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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
James Gordon Bennett.

\ recent writer gives the following
pointed account Of james Gordon Bennett,
the proprietor of the NeU York Herald
Il met him at the Union Club few hours
after his arrival. | never saw him look So
handsome. Imagine before You a tall, slim
man, about fOrty-ive years old. his face
tlorid, and his hair prematurely white. Mr..
Benefits eyes are very singular. He has
what Il hOrseman calls 'watch-eves = that
is, the iris of the eve is light gray, while
the pupil or central dot is white. Walker.
the iillibuster leader. had the same restless
'watch-eyes.' Mr.. Benefits white hair is
like that worn by Stokes, who killed Jim
Fisk by Frank Lord. the son of the late
VI. Hicks Lord; and by young George Law.
1t is caused by drinking. Champagne
makes gray hair, while too much food pro-
duccs gout Bennett is drinker and not
an eater. If he had three dollars to buy a
meal with. lac would spend two dollars and
cighty-five cents for champagne and fifteen
cents for a sandwich. Bennett is really one
Of the loudcst' livers in the country. Be
side the big house on Washington Heights
left by his father he has big dOuble-hOuSe
on Fifth Avenue, "A house in London, n
'ShOO;iug-bOX in Lancashire, and now 4
villa at Newport. All these things cannot
cost him less than a hundred thousand dol
lars per annum. He spends his money like
king, and is really admired in New York.
IIr. Bennett, though a man of talent, has
really very little 20 do with the Herald
His business is simply to call about four
times a week and shake the boys up One
of Mr.. Bennett's peculiarities is the 'shak-
ing up mania- One night, after a cham
payne dinner, he flew down to the office,
shook up Connery, the managing editor,
and then wrote loose, slashing editorial,
putting the price Of the Herald down To
three cents. He not only shakes up his
newspaper but he shakes up his friends
His trouble with the Mays was caused by
his appearing at the May residence at twelve
O'Clock at night, shaking up the dOor-bell,
cleaning of the hat-rack, firing a shot or
two into the mirror. and then giving Miss
MAY pOcket-pistOl to defend herself with.
ReligiOuSly. Mr.. Bennett ought to be Il
Shaker-though in fact he is Catholic"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
A History.in Coins.

John III. Mccall, the well-known railroad
man, has amused himself of late years in
making collection of American silver and
copper coins. and the result has been that
he is in possession of one of the finest ex-
hibitions of the kind which any private
person can boast of in the country. 1t is a
splendid reminder of by-gone events to pick
up these ancient pieces and think of the
varied scenes that have happened in the
year of their coinage, and the more strange
things that have become history since. Mr..
Mccall has a sample of every silver coinage
of dollars made from 1874 10 1906. and
again from 1886 To 1879. with the eXcep-
ton of two. Also of the half-dolars from
1875 to 1869, except that made in 1862,
very few of which are in existence; the
quarters as far back as coined, except those
of 1928 and 1927, and the tens, five and
threes. Samples of pennies from 1898 to
1879, inclusive, appear in this collection, as
well rs the half-pennies from 1903, being -
in number. The twenty cent, five-cent and
twO-cent pieces, representing more modern
dates, are among these coins, while the col
lection of tokens which hads Il mushroom
growth during the war days contain 2iS
pieces, no two of which are alike. 1t is II
study TO 20 over these tokens which received
their birth when change was 50 sacrce, and
at the volition of individuals. They repre-
sent all kinds of business, from the milk
deale. to the undertaken; the halter and the
clothier; the druggist and the confectioner :;
the dry goods and the hardware man and
saloon keepers without number, all redeem
able in sums of 81. Every imaginable de
vice is stamped upon these tokens, and they
are decorated with all kinds of inscriptions
from '.In God we trust down to ''One
country; one flag and and zwei lager" " The
rarest coin in this collection is the silver dol
lar Of 1886, the first one that was coined after
1904, commonly known as the flying
eagle, very few of which are eXtant; the
well-remembcred nicklc penny of 1856; the
half-dollar of 1915; the cent Of May |, 1887,
which was substituted for shinplasters, and
the cent Of 1899, commonly known rs the
''boOhy head" Beside these coins, which
fill large box, and are, of course. Of no
small weight, Mr.. Mccall is in possession Of
samples of all the script ever issued by the
government. This collection has been made
merely for amusement and instruction, but
several times the owner has been offered
large sums for it. Perhaps no other of the
kind is more perfect, and as points on which
10 build past political history the coins are
interesting keepSakeS.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
Lilies.

