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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
Word Origins.

Few words have so remarkable 4
history as the word bankrupt. The
money changers of Italy had, it is said,
benches or stalls in the bOurse or ex-
change of former times. and i'm these
they conducted their ordinary business.
When any of them fell back i'm the
world and became insolvent his bench
was broken, and the name of broken
bench, or bdHco rOttO, was given to him.
When the word was first adopted into
the English, it was nearer the Italian
than it now is. "bankerout," instead of
bankrupt.
Two words, bachelor and girl, the first
of which, being formerly held as synOny-
nous with ''young man." or "sweet-
heart" may be regarded As the parallel
and corresponding term 10 the other.
We hope that the classes which bear
these names will pardon us for saying
that etymology gives not very flatter-
ing account of the origin of either. As
for girl, we are left, as far as its deriva-
tions, to choose between the Saxon carl
or churl and the Latin word gdrruld,
garrulous fenale. If the latter of these
derivations be the right one, shall we
say i'm this case, as in some of the pre-
ceding, that the term girl has departed
much from its original Specification
AT all events, we are certain that the
parties denoted by the termlwill prefer
the application of (sweet) prattlers to
that of carls or churls, burly and surly.
As for bachelors, etymology is still less
kind and still less decisive with respect
to the meaning of their distinctive de-
signation. One philologist refers the
term to a Greek word, plainly and
plumply signitying foolish, while an
other derives it from bds cherdlier
(French). Knight of the very meanest
grade. By some, the word is traced to
the Latin bdculus "a staff, because
bachelors, in their old days, have
nothing but stick or cane to lean upon
and, last and least, the worthy COM
mentator and improver upon johnson,
Mr.. III. =. Todd, believes ''the most
probable derivation to be from bdccd
Taurus, the berry of laurel or bay;
bachelors being young and of good
hopes, like laurels in the berry. Truly
this latter is even too hard nut TO
crack, and we had rather the tree in
question had been the chestnut or hazel.
10 speak the truth, in plain earnest,
the French derivation of Jds cherdlier
seems to be the true original of bachelor;
and all, therefore, who expose them
selves to the designation by remaining
obstinately in single state, must be
content 10 rank themselves under the
primitive appellation Of ''knights of the
lowest order" The parties implicated,
it is to be presumed, will shelter them
selves under the plea that a great
change has taken place in the meaning
of words; and as this is the argument
we ourselves set out with, we cannot
very well gain-say the defense.-Cbam-
ber's Edinburuh Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
One Hundred Dollars for q Kiss,

The following amusing story concern
ing the tragedian Edwin Booth is pub
lished in an exchange:
Edwin Booth is proverbially opposed
to having his private trumpet blown,
but a little incident of his overland trip
is too good to be lost. 1t seems that i'm
the same car with the tragedian and
his family was lady more remarkable
for the loudness of her style and the
oppressive gorgeOusness of her jewelry
than for her refinement This water
fly" not only conceived the most in
tense passion for the pet of the stage,
but took especial pains to make it mani
fest-an interest that seemed to be only
the more inflamed by the apparent pro-
found Indifference of Mr.. Booth to her
presence. She repeatedly stated, among
other things, that she "wOuld give 800
to kiss that divine Booth just once"
At Omaha a poor emigrant attracted
the attention of the travellers as they
returned to the ear after dinner. He
had started for California, but had been
robbed while asleep, and was without
funds TO go on or even procure food.
Our American Hamlet's generosity in
days OF his golden fortune is proverbial.
Mr.. Booth put his hand I'm his pocket,
through sheer force of habit, and with
out a word handed the poor devil 800
note. AS he did this his eye fell upon
his gorgeous admirer, who was stand
ing near by. With The sweeping stride
of the melancholy Dane he went up alb
ruptly to her and asked, "Did you say
you would give 800 to kiss me?" The
lady was staggered for moment, but
with true Western determination not to
be blufied replied, 81 did," and opened
plethoric purse defiantly. The star
deliberately placed his arm around her
neck and giving her sounding smack
held out his hand for the fee. This was
given him. Booth wheeled around,
and forced it INTO the emigrant's hand,
saying simply, "There's another"
and, without changing his countenance
or taking any further notice of the lady,
passed in the car. Even Mrs. b. fore
bore TO ''wool him" under the eircum-
stances
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
Oddities of Orators.

