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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-01-30

Sally Verb is the name of Kansas
girl married the other day. Parse it
along.-Post.
The struggle of the puusters over
that will he in-tense.-N News.
Sally being Verb it was perfectly
natural TO conjdgate her.-Globe.
Singular that verb should be the
plural subject of verbose remarks /;
still it may be nothing new-to-her.
We should be active.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-01-30

WHY Is IT?-Why is it that eve-
rybody goes to the Metropolitan boot
and shoe store, No los South G street!
1t is because they can get boots and
shoes cheaper and better than in any
store in the State. C. A. Nc. emeisr
knows how to please his customers.*
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-01-30

Is now thoroughly and completely furnished,
and ready for guests by the day, week or
month. The table will be supplied ct all
times with the very best the market AFFORDS.
and the Rooms are large, well ventilated.
and desirable. They maintain 1t as thor.
oughly frst-class Hotel, in all Of its appoint,
ments and confidently solicit the patronage
of the public. In connection with the Silver
House, they have large and well-stocked
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-01-30
PIE CRUST.

| PIE CRUST.
Good sleighing with us is a thing
Of the past.
| Star Spangled Banner Stockings
will be worn during the Centennial.
Don't know anything about the
weather, the clerk must be out coast
ing.
| Our pie crust may I've little tough
this morning as it's been raising since
the last issue.
A schoolboy says that when his
teacher undertakes to show him what
is what, he only finds out which is
switch.
A man may be said to have been
drinking like fish when he finds
that he has taken enough to make his
head swim.
The gentle sylph who meanders
and glides around the tables with
culinary .uxuries is remarkably even
tempered-she's always mad.
Henry Godnose Bailey is the name
of boy in Springfield, Ohio. If we
were your parents, Henry, Godnose
we'd knock the middle name out of
you.
-. Feaner has an excellent quantity of
"gold leaf" TO dispose of. He says
he'd as "leaf" sell out as not, but if
he don't he'll "locket" up until gold
rises higher and then he'll stick it on.
Some of our young men carry
game chickens around under their
coats, and if anyone crows they buck.
Never mind Billy-go-it, we'll see
you're not cooped.
We never felt entirely happy, per-
fectly secure in the hereafter, until
the other day we read Maurice d.
Conway's lecture, which asserts there
is no devil.
AS the Sheriff adjusted the rope
around his neck, he said: 81 have
been bad man and have often dealt
from the bottom, but no man can
say that l was ever a member of
Plymouth Church."
A couple were married the other
day by telegraph in one Of the West
ern States. What next will electrici-
ty accomplish Those who are mar
ried by lightning will probably soon
want a divorce, by thunder!
Julius Caesars wife has secured a
divorce from him in San Jose on the
ground of adultery. 1t was just the
other way about 1000 years ago in
Rome. Time at last sets all things
even.
While the heart is on the left side
Of the body it is on the right side of
humanity, on the side of mercy, po-
likeness, refinement, sympathy, neigh
borly kindness and good will to all,
peace, truth, sobr:cty and good
order.
The boys and girls still have tolera-
bic coasting, and quite a game they
make Of it. They are always "pass-
ing" and "going better" some ego
blind and they all do a good IDEAL"
of sailing" "Curly" got scaled
down on "blutf' and fell next to
the-mill. For our part we'll stand
pat" and look. on.
Sally Verb is the name of Kansas
girl married the other day. Parse it
along.-Post.
The struggle of the punsters over
that will he intense. News.
Sally being Verb it was perfectly
natural to conjdgate her.-Globe.
Singular that verb should be the
plural subject of verbose remarks;
still it NAV be nothing new-to- her.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
Learning to Play AN Instrument.

Experience goes to show that the boy
or girl who learns to play apOn some
musical instrument has provided him
self with that which will be i'm many
ways source of pleasure and profit in
after years. As means of self enter
tainment, the ability to play passably
well upon flute, violin or guitar, servues
to bridge over many lonesome honr,
to drive away many an insidious temp
tation to wrong doing, and furnishes
constant element of culture to the youth
of either sex. In addition to these there
are many indirect advantages-the re-
straint which music and its associations
afford in keeping boys from bad COM
pany and questionable places of resort,
while the aid which it gives in making
eur young men and ladies agreeable in
society, with other advantages, unite to
make the cultivation Of musical talent
eminently desirable. Let the parents
encourage the musical faculty whenever
it is manifested, and instead of looking
upon the time and money thus spent as
wasted, do everything in their power
to develope the musical talent and facul-
les of their children. 1t is true that
there are few cases in which any re-
markable musical talent will be brought
to light, but it is less musical talent than
general musical cultivation that is de-
sinble, and this cultivation is best Sc
cured by making musicians of as many
of the people as possible. Besides it
must be remembered that all work and
no play does not elicit the highest or
best possible results, and that no recre-
alton brightens and stimulates the intel
lectual faculties like music. Encourage
the children not only to sing, but to
play, and they will in after years appre-
ciate the kindness and forethought
which have aided them i'm forming
their musical tastes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17

