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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
A Remarkable Fountain.

Taking a narrow patti | crossed
| through some dense underwood, and
all at once stood on the banks of Wa
kulla spring, Florida. There was a
basin of water one hundred wards in
diameter, almost circular. The thick
bushes were growing almost TO the
waters edge, and bowling their heads
under its unrippled surface. | stepped
into skiff and pushed off. Some i'm
mense fishes attracted my attention,
and seized spear to strike them. The
boatman laughed and asked me how far
below the surface supposed they were.
| answered about four feet. He as
sured me that they were at least twenty
feet from me, and it was so. The water
is of the most marvellous transparency
! dropped an ordinary pin in the water,
forty feet down, and saw its head with
perfect distinctness as it lay on the bot
tom. As we approached the centre |
noticed a jagged, grayish limestone
rock beneath us, pierced with holes.
Through these holes one seemed to look
into unfathomable depths. The boat
moved slowly on, and now we hung
trembling over the edge of the sunken
cliff, and far below it lies dark, yawn-
ing. unfathomable abyss. From its
gorge comes pouring forth, with i'm
mense velocity, a living river. Push
ing on just beyond its mouth, dropped
a ten cent piece into the water, which
is there 100 feet in depth, AMI | clearly
saw it shining on the bottom. This
seems incredible. l think the water
possesses a magnifying power. | am
confident the piece could not be SO
plainly seen from the top of tower
100 feet high. We rode on towards the
north side, and we suddenly perceived
in the water, in which the fish were
darting hither and thither, the long,
flexible roots and wide, luXuriant
grasses on the bottom, all arrayed in
the most brilliant prismatic hues. The
gentle swell Occasioned by the boat
gave to the whole an undulating mo-
ton. Deathlike stiffness reigned
around, and more fairy-like scene |
never before beheld. So great is the
quantity of water here poured forth
that it forms a river of itself large
enough to float flatboats laden with cot
ton. The planter who lives here has
thus transported his cotton to st.
Marks. Near the fountain we saw
some of the remains of mastadOn
which had been taken from it. The
triangular bone below the knee meas
ured six inches on each side. The In
dian name of the fountain, Wakulla,
means 'The Mystery" 1t is said that
the Spanish discoverers sprang into it
with almost frantic joy, supposing they
had discovered the long-sought lions
Juventutis," or "Fountain of youth,
which should rejuvenate them again.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
One of the Worlds Wonders.

The great four-fold water fall, the
Fall of GarsOppa, on the west of India,
near UonOre, little known as it is, is
one OF the wonders of the world. a
writer says of it: "Difficult it is to coll
vey in words any picture the stupen-
dOus scene. There is the river, some
three hundred yards in width, flowing
through soft woodland, its waters split
into many CLASSY currents, gliding
round worn boulders and iSlets, when
instantly bed and banks are gone, and
in their place are savage, terrific walls
of gaunt rock plunging to depths one
dare Vot look into, down which the
shuddering waters fall at four points
nearly equidistant on the irregular
curve of the rim of the abyss.
From the lip of the preeipice to the
dark pool atits fOOtis an accurately meas
ured distance of eight hundred and
thirty feet, and down this prOdigious
descent pour the four eataracts, each ar
rayed in it, own robes of special beauty.
First on the western SIDE is the Great
or Rajah fall; branch Of the river
runs over a projecting ledge, and no
where touching the Titanic wall, which
hOllOws in, descepds in a stately un-
broken column, gradually widening its
shining skirts into a black, unfathOm-
ablo pool eight hundred and thirty feet
below. The precipice runs backward,
curving in an irregular bay, on whose
farther side the fail, named the Roarer,
shoots slanting down third of the way
into rocky basin that shoulders out.
whence it boils out in broad massive.
cataract, plunging five hundred feet
nto the same pool opposite its kingly
neighbor.
Leaving the bay next on the general
plane of the precipice comes the Rocket
fall, running impetuOusly over the brim
wall, to which it only just clirgs with
a road band of glistening fOam-white
N-ater, speeding in quick gushes, in
cessantly darting out myriads of watery
rockets and vapOrous arrows, and pour
ing clear at last dense shining cur
tain into its own pool. Last and low
liest, La Dame Blanche glides down the
grim colossal rampant in LAPSE after
lapse of delicate lace-like wells, now
blowing out in bright, misty spray, and
again quickly gathering up the white
folds, and so stealing downward with Il
whispering murmur, till gently sinking
in a sparkling shower INTO pool whose
ink-black surface is hardly ruffled. The
exact depth scientifically measured is
eight hundred and thirty feet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
Fish Poaching.

