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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08
Turkish Fashion Styles.

There is woe in STEAMBOAT. The &c
clesiastical authorities, terrified at the
stage affairs have reached, are begin
ming to repent of the error of their
ways, aud to remember the long-fo
gotten words of the Prophet. The
ladies are ordered to be thickly yelled,
and to keep the Gaiour at his proper
distance, albeit the houri of . Onstan
tinople do not relish the change. But
worst of all, the Police Minister has
found it ne essary to issue disclaimers
against the scandal of the Mosques.
When tie Muezzin calls the faithtulto
prayers, the faithful come not, but play
gaiour games of cards under the shade
of the trees in the courtyard of the
House of Prayer. Instead of making
their Mammal, or praying devoutly
five times in the day, like Hegarth's
Idle Apprentice" they gamble in the
chureh-yard. Equally do the police
find it difficult to get the ladies to
abandon their high-heeled Partisan
boots for the barbouche, or to cover
their faces with some fabric less
transparent than the yak marshes of
transparent gauze. Squads of spies
are set to watch the fair offenders, but
in vain. And indeed the ladies have
the Koran on their side. Mahomed,
though compelled to admit polygamy
and slavery against his wish, nowhers
prescribed sec usion or degradation,
or the thick wells under which the
modern moslem women conceal them
selves, like herd in cattle pen.
The Prophet was always respector
of women. 1t is only his degenerated
followers who are anything else.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08
What Earth Worms Do.

In 1887 Mr.. Darwin first published
his views as to the formation of yege-
table mold and the agency of worms
in its production, and ever since that
time he has made the matter a subject
of observation. His views at first did
not appear to receive much support
from biologists, but the result of over
forty years study fully bear them out.
The author speaking of worms in a
late work says: "In many parts of
Eng land a weight of over ten tons of
dry earth annually passes through
their bodies and is brought to the sur.
face an each acre of land, so that the
whole superficial bed of vegetable
mold passes through their bodies In
the course of every few years. From
the collapsing of the old burrows the
mold is in constant though slow
movement. When we behold
wide, turf. covered expanse, we
should remember that its smoothness,
on which its beauty depends, is mainly
due to all the inequalities having been
slowly leveled by worms. 1t is mar
velous reflection that the whole of the
superficial mold over any such ex-
panse has passed, and will again pass,
every few years through the bodies of
worms. The pillow is one of the most
ancient and most valuable of mans
inventions; but long before he existed
the land was regularly ploved, and
still continues to be thus plowed, by
earth. worms. 1t may be doubted
whether there are many other animals
which have played SO important part
In the history of the world as have
these lowly organized creatures
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08
The true Embden, called also the

