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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
Short-SiSht.


Short-sightedness depends upon an
elongation of the gloge of the eye from
before backwards, and il is moulded in
this faulty form In the following way.
When children or young adults are
engaged many hours daily in close
work with bad light or imperfect type,
the eye Is constantly strained in the
effort to see, the internal blood vessels
become seriously eOngested, and in time
exude portion of their more fluid con-
tents; the outer coat of the ball, tender
and dilatable in youth, gives way at its
weakest spot posteriorly. The contents
of the globe are permanently increased,
and the eyeball, instead of a sphere,
comes in time TO resemble an egg In
form, being thus unduly elongated, the
rays of light which proceed from dis
tant objects are brought to focus in
front of the retina instead of upon it,
and in order to focus them on the
proper spot, it is necessary to cause
them to diverge before striking the eye
ball by the interpOsition of a concaye
lens.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
Life in Curacao.

The next morning we began our sight
seeing and festival life. First, visit to
the Dutch man-of-war Won Galen; and
in the evening dinner-party, to which
we were invited out of courtesy to our
captain and his wife, who were
friends of the hostess. 1t was as per-
fectly served as any entertainment in
New York, and there were sixteen
courses and six kinds of wine: green
turtle soup, pie of green turtle baked in
its own shell (these dainties being such
a favorite food with the gentry that sup.
plies of the creatures, caught among
the reefs and cOves of some of the is
lands, are kept in tanks and reservoirs
ready for use), reddish, meat, game and
fresh vegetables in endless variety, all
served from side-table by colored
walters. In the centre of the table was
a pyramid three feet high of the deli
the musk and water melons, and pro-
fusion of fruits of whose names | had
heard, but which / had never seen be-
fore, luscious and fragrant, preserved
fruits, jellies, marmalades, French con-
fectionery and ornamental cakes: then
to end the repast, cheese, coffee, Ii
quors and cigars; after which we lis
tened to some music by a young lady
from Venezuela.
We visited Curacao house. As we
entered the door we were in sort of
enclosed piazza running the whole
width; beyond was the dancing-room,
with three arched doorways out of that
the spacious dining-room back of that,
the servants quarters; on the second
floor, four large square rooms. No
carpets anywhere, but floors of hand
some hard woods, and ceilings painted
white; no windows, but sashes with
green blinds. In all of the apartments,
as well as in the gallery, as the hall
was called, were massive crystal cham
deliers holding wax candles, with slen-
der cut-glass tubes to protect the flame,
and there were side-lights in the same
style. The furniture in this and all
the houses we visited was of solid ma
hogany, and very massive, especially
the wardrobes, on which the locks are
silver. At the right, in the entrance
hall, was large mahogany bracket,
on which hung, fiat side 10 the wall, a
curious great urn of strangely-colored,
foreign-looking ware, with faucet,
and underneath basin, likewise flat
sided; and hanging by it towel. AT
ter meals we all went and used this ba-
sin, instead of finger-glasses-a custom
in all the houses and of Dutch origin.
Our rides were often at sunset, over
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
MARI ct Gardening about Paris.

There are over 5000 men, women and
children engaged in growing early
asparagus, lettuce, carrots and the like,
in and around Paris. The rent of the
land varies from $50 to $240 per acre,
according to situation and irrigation
plant. These market gardens are of
comparatively small dimensions, and
vary from IL to 2Is acres in extent.
Taking the smaller size, the plant
necessary to carry on business, costs
nearly 81, SEQ including large and small
bell glasses, straw mats, glazed lights,
frames, tools, baskets, horse, cart and
other necessary materials. The regular
workmen, 1t is said, earn an average
pay of about forty cents q day, with
board and lodging, all the year round.
Extra men receive about seven cents
per hour, women five cents. Most of
the men come from others sections, not
so much for the sake of the wages,
which are low for France, but in order
to learn q business which they can
turn to profitable account when they re-
turn to their homes after two or three
years. service.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
An Office-Seeker's Blunder.

