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The daily gazette., 1877-11-16
International Elll6libitSI]o7i3
The, American Industrial Palace &C
TI0 the Centennial Grounds. EIRj
The largest, gyandest, and most CON-
j. pLete Exhibition In the World.

Thirty eight States and Territories, and
all principal Foreign Countries represent
ed in the Immense Display. .-rfIul4--t H..
The great Main Building filled with Ex-
hibits, representative OF every Department
OF Education, Art, Science, and Industry.
Among the many attractions, special at
tention Is called to the great diorama OF
Washington at YORKTOWN, one OF the largest
and most life-like representations OF the
kind ever on exhibition. The Jahrmarkr,
an admirable illustration Of q German fair.
The wonderful mechanical landscape, in
the northwest corner Of the Agricultural
Department. a most ingenious piece Of me
chanism. The New England log cabin pict
uring the simple habitations. customs, and
manners of our forefathers. Tie glass
works, in which the manufacture OF glass
Is rully illustrated. One of the most at
tractive features of the exhibition. the In
dian encampment, showing the home life
of the Red Man. The colored quartette, who
sing the quaint plantation songs and hymns
OF the South, with all the melody and feel
ng Characteristic of their race, The eleva-
d, which a fine view OF the park and
ity obtainable. Special amusement
eLtIr es will be provided daily. The exhi-
bition band (Hassler Bros, Directors), give
ami Instrumental concert on Tuesday Thurs
dav and Saturday afternoons ofeach week
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While Senator Novor &c n

While Senator Maxey, of Texas,
was speaking in the Senate, on Wed
nesday, Senator Davis, of Illinois,
who wants to hear everything that is
SAID and see everything that is done.
left his own seat to get nearer the
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Another Oceaatc cable.

SAN FRANCISCO. November 1.-THE
Trans s-Pacitic Cable Company, for laying
a telegraph cable from San Francisco 10
Japan and China, via the Hawaiian
Islands, was organized to-tay. President
Leland Stanford secretary, A. s. Halli-
die treasurer, Mark l.. Mcdonald. The
capital stock of the company is $40 ,00J 900
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poNeo BECOMES A MISSING LINK

LONDON, Nov. 14.-The gorilla which
has recently been exhibited in London,
according TO the Standards Berlin spe-
cial correspondent, died suddenly on
Monday, without any preceding illness.
This was the ouly specimen of the goril-
la In Europe.
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Discount days, Mondays and Thursdays
TNHE ARTIzANS SAVINGS BANK.
6O2 MARK EFT STREET,

5O2 MARK EFT STREET,
INCORPORATED JANUARY 23D, 1851.
Open TO receive deposits daily from A
M. until p. NJ, and ON Tuesday and Sat
urday evenings from to 3 O'Clock.
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND,
OF SIX per cent, mas been regularly paid on
deposits, since the organization of the Bank
and 1t Is the expectation of the Managers,
that this rate of dividends will be continued.
When dividends are not Withdrawn, they
are accounted as deposits. Thus permanent
deposits compound their interest twice in
each year.
MANAGERS.
Clement B: 3myth, George w. Bush,
Nathan'l K. Benson, NJ. L. Lichenstein,
Henry f. Dure, Edward Darlington
+. NJ. Stonsenberg, Job IL. jackson,
| William VI. Field, VIM. III. Swift,
Anthony Higgins.
GEO. W. BUSH, President.
GEO. s. CAPELLE, Vice President.
! feb2l y F.. t. TAYLOR, Treasurer.
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II is nourlsnIng ana SUSTAINING; can be
used with or without milk; the effectTtha
Ridges Food has upon a delicate constittu
tion is simply marvellous. Ridges Food
is recognized by the highest authority the
world over. Every label bears the sigma
ure of WOOLRICH q CO. In caans, $50
c.; S1.25. and S1.7B. nov23-1y-eod.
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CHILD-srEALING IN BROOKLYN

NEW YORK, nov. l4.--Arthur Leaman,
aged 2! years, was abducted last evening
from in front of his residence, No. 422
Gold street, Brooklyn, by an unknown
man. The police of Brooklyn and New
York are working up the case.
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Rec,tdEs on the Grdnd Roosevelt Organ
Every day at and 4p. m.
Grand Promenade Concert
Every saturday Evening

