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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
The New Danger of Courtins.

Young Smiffkins was somewhat sur
prised, but highly elated, when he received
a polite invitation from Old Scroggins 10
come UP and take 3 crust-which means
dinner-and that, too, when he had spent
the very evening before in the sweet So
ciety OF Miss Matilda Jane Scroggins Ii
is needless to say that he was On hand
matilda Jane said the old gentleman
when dinner was over, did you ever hear
the phonograph in active operation ?" ''No
pa, but | should like to. answered the
maiden, who wished To encourage her
parents scientific weakness. ''Well, my
dear, you shall. | bought enc day before
yesterday. You will find it under the sofa
in the parlOr. | forgot to take IL upstairs
last night, when | left YOU and SmifTkins
conversing on church festivals Matilda
brought the machine, and the old man
wound it up, remarking tina, he had set it
just before going to bed. The family circle
and one or two Of ScrOggins's cronies, who
happened TO be present, listened with q
great deal of interest as il slowly revolved:
Thank God the old devils gone at last -
exclaimed the phonOgraph, in tones that
sounded amazingly Ike those Of Smiffkins
Il thought the hateful old thing would sit
up all night, continued the wonderful in
vention, in voice that was unmistakably
that IF Matilda Jane. well, NV own
darling, We'll make up for lost time" Yum
Yum, calculated the revolving cylinder
with pronounced Smiffkins accent. 20
don't darling. YOU mustn't. Yum-Ium.
il proceeded, in the tones Of Matilda Jane
After that the instrument grew incoherent
and mixed up as it were. A subdued oscu-
laiory, sound, mingled with deep drawn
sighs and occasional whispered protests in
the Matilda Jane voice were all that could
he distinguished, till il suddenly blurted
out ''Well, ! suppose Old Scrog will be
coming down stairs if | don't clear out.
Another silence broken by yum-yums,
and then in softer voice the ineIOrable
cylinder concluded: There you must go
now. Good-yum-night- yum-yum.
I'll make the old beast ask you to dinner
Tomorrow By this time
Matilda Jane had tainted, end Smiffikin's
face booked like green cheese, but old
Scroggins looked upon them grimly, after
the fashion of craven image, and the rest
of the company seemed to be rather amused
than otherwise. Smiiiikins bought noun
tain howitzer next day and went east to
look for Edison.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
w hats the Row ?

Recently the sash in fourth-stOry win
dow of business house on Woodward
avenue, Detroit, was raised and a mans
head and shoulder appeared in sight. Next
he thrust out an arm, and pedestrians saw
a small rope in his hand. Twenty men
halted in less than 4 minute. A plank was
lying at the curb, and the general line OF
reasoning was that the plank was 10 be
drawn up through the window.
'.You'll break the glass if you try it :"
shouted one Of the fast growing group.
THAT cord isn't stout enough" yelled a
third.
''Why don't they carry it up by way of
the stairsi" demanded a man as he flourish
ed his gold-headed cane around and seem
ed much put out.
The cord came part way down and stop
ped. Some ten different persons volunteer
ed the information Of more yet, and pre-
sently it was lowered so that one of the
crowd could grasp it. He pulled down
and the man above pulled up, and four or
five men seized the plank and brought il to
the rope
'Lower aHay!" yelled the man a, the
rope.
''Pull down on it cried dozen voices
The man above let out more rope and
waved his hand
'.lie wants it over that hitching -posti"
screamed Il boz, and 1t was carried there.
mo: he wants it fast 10 the lamp-pOst,'
shouted man, and it was carried there.
Let-that-rope-alon came from
the man above.
Six men had hold of the plank, ready to
boost on il, and three more had hold of the
rope.
''Do you want the planki" asked one.
s.No."
''Do you want the hitching-p -postf"
Mo-
well, what do you wanti'
al want YOU to let that rope alone. had
4 bet Of cigars that it was long enough
to touch the walk, and I've won 'em,
What's the row down there-somebody
dropped dead.'
The plank was hurled away, cuss-words
INDUCED in as toes were trodden on and in
fifteen seconds the crowd had melted away
10 squint eyed boy and an organ grinder.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
What He Knew Of Ensli.h

heard funny story of little Boston
boy the other day, which think has never
been in print. His father had amused
himself in teaching the bright little fellow
several words and phrases IN number Of
languages, so that he had quite reputation
as linguist An Englishman of some note
dined with the family one day, and the
child was much interested in watching him
and listening to his conversation After
dinner the guest took him on his knee with
the remark: Il hear you know great
many languages tell me how many you
know" "Oh, know French and Ger
man and Italian and Spanish, and that is
ALL" "Bnt you know English ?" 'No, l
don't know English he answered with a
very positive shake Of the head Yes,
you do, certainly" persisted the English
man. II tel you l do not!' replied the
child almost impatiently, very emphatical-
ly "My papa knows English, | s'pose,
( bat only know two words In Ingiish! y
{. And whaI are theyH "'oass andorse.'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31