Canning was sure of speaking his
best if he rose in an awful funk. To
feel his heart beating rapidly, to be
frightened at the sound of his own
voice, TO wish the floor would open and
swallow him up, were signs to Lord
Lytton of an o,atorical triumph. Men
of ordinary calibre, however, find fright
a forerunner of failure. When it fell
to Canning's lot to respond to the toast
of His Majesty's ministers at Fishmcng-
er's Hall, the company looked for a
great speech and an eloquent exposition
OF ministerial policy. They were doubly
disappointed. Canning had no intent
ion Of exposing his hand, and was not
in the vein of talking much and telling
nothing, as ministers have a trick of
doing. Gentlemen" said he, eve are
invited here to meet the fishmongers.
Now, the fishmongers have dealings
with very large community, from
whose habits / think they might be
learning something. | mean the COM
munity of fishes. The fish is one OF
the most uncommunicative animals in
creation, it says nothing, and it drinks
good deal. Let us, then. upon the
present occasion, as we are to some ex-
tent brought in their company, initiate
their habits. Let us not waste our time
in talking, but drink a good deal"
Quite as economical of speech was the
candidate who delighted Nottingham
mob by addressing them in this comic
fashion: "Ye poets, ye butchers, ye
mute inglorious Millions, We Cromwells
guiltless of your country's blood, give
me welcome to Nottingham. This"
here he held up sovereign-''this is
the god you adore-your faithful un-
changeable friend!' Thereupon one
enthusiastic listener shouted, ''that's
Nottingham to life ~ But when it came
to polling, only three votes were recor-
ded to the unflattering orato-. In speak
ing, as in reciting, a good start is desira-
BILE. A capital one was once effected
by a newly-elected French deputy.
Stepping into the tribunal with the air
of a man charged with momentous
mission, he commenced: "It is neces-
sary that l should speak to my coun-
try" Startled into silence by such a
solemn exordium, the assembly waited
anxiously while the orator paused for a
moment ere he proceeded: ''Itis neces-
sary that should speak to my country
of cheese!" Ofcourse, he got no far
ther, and what he wanted to say about
cheese remains a mystery. Almost as
much merriment was created in the
House of Commons by an Irish member
observing: "If the honorable gentle
man chooses to challenge me, we can
re ire" But as soon as the hubbub
created had subsided, he put himself
right by saying: Il mean If the honora-
bic gentleman wishes TO challenge my
accuracy, we can rctIre-to the library
and will show him that he is wrong"
All The Year Round.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
Defects Of the Human Eye.

In a recent discussion before the Ply
steal Society, London, one of the speak
ers remarked that, though the eye has
been considered to be achromatic because
it practically is so. it is easy to cite evil
dence of the defects of the organ in
this respect. For instance, TO short
sighted persons the moon appears to
have blue fringe; and, in using the
spectroseope, the red and blue ends OF
the spectrum cannot be seen with equal
without adjusting the focus
ing glass. Again. black patch of pa
per, on blue ground, appears to have
a fringed edge if viewed from even a
short distance, while black patch on a
red ground, when observed under simi-
lar conditions. has a perfectly distinct
margin. In the opinion of the speaker
referred to, it is the overlapping of i'm
ages in the eye which produces the men,
tai impression that there is no want of
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01