The Summer Tourist will find no resort
possessing greater interest than this, which
quite rivals the exhibit in the Main Build
ing last year.
Admission Tickets, Price % Cents Child
Idete Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Mu.
scum and School of Industrial Art, in
Memorial Hall augN-d3m
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U1 q day at home. Agents wanted. Out
plH flt and terms free. TRUE CO., Au-
gusta. Maine.
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Philadelphia and New York Exchange fur
nished to regular Depositors without charge
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EDWARD BELTS, PRESIDENT.
GEO. D. ARMSTRONG, CASHIER
faid up GapIIal, S5OO,OOO
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WORK FOR ALL

In their own localities, canvassing for the
FIREsIDE VISITOR, (enlarged) weekly
and monthly. LARGEST PAPER IN THE
WORLD, with Mammoth Chromos Free -
Big Commissions TO Agents. Terms and
Outftfree. Address p. o. .VICKERY. Au-
gusta, Maine.
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INANCIAL AGENTS OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
How the Miridites get their Wives
No Marrying Within the Tribe.

Perhaps the most extraordinary Gus
tom of the Miridites, who are Roman
Catholics, is that by means of which
they get their wives. When a young
man among them contemplates marriage
he first goes to some Mohammedan To-
cality and finds out where the maidens
are wont to stay. Then he returns, or
ganizes party of friends and relatives,
and, swooping down on the habitatiOn
of the bride elect, carries her off to his
mountain home and to state of we'd
lock. But the most singular part of
the whole affair is that, in spite of the
of violence, the matter is
really devoid of any hostile feeling,
and is, in fact, a perfectly amiable ar
for the husband afterwards
hands over to the brides relatives the
price that is considered brides equiva-
lent in that part of the world, and both
sides remain contented and on intimate
and agreeable terms with each other.
The idea of giving this semblance of
force to courtship and literally taking
TO ones self wife seems to be that it is
more manly to seize upon the lady than
to sue for her. Why Mohammedan
women are always selected for capture
by these fanatical Christians does not
appear. But it is probable that desire
to make proselytes is the chief motive
which causes this action. The women
taken are not Turkish, but members of
Albanian tribes which have become
Mohammedan, so it is probable that
they, and consequently their children,
are looked upon as stray sheep brought
back to the fold. As for the Miridite
women they must take their chances of
getting husbands among the other
Christian tribes of Northern Albania,
or else remain virgins all their days, for
on no account will the Miridite men
marry within the tribe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
4 Historic Dragon.

Among the curiosities which are
about TO be added to the Museum of
Cluny, are number Of relies lately
purchased in the Island of Rhodes. NJ.
du Sommerard, the director of the
Museum, and NJ. Schlumberger, of the
Society of French Antiquarians, have
negotiated the purchase of these monu-
ments, which are principally ornaments
for the tombs of the Grand Masters of
the Order of st. John. One of them is
a fragment of the sepulchre of the
famous Deodat de Gozen, who was at
the head of the Order from 1916 to 1858.
He was gentleman of Languedoc, and
was celebrated throughout the whole of
the Levant under his title of "Extinctor
Draconis," or the dragon-slayer. He
had acquired the name by an exploit
worthy of Hercules or Theseus, the de-
scription of which, as embellished by
the legends of the Middle Ages, is fit to
be compared with the tales of Greek
relating to Lerna or Crete.
TO the pious chroniclers at
tached to the Order of st. John, the in
habitants of the island were, in the
earlier part of the fourteenth century,
tormented by the presence of ferocious
monster, armed with enormous jaws
and teeth, and huge tail, and pro-
tected by scales, apparently invulnera-
Die to mortal arms. For years this
beast was permitted to ravage their
lands and scare the children out of their
wits, until at last subdued and slain by
the redoubtable lance of Deodat de
GOzen. This was the established history
current among the puny Greeks of the
Levant. But Paoli, the chief historian
of the Order, casts some doubt upon the
tale, and the inquiries made by the two
French antiquarians reduce it, not in
deed to the level of complete myth,
but to very modest proportions. 1t
seems that the dragon was an alligator
by some mounte bank from
Africa, and that probably the young
knight Deodat, as he then was, thought
it good joke to try the temper of his
lance by riding at the poor beast and
him.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29

