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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-04-05

Operations preliminary to the projected
tunnel between England and France render
it probable that the feasibility of the great
project will be admitted by the highest engi-
neering authorities in Europe The scope of
these operations has been, mainly, to obtain
the requisite knowledge and material for
framing accurate geological charts, both of
the various strata through which the inclined
planes must pass which are to lead from the
surface OF the soil to the level of the tunnel
itself, and also of those at the bottom of the
sea, through which the tunnel is to be pierced
if the complete result of the investigations
shall favor the undertaking.
The attainment Of the first Of the objects
named is said to have presented no particular
difficulties, and consisted simply in working
an artesian shaft near Calais, to the depth OF
about three hundred feet, and then proceed
cOncave basin Of the channel from shore to
shore, whether the strata, as ascertained by
the land shaft, came out and responded to
the same under the sea-so as to prove as far
as could be that they lay in regular succession
and layers, and that no difficulties were to be
apprehended in boring the tunnel from the
upheavings or lowering of strata by internal
cOnvulsiOns. The labori0us and difficult part
of these investigations consisted in the num-
erous soundings to be taken, the observations
for fixing the precise spot on the chart, and
above oil, to obtain specimens of the bed of
the sea all the way across
The channel is nowhere deeper than about
two hundred feet, but still, where the bottom
is thickly covered with shells or sand, it was
sometimes not easy to learn the precise geo.
logical formation underneath. The grand
object has been to ascertain whether stra-
tum of gray chalk, which is at once easily
pierced impermeable to water, stretches right
across from one coast to the other, and of
sufficient firmness and depth for such tun-
mel. For this purpose there wero GAS
soundings, made with heavily weighted in
strument worked by steam engine, and
armed with point of fine steel, were ef-
fa've, sometimes at The rate Of two hundred
per day.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-04-05
THE REVENGE OF FKAKE.IN-THE FACE.
By HENRY w. I.ONGFELLOW.

BY HENRY w. LONGFELLow.
IN that desoate land and lone,
Where the Big Horn and Yellowstone
Roar down their mountain path,
BY their fires the Sioux Chiefs
Muttered their woes and griefs
And the menace of their wrath.
"Revenge?" cried Rain-in-tbe-Face,
Revenge upon all the race
Of the White Chief with yellow hair!'
And the mountains dark and high
From their crags re-echOed the cry
Ot his anger and despair.
In the meadow, spreading wide
BY woodland and river side
The Indian village stood.
All was silent as dream
Save the rushing of the stream
And the blue Jay in the wood.
In his war-pant and his beads.
Like bison among the reeds,
In ambush the Sitting Bull
Lay with three thousand braves
CrOuched in the clefts and caves,
Savage, unmerciful!
Into the fatal snare
The White Chief with yellow hair
And hi, three hundred men
Dashed headlOng, sword in hand;
But of that gallant band
Not one returned again.
The sudden darkness of death
Overwhelmed them like the breath
And smoke of furnace fire;
BY the rivers bank, and between
The rocks of the ravine.
They lay in their bloody attire.
But the foeman fled in the night,
And Rain-in-the-Face, in his flight,
Uplifted high in air
As q ghastly trophy, bore
The brave heart that beat no more,
OF the White Chief with yellow hair.
Whose was the right and the wrong?
Sing it, . funeral song,
With voice that is full of tears,
And say that our broken faith
Wrought all this ruin and seattle,
In the Year of Hundred Years!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-04-05

The most eloquent speaker, the most ingen-
ious writer, and the most accomplished states
man cannot effect so much as the mere pres
ence of the man who tempers his wisdom
and his vigor with umanity.-Lavater.--
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-04-05
Helena, Montana, Thursday, April 5, 1877.
FEMALE JACK SHEPHERDS.

Three Girls, from Ten to Fourteen Years
OfaSc, Rob q JeWelry store OF $500
Worth Of Rings, and Take
Rooms at q Hotel.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
A Birds Charity.

