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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
Tom Ochiltree's Hat.

Twas sitting in the court yard OF the
limited States Hotel talking with tie ma
nager of a New York newspaper. Colonel
.sTom" Ochiltree. the veteran horseman,
walked past. 81 will tell you good
story about Ochiltree, said the newspaper
man. There are two things that ne Is
yery fond of-a small fancy hat is one of
them; the other is telling q whoopIng
yarn. inducing his hearers to believe It,
and then letting them know it is ali gam
mon. There are two rival hatters In New
York, as everybody knows. We will Call
them Smith and Brown. 1 saw para
graph gong the rounds Of the press about
0chiltree going into T. st. Charles Hotel
iu New Orleans wearing very handsome
and very fsIcy little embroidered smoking
can. One of his friends asked him where
he 90. it. why said he. 'one OF the
prettlest and sweetest young laoies you
ever saw made it for me- Presently one
of the friends MANAGED to get the haf IN
his hand, md saw printed on the insioe o,
II. ia big gilt letters. Smith, the halter.
an advertisement that at once explodeo
the pretty yourg lady story. clipped
the paragraph out and printed il, the
reusnsper man continued. ''but changed
the name of the halter from smith 70
Brown, for Brown was one OF our patrons
and Smith wasn't The day after inc pa
rsgraph appeared Smith rushed up to me
and asked, How the deuce did that para.
gr.ph about Oehiltree's hat happen 10 gel
into your paper with Browns name pu'
inf Why, do you know paid u hnt
N have that put in the other pepcrA enc
here Won have knocked all the wind out u
r. for me and ruined my advertisement" !"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
THE MEADow-LARK's coLoRs.

one lovely morning in the bright September.
A meadow-lark rose gayly singing with the sun
andtook his night o'er plains and hills and valleys
over the golden field breeze was creeping,
Moving its masses in gentle swell.
And many brawny husbandman was reaping
The grain that laughed and nodded as il fell.
Hieh-pOlsed in air the meadow-lark remaining,
watched with a sigh the blooming rye laid low
TIL a dark cloud across the SUMS face passing,
Robbed the still-dying grain Of half its glow
Then up from out his little heart came welling,
A song so full of pity and Of love,
As pierced the perfumed air Of early morning,
Ascending even to the throne Of Jove.
The song that marked the birds Overwhelming
grief,
And vowed that he should ever wear token,
That he had sympathized and sent relief.
He spoke The cloud, the mighty word obeying
Changed to a rainbow floating in the sky,
While sunbeams all untrammeled now come troop
ing
Upihe sweet valley to the field Of rye.
one the most brilliant thro the ripe grain bursting
ON a scythe lighted for a moments rest,
Then upward g.ancing, the great Joye obeying,
Fell with warm kisses on the lark's dark breast.
And to this day the meadow-lark is wearing
The richest color that e'er greets the eye,
\ merry sunbeams radiance, tempered
~ the rich bloom that blossoms on the rye.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
The Arctic Problems.

Captain Delaney, of the Arctic mail
steamer Kite, says: Since We left Main,
vast body of prodigiously heavy field
ice has swept southwark from Baffin's
Bay, through Davis's Straits, extending
eastward ON tke one hand toward the
shores of Greenland, and westward on
the other all along the coast of Labra-
dor. Between Independent Harbor and
Dumping there is a fleet OF. over 400
fishing vessels literally imprisonedin icy
walls and unable to effect an escape
either in a northerly or southerly direc-
ton. The Kite broke through the ice
nip pressing against the land only after
a continuous ramming of the smaller foes
during twelve successive hours. When
leaving Battle Harbor to proceed on his
northsrly course Captain Delaney ex-
pressed decided opinion that he would
not be able to advance any further north
than Holton Harbor, which lies about
twenty-five miles South of Cape Harri-
son. Although the Kite is an Arctic
whaling and sealing steamer she Is not
fitted, even with all her enormous
strength, to cope with this terrible sea
of foe ice that is now precipitating itself
into the North Atlantic basin. Captain
Delaney describes as q continent of ice
the unbroken, pallid, CONCEALED ocean
that stretches away eastward from that
portion of the Labrador coast where the
four hundred vessels are more complete
" blockaded, than if they were detained
there by a hostile naval squadron at Bat
Al &c 1acn.-IlaH
as of absolute wintry GOODNESS down to
the 25th ultimo. There was frost every
night sufficient to solidify CONCEALED
water, and on several days previously
the atmosphere and water were so bit
terly and intensely cold as to obstruct
the fishermen very materially In their
fishing operations.
Taking, then, the two reliable reports
of Captain Delaney into consideration,
the one written at Main and published
in the Herald of the Goth of July, and
the other at Battle Harbor, separated,
too. in point of time by an interval OF
some fourteen days, We cannot but rea-
sonably conclude that condition OF
things almost the very opposite of that
now { tescribed obtains in the region at
present being traversed by the Arctic
exploring steamer Proteus. Ice and
frost are the ruling phenomena observed
down to within one bare week of the pre-
sent date and as far south as the fifty
second parallel of north latitude, while
ON the other hand, northward of Main
and below Cape Chudbergh, ice fields
formed the exception even as early as
the first weeks Of June, and the atmos
phere was of genial summer mildness.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
Major Max.

