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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

lHt nippitsl llouc vi cHJol iHS thc
sea is to put on an old coat and thick
boots, and then,
"procul negotiis,
Ut prisca gems mortahum,"
to give oneself up TO thorough Incidence
and receptivity of seaside influences.
kilograms should be strictly interdicted
and only the most unimpOrtant letters
forwarded. The holiday should be set
apart for some intellectual treat-read-
ing the Laureate's last poem or George
Eliot's latest story. Some study, how
ever, out of the ordinary line of mans
business ought to be prOfessed-say
geology, or Investigations into the ma
rine zoophytes-tor redeem idleness from
the charge of being idle; or big book
may be taken to the sea, a history or a
stiff theological treatise, to he able to
put the amiable sophism upon ourselves
that we intend to work, to give, in short,
backbone to a molluscous purpose.
We lately met a clergyman on a six
weeks tour in Scotland who had thus
taken with him Buffers Analogy and
the JudiciOus Hooker, for much the
same reason, we suppose, as the ancient
Egyptians were wont to introduce a
skeleton at their feasts. Solitude at the
seaside is great mistake. Dnrer very
suitably introduced the sea as the back
ground of his "Melancholia." Tine i'm
mensity of the sea Overwhelms the per-
sonality; but let man have wife, sis
ter, or friend with him, and then the
presence of kindred soul, and the
ordinary everyday remarks upon the
sea, vanquish the unvanquished. Above
all, no one should seek the sea for en-
joyment who is compelled to economic
and strictly scan the days expenses.
Butchers have a trick at the seaside OF
not supplying the finest joints and of
charging unconscionable prices, while
landladies proverbially must make hay
while the sun shines. Unless man
can wholly fling base domestic cares to
the winds when he visits the sea, LET
him spend, say three weeks, there en-
tirely free from anxiety, instead of the
month he at first purposed. which would
demand nice calculations and unsleep-
ing thrift. Nothing so soon mars
holiday as care. 1t is the bunch Oi
hyssop i'm our Autumnal cup of joy
| CorgLiII
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
The Social Palace where Escorts are
Unnecessary.

In the Social Palace of Guise, in
France-the magnificent enterprise Of a
great capitalist-accommo some
500 people-it is fully admitted that
woman who has no taste or attraction
to the cares of nursing and housekeep-
ing has a right to escape them, and
occupy her time in some more profitable
way; for that labor in which we take
no delight is never really profitable.
Not only may she escape them, but she
may do so hOnOrably and without in
curing the displeasure of any one.
There Is the great cooking establishment
supplying nicely cooked food, which
each family can bring or have sent to
the private apartments; a splendid
laundry, which provides a means for
escaping the Inconvenience of washing
day i'm the small home, and grand
nursery, scientifically planned and or
panized, SO that the tenderest mother
can leave her infants i'm its charge with
out the slightest anxiety, but rather
with the perfect conviction that no
private home or nursery can so well
meet the varied wants of the little ones.
The fine schools, the libraries, the read
ing-rooms, baths of all kinds, the cafe,
restaurant, billiard-rOom, theatre, the
perfect provisions for sickness and old
age. the varied industries connected
with the palace. the princely groves
and gardens watered by a beautiful
winding river, and a thousand other
advantages and delights, can not be
mentioned here except i'm this summary
way, to show some of the characteristics
of the only place on the planet where
women's rights are fully and practically
recognized-evenh her right to distrac-
tions and amusements.
OF course, If any woman is already,
by the force Of habit, pure "Hannah
Jane" or domestic drudge, she can
keep her infant in her rooms and do all
her cooking, washing, and ironing
there, for all is freedom in the Social
Palace.
All the advantages for children from
the nursery up, and many others also,
are included in the rent; while food.
all properly cooked, is sold at the small
est possible advance upon its cost at
wholesale.
|. In the Social Palace over seventy
women, thus freed wholly or partially
from household duties, occupy salaried
positions for certain hours of the day III
the nursery, schools. laundries, shops
(of all kinds occupying the ground
floor), or in keeping the public parts OF
the palace in order, according to thelr
tastes and talents. Every woman is,
therefore, able to earn her own pin
money!" which she may enjoy the
luxury of spending without accounting
for the change to any one. There are
not few women, married even TO
.smodel husbands, who will appreciate
this luxury; and then the freedom that
such a social system affords il almost
beyond belief. However many children
a woman may have, she is not tied for
ever at home, but may attend the vari-
Gus societies, lectures, concerts, recep-
! tions, or she may go to the theatre OF
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

The Portuguese are not a newspap

The Portuguese are not q NEWSPAPER
reading people. The lower classes do
not read at ALL. and the middle and
MINER classes make no account of a
daily journal. The ladies rarely take
IN a newspaper of any sort, and the
gentlemen glance over it merely for the
Sake of the home gossip. which is of the
liobtest and most trivial sort, and for
the reports of politicaI affairs abroad.
literature. science. religion. art, find
no place in the Portuguese newspaper,
which deyotes its scanty space 10 foreign
political news, mostly of a vague and
unsubstantial character, and to grimly-
humorous account of current accidents
and OfYenses.n - Domestic affairs of the
highest consequence are passed by with
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
A Lost Method or Expression.