then he went off and engaged two law
yers from Herkimer to take his case.
called upon Acton and told him i wOuld
defend him If he accepted my service
as L had accepted his. He took my hand
and thanked me.
al have made great many pleas in
my life, but think never made bet
ter one than made to that jury on that
occasion. They were out not over five
minutes. By their verdict William Ac-
ton was the lawful possessor of the es-
tate his father had left.
''From that day never hesitated to
refuse a case to which could not give
my heart. Such a stand on the part of
a lawyer becomes known, and the pub
lie feels it; and what the public feels
juries are bound to feel.
"COncerning William Acton / will
only add that he became my bosom
friend. He always felt that he owed
his valuable property to me and knew
that l not only owed the life of my
child to him, but that to him 1 was in
debted for the home that was mine for
80 years. He was very delicate i'm the
gift of that piece of property. He decided
it to my wife. The husband of my old
est daughter is his oldest son." .l
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
Strange Naturai Cisse rms.

In the rough granite country back
from Mossamedes, on the west cogst OF
Africa, are some very remarkable natu-
raj cisterns. The country itself is pc
culiar, huge single rocks rising out of
the nearly level plain in some places,
and in others hills of rock, in several of
which deposits of water are found at the
very top. A recent traveller visited one
of these, and describes 1t as natural
tank with a narrow entrance, contain
ing some three or four hundred gallons
of exquisitely clear and cool wafer. 1t
was covered by vast slabs of granite,
from which the rain drained into it
during the rainy season, shading the
water so that IL could not be seen with
out torch, and so protecting it that
the sun cannot evapOrate it during the
dry season. Thus bountiful store of
excellent water is preserved while
there is not drop to be had elsewhere
for miles.
A still more remarkable cistern of
this sort is that of the Pedra Grande, or
Big Stone, some thirty miles from Mos
samedes, huge rounded mass of gran
ite rising out of the sandy plain. On
the smooth side of this work, twenty
or thirty feet above the plain, is cir
cular pit about ten feet deep and six
feet across. The rainfall on the rock
above the pit drains into it, filling it
completely every rainy season. The
walls of the pit-which is shaped like a
crucible, narrowing gently to the bot
tom--are perfectly smooth and regular,
the enclosing granite being of the clo-
sest and hardest description. Tho els
tern will hold several thousands gal
Ions of water. Near by are smaller
pits Of similar character. Their forma-
ton is unexplained. The water of this
strange well furnishes the natives and
travellers with an abundant supply dur
ing the dry season; consequently it is a
noted halting place.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17

Don't live a single hour of your life
without doing exactly what Is to be done
in it, and going straight through it from
beginning to end. Work, play, study,
whatever it is-take hold at once, and
finish it up sQuarely and cleanly; and
then to the next thing, without letting
any moments drop out between. 1t
Is wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people contrive to make of
a day tis as IL they picked up the mo-
ments that the dawdlers lost. And if
ever you find yourself where you have
so many things pressing upon you that
you hardly know how to begin, let me
tell you a secret; take hold of the very
first one that comes to hand, and you
will find the rest all fall Into file and
follow after like a company of well
drilled soldiers, and though work may
be hard to meet when it charges in a
squad, it is easily vanquished if you
can bring it into line. You may have
often seen the anecdote of the man who
was asked how he accomplished so
much in his life. 'My father taught
me-" was the reply, "when had any
thing to do, to 60 and do it." There is
the secret-the magic word now.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
Thaekeray and HIS Friends.

Thackeray was the only man upon
the Punch staff with WHOM Mark Le-
mon was not upon thoroughly easy
terms. 81 never felt quite at home with
him." he said to me during one of our
numerous gossips, che was always so
internally wise. He was genial; but
whatever you talked about, you felt
that he would have the wisest views
upon the subject. He seemed too great
for ordinary conversation. Now Dick
ems was very different. He was full of
fun, merry and wise, buOyant with ami
NAL spirits. | always, however, liked
Thackeray, in addition to other rea-
sons, because he liked Dickens, and
never showed spark of jealousy about
his work, which he always openly and
honestly admired. He read "Dombey
and Son" each month with avidity.
When the fifth number appeared con-
tanning the death of little Dombey.
Thackeray with the part in his pocket,
went down to the Punch office and
startled Mark Lemon by suddenly lay
ing it before him and exclaiming,
There read that. There is no writing
against such power as this-nO one has
a chance. Read the description of
young Paul's death, it is unsurpassed,
it is stupendOus ~ Douglass JerrOld
used to say, 81 have known Thackeray
eighteen years, and don't know him
yetn 4. $50. 4--f
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
BE Economical.

