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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03

Fresh discoveries are daily being made
by the exploring party at Morton Farm, on
Lady OglarGer's estate near Sandown, Isle
OF Wight. The most important addition
TO the rem aims of the Roman villa alresdy
laid bare has been large chamber, nearly
forty feet long, east and west divided by
strong piers of solid masonry. The west
EN- portion of this chamber is nearly nine
teen feet wide, and the eastern end more
than fifteen feet 1t contains in parts the
remains OF dado about eighteen inches
high, ornamented with frescoes III scroll
pattern of pink. gray and brown A ti.lei
of plaster runs round the whole chamber,
the walls ii which are between three and
four feet in height, the suDersiructure be-
ing of wood and plaster, much OF which
has been found ia the ruins, with the colors
well preserved and for the most part re-
markabiy fresh. The floor of the chamber
is paved throughout in fine tessellated
work, the most elaborate thai has vet been
discovered in the Briti-h Islands The
subjects contained in panels are, among
others, Perseus ard Andromeda and the
-Four Seasons. The central ornament in
another portion contains the head OF
MeGusa, with snake-like locks, and around
this are panels filed with pastoral groups,
anu spirited composition of Tritons anu
monsters. The exploring party of cistin-
guished antiquarians have now unearthed
SIX chambers, making, with what had al
ready been discovered, eleven In short
time the full extent of a spacious Roman
villa, which Was without doubt the habita-
ton of some great personage. will have
been opened to the light of day
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
Glucose.

The use of glucose has become SO ex-
tensiye in the United States that many of
the reliable old commercial papers are call
ing loudly for legislation to control its use,
and 10 prevent the adulteration of many
articles IN the manufacture of which it is
largely used. The use of glucose III the
preparation of table sfrups has become
very extensive, ccnst.tut ng as it does in
many instances fully 40 per cent Of their
composition. The Light brown sugars in
most common use are iarge.y adulterated
with il, in some ms ances 40 per cent being
glucose. Everywhere but in this country
glucose Is made mostly from potatoes /; but
here it is almost exclusively made from corn.
Each bushel of corn makes from % TO 80
pounds of glucose (syrup or sugar., which
brings from two and half TO four cents
per pound. AS corn, at Chicago for ex-
ample, is worth only about 35 to 40 cents a
bushel. while the cost of manufacture is but
% TO So cents bushel. the best appointed
factories can make 10 or 80 c. nts profit on
each bushel of corn worked into glucose.
The process is one requiring much skill and
close, and careful attention; and success
depends almost entirely upon one inau, the
chemist in each factory. The question
as 10 its effect upon the health OF persons
using glucose is disputed one, but no one
would of his own accord be willing to take
the risk of testing its effect upon his own
health, and the public would gladly well
come legislation which would compel those
who sell glucose to do so underi lis own name.
1t is an imposition to make the communi-
ty pay 10 cents per pound for this cheap
material, urder the name of syrup or sugar.
The extent of the use of glucose may be
imagined when We learn from the best
authority that it is produced at the rate of
500 tons per day, and that this proportion
is being rapidly increased.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
llsioIicn Ware.

The clay for the fine majolica is dispos-
it by the rivers of tie country of majolica
Italy, the Metuaro, the Foglio, the Isauro-
and 1t is usually gathered in the rain or af-
ter the great storms which wash down the
naked soil of the Apennines to the river
beds. 4 most amusing and quaint old
print accompanies PIccolpassO's treatise,
and represents hill country with towers
and castles and rapid river bed under a
pouring rain: the banks il layers of mud
ike the banks Of the Nile, in cube-like de-
posits OF tine soil, and a claydigger loading
donkey. Another picture represents II
high set, cosiellaied town, under a great
faced sun which fills up the whole sky-a
graphic expression of his swelterlng maj
esty-baklng the clay. Naked ciay-dig-
gers toll ON the rivers bank. When the
rain falls upon the Apeninnes and swells
the rivers with tu:bid flood. the lighter
part of the washings of the hills settles at
the sides of the rivers, and is LETT one or
two feet high, soft red and gray clay. II
is so fine and soft thatit suggests manipula-
tion, and invites the plastic hand Gov
ering this clay, when moulded, with a
white and viiriiable composition, we have
the various maio!icss of Italy-either made
from the finer Clay of the rivers, or dug
out of cave deposits; and Pesaro produces
the colors which adorn her majohca- A
majolica painter of Pesaro informed me
that he relied chiefly upon the colors OF
Pesaro. as neither German nor French
colors equaled IN brilliancy those OF
Pesaro. In every sense the majolica of
Italy is wholly indigenous 10 it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
Preserving a Mans Rea son.

