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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-14

REAL ESTATE TRANsFERs.-The following
are the real estate transfers recorded in this
county yesterday:
Deerng-John w. Adams to Harriet A. Sid
oons, 5000 square feet, for 5000.
North Yarmouth-Joseph Mann ct ais. to
Charles Mitchell, three lots of land, for $916.66
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-14
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.
Once Hours.

Once Hours.
From 7.30 a IN to $50 m, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from 9 to 10 m.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-14

The undersigned are a few of the many who hav e
been cured by my treatment, and be interviewed
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
Oriental Carpets and Greek APchf-
tectnre.

A few years ago, the carpets were al
most all highly reprehensible. To say
that they were barbarous would be TO
pay them compliment, for no barbar-
GUS people ever made such crudities of
line and color "a Le old Brussels"
and ''ingrain" carpets shown us;
though the 'Hingrain" designs were
often better than those of the more ex-
pensive kinds. This was because fewer
tricks were played with the warp and
woof in the cheap carpet, and the de-
signs were more evidently structural.
The objection to all the carpets of the
former time, cheap and dear alike, was,
that the patterns were too defined;
whether "set" or Glowing" they could
not be made to blend with what was
placed upon them, but pushed them
selves so impertinently to the fore, that
the carpet became the chief thing in the
room, instead of being, as it should be,
only a background for the rest. OF
late years, there has been a great i'm
prOvement in the designs Of all carpets,
from the most expensive Wilson to the
cheapest ingram. In the richer sorts,
dark, soft tones with patterns-if pat
terms they can be called-of spots and
stains, that now appear, now hide, but
are never in the way, are to be bought
in many of the shops. Some Of the best
English carpets are as thick and soft as
the best of Persian make, and the de-
signs, when they are not too daring, or
when the makers are content with copy
ing the quieter Eastern patterns, are a
great improvement on the older manu-
factures. But one may as well spend
his money for an Eastern carpet out
right, as buy one of these English car
pets. There would be the certainty of
getting a design that had no faint of
South kensington in it, and that would
be sure not to be the same through any
square foot of its space. For one thing
Eastern art is valuable TO us; it rebukes
at every turn our scientific love Of pre-
cision and symmetry, shows US the
charm of irregularity, and teaches us
how to make TIVE sides of thing alike,
while keeping them quite different.
Whether we shall ever get this into our
blood, don't know. 1t is an essential
principle of all the best decorative art;
and necessarily so, because all such de-
sign is as far removed as possible from
mechanical assistance, and has no
other rule or measure than the eye act
ing through the hand. No two Ionic
capitals of Greek workmanship even in
the same temple are alike in anything,
except general size and character. No
more are any two Doric caps alike, nor
any two mouldings of any style, nor
any two successive feet of any Greek
ornament. The notion instilled into
our minds that the Greek architecture
is all monotony and repetition Is Of
or German origin.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
The Mound. Builders and their Pred.
ecessOrs.

The earth of this continent shows us
that before the Indians there has been
a people whom we call the Mound
builders-that is, mounds were thrown
up here by men whose bones we find in
them, lying among rough tools and
( utensils, and after the mounds we name
the race, who perhaps. were not diff
ferent people from the Indians.
But for these mounds we would not
I know of the men who built them. They
are mentioned in no history, human or
divine. What was there before the
Mound builder! | would speak of
what must nave been long before his
time = of early, though perhaps not
earliest man in North America. We
must know tEis early man by our ex-
perience of his traces. New Observa-
tions OF fact and the ideas they have
awakened in myself are put forward,
so that you may judge of the reason
ableness of the conclusions. And here
any boy will afford a competent Illus
tration of the evidence. Almost the
I first thing that our boys do is to throw
stones. 1t is one of their ways of say
No. There is more than one parallel
between savages and our boys to be
maintained. just as the state of mind
of the adult savage is paralleled by
/ that of our children, so we must expect
that so common a weapon as a stone is
to our boys must he extensively used
by sayages. And this, in fact, is what
we do find. There was also time
when this stone throwing was the oc-
cupation of grown men of our own
race Stones were used in the warfare
of the Celt and the Roman. We re-
member that David, Semites, used a
pebble from the brook. And we shall
| find that men of other races, and before
David, resorted to the same weapon for
all the purposes which in David's time,
ard with his race, were partly served
by metals. There is, then not only a
parallel to be drawn between our boys
and savages in certain ways, but there
exists one between these boys of the
present and our men of the past. Just
as, when cutting into the crust OF the
earth, we find the remains of animals
and plants which once inhabited its
| former surfaces, the simpler forms be-
low, the more complex above, so We
| find the remains of mans tools and i'm
plements in the clays and graveis of the
last geological period of the globe, and
with like sequence in their character.
The oldest and lowest forms of tools
are simplest; the newer and nearer to
| the present surface, the more varied
and complex. We have seen the SIM
plest weapon man could use would be
stone. Even now a wagner with
broken cart looks around naturally for
stone to pound with. and SO mend his
ways. He picks up stone on occasion
as his ancestors did on most occasions.
For the moment he is in the Stone age.
And he uses what the earliest man
must have undoubtedly used, stone
Just as it is. There must have been a
time when men picked up such stones
as came in their way at the moment
with which to throw at animals, to
break their food, to iDjure their fellow
men. Such stones, unaltered by use,
can no longer be indentitied.-Poputdr
Science Monthly. -0
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
St. Isaac.s Church, 81. Petersburg