Take care of the pennies. Look well
to your spending. No matter what
comes in, if more goes out, you will
always be poor. The art is not in max
ing money, but in keeping it. Little
expenses, like mice in a barn, when
they are many make great waste. Hair
by hair, heads get bald; straw by straw
the thatch goes off the cottage, and drop
by drop the rain comes into the cham
ber. A barrel is soon empty, if the tap
leaks but drop a minute. When you
mean to save, begin with your mouth !;
many thieves pass down the red lane.
The ale jug is great waste. In all
other things keep within compass.
Never stretch your legs further than
your blankets will reach or you will
soon be cold. In clothes choose suitable
and lasting stuff, and not tawdry finer
les. To be warm is the main thing,
never mind the looks. A fool may
make money; but it takes wise man
to spend it. Remember, it is easier to
build two chimnies than to keep one
going. If you give all TO back and
board there is nothing left for the saw
ings bank. Fare hard and work hard
when you are young, and you will have
chance to rest when you are old.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
The Cookery on Board Swedish
Steamers.

Here, as at other ports where the
steamer stayed any time, the towns
people fOcked on board to dine or sup,
or. at any rate, to drink punch. The
deck was covered with little groups
making the most of the opportunity,
before the ringing of the steamers
bell relegated them to the quiet and
uneventful life of northern town. till
the arrival of the next weeks steamer
would give them another chance of
more varied fare than was to be OBJ
tanned on shore. The cookery on board
Swedish steamers is generally excel
lent. and all the arrangements are SO
good that one is not surprised that the
residents should be eager to taste of
the pleasures of a dinner on shipbOard.
The dining-salOOn in the Lulea was
placed forward, and quite apart from
the cabins, and this is usually the case
in Swedish steamers. No smell of din
ner can penetrate to your berth, while
the dining saloon is nearly always we'll
aired, with none of that sickly, greasy
smell which in an English steamer re-
of his equilibrium. At one end of the
saloon a table was spread, with nume-
rOus little dishes containing anchOvies,
tongue, salmon, radishes, &c, flanked
by two bottles of spirits and large
array of glasses. This brduOinsbOrd, as
it is called, is the initial stage of a
Swedish dinner, and is supposed to
give an appetite and although the
fresh sea-air might have been sup
posed a sufficient preparative. the or
thOdOx commencement was never
omitted, and seemed efficaciOus. After
the guests have helped themselves to a
selection of mOrsels, which they eat
standing, the regular dinner begins,
and often proceeds without regard to
what we consider the established order
of things. Blackberry soup was some
times the first course, followed by
meat. which in its turn was succeeded
by fish. Breakfast and supper were
equally substantial meals, and at the
former beer was generally taken, some
times even by ladies. One morning.
on board of Swedish steamer, when
our numbers had been thinned by a
suggestive swell, we watched with
wonder and awe delicate-lOoking
young lady breakfasting. She began
with rye bread covered with raw sal
mon, smoked reindeer tongue, and cu-N
accompanied by a GOOD glass
of beer she then called for cup of
coffee, but as it came her feelings
proved too much for her. and she has
tily quilted the cabin. In the Summer
however. rough weather is
seldom met with in the Gulf of Bothi-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
How the Oyster Builds his Shell.

Mr.. Frank Buckland, who conveys
instruction more agreeably than any
naturalist of the day. thus explains the
manner in which the oyster builds his
shell. The body of an oyster is poor,
weak thing, apparently incapable of
doing anything at all. Yet what a
marvellous house an oyster builds
around his delicate frame. When an
oyster is first born he is very simple,
delicate dot, as it were, and yet he is
born with his two shells upon him.
For some unknown reason he always
fixes himself on his round shell, never
by his fiat shell. and being once fixed
he begins to grOw-but he only grows
In summer. Inspect an oyster shell
closely, and it will be seen that it is
marked with distinct lines. As the
rings we observe in the section of the
trunk of a tree denote years of growth,
so do the markings on an oyster tell us
how many years he has passed in his
bed" at the bottom of the sea.
Suppose the oyster under inspection
was born June 10, 1870, he would go on
growing up to the first line we see well
marked he would then stop for the
winter. In simmer. 1871, he would
more than double his size. In 1872 he
would again aCd 70 his house. In 1878
and 1874 he would again go on bull
ding, till he was dredged up in the
middle of his work in 1875; so that he
is plainly five and half years old.
The way in which an oyster grows
his shell is pretty sight. / have
watched it frequently. The beard of
an oyster is not only his breathing Or
gan, j. e., his lungs, but also his feed
ing organ, by which he conveys the
food to his complicated mouth with
its four lips. When the warm, calm
days of June come. the oyster opens
his shell, and by means of his beard
begins building an additional story to
his house. This he does by depOsiting
very. very fine particles of carbonate
of lime, till at last they form a sub
stance as thin as silver paper, and ex-
ceedingly fragile. Then he adds more
and more, till at last the new shell is
as hard as the old shell. When oys-
tiers are growing their shells they must
be handled very carefully, as the new
growth of shell will cut like broken
glass, and a wound on the finger from
an oyster shell is often very poisonous.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
NY SONG.
By FREDERICK LOCKER

