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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25

to be placed after the names
companies, but the rule ia oo,,.. ~ tne
transgressed in books of refs ssantiy
&c. t." however, takes up lit p1le renee
but what should one say 70 W p"0e'
G. 9. M. g., K, c. b. which i n + :,
Dufferin's due2 Certainl Ivn rs : Lord
well earned his stars; and, genara nss
speaking one is bound to saw that ~
decent premiera have bssn '"a' al
careful In the exercise ofthe patron very
OF honors which appertains tothapa
How low eonscientiously Mr.. GIadstons ,
discharges this portion of his dnties hs
let the world see by his argument ~
the House of Commons when n idaa
OF literary order was again mootsd
one OF bis reasons for opposing tba
suggestion was that the premier was
already overworked, and that the
consideration of the claims of tba
various candidates for the new dis.
tinction would add seriously to his
labors.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25
4rre TRENTON. N. J. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1882

| never expected to again. From the
first the face of the artist haunted me-
had surely seen it before it fingered
in my memory like regret. AS the
curtain was descending on the third
act she raised her eyes to my box, and
saw her turn pale and shudder. In a
few moments young messenger en-
tered and handed me card. 1t bore
the address of the young tragedienne
and appointed an interview. She met
me calmly, and seemed to await for .
recognition. I could not tell where I
had seen her. She went to an escri-
toire and took from 1t a copy of the
Picoyune. Read that" and she
pointed to a paragraph detailing the
circumstances of the missing dia'nond,
but asserting belief in her innocence.
| knew her then for the young girl
whose sad fate had always been a
regret to me.
THAT paragraph" she said, 'has
beer my only consolation in my
trouble. 1t seemed to say that there
was yet memory somewhere that
linked my name with virtue; the con-
seriousness of that has dwelt in nov
heart like sweet memorial of time
when single thought fingered like q
ray of light in the darkness of my life.
saw you o-nig bit and the old scene
Of horror rose before me dizzily. I
could not refrain from sending you
that card. ] wanted to hear from my
old home and know If my innocence
was confessed"
You have not heard from New
Orleans then since you left 2" asked.
mol"
"And know nothing of what has
occurred?"
mot syllable!"
Your cousin is dead, but not even
in death did she confess the great
injury she had done you"
Poor girl"
Don't you know 1t was she who
did it?"
"Yes."
"And you do not bate her memory ?"
mo! she needs the love of her en-
envy. Unconsciously l stood in her
way, and in her fierce resentment she
could not forgive me. 1t is bitter to
think of it, for the wrong was cruel /;
but do not hate her. / am alone in
the world, divorced from my kindred
and friends-wedded to my art. You
alone know me for who | am. | shall
try to forget that I was ever other
than now appear"
And 80 left her. Many a time /
have heard of her since-the world
has grown familiar with her name
but there are few who imagine that
the famous queen of the drama was
once belle in New Orleans. Yet it
is so, and living, she may read these
lines
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25
The Sup erlative.
Mr. Emerson Discourses Of the Weakness
OF the Speculative Form in
SDeeoh

MI emerson Disoourses Of the Weakness
OF the Superlative Form in
Speech.
mere Ia superlative temperament
which has no medium range. but
swiftly oscillates from the freezing to
the boiling point and which affects
the manners of those who share IL
with certain desperation. Their a..
poet Is grimace. They go tearing.
convulsed through wailing, pray.
ing, exclaiming, swearing. We talk,
sometimes, with people whose CONVEX
sation would lead you to suppose that
they had lived in a museum, where
all the objects were monsters and ex-
tremes. Their good people are
phenixes; their naughty are like the
prophets figs. They use the super
lative of grammar: "most perfect"
most exquisite" ''most horrible"
Like the French, they are enchanted,
they are desolate because you have
got or have not got a shoestring or q
wafer you happen to want-not per-
ceiving that superlatives are diminu-
tives and weaken; that the positive
Is the sinew Of speech, the superlative
the fat. If the talker lose a tooth he
thinks the universal thaw and disso-
luton of things has come. Controvert
his opinion and he cries "persecu-
toni" and reckons himself with st.
Barnabas, who was sawn in two.
Especially we note this tendency to
extremes in the pleasant excitement
Of horror-mongers. Is there some
thing so delicious in disasters and
pain Bad news is always exaggerated,
and we may challenge Providence to
send fact so tragical that we cannot
contrive to make it little worse In
our gossip.
All this comes of poverty. We are
unskilful definers. From want of
skill to convey quality we hope to
move admiration by quality. Lam
guage should aim to describe the fact.
1t is not enough to suggest it and
magnify it. Sharper sight would in
dictate the true line. Ills very weari-
some, this straining talk, these
experiences, all exquisite, intense and
tremendous: "The best L ever saw ~
II never In my lifew One wishes
these terms gazetted and forbidden.
Every favorite is not cherub, nor
every cat griffin; nor each I'M
pleasing person dark. diabolical
intriguer; nor agonies, excruciations,
nor ecstasies our daily bread.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25
HEALTH is WEALTH!