The true Embden, called also the
Bremen goose, should be pure white
with brick-red legs, and heavily
feathered The Toulouse goose is
gray. but darker and more uniform in
color. Both are round-bodied, COM
pact. short legged, with large abdomi-
nal development, are quiet, lay plenty
of eggs, fatten readily, and have ex-
cellent flesh. A cross of the Embden
and Toulouse is said to make better
birds than either of the pure breeds.
This we cannot vouch for, but we have
found the Toulouse rather better able
to trke care of themselves than the
Embden. On the other hand, the ex-
cellent white feathers of the Embdens
are more valuable than those of their
relatives.
Geese are not difficult to manage.
They want dry, warm place to hud-
die under in winter, and which, in
summer, may be given plenty OF air.
This must be cleaned regularly, and
often enough to be sweet and whole
some. In the summer they will pretty
much supply themselves with food
grass, worms, and various insects
but what grain they will eat should be
also supplied every night, and it is
always better that this be supplied
to them at the bottom of q vessel filed
with water. In winter this food may
be corn and the screenings of small
grain, in connection with cabbage
leaves or other greens, or else chopped
roots, daily. s>L
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the table. Another case il the, .
girl of is who was dying from o,..,
it was thought, till examinsfa a
vealed the presence of a needI.
lowed by accident, she kna, ''%
when. Il"
What became of the rash wont, :.
Bologna, who, to show how to,
swallowed sword, introduced = scr st's'
fork into his throat and let it sIipdo,''
we do not know. He probably ',r, .u,
to meet" the swallowers Of false ts.. l'
Burnel, the great engineer, had ~
row escape once upon time var @i'
amusing some children, by capsin
halfsovereign to vanish from ;.
mouth and reappear in his ear ~ ~
coin SUDDEN slipping down into VI, VI
gullet. ~
He tried to cough it up without ca
There.it stuck. Every surgical d.r,
as 'Ai0N :" SOO Hoiu OF 1t Witbop
avail. 1t became evident that :,
coin could not bedislodged fatal ro.n NY
would e sue. In the dire aiIon,a'
into which he had needlessIy broral'
himself, Brunei devised woas Su'
structure to which he could ba st..
ped head downmost, keanir.
mouth open. To his inexnras.iL'
relief the coin dropped from its In,S
ing place and rolled to the Aoo,
German juggler who had introdn..,
a variation of the sword.swalIon,is
feat by swallowing a bayonet b.l.1
cling thereon the musket to wbiob =.
vas attached, came to grief under sv.a
more alarming circumstances o. -.
weapon broke short Oft aud the .,a.,
slipped down into mis- gullet. Ha.o,
ed on the same principle as Brnns,
and promptly inverted himself or1
with the aid of two friends stood a..
upwards till, by force of gravity II.
bayonet dropped to where il eonId -
reached from the nouth and dram.
out. In March, 1887, the surpeors =,
the Edinburgh inirmary relieved .
woman OF a brass paddock, an incbsnd
two-thirds long aRd sn in, h in width
which she had swallowed. -Four ra.,,
ago they were less fortunate in tbs
case of boy VINO swallowed br.,.
chain. and in 1880 a child in Devon.
shire was vainly treated who had al
lowed small tin whis lie to sin from
the mouth into the trachea. Since tbs
introduction of the balloon wbistls
there uas been several fatal accident,
from-by inhaling instead of expeIIiDo
the breath to fill, the bslloon-swol.
ing the whistle and India-rubber ssck
attached to it, about the ugliest thing
10 deal with, since the toy sticksin
the windpipe and every attempt To
breathe tends to initiate the balloon
and so the sufferer is choked A,
promptly and tnexorably as if he were
in the grasp of a garotte. The moral
OF all which is that people shouldbs
careful about putting solid substances
IN their mouths.-Net0 York Press.
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Queer Dishes.

What marvellous variety Of tastes, of
likes and dislikes, with regard to
special forms of food from cannibalism
to currant.cake, we find among people
physically constituted alike in every
respect. This person eats his meat
burned to a cinder; that will touch
only what is rawly undone. George
III, preferred fish when it was semi
putrid; his successors weakness was
hot plum bread crumpled up in quart
of cream. Lord Bacon is said to have
lived whole weeks at intervals on
nothing but oranges; while the elder
Pitt could not endure the sight of fruit
and never suffered any to be brought
into the room where he was.
1t seems an extraordinary thing to
speak of eating a skunk, and that too
In a part of the world where beef and
mutton are infinitely more plentiful
than bread yet it is fact that the
Guacho of the Banda Oriental are in
the habit of hunting this creature for
the sake of its flesh-nor is this incom-
prehensible to any one who Is ac-
ouainted with the true nature of the
skunk. The disgusting liquid which
It elects is contained in gland on the
back and constitutes its weapon OF de-
tense. Certainly the eff1uvium is the
most horrible and enduring that may
be conceived, and man and beast will
fiy from it but if it be surprised and
killed before it has time to use this,
and the gland be afterward extirpated
with care, the rest of the body Is des-
titute of all offense. Skunk-skins are
largely used by furriers, and beautiful
skins they are, and the animal ls capa-
BILE of being domesticated, as 1t never
emits the secretion except when Ia
danger or alarmed. / have never eaten
a skunk, but l have handled tame
one without apy olfactory disturbance.
Isee that thinned pepper pot is now
tn be obtained in London, but cannot
fancy that it would be much like the
real article. Pepper-pot is a favorite
relish for breakfast out West, and is
eaten with rice-like curry in some of
the old families in Demerara it is made
to perfection. An iron crock is filled
no daily with scraps of meat, fish,
almost anything, and various spices,
peppers, chillies and other condiments
.adad the essential one being casaripe,
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08
Head Hunters.