Last summer pair of robin redbreasts
built their nest in the vicinity of fash
ionable country bOarding-hOuse. In
due time the heads of four young robins
were observed by some of the boarders
peering above the sides of the nest.
when some thoughtless boys passing
that way shot both the parent birds and
left the young ones to perish. The ladies
and gentlemen, moved to pity by the
hapless condition of the poor birds.
were devising plans for their relief,
when little brown wren flew to the
nest, surveyed the unfortunate state of
things for moment, then disappeared.
In few minutes it returned, bearing
food of some kind to the starving robins.
Much surprised at this, the human
sympathizers resolved TO await further
developments before proceeding TO put
their plan of relief into operation, and
were delighted to find the wren had i'm
real good earnest assumed the care of
that orphan family. With untiring
energy it hunted worms and food of
such kind as was suited to the wants
and tastes of its proteges, and continued
its kindly offices until the birds were
full fiedged and able to take care of
themselves.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Striking sun Dial.

Another of those curious devices
striking sun dials-has been invented
by VI. Allegret, the apparatus being a
modification of what is known as the
solar counter for registering the times
at which the sun shines or is Obscured.
To effect this there are two balls, one
black and the other yellow. fixed at the
opposite ends of a lever, sustained by a
central pivot. When the sun shines the
black ball absorbs more heat than the
yellow one, and the vapor of liquid
contained in the former is elevated to a
higher temperature than in the latter
As the result, the vapOr leaves the one
ball, and. being condensed in the other.
this becomes the heavier, disturbs the
equilibrium of the system, and in so
doing liberates a weight, giving motion
TO clOckwork attachment. In NJ
Allegret's dial, a pair of these balls is
fixed at every hour mark. When the
shadow of the gnOmOn reaches any
particular hour mark, one of the balls
is shaded, a preponderance of liquid
enters the ball, the lever tilts, the
mechanism is set going, and a gong
sounded as often as the number of the
hour to be indicated. Ii is, of course.
necessary that the sun shine when the
hour mark is being passed by the
shadow, or the time will not be struck.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

4 discovery of no small interest to
students of Roman antiquities has re-
Gently been made. close to Colchester
"A town whose Roman remains are Sec
Ond To none in England. The discovery.
or rather series of discoveries, has been
made on part of the estate of Mr.. z. \.
Papillon, of Lex,len Manor, and upon a
field which extends almost from the an
cient Roman walls of Colchester paral-
lei with the small river COlne. i'm the di-
rection of LeXden.
Someindications having been observed
close to the spot where two foOtways To
LeXden join. tentative excavation was
made, which led speedily to the uncoy-
ering Of Roman pottery kiln, of pc
euliar form. \ floor of rectangula-
form, five feet four inches by four feet,
formed of clay perfectly vitrified, was
first met with, and this was found 10 be
pierced with peculiar small holes into
the furnace beneath. The latter was
then cleared out and was found 10 con
sist of a central passage two feet four
inches high, with small lateral cells on
either side arched over with clay, the
whole. roofs, walls and floor. being com
pletely covered with vitreOus glaze,
the result of extreme and long continued
neat. TIE entrance was the only aper-
ture except the holes through to the up
per baking floor, and the latter. a. well
as the small lateral cells. were evident
ly constructed to distribute the heat up
to and equally over the baking floor
There were traces of steps down from
the surface to the firing place of the
furnace, but there were none whatever
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