4 curious story Is told of an exhibit in a
shop window of one of the leading jewellers
of Vienna. The object of attraction is a
brooch magnidcently studded with gems, in
the middle OF the chasing of which is en-
closed the most singular of centres-four
common, old, bent and corroded pins. This
brooch is the property of the Countess
Lavetskofy. The pins have a history, of
course. Seven Years ago Count Robert
Lavetskofy, as the story runs was arrested
at Warsaw for an alleged insult TO the Rus
sian government. The real author of the
insult, which consisted of some careless
words spoken at a social gathering, was his
wife. lie accepted the accusation, how
ever, and was sent 10 prison. In one OF the
dungeons in which the Car is said TO be
fond of conhning his Polish subjects, the
unfortunate martyr for his wife's loose
tongue spent six years. He had only one
amusement. After he had been searched
and thrown into u cell, he found in his coat
four pms These he pulled out and threw
upon the floor; then in the darkness he
hunted for them. Having found them, per-
haps after hours, even days, he scattered
them again. And so the game went on for
six weary years "But for thenl." he
writes in his memoirs, Il should have gone
mad. They provided me with purpose.
So long as had them to search for, had
something to do. When the decree for my
liberation as an exile was brougt to me, the
jaiior found me on my knees hunting for
one which had escaped me for two days.
They saved my wife's husband from lunacy.
My wife therefore could not desire proud
er ornament
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03

In which only extraordinary luck prevented
him from reaping in death the we'll earned
reward of his foolisbness- He always wore
q white coat, q white hat, and rode white
horse in battle, simply because other gen.
erals usually avoided these target-marks.
He was perpetually riding at bresk-neck
speed over some fence or ditch, leaving
half his staff and orderlies sprawling in IT,
He never lost an opportunity of displaying
courage. He went into battle IN his clean
est uniform and fresh underclothipg, COW
cred with perfume, and wearing diamond
hilted sword, in order, as he said, that he
might die with his best clothes on. For a
long time he wore, with evident affectatlon,
q coat in which he had been wounded, and
which had a conspicuous patch Jn the
shoulder.
Yet this was not more bravado and non
sense. but was the result of thought and
alHost cold -blooded calculation. II WAS
intended TO impress his men. and it did So
They firmly believed he could not be hit,
and whenever they saw white horse, coat
and cap among them, they knew that it
was Skobeleff, and 50 long as he was there
they felt sure that everything wss going
well. At the begin: ing Of the war he
made up his mind firmly that he would
never come out alive. Alter reading me
the telegram announcing the armistice.
one of the nrst things he said was, ''Weli,
perhaps won't get killed after all" Will
this idea firmly fixed on his mind, that his
death was only a question of a few weeks
or months, his one thought was how 10
make the best use of his life so as to make
an impression on his men, and gain such
control over them that they would follow
him anywhere. In anything that he did he
tired to eliminate the idea of danger from
their minds, and to make the most danger
ous exploit appear as an ordinary every day
affair
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
Young Boat-BuiIders.

During the late summer three boys, STOP
ping with their parents at Atlantic City,
New Jersey, Walter Eanneman, RObie Mar
shall and Willie Halsey, the first being but
ten and the others thirteen years of age,
saw little boat at the landing which so
pleased them that they wished the little
craft was theirs and tried hard 10 prevail
upon their parents to purchase it for them.
Failing in this they resolved TO build one
themselves, and gathering together the
proper materials by purchasing lumber and
borrowing tools, wen. al the work. In
thirty days, with no assistance from any
boat-builder, and only an occasional look
at their model boat, their little craft, eight
feet in length, was ready for the water.
Recently the happy day came, and
With ali the ceremonies usual to such cir
cumstances, with beautiful flag floating
from her mast, and amid Loud hurrahs
from the spectators, who were seated ON a
platform erected by the lads, the little
boat was sent atioat. She will carry three
persons, has mast and sail, and IL painted
and finished throughout in neat and q
substantial manner.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
Museum Nomenclature.