MANY cultivatorS of this beautiful tribe OF
plants are much annoyed at finding them die
off Just previous to their Towering, the low
cr leaves turning yellow, and the steme event
ually decaying. Upon taking up the bulb
the ensuing autumn ii will be found 10 be
more or less decaycd or rotten; this is especi-
ally the case with l.. dUrdt,tIjl, the golden
banded lily of Japan, some of the new Cali
fornian and Oregon species, and our native
species, some of which like l.. SUpCrbUn.
seem to defy cultivation; even the strong
growing H. IdRcJOiiuDi and its varieties,
now common in our gardens. Our own OBJ
seryation and experience, as well as those OF
IA friend who is an enthusiastic cultivator OF
this tribe of plants, lead us To the conclusion
that il is owing to the excessive heat of the
surface of the soil, which destroysthe fibrous
roots formed at the foot of the stem, just
above the bulb; for many lilies have twosets
of roots, one set stout and comparatively
fleshy, issuing from the base of the bulb, and
the other set muchmorc delicate and fibrous.
Acting on this conclusion, we have planted
bulbs of some of the species that annoyed us
most by their diving off, among groups or
elumps of dwarf-growing shrubs, and have
found that in such situations they thrive
finely; throwing up their fiOwcr-stems above
the shrubs, and blooming freely and beauti-
fully. Thus planted, their roots are deep
shaded, and therefore more moist and cool
than when exposed to the full blaze of the
sun, with its attendant drying and intense
heating of the surface soil. 1t also agrees
better with their natural situation, as many
of them, like l.. stlperbun1, as most of onr
readers must have observed, grow in thickets
throwing up tall stems above the shrubs
loaded with blooms. Some, like l.. aura
t,In and our native l.. canddcnSe, grow in
open grass fields, but in such situations the
grass always keeps the soil moist and cool.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
The Unworked Gold Fields OF California.

For hundreds Of miles along the western
base of the Sicrras are gold-bearing veins
and placcrs. awaiting development that will
yield profitable return to the energy and
money of the capitalists. who will Yet seek
this field as one of the best and most relia-
bic to be found on the globe. Here will be
found every facility of a kindly climate,
accessibility, cheap and available power,
and every concomitant that can make the
business profitable above the cost OF prOduc-
ton. The gold mines Of California, not
withstanding the vast treasurers they have
given 30 the world, are comparatively un-
worked fields. The gold-bearing veins are
practically without limit, and the dead
river channels are only beginning to yield
their inexhaustible stores. This is not an
Over-drawn estimate of the gold fields of
California, and far-seeing men are beginning
to realize the importance of giving more
attention 10 them as a source that will be-
lasting and reliable in keeping up an equable
production Of the metal that is prominently
the need wherever the wheels of industry
are in motion or commerce spreads its sails.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
No women.

During 500 years no woman is known to
have entered the grounds Of the monastery
of Camaldoii, Italy, except once, when
princess of the house of Medici, who had
great desire to behold the place, disguised
herself in mans clothing aud was admitted.
But so stricken with remorse was she on be
holding the sacred spot, that she hastened
to the people to confess her fault, and as
nenance she commanded to build
new cottage in the enclosure, which shedid-
This monastery is one of the few institu-
tions of the kind suffered to remain in Italy.
A recent visitor SAYS that what are called
cells are comfortable little dwellings. Each
is surrounded by a wall, and has its garden,
twenty feet square. 4 little piazza, with
the trunk of a tree planed and squared for
bench as its only furniture, runs along the
side of the house Entering the door. you
find yourself in brick paved vestibule,
with an empty chamber where spring OF
water is flowing into basin on the left, and
the living rooms on the right. These con-
sst of study just large enough for one
person to enter and sit down, dining and
sleeping room, with the bed built into the
wall in the fashion of ships birth. n
small table, two chairs and cupboard COM
plete the furniture Food is passed to the
occupant through hole in the outer wall,
all being prepared in common kitchen and
brought to the hermits once a day. They
never eat meat; and their portion of fish on
all except fast days consists of six ounces
of fresh, or four of salt fish.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29

