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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
A KoyaI Prison.

The new Gar, Alexander Ill, resides
at the castle of Gatschina, thirty miles
from the capital. Before the court re-
moved thither, several hundred artisans, of
the Precobrajinsky regiment, were sent to
make the necessary alterations at midnight.
They assembled in a church and were
sworn to silence, death or Siberia being
the penalty of infraction Of the oath. Ten
roubles were the price Of each mans
silence. The alterations were completed
in forty-eight hours. VodkI soon locsened
the tongues of the workmen. and the fol-
lowing is description of the precautions
against assassination made in the palace of
the car. A subterranean passage leads
from the cars room to the stables where
number of horses are kept saddled and
bridled day and night Sentinels are
posted at intervals Of twenty yards all
around the building. The imperial bed
room has two windows protected at night
by massive IRON shutters which can only be
reached from the outside by passing
through three spacious ante-chambers, in
which are posted 80 Cossacks armed to the
teeth. They are allowed to speak and
move about in two outer rooms but in the
hail adjoining the czar's bedroom perfect
silence is maintained all night. The gen.
eral on duty for the day sits in an easy
chair, his Cossacks sitting on divan which
runs around the whole room. At the
generals right hand is knob of an electric
apparatus which rings bell in every guard
house within the palace grounds. When
the emperor is about to retire before shut
ting the door, he removes the outer handle
so no entrance can be effected until he
himself personally opeHs the door from
inside. Unlike his father he cannot endure
an armed soldier in his bed chamber.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
The Yankee Wore the Belt.

1t was during the Crimean war that three
officers, one an EnglIshman, one French
man, and the other 8 Yankee, who had
joined the allies, got into dispute as to
which was the best swordsman. The dis
pute finally grew so hot as to end in chal-
lenge to mortal combat, the survivor to
wear the laurels. As duellng was contrary
to army regulations, and the affair coming
to the ear of the commanding officer, he at
once took measures to put stop to it, but
as all the officers were anxious to witness q
trial between these noted experts, he hit
upon plan that would test their skill and
at the same time not transgress any of the
"rules."
There were three prisoners under SEN
tence of death, and the commander decided
to let the belligerents act as executioners,
and the one that would perform the duty
with the greatest skill should be declared
the victor. So on the day appointed large
number of officers were present to witness
the trial of skill. The Englishman was
the first one called upon, and singing out
his man, drew bis sword with flash, and
with single stroke severed the head from
Tue DOu1. 0ieoh dppiducO iSuo"Cu-
Then the Frenchman's turn came next.
He, drawing narrow ribbon from his
pocket, tied it around the neck of his VIC
tim; then, turning his back upon the pris-
oner, his sword flew fromits scabbard, and
he, turning on his heel at the same time,
with one stroke cut the head from his vic
tim, splitting the ribbon through the Gen.
tire. Tremendous applause followed, and
the universal opinion was that he would
certainly be the victor.
Now came the Yankees turn. He
calmly walked up to his man, drew his
sword with the rapldity of lightning, and
giving it a flourish around his head, sheathed
it as quickly, and, turning, saluted the
commander. Kisses and groans went up
from the crowd, and the commander stern
ly asked HIM what he meant by such con-
tempt. The Yankee, turning to the man
he was to have slain, said, "Will you please
to spit, slr2" The man attempted to com
ply with the request, when his head rolled
off, it having been so quickly severed that
he did not know 1t until he went to move
his head. The Yankee wore the belt.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
Instinct of Insects and Birds

Let US examine the marvellous instinct
of the solitary wasp in providing for the
worm that will issue from her eggs after
her own death. She brings grubs-food
that, es wasp, she never tasted-and
deposits them over the eggs, ready for the
larva she will never see. The life history
of every insect exhibits instincts of this
perplexing description. Look at the in
stinctive character of bees IN their far
sighted provisions for the future. Witness
the caterpillar, how at the proper lime it
selects a suitable situation and spins for
itself silken cocoon. Marvellous instincts
are met with outside of the insect world ;
every little bird is its own skillful accOu-
cheur. We once observed the self-delivery
of the chicken. The prison wall is not
burst in pieces by struggles. BY regular
series Of strokes the shell is cut in two
Clipped round in a perfect circle some
distance from the large end. The bird has
q SPECIAL instrument for this works. hard,
sharp horn on the top of the upper
mancible, which, being required for no
other purpose, disappears in few days.
Obviously each individual bird no more
acquires the art of breaking Its way out
than it furnishes itself with the little pick
hammer used in the operation; and 1t is
quite clear that a bird could have never
escaped from the egg without this instinct.
How were eggs Matched before birds had
acquired the instinct to sit upon them? A
fowl that never before willingly shared a
crumb with companion will now starve
herself to feed her chickens, which she
calls by language she never before used
may have never heard-but which they
are born to understand.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
A Japanese Laborer's Cottage.