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ment a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Con-
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abuse or over-indulgence which lead to
misery, decay and death. One box will cure
recent cases. Each box contains one months
treatment. 81 box, or six boxes for S..
Sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
We guarantee six boxes to cure any case.
With each order received by us for six boxes,
accompanied with SIS, we will send the pur-
chaser our written guarantee to return the
money if the treatment does not effect cure.
Guarantee issued only through Isaac D.
James, No. 3 South Warren St., Trenton,
n. j., Sole Agent
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25
Five Score Years and There
aboutS.

Arson Ruggles, of Hardwick, Mass.
Is SO. His grandmother lived to be
104.
At 90, John sojourner, of Louisiana
has, after years widowhood, married
his fifth wife, who is 45.
At 100, Richard Leonard, of st.
Augustine, Quebec, was burned to
death in his cabin while lighting q
fire.
The evangelist, Archibald Nc
Arthur, who died recently at Dunoon,
N Scotland, was born on Sept. 5. 1887.
Mra. Haldeman, of Mahsnoy City,
Pa, will be 100 in July, but Mrs. Simp-
son, of Pottsville, is 100 already.
Robt. Warnock, veteran Of 1912
and an inmate of the Dayton, O..
soldiers home, was cut off by cancer at
the age of 103.
Three Tallahassee warriors, with
their families, survive the chief Chips.
who died recently at Barlow, Fla. It
Is said thai he was 100 years old.
With memory unimpaired and form
erect as it was fifty years ago, Mrs.
Inman, of Smithfield, Madison
County, N. Y, has begun her second
century.
Aunt Dorcas, who died on Sunday
In sumter County, Ga, was 1OS. and
had outlived all he. kindred She
had been married three times, but was
childless.
Thomas Schofeld, of Montville.
Conn, 81 years old, continues n walk
nine miles to renew his newspaper
subscription.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25
LOST.

Only so much the less
One heart has fallen away
II took no light from the sun,
No splendor cut of the DAY.
The sunshine seems the same,
And the opal tints on the sea,
And the gold n-rod's yellow flame,
Yet something has gone from me.
One heart, one heart the less!
When name the name of my friends
One love that was born to bless,
In mirage of falsehood ends.
The sunshine seems the same,
And the opal tints on the sea,
And the golden-rod's yellow flame.
Bet something has gone rom me.
MARY CLEMMER.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25

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ness we cannot cure with Vests Vegetable
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of counterfeits and limitations The genuine
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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25

THE SENTINEL has a larger circulation
than any aceekly paper published in this
eity (aoith one erception). This statement
toe are prepared TO ceryy at any time.
Advertisers aoiU do aoeH to remember this
fact, as our advertising rates are lower
than those Of any other newspaper of equal
circulation.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25
Price, 20, so, and 81 per
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S. DICKINSON.
TRENTON, N.
Ask your druggist for it.
5000 REWARD!