1t has been too much the fashion of
late to decry this department of the
work of housekeeping as useless and
menial, and to insist that money ought
to buy its result, leaving to the wife and
daughter time for self-imprOvement and
higher duties. There can be no doubt
that the average American housekeeper
often becomes slave to her store-closet,
one-third of the year being spent in pre-
pairing food for the remainder; canned
vegetables, salted meat, pickles and
preserves are often the milestone which
drags her soul and body down to very
low level. But there is another side to
the subject, and We may strike the just
battle-ground on it as on any other.
Nobody wants George Eliot, or Flor
ence Nightingale, or Jessie Fremont, to
give her time to compromising picca-
lilies or preserves. But, while one
woman is leader in society, literature,
or philanthropy, ninety-nine adopt some
smaller way to make themselves useful
and helpful in bettering and brighten
ing the little world about them, and
these smaller ways in city life are fire.
quently incessant devotion to visiting,
to music, to making horrible and ex-
hausting efforts at house decoration
We confess that when we have sat down
to feasts where the vegetables smacked
too strongly of the professional Gamers
art, where the meats were ill-cooked.
the offense of the pickles was rank with
yitrioi, and the desserts bore that mex
tinguishable flavor of the confectionery
shop, and when, after dinner, we have
been called on to listen to feeble strum-
l..
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
Former Four.i,-hand Clubs.

Early in the present century four-in-
hand clubs were in fashion, but very
different were the turnouts in those
days to what they are now. The coaches
were heavy, the horses were heavy, and
the drivers aped the dress and manners
of professional coachmen. Bright yell
low was the favOrite color for the car
riages, or lake picked out with red; the
harness was neither neat nor elegant, it
being generally ornamented with silver
or brass mountings. The horses were
strong but underbred. The gentlemen
drivers i'm dress did all they could to
follow the worst taste of the Old-fash-
ioned stage-coachman- A drive to and
dinner at the Bedfont was the order of
the day, where considerable quantity
of fiery port was ''drunk upon the
premises" as were some of the imbibers
of it. Bacchanalian and sporting songs
followed, and the orgies were kept up
till late hour. What contrast Is the
above to the Four-in-hand and Driving
Clubs of the present time. The "drags"
are perfect in shape, make, and appear
ance; the harness neat, ''when una
dorned adorned the mOst;" the horses
nearly all thoroughbred, splendid in
action; while the gentlemen carefully
avoid anything that is STACEY or horsey.
A lunch at the Alexandra Palace,
whitehall at the Trafalgar or Ship,
Greenwich, after parading and driving
around Hyde Park, form the club days
amusement. One great improvement
of the present system is that ladies
grace the meetings with their presence
and nothing can be prettier sight than
a neatly appointed ''drag" with party
of well-dressed ladies on the box-seat
and roof. The presence of the Prince
of Wales has given much eelat to the
driving clubs, and as his Royal High
ness is a thorough English sportsman,
riding forward 10 hounds, shooting
well. and devoted to yachting, We hope
the day will not be far distant when the
Prince will drive team of his own.-
Lind and Water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

Yes do hate children and primary
schools. / have cause to, though my
dislike occurred rather Later in life
than usually happens. l will tell you
why, and then YOU wont wonder at my
deep-roOted dislike. You see, when
lived in Salem l used to meet nearly
every morning the sweetest young
schoOlmarm in all Yankee land, and
that amt saying little. She had such
bright black eyes, splendid complexion,
cherry lips, and wore such killing hats,
perched on masses of dark brown hair,
that fell dead in love with her on
sight. How used to watch for her
every morning as walked through
Blubber Hollow on my way to the
train. could detect her blocks away
in her gray waterproof with the cater
pillar fringe on it. You see l am
minute in my description, old boy, for
the impression made on me was by no
means light. OF course was wild for
an introduction finally it came. l
made my best bow, and she-well she
Just blushed divinely. You may be
sure laid myself out to do the agree
able and went to churches. etc, like
dutiful cavalier. Then | would stop
at the school as it was closing, and see
my charmer home. Once, oh! fatal
day reached theschOOlhouse some ten
minutes before the closing exercises,
and watched with increasing admira-
ton her patience in teaching the little
wretches. Five minutes of two and
the sweet voice gave the order "Put
away your books; fold your arms"
snow James, come forward and l will
punish you.r Poor little Jim, he set
up an awful howl, and moved my pity
to such an extent that interceded for
him and went SO far as to offer to take
his punishment myself in order to save
his youthful hide. Alas | fancied that
the schOOlmarm was as spOOney as my
self, and my self-lOve and innate va
nifty told me she would but tap my palm
with her taper fingers. Well, my me-
diatOry efforts were successful. The
sacrifice was accepted. James was re-
manded to his seat and i, poor fool,
took his place. The children sat with
wide, open eyes, watching this. to
them, wonderful action on my part.
Then came the order, Take down your
Il blushed and put my hands on my
suspender fastenings) feet from on top
of that desk, you Millie Tuba" Then
turning to me my fair enslaver re-
marked, "HOld out your hand, Sir"
held it out, and heard a whistling in
the air, and felt. oh yes, felt band OF
red hOG fire from the tips of my fingers
to my wrist, as a strap some four feet
long and two inches wide left its mark
on my dexter fin. The laughter of these
imps and their teacher rang in my ears
as / tore out of that schOOlhOuse, and
held a piece of ice in my flaming hand,
while with the other raised to Heaven
] swOre eternal enmity to schOOlmarms
and primary schools.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