Fish poaching is simple and yet
clever in its way. In the spawning
time Jack fish, which at other periods
are apparently OF a solitary disposition,
90 in pairs, and sometimes in trios, and
are more tame than usual. a long
slender ash stick is selected, slender
enough to lie light in the hand and
strong enough to bear sudden weight.
A loop and running moose are formed
of piece of thin copper wire, the
other end of which is twisted round and
firmly attached TO the smaller end of the
stick. The loop il adjusted to the size
of the fish-it should not be very much
larger, else it will not draw up quick
enough, nor too small, else it may
touch and disturb the jack. 1t does
not take much practice to hit the happy
medium. Approaching the bank
quietly, so as not tc shake the ground,
peculiarly sensitive, the poacher tries
if possible to avoid letting his shadow
fall across the water. Some persons
eyes seem to have an extraordinary
power of seeing through water, and OF
distinguishing at a glance a fish from a
long swaying strip of dead brown flag,
or the rotting pieces of wood which lie
at the bottom. The ripple of the breeze
the eddy at the curve, or the sparkle
of the sunshine cannot deceive them;
while others, and by far the greater
number, are dazzled and see nothing.
The poacher, having marked his prey,
in the shallow yonder, gently extends
his rod slowly across the water three
or four yards higher up the stream, and
lets the wire moose sink without noise
till it almost or quite touches the bottom.
1t is easier to guide the moose to its
destination when it occasionally touches
the mud, for refraction distorts the true
position of objects in water, and
accuracy is important. Gradually the
wire swims down with the current,
just as if it were any ordinary twig or
root carried along, such as the jack is
accustomed 10 see, anu Hc lHtIcioic
feels no alarm. BY degrees the loop
comes closer to the fish, till with steady
hand the poacher slips it over the head,
past the long, vicious jaws and gills,
past the first fins, and pauses when it
has reached a place corresponding to
about one-third of the length of the fish,
reckoning from the head. That end of
the jack is heavier than the other, and
the ''lines'' of the body are there nearly
straight. Thus the poacher gets firm
hold-for fish, of course, is slippery
and good balance. If the operation
is performed gently the jack will remain
quite still, though the wire rubs against
his Subsistence and stiffness have such
a power over all living creatures. The
poacher now clears his arm, and with a
sudden jerk, lifts the fish right out of
the stream and lands him on the sward.
So sharp is the grasp of the wire that it
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
ALocomotive on a Dirt Road.

The Farwell, Mich Register of re-
cent date says: "Perhaps the most novel
sight ever seen in Michigan was wit
messed here to-day, in the way of a
railroad engine, steamed up, running
through the woods on a common dirt
road. This engine arrived, day or
two since, on the Flint and Pere Mar
quette Railroad, from Pittsburgh, made
expressly for their railroad north of the
place, used for hauling logs to the Mus
kegon River. After its arrival here,
the question was how to get the engine
to its destination, some fifteen miles
distant. Two hundred dollars having
been offered for the job without avail,
the managers conceived the plan of get
ting up steam and trying the wagon
road, which was put into execution.
This morning steam was gotten up, and
the engine started nOrthward on the
Ienia & Houghton Lake State road at
the west end of the town, with cheers
and hurrahs from the sembled crowd.
1t moved off slowly and steadily without
any apparent difficulty, followed by a
force of men with levers, and teams
with water to supply its wants."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
Business Maxims.