Tabitha Sargent-"Aunt Tabitha"
we all called her-was a spinster of an
uncertain age, residing in the upper
part of Oxford, Maine. She might have
been fifty, she might have been more,
she might have been less,; no one save
herself could tell, and she wouldn't.
She had been repeatedly asked how old
she was. and as often informed the in
quirer that it was nobody's business but
her own.
Once upon time Aunt Tabitha was
summoned as witness in case on
trial at the fall term of the Supreme
Court held at Paris-and an important
witness she was. She was to testify for
the plaintiff. Charles B. Cummings
was counsel for the defence Q think it
was Charles; and said Charles:
Snow I'll make Aunt Tabitha tell us
her age. Wait and see"
We waited.
Tabitha had given her testimony, di-
rect, terse and strong, and was turned
over for cross-eXamination.
'sWhat is your name?" asked Cum
mings, with severe dignity.
81 told it to Mr.. Hastings" answered
the witness, with a snap.
''TO be sure; but wish to know that
have it right"
"My name is Tabitha Sargent
"Miss Sargent, you will not forget
that you are under oath. Where do
you reside?'
sin Andover.''
'IIow old are you?"
"Eh, What, sir?"
''What is your age?"
"I-don't-knOw-sirv'
"DOn't know your own age?"
"No, sir" Tabitha replied firmly, but
with sharp twinkle in her keen gray
eyes. 81 have not the least recollection
of the circumstance of my birth, and
conseqently couldn't swear to its date.
| may have heard other people speak of
it, but l don't s'pose I'm here to tell
what other folks say about things that
haven't got whatsomever to do with
this case. So, Mr.. Charles Cummings,
if it would be any satisfaction to you, |
tell you, once mOre-I don't knOw"'
While Judge Kent ducked his head
for a few moments, Tabitha gathered
herself up for the next onslaught. But
there was no need. She had vanquished
Charles B., as he had never been van
quished before.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
Human Labor.

Human labor in a thousand little rills
replenishes the fountain of mans earth
ly existence. 1t rends the rocks asun-
der to build the marts of commerce.
it sends its tiny but powerful roots in
to the soil, that the cups may, in due
season, fruetify and replenish and glad
den the earth; it dives into the dark
ened mine, where cheering sunlight
never penetrates, to bring forth some
of the most important necessities of
modern civilization; for where would
that civiliz ,tion be but for the products
of labor? As we value the products of
labor, how much more should we esteem
the intelligent agencies by which they
are produced. In whatever sphere Of
of action it may be, labor is honorable,
and there is at times moral heroism
exhibited which renders it sublime.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
Public Vehicles.

An article i'm the Economiste Frdncis
on the public vehicles used in Paris
gives some curious statistics: He says
that both the fiacre and the omnibus are
of comparatively recent date. In 1917
the owners of sedan chairs did a pretty
good trade; but it was not until 164l
that an Amiens postmaster conceived
the idea of placing carriages for hire in
different parts of the capital In 1893
an ordinance was issued fixing the tar
iff of these carriages at twenty-six sous
for the first hour, and twenty for every
hour afterward. From a comparison Of
the prices with those charged In the
present, 1t is evident that locomotion in
and about Paris was as costly hundred
years ago as 1t Is now.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
MIFFIINTOWN JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA. WEDNESDAY, NO

through their sleep; moving in a con-
stant mystery; looking for their tools,
and forgetting what they are looking
for; not able to find their work, and
when they have found their work not
able to find their hands; doing every
thing dreami,y, and therefore every
thing confusedly and imcompletely |;
their work dream, their sleep dream,
not repose, not refreshment, but a
slumbrous vision of rest, a dreamy query
concerning sleep; too late for every
thing; taking their passage when the
ship has sailed, insuring their property
when the house is burned, locking the
door when the goods are stolen.
Such slothful dreamers are each and
all of them unfaithful to their trust
"slothful in business" They betray
the interests of all who have any con-
nection with them, sacrifice the pros
poets of those who should be most dear
TO them, and frequently involve them
selves i'm disgrace and ruin,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01

back TO his residence, and was soon
gratified with his daughters presence.
Young Waring was Immediately re-
leased from confinement.
l may add that in month or two
Eliza Milford and Henry Waring were
married. Oliver Milford died after
four years confinement in States pri-
son, where he had been condemned for
life. Dorsey escaped. By some means
he learned that his victim had been dis
covered, and at once started for New
York. need scarcely add that it was
Dorsey and Oliver Milford who had
made the attack on Waring, and placed
the watch and purse of their prisoner
in his pocket, fer the purpose of caus-
ing him to be suspected of having muir
dered the old gentleman.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
The Innuence or Dress.