A good story is told of Mr.. Scranton,
of Madison, the ex-president of the old
Shore Line Railroad. In a train that
was on the way to New-London, a short
time ago, Governor Hubbard was pas
senger. His excellency sat quietly
reading a newspaper. In seat on the
other side of the car, and at the rear Of
the Governor, sat our old friend Clark,
of Chester, and Mr.. s. FL. Scranton, of
Madison. The former, who had just
been using his handkerchief, said to
Mr.. Scranton, with a slight flirt of the
handkerchief in the intended direction,
That's Governor Hubbard" els it,
indeed?" said Scranton; "I've been
waiting to see him, and get acquainted
with him; and I'll speak TO him."
Whereupon Mr.. S. quietly went three
seats ahead and addressed Railroad
Commissioner Arnold, of Haddam:
"GOod morning, Governor Hubbard !;
I've been waiting to make your ac-
qusintance; am S. II. Scranton, of
Madison"
Mr.. Arnold stared, but bowed; and
his new friend proceeded:
"The fact is, Governor, I'm about as
much of Democrat as a Republican; /;
vote to suit myself. I've been think
ing, Governor, that would like an ap-
pointment on the Railroad Commission,
and If you can fill the next vacancy
with my appointment would feel much
gratified.
Mr.. Arnold bowed again.
''The fact is, Governor. his new ac-
quaintance proceeded, ''the truth is, the
present commission don't practically
amount to much, especially Arnold.
He amt worth row Of pins. He just
goes over the road, takes up tie, here
and there, glances at the bridge timbers,
perhaps, and is off again. What does
such an examination amount to? Now
If get his place I'll promise you there
shall be real service rendered. Pm
practical railroad man."
Mr.. Arnold, being now fully con-
vinced of the real situation, blandly
bowed again-a sort Of bow of encour
agement-and said he'd think It over;
and MIR. Scranton went back, wei
pleased at the prospect. 1t is said the
story would never have got out but for
the fun-enjoying Clark.
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great Importance, and it is absolutely

great Importance, and it is absOlutel,
necessary that should see her."
After the lapse of half an hour, a mid
dle-aged, handsome, stately lady en-
tered the parlor, and, gazing with con
siderable dignity at her visitor, said
"What is your business with me
sir?''
LET me shut the door, ma am" h,
said, and, quickly stepping behind tn,
lady, closed the door.
81 think we have met before, ma am, >
he said, in firm but respectful tone.
'Sir." the lady, exclaimed, in often
ded accents.
II am sure we. have met before
ma'am," the man said.
"You are mistaken, SIR" the lady re.
piled, utterly mistaken, sir you would
oblige me by quitting the house imme-
diately."
"You forgot last night, ma am, in the
vault" the man said, in a low tone.
The cheek of the lady evidently
blanched, and she gave a gasp for
breath. Instantly recovering herself,
she said:
81 don't understand you sir. You
are laboring under mistake.
''Well, l may be-" the man replied {;
that's fact. Bnt my impression was
that l saw you last night in the vault
when you were trying to remove the
ring from the finger of what you
supposed to be corpse"
The lady had sunk into chair, and
was deadly pale. By powerful effort
she overcame her rmomentary weakness,
and said in strong tones:
81 don't know, sir, what you speak
of. You are either laboring under a
mistake or you are lunatic."
"Do you happen to have a dress like
this, mas ?" the man asked, drawing
from his pocket the piece which he had
cut from the dress Of the occupant of
the vault the night before.
The lady's lips grew white and dry.
She tried TO speak, but her tongue
Glove to the roof of her mouth, and ut
terance was impossible.
81 am reasonable, madam" the man
said; II know your secret, but will
keep it if you will make it worth my
while"
"How much do you require!" the
lady asked, acquiring the power of
speech by great effort.
Twenty pounds down will satisfy
me for the present." the man said,
''and more at another time when need
it,"
The money was paid, and within a
month the man returned and demanded
more. The lady had evidently revealed
the story of her disgrace and crime to
her husband, for he paid the money,
and soon after resigned his living and
retired to England,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
Adventure with an Orang-outans.