short, with her face in the moonlight grown
suddenly hot
But what" said Mr. Crichton. gravely,
for there had been a few minutes silence.
and his thoughts had been full of gloom.
But" repeated Alberta, with a ripple of
laughter in her voice ''supposing there had
been no commands. what was il You would
have said:"
rs that fair question z" he asked, halting
and looking at her in mixture of surprise
and doubt.
Quite fair" said Alberta, looking any
where but at him.
Then | should have asked you once more
to be my wife, and to give me love for love,
if in ever 50 small degree. Your answer.
if you please, Miss Graham?r concluded
Mr.. Crichton. smile upon his own lips
now.
''As You like it, then" said Alberta,
steadily, for she knew her own mind and
his well at last.
And with fervent God bless you for
that" Mr.. Crichton drew her closer to his
side.
And the moon perhaps never smiled upon
a happier pair of lovers than the honest
hearted gentleman who had lived in hope
and the wilful woman who had given up her
wilfulness to love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
British Exports to the United states.

\ statement showing the exports of the
principal articles of British and Irish pro-
ducts and manufactures from the United
Kingdom to the United States for the seven
months ending July 81, 1873, as compared
with the corresponding period of 1877, has
been prepared at the Bureau of Statistics.
The decrease in some of the articles is quite
noticeable as favorable TO the industries OF
this country. For instance, cotton piece
goods have decreased from ~, 259, 900 to
%, S22, 900 yards, or nearly 80 per cent. :;
linen piece goods from SO, 100000 to
45, 910,O yards, or 13i per cent; silk
broadstuffs from 1872, 4S4 to l25, 794 yards,
or "a! per cent A favorable increase is in
the number of empty grain bags sent hither
this year, which number Az, 900 against
24S, 900 for the same time last year, indi-
eating an increased movement of grain out
ward. WOrsted stuffs have increased
slightly, while the quantity Of wool sent
has decreased from 95S, ,3Sl to $50, 67S
pounds, equal to 20 per cent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
An Odd Character of Paris.

Baron Taylor died not along ago in Paris.
He was ninety Years old and still sprightly.
Only ten years ago he was in active life. and
his name was in the newspapers daily. As
long ago rs 1924. he was the "roval COM
missioner, charged with the direction of
the Coincide Franchise. and he weathered
the various storms which We're provoked
during the warfare Of the classicists and
romanticists. Had it not been for Baron
Taylor's efforts il is doubtful if Victor
Hugo's Hermann would have ever been
produced in the first theatre of France. The
Baron managed. however, TO remain reason
ably impartial until the struggle was over.
He was of English Flemish parentage. but
his father was naturaliZed in France. When
youth he devoted himself for time 10
literature, but finally studied art and became
a most accomplished critic and connoisseur.
His many missions to Spain. to Egypt, TO
buy the obelisks. to other countries TO hunt
up paintings which the allied armies had
carried away at the time of the invasion.
are historical. Louis Philippe once gave
him 900 600 francs. and sent him to Spain
to buy whatever he chose for the French
museum. He returned 1861 francs out
of this million. and ON the day of his return
had not money enough TO buy his dinner
with, so that he went to the house of a
friend to dine. Ii never occurred to him
that Louis Philippe had intended to allow
him to enrich himself. The galleries of
Versailles are flied with treasures from
Italy, Greece. Turkey and Asia Minor,
gathered together by the care of Baron
Taylor. He wrote well, and his memoirs
ought to be Interesting. He knew every
body of any consequence in Europe. In
1867. Bismarck went personally to thank
him for the services which he had rendered
to.indigent German artists. lie had been
member of the Academy Of Fine Arts since
lS47. He was the founder Of a great num-
Der of charitable societies. When he was
made Senator. in 1869, under the empire.
he gave away the larger part of his salary
of 30. 1000 francs for bcneticent purposes.
He was devoted to his library. which con-
tanned the finest theatrical collection in
Europe. The old gentleman was compelled
to part with some of his literary treasures
after the war. being in temporary financial
distress, and it nearly broke his heart.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
NO. A.

