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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23

The great Russian fair, which sixty
years since was transferred to Mimi
NOvgorod from Its ancient locality in
the meadows near the Monastery of
Macarieva, opens on the 25th Of June
(old style), and comes to a close early in
September. DIR. DOria, secretary of the
British embassy at st. Petersburg, re-
ports that it is calculated that million
persons visited the fair last year, and
about 15O, 900 Of them were resident at a
time, for a longer or shorter period,
during the fair. The value of the mer-
chandise actually sold at the fair has
risen from 49, ,OOO, 900 roubles in lS47 to
I65, ,OOO, 900 in 1874. In the last-named
year upward of 5000 shops were let.
The site. at the confluence of the rivers
Okla and Volga, is unrivaled in the
whole empire for water communication.
Between the immense market halls and
the moat which surrounds them is the
celebrated subterranean gallery, washed
by the water from Lake Mestcherski,
which, rushing with great impetus into
the gallery, cleanses it thoroughly,
carrying away all rubbish into the river
Okla, whose level is six yards lower than
that of the lake. The wholesale trade
in iron, in different forms, amounted at
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
Diving for Drink.

One of the hottest regions of the earth
is along the Persian Gulf, where little
or no rain falls. At Behrein the arid
shore has no fresh water: yet COM
paritively numerous population con-
trives to exist there, thanks to copious
springs which burst forth from the bot
tom of the sea. The fresh water is got
by diving. The diver, sitting in his
boat, winds great goatskin bag around
his left arm, the hand grasping its
mouth then he takes i'm his right hand a
heavy stone, to which is ATTACHED a
strong liLe, and thus equipped he plum
ges in and quickly reaches the bottom.
Instantly opening the bag over the
strong jet of fresh water, he springs up
in the ascending current, at the same
time closing the bag, and is helped
aboard. The stone is then hauled up,
and the diver, after taking breath, plum
ges again. The source Of these copious
submarine springs is though to be In
the green hills Of Oman, some five OF
six hundred miles distant.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
Acoustic Properties Of Churches.

Though modern church architecture
is constructed ON acoustic principles,
it frequently happens that the voice of
the speaker is lost. Especially in this
the case when the building has numer-
Gus subdivisions, such as of vaults, aisles
and chapels. In many Of such larger
edifices the use of sounding boards back
and above the pulpit becomes necessary.
The American Architect and Building
News gives brief notice of such con-
structions. 1t explains that, in addition
to peculiarities of form which must be
adapted to the configuratiOn of the
building, such screens should have
certain solidity of construction. 1t is
not required that sounding boards
should have vibratory influence, which
would be the case if they were made of
thin wood; but that, being built solid
and of heavy oak, they should have the
power of rejecting sound. Mention is
made of such a defective sound board,
due to a firm of piano makers, the wood
employed being such as was used in the
construction of their instruments. This,
instead of rejecting the sound as it was
intended to do, and as heavier wood
would have done, absorbed the sound
into its own mass, and vibrated with
the air.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
Marriage Ceremonies.

The ancient practice Of marriage by
capture, which has left some traces even
in our customs and sports-nOtably in
that popular game of kiss-in- -the-ring. a
mimic representation Of the great game
of fmarriage-finds many illustrations in
Mongol life. Rubruquis, who visited
the bordes of Tartary, and was enter
tanned in the tent of the immediate sue
cessor of Yenghis Khan, described a
Mongol marriage thus: Therefore,
when any man hath bargained with an
other for maid, the father Of damsel
makes him feast; in the mean time
she fiies away to some of her kinsfolk
to hide herself. Then the father says
to the bridegroom, "My daughter is
yours; take her wheresoever you can
find her." Then he and his friends
seek her till they find her, and having
found her, he takes her by force and
carries her to his own house." This
simple form of marriage contract is still
preserved among the Koraks and Tchuc-
lcuuS, lIlDcS Va Oith-CdcbCih A1ADSA ss>'
There the damsel is pursued by her ad-
mirer, and hides herself among the po-
logs, or cabins made of skin, which
form the internal compartments Of their
dwellings. The woman kind assist her
in her pretended evasion, and not till
the bridegroom has caught his bride
and left the impression of finger-nail
upon her tender skin is the betrOthal
completed. The analogous customs in
Roman marriages here strike one with
the myth of the rape Of the Sabines
but we need not go so far afield. The
customs of Welsh wedding, up to a
very recent date, included mimic pur-
suit of the bride by the bridegroom,
both on horseback; and even in our
English manner, when the brid degroom
invariably goes to seek his bride on the
wedding morn. But the value Of wo-
mankind in pastoral life, where there
is so much for her to do In the way of
milking, cheese and butter making, and
so on, brings q further element into the
relationship. A price must be paid for
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23