Half mile up the valley, writes cor
respondent from Japan, passed cottage
standing near the pathway. The little
garden in front was mass If flowers,
among which was a large plant of the OLE
ander in full bloom and perfect hedge of
the big jessamine, which scented the whole
atmosphere. Cucumbers were growing
over the side path and hedge, and great
vegetable marrow plant had run all over
one end of the roof of the cottage. A few
tea shrubs were in tull bloom in the gar
den. This useful species of camellia is
both pleasant to the eye and to the taste.
A pair of little bantams pecked about the
garden, and one of the tailless cats peculiar
to this country basked in the sun. A pretty
girl worked away at her loom under the
shade of the broad veranda; cloth round
her waist was her sole attire, and was
doubtless enough, fer the day by this time
had become very warm, although the ther-
mometer stood only at about seventy eight
degrees. The elderly lady of this comfort
able little home was busy among her pots
and pans. Two or three smaller bairns
were playing with kitten, and baby
strapped on its tiny SISTERS back was en-.
joying itself in profound slumbef, notwith.
standing the perpetual motion of its nurse.
1 could not help contrasting this comfort
able, happy looking, laborsr's bome-b,
no means an exceptional one-with many
of our own squalid cottages belonging t
! the same class of people
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
The roun r.

The Kroumir of Tunis-the noun IS plu-
raj, although the cable persists in calling
them the Kroumirs-are divided like the
great Sioux family on this continent into
several septs, each tn its head man. and
number altogether me l6, 900 matchlocks.
To the south OF them is the territory of the
Rakbs, kindred tribe, with 10, 900 fight
ing men. so that even if the distraught hey
concludes that prudence is the better part
of valor and keeps out of the fight, the in
vaders have no easy task before them. The
Kroumir and the Rakba Inhabit a noun
talneus region full OF innumerable fast
nesses, and are said to be even more ex.
pelienced hill-fghters than the Afghans,
who led the British costly dance for three
years. Italy is the Russia of Tunis, and if
the Kroumir make a sturdy fight of it the
radicals in the Italian chamber, backed by
Prince Bismarck, whose policy 1t is to set
the two countries by the ears, will no doubt
be strong enough to force King Humbert
to side with them against France. NJ.
Crespl, the radical leader, pointed out dur
ing the ministerial crisis the other day thai
the French occupation Of Tunis would i'm
peril Italian interests in northern Africa
and threaten Sicily; and it is believed thai
Premier Carroll must yield to the popular
agitation for direct intervention. Mean
while, although NJ. st. hilaire persists in
saying that the sole object Of the Tunis ex
pedItion is the chastisement of the insub
ordinate tribes, the Paris papers openly de
clare that it means annexation; and thii
cloud, now. no bigger than a mans hand
may burst any day and involve Europe in
struggle for supremacy In the Mediterra
mean
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
Railway Cars in India.

A Calcutta correspO dent says: 81 ex-
amined the railway carriage In which /
was to journey 1870 miles to Bombay.
These cars are built with double roofs, the
outer edges turned down over the sides in
such manner as to keep the fierce rays of
the sun from the windows Of blue, red and
green glass. They are much shorter than
ordinary American cars, and tritis longer
than the English carriages. There are
four doors to each carriage, opening within,
entrance and egress beng from the sides.
They a, divided into two compartments,
one for males, the other for females. There
are five seats in each compartment, which
can be speedily converted INTO couches to
accommodate only five. persons. On each
side Of every compartment is revolving
lattice which is kept constantly wettedlby
a reservoir of water on the top of the car.
riage. A revolving lattice is In the form Of
spokeless wheel, and is constructed like
those used in al bungalow doors and WIZ
dows, Of fibrous particles of bamboo, cocoa
nut and rice straw. When thoroughly
wetted, the hot air passing through becomes
] cool and delicious
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
A ships Log.