Ask your druggist for it.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25
An African Boss.
John Dunn Chief Of the Ii aiding Statesmen
Of Zululand

John Dunn. Chief Of the Ii aiding Statesmen
Of Zululand.
John Dunn, one of the thirteen
kinglets among whom, by Sir Garnet
Wolseley's agency, Zululand was di
vided, differs from his twelve brethren
not only in being pure-blooded Euro
pean while they are stark savages, but
in reserving to himself in an especial
way privileges of cutting timber, with
the right to mine and seek for miner
ais, divert streams, cultivate I'M
ploughed lands, advance or retard
trade, in such aid SO complete way
that he has, as it were, the right of
ingress, egress and regress everywhere
That his authority extends. His coun-
try, next to the Tugela, and bordered
to great extent by the sea, has within
it one landing place, Port Durnford,
where, it may be remembered, note
worthy failure to secure safe debark-
alton delayed the operations OF Sir
Garnet Wellesley in the winter of 1871
Dunn has imposed, after the Natal
fashion, a hut tax on his people,
amounting to five shillings per hut,
payable in cash, every penny of which
he keeps himself for his own purposes.
Dunn is Kaff1r Chief with European
skill to raise a revenue for himself.
He taxes all wagons going into his
country to the amount of EOS, and he
has the right and the power to lay an
embargo on all trade at will. He is q
clever, observant, brave man, who
means to make money fairly and rule
reasonably If he can; but he takes
thought to himself because he is wise
in his generation, and has no. guar
antee for the permanency of his office.
one created by within and of most I'M.
certain tenure.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-25

Jumping over fence in the middle
of the night and meeting a bulldog
that ia total stranger to you Is one of
those exciting little incidents of life
which go far to break the monotony
and rob existance of tiresome same
ness.
America says an Englishman,
o. is a country where a mans state
ment is not worth two cents unless
backed up with an offer to bet you
$40.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
Shot in Mid-Air

Some years ago, says & Canadian
writer, the famous whirlpool, midway
betwe en- Niagara Falls and Lewiston,
was remarkable for the number Of
eagles that were often to be seen how.
ering over it or seated in some of the
lofty pines en- It's edge. They were
doubtless attracted to the locality by
the dead bodies of animals that had
come over the Falls, and that were ar
rested here sometimes for days to-
gether, while the summit of the tower
ing trees afforded a fine view of what
ever wild fowl passed through the gorge
of the river between. the two lakes, Erie
and Ontario.
But If this was a noted rendezvous
for these monarchs OF the air. 1t was
no less so for their enemies, the hum
tiers of the Sicinity, who thought it no
mean feat TO tumble them from their
lofty perch with one bullet; or, more
exciting still, TO suddenly recall them
from mid-air with the leaden messen-
ger, while making the frst of those
sublime swoops upward that carry
them almost beyond the range of hui
man vision.
was an eyewitness of a feat Of this
latter description, but the remembrance
Is not pleasant one. / had climbed
on the bank of the whirlpool one morn
ing, on the Canada side, when / sud-
denly came upon an acquaintance who
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
The Denver Trihune,, Primer.

The Caterpillar is Crawling slong the
Fence. He has Pretty Fur all over his
Back, and he Walks by Wrinkling I'M
his Skin. He is full of Nice Yellow
Custard. Perhaps you had better take
him Into the House where it is Warm,
and Mash him on the Wall Paper with
Sister Lulu's Album. Then the Wall
Paper will look as if Red-Headed Girl
had been leaning Against it.
Is this Corner Lot? No, it is a Tow
el. 1t has Been serving an Appren-
tlceShip in Printing Office for the
Past four Years. The Horses are drag
glng it Away. 4 Man Will Take an Axe
and Break the Towel into Pieces, and
Boil 1t for. Soap Grease. Then he will
sell the Towel for Triple. Ifyou Find
a Piece of Triple with Monogram in
one Corner, You may Know it is the
Towel.
Here we Have Yalise. Ii does not
Weigh Four Hundred Pounds. Ii is
the Nslise of an Editor. In the Valise
are Three Socks and Bottle and A
Book. There is Something in the Bot
tie. Maybe it is Arnica for the Editors
Sore Finger. The Book is Bakers
Saints Rests. The Socks got into the
Ealise by Mistake. Perhaps the Bottle
will get into the Editor by Mistake.
What a Beautiful Piano! You Can
See Your Face on the Cover. If you
Had a Pin you Could Scratch Nice Pic.
lures all over the Piano. VIII You
Play on the Piano? Your Fingers are
not Long Enough, are they? But you
can Pound on the Pretty Keys with
your little Fists. Maybe, if YOU Pound
Hard Enough, Mamma will Come tc
See who is Making Such Lovely Music
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
4 Colorado Sunset.

