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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
In "a Hole.

The man James Donnelly recently
| taken from the hold of the Inman stea-
mer City of Chester we'll nigh starved
to death by eleven days fastening, is
fast recovering. He is young
Scotch lad, twenty years old, about five
feet seven and half inches high, with
blue eyes, light hair and faint NOUS
tache. Except for the emaciation re-
sulting from his long fast, he is perfect
ty healthy. His diet is confined to
brandy and water or brandy and milk.
with occasional sips of beef tea, and
this will not be varied much for several
days. His eyes are sunken and his
cheek bones prominent, his tongue dry
and hard. His constant demand is for
water, which he sips lovingly. Ac-
cording to his own story, told with ma
ny pauses TO gam strength or moisten
his parched tongue. he is a native of
Dumbarton in Scotland, where he has
a brother. He has two aunts and two
uncles living at ''Only Villa. Marina,
Il. L., and it was TO get TO them that he
became stowaway. He had worked
for time as a platter or rivetter in the
shipyards on the Clyde, and latterly in
the boiler shops at Birkenhead, near
Liverpool. Finding himself out of
work and out of money, he got bottle
of whiskey and the day before tine City
OF Chester sailed went on board at the
Albert Docks, Birkenhead. The whis-
key, he says, he gave to sailor and
begged the man TO hide him away. Car
90 was then going in and the sailor told
him TO 90 below where the cargo was
slowing. Donnelly describes this friend
of his with sufficient minuteness to in
sure his identification. The man took
the whiskey and afterwards threw the
bottle down into the hatch where Don
nelly had slowed himself. This occur
red, Donnelly says, about O'Clock on
the afternoon of September %. Ii was
perfectly dark i'm the hold and he can
tell nothing of days or times after that
event. la cropping about after the
hatch separating the orlop from the
lower steerage deck was put on he fell
through to the bottom of the hold.
Feeling about he discovered some salt
meat, but il was so very much spoiled
that he could not eat a mouthful, al
though he was beginning TO be hungry.
He then climbed TO the orlop deck,
where he discovered some loose salt,
and after while ate some. OF course,
as he knew it would, it made him hor-
rible thirsty. He says he felt no hung
er at any time 10 be spoken of in the
comparison, but to slake his thirst
would have given all the world. 1t
was perfectly dark, and he could tell
night from day only by the sound of
bells which reached him from above.
On what he concluded was the second
or third day out he got hold of bar
rel stave and managed 10 work it up
between the hatch and the deck COM
bings. He made all the noise he could.
and the barking of dog followed.
Then he heard and felt the dog lay hold
of the end Of the stave and break it off,
and heard shouts of laughter Of some
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
Too OId "A Bird.

\ couple Of chaps, whose years will
be few in the land if they do not re-
form, entered Gratiot avenue saloon
five days ago. and one OF them ex-
plaine,i to the proprietor:
"This fellow and me have got ber .
1 bet him so that Grant will be the
next President, and he takes me. Here's
the money. We want you to keep il
until the bet i decided in 1850"
g will do 70" was the calm reply,
as the money was raSed in.
The strangers departed, each vigor-
Ously asserting that he wasn't afraid to
trust the saloonist, and they were not
seen together until two days after
wards. They then appeared to rem'rA ::
''We have been talking the thing
over, and have concluded To Withdraw
the bet. IL has been some trouble %
you, and if you'll hand over 80 wen
call it square.
- am no mon as dot, replied the
saloonist, as he opened the till; "
makes no charge-here is der cash."
lie threw them out the two tens they
had left, sly twinkle in his eye, and
as they slid out he called after them:
50 Schentlemens, ven you makes any
moar pets cali zrc .nis.
But they won't. The two bills were
base counterfeits, and they didn't get
mixed up with his honest cash.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
The story Of Chub.

