidity deprives himself in
most of his indoor life-if life it may
be called which is merely state of
semi-stupefactiOn in a poisoned atmos-
phere. TO this same vile air he con-
demns the victims of his inconsistent
hospitality; for the dining-room is
often one of the worst ventilated apart
ments in the house. On this subject a
correspondent of the Pail Nall Gazette
vents his righteous indignation in the
following vigorous way:
81 once was bold enough to prophesy
that the day would come when a host
would as soon think of setting before
his guests tainted meat as of making
them breathe foul air. Better, L have
always held, is a dinner off single
Joint where pure air is, than twenty
courses and stuffiness Herewith.
never 20 to a dinner-party without a
longing coming over me to send one of
the bottles flying through the window :
and find myself regretting the good
old DAYS when a chance riot might have
brought a few chance stones through
the panes of glass. i often find myself
considering whether i shall excite more
attention by making rush for the fresh
air or by waiting till l fall in fainting
fit under the table. The hostess, per-
hops, remards to me, Il fear the room is
a little hot 1t is rather warm
mildly reply. Some day, l feel, human
nature will be too much for me, and my
heart that is hot within me will at
length speak out. Madam, L shall say,
the room is hot but heat-pure heat
can stand. The air i'm this room is more
than hot; it is foul. Ii is far too foul
for those animals to have lived i'm on
which we are dining. The very pig
who has given US that juicy ham would
have dropped in such an air as we are
now breathing. You have brought us
together to eat dainties got from all
quarters of the world, and you clap us
all together into a room which would
have been a disgrace to a Jail in the day s
even of the philanthropist Howard.
love my neighbor, l hope, but 1 do not
coyet his breath; neither the breath of
his wife, nor of his servant, nor of his
maid. | have not, Madame, like SO
MANY of your guests, who spend night
after night i'm rooms as close as your
own, quite lost that play of lungs in
which the poet rejoieed. l am stili Sc
little used to the poison of bad air as to
know that it might at the present mo-
ment with truth be said OF me
'''with his breath he draws
A nlao,,e into his blood: and cannot use
Lies necessary means, but be must die
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18

"boys ran wild der machine" The one
basement cellar has grown to eight, and
the little first floor office has expanded
into a large number of warerooms on
the first and second floors, while some
thing like forty men and women are
employed to assort and pack the papers
which daily come pouring into the es-
tablishment.
Some idea of the amount of business
done may be inferred when it is stated
that last year over three thousand tons
of paper stock were shipped to the paper
mills-enough TO keep several of them
running. This stock includes almost
everything that is written upon and
printed, from a State report or Depart
ment report to shew bill or love letter.
At times, as many as fifty orders day
are received by mail or telegraph for
man to call at various places in the city
and collect the waste paper which has
accumulated in lawyers offices, in bank
ing houses, in private residences, and
other places. A Wall Street banking
house once sold its stock of waste paper,
the result of fifty years accumulation,
for 81 900
Paper stock is worth gold, and since
the vast increase of book and newspaper
publishing in this country, commands
high price. Every scrap of paper has
its value, for the purpose of being trans
formed into new paper. This stock is
very interesting to study-counterfeit
money, Confederate bonds, rejected
plays from the Union Square and other
theatres, rejected manuscripts from all
the magazine and newspaper offices,
envelopes with postage stamps from all
parts of the world, unpopular and old
books sometimes rare works., the re-
fuse of bookbinders, lawyers papers,
mercantile papers, etc.
Recently a rare copy of history of
Westchester County was found; at an
other time the old parchment deed by
which the land on Schenectady stands,
and which was ceded by the Indians,
made its appearance Then the bonds
of the Central Park Hotel, or the New
York Amusement Company, came in
for redemption, worth so much per
pound.-HDDie Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
The Morning COmmissiOns-Past or
Present.

Habitues of summer hotels or water
ing places will recognize the following
as correct specimen of the domestic
dialogues which take place while pater-
familias is waiting for the omnibus to
drive up to the front piazza, or his
buggy to take him to the steamboat
landing, or for the whistle of the ex-
pected locomotive.
.sYou have got the pattern for the
muslin, my dear?"
"Yes."
Sand you won't forget Charley's
slippers and my bathing dress in the
lower bureau drawer?"
''No, darling"
"And the cold cream and camphor
from the upper shelf in the closet, and
to bring us some books from the library,
you know, and bottle of cologne"
"Yes, yes"
"And baby's caps, you know, and tell
Jordan & Marsh about having my dress
sent by express, for l want it for the
hop. And do ask Aunt Maria to send
my driving gauntlets; l forgot them"
Anything else|
"No, darling. nothing, only if you
could step over to mas and ask her TO
lend me that purple and white hood,
and bring me down new sun UNI
brella, and my India rubbers to wear
when we 90 out in the boat; it is so
damp that"
''Stop, darling! I've just thought of
something | want to do myself"
= ''What is it, my dear?"
"Why, want to run into my store
for five minutes for my own business,
if there's any time left after transacting
yours"
"Lor' now, Charles, l hope you are
not going to be disagreeable about few
little errands, I'm sure"
'sOh, not in the least, only haven't
qnite got used to this express business
yet. and can only give nine-tenths of
the time to it this summer, that's all
tootsicum's there's the engine whistle. y
''Good bye, dear, don't forget the"
But the rest of the sentence was lost
IN the rattle Of wheels that bore Charles
ON his way to town
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18