the fair in 1874 to 5,557 800 pools Of SO
pounds each, sold for Il, ,955, 900 roubles,
equal at 3d., to e., 1873, ,sl2. Tea Of the
value of upward of 10000, 600 roubles
was also sold. Along the banks Of the
lake enormous pyramids of chests Of tea
are heaped upon the ground covered
only with mating made from the inner
bark of the birch tree. These chests of
tea, called "tsikiki," are so packed as to
be impervious to rain or damp. Out
side the ordinary wooden chest is a
covering of wicker-work of cane or
bamboo, round which, at Riakhta, raw
bull hides are tightly stretched, with
the hair inward. These chests arrive
at Mini from China, having been re-
ceived in barter, at kiakhta or Maimat-
chin, ON the Chinese border of Russia,
for Russian manufactures of cotton or
wool; the transport thence being on
the backs of camels to Orenboug, and
then in rude carts to the rivers Kamma
and Volga. 1t is these "tsibiki" which
contain that peculiar Kiakte, Baikoff
tea, whose taste and aroma are un-
equalled by any other kind of tea i'm
ported into Europe from China. But
Kiakhta tea now encounters formida
BILE rival in the tea imported through
the Suez Canal and Odessa, as well as
from England, and which bears the
name of Canton tea. Large sales are
made of corn and of leather at the fair,
of fruits from Persia, of madder and
wine from the Caucasus, and of cotton
and skins from BOkharia.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23

the future companion, and the kalim or
wedding portion enters largely into the
question. A more modern MOngol
wedding is described by Hue, that most
amusing of Jesuit fathers. The relig-
ious ceremonies are those Of Buddhism.
The marriage Is arranged by the par
ents, who settle the dover that is to be
paid to the father of tie bride by means
of mediators. When the contract has
been concluded, the father Of the bride
groom, accompanied by his nearest re-
latives, carries the news to the family
of the bride. They PROSTATE themselves
before the domestic altar. and offer up
a boiled sleeps head, milk, and sash
of white silk. During the repast all
the relations of the bride receive piece
of money, which they deposit in vase
filled with wine made of fermented
milk, 1--WE have, or had, similar GUS
tom of hiding ring or money in the
wedding cake,) the father of the bride
drinks the milk and keeps the money.
The lamas, or priests, fix an suspicious
day, when the bridegroom send depu-
tation to escort the bride. There is
feigned opposition to the departure Of
the bride, who is placed on a horse,
and led three times mote the three mys-
tic circles) round the paternal house,
and then taken at full gallop to the tent
prepared for the purpose near the dwell
ling of her father-in-law. All the Tar
tars of the neighborhOOd repair to the
wedding feast and offer their presents,
which consist of beasts and eatables.
These 60 to the father of the bridegroom,
and often recoup him the sum he has
paid for the sons bride. Rather shame,
one would think, of that selfish papa,
did we not reflect that he will have to
support his son and daughter, or at all
events set them up in sheep and cattle
from his flocks and herds.-Beigrdoia.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
Strategy.