The great American inventions, which
have been adopted all over the world,
are the following: l. The cotton gin,
without which the machine spinner and
the power loom would be helpless. 2.
The planning machine. 3. The grass
mower and grain reaper. 4. The rotary
printing press. 3. Navigation by steam.
s. The hot-air (caloric) engine. Z. The
sewing machihe- 8. The India-rubber
industry. 9. The machine manufacture
of horseshoes. 10. The sand blast (for
carving). IL. The gauge lathe. II. The
grain elevator. 13. The artificial man
ufacture of ice on large scale. IA The
electro-magnet and its practical appli-
cation by Henry and Morse. To- The
only successful composing machine for
printers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

occasional bushes of wait-a-bit likely to
remind YOU not to be in a hurry, but
immense boulders of the hOneycomb
rock lie scattered about, and jumping
from one to the other, or climbing over
them, requires time and care. We
elected to go down to the cotton tree by
the roundabout but easier way. just
then a slight rustic was heard among
the plantains. Sambo informed us it
was the ''field male and piccaninnies"
running away. 1t seems that, whenever
a boar and his family are disturbed, if
they cannot all get away unperceived,
the boar shows fight and leads away the
enemy, while the sow and young ones
make of i'm different direction. Long
before reaching the spot we could hear
that our friend was well at bay. APP
preaching cautiously, we at last saw
him, within range, standing between
the buttress-like roots of the tree with
his stern to the trunk, and the dogs
yelping in front. We both fired, and
evidently hit him. He instantly burst
through the dogs, and made in our di-
rection. 1t is unnecessary to say Sambo
was up a tree in no time. One of the
dogs fortunately caught the animal by
Tile u1nk, anu tuTitu Hiin again W thc
tree. Another shot in the shoulder then
finished him. He proved to be fine
russet-brown six-year old, with tusks
eight inches long, of which three inches
projected from the lip. Wild pigs are
by no means uncommon i'm Jamaica.
There are very few ''mango-walks"
which are not visited nightly during
the fruit season, by two or three of them,
though during the day they keep in the
most inaccessible woods. They are not
indigenous. but are al descended from
the domestic pigs of the old Spanish
colonists, or from others which have
since become feral. In the time of the
Buccaneers, it appears that Jamaica was
a great provisioning station for pork.
Large herds of semi-wild pigs were kept,
allowed to roam and feed themselves in
the woods during the day, and recalled
by the sound of a horn at night. Later
on, the 'sMaroOns," descendants of run
away slaves, principally gained their
livelihood by hunting pigs in the bush
roughly picking and smoking the
flesh to form the so called jerked pork.
The wild pigs now in the island have
nearly all acquired reddish tinge, al
though varying in color from light
brown to almost black.-LdRd aud Water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

A cry of "Wake, massa, wild pig in
the grainv' caused myself and my
worthy and much-esteemed friend to
spring up off our beds one wet October
morning, while staying at an old aban-
dOned estate somewhere in the very
centre of Jamaica A short time before,
a wild boar had had the effrontery to
penetrate, on moonlight morning, into
the very yard surrounding the great
house." and more than that, to poke his
nose into an Outhouse. An early-rising
boy saw the animal steal in, and very
quietly shut the door upon him.
..Busha' (Anglice overseer) was away
at the time, and nobody had gun. So
the negroes crawled in at hole i'm the
roof, angled for time, and succeeding
in noosing the intruder, who was hoisted
D, till he stood on his hind legs, and
then despatched BY means OF crOwbars,
by other negroes who entered at the
Oor. We were not long in getting
ready, and, taking our guns, loaded
with slugs. and accompanied by the
three or four mongrel dogs. which are
generally to be seen about a Jamaica
country house, off we started after our
guide. The path was narrow, zigzag,
and steep. All paths used by negroes
are narrow; for they never walk abreast
of each other, but always in single file.
1t often surprises one, on following a
thin, but well-beaten track in the bush,
to come suddenly upon populous
village of huts. which probably will
have no other outlet. We were led up
the side of a steep limestone hill, covered
with virgin forest, and, therefore, for
tunately free from underwood. On the
ridge were situated the provision grounds
in which unexpected to find our quarry.
And, indeed, the dogs soon gave tongue,
and scampered helter-skelter down the
other side of the hill. sHim gone to de
cotton tree down bottom, said SambO,
and we had to follow. But to do this
was no easy matter; it is simply i'm
possible to make rapid way in a straight
| line down a wooded honeycomb lime
stone mountain. For not only are the
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

