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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-05-04
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81 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
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HATTERsLY w. TALBOT,

HI ATTURNE1 AT LAW !,
ROCKVILLE, MD.
St;ici attention given to all business en-
trusted to him.
OFFICE, on Perry Street, directly opposite
East Wing of Court House.
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CpENCER C. JONES,


NA II ri n u Is = = W EN.
w ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ROCKVILLE, ND.
Particular attention paid 10 conveyancing
and the sale Of Real Estate.
OFFICE, west Of the Courthouse and one
door north of the Presby terrain Church.
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ID ROSS PERRY,
HI. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
WASHINGTON, d. G.
OFFICE, No. Four-anda-half street.
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DETER & HENDERSON,

ATTORNEYS AT LAW
ROCKVILLE, ND.
Will practice in the Circuit Court for Mont
gomery county, and in the Court Of Appeals
OF MARYLAND.
Special attention given to examination OF
Title of Lands, Collection of Debts, &c.
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Seal and Salmon Fight.

An interesting sight, says the Dundee
EreRing Telegraph was witnessed OIL
West Ferry the other day in desperate
fight between IA seal and huge salmon.
The combatants were not above hun
dred wards from the shore, and the en-
counter was therefore plainly seen. For
mere than an hour the fight lasted, the
seal all the while dashing about in the
water after its agile prey. During the
progress of the fight the salmon was
tossed many times into the air after the
fashion of cat with mouse. Ii was
then seen to be a very large fish. After
the fish was fairly exhausted, for the
seal was the victor, the seal rose fire.
auentlv TO the surface of the water with
its prey i'm its mouth, the salmon, how
ever, not being yet dead, as the move
ments of its body plainly indicated.
Whether or no the seal swallows its
prey whole is not known to the writer ::
but to spectators of this mornings fight
rhe protracted nature of the battle
seemed to have origin i'm some desire on
the part of the seal not to injure its prey
or break it with its teeth. There are
large numbers of seals in the river at
the present time. Between seventy and
eighty of these animals, many of them
very large and of different colors, were
seen summing themselves at low tide on
Abertay Sands one day last week.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
The Puritans.

The Puritans have been blamed be-
cause people have not stopped to con-
sider their real aims and the conditions
of their existence, because they have
not tried to put themselves in their
place. The Puritans acquired their
land not merely by royal patent, but by
the abandonment of home, of civiliza-
ton, and of every comfort. In place
so dearly bought they had an inalien-
able right to do as they pleased, and ii
pleased them to try great political
experiment. They had entered into
the land and possessed it, and there, in
the wilderness, they founded Puritan
State, the asylum for men of their race
and religion. In their new country il
further pleased them to make Church
and State one, and they believed that
whoever touched one touched the other,
and therefore they defended both with
all their strength. They did not come
to the barren shores of Massachusetts
Bay TO obtain for every papist, fanatic,
and hereto freedom to worship God
after his fashion; they sought freedom
to worship God after their own fashion.
Whoever interfered with them, OF
threatened the existence of their gov
ernment by attacks on Church or State,
whether it was Charles the First OF
Roger Williams, they resisted to the
uttermost, and. if they had the power,
punished the assailant by exile and
sometimes by death. By every law OF
self-preservation, by every law of COM
nonsense and common prudence. and
with all justice i'm so doing, they acted
strongly and well. No doubt theii
Judgment often erred, for they were
human and fallible. No doubt they
were often harsh and narrOw-minded
| if tried by our standards or by the
standards of such contemporaries "a
Francis Bacon or John Selden. Yet II
is folly and weakness to make apologies
for them, for they need none. The
Puritans of Massachusetts, acted accord
ing to their best lights, and they acted
like wise. brave men. They built up q
strong, enduring state, the cornerstone
of great nation. All these men neeo
is the exact and severe justice of his
tory. and sooner or later the judgment
of history must become the verdict Of
mankind North American Rerie,e.
!
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31