An orang-outang fully seven feet high
was discovered by the company of a
merchant ship, at place called RAM
boon, on the northwest coast of Sum-
| atra, on spot where there were few
trees and little cultivated ground. sit
was evident tha- he had come from a
distance, for his legs were covered with
mud up TO his knees, and the natives
were unacquainted with him. On the
approach of the boats crew he came
down from the tree in which he was dis
covered, and made for elump at some
distance; exhibiting, as he moved, the
appearance of a tall, man-like figure,
covered with shining brown hair, walk
ing erect, with waddling gait, but
sometimes accelerating his motion with
his hanCs, and occasionally impellins
himself forward with the bough of
tree. His motion on the ground was
evidently not his natural mode of pro-
gression, for, even when assisted by his
hands and the bough, it was slow and
vaclllating; it was necessary to see him
among the trees to estimate his strength
and agility. On being driven to a small
clump, he gained by one spring a very
lofty branch, and bounded from one
branch TO another with the swiftness of
common monkey; his progress being
as rapid as that of swift horse. After
receiving five balls his isexertioDs relaxed,
and, reclining exhausted against a
branch, he vomited a quantity of blood.
The ammunition Of the hunters being
by this time exhausted, they were
obliged to fell the tree in order to OBJ
tain him; but what was their surprise
TO see him, as the tree was falling, effect
his retreat to another, with seemingly
undiminished vigorl In fact, they We're
obliged to cut down all the trees before
they could force him to combat his enc
mics on the ground, and when finally
overpowered by numbers, and nearly In
dying state, he seized a spear made of
supple wood, which would have with
stood the strength of the stoutest man,
and broke it like reed. Ii was stated,
by those who aided in his death, that
the human-like expression Of his counte-
nance, and his piteous manner of plae-
ing his hands on his wounds, distressed
their feelings so as to almost make them
question the nature of the act they were
committing, He was seven feet high,
with broad, expanded chest and mar
row waist. His chin was frInged with
a beard that curled on each side, and
formed an ornamental rather than a
frightful appendage to his visage. His
arms were long, even in proportion TO
his height. but his legs were much
shorter. Upon the whole, he was
wonderful beast to behold, and there
was more about him to excite amazement
than fear. His hair was smooth and
glossy, and his whole appearance show
ed him to be in the full vigor of youth
and strength"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
Wind Looomotion on Land.

1t is curious TO note that while to the
railroads is owing the abandonment of
the wind carriage formerly seen by
travellers in China, Spain and Holland)
to the same agency it now seems likely
that its rejuvenation will be due. Wind
vehicles are already in use on the long
stretches of tracks which extend over
the western prairies, and the speed at
tanned is said to rival that of the fast
express train. One has been in use en-
the Kansas Pacific railroad for the past
three years. The vehicle is said to av-
erage speed of thirty miles per hour,
and, with strong breeze, TO travel at
the rate of forty miles an hour. This
last speed was reached with the wind
right abeam. A distance of eighty
four miles has been passed over in four
hours, the car sailing part of this time
close hauled and over rdisadvantageously
curved track. The vehicle has four
wheels, each thirty inches in diameter,
is six feet in length, and weighs six
hundred pounds. The sail has two
boOms, respectively fourteen and fif-
teen feet in length, and an area of shout
eighty-one square feet. The mast is
eleven feet high, tapering from four in
ches square at the heel to two inches at
the truck. 1t will be obvious that many
of the laws applying to the iceboat ap-
ply equally well to the sailing car A
little consideration will show that when
the latter is sailing at forty miles per
hour it is travelling faster than the wind
that impels it, and this is constantly
the case in iceboat sailing. On the
other hand, iceboats always sail best
close hauled; in fact, the sheet is al
most constantly kept fiat aft. The sail
ing car, as stated above, goes fastest
with the wind directly on the beam or
side. OF course the difference is due
to the greater resistance offered by the
larger and more elevated surfaces of
the car body and its occupants, and to
the friction of the axle journals, which
probably, under ordinary conditions,
is sufficient to prevent the sailing car
ever attaining the iceboat's speed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
A Russian Foundliag Hospital.