Monkeys should be looked after and
educated" says sarcastic writer; and
certainly these animals possess talent
for mimicry which gives them the ap-
pearance of possessing brain power.
Man, however, is more than match
for them, as the following story will
show.
A company of Brazil hunters had a
lot of little boots made, just large enough
to be drawn over a monkeys foot, and
filled the bottom with pitch. With
these they set out for the woods,
and soon found themselves under the
trees where the lively little fellows were
leaping about among the branches.
hanging by their tails, swinging them
selves easily from one tree to another,
and chatting noisily together, as if max
ing observations upon the strange visi-
itors that had come into their quarters.
The hunters quietly sat down under
the trees, while the little chatterboxes
were rattling on over their heads, but
never for a moment removing their
eyes from them. Then they placed the
little boots where they could be seen,
and commenced taking of their own
boots. Having done this, they let them
stand awhile near the little boots. All
this the monkeys very closely noticed.
The hunters, now taking up their boots,
having carefully looked over them, drew
them slowly, one after another, on
their feet. Not a motion escaped the
observation of the monkeys. Having
replaced their boots tney hurried away
to the thicket, where they could, I'M
seen, watch the monkeys, leaving the
little boots standing in row. They
were no sooner out of sight than down
from the branches dropped the mon
keys. They looked at the boots took
them up, smelt of them, and finally
seating themselves as the hunters had
done drew them on over their feet. As
soon as they were fairly in the boots,
out sprang the hunters from their hid
ing place, and rushed upon them. The
monkeys, affrighted, at once started for
the trees, but only to find that they had
destroyed their power of climbing by
putting on the boots. So they fell an
easy prey to their cunning enemies.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
A Physician's Rales On Health for the
Heated Term.

Rise early the morning air is pure
and cool. Take a hand bath, going
over the whole person with water at its
natural temperature; any one can do
this who can command the use of ba-
sin and one or two quarts of water. Use
nothing but the hand; once or twice
week put a few drops of ammonia in
the water to cleanse the skin, or use
white CASTLE soap-avoid all others. Do
this all the year round, no matter what
the temperature of the weather is; be-
ginning now, the skin will become ac-
customed to it, and cold will not effect,
but tone up the system, bringing the
blood to the surface and preventing cold
from sudden changes; besides not half
the clothing will be needed. At this
season do not discard flannels altogether,
but wear thin ones without sleeves; the
best are made from white bunting,
which is not heating, and yet absorbs
the perspiration, and will last for ever
if properly shrunk before being made
up. On rising, if feeling faint and loss
of appetite, take teaspOonful Of char
coal stirred in little water, and re-
peat the same at bedtime; it must be the
fine willow charcoal, and to be found
with twenty-five cents) at all apothe-
carries. This absorbs the gas from un-
digested food, and sweetens the stomach
and prepares it for food, and should be
taken at any time when there is any un-
pleasant fulness in the stomach before
eating. Avoid ice water, except one or
two swallows; the habitual use lowers
the temperature of the stomach and
prevents digesting. Soda water in i'm
moderate quantities should also be avoi-
ded, certainly not more than single
glass per day. Let the diet be gener-
Gus one, but avoid mixtures; never
more than two or three dishes at each
meal. Pastry of all kinds should be es-
pecially avoided in hot weather. Plain
yeast bread day old, with good butter,
sparingly, and in hot weather with milk
when fresh-well salted; all kinds of
fruit and vegetables in their season,
well cooked and salted-salt allays thirst
when taken fresh upon food. Go slow
about your business or work. Never
try to do two mems work in one day.
There is nothing gained by it. Keep on
the shady side of the street if there is
one; if not, carry an umbrella, if you
can; if not, your handkerchief in the top
of your hat; if in the country, green
leaves. Never get in passion, as it
shortens life. Finally, make haste slow
ly to get rich; remember that without
health riches are of no account.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
Hotel Life in San Francisco.