Standing upon the margin of lovely
lake in the bosom of the nesting
mountains above the beautiful village
of Georgetown, in Colorado, one can
see q sunset more brilliant and beauti-
full than was ever looked upon in the
East, and which is only equaled by the
virgin reach of reddening light which
mellows into twilight shadows on the
plains. | saw it on summer evening
when all nature was hushed in still
ness. The ireflies shot through the
growing dusk like sparkling louries in
Egyptian night. Overhanging forest
and swart and blackened crag were re-
Elected in the green waters of the lake.
The sun lowered, as in a fascinated
spell, above the mountain tops, while
rays of golden light, flushed with GRIM
son peak and turret on natures battle
ments. 1t seemed to glow and expand
like an opening rose, until it became
full-blown, and cast its arrowy pencil
ipgs for miles across the sky like
mighty flame. Then, as if ashamed of
its boidness, it drew veil eff grayish
mist about its face and blushed beneath
it. The mist changed into a cloud
shaped ike crescent, with ragged
fringes fecked with gold, and III its
wonderful aspect recalled the legends
of Mohammed's banner, red and lurid
beneath Asian skies. Even as l looked
it changed. The darkening scarlet was
transformed to ruby brilliancy. Long
lines of pallor whitened on the parti-
colored surface, side by side with gold
en- lances, which seemed to flash from
the glowing orb Ike dissolving rays.
The enamored sky for one feverish in
slant caught and mirrored all the colors
of the rainbow. Then again it darken-
ed-fushed and paled-and drawing
the lowering draperies Of the night
about it, sank out of sight The stars
came out. The night-hawk poised on
swooping pinion, shrieked above the
forest solitude. The leafy murmur of
the moaning pines took up the refrain
and awoke the spellbound senses into
life and action. The charm was gone.
but the beauty fingered on the fancy
like beautiful memory.-Omaha Her
aid.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
What is Respectable Society.
Philadelphia Ledger.

We heard man, otherwise intelli-
gent enough, lately sheer at another
" because said he, one never meets
him in respectable society p The
speaker did not mean, however, that
the person he affected to look down up
on was immoral, but merely that his
circle of intimates were not composed
Of the fashionable and rich.
This notion of what constitutes re-
spectacle society, is quite favorite one
with that class of individuals whom
Thackeray has SO significantly called
: snobs." Empty pretense always
makes its own characteristics stand
ard by which it strives to measure the
responsibility of persons at large. In
community of mere money getters,
wealth Is the test of responsibility
Among the proud. narrow-minded,
effete nobility of the Fauburg St. Ger
main responsibility depends upon be-
ing descendants from ancestors who
have married their cousins for so many
centuries that neither muscles nor
brains are left any longer to degenerate
descendants. With the dandy officers
who constitute a considerable po ton
of the American navy responsibility
consists in having sponged on " Uncle
Sam" IN wearing gill buttons, and jilt-
ing tailors. Every conceited fool
thinks himself in ike way the only
man really weighty, the only person
who is respectable.
But true responsibility depends on no
sucs adventitious circumstances. To
be respectable is to be worthy of re-
spect; ard he deserves respect who has
most virtue. The humblest man who
bravely does his duty, is more worthy
of respect, is more truly respectable,
than the covetous millionaire among
his money bags, or the arrogant mon
arch upon his throne
The fine lady who backbites her
neighbor is less worthy of respect than
an honest wash-woman. The profit
gate noble, though he may wear a
dozen orders, is often not really as re-
spectacle as the shoe-black who cleans
boots. That which exalts /" the world !"
exSlts the one and despises the other,
but it does not make them respectable
according to the real meaning of that
word. Their responsibility is but
hollow sham, as they themselves fire.
quently feel, and those who worship
them bow down to q Fetish, thing of
feathers and tinsel. The selfish, idle
drone. who wastes life, in his own graf
ification, and dissipates the fortune of
his progeny, is not and cannot be re-
spectacle, but the hard-working, self
denying father, who wears out his life
to bring I'M his children. Is. even
though he but day-laborer. Nothing
can make Dives fit to lie upon Abra-
hams bosom, while Lazarus is vel
coined there, even with the sores the
dogs have licked.
This false view of life, which would
measure respectability by a conven-
tional standard. IS totally at variance
with our republican institutions. 1t
creates an imperium In imperio,"
for. while the law declares all citizens
equal, it erects social standard which
endeavors to ignore that great truth.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
Tobacco as a Match-Maker.

