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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
Elephants and Their Teeth.

Empress, the female elephant at the
Geological Garden, ST. Louis, has just
passed through one of the interesting
changes looked for in her species in
about her age, in the shedding of her
back, or, as they are called, milk"
teeth Recently, Empress appeared q
little dull snd seemed to have lost her
appel ite. Secretary Kalb had her
watched closely, but could not deter
mine what was the matter, until there
appeared the crowns of several teeth.
These crowns were about three inches
long and one-half wide and an inch
thick, and made the cause of her indis.
position clear. An examination Of
her mouth corroborated the same
thing, the "milkers" having disap-
peared. Within an hour Empress
began to regain her wonted good
he alth and soon made known that she
was longing for something to eat.
This loss of her early melars is said to
occur at the age of ten years.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
Rules for Spelling Children.

Try to forget as much as possible
that you were young yourself.
When they amuse thems elves tor
turing animals, look on and laugh.
Always tell them to hit back when
annoyed by neighboring children.
Tell them all the lies you like, and
half kill them if they tell you one.
When they tell you they won't do
thing, laugh at them and let it go.
When they fall and hurt themselves
scold them for their awkwardness.
Dress them in style that they will
be afraid to play for fear of spelling
their clothes.
Make religion such long-faced,
poky thing, that they'll hate the
name of it as long as they live.
Don't give them anything to read
but bible stories, Sabbath-school books
and dime novels.
Don't give them the habit of kissing
them good-night; if you happen to
die they'd be awfully lonely without
it.
Tell them it is sin to be dishonest,
but if they bring you back too much
change from the grocer's, keep it and
tell them to say nothing about it.
Let them sleep until you have start
ed to work in the morning, and have
them put to bed before you get home
at night, to avoid becoming too init
mately acquainted with them.
Threatened to tell their father and
get them punished for every blessed
thing they do,so that by degrees they'll
come to the conclusion that father is
some sort OF a whipping machine.
Tell them it is sin to laugh or play
on Sunday, and make the day as dull
and stupid as possible for them. Then
when they grow up and go to Congress
they will be apt to pass bill doing
away with the observance of the day
altogether. r
If you happen to be in gruf mood,
and feel little palm trying to nestle
in yours, or a little arm trying to
Irvine itself around your neck, give a
growl to be let alone. The offense
won't be repeated.
The electric light will affect the
colors of cloths as well as paintings in
the same way, but not so quickly, as
sunlight.
"Oh, give me anything made of
BEANS" exclaimed Boston man taken
sick in the West, when asked what he
would have to eat. They obeyed his
request. They gave him castor oil.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
Behind The Scenes.

l will tell you of an incident that
happened in New Orleans many years
ago. It posse sses to me now, as I
think of it, all the vivid interest it
had then. It was among the first
cases Entrusted to Mr.. land myself
and we devoted to 1t an unwearylng
patience and assiduity that fitted us
for their exercise many time after
ward. It was in mid-winter that the
circumstance / allude to occurred.
The theatrical season was at its height.
The st. Charles was nightly thronged
with the beauty and fashion Of the
city. Anew star had appeared on its
boards. Her beauty, grace and &C.
complishments were the topic of every
club room. Her name was Adele
Larondu. Very young-scarcely
twenty-and very beautiful was this
young girl, around whom a web of
mystery was woven that seemed to
defy human ingenuity to unravel.
I cay she was beautiful but that word
does not convey an adequate idea of
her exceeding grace of mind and per-
son. Petite in form, the slender fig
ure was exquisite in symmetry. A
wealth of bright, golden hair shaded a
face rosy with health and brilliant
with genius. The clear, hazel eyes
flashed with intelligence, and the
delicate curve of the exquisitelY CHS.
'eled lips expressed hatred, or scorn,
or intensified emotion.
Night after night the theater was
filled with her admirers. Passion in
every phase-the very well.springs
and impulses Of our nature-seemed
to find in her an interpreter that never
erred. Her analysis of character was
perfect; it was true to nature and there
fore perfect.
The night of which I speak had
witnessed her greatest triumph. She
seemed inspired and the feelings of her
audience appeared absolutely under
her control, as if she welded the
wand of an enchantress. The curtain
fell on the last act of the tragedy, and
the audience dispersed. Some mes
meric power held me on the spot, and
1 fingered around the entrance Of the
theater.
An hour must pave past by and the
last of the company crept out Of the
narrow aisles leading to the stage,
and sought their homes. Still the
actress fingered her carriage at the
door-the driver impatient. Suddenly
from behind the scenes came q scream
80 piercing, that it cut to the heart
like dagger.
In moment more dashed open
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
J.. 8. 1lTRENToN. N j. SATURDAY. JULY l. 1882