A story is told of San Francisco
house, says the Helena Star, but as II is
not localized, we cannot possibly saddle
il on any of them. A man boarding
there thought prudent to settle terms
beforehand, to be sure that his money
would hold out. Two dollars day.
He staid two months and sent for his
bill. Carramba! ! the 81 day for board
was only small part of the items
charged. Sixty dollars for fire loomed
up conspicuously. Boarder demurred.
Cant help it," says the landlord,
.'we can't afford to furnish the fuel and
a man to attend to it for less than a dol
lar a day."
"All right" says boarder, ''I'm will
ling to pay you a dollar a day for fire,
but don't want TO pay you any more
than I've had. Now, out of all the time
I've been here, it's impossible that i
could have had fire more than half a
dozen days in the whole sixty"
SWELL" says the landlord, "that's
not our fault; the fuel was there and a
mai to attend to it; you might have
used it if you had been mini to-"
But the boarder demonstrated still
further. "Now, if you'll come up and
look at my room, i think can convince
you that there never was any fuel there,
and what is more." continued he rising
to the sublimity of the situation, "there
is no place to put it. if it were there
There is no fireplace in the room, and
no stove. There's not even chimney
in the room for smoke to get out at, mol
stove-pipe, nor hole to put stove
pipe in"
The landlord "went down in hi:
boots"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
The simplicity OF Greatness.

Many years ago the licentiates of
Princeton Seminary were in the habit
of preaching at station some distance
from that place. Among their habitual
hearers was a sincere and humble, but
uneducated Christian slave, called I'm
Gle Sam, who on his return home would
try to tell his mistress what he could re-
member of the sermon. but complained
that the students were too deep and
learned for him. One day, however,
he came home in great good humor,
saying that poor mlarnt old man, just
like himself, had preached that day,
who he supposed was hardly fit to
preach to the white people; but he was
glad he came, for his sake, for he could
remember ererything he had said. On in
quiry it was found that Uncle Sam IS
"unlarnt" old preacher was Rev. DR..
Archibald Alexander, who, when he
heard the criticism, said it was the high
est compliment ever paid to his preach
ing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
True Economy ofLife.

The true economy ofhuman life looks
at ends rather than incidents, and ad
justs expenditures to a moral scale of
values. De Quincy pictures woman
sailing over the water. awakening out
z sleep to find her necklace united and
one end hanging over the stream, while
pearl after pearl drops from the string
beyond her reach, while she clutches
at onejust falling, another drops beyond
recovery. Our days drop one after an
other by our carelessness, like pearls
from a string, as we sail the sea of life.
Prudence requires a wise outstanding
of time to see that none of these golden
coin are spent for nothing. The waste
of time is more serious loss than the
extravagances against which there is
such loud acclaim.
There are thousands who do nothing
but lounge and carouse from morning
till midnight; drones in the human
hive, who consume and waste the honey
honest workers wear themselves out in
making, and insult the day by their
dissipation and debauch. There are ten
thousand idle, frivolous creatures who
do nothing but consume and waste and
wear what honest hands accumulate,
and entice others to live as useless and
worthless lives as themselves. Were eve
ry man and woman honest toilers, all
would have an abundance of everything
and half of every day for recreation and
culture. The expenditure of few
dollars of taste is a small matter in COM
parison with the wasting of months and
years by thousands who have every ad.
vantage society can offer, and exact
every privilege it affords as right.
A small California town sent 26, ,00t
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
Horses Listening to Music.