You ask a song.
Such as Of yore on Autumn's eventide,
Some blest boy-poet caroll'd-snd then died.
Nay, 1 have sung too long.
Say, shall fling
A sigh to Beauty at her window-psne?
sang there once. might not once again p
Or tell me whom TO sing.
The peer of Peers?
Lord Of the wealth that gives his time employ
Time to possess but hardly to enjoy
He cannot need nay team
The man Of mind.
Or priest, who darkens what lie clear a. day7
l cannot snug them. yet will not say
Such guides are wholly blind.
The Orator?
He quiet lies where yon fresh hillock heaves
'Twere well to sprinkle there those laurel-leaves
He won-but never wore
Or shall twine
Cypress 2 Wreath Of glory and Of gloom
To march gallant soldier to his doom,
Needs fuller voice than mine.
No lay have l.
No murmured measure meet for your delight,
No song Of Love and Death. to make you quite
Forget that we must die.
Something is wrong
The world is over-wise or, mores the pity,
These days are far too busy fer ditty,
Yet take it-take my Song.
-SpecfQ.Or
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
SchflleP'u AeeenT,

Goethe and Schiller worked cO-Opera-
lively under the Influence of their kind
friend, Duke Karl August, in Weimer,
and Iffland was creating a new school
i'm Mannheim. 1t was there that
Schiller's "RObbers" first saw the lie hi
of day, and that INLAND, in the char
acter of Moor, achieved triumph which
revolutionized the entire theatre. The
public was frantic with excitement and
Schiller woke up the next morning to
find himself a great man. When he
heard of the enormous success of his
play, he escaped from the tyranny OF
Prince Charles school, and walked
from Stuttgart to Mannheim in mid
winter in light Summer suit. When
there he handed his second play, "LOve
and intrigue" to the management. In
tendant Won Dahlberg appointed the
three stage managers, headed by Wolf,
to hear it read by the author. After
the reading of the second act they all
shook their heads, and Wolf took
Schiller aside and asked whether he
was sure that he was the man who had
written the "RObbers." Schiller looked
at him with large eyes, and upon VOLTS
explanation that he could hardly credit
that the author of the ''RObbers" could
be guilty of such trash as he had just
now read, "Is it really so bad ?"
Schiller asked with deep sigh. "Very
bad indeed, Herr Schiller; but if you
will leave the manuscript with me /
will read the other acts, and see whether
anything can be done with it," Early
next morning Schiller was reused from
slumber in his miserable garret by loud
knocking, and on opening the door.
Wolf flew into his arms, exclaiming,
Schiller, that's a great play of yours !;
it was your confounded Suabian accent
that spoiled it all" Poor Schiller! He
was very fond Of reading, and, it is
said, intended once to enter the profess
sion, a step from which he was enly
prevented by his friends, who showed
him the utter impossibility of success
with such an accent. Frau Won Kalb, a
great friend of his, tells the following
story of him. He usually gave her
everything to peruse before he placed
it in the hands o: the printers. One day
he read couple of acts of ''Don Carlos"
to her. In the middle of his reading
she burst out laughing, with the eX-
clamation, "Schiller, that's the worst
thing you have ever written." In dis
gust he threw the manuscript on the
floor and left the room. She took it up,
read it herself, and was in ecstacy. at
was that awful Schwaebische accent"
Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
ventiIation OF Railroad Cars.

The Railroad Gd-ette says! Several
years ago our attention was called to
the fact that by raising the end window
of car in front of the stove. and put
ting the blind down, a plentiful supply
of fresh air would enter under ordinary
circumstances, and that the current of
cold air would be directed upward by
the inclination of the stats of the blind,
80 that on entering 1t would mingle
with the hot air which ascends around
the stove, and thus the current of cold
air would not produce any discomfort,
and, in fact, be imperceptible to pas
printing of q card with the following
inscription ITO Ventilate the Cars
Raise the front window next to the
stove and let down the blind"