modern English buildings, even taking
into account the moist and corroding eli
mate. They are more deficient in the
third great requisite of architecture
gracefulness. Need we mention, in this
connection, the monster hotels, of which
there are so many examples in London
huge, devoid of proportion enormous
both in the original and in the acquired
sense of the word? Yet. for the sake of
the virtue we have just noticed, we do
not entirely visit them with the condem-
nation that is sometimes Illuminated
against them. 1t is, at all events, better
to have roof under which you can sleep
with tranquil mind, rather than one
which threatens to fall ON the heads that
are i'm debate, i'm turmoil, or i'm slumber
beneath it, like the Houses of Parlia-
ment of gracefulness. There is too much
hard toll, too little joyousness, i'm our
work. Yet, though the swift touch and
easy lightness of Imaginative power are
nowhere exhibited in the recent edifices
of England, it would not be fair to deny
that some, especially of the new chur-
ches, have been designed with a sincere
feeling for beauty, though feeling too
timid to break away from traditiOnary
lOi llllp ItN W hO
study beauty are still absorbed in the
past; as the ivy to the oak, so do they
cling for safety TO the more powerful
minds which delineated and carved the
lines of our great cathedrals. They for
get that nature never restores the old in
its entirety; that she perpetually regen-
crates her productions from her full and
perennial fountain; and that in the |
creation of a great work no man, be it |
the lowest handicraftsman, ought to be a
mere mechanical agent, content to con-
tribute a certain quantum of horsepower !
to the raising and fashioning of stones,
while all his spiritual powers are inert
and torpid. What, indeed, it most truly |
wanted is a strong popular impulse to
cooperate with artistic genius. But
genuine artists help TO create the wings |
on which they are to soar; and we would
fain hope that the two together may not
be wanting to our country in the future,
as assuredly they have been conspicu- |
Gus in many generations of the past.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
His Home.

"Where is your house:" asked a
traveller in the depths of one of the old
solemn wildernesses of the great West.
''House? amt got no house.
swell, where do you live?"
81 live in the woods, sleep on the
great government eat raw bear
and wild turkey, and drink out of the
Mississippi" And he added: ''Its
getting too thick with folks. You're the
second man Pve seen within the last
month; and hear there is whole fam
lily come in about fifty miles down the
river, and / am going to put out into the
woods again. 1 amt fond Of too much
company,'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
Indian Tradition.

Here is the Yute account of the crea-
ton: In the beginning the earth was
before you. The Great Spirit took his
bow and arrows and shot-shot so well
that he scattered the mist. The earth
became visible to him, but there were
no men upon it. Then he took clay,
fashioned a man, and sent him to bake.
Man came ont white; the fire had not
been strong enough. The Great Spirit
began his work again, and this time the
man came out quite black; he had re-
mained too long in the oven 1t was
necessary to try third time. The ex-
pertinent at length succeeded, and man
came out done to turn; he was the
redskin, the most perfect of human
tvpeS -
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
A Literary Morgue.

Twenty-Five years ago, come last
April, there was opened in small eel
lar ON Ann Street, New York-whieh
still exists, and is used for the same
purpose-what may be called literary
morgue, or a reception vault for re-
iected manuscripts and yesterdays
news. For this world moves on SO fast,
that the news of yesterday becomes stale
to-day, and tomorrow IL Is cast oul;
What was commenced on the first of
April, 1850, has proved TO be no 1ooi:n
speculation, but has steadily grown IN
size, until now a large number OF vaults
have been added to the original one, as
we'll as many upper chambers, extend
inc from % Ann street round the corner
TO Theatre Alley, including an old en-
gine- -hou Sc, used as such when the
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
LEARN 10 KEEP HOUSE.

beautiful maidens-aye, natures fair queens
Some in your twenties and some in your teens
Seeking accomplishments worthy your aim
Striving for learning. thirsting for fame;
Taking such pains with the style Of your hair
Keeping your Lily complexion SO fair;
Miss not this item in all your gay livee.
Learn to keep house, you may one day be
wives,
Learn to keep house.
Now your Adonis loves sweet moonlight walks,
Hand clasp. and kisses and nice little talks.
Then. a. plain Charley, with burden Of care,
He must subsist on more nourishing fare
He will come home at the set of the sun,
Heart sick and weary, his working day done.
Thence let his slippered feet ne Ter wish to roam
Learn to keep house and you'll keep him at
home.
Learn to keep house
First in his eyes will be children and wife,
Joy of his joy and life Of his life.
Next to his dwelling. has table, his meals,
SHRINK not at what my pen trembling reveals
Maidens, romantic the truth must be told.
knowledge is better than silver or gold;
Then be prepared in the spring-time of health,
Learn to keep house though surrounded by
wealth;
Learn TO keep house
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
Rising i'm Life.

Those persons who have attained to
eminenee in any vocation of life have
followed one uniform eourse-that of
hard, earnest work and unwearied ap-
plication. None are truly happy but
those who are busy; for the only real
happiness lies in useful work of some
kind, either of the hand or the head,
so long a over exertion of either is
avoided.