In the British Museum, at the top of the
stairs, we encounter in terrific alliance a
giraffe, a hIppopotamus, and a basking
shark The pubic, young and old, pass
with a start and stare, and remain As wise
as they were before about all three crea-
lures One day recently was standing by
the big fish; father came up TO it with
his little boy. That's shark sayshe
lit turns On its side when it wants to eat
you, and SO went on, literally as wise as
he was before, for he had read in a book
that sharks turn on their side to oitc, and
he never looked at the ticket, which told,
him this particular shark only ate small
fish. Now, he never looked at the ticket,
because he didn't expect TO find anything
on it except that this was the Sharkogoba-
lus Smith Jonesianius. But if round the
walls of the rDom there had been all the
well known kinds of shark, going down in
graduated sizes, from the basking one to
our wsggiing dog-fsh, aud if every one of
these had plain English ticket, with ten
words of common sense en- 1t, saving where
and how the beast lived, aud a number (un-
changeable) referring to properly arranged
manual OF the shark tribe, (sold by the
museum publisher, who ought to have his
shop close by the porter's lodge, both IA
ther and son must have been lar below the
level of average man and boy in mother
wit if they did not go out of the room by
the door In front OF them very distinctly,
and to themselves amazingly, wiser than
they had come in by the door behind them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
Early History of Minnesota.

The name Of Minnesota is an Indian
name, signifying ''cloudy water Min
nesota IL the thirty second state in the
Union. The first European who set foot
IN Minnesota WAS Louis Hennepin, who in
1850, IN a company of French fur-traders,
ascended the Mississippi to the Falls of st.
Anthony to which he gave their name. In
1868 this region was ceded to Great Britain,
and in 1866 was explored by Captain Jona-
than Carver, native of Connecticut. In
1883 It was transferred to the United States,
us part Of the Northwest Territory. In
1919 Fort Smelling was established. A few
years ago, as my mother was going from
Minneapolis 20 tlankato, she met II lady
who was over seventy years old, who said
her husband was one Of the first soldiers
sent to the fort She, with four other la
dies (wives Of the soldiers visited their
husbands that summer QSl9) and they
were five weeks going from Prairie du Chien
to tine fort, ON fiat boats. In 1923 the first
steamboat visited Minnesota Between
this and 1880, small colony of Swiss set
tied at Mendoza, near St. Paul. In 1888
the Indian title to lands east of the MIssis-
sippi was extingHished. In 1S43 settle
ment was commenced at Saltwater; or
March 8, 1S49, Congress passei an act o.
ganizing the Territory of Minnesota, Its
western boundary being the Missouri river.
AT this time the population was between
4, 900 and 5000, and it was duly organized
on the 1st of June following. In 1851,
immigration was commenced in earnest;
and 50 rapid was the increase of population.
hat on February 26, 1859, Congress passed
an enabling act for its admission as State.
The provisions of the act were complied
with, a constitution (under which the State
is still governed) was passed and submitted
TO the people. and members of Congress
elected the following October; and on May
IL, 1858, Minnesota was formally admitted
into the Union.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03