There is, no doubt. reflex influence
In dress. One of the best ways Of in
spring the degraded with self-respeet
is to supply them with decent and suit
able clothing. We are wholly unable
at any stage of cultivation, to with
stand this influence. No lady is the
same in a careless and untasteful MORN
ing wrapper. and an elegant evening
costume.
Every one must have n>ticed the ef-
feet Of dress upon the character and
condition of servants. Those who have
grown up in houses where slatternly
personal habits are allowed, never be-
come really respectable, even although
they may have many good qualities.
They do not respect themselves, and
their sympathy with their employers
is blunted by the great difference in
outward appearance. 1t is true that
domestics sometimes act so earnestly
upon this principle. that they end in
erring on the side of too much attention
to costume. We remember once and
once only, finding at foreign hotel a
chambermaid dressed in silk, with ar
tificial roses in her hair; the feeling
that she would not be of much use to
us flashing across the mind at once.
English servants hit the happy medium
oftener than any other; their tidiness
suggests alacrity, and we have a COM
Portable assurance of being we'll served
as soon as we look upon them. Ii is
odd what difference one feels i'm offer
ing gratuity to well or addressed
servant in travelling. Shabbiness favors
our penuriousness most remarkably.
The eye scans the expectaDt instinc-
lively and instead of the generous I'M
pulse to give most literally to those
who need, we graduate our donation
by the probable expectation of one who
has evidently not found the world very
generous If the servant be well
enough dressed to bespeak indepen-
dence, and especially if she be gifted
with the modest assurance which is
often both cause and consequence of
good fortune, pride whispers US at once
not to disgust so genteel a person by
shabby gift, and we bestow on success
what We should grudge to necessity.
Much depends, therefore on the study
of character by dress.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
WHAT THE OWL KNOWS.

Nobody knows the world but me.
When they're all in bed sit up to see;
I'm better student than students all,
For never read till the darkness fall:
And never read without nv glasses,
And that is how my wisdom passes.
can see the wind. Now who can do that.
| see the dreams that he has in his hat:
l see HIM snorting them out as he goes
Out of his stupid old trumpet nose.
Ten Thousand things that YOU couldn't think,
] write them down with pen and ink
Nou may call it lesrning-I call it wit
Who else can watch the lady-meon sit
HstchIng the boats and the leng-legeed fowl.
On her nest the sea all night but the owl?
When the oysters cape to sing by rote
She Grams pearl down each stupid throat.
So you see know-you may pull of your hat
Whether round or lofty, square and fiat
You can never do better than trust to me
You may shut your eyes as long as see.
While you live l Will lead you, and then-rm
the owl.
III bury you nicely with my spade and showL
George Mcdonald
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
Specimen English Farmer.

The London Telegraph says: ''In the
neighborhood of Newbury, not a hun
dred miles from the very place where
John Hampton was born and bred,
sturdy yeoman has given us specimen
of what can be done even late in the
autumn of life by those who 'scorn de-
lights and live laboriOus days Mr..
CharlwoOd, farmer and miller near
Newbury, and some years past the
prime of his strength, made small bet
that he would, singly and unassisted,
cart twenty acres of wheat between the
earliest moment at which he could see
in the morning and the last moment at
which he could see at night. He began
his work on Friday morning last at
3 As on the farm of Mr.. n. G.. Hutchin-
son, at Crookham, near Newbury, and
BY go at night he had carted the whole
contents of the twenty acres. The
ricks built from his carting were five in
number, three of which were ten yards
BY five, one ten yards by six, and one
more which was-as the clown says in
the pantomime-'a little one in.' 1t is
calculated that while Mr.. Charlwood
was at work he lifted from two hundred
to two hundred and fifty sacks Of wheat
and fifty or sixty tons of straw; and it
is said that it would take three ordinary
agricultural laborers an entire day to
get through such a job. The physical
power of the British farmer has always
been exceptionally above the average.
But at the same time it Is seldom that
we come across a man who IL able In
the course of one days daylight to
pitchfork into the wagon twenty acres
Of wheat. IL Is too much the fashion
az present to utter mournful prophesies
of national decadence, and to declare
sadly and solmnly that the nstion is
going to the dogs. As far, however, as
can be made out, the ordinary physique
of Englishman was never higher than
it is now. and when one man swims the
channel, and another single handed
carts twenty acres Of wheat In seventeen
hours and three-quarters continuous
work, there Is not much reason to COM
plain Of national degeneracy."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
The German s.cnlus.