By all means mount st. Isaac's, even
if you have to stay in all day after
ward, for in no other way can you
form an adequate notion either of the
prodigious audacity which planned q
vast city on wet bog, and at the mercy
of both river and sea, or the extent,
and symmetry and picturesqueness of a
city which the Moscow people, sneer at
it as they may, find only too successful
a rival as the residence ofthe Court and
as the seat of Government. This St.
Isaac's Church, built on piles forced
deep down into yielding morsss, and
continually requiring repairs, from an
awkward habit of slipping, has already
cost three million sterling, and TO an
impartial mind is hardly worth the
money. II is four-square building,
approached on each side by a grand
flight of steps, and supported by mag
niflcent peristyle of columns sixty feet
high, granite monolyths from Finland.
There is central cupola, richly gilt,
and supported by thirty granite pillars,
the whole surmounted by golden
cross three hundred and sixty feet from
the ground. The capitals of the col
umns are in bronze, and there is much
metal Ornamentation on the exterior or
In the shape of bas-reliefs, statues, and
bpsts, mingling Of materials, which,
to me seemed infelicitOus. Imposing,
however, as the exterior undoubtedly
is, the interior is yet more striking to
an eye accustomed to the austere sim
plicity of Protestant churches. The
walls are of polished marble covered
with pictures, many of which are in ex-
quisite mosaic. The roof is painted in
fresco. The iconostas, or screens, which
in Greek churches separate the body of
the church from the sanctuary, are
adorned with columns of malachite and
labis lazu.i, and profuse gliding every
where gives rich and splendid effect.
Roughly described, st. Isaac's is sort
of dwarfed St. Paul's without nave or
choir, and the Restoration Committee
might do worse than study the decora-
ton of st. Isaac's as possible model
for their own cathedral.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28

have done more. When the snow got
too deep he stopped, an crouchin' agin
the fence, with the poor gals face close
to his, an their hands clasped, death
came down through this lonesome val
ley an took 'em. Ii was an awful sight,
sir, an the gals father took on so that
men had to hold him. The neighbors
had to lay out the corpses an bury 'em,
an it was right to put 'em both in one
grave. The mother went dead over it
before the grave was covered, an the
father is gone no one knows whar. It's
awful to think of, sir, an when git 10
rememberin' all about it, such lump
comes up in my throat that can't talk. :"
The traveller looked up into the rough
giants face, and two tears, frozen to ice
by the bitter wind, rested on his cheeks.
"An' / just believe" whispered the
man, after long pause. and pointing
heavenward with his whip, "that Bes-
sic an Luke are the brightest angels of
the hull crowd yonder."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
Two Odd Dreams.

An exchange tells a story Of a gentle
man who, on going to bed, lost collar
button, which on coming detached
rolled to distant corner of the room. He
searched for it about ten minutes, and
then gave it up for lost. In the night
he dreamed that he found it under the
washstand, and on walking up found it
in that spot. This isn't half so odd ss
the case of man who lost valuable
horse, and before going to bed ate a
Welsh rarebit. He dreamed his horse
was in a village church fifteen miles
away, and was quietly consuming the
hair in the pew-cushions, having left
the buggy on the pulpit steps. When
he awoke the next morning he found
that in reality neighbor's boy had
found the horse and vehicle and had
put it up in q livery stable until he
could claim a reward.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
An Item for Baggage Men.