room, her young limbs fettered and
a single garment shrouding the wasted
form, was the young actress. We
were not moment too soon for the
next instant, furious as demon, the
dark-browed woman entered the
room.
1t took a moment to secure her and
then the mystery was solved.
She was the aunt of the actress.
Her niece was heireSs to a fortune in
France; she removed, her own child
would inherit the wealth. 1t must be
done secretly and silently, so that no
clew could be found. She had secreted
herself in the passage way of the
theater, and taking advantage of a
momentary delay, had secured her
victim. In the struggle an earring
was torn off. A powerful narcotic,
suddenly applied, drowned her senses
and stopped resistance. She was be-
hind the drop curtain as we rushed in.
Leaving while we were yet in the
green room, she made her escape along
the aisle that led to the street.
This was the end. 1t made sensa-
ton at the time, but it was an I'm.
written history of crime in New
Orleans about thirty years ago.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
The Early Days of Printing.

There is an old story about Faust,
the associate of Gutenberg, the inven-
tor of printing, which, whether true or
false, well illustrates this. AS soon as
the Bible, which these two pioneers of
the art had printed, was complete,
Faust took number of copies to Parir
to sell. The first copy he sold to thu
king for $50 crowns, and another to
the archbishop for 800 crowns, and to
less illustrious or less worthy persons
he sold other copies for much smaller
sums, each one thinking that he pos
sessed a marvel of penmanship. So
delighted was the archbishop
with his purchase that he took it to
the king, who, in emulation, produced
his volume. In spite of differences in
the great initial letters, which were
painted by hand, the text in both was
found to be indentical, down to the
smallest details, which would he inn
possible in books written by hand.
Other copies, too, it came to be known
had been sold. There was no way of
accounting for the mystery except by
magic, and poor Faust was committed
to stand his trial for sorcery and was
imprisoned. Only upon a full dis
closure of his process of printing,
which had hitherto been jealousy Sc
cret, did he obtain his liberty, aud this
he did not long enjoy, dying shortly
after of the plague, before he could re-
turn to his own country,
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
Itenical.

"a At Bath, Me-, firm now has con-
tracts for building nineteen ships,
eleven of which are on the stocks.
A London paper says American
tools, cheaper and better than those OF
English make, are now sold in that
city.
Chicago, like New York, is liable to
become so enthusiastic over the new
German prima donna that it Materna
head. 90 "a
The astronomers tell us that the
great spot on the sun awhile ago is
again in sight, circular, and of enor-
NOUS extent.
The death is announced in England
off. N..Darby, founder of the COM
munity or sect known as "The Ply
mouth Brethren"
A convicted horse-thief gave a New
Haven lawyer 9 sail-boat for defend
ing him, and it now proves that the
boae was stolen.
Three nice African snakes have
been received at New York museum.
one of which is twenty-five feet long.
The snaky trio eat calf q day.
Nav 6 David Walker completed the
thirtieth year of his service as driver
of q Sd avenue car in New York,
having been absent but eighteen days
in all that time.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
HEALTH rs WEALTH!

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Guarantee issued only through Isaac %.
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NcJ., Sole Agent.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
THE CUCKOO SONG.

y Kitty Bell, twas sweet, swear,
To wander in the spring together,
When buds were blooming everywhere,
And 1t was golden weather!
And down the lanes beside the farm
You roamed beside me, tripping lightly,
Blushing you hung upon my arm,
And the small gloved hand pressed tightly!
And the orchis sprang
In the scented meadow,
And the throstle sang
In the greenwood shadow:
And your eyes were bright
& With happy dew
Could doubt light
So divinely blue,
When you kiss'd and sighed
~ will be true?
Cuckoo!
Though far and wide
The brown bird cried
Cuckoo cuckoo! cuckoo!'
Kitty Bell, the cry seem ed sweet
For you were kind, and flowers were spring.
ing;
The dusty willow in the heat
Its woolly bells were swinging,
And in its boil the linnet brown
klulsu u ucr nest Win wool ana 1oatler.
And we had thoughts Of nesting down
In the farm by the mill, together,
And over the hill
The breeze was blowing
And the arms of the mill
Kept coming and going;
And who but Love
Was between us two,
When around and above
The fiittern1ice few,
And as night drew nigh
You swore to be true!
Cuckoo!
heard the cry
From woods hard by
"Cuckoo cuckoo! cuckoo!"
Kitty Bell, tits spring again,
But all the face of things locks ilIer;
The nests are built in wood and lane,
But You are nested with the miller,
And other lovers kiss aud swear
While behold In scorn and pity ~.
For "All, ," cry ais false and fair"
And curse the cookoo and Kitty.
And over the hill
The breeze is blowing
And the arms Of the mill
Keep coming and going;
And the hidden bird
Is singing anew
= The warning heard st.
I 81 When trusted you.
And sicken and sigh,
With my heart thrilled through.
Cuckoo!
Wherever fly
hear the cry
Cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoor va
ROBERT BUCHANAN.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
The Constabulary. !