A Germans capacity of boring and
of being bored is inexhaustible. In the
higher grade of the Imagination they
are encumbered with facts and observa-
tions and commonplaces. Their works
are tedious beyond measure. In their
poetry there is. for the most part, no
irradiation-no fire to fuse and trans
mute it from substance to spirit. 1.-The
German genius" says Mathew Arnold,
in his admirable paper on the study of
Celtic literature, ''has steadiness with
honesty" while the English "has ener-
gy with honesty" But steadiness and
honesty are qualities which, admirable
as they are in life and in certain forms
of literature, have little relation to the
imagination save in very exalted
sense. The poetic imagination takes
slight heed of honesty. 1t is higher
Office. 1t fuses while it uses, and in its
glow all things
Suffer a sea change
Into something rich aud strange"
1t is often absolutely dishonest to real
fact, and only true TO ideal feeling.
Fuel becomes flame in its enthusiastic
embrace. What steadiness or honesty
i'm their common sense is there in such
lines as these?
Take. oh, take those lips away
That SO sweetly were forsworn:
And those eyes. the break of day,
Lights that do mi-lesd the morn"
Literally this is absurd; ideally it is ex-
quisite. There is no bane TO poetry
like commonplace, however true, how
ever honest. But such graces as these
were never snatched by the German
muse, and she wearies us with plati-
tudes and propositions. Even Goethe
is so determined to be accurate TO the
fact that in writing his Alexis and
Dora. he stopped to consider whether
Alexis, when he takes leave of Dora,
ought to put down or take up his bum
die; so at least Eckermann reports from
Gethe's own lips. This is purely Ger
man i'm its literalness.
, 1876-03-04

WncrG flower, bloom perennial and horcysuckl"
twimr,
Where bml,s slope downward to ionm breaking
shore,
And The waves of III Pacific clrrnnlly rNNr,
There stand, ro' ngr; hulfhid hy the trees
Whose pcrfumrd hranrbrs gently wave in thy
breeze;
E,atE ~ shade oc III locust--shc', no. very old
Though her long curing locks, have both ,ilvcl
aud gold,
Nt.u sad eyed matron-- her checks thCy ARE FUR
y ruwud.
What grief, none can tel, in. That fond heart lie
buried
Reside her II maiden of sweet, gentle look,
Watching brother pcrusing II hook.
y stranger approaches that peaceful abode.
lll1 gray glrm 'nt- stained Icy the dH.tof III ruOd
lIr stops nj the gatr; @t the group g,7ro long
Shades his eyes to himself says, something Is
wrong.
Those Mrc--whcrr ever have them seem
Curling hiir-thu-r features what does il mean"
Vhru.ts quickly his hMud into his left breast,
d aw, forth pirturr--hls eyes on it rest.
lie uttcr~ "a cry, oh Joy II is true
Ii' the loved oIus Of him who died dressed IN
blue
lie rushed up the path then fell on his knee
lie held UP the picture, crying, dear lady STE
TNi' bullet marked picture took from thc hnnd
Ofonr whose lifr- blood was drank bv til sand.
IIcf'll ON the Iird h,lIly wearing the blue
Inir picturc-oh ulImc-i.'t the likcntssnf you ="
She looked but moment then uttered u cry.
Her bosom hrayrd wildly, tears frll from her eve
Like IN aspen she trcmbri with nguish'r keen
unins,
As she kissed from the picture her husband, blood
stains.
On the sorrow the grief, the anguish, the worl
DER thls sad rr.wNk nnr the veil let Us throw.
such Nurr1w j. sacred Uncover wpuli MT.
Lrt n- frrvrntly pray 1t mN soon bp forgot
llo entered the cottage hi, story to trl.
The sad manly death that did him bvlrl
VINO stood 10y his color, firmly aud true,
And died Il true ,ldirr wearing the blue
DAYS weeks and months the stranger -till tarrird
To take his departure not at all wa- hr hurried.
They never grew tired IL dtyli5at would cioso
Of gathering bcnCdtu Inc1ocu>t aud rose
IT, rtiirlr,c thr story or carnage and strife;
lIow he Of the blue there yielded his life.
Yet atrlugc,t ufull one line autumn day
She oi the blue rode away with the grly;
Vt twilight rcturnmI tnry rode side Oy side,
Forte gray he hdl wun tne blue for nl- bride