Everybody about the depot knew
Club, the basket boy, for he was always
limping through the room crying zap
Piles ,-peanuts-ten cents aquart, Ap-
ple=-two for penny! Right this
way, Mister, for your fresh-baked pea
nuts and ripe, apples,''
WhereChub came from or to whom he
belonged seemed a mystery. He was al
ways at his post, from early morning
till nine at night. Then he would dis
appear only to return punctually the
next day.
He wasn't at all communicative, and
said but very little in the way of gene
raj conversation. Yet everybody liked
him; his pale face and withered limbs
we're sure to appeal to their sympathies.
| used TO like him myself, and it always
pleased me to see him get good days
custom.
But it's over year, now, since Club
sold apples and peanuts in our depot,
and l miss him Yet. There Is real
lonesome place over in the corner; here
he used TO sit and eat his lunch at noon
time. 1t was his favorite seat, and Z
never seems filled now.
If often hear our agent and Simons
remark, when they glance in that di-
rection, sit seems kind o. lonesome
not to see Club around
| remember as if it were but yester-
day, the lady coming in leading that
little witch with blue silk bonnet
crowning her curls. 1t was the sweet
the depot, laughing and singing, she
happened to espy Club limping his
rounds. She ran right up TO him, and,
putting ont a tiny hand, touched his
crutch.
'.Oh, 90 poor 'ame boy" she cooed,
''Ise dot a tiss for co."
ChuJ's face fairly glowed with de-
light as he bent his head to receive the
kiss from the rosebud lips. He reached
her a handful of peanuts which she
took and placed in her little sack pock-
ct.
81 loves 90, poor 'ame boy" she said,
softly, Clause 90 was dood to me-"
"Come here, Birdie,'' called the Ia
dy.
''No, mamma, no. Ise doing with
iissoyf. poor, 'ame boy" she said. reso-
lutely sticking close to Club.
But the lady took her away Club
hobbled into the other room.
The lady was busy with her book and
did not notice her child slip out; bu;
| did, and every now and then caught
stray glimpses of the little figure as she
ran up and down the platform. By and
by / heard whistle. Twas the fast
mail going up, but it don't stop. |
thought of the baby and so did her
mother.
''Birdie." she called; but no "Bir-
die" answered. Just then / glanced
out, and there stood the little one in
the blue silk bonnet right upon the
track.
I fairly stopped from very terror.
The mother ran striking forward,
'Will no one save hers
YES" shouted voice. saw Club
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
Knew a hUtIe too Mucf

Intelligent young man of BurlingOr
who has picked up little agricultural
argot, TO old granger sitting besides
him on the cars:
This has been splendid weather for
fall plowiug."
Old granger. pleased with the general
intelligence of the young town man:
"Ithez, stranger, il hez couldn'tha
been better"
Young man of Burlington, warming
with his subject, and well pleased
with his success:
1.-The farmers have greater acreage
of ground ready for sowing than they
have had at this season for several
years"
Honest old granger, fairly delighed
at the really good sense and observing
habits of the young man.
Eyes, | low we he>, rather low
we hev."
Young man of Burlington, ruined by
excess and over-confidence
"But I'm very much afraid they
won't be able to get another crop of
corn ont Of the way of the frost his
year.
Disguised silence for the next sixty
y
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
Cashmere Goats i'm Nevada.

Pure Cashmere goats find among the
wild sage brush barrens of Nevada IN
acceptable climate, where their health
is excellent and their fleeces unusually
fine and silky. \ herder near Carson
has flock of 5000. Eastern farmers
and especially that great multitude who
to admiration of rural life do not unite
much affection for farm labor, are soli-
cited to give reflection to this intelli-
gence. Here is whole State, 120, 900
square miles, open to superficial pre-
emption, its mountains exactly adapted
to climbing goats, and its sweet grai 5
sheltered by every bush of artemesia
Everywhere the fiashing-leveled white
sage abounds. In the growing time OF
summer no animal can stomach its bit
tiers. But the first frost that kills the
summer food turns this bitterness TO
sweetest pasture Ii is savory and fat
tening to all animals that herd. 1t ten
ders their meat and gives to their coats
a glossy fur that defies the frosts and
the tempests of winter. Here is invi-
ting occupation, most remunerating
least laborious. most healthful. least
risky and involving small initial OUT
lay.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
Little Bertie's Frock.

He was walking up Macomb street,
peering on the Italians, glancing into
open windows at junk buyers, and now
and then entering an alley TO inspect
rickety old vehicles standing in front
of barns.
What am | looking for:" he an
swered the policeman; "well, IL may
strike you as foolish. hut / have been
looking around for a whole month, and
may have to keep it up for another
I'm looking for a rag-buyer; III know
his rig ifI should see il again, but ]
haven't the least idea where ne is or
where I'll find him."
did he steal something from you 90
No-nO," was the hesitating reply.
"Want him arrested for anything
"N-no."
The officer was wondering what the
cause could be, when the man said:
81 feel bit ashamed to tell you, but
perhaps you won't laugh at me. But
you see have old clothes on, and
don't look as if / had plenty Of cash to
spare. Pm only poor laboring man,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
How Trained Dog. and Monss,. Live.