he came back again, breathless. He
had never been known to run before.
In his hand he held paper as large
as the cover of a geography. This he
handed to the Judge. The Judge looked
at it curiously. Then at the paper
again. In a moment he looked up and
said:
''Clerk, administer the oath to this
boy"
Dan was sworn.
cannot repeat his testimony here,
but be sure it was drolly worded and
disjointed enough. 1t made everybody
laugh, even while it interested them
profoundly. The substance of it was
that on the day when the forged check
was passed he was taking photographs
between the hours of II m and y. m.
Among other pictures lie made one of a
man standing i'm the window of build
ing on the opposite side of the street.
The man that he photographed was the
prisoner at the bar.
WIS a
buzz i'm the Courtroom. The prisoners
pale face flushed, and he gazed upon
Dan with look of joyful gratitude.
But there was still very important
question to be settled. AT what time
exactly was that photograph taken ~
Dan took the picture and looked at il
closely.
'There's the clock on St. Luke's
Church, up there in that corner there, -
said he, pointing to the place and hand
ing the picture back to the Judge.
The Judge looked again, holding the
paper up to the light and turning ii
carefully around.
''By the dial, here" said he, lit was
just l o'clock at the instant when the
picture was taken"
The jury and the counsel now exam
ined the photograph minutely. Ii could
not be disputed; there was the identical
man, and there he was, not in the bank
at the moment when the forged check
was passed.
The teller WAS once more placed upon
the stand. He was confused by the ev-
idence he had heard, and was by no
means As positive As he was before. Al
last he reluctantly admitted that ne
might be laboring under a mistake
And upon that he retired into the
crowd with an appearance of great
chagrin.
Dams triumph was complete. He
was hero. People forgot his strange
dress and his Withholding head, and
actually .'liOnized' him. The prisoner
was discharged. He instantly went to
Dan, and seizing both his hands, eX-
claimed.
"You have saved me. You shall
have anything you want. | cannot 20
enough to show you my gratitude.
From that moment Dams star began
to rise. He had money to continue his
experiments, and he eventually discov-
cred process by which he succeeded
in obtaining the richest and most dura-
pie photographs that are now taken in
Wexford. He still keeps the old camera
that made his fortune.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Artificial Pearls.

Formerly imitation pearls were col
ored with quicksilver, this dangerous
metal being introduced into minute
glass balls to give the required shade OF
color. Tradition says that Joaquin, a
rosary maker in Paris, living towards
the middle of the seventeenth century,
distressed at the dangerous nature OF
goods he was continually selling TO the
public, was one day strolling on the
banks of the Seine. He saw floating on
the surface of the water shining sub
stance, the use of which Immediately
flashed into his mind as a substitute for
the quicksilver. Having, by the help
of fisherman, secured the glittering
substance, he found il was only small
fishes. But he took them home, di-
vested them of their minute scales, and
henceforth used only this innocuous
material to produce his pearls. At that
time these artificials were coated on the
outside; now the coating is put upon
the inside, and the process may be de-
scribed as follows: \ number of hollow
beads of thin, transparent glass are
blown with lamp, and drop OF ''pearl
essence" so called, is blown into them,
and spread about by rolling the beads.
This pearl essence is obtained by scrap
inc off the scales of the bleak or CypriRus
alburnus. a fresh-water fish, and repeat
edly washing them in pure water, until
the whole of the foreign and animal
matter is removed. To these, after they
have been thoroughly washed, little
quantity ofthe solution of sal-ammoniac
is added to prevent putrefaction, and
then the preparation is ready for use
In employing it, however, the addition
of little isinglass or parchment size
will cause the varnish to adhere well
and minute traces of carmine, saffron
or Prussian or Paris blue may be
thrown in. so a. To communicate red
dish, velIowish or blush tinge, in imi-
tation of the same shades IA they may
be noticed in fine pearls. The essence
thus described has become regular
article of trade, and is chiefly prepared
for the French and German manufae-
turers, at Eberbach. on the Neckar
River in Germany. In old times the
pearl-makers had to buy the fish and
prepare the essence themselves. About
seven pounds of fish scales will yielo
one pound of the genuine moist pear
essence, and to furnish these would re-
quire 10000 fish. Whitebait are now
said to furnish better scales for th'
"eSsence" than the bleak do. The
scales of the roach and dace are alst
said to be good for inferior artificials
At one time there was a large trade IL
the commodity of artificial pearls, When
necklaces were greatly worn in Eng
/ land. and fish scales were in such de
mand that from one to five guineas :
quart were paid for them. The strong
clear scales of the corvinO fish - the
| SpdTus chiIensiS-are excellent for the
purpose indicated. SO are the COLDER
scales of the kingfish, the cdltiPecd, anC
the large ones of the pirarueu fish ol
RrlZil
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31