curious fish in the flesh. Ii measures
five feet, is about quarter of an inch
thick, and is of a silvery hue, not un-
like the color of the 'silver-hair tail.'
Upon the top of the head there are fla
ments, which, when stretched TO their
full, are about eight inches long. The
head is very remarkable; altogether it
is not unlike the shortened head of a
horse. The mouth is prehensible, and
so peculiarly formed that it is quite
worthy of figure; the eyes are very
large and circular; the iris of a lustrous
silver color. Behind the head the body
is two inches and Il half deep, in the
middle two inches, at the tail quarter
of an inch. When held up to the light
it is almost transparent; the yertebre
can with difficulty be seen, but with
the movement of the fingers each ver-
tebre will give slight crack at the
junction with its neighbor. The yerte-
bra are longest and thickest toward the
tail end. AT which there are sharp spines.
1t is covered everywhere with fine
silvery powder, which readily comes
of he hand. It mas crust of about
an nes l. height, which runs down
the whole of the back. The rays form
ing the crest are united to double pill
lars of very slender bone. In substance
il is very delicate, and begins to dry
and harden almost Immediately on ex-
pOsure TO the air.
Il cannot find much about this fish
in any of my books. This family of
ribbon-shape form consists of seven
genera and twenty-siX species. Mr..
Swanson remarks of it as follows:
1T contains the most singular and
extraordinary fishes in creation. The
form of the body, when compared to
fishes better known, is much like that
of an eel, the length Of the body being
in the same proportion to the breadth; /;
but then it is generally so much COM
pressed that these creatures have ac-
quired the popular name of ribbon fish,
lath, or deal fish. The body. indeed, il
often not thicker. except in the middle,
than is sword, and being covered
with the richest silver, and of great
length, the undulating motions of these
fishes in the sea must be resplendent
and beautiful beyond measure. But |
the wonders of the mighty deep are
almost hidden from the eye of man. |
These meteoric silver-coated fishes ap-
pear to live in the greatest depths. and |
it is only at long intervals. and after a |
of tempeSts, that a solitary |
individual is east upon the shore with |
its delicate body torn and mutilated by |
the elements on the rocks. so that with |
few exceptions they are scarcely 10 he
regarded a. edible fish
According to this authority, the
has hitherto produced /
The largest proportion of the family, |
but it is distributed from the arctic re-
gions TO the sunny shores of India, so
that probably tithe have not yet been
liscovered.'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
Mrs. Stubb', the suffers Wife.

She was tall, she was gaunt as gray
wolf in Winter. She was strong of
arm and stout of nerve, with a talent
for devising and a will for executing
almost any work. She could serve a
dinner to tolerably straitened garrison
that would tempt a king, or she could
steady rifle and drop a red skin, if
need be, at 300 yards. There was even
a rough kind of femininity about the
woman, who was by no means disagree
able to look at, with her bright black
eyes and her brown cheeks showing a
subdued flame. She had been known
more than once 10 nurse a wounded
man back to life when the surgeons had
given him up, = with just scolding
enough, it must be owned, to spur him
on to convalescence. Add to these the
aggressive qualities of thrift and neat
ness, and we shall have a perfect char
acter, you will say. On no; do you
fancy that all the natural graces and
Christian virtues are TO be found in one
individual? She was envious. (But
that is not so rare fault that it need be
dwelt upon.) She was crafty and un-
scrupulous. But the first she concealed
by the second; and the third, in tend
ing upon the other two, kept in the
background. And then she was comely
to look at-that is a better cloak than
charity, ven,-with her sleek black
hair aud the fresh color just deadened
by the tan on her cheeks. COmely to
look at, if one could forget the embers
in her eyes, which a gust of passion
might blow into a blaze. After all, it
was a kind of beauty which a man
might like to look upon, but would
hardly covet tor his own.
As for her thrift and neatness, the
suffers quarters showed the effect of
these good qualities, which were kind
of stOckade about the real woman. Her
home was tidy and inviting, or would
have been, but that the tidiness became
tyrannical at times. Gradually a kind
of cabaret of most respectable pattern
was established here, where the officers
dropped in of an evening to order a bit
of supper, which the mistress of the
house was not above cooking with her
own hands. A well-thumbed pack of
cards was brought into requisition
while waiting for this to be served, and
rumor did say that many pile of gov
ernment gold changed hands over the
table here. But rumOr is always ma
licious, and this may not have been
true. Drinking there certainly was,
but no brawling over the cards or wine,
or the friendly pipe with Stubs him.
self, who was quiet, shrewd man, an
excellent listener at all times - and
what could be more desirable in a conf
paniOn? He could even tell story of
his own when Mrs. Stubs was not by.
-Seribner's Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
The Name smith.