When the monkeys aud dogs had IL
nished their performances, all of the
hundreds of people left the Aquarium
-9Hiiiing. or scattered in various direc-
= ons, among the tanks of fishes, but
| was not satisfied. | wanted TO see
the man who had taught these ami
mails such astonishing tricks. So a
messenger started off behind the stage
to find him. while hurriedly gathered
my traps together, and put them on as
becominsly as l could, ready to be res
pectable and middle-aged again on the
approach of Signor Taddei. He came
before long quite surprised at having
been sent fora kind looking. sober
gentlemen, who couldn't speak word
of English. How fortunate that | was
grown up again, Perhaps l could un-
derstand him. As he proved TO speak
French, we got along very well, and |
always shall be grateful for the patient
way in which he answered every ques-
ion, often adding some welcome bit of
these animals long? Oh yes, some of
them for twelve years; he had been
training animals for fifteen years. Did
he have TO whip them? ''Oh, no, in
deed; that would do no good; it would
frighten them. Kindness was much
the best" and so on until we obtained
many interesting facts. | shall repe;
th>m to you in very much the same
ierky way in which they came. Slgnor
'Taddei had come to America a few
month before, bringing his animals
with him: his daughter, who came al
50, assists him very much, ami his pets
are as found of her as they are of him.
She always stands behind the scenes to
receive them when they run off the
stage. They are fed and petted after
each performance. The dogs like
meat or sausage; The monkeys some
times take meat, but generally they ga,
bread, milk, and rice. They like to
drink raspberry or strawberry juice
mixed with water. His monkeys tasted
tdtiiut, III -NtW VI n lOi lilt III 81 Niuit
in their lives, and were delighted with
them. Where did he get his animals?
Certainly. Madame should be told, with
great pleasure. The dogs mostly were
obtained in Austria, but his monkeys
he picked up at circuses and geological
gardens-in fact at any place where he
could find the right sort. He selects
his monkeys usually by what he sees of
them at the menageries, or geological
gardens. The best ones always are ac-
tive and on the alert. Were monkeys
as intelligent as dogs? Well yes: no;
he couldn't say. Sometimes monkeys
are brightest, sometimes dogs; il de-
pends entirely upon the individual ami
NAL. Monkeys often forget their tricks
when they come to a new place are
q ttsrsaess.l ~ -isss-.- ->-.s -~s.-t-,
dogs don't forget at all. A long time
generally is needed for training either,
but this, too, depends upon the animals
4in'eligenee and the difficulty OF the
trick; it may be three month. six
months. nine months, or a year. IL
ook more than year to train the
chief ladder dog. Madame would MT
believe it, but another dog has been
training for the same trick for whole
year and cannot perform il successfully
yet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
PecuiIar,ties of Prominent Men.

The Duke of Wellington was not re-
markably sedulous of dress, although
on grand occasions he made a sufficient
displry. WHOM he were Is 2Silcif-t =
ders ana decorations 0:s4.ag on Goa
more gorgeous than the celebrated bab-
it of Prince Esterhazy, which, il i:
said, cost him goo in repairs and DAM
ages, every time it was put on. The
duke had a custom of wearing a neck
cloth in uniform, which gave him
rather a sloyenly appearance, and a
fiippant French duchess once called
him .'Le Due de Yillianton," because
he appeared at a full dress party in
something less than grande tenue. He
was also familiarly called in the army,
"the Beau" from his usual plain at
tire, and apparent negligence Of out
ward splendor. That vanity is an in
herent compound or attendant of great
ness, is wide position, which admits
of much argument and endless demon
stratiOn- Many distinguished men eff
feet or adopt eccentricities, of which
vanity may be the melting cause.
Lord Nelson was fond of exhibiting
his stars. and delighted in having his
horses taken out, and his carriage
drawn by the mob.
The celebrated Lord Peterborough,
though light and vain and proud, had
no weakness of this kind. Once, the
pOpulace taking him for the Duke of
Marlborough, insisted on dragging him
through the streets in triumph.
Gentlemen" said he. ~ can assure
you by two reasons that I am not the
Duke of Marlborough. In the frs;
place, have only five guineas in my
pocket, and in the second place they
are heartily at your service"
So, throwing his purse amcng them
he got out of their hands with loud
huzzas and eXclamations. The Earl OF
Peterborough, who had much sense,
much wit, and much whim, leaped out
of his chariot one day on seeing dam
cling master, with pearl colored silk
stockings, lightly stepping over the
broad stones, and picking his way in
extremely dirty weather, and ran after
him with his sword drawn, in order to
drive him into the mud, into which he,
of course, followed himself.
All singularities NAV be traced home
TO certain degree of vanity. of which
prevailing weakness the old leather
breeches of Frederick the Great, the
coarse coat and brass buttons of Charles
MI. the small cooked hat and gray ca
pote of Napoleon, the blanket aud tab
of Diogenes, and even the piouS beaver
and modest drab of the Quaker, may
be included as samples.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
Natural History.