"Ah, Monsieur the Count, impossible
to take you before any one else Old
friendship counts for much-yes: but in
business one must be Just to all. To-
morrow must suffice for YOU"
''That cannot be-" he answered. Il
am going into the country this evening
on a visit
II am desolated," ;" replied the COM
passionate manicure, rubbing away
with great cheerfulness of manner on
the finger nail of one of the pretty
American girls; ''but what will you
have:" she concluded, taking time to
give him a shrug.
To very astonishingly and magnifi-
cently-dressed lady who swept in, fol-
lowed by little page in boots and but
tons, she spoke so rudely that we con-
cluded the social status of the new
arrival was not quite 80 real a. her
profusiOn of rich laces.
''Ta, Ia, ~ she exclaimed, petu-
lantly; always late. Your ride in the
DOl~ hl-tf Nht hiN
you that il does not want 10 eat, Il mani
cure? cannot do your hands tonight.
The present company finished, dine.
Not finger nail for me more tonight. y
Il am going TO fine dinner-party, :"
pleaded the suppliant.
'Oh, then, if YOU have really absolute
need"
And some of Us giggled among our
selves at the idea OF any one being in
absolute need of having her nails
rubbed.
imperative ~ cried the lady.
How they settled it did not wait to
see. But it has often struck me since
my visit to the Paris pedicure and man
icure that lucrative business might be
done-at any rate in the ''little surgery
of the feet''-by some steady-handed
women in our large American cities,
especially if they had first gained a
practical knowledge of the subject by
early and long-continued practice in
the nursery.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Antiquity Of Cheese.

The New York Grocer thus discourses
on the antiquity of cheese: "Cheese
and curding of the milk are mentioned
in the Book of job. David was sent by
his father. Jesse. TO carry ten cheeses To
the camp, and to look how his brothers
Jared. Cheese of kline formed part of
the supplies of David's army at Man
hanaim. during the rebellion of Absa-
lom. Homer SAYS that cheese formed a
part of the ample store found by Ulysses
in the cave of Cyclops. Polyphemus,
Euripides, Theocritus and other early
poets, mention cheese. Ludolphns
saws that excellent cheese and butter
were made by the ancient Ethiopians,
and Strabo states that some of the an
cient BritOns were so ignorant that,
though they had an abundance of milk,
they did not understand the art of max
ing cheese. There is no evidence that
any of these ancient nations had dis
covered the use of rennet in making
cheese. They appear to have merely
allowed the milk to sour, and subse-
quently to have formed the cheese from
the caseine of the milk, after expelling
the serum or whey. As David, when
young, was able to run to the camp
with ten cheeses and an ephah of
parched corn, the cheese must have
been very small"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
A SParrow's Power of Reasoning.

\ curious story, illustrative of the
intelligence and reasoning power, and
perhaps of the characteristic rascality
also, of the little twittering miscallei
English sparrOws, now 50 common
in all our principal towns and cities. i
related by Il friend, who had it from
the witness himself who saw the occur
renee. The gentleman, who resides in
New York, had erected, last spring, in
his back yard, large box for sparrow>'
nests. IL was divided into three rows.
each containing four compartments.
These were all speedily taken posses
sion of by dozen pairs of sparrOws,
and the business of making nests pro-
ceeded amidst the customary chirruping
of these fussy and pugnacious feathered
colonists. Sitting idly at the window
one Sunday, Watching the birds, the
gentleman saw one cOck-sparrow come
flying to his place with fine, soft
whits feather in his bill. The box was
so placed that he could see into the
apartments, and ne saw this bird fix the
feather into an incomplete nest, and
then fly away.
No sooner was he out of sight then a
female sparrow from the adjoining
apartment, who had evidently seen that
proceeding, hopped into her neighbor's
house and pulled out and carried of
the coveted feather. Becoming in
terested, the observer watched the per-
formanee, expecting to see the little
thief carry her stolen prize to her own
nest but here i where she displayed
an undeniable reasoning process. and
acted on a clear perception of cause
and effect, making prudent Use of her
knowledge of the character and dis
position of her plundered neIghbor
She flew of with the feather tOa neigh
boring tree. where she securely fastened
il in an incOnspicuOus place between
two twigS, and there left it. Pretty
soon the bird she had defrauded came
back with a straw to add to his nest.
Discovering his loss, he came out with
an angry chirruping that hoded no
good to the despoiler of his hearth and
home, if he could only find the rogue
His first demonstration was 10 visit his
next-dOor neighbor, without any
search-warrant. In that abode ofpeaee
and innocence he found no trace of the
stolen feather; and a. for the actually
guilty party, she was hopping limo
Gently about. and loudly demanding
As far as bird tones could be understood
bv the man at the windOw-what was
meant by this ungentlemanly ami very
impolite intrusion into lady's bed
chamber. and insisting that she was no
such kind of a woman. The cock-spar-
row was evidently puzzled. The thief
demurely waited till he had got well
off. and then flew TO the tree, secured
the stolen feather, and took it in tri-
umph to her own nest--Hartford Times
The ruling coiors in eroquet-Bl. OK
and blue.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
New Trade for Women.