Those are reckless boys at the depot
baggage room. The way they handle
things this cold weather is caution TO
travellers. Some of them will get burt
some day. But they got a setback re-
Gently. We wandered around that way
about two o'clock TO see them make the
brass head trunk nails fly in the frosty
air. A drummer was standing against
the butting post just outside the door,
and he winked at us as we went in,
Smith was on duty with Drury. and he
hauled a Saratoga down from the top Of
a great pile of trunks and let it fall
with smash that jammed in one han
die and lOosened the top, and then he
uncOiled rope and tied her up and
threw small sample case across the
room on 10 truck. A great big sample
case was pushed off on to little cheap
russet trunk, and the pieces of the little
trunk with the contents were shOyelled
into the bag and the check was tied on
by string. The next trunk was a
looking, wOrn-Out, black, little
trunk tied up with rope, and it was
dreadful TO witness Smiths ewes dilate
as he approached the tender and de-
fenceless trunk. But just as he touched
the handle of that trunk he wilted. His
eyes bulged out with horror, and the
boys took their feet down off the stove
and gathered around him with anxious
faces. He muttered ''Thomasen ~ and
pointed 10 the floor, where handful OF
powder lay, evidently sifted through
the bottom of the trunk. Silently, but
persistently, the loafers recalled sundry
business engagements and departed.
The Hawkeye remained only taking the
precaution TO present the side of his
face TO the imminent explosion. Smith
and Drury consulted. "Its just that
kind of a trunk" said Smith. SIT
looks suspicious, snyhow," said Drury.
"Wbat'll We do with it?'' Lets open
open il and see what's inside" Chow
does it go?" east" "Well, then,
lets send her of and get rid Of her."
And they went and got over-cOats and
piled up on the floor, and both of them
engineered that trunk, carefully, solicit
tOusly. They wouldn't trust it on the
truck with the other trunks for fear
that the jar would explode it. But
they carried IL down the platform be-
tween them. We followed them out
until we were attracted by that drum
mer again. He winked again; ''That's
mine; always do that" says he. cal
ways do what ?" we queried, with re-
porter's instinct. always wear that
trunk and sprinkle powder on the floor.
Quite spec, you see, Saves my sam
Piles, and then every three weeks |
charge the house with a new sample
case. Clear gain. Clear gain" And
he chuckled as ne turned into the wait
ing room for cupof coffee.-BTliAgton
KdTkege.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28

neither washed nor wiped after. Less
disagreeable TO the touch than these
but more disastrous TO the pOssessor
are those dry and burning hands which
leave on yours the impression OF fire.
and are indeed signs of the fever,
whether of mind or body, sure to be
consuming those who possess them.
And then there are hands neither wet
nor burning; neither Geld nor hot, but
just what healthy living flesh should
be-warm, elastic, fresh, and which
give you real pleasure to touch, as any
thing perfect of its kind always does.
Extremes meeting the North Ameri-
can Indian brave and our modern fine
ladies stand side by side in their desire
TO possess small, white, unworked
hands. The brave reserying all his
strength for hunting buffalo and TAX
ing scalps, disdains TO harden his hands
with other work. If wood is to be
hewed, tents pitched, skin dressed, and
what not, the squaw, whose hands are
only useful, not refined, must run the
risk of abrasiOns and callOsities, while
her warrior husband lounges idly by,
keeping his hands white and soft as
gentleman should. So in our drawing
rooms. Our pretty women, those use
less marvels of creation, would hold
serviceable hands as a stain on their
gentlehood. They, and the Indian
braves, and the pickpockets, all have
tC keep their fingers tine aud theis
hands unused to work, else the sign of
their condition would be gone with the
first two, and with the third the possi-
bilities of his profession. 1t is not the
only odd connection brought about by
false refinement and an affected repu-
diation of natural uses. No hand can
be really beautiful which carries with
it the look of incspacIty.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
Hebrew Poetry.