A Parliamentary return has been
issued of the number and cost of the
"Koyal Irish Constabulary," In each
year, for the last ten years; from
which it would appear that, hereas,
in 1928, the number of constables was
II 1893, and the cost sSl7, 136 IS Id; In
1882 the number was 1884, and the
cost 81 ,26G ,322.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
Scotch Humer.

Old Scotch gentleman sitting In a
Toronto cara young lady enters, and
makes rush for the tepmost seat.
The car starts rather suddenly, the
lady lands on the old gentleman's
knee, blushing and exclaiming :"Ohl
beg your PARDON" "Old G.-Dlnna
mention 1t, lassie, I'd rayther haze ye
sittin' on my knee, than staun'in on
ceremony"
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01

TIE SENTINEL has q larger circulation
than ony ,oeskly p0pes pas6lishsd N this
Uty (soish one ezeeptton). This stassnssns
vs are prepared to uerVy at any time.
Adssrtissrs aotz do seeu to rsmsmbsr this
toes. a. our ddusrtsssng rates are lo,oer
a.on those Of any other ~esospaper Of equal
circulation.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01
The Squirrel Problem.

"a squirrel is up tree and man
on the ground with gun is trying to
shoot it but the squirrel persists in
keeping on the opposite side of the
tree from the man. The man walks
clear around the tree to the place Of
starting, the squirrel going about in
the same direction and keeping the
tree all the time between itself and
the man. Now the problem is, Has
the man been around the squirrel p
He has been around the tree with the
squirrel on it, but has he been around
the squirrel 2" The Express invited
answers to this problem, and received
twenty-seven, of which fifteen say
yes, the man does 60 around the squir-
rel, and twelve say no, he does not.
A few have sent us their reasons, and
two send figures demonstrating the
problem. The following answers are
printed:
l. OF course the man goes around
the squirrel. He goes around the
tree and everything on it.
2. Should the squirrel have the
start am of the opinion that the man
goes around it. 1rn
3. Not by good deal does the hun
ter walk around the squirrel.
4. The man does not go around the
squirrel. Might as well claim that
by having horse attached at A and
and another at B each describing the
same circle, keeping at opposite sides
of circle-the horse at A would at
every time going around the ring go
around the inside half of B and that
B returned the compliment
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01

a
to A in the same manner simple be-
cause the outside of one described a
larger circle than the inside of the
other. In other words man or horse
in describing any circle goes around
one-half Of himself. a5,,.
s. The man goes around the SOUR
rel. 1t is just like a wheel within a
wheel. 81 mtsas
6. The man don't go around the
squirrel. have tried it and had I
got around the squirrel I would have
shot it.
4 If there was no tree there and
the squirrel was running around in q
circle on the ground and the man was
going in larger circle 1 ahould say
the man went around the squirrel.
But when you put q tree there it is
different. The man does not go around
the squirrel on the tree.
8. The man doesn't go around the
squirrel any more than the squirrel
goes around the man.
8. Of course the man doesn't go
around the squirrel. II am standing
ON the nigh side of horse and start
to walk round him., and the horse
keeps turning as go, I am on the
nigh side of him all the time, am I
not? And don't go around him If I
am on the nigh side all the time, do
|? The case is precisely similar to
this of the squirrel on tree.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-01

DR.. Peters, Of Utica, now asserts
that Wells's comet isn't much of q
comet after all.
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-10
The Way Of a Serpent.

The movement OF snake In climbing
a perpendicular surface, as L have OBJ
served it, is a vermicular. undulatinq
motion, not spiral, but straight up the
face of the surface. have seen black
snake thus glide up beech tree with
the easy, careless grace of movement
which is characteristic of that snake
when moving over horizontal surfaces.
The bark of the beech affords few in
CAPABILITIES into which the edges of the
gastroslegal bands could be thrust claw
fashion, and have no doubt that atmos
pheric pressure is the force that hold
the snake against such surfaces i'll climb
ing, susker-fashion, as the boy lifts the
brick with the piece of wet leather. ]
once knew n black to ascend stucco
wall to the second story window, and
another i saw go up to the caves of n
carriage house to the swallows nest
straight up the up-and.down boards. ]
have seen them glide from tree to ire,
and leap down from near the topof large
trees. hut never saw one descend b,
going down a smooth. perpendicular sur
face. have no doubt of their ability t.
do SO, however. do not believe that
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-10
Lemon Culture In FlOridh.