All the nervousness, embarrassment,
nd terrible excitement attendant upon
popping the question" in highly civil
lied countries are avoided BY Young
men of the Tchulian Tartar variety de-
sirous to marry, whose simple and dis
tcreet custom it is to ascertain their
chances of success or failure in matri-
monial enterprise by the following pro-
ceeding: The Tchulian Cmlebs in
search of wife having filled brand
new pipe with fragrant tobacco STEALTH
ly enters the dwelling Of the fair one
upon whom he has bestowed his affec-
tons, deposits the pipe upon a con-
spicuous article of furniture, and retires
on tiptoe to some convenient hiding
place in the neighborhood, local Ell
quette requiring that he should execute
this strategetic movement apparently
undetected by the damsel of his choice
or any member of her family. Pres
emily he returns without further affec-
ton or secrecy, and looks into the
apartment in a casual sort of way. A
single glance at the pipe he left behind
him enables him to learn the fate of his
proposal. If it has been smoked, he
goes forth an accepted and exultant
bridegroom; if not, the offer of his
hand and heart has been irrevocably
rejected as not even worth a puff Of
tobacco. By this ingenious expedient
the plan and humiliation of verbal re-
fusal and fruitless pleadings are spared
to luckless wooers, and Tartar maidens
are saved from opportunities Justly re-
garded as peculiarly trying to female
sensibility. The pipe considered as
matrimonial ambassador, has ut least
this to recommend it--that it may be
relied upon to commit 10 breach of con-
fidence if its mission proved successful.
London Telegraph
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
The Durand Fire.

The Eau Claire Free Press has the fol-
lowing concerning the recent fire at Du-
rand, Wis. Ranged along the two sides
of River street are the business places
Of Durand, some twenty-five or thirty
in number. They are, or were, all
good, substantial buildings, and built
of wood almost without exception.
River street IS the street of the town.
and upon it Is represented almost the
whole business interest of the place.
1t runs north and south. and on the
south end, stands, or stood, large
frame two-story building-the Ecklor
House. At two o'clock in the forenoon
of Christmas Day there was a stiff
breeze blowing from the south, and the
high winds, In conjunction and ALI
ance with defective flue in the hotel
mentioned, started up a blaze in the
quiet village which brought the inhabi-
tants in a crowd into the streets to help
lessly witness the utter destruction Of
nearly every BUSINESS house in the
place. The fire, starting in the hotel
mentioned, blaZed out so rapidly that
in forty-five minutes over twenty build
ings were burned. The management
at the hotel did everything possible to
check the spread, but the wind and
flames together were too much for the
most strenuous efforts. Tie aggregate
loss is estimated at $4,000, and the
total insurance at $4,000. The heavi-
est losers were J. D. Tiffeney, S. ].
Humphrey, Wallace & Drummond,
and +. Parkhurst- latter owning
much Of the property burned Except
in the cases where there was no insur-
ance, the total loss was entailed. The
feeling, in'spite of.the magnitude of the
calamity, is far from being a despond-
ent one, and immediate rebuilding, on
better plans and with more reference to
the beauty and regularity of the build
ings and streets will be commenced.