All deep personal feeling, such as a
stands in close relation to some univer-
sal truth. What the poet experiences in
his own heart must have a validity go
ing beyond himself; and in particular
the religious conviction that animates
the Hebrew hymns has as its necessary
source and counterpart body of gen.
eral religious truth. The worthless
modern suojectivity which separates
the religious sentiment from all persua-
sion of objective realities is remote from
the spirit of the Old Testament: but,
conversely the general truths of the re-
ligion of Israel except in so far as they
are embodied in ritual, precept or his
toric narrative, are always spoken to
the heart as well as to the intellect.
The Israelite never thought of framing
system of theology. His interest in
religious truth was not scientific but
personal. The deepest truths of the dis
pensation were not reasoned out scien-
tifically, but felt as personal necessities.
The doctrine of Immortality, for exam
pie. to which Socrates attained by ar
gument on the constitution of mans
nature, is grasped by the Israellte in
personal-assurance that death itself can
not part him from God his Redeemer.
Truths reached by such process-by
reasoning of the heart, not of the head
necessarily assume poetic form,
which insensibly merges into pure
lyric. If the hymns of the Old Testa-
ment express personal emotion en-
bodying and resting on general truth,
the corresponding didactic poetry ex-
presses general truth in the tone Of per-
sonal enthusiastic conviction.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28

pulled one Of the knives out; then from
his left ear he drew the other one. The
keeper crossed himself in terror. and
shrank trembling away. But we fiu-
ished our wine, and having paid for it,
turned to go.
"Here," said Joe, 81 haven't paid
for the use of the yard yet" And as he
spoke he threw down a piece of silver
upon the counter. -
"No! no! no." shrieked the poor
fellow. go, criesl don't leave your
money here, don'tl"
Joe picked it up and went away
laughing. When We were alone he ex-
planned to me the secret of his pistols.
They were pair he had used in his
legerdemain performances, and such as
all wizards use TO perform tricks of
catching balls, etc. The main barrel of
the pistol had no connection whatever
with the nipple for the cap; but what
appeared to be a socket for the rammer
was, in fact, second barrel-to be sure,
smaller than the other, but yet as large
as the bore of any rifle-pistol-and with
this secret barrel the printing tube con-
nected. So the apparent barrel of the
weapon might be filed with powder
and ball and no harm could be done.
When Joe returned with his pistols,
of course he had both these secret bores
loaded with blank charges, and then the
other load was nothing but effect in ap-
pearance. At the second loading Joe
had charged the secret barrel of his own
pistol, while the Spaniard had been fill
ing up the main barrel of his. Then, of
course, it became necessary TO make an
exchange, else BiZar never would have
got his weapon off. As soon as Joe got
the other pistol into his possession, and
made the exchange which we spoke of
at the time, he had only TO press
smartly upon secret spring on the side
of the stock, and he had the whole
charge which the other had put in,
emptied into his hand. So he had the
marked ball to dispose of as he chose.
Ever after that, while he remained
in Mahon, Joe Lattit was an object of
both curiosity and dread on shore, for
an account, all colored to suit the ex-
aggerated conceptions of the cafe-keep-
er, had been spread over the city, and
the pious Catholics there wanted moth
ing to do with such man, only to be
sure and keep on his good-humored
side.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
People We Like

The trouble is, we are apt to like those
people whom our judgment tells us we
should not even tolerate. For instance,
there's a certain style of young ladies
that like, but of which heartily dis
approve. They are pretty, fashionable,
elegant and accomplished. But know
how full of ill-humor and vanity they
may be, teasing and tormenting each
other without sincerity or reverence.
know that dress, amusement and flirta-
scope and object of human life. l know
how worthless such an existence must
really be. How is it, then, that like
such girls-nay, more, that l once lost
my heart to one of the species? There
was nothing in the world that / would
not dare or attempt for her sake. /
would, at her bidding, pluck her glove
out of a den of wild beasts, and, if she
liked, she might slap my face with it
afterward, instead of my slapping hers,
as Schiller's hero did. OF course she
Tilted me. 1 fancy she took the high
pecuniary ground and thought there
was q better speculation in man next
door, who was in the process of drink
ing himself to death. l always think
that there is peculiar Nemesis for
jilts. i have seen great many of them
in my time, and they have never turned
out well. AT all events my jilt did not.
Twenty years after my love-dream |
met the object ofmy passion, and found,
to my surprise, that she was still un-
married. We chatted and laughed con-
siderably; still l think one mutually
took stock of the other. l am grizzly
bear myself, and allow that the Object
retained her symmetry of form and
taste in dress. But the silly ten min
utes' talk showed a vulgarity of life and
thought. Instead of the yielding soft
ness of youth, there was fierceness of
eye, an acridity of speech, characters
tic of the most odious type of old maid.
The poor jilt, after the manner of her
kind, had run to seed. l was not sur
prised to hear that her keen, acid
tongue made her the terror of her dis
trict. Alas, poor jilt! The Object, an
imaginary being, fell forever from her
pedestal. That ague of the mind, the
hot and cold fits that had been on and
off for years, was totally cured, my
judgment had never approved of her;
but now even liking became extinct.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
FIFTY YEARS APART.