~ do so pity those men on the Rod
gers" remarked Mrs. Max, passing the
Major the honey, which he always in
sisted upon having with his rice cakes.
"Yes, indeed" replied the Major, who
was trihe cynical that morning, hav-
ing scalded his mouth with coffee.
'Yes, indeed, my dear, the life of an
Arctic explorer must be hard. They
are so isolated from the world. just
imagine, if you can, the horror Of living
three years out of the dust and wind and
fog and rain of our glorious climate Of
not meeting all that time the man at
your club who thinks the oftener story
is told the better it is /; of being without
the consolation afforded you by the
busted stock operator who knows you
are glad of an opportunity to lend him
twenty; of being where millinery and
Japanese decoration stores do not daily
entrap ones wife of being"
"Why, Major, how You do talk J I
was only thinking of the horrid things
the Rodgers crew will have to do to get
their bear steaks"
"How's that ?" asked the Major, in
stantly interested over the subject of
steaks, which he holds of much greater
| Importance than the Irish land trou-
bles.
'sWhat 1 know about it." resumed
Mrs. Max, 81 read in fashion paper,
and it ought to be true"
'It certainly ought to be, Mrs. Max,
if only on account of its age"
"Well, the article said," continued
Mrs. Max, pretending to ignore the
Majors slur ON her favorite reading,
''that Arctic explorers, when they want
to kill Polar bear, plant big knife in
the ice with the blade sticking up. They
daub the blade with blood, and the bear
comes along and licks it and cuts its
tongue. It is so cold that he doesn't
feel the cut tasting his own blood, he
continues to lick the knife until his
tongue is all frayed, and he bleeds to
death. Isn't it dreadful p
"Quiet your fears. my dear" said the
Major, when his wife had finished.
''That is the way they killed the beal
when the story was first published, bui
in the last twenty years an improvement
has been made, which will tell you
about, if you viii kindly give me Just q
drop more of coffee, with cold mix thi:
time. The way the thing is done nov
is as follows When Captain Berry, o
the Rodgers, wants a Polar bear fol
dinner he gives midshipman eoppel
bed spring and chunk of salt pork
The midshipman congresses the sprine
perfectly fiat, wraps the pork around i
tight and holds it so until it freezes
solid. Then the frozen pork, stuffed
with the bed spring, is thrown out t.
the nearest iceberg, where it is prompt
ly swallowed by Polar bear. WheI
the heat of the bears stomach thaws on
the pork it releases the spring, whiol
flies out, and the bear soon dies from {
pain in his side"
"Major," said Mrs. Max, wit
warmth. 81 don't believe that story
true"
"No, my dear, and you won't, until
In few years, you see it IN som
fashion paper. and then you viii swea
'by it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
Animals in War.