cherry and rose-color or pale cream will
he sufficient.
Select from the oaks Quercus cocciHea
(the scarlet oak, with its growing red
leaves, and q. discOiOr (the swamp white
oak, with rich brown deeply scallOped
leaves. These give elegance of form and
beauty of color. When pressed and dried
they are very effective as decorations
The leaves of the sumacs, in their au-
tumn tints of claret and crimson and gold.
are fine material for wall bouquets. Re
sembling ferns in their pinnated form, they
group we'll with them. and add brilliance t0
their delicate hues. The most desirable are
Rus cdp0iiHd IL. typhiHd, and II. .giG-
brG- These hang out their gorgeous orr
tlammes in rocky pastures and by barren
hillsides just as summer visitors are hasten
ing hOmeward: and all the winter-after
they have been nicely preSsed-like the
banners from old baronial halls, they will
lend glory and grandeur to many an hum
ble home.
The bOughs of some old trees are 81
crooked and curved as to resemble the ant
lers Of deer and when covered with
lichens and dropping moss are fine orna-
liitAlAc w VI
are usually ancient hemlOcks or jumpers,
and are found in damp localities Many
pretty things may be made Of these messy
bOughs. such as vases and stands for dried
grasses or pressed ferns and sumacs; also
hanging baskets for holding pots of living
plants or dried leaves and flowers. and
easels for supporting sketches of rural seen
cry. \ little ingenuity in cutting and
trimming the branches and in whirling them
into the desired shape. will make of the
most refractory bOughs very beautiful oh
jects. Use fine annealed wire to keep all
firm and steady.
The lichens that cover the fallen limbs OF
trees, old dilapidated fences, and the bowl
ders scattered here and there through the
woods have a beauty peculiarly their own.
Wooden brackets to which their lavender
and gray ruffies are glued adOrn room and
serve many useful purposes-are especially
desirable to hold pot of growing vines that
will drop gracefully over and about them.
COiIcA8d ilccT1t,C. resembling rosettes Of
pearl gray lace, or a full blown rose carved
i'm stone. may be found in moist woods
This handsome species is very desirable for
covering old picture frames lending quaint
attraction to the dingy and discolOred sur
face, which they should nearly hide. Vases
of box-board or Of wood, covered with these
lichens, are handsome receptacles for
branches Of autumn leaves or ferns.
\ wooden cross having these lichens So
closely glued upon it as to hide its material
looks as if chisellcd in some arabesque pat
tern from solid granite. Such cross
should rise from base covered with the
more common flat species that abound os
rocks in pastures and by he way side
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29

The taste of edible mushroom is not very
widely diffused among average Americans
and may he considered an acquired facul-
ty." The choicest specimens of the dGari-
cus cOHlpostriS are however considered
great luxuries by many, and find Il ready
market at high prices, in all our large
cities. We saw fine and productive arti-
fetal mushrOOm-bed in Columbia. ). c.,
some Years since at the old HerocmOnt
Lyon, and for the benefit of any of our
readers who may desire to attempt the
growth of these luxuries, we give some
hints from an English writer, who says:
'''The mode OF culture which is the best
adapted for Il farmer to carry out, is that
which the market gardner practices, who
collects short litter from the stables in
town, throws il into a heap, turns it over
occasionally until he ''gets the fire out of
it, then makes his beds into long ridge,
molds bed, when ready, in the usual way,
and to protect the bed from the too eX-
tremcs of heat, he puts over IT thatched
hurdles propping them some few inches
above the surface of the bed. On these
hurdles he adds straw, long litter, or any
according to the external temperature. In
early autumn the north side of high wall
Is good situation for such purpose. The
ground round the bed is then covered with
litter several feet wide, as a means of
keeping down excessive heat. We learn
from northern paper that the artificial
culture of mushrooms by chemical process
is carried on with great success in large
cellar in HobOken under the Palisades. The
inventor is a wealthy French officer
who took refuge in this country from im-
prisonment under Duke Broglio's ministry.
lie keeps his method a profound secret, but
he has succeeded in raising the delicious
esculent at the amount of $50 poundsa day
averaging in weight II or 20 to the pound,
and reaching in some instances a weight OF
five to six ounces each, and the demand for
his product Is rapidly increasing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
The Cobra 1T a Dinner Party.