The notion thar appetite is a low

The notion that appetite is low degree
CT hunger ard hunger an intensified form
Of appetite does not seem to be borne out
by facts. The two desires or lougings are
different in their nature. Appetite is the
craving of the apparatus of taste, and some
times of the digestive organs, while hunger
is the demand OF the organism as a whole
or of some of its parts of food. Use the
words appetite and hunger how We may,
there are actually two needs TO I've express
ed, and much mischief arises from co =
founding them. The one cry for food mic
We call appetite Is an affair of hab
caprice, and, may fer time at leass, be
stimulated by appealing to the sense Of
taste. or promoted by certain cordials and
stimulants; but, looking at the matter from
a physiological point of view, 1t is difficult
TO see what we gain by exciting the organs
of digestion TO take food unless the system
is In a condition TO receive it. The rational
mode of procedure would seem to be to
wait the expression of need in the system
In short, TO look to hunger rather than ap-
petite as an incentive to the act of feeding,
instead of exciting the palate and sense
organs to take food when We have no
organic reason to suppose that there is an
inner need of il. There are certain evil
of the civilized mode o. feed.
ing appetite on the basis of habit, which it
may be useful TO carry out. First, separa-
ting appetite from burger and developing
il as an independent sense or function,
there naturally springs up fashion of life
which may ue described as living to feed
The purveyor of food trades ON the tastes !
and cultivated longings of the consideration
what TO eat and what TO drink comes TO !
occupy place in the self consciousness
which it was probably not intended to fill, |
and in so far as this is the Case man is more |
animal and less spiritual and intellectual, /
than he ought TO be; although il may be I
conceded that the reIl:ed taste of cultivated /
nature is less offensive inaa the simple |
of the savage. There are some that |
contend that man is the gamer by the de- /
velopment of his appetite. If this be so
the gain is a good not mixed with evil. /
Another drawback is that by severing ap-
petite from hunger We lose the indication 1
Of quantity which nature gives with her |
orders for food. The man who eats reg
nlar number of meals daily, with duly |
stimulated and organised habit, probably |
Fat much more in the twenty-four hours /
han his system requires, or the organism .
As "a whole is constituted to deal with.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
Our Waste lands

Now that the wave of emigration has
found a western shore upon which it re-
coils, the current must stop or find some
other direction. The limit of successful
agriculture in the West seems to have
been reached, for already thousands of
settlers have found that they have gone too
far and have actually penetrated the arid
districts where no vegetable growth can
thrive without irrigation, although 1t may
exist without il. IL is therefore well that
attention should be called to the vacant
lands in the East and South, where there
are millions of acres which need Only cheap
reclamation to become productive. The
broad Allegheny ranges, with their outlying
spurs and parallel ridges. are sll but unoc
cupied, and land on those hills and in the
valleys between them can be purchased in
large tracts for nominal prices. Whole coun-
tries IN Name, New York, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky,
large tracts in other States and smaller
tracts almost everywhere, are ready and
waiting to be reclaimed. Parts of them
may be profitably turned to timber cul-
ture and the remaining portion, the better
share of the land, is admirably adapted to
grass and grazing either for lighter and
NOR. hardy beeves or the harder kinds OF
sheep. The attention of those phiianrhroplc
societies, who aim to encourage the seating
of industrious men of small means upon
farms of their own, might be turned to
these tracts, upon which annual fires now
purposely set every Spring. destroy the
young timber and kill the grass and SO keep
back their reclamation
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
The Butter Bir q.

Humboldt, in his 'Travels in South
America" records visit to Carip., where
is the cavern of the Gsucharo bIrd, and our
knowledge of TINS wonder is derived from
his most interesting narrative. Among the
natives IN the country around this cavern
Is celebrated for its great size, for the mys-
ferrous birds which haunt its inmost re-
cesses, tor the river which tiows from it,
and for the superstitious belief that in its
gloomy depths is the abode of the spirits Of
their ancestors. The name which II bears
signifies the mine of fat" because from
the young of the birds which inhabit it an
immense quantity of fat Is annually OBJ
tained- These birds arc about the size OF
our common fowl, with wings which ex-
pand to three feet and a half. All day
long they dwell in the cavern, and, like
our owls, only come forth at night. They
subsist entirely on fruits, and have very
beaks, which are necessary 10
crack the tough nuts and reeds which form
part Of ther food.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03