spend part of the evening in the read
ing-rooms, or run into the cafe, where
she is sure to meet friends ready for a
social chat over an ice-cream or cup of
chocolate. To all these places she may
90 without male escort, for they are a
part Of the palatial home provided by
NJ. Godin for his employees.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

The Democratic vote thrown in
California is as large as the Repubiican
and Independent votes taken tosether'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

"No, dolly" said little girl to her
china baby, as she was going out, 81
tan't take 'Ou down town i'd me-'Ou
amt dot no 'pin-back y"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

The happiest mode of enjoying the
sea is to put on an old coat and thick
boots, and then,
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-10-05

Tuesday afternoon last, a. a car was
being filed with oats at the Michigan
Central Elevator in Ypsilanti. a lad
named John Brook, aged nine years,
who was playing around the bins.
jumped into one from which the car
being filed. Feeling himself being
drawn down, he called 10 a companion,
q girl about thirteen years of age, to
help him. She grasped his hand and
tried 20 pull him out; in vain. however,
letting him 60 In time 10 save hersslf.
BY the time she had summoned the
workmen the lad had been drawn TO
the vortex, and nt least five hundred
bushels OF oats were Piled upon him.
After digging them away he was taken
ont. life being extinct.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-10-05

The expense Of the Centennial Exhi-
bition, conducted on ever SO econom-
ical scale, will be great. aod the Phila-
as well as the commission
ers, are exercising all their brains to
make it paw. The cost is estimated as
follows Main building. $1,000, 900;
art ", 81 500. 900; machinery
b ag, $50, 900; horticultural builG-
n. =. $3.50, 900: agricultural bnildisg,
$500 other buildings, with stock
yards, improvements, bridges, etc,
$1,000 900. Aggregate permanent cost
IS, ,053, 900.
The presumed expense of running"
the exhibition during the six months
in which it is to be open. including the
cost Of water supply, light, fuel, NOV
ing VI machinery, administration, po-
lice, aod liberal allowance of contip-
gencies. increases this estimated total
Of cost to 5000, 900. The Board of
Finance started out to raise this sum
by sales of stock and from state appro-
priations. The citizens-rof Philadel-
phis furnished 81. 100000 and the
state Of Pennsylvania 81. 900, 900 from
the word go. These amounts are not
represented in stock. They are sp-
piled mostly 10 buildings, chief among
which is the art gallery, which will re-
main as the permanent property Of the
State aud city. The stock subscrip-
tions SO far reach $500, 900 This
leaves 81, 200, 900 to be raised
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-10-05
The GIoem OF wealth.

We we're all perfectly happy at Long
Branch until Jay Gonld came, says OF
i've Logan; but somehow, since Gould's
arrival everybody is disconteuted. The
men can't see why they shouldn't be
worth twenty millions too. as well ~
well as Could. The women cant un-
derstand why their husbands should be
fess pecunions than Mrs. Gouids hus-
band The children. would hike very
much to know why the little Gould can
ride IN q splesdsd ivictorsa, belsind
prancing horses driven bya stuuning
coacbman, When themselves get little
or no driving. even in q hack. People
who vers gay and iight-hea rf..'i before
are duh ard siscoptented NV. IL Is
like a spell cast over us. tnd yet, OF
all the drerry. deselste, ehostly habit
ations erected by. rich man, Jay
Gould's cottage by the sea is the most
lugubrious and forbidding. Far 10
the northward Of all the hotels, long
after the twinkle of their lights has
faded and become thing OF memory,
it stsndf utterly aud solemniy alone
Wild, romastic, and dresry, such
sbodes might be selected ss the home
of star-gazlng necromancsrs, bnt are
the last places on earth where one
would expect TO find the greatest Rich
ard OF 'thc street." the Colossus Of
fosf>. or rt
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-10-05

The common council Of Grand Rap
ids voted to raise s206, 900 by taxation
this year for city purposes. This, with
the state and county tax makes . total
of s240, 900 which the citizens must
pay this year.