They sit in the winter cleaning.
And the fire burns bright between;
One has passed seventy summers,
The other just seventeen.
They sit in happy silence.
AS the shadows deepen fast -
One lives in coming future,
And one in long. long past
Each dreams Of rush of music,
And question whispered low;
One will hear it this evening,
One heard it long ago
Zach dreams OF loving husband.
Whose brave heart is hers alone;
For one the joy is coming,
For one the joy has flown
Each dreams Of life Of gladness
Spent under the sunny skies;
And both the hope and the memory,
Shine in the happy eyes.
Who knows which dream is the brightest
And who knows which is the best.
The sorrow and joy sre mingled.
Bat the only end is rest
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28

Over three thousand persons outside
of the almshouse are receiving aid from
the Board of Poor Directors of Erie
county, Pa, being over thousand more
than at this time last year.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28

Nearly eight thousand persons
worm out living in silk manufacture
in the State of New Jersey. There are
$40, ,OOO. 900 in it,
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1877-02-05
GeIegrapbi(0e pepe(0en.
Cm 2aufs lester ISOLDE an bic SuiuOiS StGGtSs
Ssituua tetearapbirt.)
ScMtf@IanS.

2onoon. Is. San.
Sin BerItner Stanbaro : EeIegramm
meloet, oaB ole Na6mablen fur ben
Deutidlen &et6stag tattgefnnpen ba5en.
nno Dap Die S03ialoemofr ats1 5tpolr
8ertreter in oemielben baben meroen.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1877-02-05

Boob reiGte einen @%eTebentmurf fir
Die Nufbebung aaer Steuern aut ods
Betrie6stapitaI Der 8anfen elm. Ser
nteien.
Oas 0aus f6riit 6ann in Nusi6uBs
fibung sur Beratbung Der 8etptQigun8en
fir Die ~Qus9aben oes WeiBen Sauies,
oes GongreB unb Der Suitiaabtbeilune.
Die 8eranl1ldse be3iffern fi6 auf A.
266, 1850 Dollars. Gon Der Borlez
Jung Der 8orla9e tpuroe Nbltano eenom=
men uno CUR para9rapbenpeiIer @r6rtes
rung 8eiAritten.
9Iuf Nntrag bon Softer tpurbe Der
Baragrapb, tpet1er oos @ebaLt Der Wfitz
glleoer oes GOugrelleS bon 5000 Dollars
auf $500 Dollars berabiebt, nit 1873
Sttmmeu segen II eeitri6en.
Oie Berbanolungeu tpuroen 6arn bis
morgen 5ebn llbr Gormitta9s aus9eleBt.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1877-02-05
9eS S@feSSaerimf.
50 abington, 81. Sa.

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9eute WtttaQ granddaughter Die bier
0berbunoesrthter, weLde trait oeS Aus7
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n 9auies Don Der GrtpGbIun9 oes
Soerbunoesri6ters 8raoIep gum f1nfz
3ebnten S@ieDsri6ter.
Die SInf3ebn
tamen balo barauf i'm SaoIe bes Sbers
bnnoes9ert9ts 3uiammen ulto constis
tu1rten l13. &i6ter @lifforo, pel6er,
benz Qusglei@seieB gemGB, Den @oriib
iIber bic Ser9anpIHngeH Der 19tepsri9z
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1877-02-05

iein miBten, iofern es fi9 UNI 6as 8orz
banoeniein bieler Gbatia6en banoGe.
ueber Die 3ulGiiigteit Der leBteren als
8~ensiSitiide ioate baun oas @eieb ents
i9eioen. 9aOur9 wiroe nieI 3ett ges
tpart nerben.
Sertagung.