4 defendant before tie Justice Alley
Court, Detroit, recently objected to the
jury which the Constable had gathered
together. Beginning at number one the
court asked:
state your objections to the juryman." {"
81 beat him out of $50 on a horse trade
and know how he feels, )" was the reply.
'.And this one!'
''He and | couldn't agree on q game Of
cards one day about two weeks ago. and
punched his head. He hasn't forgotten it
you bet.
swell here's the third mani"
''lIe has grudge against me for licking
his brUther-in-law.
''And the fourthl'
''We have never been good friends since
/ shot six Of h hens
''And the fifthin
81 know him of old He says stole his
shotgun
'.And do you object to the sixth and
lasti'
Decidedly do. II isn't four days since
got ready to throw him of wood-dock. :"
Wouldn't it be safe for you to dispense
with jury and let the court try the cssel"
suggested his HoEor.
mo, sirl' was the decided reply 81
don't say that I've got any thing in partica-
lar against this court, but this court may
have formed an opinion that am the man
who bagged his twenty-six game fowls one
night last month I've heard that he had his
suspicious"
The case was adjourned to secure six
::urymen from out of the city.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
Dying With Hrs Charge.

Recently the engineer of train near
,,saI cav a large dog on the trac K,
barking furiOusly The enginse5, r, whis,sd haiss
and refused to stir. The dog gad was run vbst tbst
and killed. The engineer observer ,,d as as
,hs ae sn,mal crouched close to the grouna s'
tne u ,ans am.r s,ruck by the cowcatcher. A min,
ute e. Iaed userine ,ne on the locomotive and he be
had been killed .tasns 1t xas 'ssa saard sf'e over the
dog had oesn sarked TO attract the attention
chile i tss engineer sn0 The faithful a1ms, hss S1s
sass sn nsssse1as aas +. ,ssSss sSs by sy
the an,sn oos, snd wen went to .lsep on the track
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03

that is lucky, for l have something TO ssx
10 YOU a question to ask
tie had never called me 'smy DEAR be
iofe, AID felt my heart flutter as he sa,
down beside me.
YOU'RE such good -natured ,;t,,a so,,
Lofty, he went on, shat I'm NO, a hi,
AFRAID OF YOU want you 10 tell me III,
'rulh, and to promise NE not to laugh a,
me until I've gone away. It's very
serious matter to me. 1.-The fact is. Lofty.
'hlnk havebeen bachelor long enough,
and | mean to marry, if 1 can. Do Won
think any one would have me7'
i don't see why not" 1 answered. feel.
ing very nervous. sos sa
Have You ever talked to your aun,
about me:" continued the doctor. 6
Oh, sometimes l have" anwered.
And did she seem 10 think me a de-
cent sort of fellOwi" he went on.
''She likes you am sure l anwered.
She says you are perfectly splendid"
You dear little comforter said the
doctor. q: could not tell BY her manner
to me; but then after all, she may not like
me much. Now, Lofty, answer me one
hing: has your amt suitor2 Is she en-.
gagged 10 any onei"
l burst iLto laugh.
Poor Aunt Annette; she's thirty. y said.
SHE'S real old maid"
And lma real ODD bachelor. he an.
sWered ''Oh, you young thingsl-yop young
things; But Pm not too old for-"Well.
Lofty, I'm going to tell you something
Eow."
Hes going to propose, said to my
self. And he continued:
I'm not to old for an uncle, am /;
for I'm going to ask your Aunt Annette
TO marry me. Of course. I'm not sure tha,
she will. but you have gwen me a grea,
deal of hope"
Good gracious. 1 felt myself growing
scarlet. Aunt Annette What q vain lit
tie fool had been; and then he said the
words that put an end to all my conceit in
moment
II shall be the best uncle in the world,
Lofty" he went on, ''if your aunt will have
me; for you really are the incest little
thing, and bid fair to be as handsome and
elegant as she is by the time you are her
age"
The door bell rang at that moment. How
glad was to hear it, and to say:
Here comes aunty; you'd better talk
to her" and to get out of the room.
The worst of it ali was that had written
TO the girls, and | was wicked enough 10
hope she would refuse him; but she did
not They are married, and he makes q
very nice uncle indeed. And really don't
mind it at all now, for | think Ed. Ray
mond is much handsonler than the doctor,
and has asked me if he can speak TO pa