Men and animals are able to sustain
themselves for long distances in the
water, and would do so much oftener
were they not incapacitated, in regard
to the former at least, by sheer terror, as
well as complete ignorance of their real
powers. Webb's wonderful endurance
will never be forgotten. But there are
other instances only less remarkable.
Some years since, the mate of ship fell
overheard while in the act of hoisting a
sail. 1t was blowing fresh; the time was
night, and the place some miles
out in the stormy German Ocean. The
hardy fellow nevertheless managed to
gain the English coast. Brock. with a
dozen other pilots, was plying for fares
by Yarmouth; and as the mainsheet was
Delayed, "a sudden puff of wind upset the
boat, when all persisted except Brock
himself, who. from four in the afternoon
of an October day to one the next morn
ing, swan thirteen miles before he was
able to hail vessel at anchor in an off
ing. Animals themselves are capable
of swimming immense distances, al
though unable to rest by the way. A
dog recently swan thirty miles in order
to rejoin his master. A mule and dog
washed overheard during gale in the
Bay of Biscay have been known to make
their way to shore. A dog swan ashore
with letter in his mouth at the Cape Oi
Good Hope. The crew of the ship tc
which the dog belonged all perished
which they need not have done had they
ventured to tread water as the dog did
As certain ship was laboring heavily IL
the rough of the sea, it was found need
| full in order 10 tighten the vessel, tt
throw some troop horses overheard
which had been taken taken In at tn,
Corunna. The poor things, my infor
mant, staff surgeon, told me, whei
they found themselves abandoned, faced
round and swan for miles after the YES
sci. A man on the east coast of Lincoln
shire saved quite number of lives b.
swimming out on horseback to vessel
in distress. He commonly rode an oil
gray mare, but when the mare was no
to hand he took the first horse that wa
offered.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
The Yellow Water Lily.

John James Audubon first discovered
the yellow water lily in Florida, and
mentioned it +; but none of the botanists
of the time could ever find it, and it was
concluded that Audubon must have been
mistaken. A few years ago, however,
Mrs. Treat rediscovered the plant In
Florida. Since then specimens OF it
have been sent to various parts of the
world. 1t is, however, rare plant, and
until this summer has never been known
to bloom away from its native home.
There is another specimen now in bloom
at the Kew Gardens, London. In shape
this rare flower resembles the we'll
known white water lily. 1t is smaller,
however. The blossom is of bright
canary yellow, measuring nearly two
inches in diameter. The leaves are very
beautiful. They are heart-shaped and
variegated in color. The topis green,
aecked with purple, and the under side
is bright purple red
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
The Weakening of Steel by Heat

Examples of the mysterious failure OF
steel are not uncommon, and although
much of the mystery which used to at
tend the qualities of steel is disappear
ing before modern research, it cannot be
said that increased knowledge always
leads to be better confidence. One of
the peculiarities of spring and tool steel
which has lately been investigated by
several observers-Mr. Adamson among
the numbers the known liability of
steel that is very flexible when cold to
break when at the blue annealing tenn
perature. 1t has sometimes been sup
posed that only inferior metal is subject
to this tendency; but the workers in
Ural iron, which is remarkably pure in
quality, have often observed the same
action. Mr. Adamson has found that
steel of this kind becomes actually "pow-
derry" at a temperature of between 500
dg. and 700 dg. Fab, or the point at
at which willow twigs take fire; and he
has decided that this is the point when
the metal is at its weakest, possessing
itrle or 10 Conference. This phenome-
non, if it can be substantiated as univer-
sal or even frequent, is suggested as a
possible explanation of large number
OF accidents, such as the breaking OF
steel tires, shafts, and parts Of machine
tools which may be strong enough when
cold, but being raised to the stated tenn
perature by the effect of friction, etc.,
they are not able to withstand the slight
est strain, and, in fact, drop into pieces
by their own weight. The quickness
with which broken parts of machinary
or tools would, under ordinary circum
stances, cool down, and therefore regain
their strength would naturedly lead al
ordinary observer away from the trutf
which Mr.. Adamson claims to have dis
covered.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
The Eagle.