The speed of vessels is approximately
determined by the use of the log and log
line. The log is a triangular piece of wood
about quarter of an inch thick, so bal
anced by means of a plate Of lead as to
swim perpendicularly in the water, with
about two-thirds of it under the water. The
CLINE is small cord, one end of which,
divided into three so that the wood hangs
from the cord, as scale-pan fIom bal
ance beam, Is fastened to the log, while the
other is wound round a reel in the ship.
The log, thus poised, keeps its place in the
wafer, while the line is unwourd from the
reel as the ship moves through the water,
and tie length of line unwound in a given
tunes gives the rate of the ships sailing.
This is calculated by knots made on the
line at certain distances, while the time il
measured by sand glass of certain mum.
Der of seconds. The length between the
knots IS so proportioned to the time of ths
glass that the knots unwound while tn.
glass runs down show the number of mile.
the snip is sailing per hour. The first kno
Is placed about five fathoms from the log
to allow the latter to get clear OF the shil
before the reckoning commences.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
First Rate Luck.

i had much talk with a miner who was
on his way back to Georgia with his family
after a residence of many years in the
mining regions of tine southwest. He had
been living lately in region 1850 miles
west of some place l had never heard of
before He had dry, condensed style of
narration, as if he had but a small stock of
language on hand, and must make every
word tell as much as possible. He thought
the rough justice of the mining regions as
good as any; rather better, / suspected,
than the more elaborate and uncertain
methods of civilization; SAID the West was
a good country for man to mind his own
business in, and liked life there as whole,
but said the women and children get lone
some. l asked what people did there for
amusement and entertainment. "Same
as they do in other civilized countries
o'course," he replied; which, considering
what he had told me of the wildness OF life
in that region seemed so good an answer
that did not push my inquiries further III
that direction. But he went on: ''Some
fools hunts cinnamon bear when they
can't find nothing else to do. Now a Gin
namon bear allus minds his own business,
an the old settlers out thar knows too
much to meddle with 'em. Its the young
chaps-they're mostly too fresh to keep
long in that climit."
Mot long ago." he contlr ued, ''some
English fellers came out thar an they must
have big hunt. They wanted me to 60
along cause / knowed the country, an
they'd never seen no cinnamon bears. Blu,
| told 'em l hadn't lost no cinnamon bears,
an had't no time To hunt up other peoples
stock. Eff any O. their'n was lost it wa:
all right for 'em to find 'em, but they mus,
excoose me. Well, they went up in the
foot hills, an they had mighty good luck. u
Here he paused, but knowing that it irri
tates such men to have a listener 'fry Il
be so smart" as to anticipate what they ar
going 20 say, waited. "Yes, mighty goo'
luck. The bear knocked one hoss over
bank, an broke the feller's leg an his col
lar bone, an put his shoulder out o. place
His boss was hurt so they had to shoot it
Mother chap found his bear, too, an tn
bear chawed him up, an knocked hir
around with such q looseness that he didn'
know which one of the brothers he wal
The rest O. the party had to git some Chi
namen from q minin' camp to bring th
hunters into town on stretchers. So 20
see they foun' their bears, an had fust-ra'
: luck"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
RAINY DAYS.

The spring day rose from her sleeping
In the deep. dim cayerns of mist,
With the waiting world to be keeping
Her brief and beautiful tryst
But her sweet eyes opened weeping,
As the sunshine her pale lips kissed,
And thus she rose from her sleeping
In the caverns OF eastern mist
The world had dreamed of the meeting
From the first OF the fartherest years !;
But her hand Was cold to bis greeting,
And her cheeks were bitter with tears
Her voice was the wind repeating
The pain Of the heart that hesrs
But the world was glad of the meeting
To the last of the hinge ring years,
For forth from her tears came flowers.
And out Of her grief delight,
And the buds swelled under the showers
The blossoms with sandals white.
Climbed up to their forest bowers,
From the broken seeds and night,
But who could Il retell the flowers,
Or see in the grief delight
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
Drugged Wines.