In Mr.. Books account of life among
he Dayaks (the Head-Hunters OF
Borneo), the great national custom OF
!" head hunting" has, OF course,
large place. In spite of the efforts OF
the Dutch to put it down, it goes on
stfll 80 briskly outside their borders
that many tribes are on the way to
mutual determination in order 10 get
one another's skulls to wrap In oa-
mana leaves, and hang up to decorate
the houses. The bows initiation into
manhood is to go on an attack upon
neiehboring tribe, for he cannot
marry until he has head to show as
. proof of bravery. Nor does the
bloodthirsty business stop here, for
the young warriors wedding, sueh
nuhlic events as the naming of
Raiah's newborn son, and, above all,
. Raiah's death, with its demand for
heads of enemies to be taken In order
that their souls may go as his servants
In the next world-these and other
reasons are always forthcoming to
make war everlasting between tribe
and tribe. Yet our traveller confirms
the contrast, SO usual among barba-
Rams, between this ferocity to aliens
and the kindly home life. The Da-
vaks much desired his European
knick-knacks, and begged for them
pertinaciously, but would never take
the smallest thing without leave; they
would hesitate if they could not give
. satisfactory answer, but they would
not lie. The women have, of course,
To work like beasts of burden, but the
men behave gently to them; every
body is kind to the children and the
sick are nursed and looked after by
their friends with ready sympathy.
According to the European standard
Of ethics the head-hunters at home
compare ia some ways favorably not
only with the more civilized Malays,
hut even, we may think, with some
folks nearer our own doors. Inc
most ferocious tribe met with by the
sxplorer was the Things, who are not
only head hunters, but cannibals, eat
ing the bodies of the enemies whose
heads they take. In most Dayak VII
lagos there are posts set up when
commemorate head-hunting exploits
while others have to do with the yet
more CHASTITY sacrifice of debt-slaves.
It was a relief to meet with tribe, the
Orange Bukkit, whose partly Malay
descent accounted for head hunting
not being their custom. Nor, indeed,
did they have the Dayak practice
called pomak, the secluding OF people,
or prohibiting access to fields or
houses, by setting up some such sign
a. q bundle of leaves on stick. This
ia done in order to get good crops, or
to shut off evil influences in sickness
or mourning; and its often-not1ced re-
semblance to the tapu of Polynesia
eiyes interest to Mr.. Books careful
description of it. 1T would have been
still better if he had given picture CT
the pemali stick itself.-London Acdd-
snsy.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08
Mr.. Harris Back Paw.


a Washington correspondent says
that very good story of back pay b
told by ex-Representative Harris, Of
Virginia. 81 voted against the bill'
said he, "but l took the money. When
was up for re- election they threw
1t up at me on the stump. | told them
that. | had tried to beat the bill, but
had taken the money, yet ] thought
they would forgive me when they
heard what I had done with it. i took
that money down into Virginia said
L, land gave it to a poor woman with
seven children, and 1 told her 10 USE
1t for herself and the childreu-lnd
the thing is not a bit worse because
that woman is my wife don't think
| lost vote by that back-pay bdsl'
nees. u
To church the two together went.
Both, doubtless, on devotion bent
The parson preached with faent ease
On Pharisees and Sadducees9
And, as they slowly homeward walked
The lovers on the sermon talked;
And he-he deeply loved the maid
In soft and tender accents said;
darling, do you not think that We
Are Pharisee and sadducee9
She flashed on him her bright black eyes
In one swim look of vexed surprise,
And thus he FASTENED to aver
de was her constant worshipper;
But, darling. insist said he,
That you are very fair-I-see;
know you don't care much for me,
And that makes me so sad-yeu see"
Eliot RydS'
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08