The original bird chosen as the SYM
Dol of the United States always had
bad reputation. Franklin said its adop-
ton was mistake. 1t was not a dis
tinctly American bird, to begin with.
The turkey would have been more ap-
propriate, and was product of the soil.
Audubon always lamented the selection
To him Franklin wrote that the bald or
American eagle was bird of bad moral
character. HE does not get his living
honesty, land, like those men who live by
sharping and robbing, he is generally
poor. Besides, he is rank coward; the
little king bird, not bigger than spar
row, attacks him boldly and drives him
out of the district.
On the other hand, there is distinc-
tive trait of the eagle which will satisfy
and crafty those who hold that the
United States is the field in which,
woman has asserted her superity to man,
and succeeded in governing him, even
when he does not know it. In this re-
spect the American eagle is a fit emblem
of the people whose symbol he is. For
observers say that the bald American
eagle is under proper subiugation to his
spouse. "The females are even Drawer
and fiercer than the males, Just as the
American women on both sides were du-
ring the war. She also stretches her
wings to the utmost extent over
the nest, and all that the male brings to
put into it, as if she were the sole pro-
prietor of it. And even the most casual
observer of American life will recognize
in this correspondence determination of
the American woman to run her house
and household largely to suit herself,
leaving to her husband the duty OF pro-
viding for it and paying the bills.
Considering, too, the tendency of the
American male to premature badness,
which is universally attributed to female
supremacy, the bald eagle is an especial
ly appropriate symbol. 1t is true, the
naturalists say, he is white-headed rather
than bald, but the general effect is the
same. And if the American eagle is cow
ardly and allows smaller bird to bully
him, vet this is not so foreign to the
American people as might appear at
first glance. In Franklin's time it was
not SO perhaps, but in these days when
a jay Gould or Vanderbilt, a gas COM
pany or any other corporation can take
all it wants by putting on bold front,
the ratio between any of these and the
American people, is very much the same
as that between the small bird and the
big American eagle which Is able to
bully.
So that Franklin to the contrary, those
who chose the American eagle selected
better than they knew.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07

Beware of bosom sins.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Bu.iness is the soul of life.
As you SOW, SO shall you reap.
Be always at leisure to do good.
At great bargain pause awhile.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07

She grisyes sincerely who qrieves
when alone.
"A new poem by Swinburne is an
nounced, to be entitled ''The Statue Of
Victor Hugo.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01

Adalina Patti win reach the United
States in October.
.sThe Maocot' Is new opera composed
by Audran. the author of Olivette.
Franz Abt highly complimented Miss
Emma Thursby, after her singing in Bruins
wick recently.
The words and music of Gilbert and
Sulliyan's latest opera, announced at the
Standard theater, New York, for Sepfem-
Der 10, win both be published IN this coun-
try at an early day, by authority OF the
composer and librettist.
The exertion of welding a sword in the
combat scenes of Richard Ill, and Macbeth
during his recent starring tour, has reopen
ed Mr. Sheridan's old wound, and is PROB
able that he win be compelled to abandon
those parts
Miss Annie Louise Cary said recently:
II never put on tights without thinking OF
story told about me by a wicked newspa-
per man some years ago. 1t said that
party of ladies were praising me up in a
parlor one morning and saying how very
particular I was in dress and action-'so
unlike the general run of opera singers,
said one of the ladies, and, turning to
gentleman, she said, BY the way, Mr.
Jones, you were at the opera last night;
how was Miss Cary dressed?' In tightsf
was the answer, and the conversation
changed"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01


james Cooke has returned from Spring
field
g. W: copity and wife are at the Rock
Island
FH Fenton, Philadelphia, is at the
Harper
III. Land, New York, is a sojourner at
the Harper
j. B, Donaldson, Milan, is registered at
the Rock Island
G. S. Mitchell, St. Louis, is guest at
the Rock Island.
Sam Heagy, of Hampton, was an arri-
val at the Harper.
Mayor Wheelock, of Moline, has return
ed from his western trip.
Miss Nettie Howells, formerly of Moline,
is to be married at Golden City, Col, the
9Th of the present month.
Captain Cannon, of Memphis, came
down on the Viola this morning. He Wis
its the city to purchase large supply of
corn
The following gentlemen of this city win
attend the National funniest at st. Louis
Dr. Carl Bernhard and Messrs. Lothian
Harms, John Ohlweiler, Carl Winter, JOS
eph Huber, Louis Dindinger. Robert Wag-
ner, Julius Junge, JOSH. Huas and John
Westnhal
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01
HEMLOCK TIES.