The Spaniard's version of John Smith
is Juan Smithus; the Dutchman adopts
it as Hans Schmidt; the French softens
it into Jean Smeets; the Russian
rOughen it into Jouloff Smittowski
John Smith goes into the tea trade with
China, and then he becomes Jahon
Shimmit. Among the Icelanders he is
Jaime Smithson. Among the Tusca-
rora's be is Tom Gu Smittia. In Poland,
Ivan Schmittiaveiski among the Welsh
we are told they talk of Jihom Schmidt ;
in Mexico he is written down as Joutli
F. Smitri; among the classical ruins of
Greece he becomes l on Sinihton; in
Turkey he Is almost lost sight Of as Yoe
Seef.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
THE NOCKING BIRD.

Superb and sole upon plumed spray
That DER the general LEAKAGE boldly grew,
He summed the woods with song; or typic
drew
The s1oop Of hungry hawks, the lone dismsy
OF languid doves when long their lovers stray,
And all birds passion-plays that sprinkle
dew
At morn in brake or bosky avenue
Whate'er birds did OF dreamed, this bird could
say.
Then down he shot, bounced airily along
The sward. twitched in grasshopper, made
song
Midiight perched, primped, and to his art
again,
Sweet Science, this large riddle read me plain
How may the death Of that dull insect be
The life Of yon trim Shakespeare on the tree?
The GALAXY.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
IN. dutch Passion for washing.

Every Saturday morning the Duleh
women wash their houses on the out
side, scrubbing them from pavement 10
chimney. Any point that is TOO high
for broom or ladder they reach by
forcing pump. From nearly every
window may be seen woman, streteh-
ing herself halfway out, perhaps, with
a brush and cloth reaching after some
faneied dirt spot, or dashing pail of
water ut it.
II is understood at this time that the
town is given up to cleaning, and the
nassers by on the pavement below have
no right TO complain If they get a
shower of water and suds over their
heads. The spiders have been driven
entirely out of Holland, or left in dis
gust and do not think ever saw a
fy anywhere in the country NO
swallows are allowed TO dirty up their
houses or stables, and, strange to say,
one sees no birds about whatever, eN-
cept the omnipresent storks- which We
allowed by special favor, 10 build their
nests in the chimney tops, owing to a
particular yeneration which the Dutch
have for this bird, likely because 1t Is
Waterfowl, or rather water or land
fowl: or. like the Dutch themselves, an
swamp animal.
As you 90 through Dutch town the
most common sight is the women wash
ing i'm the canals. On both sides, from
one end of the street to the other may
be seen at all times of the day, washing
from baby's stocking up
to tablecloth. and when they have
nothing else to wash, they wash out
their brooms and brushes and tubs and
Sometimes the whole canal
has the appearance of flowing with
soap-suds.
The Dutch have learned the art of
and everything connected
with il, 80 well that other countries
often send their linen there to be washed
and bleached, especially the large manu-
factories. The meadows outside of a
Dutch town are fairly white with
washed article stretched over them.-I
LHdirs' Repository.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
VEGETINE

The following letter from Rev G. ". Nam
Held, formerly pastor OF the Methodist EDs-1.
pal Church, Hy de Park, and at pres mt s1trlst
In Lowell. must convince every one who resd-
his letter OF the wonderful curative Qualities :,
VEGETISE as thorough cleanser and pQrfn-r
OF the blood
Mr.. H. r. STEVENS.
Dear .Sr. About ten years ago nv he,irs
failed through the depicting effects OF dysT-r
sia nearly a year later was attacked by =.
phO.d-Iever In It's worst FORM Il settled In NJ
back, and took the form OF a large deep-sssf-t
ahsceSs, which was fifteen mon Is IN gafherfr--
had two surgical opera ions by the best ssf
In the state, but received no permanent eur.
1 suffered great pain at times, and was en-
SANITY weakened by prOfuse discharve I
also lost small pieces OF bone at different tinsS
Matters ran on thus about seven years nm
May. 1874 when friend recommended NE 10 ~
10 your Office and talk with you OF the Virtue n
yEGETISE / did so, and BY your kfDdnss.
passed through your manufactOry. noting H.
Ingredients, 6c.. by which your remedy Is pn-
duced-
1dence In NEGETISE.
/ commenced taking it soon after, but rs,r
worse from its effec ;, still peIseyered and
soon felt IL was oenefiting me Ia other respect.
Yet l did not Sc c the results / desired I'LL h.i
taEen it faithful ly for little more than q year
when the diflculty IN the back was cured; aul
for nine months l have enjoyed the best q
health.
have IN that time gained twenty-five pound,
OF flesh. being heavier than ever before il NJ
life, and was never more able 10 leriOrm labJf
than now.
During the past few weeks had scrorq'oC.
swelling as large as my list gaIher On another
part or my bedy.
took VE6ETISE faithfully, and it removed L
level with the surface In a month I tnlnk I
should have been cured OF my main tr0-f.-
sooner II had taken larger doses, alter hiylng
become accustomed TO ITS effects
Let your patrons troubled with scTOfJla CT
kidney disease understand that 10 takes tine 70
cure chronic diseases: and, II they Will paJisu o.
ly take NEGETISE. IL viii, IN my Judgment, cure
them.
With great obligations am
Yours very truly.
G. W. MANSFIELD.
Pastor OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29