Our neighbor boasts that his cablO'
organ has sixteen stops. But Is D"
the stops that we objec5 TO +; It'll theO W
ginnings and continuanoes.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08
The Prose and Poetry of Humor.
An Opening for Him.


Is there any opening here for an
Intellectual writer ?" asked a seedy
red-nosed Individual of an editor.
" Yes, my friend" replied the man Of
quilts, "a considerate carpenter, for
seeing your visit, left an opening for
you. Turn the knob to the right
A Meditation for His Love.
You are tulip seen to-day.
But, dearest, of so short a stav.
That where you grow, scarce man can say,
You are lovely July flower,
Yet one rude wind, or ruffing shower,
Wlll force you hence, and in an houre,
lou are sparkling rose i tn bud.
Yet lost, ere that chaste flesh and blood
Can show where you, or grew, or stood.
You az a iull-spread, fair.set vine,
Aud caA with tendrils love entwine,
Yet dry'd ere you distil your wine.
You are the queen all flowers among.
But die you must, faire maid, ere long,
AS he, the maker of this song.
-RObert Herrick 1900
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-04-08
Suggestive and Instructive.

A thousand men can GO to work at
seven o'clock in the morning without
the ringing of bell, and why is 1t
that three hundred people cannot as
semble in a church without previous
ding donging lasting half an-hour?
Wit loses its respect with the good
when seen in company with malice ;
and to smile at the best which plants a
thorn in another's breast is to become
principal in the misc} ief.
The emotions form an important ele-
ment of health and disease. Fretful-
ness and iu-tempeI impair both moral
and physical beauty. A seold bears
that brand upon her eoutenance as in
delible as the mark of Cain. Good
emotions improve digestion, while the
bad ones impair it,
"WANTED.-A respectable, steady
man, as carter to the Wine and Spirit
Trade. An a6stainer preferred. Wages,
Ell per week, with prospect of rise.
State reference as to character and
last employment. Address," etc.
Everybody has heard of the accom-
pIished Partisan laundress who sent
in till, "to washing one skirt, one
france Ito putting no starch in it, %
confines !" but MIR. Henry Harvard
in e Illustration, caps it with the fol-
lowing account furnished by the up
holsterer: -.
Fr. G.
To getting on chair to hang picture.-....-- rs
To taking nail in right hand.................. .es
To passing do. to left do.................... .e5
To striking IS blows with hammer at To- Is
To noticing that the nail was not in the 81
centre of the so
To replacing it farther to the left........... 1.os
Total. 206
The following incident recently oc.
cured in Berlin: Atraget ian occasion
ally gave pass to his Ian dlady. She
was sitting with her little girl in the
pit of the theatre, when tie heavy
villain was about to stab the tragedian
in the gizzard. The child, seeing her
friends danger, instantly st.rted up,
and, with tears str an ing from her
blue eyes, shrek ed out; "Oh, please
don't kill him, or he won tgive us any
more tickets for the thea ren
Three are mob acc, ding to laws.
This is what young fellow thinks
when he and another chap are court
ing the same girl.
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buC XII CSh bntthOp oOooS viz LII
houses and shsnties are converted
into "geese FARMS" flocks averaging
from the progeny of single goose to
that of half-a-dozen. One of the best
fiocks we ever knew, and which, for
the years we knew 1t, ran from forty
to fifty goslings each year, had for its
nearest water a brook three-quarters
of a mile away, and which the geese
never saw. Our own flock, when we
kept geese, had ample water facilities
in river close at hand. Our friend
used to beat US and laugh at US, when
visiting each other, at my losses. His
standing joke was +: 81 only have
weasels and skunks to look after, and
YOU, in addition, have cat fish and
snappers (turtles)." We think he
was right.
If apool of water is near, it is desir-
able and an advantage. If not, ashal-
low tub IN which they can pluBge,
dabble, and drink, will really fill all
the absolute necessities of the case.
As to varieties, we think it lies be-
tween the Embden and the Toulouse
geese-both of them descended from
the gray-legged goose (Anser ferus) of
the north of Europe. Either of the
varieties are of the largest size, grow
ing to the extreme weight of twenty
two to twenty-six pounds.
The daily gazette., 1882-04-28
Trntle mud ,rrRnic