standing by your cot, and in her hand she
held your own. But Captain belmont,
through her form saw the candle carried
by the steward, half dozen cots away"
He turned his face toward the wall, and
then | trembled for the effect | feared my
words would have. But when he turned
his face again, | saw my fear was ground
less.
Il called her" he replied, and though
five hundred miles away, she heard me and
came to me. God bless her"
And for all the surgeons prophesy he
rapidly began to mend. Days glided by,
and he grew convalescent.
Two weeks later, going out one day
net lady going in and it needed but one
glance 70 tell me who il was. | went up
to her and tool. her hand.
This is Captain Delmont's :Net,ie,' " L
exclaimed.
She looked frightened. | saw that she
grew pale. guided her to Captain Del
mOnts cot, and when We reached il and
she beheld the surroundings her face grew
paler still.
Why, this IS the very place | dreamed
Of seeing shout two weeks ago. and you are
TIE nurse | saw sitting by his cot" she
gasped, rather than spoke
did not reply. Harry Delmon, hst
clasped her to his breast and | very
quietly Withdrew.
Of course the story ends with Happiness
and marriage, as is usual; bu, the appear
ance by my patients COT fear, will never
be explained. 1t is question for psychol-
ngists to settle or discuss.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
Carlo, Good Dog.

left the cemetery and went down into
the woods. could hear the noise of
labor, and through the trees | saw the axes
cleaning in the sunlight. The moses
peeped brightly through the leaves under
my feet, and when l kicked the bark of of
a stump, a great brown spider rushed out
to see who knocked. / sat down. and
watched the wood-choppers, and talked to
them as they wrought. There were only
three idle creatures in the woods. l was
the biggest, the oldest, and the idlest of the
three. A club of boy, about six or
seven years old, was the next, and black
and tan dog that had freed squirrel, was
the next. was so pleased with the boy $
idle companionship that paid him for it,
and advised him to stick to it, and never
work until he had to, and then, feeling the
community of sentiment for the dog, | went
and helped him bark at the squirrel. The
tree was about two hundred feet high.
The dog would probably stand about
thirteen inches from the ground. He tried to
climb that tree. He barked as though his
throat was all the rams horns of Jericho.
He was after that squirrel which was just
as far out of his reach as the clouds. And
the squirrel wasn't paving any attention to
the dog. and, indeed, didn't know what he
was barking at. | am not positive that it
had not gone off into another tree an hour
ago, and was away of in another part of
the woods, down near the county line.
So patted the dogs head as came away,
and said to him: "Carlo, keep it up. 1t
seems to do you heap of good. and it
doesn't bother the squirrel particle. So
keep it up. You never can climb the tree;
you will never ca:ch the squirrel; when lie
wants to come down he will come down
another way, and you will not see him.
He will live just as long and be just as
happy with your noise as without it. 1t &C
cupies your mind and it doesn't distract
his. And it shows very human trait in
you, Carlo. have known men just like
you; men who spent their lives in doing
just you are doing-baiking AT people who
are out of their reach. Keep it up, Carlo,
good dog
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
She Knew II.

X, travelling through Brittany, asks an
old woman who was peddling crosses and
medals at church porch the price OF GER
tain trinkei.
'Is it for your wife or your sweet heart:'
she asks.
''For my sweetheart" replies x, not
precisely seeing the drift of her question.
''Ten francs"
"ren francs-phew!" says X, turning
on his heel.
Come back, come back, cries the old
woman, ''takc it for three. You've been
lying to me, though, you have no sweet
heart. ii It had been for her you'd have
bought it at once without regard to the
price"
'-fll take il; here are yoIr three franes. >
"You haven't wife, either. II 1t had
been for her you'd have beaten NE down
to two fgsnes, Oh, YOU tnen, you nenI'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
Definition OF the ISram.