Be silent when fool talks.
Caution is the father of security.
Great bargains have ruined many.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Never take back discharged servant.
Never speak boastingly of your busI-
ness.
Do not waste time in useless regrets
over losses.
No man can be successful who neg
lects his business.
Word by word Webster's big dietiOn-
ary was made.
Speak well of your friends-of your
enemies say nothing.
Give foolish talker rope enough and
he will hang himself.
An hour of triumph comes at last to
those who watch and wait.
1t is harder for the hungry man to
wait when he smells the roast meat.
If you post your servants upon your
affairs they will one day rend you.
Do your business promptly, and bore
not a business man with long visits.
systematic your business and keep
an eye on little expenses. Small leaks
sink great ships.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
NO. 49,.


Pete MILESTONE, of Arkansas, was
once travelling on horseback through
the interior of the State, and called one
evening to stay all night at little log
house near the road, where entertain
ment and the postOffice were kept. Two
other strangers were there, and the
mail rider rode up about dark. supper
being over, the mail carrier and the
three strangers were taken into a small
room, furnished with good fire and
two beds, which were TO accommodate
the four persons for the night. The
mail carrier was little, shabby, dirty,
hard-looking wretch, with whom none
of the gentlemen liked the idea of sleep
ing. Pete Milestone eyed him closely
as he asked:
.'Where do you sleep tonight, my
lad?''
''I'l thleep with you, | reckin,"
lisped the youth, cor with one o. them
other fellers, don't care which"
The other two gentlemen took the
hint and occupied one of the beds I'M
mediately, leaving the other and con-
fab to be enjoyed by Pete and the mail
boy together as best they could. Pete
and the boy both commenced hauling
off their duds, and Pete getting into
bed first. and wishing to get rid Of
sleeping with the boy, remarked very
earnestly:
MY friend, III tell you beforehand,
I've got the itch, and you'd better not
get in here with me, for the disease is
catching"
The boy, who was just getting into
bed too, drawled out very cody:
oval, rekin that don't make bit
o. difference-I've had it now for near
ly these theven years" and into bed he
pitched along with Pete, who pitched
out in as great hurry as if he had
The other two gentlemen roared, and
the mail boy, who had got peacable pos
session OF bed to himrelf, drawled
out-''Why you must be a thet of darn
fules-mam and dads got the catch
heap wurth than | is, and they th-ept
in that bed last night when they were
here at the quilting.
The other two strangers were now
in worse predicament than Pete
had been, jumped out as if the bed had
been on fire, stripped, shook off their
clothes, put them on again, ordered
their horses, and though it was nearly
ten o'clock, they all three left, and
rode several miles 20 the next town
before they slept, leaving the imper-
turble mail carrier to the bliss of
scratching and sleeping alone. The
three men vowed to keep the affair a
secret but it eventually leaked out.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08