\ collection of sweet temptations
much carried about in Pera is of the
''stick-jaw description; the black.
brown, red, white and yellow substan-
ces are disposed on fiat metal dish, di-
vided into compartmeI + radiating from
the center, where there is a revolving
stick which the appreciative twirl
round, and the dealer. with an iron
skewer that serves for all, scoops out
halfpenny or farthing lick from the
sweet at which the point may stop.
But these dealers are generally Per-
slams; our Osmanli Is of superior or
der, and he grayely waits the approach
of customers: they quickly gather
round, among them two little Turkish
girls under the charge of an old man in
cotton dressing gown and large white
turban. The little maidens are on their
way to the day school of the quarter,
for their gold-embroidered schOol-bags
are slung over their shoulders. but they
stop soberly at sight of the ''scheker"
and enter upon serious bargain on the
subject of candy, exacting with much
show of experience, the largest Jumps
obtainable for ten paras; they are, how
ever, slightly distracted during the ne
gotiations by the rival charms of the
'mohalibe" which an Albanian is dis
pensing at neighboring house door.
''Mohalibe" is a sort of cold Jelly COM
posed of ground rice and milk: il is
served in saueers, powdered with sugar
and sprinkled with rose water: i'm the
proper season lump of clotted cream.
called caimak, is added. There is moth
ing prettier and more tempting than
the mohalibe trays, when the white
jelly is covered with a clean wet cloth
and surrounded with gaily colored and
gilded saucers, while a richer display
of ornamental porcelain rises in tiers at
the back. Then there are the slim
metal arrow shaped spoons, and the
Oriental looking flask of rose water
with its slender neck. The costume of
the ''mohalibedji" completes the pie
ture; he wears the broad Albanian fez.
with ponderous dark blue tassel. and
large striped cloth is bound round
him like an apron.-TempIe Bur.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29

Freezing Point Of Ether.-Our common
ethylic ether, improperly called sui
phuric ether, because made by the action
of sulphuric acid upon alcohol, is
known to be a substance which does not
freeze very readily. Its freezing point
has been variOusly stated by different
Investigators, but Franchiment thinks
that pure ether cannot be frozen. He
has cooled il to-S0 deg. c. lip deg.
Fah.) and it remained a thin liquid
showing no signs of capitalization. In
ether containing any water, white crys
talline flakes form at a very low tenn
perature but the less water there is
present the lower the temperature re
quired will be, and the smaller the
quantity of crystals. Franchimont
thinks that these flakes are no crystals
of ether, but ice crystals. The question
seems to be one not easily settled, for
few experimenters care TO work at
such extremely low temperatures, OBJ
tainable only by the expenditure of so
much time, labor. and expense.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
Truths Oeerly Told.

Science is first-rate piece of furni-
ture for a mans upper chamber, if he
has common sense on the ground floor.
Advice is like Doctors pills; how
easily he gives them-how reluctantly
he takes them, when his turn comes.
Some injudicious folks, instead of en-
couraging the highly-charged mind
and heart, in blowing off verse and
bombast, would sit on the safety-valve.
Truth gets well if she is run over by
a locomotive, while error dies of lock-
jaw if she scratches her finger.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29

Do all the good you can in the world
and make just as little noise about il as
possible.
1t is impossible to ascertain how far
virtue will predominant until oppressed
by temptation.
People become i'll by drinking healths.
He who drinks the health of every body
drinks away his own.