crown Of her head; she may stand in
her balcony and pelt the passers-by
with egg shells filled with sweet things,
or she may find her house Invaded and
herself placed gently in her bath. To
pass through the streets of Lima is to
insure drenching, either from those
very convenient balconies or from the
brawny negress who cody awaits your
coming with pail of water, which she
empties right over you. In the country
the object is the same, but the means
sometimes differ. AT Matucana, poor
little Choia, coming along with few
potatoes, is seized and laid lengthwise
in the stream which runs by the side Of
the railway. Another, who has
"played" oftener, stands knee deep in
the same stream. with a calabash, and
to her descends a man with a wooden
bucket, and for half an hour they dash
water at each other, resting at intervals
to recover breath. Here a gentleman
has handful of bitter herbs, which he
rubs in the teeth and mouth of his lady
love, while that lady's friends dexter
ously insert between his shirt and skin
a handful of nettles. But she does not
escape harmless, for, just as she has
planted the nettles well home, her
mouth is filled with blue mixed into
paste. They seem to enjoy it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Health.

Modern science has discovered that
there are certain principals and laws,
outside of the Bldterid medicd, which
almost magically eradicate from the
human system the ills that flesh is heir
to, and particularly in all cases affect
ing the muscles and joints. And this
efficacious mode of treating diseases has
been most successfully pursued in the
Metropolis by a woman, and one self
made in the profession she follows, that
of manipulation and electrician. Mrs.
+. T. Maycrink is well known. and
indOrSed by most of the iminent physi-
clans of this City, Philadelphia, Balti-
more. and Washington, and like Char
lotte Cushman, Mrs. Maycrink is ''dead
in earnest" i'm all she does, never having
time 20 listen TO the wiseacre isms that
of late years have so interested ambitious
females fond of sensation and excite
ment. Mrs. Maycrink has number
gentlemen and ladies studying with her I:
her son, Mr.. Louis Maycrink. is fast
gaining an envious reputation in the
profession at which his talented mother
stands without rivel. So much for
the success of a lady of brains, who has
steadily and courageously attended to
her own business, and hence can show
a practical example of what a true and
good woman can do in the support of
herself and family.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

He was practical but rather pedan-
tic sort of man, and said he did not
believe language was made to conceal
thought. More than this he did believe
that the dictionary was work made TO
use. and that every man should be ia
miliar with its minutest contents.
'But," said the student, ''that would
be impossible for any man."
"NOhsense!" exclaimed the practical
man, ''why, there are few words that
could be mentioned that l wouldn't be
perfectly at home with"
81 should like 10 give you few sam
piles" replied the student. 'I believe
1 could commence with the beginning
of Webster, and stump you before we
got through the AS"
Go on with your sample AS" de-
manded the self-confdent one, "and
then tackle the BIS and run on to the
rs"
"I'n try" said the student calmly,
by first giving you few sentences in
AS"
And squaring off for the work the
student asked the practical man to
please bear in mind and translate, when
he had done, the few sample sentences
following:
"ApprOach, adorers of Alliteration's 5
altar. Assemble abJals and abderian
adopts, and analyze an ambagitory and
amphibiological allocution. Accept, as
an apparently acataleptic and absonous
arrangement, an alliterative aggrega-
ton, actually anagogetical. As an
acephalist, abjure all adscititiOus arts
and adventitious aids as addititiOus; !;
and ardently advance. Ablepsy and
audacity are like anatreptic and ada
phorus, and adjuvants and anamnestic
adhibitions at abstringiDg and ablaque-
ating all abstruse anfractuosities and
anagogics, as all adepts are aware.
Avoid anastrophes as anacoluthic and
anisomeric; and abandoning abtitories,
advance against apparently antiphras-
teal anagraphs. Apply apomecometry,
and arrive at an apodeicticrl anagpor-
isis, and accept an authors acknow-
ledgment."
"rhere," demanded the student,
"translate that, and I'll commence with
the BIS and run on to the Isl"
But the practical man who was so in
innate with his own language had fed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Try Again.