From the splendor of cathedrals and
tha sacredness of pious relics we turned
to an institution of practical charity.
Taking a carriage we drove to the
founding hospital, founded by Catha-
rine the Great, and now supported by
the government at an annual outlay of
81 200, 900 in gold. 1t is an immense
structure, beautifully situated, and is
managed with the regularity of clock
work, under the supervision of medi-
cal staff and large corps of female
nurses. Not less than twelve thousand
infants are annually admitted, and are
retained for four weeks, when they are
placed in the care of nurses from the
neighboring villages, who receive 81 .25
a month for the care of the little ones
committed to their charge, under the
supervision of the doctor of the district.
But this part of the administration of
the institution is a mistake, as fifty per
cent. of the children die before the age
of one year, and only about quarter of
the whole number arrive at maturity.
This sad result is attributed to the coarse
fare of the peasant nurses and their
neglect of the children. The children
admitted to the hospital are not found
in the street, nor are they left at the
door of the building, but they are
openly brought there either by their
mothers or some kind friend. On the
day after its admission the child is bap-
tised, received into the church and is
named after the officiating priest. The
infant is then placed in charge of its
foster parent, who is the woman that
happens to stand, at the moment, at
the head of the long procession of peas
ant women who are in attendance.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
SAILING HOME.

The stormy sea behind us raves
We're sailing home,
Welcome the tumult of the waves
We're sailing home
If our good ship her course shall keep,
We reck not danger Of the deep;
The waves leap not as our hearts leap
We're sailing home
Soon we may see our fatherland-
We're sailing homei
Soon mid its well loved hills may stand
We're sailing home
Soon eager heart to heart shall press,
After the seas wide loneliness
Soon We shall meet the old caress-
We're sailing home,
All. greet US well, eyes that are dear
We're sailing home,
The stormy waves give little cheer
But sailing home.
Yut IL old friends unfaithful be,
or love keep not its constancy,
Better the darkness in the sea
Than sailing home
But sh, we trust thst hearts are true
When sailing home;
We cherish still the last adieu
While sailing home.
Then let our ship her swift way keep
Amid the dangers of the deep;
Waves leap not as our fond hearts leap
We're sailing home,
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| the cliffs, and at that hour the gor.
geousness of the coloring over land anC
sea was something of brilliancy and
splendor which our latitude knows
nothing of-the bath of liquid light va
rying from delicate green to all the
shades of flame-color, and against this
sumptuousness of hue Fort Nassau,
standing out grimly from the hilltop,
the sharp peaks of Mount Tafelberg,
San kliege, San Hieronymus and San
Christopher, jagged and dark on the
same blazing background, while away
in front cleaned the waters of the
Schattargat with its dots of green islets.
The roads were fine, in some places cut
into the solid green stone, and by the
sides, at convenient intervals, were cir
cular limestone benches with steps and
backs, resting-places for the travellers
on foot. At that hour we often met a
line of donkeys laden with panniers,
negroes leading the animals, ana always
in advance one donkey more heavily
laden than the rest, with not only the
huge pannier on each side. but with a
negro woman riding man-fashion on
his neck, with a tray on her head and a
pipe in her mOuth-and of all the curl
Gus sights in Curacao or anywhere else
this was the queerest. The roads
were hedged with cactus with the pas
sion-flOwer twining about its huge,
prickly arms. The cactus was Just in
bud, about ready TO burst into the snowy
pink and yellow or white flowers which
on an inferior scale we often see in our
conseryatories at the North.
At one of the summer houses called
Hope" we passed several days, shar-
ing the wonderful hospitality character
istic of the islanders. The meals and
entertainments were almost in excess,
coffee being served at eight O'Clock,
breakfast at eleven, an elaborate dinner
at five; while at intervals all through
the day wine, ale and cakes were passed
around. On this estate was an exten-
sive orchard, where grew in great luxu-
rance all the fruits of the island; and
here We saw in perfection the tamarind
tree, coeoanut, mango, date, cashaw,
olive, orange, fig, lime, papaw, banana,
soursop, canapa and mespel, trees all of
immense size, in flower and fruit, or
both. Here, too, were fine mahogany
trees and curious flowers and plants
without number, among them the para
site which bears little scarlet pea with
a black spot, which all children are IA
miliar with as the ''Black-eyed Susan"
growing in pod with four compart-
ments. The source of revenue of the
estate was the aloe, of which several
acres were under cultivation, the
paste" as the people here call it, pre-
pared from the juices, being exported
to England for medicinal purposes. The
servants quarters were a cluster of
mud houses, covered with thatch, not
far back of the mansion; and the black
children swarmed in the courtyard and
made tn emselves at home in every part
of the grounds. Until the age of eight
they go without any clothing; after
that they attain to the dignity of sin
gle garment, which is all they possess
until the taste for finery leads them to
add some gay, light upper dress, and
theatrical-lOoking boots, perhaps.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19