The human brain, according to Profe s)r
Tyndall's definition, is the organized regis
ter of infinitely numerous experiences RS
ceIved during the evolution Of life, or
rather during the evolution Of that series OF
organism through which the human or
ganisns has been reached; the effects of
the most uniform aud frequent of these ex-
periences have been successfully bequea.h-
ed, principal and interest, and have slowly
mounted to that high intelligence which
lies latent in the brain of the infant. Thus
it happens, says Tyndsll, that the Euro
pean inhcrits twenty to thirty cubic inches
more Of brain than the Papuan,-thus il
happens that faculties, as of music, which
scarcely exist in some inferior races, be-
come congenial in those that are superior,
thus, too, it happens that out Of savages
unable to count up TO the number Of their
fingers, and speaking a language contain
ing only nouns and verbs, arise at length
Newtons and Shakespcares.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
"The Mkt Case :"

How justice was dispensed in Toledo, a
quarter of century ago, by the celebrated
Charles O'Malley, Justice of the Peace on
the North side.
The first case which came before His
Honor was O'Donnell and others for dis
turbance at dance house on kinzle street.
The testimony was gone through with ap-
parently correctly, and the decision (of the
COort) was fine and costs.
O'Malley rose to his dignity, and turning
TO O'Donnell land the other effender'sJ,
said to the first one next him:
"Tim, have ye'es any money!
Tim saws, ''Nah.
Bryan, have you.'
Bryan SAYS, Nah"
Tcrence-''Have you,'
Terence saws, Nah
Patrick-''Have you''
Patrick says, ''Nah."
Then turning to wild-looking young
Irishman, recently from the ''ould dart, Z"
and probably out on his first spree in Amer
lea, SAYS:
Maurice, have ye'es any money!
Maurice says, ''Yis, your Honor" 10
which the CoOrt responds. ''Well. thin, the
foine is on you"
Call the mkt ease
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31

4 remarkable instance of tOad's enjoy
ment of music came under my notice some
years since. was on 4 visit with my hus-
band and one of my daughters to my father,
who lived in the south of England. He
had a very pretty garden and lawn; and il
was his delight in the evening TO sit at his
drawing-room window while ! played on
the piano and sang to HIM. One evening
he said to me; MY dear, here is a toad
under the window. 1t has been here u long
time without moving. believe il is lis
tening to your singing"
When / ceased playing the toad slowly
crept away, but every evening when sang,
the creature came, took its place under the
window and there remained. One evening,
at my fathers request, | suddenly stopped
the music, and in few minutes it went
away. We watched it until it reached the
path, when commencing another song, il
stopped, listened and then slowly returned
to its place under the window. When |
left and went home, there was no more
music. The toad was never again seen.
Some years previous to my marriage my
father lived in an old hall ia the neighbor-
hood of one Of our large towns. The
grounds were extensive. |, was his delight
| TO have a sort Of model farm, which gave
me many opportunities Of studying the dif-
| fereut characters of the various animals
upon it. Then | saw the influence of music
upon many OF them. There was beauti-
full horse the pride and delight of us all /;
and like many others he had an unconquer-
able dislike to be caught. Ny father had
so trained him TO obedience that he gave
very little trouble; whistle and @ wave
OF the hand, and Robert would come quietly
to be saddled. But if left to our old gard
ner Willy, he would lead him chase, gen.
orally ending in defeat One very hot
Summer day was sitting at work in the
garden, when Willy appeared streaming
with perspiration.
.'What is the matter, Willy
Matter enough, Miss. There's that
Robert, the uncanny beast; he won't he
caught, all | can do or say. I've give him
corn, and one of the best pears off the tree
but he's too deep for me-he snatched the
pear, kicked up his heels, and of he Is,
laughing at me at the bottom OF The
meadow"
was very sorroy for the old man, but
did not clearly see how to catch the delin
quent. | could well believe he WAS laugh
ing at our old friend, for he was curious
animal.
.'Well, Willy, what can do: He won
let me catch him, you know"
Gay, but Miss if you will only just 90 il
and begin a toon on the peanner, cook say
he will come up to the fence and hearkel
to you, for he. is always adding that, AM
maybe | can slip up behind and cato
him."
went at once, not expecting my strata
gem to succeed. But in few minutes th
i, saucy creature was standing listening Will
, l played ''Scots wha haze wi Wallac
bled." The halter was soon round hi
neck; and he went away to be harnesse
quite happy and contented.
There was great popularity about HI
: taste for music. He never would stay
{ l;Asu to plaintive song. soon observe
this. If L ph;ed ''Scets wha haze b
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31