Everybody makes mistakes. Things
will not always come out just a. We Try
TO make them, because some little wrong
thing is done, or something that needs
to be done is overlooked.
Well, what then? Shall We get dis
cOuraged, and let things 90 A. they will :
some people do: but such people have
Il hard life of it. They think themselves
very unlucky, and complain of their
hard fate.
The little fellow who is at work on
his example in multiplication finds he
has made a mistake. What.dOeS he do.
Drop his slate, and go Oft fretting, and
wishing there were no such things as
old bOthersOme figures: No; he is puz-
zled; but he knows there is mistake
somewhere, and ne means to find il.
TRY again" is his motto. He will
begin again and go slowly and carefully
through all the work. If he does not
find the mistake then. he will do the
same again, running through the lines
of the multiplication-table in his mind,
or making them by additions on his slate
He will hit upon the wrong and get the
right, you may be sure.-EWrig DIR.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

| wrote and told him of one gentle
noble collection of meerschaum pipes {:
another's elevating and refining collec-
ton of undecipherable autographs; an
others priceless collection of old china :;
anOther's enchanting collection of post
age-stamps-and 50 forth and so on.
Soon my letters yielded fruit. NV un-
Gle began to look about for something
to make a collection of. You may know,
perhaps. how fleetly a taste like this di-
lates. His soon became raging fever,
though | knew il not. He began to
neglect his great pork business; presen-
tly he wholly retired and turned an
elegant leisure into a rabid search for
curious things. His wealth was vast,
and he spared it not. First he tried
cow-bells. He made collection which
filled five large salons, and cOmprehen-
ded all the different sorts of cOw-bells
that ever had been contrived, save one.
That One-an antique, and the only
specimen eXtant-was possessed by
another collector. My uncle offered
enormous sums for it, but the gentle
man would not sell. Doubtless you
know what necessarily resulted. \ true
collector attaches no value to cOilec-
tion that is not complete. His great
hearts breaks. he sells his hoard, he
turns his mind TO some field that seems
unOccupied.
Thus did my uncle. He next tried
brickbatS. After piling up vast and
intensely interesting collection, the for
mer difficulty supervened; his great
heart broke again; he sold out his souls
idol to the retired brewer who possessed
the missing brick. Then he tried flint
hatChetS and other implements of
Primeval Man, but by and by discovered
that the factory where they We're made
was supplying other collectors as well
as himself. lie tried Aztec inscriptions
and stuffed whaleS-anOther failure,
after incredible labor and expense.
When his collection seemed at last
perfect. stuffed whale arrived from
Greenland and an Aztec inscription
from the Cundurango regions of Central
America that made all former specimens
insignificant. My uncle fastened to
secure these noble gems. lie got the
whale. but another collector got the
inscription. \ real Cundurango, as
possibly you know, is a possession of
such supreme value that, when once Il
collector gets it, he will rather part with
his family than with it. SO my uncle
sold ont, and saw his darlingS go forth,
never more TO return: and his coal
black hair turned white as snow in a
single night.
Now he waited. and thought. He
knew another disappointment might
kill him. He was resolved that he
would choose things next time that no
other man was collecting. He carefully
made up his mind, and once more entered
the field-this time to make collection
of echoes
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
NO. %.

in its wonderful home, the depths of
the beautiful ocean.
The poetic Greeks called il ''the
daughter of the sea-" It is now known
that the coral is formed by household,
of little creatures living together in u
wonderful way, so very strange that it
is difficult for unscientifc people 10
comprehend it.-COral fishing is usually
performed by Italian sailors, who work
under padrone or master. But it is
at the cost OF fatiguing labor and I'M
minent peril, that this precious article
is obtained. The apparatus with which
II is taken from its marine home, is
called an engine. 1t consists of two
long pieces of wood, strongly fastened
in the center, to which is attached an
immense stone, bearing lines arranged
in the form of a bag. There are thirty
of these, and spread out in all directions
with the motion of the boat.
When, after long, tedious, aud almost
fruitless toll, IL at length fastens on the
coral, the engine opposes for long
time the most laborious efforts of the
suffering men, who, half-naked, ana
exposed TO the terrible fieTceness of the
southern sun, work on, regardless OF
their pitiable condition, and while they
labor, the crew chant solemn, weird
melody, the words of which form all
appeal to their favorite saints. When
at length they succeed in detaehing tire
precious coral from its native bed, the
men set to work with will in sorting
and cleansing that which cost them So
much labor TO obtain. Ii is then
shipped to Mediterranean ports and sold
TO those whose work il is to fashion IL
into the pretty jewelry and beads " hich
We all so much admire.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
The Antiquity of Felt.