a lecturer on natural history was
called upon the other day to pay for a
live rabbit which he bad in basket in
a railway ear, and which the conductor
said would be charged the same as n
dog The lecturer vaiuly explained
that he was going to use the rabbit in
illustration of a lecture he was going 10
give in another town. and, Indignantly
taking small live tortoise from his
pocket, said, you'll be telling me next
that This is dog, and that | must pay
for it Also" The conductor went for
superior orders, and on his return
delivered this lecture on natural his
tory Seats is dogs, rabbits is dogs, but
a tortns is a hinsect." The professor
had to pay dog fare for the rabbit.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01

limp Wild out AMI snatch the little form
from its perilous position, and throw il
on one side just as the train thundered
by.
The baby was saved; but upon the
track was crushed and mangled form.
They lifted him sadly, and, laying him
down upon one of the seats, went for
help. 1t was too late; for he only OPEN
ed his eyes once and whispered, SIS she
safe ~
They brought her TO him, but he did
not heed. She stroked the still white
face with her tiny hands, and cooed
in sweet baby fashion, as she looked
around upon the crowd:
''PoOr 'ame boy gone fast seep, gone
fast seep"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01

body evidently amused at the dog'sn-
ties. He shouted and cried till head
no voice left, and then he fell q be
deck and became UNCONSCIOUS ,e
knew no more Of anything unti.ln
water poured upon him as he lay Sl
the steamers deck on Friday evening.
Donnelly insists that he had not been
drinking the whiskey, but had brought
it merely as a bribe to the sailor. As
soon as he came to his senses his first
sensation was great gnawing at the
pit of the stomach, and then his thirst
returned, which his continual slipping
of water has not taken it away. The
chief officer of the City Of Chester said
the story of bribed sailor he did not
consider to be true, since the crew of the
ship were an exceptionally fine lot of
men. A sailor, moreover, would not
have slowed away a man in such IA
shion. 1t was more than likely that
the supposed saylor was stevedOre
connected with one of the gangs at the
Birkenhead docks. Those men wore
the blue smock of Inman line sailOrs
The salt meat DOnnelly got at was lot
of rancid bacon, which lay in the hold.
The deck above the Orlop deck was the
lower steerage deck, and there was a
dog there, kept by one of the passeng-
er though the hatch was entirely CO.
vered by heavy tarpaulin, which sx-
tended over the deck on all sides. He
did not see how a man could thrust a
stick up from the lower TO the upper
compartment, and thought that this
was a dream of the starving man before
he fell into unconsciousness- %
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
Ponnpeii.

Excavations at Pompeii prove III;
city to have been one of the most fash
ionable aud beautiful of Roman sum
mer resorts, and, but for the eruption j
might have remained SO to this day
As with Pompeii, so with thousands o.
people who have beauty of form ani
feature. They might always be az
mired but for the eruption, that makes
the face unsightly, and betrays the
presence of scrofula, virulent blood
poisOns. or general debility. There is
but one remedy that positively cures
these affections, and that remedy Is
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
1t is the best known tonic, Alternative
and resolvent. 1t speedily cures pim-
Piles. blotches, liver spots, and all dis
eases arising from impoverished or
impure b,ood. 1t also cures dyspepsia.
and regulates the liver and bowels.
Sold by all druggists.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01

ALTHOUGH MANY are pIedlsposed TO lung trou.
Dies irOm 0ir.h. yet even sgcn may escape con-
sumption or other Pulmonary or Bronchial dis
eases II de care and watchfuiuess be observed,
and all exciting causes are promptly treated as
they arise. II is In these cases DIR. yne'S Ex-
peclorant exercises Its most beneficial effects,
and has produced the largest proportion OF its
cures Besides promptly removing Coughs and
Colds, which, when left 20 themselves. are the
The Immediate causes OF tuoerculous develop
ment, this standard remedy allay, any nfiama-
tlon which may exist, and by promoting easy
expectoratlon, ,cleanses the lungs OF the su0stan.
ees which clog them up. and wli rap pidly des-
tro whsn suferss v remain.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
1as DYING YEAR

Far. fAr sway there Is CLINT OF crimson IN the
west,
A rose;s ,,s>,w. p sparks of fire set in the
J Js@--''' SIS
Whose shapes each moment. changed anew.
some beauties fresh unfold.
The red leaves strew the garden walk the
autumn showers fall
Across the path in cleaning gray the whist
ling ployers call
Their comrades TO the sheltering fen the
steslthy owl skins by,
What time the white moon gins to sho " be
crescent in the sky.
And rise from riverside the mists, and cattle
cease 20 Craze.
And lay them down beneath the boughs and
in the gathering haze
The narsh-hshts show their glitterins sparks
of all-delusive FIRE,
TO lure the needless Ssyfarer into the treseh-
erous mire-
Wet sre the last few flowers with dew-the
dahlia's gorgeous crown
Bows heavily its petals bright with glittering
gems bent down;
The crimson fuscbia gently knobs her purple
lined bells
The frosty nights creep on apace, and the
short daylight tells
Of coming winter, when the earth shall robed
be with snow.
And bare shall be the forest trees nor shall
there longer blow
Oue bloom of al the blossoms fair that bright
ened summer hours
I'll spring shall smile on earth again. and
bring u back the towers.