In reply to many persons desiring to
work up trade with our Spanish and
Portuguese speaking Deighbors of this
continent, We give, In this article, q
brief statement OF the values Of the
principal wares and products purchased
by them of us during fiscal year ending
derived from advance sheets of Mr.
Nimmo's annual report. Our exporta-
tion of agricultural implements increas-
es year by year. Under this head are
included mowers, ploughs, cultlvators
etc. OF these the Argentine Conteder-
alton took to the value Of $l05,5
Caba and Porto Rico $33, 1855, Uruguay
$54, ,Os7. Mexico $50, ,266, Brazil $45 ,Os7
Chill $32, ,79S, and the United States o
Colombis, $l9, ,956.
OF lager beer, ale and porter we ex
ported to the worth Of $299,000, mainl!
going to Brazil, Spanish America anC
The Sandwich Islands. The MexIcanl
took billiard tables to the amount Of
So, 1865, ana smaller purchases we're mad
by the So0th Americans, Chill and
Brazil bought blacking Of US, the forme
to the value OF $12,S3l and tho latter tt
$S,970.
A considerable Spanish book publish
ing business is done in this country
principally school-book aud juveniles
Cuba bought in the year mentioned
books, pamphlets, and maps to the wort
Of 81 1901; the United States of Colon
bia, $40,Ss5; Brazil, $i7,6S3: Mexico
$13, ,655, and the Argentine Republic
So, ,462.
OF brass and its manufactures Cub
bought to the worth of $2S;512; aud thu
United States of Colombia, $50,90e
The countries tothe. e.souh Of usIare larg
buyers of American tallow candles. Th
Mexlcans took 759423 pounds, wortl
SOL, ,133; Porto Rico, $44,ss9; Venezu
ella, $21 2s5; the United States @
Colombia, 1881; San Domingo
$l4,305; Brazil, $II,77S.-H Comerci
del Yale.
The daily gazette., 1882-04-28
Personal and l,OI.tIcaI.

The arrears ofrent In Ireland are esti-
mated at % 100000.
Prince Bismarck is adding to his
Friedrichsruhe estate. He has grown
rich on statecraft.
A S25, 900 piano, of unparalleled splen-
dor, is the Prince of Wales wedding pre-
sent to Leopold.
"Senatorial courtesy Is a sort Of dry
rot mat robs the statesman of lie and
useful Jess.
Genere Logan's hedlth has been much
Improved by his visit 10 The Hot Springs.
A bill to enable the burial of suicide
in a churchyard, wi h tine usual service,
is about TO be intro uced by Lord Eb-
linRton into the British Commons.
Mozart's manuscript I the famous trio
in E major Sc Id for over % o at a B rim
uction lately, and his portr at, painted
from life, on ivory, for about SLID.
oscar Wi de is reported to have failed
in making his expenses in Western
towns. He lectured one evening to thirty
People in Atchison.
secretary for tho Colonies Lord Kim.
berley thinks tue Panama Canal will
open q great future TO the British WesI
Indies by placing them ON the hlghm ay
of nations.
Many shrewd persons are inclined to
the belief that John h. Sanford will b.
the Republican Omtue Tor governor ol
Mass aehusetts as a happy release from
the promised scramble.
The Queen has given special and par
ticular orders that her youngest son Is
never o be sty Il Duke of Aloauy, bul
that he is always TO b. described as
| prince Leopo d, Duke of Albany"
The daily gazette., 1882-04-28
REFORM ! REFORM !