We have frequently referred to the
correct principle of horse-shoeing; but
there are many matters of detail that,
if overlooked, will spoil the best of
principles ever laid down. The nails
should be quite small. and driven in
more gently than is the custom. There
is no reason why the smith should
strike blow at the little nail-head as
strong as he would deliver at the head
ofa spike in an oak-beam. The hoof
of the horse is not an oak stick, and
the delicately-pOinted and slenderly-
headed nail is not a wrought iron spike
and you will see the mailer whack away
at them as if il was matter of life and
death to get them entirely set in at
two blows of the hammer. Insist that
the driver shall drive his nails slowly
and steadily, Instead of using violence.
In this case, if his nail is badly pointed
and gets out of the proper line of di-
rection, no great injury is done 1t can
be withdrawn, and 4 new one substitu-
ted, without harm having been done
the foot. But the swift, blind and vio-
lent way prevents all such care, and ex-
poses the horse to temporary if not per-
manent injury. Gentleness should be
exercised in clilching the nail. Never
allow a smith to touch a rasp to the
outer surface of the hoof. Nature has
covered 1t with thin filament or en-
amel, the object of which is to protect
the inner membrane and fibre from
exposure TO water or atmosphere. This
enamel is exactly what nature puts on
the surface of your finger-nail. Under
no circumstances should it ever be
touched. 1t it is removed, nature will
be wickedly deprived of her needed
covering, and cruelty left exposed to
the elements.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19

The Congregational church In
Newton, Mass, resolved to reduce the
pastors salary from $1,000 to 5000,
whereupon he announced from the pull
pit that he would not submit to a cent
o decrease.
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The rays of happiness. like those Of
light, are colorless when unbroken.
The intellect of a truly wise man is
like glass-it admits the light of hea-
ven and reflects II.
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Greece contains l ,60O, 200 people, an
increase Of .000, 900 since her indepen-
dence.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-04
The City OF Silence
By HARVEY HOWARD,

1t Is just the sweetest city!
Yet sometimes think we pity
Those who dwell within those pretty
White dwellings on the hill.
1t is so peaceful, pleasant
And fair to jewellers present;
And the partridge and the pheasant
Feel no fear, it is 50 still.
Its walls are low and narrow,
And the linnet and the sparrow
Make the only music there. Oh.
SO silent arc its homes
Never have its doors rover;
Myrtle green and reddest clover
Grow in wreathed profusion over
Its many :earthen d0mes.
Here are found no wreaths of laurel,
None of bitter rue and sorrel;
! Never comes the sound of quarrel
In these quaint and vacant ways.
No sound OF stately masses,
Nor OF any praiBing, passes -
Upward through the growing grasses
All the moveless, voiceless days.
Men from other cities wander,
Other home ties sometime sunder;
Not so in the white town yonder
On the wide-broWed hill.
Not shadow of returning,
Not jot Of fear or yearning
In the dwellcrs' bosom burning,
Ever came, or ever will.
! Oypeace 80 pure and tender,
50 wrapped about in splender,
So needless Of defender
Or champion or aid.
Eachlite must have its knelling;
Some day he who is telling
Shall come and claim d dwelling
Among your resting dead.