The writer has recently lost horse
of old age ga years., that had some re-
markable traits. He was a white pony
that came into my service in December,
1855, at twelve years old. He was quite
fast, having about a three-minute gait
at his best. l used him principally as
a run-about horse, and driving him to
the station when l went to the city. i
taught him to go back TO the farm alone,
and very soon on arriving at the station
it was only necessary to throw the lines
over the dash board, and let him find
his own way across the track and among
the trains. He never attempted to
cross i'm front of train in motion, but
he would walk up near the track and
stand till The train the train got nearly
passed, when he moved up nearer and
was ready to cross the moment the hind
car passed him. Sometimes boys see
ing him going along the street leisurly,
would try to get ride, but no sooner
did he see their movements to that end
than he started off, on smart trot, and
eluded them.
A new and shorter road having been
opened to the station, and, before it
was worked, passing through narrow
bar-way, thought, judging from his
habit of taking the of side of the road
that he might hit the buggy against the
post in going through; so l watched
him on his return TO see how he would
get over the difficulty. He hit the off
fore hub, stopped, backed up few feet,
hawed off, cleared the hub and went on.
He did precisely as a good driver would
have guided him. He delighted in tax
ing short cuts, and often went across
lots when the way was open. He crea-
ted much merriment one day, when a
neighbor passed him while on walk,
just at point where he might go some
sixty rods across lot and cut off bend
in the road. After the man passed
him on a smart trot, he turned into the
shorter cut and trotted brisklv across
the field to the road ahead of him,
where he stopped till the man came
up, and showed unmistakably by his
manner, the pleasure he felt in the tri-
umph. He was perfectly true and al
ways ready to do reasonable service.
appreciated good treatment, but he
highly resented any loud and bolster
Gus yelling at him. One day when a
new hand was using him to haul man
ure on a cart, and talked loudly to him,
he would not draw the load, and went
to him, spoke kindly, and he drew it
over difficult piece of ground to where
il was to be left. When the man had
unloaded, he attempted to drive the
pony back to the barn, but he would
not draw the empty cart foi him.
When, i'm summer, he had been put at
work that he did not relish after COM
ing home from the station, the next
day he would stop under the shade of a
tree till the farm bell rang for dinner,
when he would come promptly for his
rations. Although he was sent home
in this way, probably more than thou
sand times, he never broke anything !;
often threaded his way between logs
piled on both sides of the track; and he
manifested a discretion i'm regard to
passing trains, little short of human.
Who can say, after observing the con-
duct of the horse under various condi-
tons, that he does not reason?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08

eye is surprising. They are thoroughly
well acquainted with the style, SO to
speak, of every professional criminal in
Paris. Thus, after the celebrated theft
of medals from the Biliotheque Imper-
iale, the police had only to investigate
the saw, the cord and the lantern left
behind by the robbers to pronounce
with certainty respecting their identity
And when, after the murder of the
Duchesse de Praslin, the then existing
chief of La Surete, NJ. Allard, was ad-
mitted to view the frightfully mutilated
corpse, but his first remark was, "This
is not the work of a professional, but OF
an amateur"
The Unborn dramatic talent of the
French nation makes it comparatively
easy for the members of the detective
force to disguise themselves, which they
are often called upon to do. But re
specting the motives and the style OF
these disguises they are remarkably ret
icent, being unwilling to confess that
such ruse is ever practiscd. Yet an
experienced observer may sometimes
detect amid the elegant promenaders at
the Actresses ball or the Bal de fOpera
the individual whom he saw in the
morning selling oranges form barrow
or distributing advertisements, clad in
a soiled blouse and a workman's cap.
Not long ago it was necessary to exer-
else strict surveillance over the move
ments of certain persOnages who were
stopping at one of the most fashionable
hotels of Paris. Two police inspectors,
one in the guise of an elderly and dis
inguished-lOOking gentleman, who
gave himself out as former ambassa-
dor, and the other acting as his servant,
took rooms at that hotel, and played
their parts to admiration for fortnight,
departing at the conclusion of that time
with their mission fully accomplished
and without having created the slight
est suspicion in the minds of those with
whom they associated. The cOmical
part of the business was, that the in
spector who played the part of the re-
tired diplomat had become so identified
with the character that on being after
ward familiarly accosted by his friend
and comrade who had acted as his ser
want, the became highly indignant and
requested him to remember TO whom
he was talking"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
The SWALLOW.

Of sll the birds that swim the air
I'd rather be the swallow
And. summer days, when days were fan
I'd follow, follow. follow
The hurrying clouds across the sky.
And with the singing winds I'd fy.
Nv eager wings would need no rest
IfIwere but swallow
Ia scale the highest mountain crest
And sound the deepest hollow.
No forest could my pathway hide /;
No ocean-plsin should be too wide.
ia ind the sources of the Nile,
I'd see the Sandwich Islands,
And Chimborazo's granite pile,
And Scotland's rugged Highlands
I'd skim the sands of Timbuctoo
Constantinople's mosques I'd view.
I'd hy among the Isles Of Greece,
The pride Of great Apollo.
And circle round the bay Of Nice,
IfIwe but 8 swallow,
And view the sunny fields Of France,
The vineyards merry with the dance.
Tdsee nv shadow in the Rhine
Dart swiftly like al arrow,
And catch the breath of eglsntine
Along the banks of Ysrrow
I'd roam the world and never tire,
II / could have my hearts desire
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08

During 1877 there were s, l59 horses
brought to Chicago and disposed of at
the public yards; also 1,096. .745 beef
cattle, 4, ,19O, ,006 hogs, and 1854 ,Os5 sheep.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08

The best government Is that which
teaches self-government-
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-08-22
KINKEAD AND Common.