In the course of the day, more from
curiosity than anything else, | betook
myself TO the rooms of the manicure,
between the hours indicated on her
business card for her reception of ell
ents at home. To my surprise | found
the place crowded, not only with Ia
dies. but with gentlemen, patiently
awaiting their turn for the favor OF
sitting with the manicure. The dress
and bearing of all present indicated
their position, and in almost every ease
il was one of Importance. Grave sena-
tors, young scions ofnobility, numerous
stately gentlemen decorated with the
cross of the Legion of Honor, tastefully
attired ladies with children attended
bv servants, two or three pretty Amer
can girls, sat around the room and
glanced over books and newspapers to
relieve the tedium of waiting. The
manicure's operations were performed
i'm the same room, and under her skill
full scissoring and rubbing we saw hand
after hand depart in much more beau
tiful condition than when it was
brought there.
After tedious waiting my turn at
length came, and seated myself by the
manicure's little table, upon which
were scattered the tools of her trade.
These were scissors and knives of a
shape specially devised for the trim
ming of the nails, files, nail-cleaners, a
small basin of roSe-water with piece
of SOAP near it, tiny towel of linen
cambric, a bit of lemon, and various
polishing powders and sweet smelling
unguents in the form of ruby-colored
pomades. The first stepin her proceed
ines was to wash off the finger-tips
carefully, then to dry them, after assur-
ing herself that there were no ink spots
or other stain upon them. Then she
clipped and trimmed the nails into the
approved filbert shape, neither too short
nor too long, nor too pointed nor too
broad: the ''half moons" at the base of
the nails were gently brought into clear
light: all chang nails" were amputa-
ted: and after this she rubbed Il coral
colored pomade ola delicious odor upon
the nails and the upper part OF the mn
gers. After allowing this to remain a
little while she wiped it off again, and
scattered upon the nails a golden brown
ish powder, which she vigorously
rubbed with the whole length of her
powerful forefinger, occasionally aided
by the palm. More pomade, more pow
der. more rubbing, and then the nails
were shown with that beautiful gleam
upon them, that pearly pinkness, seen
in the interior of some delicate sea
shells. As the pedicure had said, the
manicure's manipulations greatly lad
vantage a pretty hand, but even in a
greater degree advantaged an ugly one.
The manicure, like the pedicure,
charged forty sous for sitting, that is,
at her own rooms. When she did the
visiting her price was dollar. That
she found her business lucrative was
sufficiently indicated by her handsome
rooms, and her prosperous appearance.
She was almost as much fine lady in
respect to clothes, as some of her custo-
mers. Shewas very Independent, too;
for when a certain newcomer arrived
and stood at the door-sill looking about
at the waiting crowd, she said to him
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Fifteen Years In Prison.

Here is scrap from the reminiscent
ces of Hungarian nobleman who spent
the best part of his manhood's life in
prison:
Fifteen years was in this dungeon
"a rough, dark, noisome place, not
more than ten feet square," he writes.
"During six years had a companion
during nine years | was alone. l could
never clearly distinguish the gloom
someness of our cell. The first year we
did not sleep, We talked necessarily
together; we related every incident of
the past which we could call to mind
told of our joys and our sOrrows-over
and over again. The next year We re-
Trained from relating experience, and
gave to each other our thoughts upon
all sorts of subjects. During the third
year we grew silent. We were losing
the power of reflection, and the old
ideas were forgotten. During the fourth
year we spoke but seldom, and then
only to wonder if the world without
was bright and bustling as we had left
il. During the fifth we were mostly
silent. There had come a feeling OF
sadness-of isolation-which would not
be broken in upon. The effort of speech
was painful. During the sixth year my
companion was taken away. They
came and led him out, whether to death
or to liberty | knew not. L was glad
when he was gone. The pale, vacant
face, dimly visible in the ceaseless
gloom, always in the self same place
always an index of woe and suffering
had become unbearable. Had he been
taken during the first or second year,
should have been crushed: but now the
solitude was grateful. | was thankful
when found myself alone with my
great sorrow.
One day, more than year after my
companion had been taken away l
heard the sound of a human voice again.
The door of my cell was opened, and a
voice said to me by order of his I'M
perial Majesty inform you Sir Count,
that your wife died twelve months
since Then the door was shut. This
great agony had been east in upon me,
and was left alone with 1t. The next
speech heard was of my liberation.
The best part of my life was behind
me. Heaven grant that | may live
long enough to learn to be grateful for
my liberty"
Yes, there is Il depth of misery that
wants no company, and many are the
men who have found and suffered ii.
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