Florida lemons have not generally
found favor in Eastern markets, owing
TO their large, thick skins and inferior
flavor. A few individuals, however,
who believe the soil OF Florida adapted
for the culture of that fruit as well as
oranges, have been experimenting with
lemon seedlings imported from Sicily
and Messina, and planted them, it Is
claimed, with perfect success. A writer
from Lake Poinsett says
1.-THE lemon produced had much
of the size of the old Florida fruit, but
was thin-skinned, of bright golden color,
and Juicy beyond comparison. They at
once took rank in market as the best
lemons that were offered, and commanded
IA premium. Sales are reported for GER
tam months of last season at 81. 20 6
box of 100 lemons A peculiar fact of
lemon culture is that the imported lemon
can not be raised in Florida from the
seed. Any seed will do for the stump,
but to produce the perfect fruit the
stump must be budded from the I'M
ported tree. The advantages of lemons
over oranges are that the trees bear
sooner; they bear larger crops, the
fruit ripening continually for eight
months, instead of few months AS is the
case with the orange Another advan-
tage is that the season is longer than the
orange, and the opportunity for market
ing at good figures better.
"Since the culture of the lemon has
become general the Floridians have
learned the method of preparing the
fruit for the market. The evenness Of
size so notable in box of foreign
lemons is secured by the use of ring
or 'sizer.' On the Mediterranean lemons
are never left on the tree until they get
their color. An attendant goes to each
tree, passes ring over each lemon, and
when it fits the ring it is clipped and
put in packing house, where the bright
yellow color is given them by subjecting
them to fumes of sulphur. A packing
house of this sort has been established
by a Mr.. Bean, at Jacksonville. He
buys the lemons when green at about a
cent and half each, gives them the
artificial coloring, and sells them for a
handsome advance.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-10

A gentleman writes to the 81. James
!. Gazette, London, the following letter ON
the domestic condition of Amer ca:
1.-The foot-note you quoted the other
day from Mr.. Goodwin Smiths paper In
the Niseteenfh Century, and your ar
ticle, Is the Family in Dangery are
calculated to give your readers an unfair
impression of American women and
their views OF family duty. Mr.. Goodwin
Smith might very well have qualifi II
his remarks by adding that the woman-
suffrage movement, about which ofier
no opinion, is in small minority in the
United States that it has there much
less hold on the better classes than 1T has
here; that it has little hold at ali on the
vast industrial and agricultural popula-
ton outside of great cities |; and that the
ideas which, rightly or wrongly, he at
tributes to its leaders as to matrimony
and maternity are wholly repugnant to
the vast ma ority Of American women.
In fact, his argument pointed to dangers
real or exaggerated-in the future, not
to the present state Of affairs. Though
my experience of America has not been
SO long ard continuous as Mr.. Goodwin
Smiths, 1 have been In America enough,
and have seen enough of the various as
poets of American society, to have some
right TO an opinion. And / have some
hope that / shall find Mr.. Goodwin
Smith agreeing with me when 1 say,
without hesitation. that nowhere can
family life, III its simple, honest affec-
tons, the cohesion of its members, the
sense of duty of husband and wife,
parent and child, be seen better devel-
Oped than in New England. And So
ciety in other parts of the States differs
from that in New England more i'll de-
grees of education and re finement than
in essential habits and principles. Any
one acquainted with American society
knows, for instance, that young married
women live much simpler, more whole
some life than they do in London draw
ing rooms, and give more OF their time
to home life, to their husbands and chill
dren, and less to social engagements,
than they do in England. The statistics
of the writer in the Century may show
that the relaxation Of the divorce law in
some Of the States has been unsatisfac
tory as leading to capriciOus breaking
up of the marriage tie for unsubstantal
reasons in certain classes of American
society. The fact, however, remains that
the grosser scandals of married life
which the DivorC Court too frequently
reveals IN the higher circles of English
society are strikingly rare in families OF
similar position in America.
:" 1 shall be glad to be permitted thus
to state what think is the true state of
the case because many readers who do
not know America themselves might be
led by the extract and your article TO
hasty and unjust CONGRATULATIONS which
would have about as much solid founda-
ton as similar congratulations suggested
some years ago by the brilliant lucubra-
tons of that industrious book-maker,
the late Mr. Hepworth Dixon"