We, the undersigned citizens of Will
mi, kton seelng 1t necessary for public
meeJInx in f.Vor OF q city relorm move
ment wou ask all who are iui crested
b. meet IN the lecture roo = of The Ma
sonlc Temple ~econd-story) FIR day eve
ming, A AprI, u, 1882. AZ 7.3O O'clock.
VII lam T. Por' er, N. Pusey,
William II swift, Robert McCRulley,
Theo, +, Lraw ford. Geo. W. Dorsey,
Ell. McMauus William TaLnall,
John II. Jourd N, hos. DaIlingtSn,
Evans Pennington, EmI g Bi cher,
Smiley j. klne, Il. v 1ver Cooper
j. Il, HeAld, Geo A. Capells,
Ar hiDalI a. .OapelleJoseph j. RedmRn,
Thos. McCoIkle, Jr.,J. L. Morgan.
The ommItLeo have SET uTed as speak,
els Tor lhs evening, Thomas ID. Waller,
memUer Of select o1u Gil, and George HI.
haile, member of CoInm1G'ee OF one Hun
dred 0l Pm l ,del, hiaI who will speak on
the subject OF reform.
The daily gazette., 1882-04-28
FIRST EDITION.
TELEaRAPaIC SUMMARY.

The marriage OF Prince Leopold
Queen Victoria'S youngest son, to The
Princess Helena of Waldock, took
place at Windsor yesterday-Queen
Vicsoria has invested the King of the
netherlands with the order of the
Garter-The Princess Louise will re-
turn TO Canada about the middle OF
May-Dr, LamsOn will be executed at
0 O'Clock this morniDg-Ex-P President
Pierola, of Peru, and his family have
arrived at Plymouth, England The
Emperor Williams speech, read al
the opening of the German Reichstsg
yesterday, strongly advocates the
adoption Of the tobacco monopoly bill
Two hundred Russian Jewish jnl
migrants left Liverpool for the United
States yesterday-Don Carlos is re.
ported to have separated from his
wife.
The daily gazette., 1882-04-28
To. Morrow,s Sale orLots.

One of the finest sales of building
lots of the season is that which J. T..
Heald & Co. will conduct, on the pre-
misses, to morrow afternoon, commenc
ing at 8 o'clock. The lots are fifty
ono in numbes, situated ON Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, Vaa Bur en-, Harrison,
Clayton aud DUPONT sIreeLs. They
range from 100 to 1853 feet in depth
and average from 81 to 30 feet front
and are splendidly located. The
terms are unusuallyreasonable, the pur
chaser, after paying twenty per cent
cash, being allowed fifteen months II
which to pay the balanc-, on persona
note, without sec lritY or interest. A
clear discount of five per cent. is allow
ed for cash,
The daily gazette., 1882-04-28
Police Caves.

Thos. Mousley was before the Mayor
last evening, charged with ol ting
cIIy ordinance by moving q frame
house in the Ninth ward wit on first
obtaini & The consent of City Co neil
The case was continued until too nor
row morning, at the request o the ie-
fendant's counsel, Harry s, arp oy,
Esq.
Emory Underwood, for drunken =
ness and disorderly conduct, was fined
81 and costs.
VIM. Mitchell, colored, for drawing
a knife on William Brown, also color
ed, and threatening TO carve him, a.
Front and Market streets, yesterday
afternoon, was fined so and costs, and
held in $500 bail to keep the peace.