As France has kicked up row about
American hog meat, which extended even
to ringing bells through the villages warn
ing the citizens, it is entirely fair to warn
the American people against the drugged
wines of France. The Partisan, paper
printed in English, in PARIS, gives branch
of the history of this manufacture of wines
sold fraudulently under the names of the
choicest brands of French wines:
The wine crop of 1879 was about %, 600,
900 or $4,000, 900 of hectolitres below the
average of the last ten years. The annual
consumption IN France is from 40, 900, 900
to IS, 000, ,0c0 hectolitres. Everybody ex-
pected rise in the price of wine, and some
conscientious dealers laid IN a stock from
abroad. The rise in price, however, never
came, and the markets renamed well sup
Piled. The reason was that the natural
deficit was compensated for by artificial
means. Wine was manufactured out of
dry grapes. All the raisins to be found In
Eastern ports were bought up, and wine
manufactures sprang up all over the
country. Around Paris alone there are
seven steam-power wine manufactures.
The cost of q cask of raIsin wine is about
fifty francs, and it Was sold at 100 francs,
thus giving a profit of 100 per cent. But
the competition has now become such that
the price of raisins has risen from IL francs
to 75 francs the 100 Kilograms. The con-
sequence is that raislns have been aban-
doned, and wine is now manufactured out
of glucose, a sugary matter obtained from
the potato, out of the residue of molasses,
out of rotten apples, dried prunes, dates,
figs, and all kinds Of refuse fruit, and even
out of beet-root. These abominable liquids
are colored artiticially and mixed more or
less with Spanish wines or white wine.
The adulteration and manufacture of wine
has attained such vast proportiors that the
principal dealers who had taken measures
TO supply the market loyalty with harvest
wine from foreign countries have taken
steps to put stop to this gigantic fraud
The imposture has reached such pitch
that not one-third of the wine now drank
in Paris is real grape wine.
The revelations of the manufacture of
French brandy are no less convincing of
the wholesale character of the frauds.
an inferior spirit distilled from sugar, pota-
toes, Indian corn, and whisky distilled
from barley; and this is the stuff imposed
upon the people of this country. 1t would
be National blessing If there were an au-
thoritatlve analysis made of the various
so-called French wines and brandies fraud
ulently pushed of upon the American
people by the wine manufacturers of
France. The drugged and poisonous stuff
is, in addition to being commercial fraud,
also most deleterious to health and life. and
its importation should be discontinued.
No pure wines or brandies are now ex-
ported from France.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
A Brokers Mistake.

Shortly after the close of the war witt
Mexico many Spanish and Mexican silvel
dollars found their way into the Unitee
States, and were bought up by bankers an6
money dealers all over the country. The
price paid for them varied greatly. accord
ing to the demand and supply and the con.
dition of the pieces themselves. those in
perfect preservation, of full weight and
without holes or other DETACHMENT bringing
more than those not so well preserved.
The persons having these CONS for sale
carried them about In all kinds of parcels,
using in their transportation bandkerchiefs,
paper packages, old stockings, tin cans,
kettles and boxes of all sizes and descrip-
tions.
At the close of a rainy day, during
which MIR. Drexel-then doing very
modest business on Third street as money
and exchange broker-had been a large
buyer of Mexican silver, and while he was
engaged in recounting his purchases pre-
paratory to settling his cash account, the
door Of his banking house was suddenly
opened by plai My dressed man, who ex-
claimed: 81 only have one hundred left (;
do you want them?''
Mr.. Drexel, without raising his head, re-
piled: ''Pll give you fifty cents for theml' "
mo" said the man. ''Pve sold all the
others at seventy five cents and only have
hundred left!''
them all dsy at sixty cents, and if yours
have no holes in them will take them at
the same price, and that is the most you
can get for Them"
81 never saw any with holes in them, F"
said the man.
Didn't your" said Mr.. Drexel. "Half
of what we get are full of holes, where they
have been used as buttons"
The man scratched his head q moment
and then said: "Very well; I'll bring
them in right away"
Five minutes afterward he appeared with
a small tin kettle and walking up to the
counter said: "Where shall put them ?"
"Pour them out here" said Mr.. Drexel,
indicating particular spot on the counter.
o." can't said the seller, "they will all
slip off on the fioor!"
Mr. Drexel without Withdrawing his
attention from the counting of his pur-
chases of the day, called to his son Frank
to "bring q tray" When a tray was
brought it was found to have large crack
across it, to which the man strenuously
objected, saying: "1hey will all fail
through" This lettled old MIR. Drexel,
who, In rather sharp words, told him that
tray has held thousands and thousands of
them every day, and furthermore in per
emptory terms, bade him "pour them out
quickl'
Accordingly the kettle was raised to the
level of the counter and one hundred fat,
raw oysters were poured into the cracked
tray, much to the chagrin and disgust of
the banker and his son-the former of
whom exclaimed: "Why, those are
oysters'
"Well,' said the oysterman (who knew
nothing about Mexican silver,) ''what the
- did you think they werel'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
The Calculation of Interest.