The Eureka Sentinel of Tuesday states and
speculates as follows:
These Gubernatorial aspirants paid the
Sentinel sanctum friendly call yesterday
We have an idea that there is strong fellow
feeling between them. Both being from the
Great East it would not be surprising if they
made common cause against the Story aspi-
rants, particularly as the latter have shown
a disposition to count them out in the Com
stock primaries. Governor kinkead is very
atfable gentleman, and makes splendid i'm
preston wherever he goes. Indeed we think
there IS more latent strength, more outcome
In him than any Republican candidate that
his yet been named. He is the sort of man
who grows wisL the canvass. 1t has been
quietly whispered, in confidential way, for
some time that if Kinkead should receive the
Republican nomination, certain influences
would be set to work to keep Governor Brad
ley off the track. Be that as it may, Cover
nor Knkead is to be regarded as among the
most formidable of candidates thus far
Brought forward by the opposition. He de-
parts this morning for the West.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-08-22
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

The Potter Investigation Committee IS not
the most inviting subject in this world of poll
tics, letters and love. One wearies Of the It.
Grafton aud reiteratiOn, the contradictory
statements, the downright disputes and the
figures which do lie. We are not tired because
we are Of the Republican persuasion. Ou1
sense Of WEAKNESS is not of partisan nature.
We might he a Democrat and still be no less
tired of 80 monotonous and proftless bust
ness. Mrs jerks made things breezy, in a
fash sort Of way; and Anderson was interest
ing as a very shameless liar can be. But one
gets easily satated, yea, nauseated with such
exhibitions of unhlushing rascality and truth
lessness as these people betray. Now the
Committee, having clazed poor Leete and sent
him to an Asylum, are taking a turn at one
Burke, Democratic politician from New Or
leans. This person swears his side up and the
other side down; swears to figures and results;
swears to returns and reicctons; swears Til
den i'll and Hayes out; swears Nichols up
swears AGAIN, up one side and down the other,
like true son of the Pelican State and Il truly
deluded Southern brother. He is very sure
that Hayes counting in was the result of a
bargain made by Stanley Matthews, John
Sherman ct al with Lamar, Gordon, Ellis and
tho rest 1t is the old story and but precious
little more interesting for Mr. Burke telling
of it.
Missouri is in q very bad way regarding its
State Treasury It's securities are gone away,
its treasurers and places of deposit are under
a cloud and there is suspicion and uneasiness
among the people.
Diggings of great richness have been dis
covered on the north fork of Sinking Water,
Black Hills country. Three men took out
500 pounds of gold in sluice made of a hol
low log, In four months time
The condition of things in fever stricken
Grenada is described as without an equal in
the sad history of this disease. In all the
country of the lower Mississippi the fever is
raging with terrible violence. There are some
cases reported in New York and Brooklyn.
The Mayor of Boston, being called upon by
the Mayor of Memphis for help, telegrAphed
at once giving permission to draw on him for
81 500.
Hon. Charles Foster has declined a renom-
nation to Congress in the Seventh Ohio Dis
trict. James B. Lucky has been nominated
in his stead Gen. Garfield has been renom-
mated in his (the 19th) District.
An effort is making to induce President
Hayes to remove Axtell from the Governor
ship of New Mexico.
Denis Kearney talked to a crowd of 1000
or 5000 people in Chicago on Tuesday night.
The effort to propagate the California sal
mon in the waters of Germany has been sue
cessful