The Chicago Inter Ocean has the follow
ing:
During November 1866, the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific railroad laid 1000
hemlock cross-ties, which had been satur-
ated with chloride of zinc, in the road bed
of the main line, some three-fourths of a
mile west of Englewood, as an experiment
Last Saturday these ties were examined,
and several of them brought to the COM
pany's office in this city. Some of them
were found IN good state of preservation,
while others that had been rejected were
found sound within, but were rotted on the
surface where exposed to the wet. Hem
lock is considered very poor as regards its
preserving qualities; it is also claimed that
it usually commences decaying in the CEN
ter. Near these hemlock ties were some
oak ties that were laid in 1878, some of
which were badly decayed. Upon these
specimen ties had been laid at the same
time steel rails from England, where they
still remain, they also having been placed
there on test.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01
mo.neral Motners!l n6otAerslll

Are you disturbed at night and bro
ken of.your rest by sick child suffering
and crying with the excruciating pain
of cutting teeth? If SO. go at once and
get bottle of Mrs. WiEslew's Jooth-
ing Syrup. 1t will relieve the poor
little sufferer immediately-depe
upon it; there is no mistake about it.
There is not mother on earth who
has ever used it, who will not tell you
at once that it will regulate the bowels.
and give rest to the mother. and relief
and health to the child operating like
magic. 1t is perfectly safe to use in all
cases, and pleasant to the taste and is
the prescription of one of the oldest
and best female physicians and nurses
in the United States. sold every
where 25 cents bottle.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01
CoRONERs DUTIES.

Coroner Morris was Notified last night
that man by the name of Peterson had
been killed in a mine at Rapids City. The
man was engaged in the mine of Geishust
& Co., and while laboring the roof caved
IN and he was killed.
A jury was impanneled and verdict
rendered that death resulted from an acct
dent.
A telegram was received from Andalusia
late last night stating that the body of an
unknown man had been found floating in
the river. An inquest was held this morn
ing, but nothing definite learned as to the
Identification of the remains.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01
IMPROVEMENTS.

Among the many improvements going
ON about this city is a large brick addition
to the livery stable of Gilmore & Tindall.
The new structure is to be 81 by so and 20
feet high, will be built of brick, and COW
cred with an iron roof. Lettick Bros, have
the contract of the stone work; Atkinson
& Off brick work; Alex Owens, carpen-
ter work; and E w. Spencer, roofing.
Mr. Robert Wall has bought from his
former partner, Mr.. Dauber, his share in
the carriage works on Seventeenth street,
near Third Avenue, and will now assume
entire control of the business.
Mr. Wall is making numerous improve
ments in the building, so as to give it a
larger capacity, and employs none but ex-
perienced workmen, as some artistic work
turned out testifies. Mr.. Wall has had a
large experience in the business and knows
how to build nice carriage.
VIM. Peach has opened a candy manu-
factory on Third avenue, near Frank HIS
carriage works
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01

mer's day is delightful thing, no doubt;
but more real benefit is derived from a
bath at your own residence, provided
Glenn's Sulphur Soap is the purifier used.
Every pore is opened by the action of this
healthful cleanser, cake of which should
always be found on the washstand. 1t pos
sesses in an inspissated form the virtues OF
the sulphur bath, long recognized means
of removing eruptive maladies, rheuma-
tism, govt and abnormal conditions of the
skin. Ask the ladies, and they will tell
you it is the most salutary and reliable
beautifier of the complexion. When used
to disinfect linen and as a cleanser of vari-
oas fabrics it is equally to be depended on.
Sold by all druggists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-01
NERVOUS DEBILITY.

VfraIzwEAKNEss OR DEPRESSION weak
exhausted feeling, no energy or courage;
the result of MENTAL oyER-woRK, 1NDIs-
CRETIoNs OR EXCEssEs, or some drain upon
the system, is always cured by HUMPHREYS
HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFIC No. %. 1t tones
up and invigorates the system, dispels the
gloom and dependency, imparts strength
and energy, stops the drain and rejuven-
ates the entire man. Been used twenty
years with perfect success by thousands.
Sold by dealers. Price, 500 per single
vial, or $500 per package of five walls and
$500 vial of powder Sent by mail on re-
ceipt of price. Address HUMPHREYs'
homeopathic MEDICINE COMPANY, 100
Fulton Street, n. Y.