A well-known actuary, has devised a
very simple and easily remembered rule
for determining how long it will take a
given sum of money to double itself at a
certain rate of interest. Divide the rate
II interest into seventy-two and the quo
tient viii be the number of years to within
a small fraction. Thus, at four per cent
interest, the answer Is eighteen years,
which is only one-quarter of year too
great, the exact time being about seventeen
and three quarter years. For six per cent,
it may be said to be exact. THIS is q good
rule foi editors and other large capitalists
to remember.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18

thing to surprise you? But you'll be still
more surprised when
Charley, don't?" cried out PEGbe,
growing roster than ever.
You needn't" said Mrs. Marchell, look.
ing brightly from one to the other. 81 can
guess.
She's such little darling, mother
said the young man.
And Phoebe threw both her arms around
the elder woman's neck, and whispered
softly:
"Mother!m
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-12-13

political historians in the whole land.
Ne,. few persons "i' ii> day, or any
day, knew 20 many. and - much of,
public men. He Mas a very ready
writer, and had graceful and How
ing style Ia his paper, the Progress,
his inlercstin" "reminiscences of public
and celebrated men and women we're
eagerly peru-e'i, and that book which
he published on the same subject has
been read with the greatest interest
and profit throughout tie country.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-12-13
HEAR YE SINNERS
Where the Gospel VIII be
Preached in SedaIia To-
day

Mr.. john ftckicr ALL prcach :" Young
ladit, III ibe Frs; Presbyterian church in
Clinton this evening
Rev. Mr. Shaefsr. ri Bro. vile.
coad Gcud very successful p:ot-actcd
meeting 2: iicrT,don lat week.
Ecy. >tcpiIcn Hull. Un;yvr,4i;,, d:-
vi'sc. s;il Preach a; the court house in
l;u:!"r. Mo. to-day 1t II o'clock
ley. j II. Hagies, pastor al III.
Christina church IL Warrer,hurg. will
preach vi, !aEeaeil -rrn"a thi, morning.
The dc,,. cation III ,he Hisn Polo,
Baptist c!It.ch, Fear Haghesyil;e will
tyhe piece t. day. \ 1UH.b-c u Seialian-
will a.'vai.
Montgomery street Ae:ao,i!-: ch.-ch.
East >e,iaiiI l'rearhin; and a,im;uis.ra-
ten ~ .h- Lords Snpg--, ;.y ne pastor, -
Al'Na'it,r, al II 4. n. >u-da: school It
80 >. ~.
-turi,Iian church. corner oi sixth and
Massachusetts streets j. IT, Duncan will
i',"'ch ~ ! ! u; M, on "Enioy inc Our Re
lisjou. ard II night on "Dre 1hiac Thou
i.,sckc>t' sunday school =. 80 =. N.
First Cumberland Presbyterian church.
Lafayette lv"nuc Rev. " III. Black. pas
tor II The iNca, avenue ci,nrrh IN II
I.oui-. Siil preach to-day, both morning
ard evening. Comu,unioa {; il q. IL.
>unday s.'.,ro, N 20 ,. m.
Congregational church. corner Ohio
and SIKH s,rve.>. Allen j. Van Wagner
pastor. SuaCay school at H:.p church -er-
vices al / a. III. AID =. IN. N"rain- sub
u,,f Tn. Ir.C,-.,.r- a-I ;hcf- >.-.tr.,.
Companion Eyonin. subject. n Hero
ami IL, Fate"
Mrs. Lucy Prescott. oi lTS Nioine.
Iowa, >poudiug secretary .! :he
Womaa'- Foreign Missionary >.ei.Iy Il
the Methodist Episcopal church. viii d,-
liver an sidres- on Woman, Work IL
the Missionary Field" III he Montgomery
street Methodist church at ts.-aisa:.