The nap on seven-dollar ulsters is worn
of, and there is neat fringe border on the
bottom of trousers legs.
Boils begin TO look for a comfortable
place on mans system to locate, and sue
coed in finding it, in spite of all efforts to
sit down on them.
Liver pills and bitters are IN active de-
mand, and bad blsod' purifsL Then
follows peace in the land.
Homely girls who have made a success
full season, buy up their wedding clothe;
and get married before summer. Filtration:
begin. We always noticed that homely
girls marry in the spring and pretty ones
in the fall.
The small boy grows superlatively saucy
and refuses to take his sulphur and mo-
lasses unless he is srewardcd by a nickel;
this merely shows his financial acumen-
Hens that have been loafing about all
winter ION their oars" when eggs were
forty cents dozen, show a disposition to
glut the market al fifteen cents.
The housewife decides that two new car
pets are needed, and because she can't ge'
them, pounds the old ones to pieces out in
the back yard.
Lettuce is in market, but on the top shelf,
where poor folks cat't reach it.
Potatoes show disposition to be frisky
and young sprouts are continually coming
cut.
Fellows with shabby overcoats leave then
at home and bravely shiver down the street
in the chilly wind.
Farmers bring in wrinkled and witheret
turnips and palm them off for just dug
when you know they must have beer
picked from the trees before frost came.
The oldest inhabitant begins his series o
lies about planting peas in January anc
picking roses in March.
Grocers work of thelr- surplus 'browI
Havana as maple sugar, pure and unde
fled. This is not only harbinger o
spring, but an evidence OF total depravit!
and disposition to ''sweeten' the pub
lie.
''Great clearing out sales spring up Of
every side, and you can buy anything yo'
don't want at ridiculously low prices.
The advance guard Of the house q.
legion futters his wings in the butter, an
dies of chillblalns.
Stockholders in gas companies smil
broadly as they note the receipts Of tn
s.heavy quarter" and there is great povel
ty and gnashIng Of teeth among gas cor
9, merB.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
BY TIE SKA.

My biue-eysd pet with golden hair,
Is sitting on my knee.
Aud gszes eagerly afsr,
Across the beach beyond the Lar.
Wheie rolls the rest:ess sea.
She puts her little hand in mine.
And laughs with childish slee,
To see the foamins billows splash,
As on the shore they fiercely dash,
Then glide back silently.
But while she laughs so merriis,
NY heart is far away,
And, as look apon the shore,
Where lcud and long the breakers roar.
Ny sad soul seems TO say:
The ses is Ike human life;
1t breaks upon the shore
OF time with res;stless might,
And, when the goal is Just in sight,
Dies-to return Io more
''And all along the shore OF Time,
Full many 8 wreck doth lie,
The psngs OF many e mad carouse.
or blasted hopes aud broken VOWS,
OF happy days gone by"
let. while muee in mournful mood
And gaze upon the sea.
sly blue-eyed pet with golden hai-.
Whose heart has never known = care.
Whose voice is music in the air.
Still sits upon my knee.
Her head ts resting on my breast
Her eyes in slumber deep;
TIE same rough Sea whose breakers roar.
And nadly, fierceiy lash the shore.
Has lullsd my child to sleep.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
-Chicago makes slS, ,OOO, ,OOO worth Of

Chicago makes SIS. .ooo. 900 worth Of
cloth q year.
I'm 1870 the French army estimates
were 500, ,0o0, COO.
The school attendance In japan is
now thirty-six millions.
WHEN a woman sails along the street
with a majestic stride, you admire her
graceful carriage, bYt the charm van
isS.es after she has become little snlky.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31

The debt Of Cleyeland, g., Is ss5.-
01S, 900. $685., 900 were paid on the deoi
last year.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31

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ni1sfne~s. Sour stomach, Eruptions, bad
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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-12
PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR THE POLE.

The Rome correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Bulletin, speaking of the Cinkici,
a remarkable people discovered by the
Swedish explorers of the North Pole re-
glon, says; The people found there were
not precisely savages-they were clothed
(roughly, perhaps)-bu they were clothed
In skins of reindeer or seal. Their costume
might not perhaps suit Partisan taste, but
1t was adaptable to their cline. 1t is COM
posed OF reindeer skin stockings lined with
elder-down, reindeer or sealskin
boots reaching to the knees,
and under these, again, reindeer
OF sealskins trousers, over which are worn
in extra cold weather other trousers lined
with fur. And then tunic, coat, or
blouse of the same materials reached to
the knees, and, according to the weather,
several of these are worn one over the
other. For the head they wear cap to
match the rest of the charming custume,
and this cap is tied under the chin like
baby's cap. Finally they wear over their
chests kind of bib of sealskins, which bib
they draw over their faces, when the air
threatens to bite their noses.
The very fashionable people of the
country tasten tails of animals to the edges
of their coats. This is to show you that
they are rich, as their riches consist in rein
deer, some families possessing as many as
100000 of these animals The ladies wear
the same costume as the gentlemen, which
gives them strange and awkward walk.
However, as little distinction, they wear
their hair in two long plaits at
the side of each cheek, and
their neck and back are bare. 1t seems
that the cold has less effect on them than on
their lords. 1t is true that when they have
young children they carry them on their
backs and that shelters them. Both men
and women are short of stature, but stout
and wonderfully strong as they can walk
for miles with burdens on their backs
which we Europeans could not even lift.
Their faces are large and broad and they
have no foreheads. In this the women
would lie quite the fashion in Europe,
where the ladies do all they can to conceal
their foreheads
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-12

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