The other day, a German band struck
up lively air, and at the same instant
two horses, in field adjoining the
Deaf and Dumb Institution grounds,
rushed, scampering and galloping in
hot haste down close TO the hawthorne
hedge which separated their field from
the roadside where the musicians were
performing. | observed them from my
back window, to which | had been
called on purpose by my boys. The
horses, with necks craned out and ears
erect, stood motionless, as ii spelled,
and eagerly listened during the perfor-
nance of the first piece, as if they did
not wish to lose single note. When
it came to an end they began to Craze,
but in a listless manner, and, every
few seconds, kept turning and looking
round in the direction of the ban d, evil
IDENTIFY expecting the music to begin
again. Then As soon as the first note
sounded the grazing stopped, and ''all
ear" they listened again. This same
process was repeated with every piece
the band played, and no auditors could
have been more attentive than these
two horses. When the Germans lifted
their music-stands and finally moved
off, the horses for some time continued
to gaze in the direction they went, fol-
lowing them with marked interest.
They then began slowly and reluctantly
again to climb the hill, but all the
while continued to look back, as if on
the watch for the strains to come again.
IL was singularly interesting thus to
note the evident and unmistakable en-
joyment of ''the concord of sweet sounds
displayed by these intelligent animals,
and we wondered if there was any
thing in their past lives which could,
by the association of equine ideas, ac-
count for this their peculiar sensibility
to music; or if it only afforded another
illustration of that innate love of lost
harmony, which, although dimmed
and shattered, still underlies and per-
vades the whole universe AHdre,g
limos N, Animal ITnrII
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23

Before the time of newspapers people
could not hear promptly of the crimes
committed at distance; now the pub
lie must have general Jail delivery of
three or four continents at the break
fast table. The morning journal makes
the criminal and the charlatan welcome
in a million households with the day.
1t enables single offender to pour
forth his story of conceit, imposture, or
crime, for years together; it raises up
party in his behalf, and occupies
whole nation in discussing his pretence
TO an estate, or his domestic troubles, or
his ignorance of French. 1t has not,
perhaps, been sufficiently remarked
that the modern press does not merely
discover i'll things; it creates them also
by giving popular voice to every one
who is interested in darkening counsel.
The journals are the making of the liar.
They, or rather the public taste which
they consult, in spite of their despotic
prerogatives, enable the pretender or
criminal to raise up such following
as princes could not command in old
times. The press gives expression to
all the lower forces of society, hitherto
unorganized; if it aids intelligence, it
aids ignorance just as well. Look at
the Tichborne case, for instance; could
the claimant have disturbed English So
ciety for years if he had had to deal
with judge and jury only? 1t was the
newspapers which gave him vogue,
which raised up great party of the ig-
norant in his behalf, which supplied
him with money, counsel, and support,
for five-years' raid upon society. All
this is a modern abuse. Imagine a
claimant in Federigo's time distracting
Italy for years with civil suit, and
putting the defendant to greater ex-
pense in holding the property against
single rogue than the Duke ever spent
upon the fortification of his cities!
1t is curious to observe, in great mod
ern trials, the darkening of counsel. The
accused person sit in court for months,
locking up the discussion against
thousand journals the mystery that two
words could explain, battling the law,
the judges, the counsel, the jury, the
witnesses, the cross-examinations. How
can he do it? The press enables him to
divide the community into two contend
ing factions, modern Guelphs and
Ghibellines; divided, however, about
no question of civil and temporal power,
but about the personal virtues of two
rival sentinentalists. Ii is the press
that gives him the opportunity to con-
vert his private affairs into public af-
fairs. Imagine the eonciousness of such
a man, holding his secret safe from the
curiosity of a nation The GdldrB.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
VOL. xxx.
LIFE.
BY CHARLOTTE BRoSTE.

Life, believe is not dream
So dark as sages say,
Oft little morning rain
Foretells a leasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds Of gloom,
But these are transient all;
IL the shower will make the roses bloom.
o. why lament its fall?
Rapidly. merrily,
Life's sunny hours fit by,
Gratefully, cheerily,
Enjoy them as they fly!
What though Death at times step in
And calls our best away?
What though our sorrow seems to win
Ger hope, a heavy sway?
Yet hope again elastic springs,
Unconquered- though she fell
Still buoysnt are her golden wings,
Still strong to bear Us well
Msnfully, fearlessly,
The dsy of trial bear,
For gloriously. victoriously,
Can courage quell despair.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23

"A small California town sent 26 600
pounds of honey to market in the month
of June.