was assisting once at a burrdkhaHa or
big dinner party, aud we had all been ex-
tremely vivaciOus. At last the ladies rose
to depart, when. just past the muslin skirts
of very pretty girl who had been my right
hand neighbor, there glided cobra, which
forthwith made for the open window be-
hind Us, but was attacked and killed before
it could escape. The young lady, not un-
naturally. got rather hysterical. but she
came round, and then told us what, con-
sidering all the circumstances, there was not
the slightest reason to disbelieve, that dur
ing the progress Of the dinner her foot had
on several different occasions touched soft
object, which once or twice moved slightly,
but which she concluded TO be pet dog be-
longing 10 the master of the house, which
she knew to be perfectly quiet and good
tempered. The dog, however, had not been
in the room at all, and the object she had
touched had undoubtedly beenthe coiled-up
snake, whose bite would have been speedily
fatal 10 the poor girl, who little guessed the
awful danger she had so narrowly escaped.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
LITTLE PHIL.

Make mo headbcard, mis- er, smooth and
painted, you see
Our ma she died last winter, ana sister and
Jack and me
Last Sunday could hardly find her, so many
new graves about
And Bud cried out, We've lost her when
Jack gave little shout
We have worked and saved all w.nter-been
hungry sometimes, | own
But we hid this much from father under the
old door stone.
lie never goes there to see her he hated
her scolded Jack
When he heard us talking abou. her and wish
ing she'd come back.
Bat up in the garret We whisper AMI have a
good time 20 cry.
Our beautiful mother who kissed Us. and
wasn't afraid to die.
Put on it that she was forty, in November she
went away.
That she ,ras Tie 6es; Of mothers, and We
haven't forgot to pray p;
And we mean TO be as she taught us--be low
ing and true and square,
To work and read, to love her, till We 60 to
her mp there.
Let the boaEd bo white like mother" (the small
chin quiyered here,
And the lad coushed something under, AMI
conquered rebel tear.
Here is all We could keep from father, a dol
lar and thirty cents,
The rest he has got FOR coal and flour and
partly to pay the rents
Eiftshnf- tho L.
honest eyes.
What is the price of hoadboarls, with writing
and andsome size =
Three dollars a young roe wounded, just
falls with moan, and he,
With facs like the ghost OF his mother, sank
down on his tattered knee.
Three dollars and we shall lose her, next
winter the graves and the snow,"
But the boss had his arms about him, and
cuddlei the head OF tow
Close up to the great hears shelter, and
womsnly tears fell fast
Dear boy. you shall rever lose her, o cling
to your sacred pas:
Come tomorrow, and bring your sister and
Jack, and the board shall be
The best that the shop can furnish, then come
here and live with me-"
When the orphans loaded their treasure on the
rugged old cart nsxt day.
Tie surprise of footboard varnish. with all
that their love could ssy
And "Edida 81. John Our Mother" baby Jack
gave his little shout,
And Bud. like mountain daisy went dancing
her doll about.
But Phil grew white aud tremblei, and close
10 the boss he crept,
Kissing him ke q woman, shivered and
laughed and wept:
DO you think. my benefactor, in Heaven that
She'l be glad =
Not as glad as you are, Philip, but finish this
job, my lad