Felt probably preceded woven fabrics.
In Central Asia, the home of the Argali,
from whence the domestic sheep has
probably sprung, the clothing and tents
of the people are yet, and have been
since the first recorded times, felted
fabrics. The latticed-huts referred to
by Herodotus and Eschylus are covered
with felt, of which also the Tapping
screen which answers for door is
made. The Chinese traveller, Chi-fa-
hian, who visited India i'm the fourth
century, deeeribes the people of Chem
chen, who lived about the Lake of Lob,
as wearing dresses of Chinese cut, but
made of felt Felt covered the funeral
pile of Hephastio, whose obsequies were
so splendidly celebrated by Alexander !;
Xenophon says that felt was used to
cover chairs and eouches; the Medes
also used felt for sacks.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

The Londoners appear TO have gas at
a very low rate, indeed. The other day,
at public meeting in Newington, a sub
urban district, held for the purpose of
protesting against the high prices of
gas. it was resolved ''that in the opinion
of this meeting, the Phoenix Gas Com
many ought to supply the consumers
wi,h gas at the same price as the South
Metropolitan Company does, namely Is.
per l 900 cubic feet, free of metre rent.
This is at the rate of about 20 cents per
1000 feet, under ~ dsss ne hgllt
of sixteen sperm canGi. fitlmore
the present price of gas is s2.92 per
900 feet, discount off; In Philadel-
phia it is S2.39 per 900 feet. The other
day a proposition was made 10 Congress
to contract for the supply of the public
buildings at $l.5O LOCO feet, and to sup
ply the private consumers of the city at
Sl.75 per ! 900 feet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
oral.

From early times the coral has been
highly valued for ornamentation, and
great curiosity has ever existed to dis
cover its real origin, some of the
aneients prOclaiming it to be a plant,
others the product of plant. One
naturalist averred that il belonged to the
vegetable world, from the fact of his
having discovered its flower, but an
other put this fancy to fight by the
disclosure that what had been taken for
a flower was, in reality, a tiny insect.
That statement was at first received
with much opposition, but in course of
time it became understood and believed,
and no one at the present time thinks
of doubling the animal nature of the
eoralline-
1t Is said that we do not see the coral
at its best, for when We get it much OF
its brilliant coioring has departed, and
that to admire ii fully, We must see 1t
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
CONSTANCY.

The weakest heart. whste'er its changes,
Hewe'er the varying life may run,
HoRe'er the light affection ranges,
Is constant IN its depths TO one.
Through sweetest lands the stranger wanders
Yet none Of all like home he sees;
On many maid his fancy squanders,
But gives his heart to none of these.
By night and day constant yearning
Burns in his heart for one afsr;
To her his thoughts still backward turning,
As the fond needle seeks its star.
The lightest heart. whste'er its changes,
Until this fitfUl life be done,-
Howeer the ickle fancy ranges,
Is constant in its love to one.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
The Carnival in Peru.

1t would require man of wide and
varied experience to describe how they
"play at carnival in Peru" The aim
all have in view is to get as much wild
enjoyment out Of the three days as pos
sible. A lady may receive little
scented water from delicate spring. or
she may receive the contents of bottle
of pickles and the yolk ofsl egg on the
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

"A Schweitzer cheese factory is the
latest addition to the manufacturing in
terests of Reading.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04
Of Stockholders Meeting

Lancaster,
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