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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22
Fraudulent Antiques.

Ancient bronzes and medalllOns are
now initiated so exactly that it requires
sharp eye to detect the counterfeit.
Even the beautiful ''patina," or rust,
which time alone produces in perfection,
can be simulated by chemical means
sufficiently well to deceive any save the
most experienced actiquary. This
trade is, however, a very old one, and
has been practised in Rome and Naples
for many years. In Birmingham there
is still brisk business done in forging
iron crosses, eagles, spurs, sword hilts,
and other "rslics" to bury on the battle
fields of the Continent, where they are
in due time dug up and sold to credu-
lous tourists. The Arabs are already
alive to the trick, and, in partnership
with Jews and Christians in Jerusalem,
are doing a knavish commerce in the
sale of sham sheckels, and, as the Ber-
lin Museum knows to its cost, in the man.
ufacture of sculptured stones even more
esteemed amongst antiquaries. The for
gerry of manuscripts has long been a
distinct branch of the literary art, and
after NJ. Chasles parted so freely with
his francs for "letters of julius Cesar
and other eminent personages, the inge-
nious rogues who ministered to this
passion need not despair of still making
hauls sufficiently lucrative to counter
balance the risk they run of being found
out. The astounding prices which old
china of late years fetched have stimu
lated wholesale forgery of all the ia
voriie kinds. japanese pottery is now
80 well initiated that the market is full
of sham Satzuma, made at the Ota and
Sheba factories at Yokohama and Toxic.
After a cream ever of Capo di Mont
was sold for twenty-six guineas, per.
feet inundation of forge1es arrived from
the mandatory of Daccio, near Flor,
ence. Even flint implements were so
skiIfuIly struck out of the block by
Flint jack" that to this Gay there is
scarcely a museum curator in England
who can approach his 'paleolithic cases
without blushing from the conscious
ness that many of his treasures were
clipped, not by the pre- historic man,
but by beer sodden rogue in the tap
room of public house. But 1t Is in the
manufacture of "Old Masters" that the
finest business of this kind is done
Some of these replicas by unknown
hands are SO good that every studio
has anecdotes regarding painters who
have been deceived by facsimilies o
their own works. The tie John Lin
nell was kept busy toward the close o
his life repudiating works advertised a
his, and signed with his name; and SOM
of them SO well painted that to this da,
it is a moot question among dealer
whether thu Mountain Shepherds,
which was the subject Of lawsuit, wa
or was not by the artist from whes
pencil the purchaser supposed it to be
There is scarcely Gallery brought t
the hammer which is not found to b,
largely composed, either of copies whic
the owner had bought as originals, @
pictures the work of obscure men, sign
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22
About the Weather.

1t Is singular that, notwithstanding
the attention which has been devoted to
the study of the weather for many hun.
dred years, its laws have not yet been
mastered. More than 20 centuries ago,
about the time that Euclid formulated
the ground work of geometry, upon
which has been erected the magnificent
structure of modern mathematics,
Aratus collected the weather lore of his
day and preserved it for coming times
in the lasting mould of Greek verse.
His charming poem on the weather still
exists, but, unlike the work of his great
mathematical contemporary, it has not
served as the foundation of q splendid
science. 1t must be confessed that this
old Greek was about as auccessful q
weather prophet as any of the present
day. Like our signal service his rules
and predictions were largely intended
for the use of the seamen and the navi-
gators of his time, by studying the
clouds, the appearance of the horns of
the moon, and the variations in the
light of certain faint star clusters. man
aged to keep out of the path of tenn
pests about as well as the sailors of our
day do by watching the signal flags and
red lanterns of the Weather Bureau.
The much vaunted forecasts Of the sig
nal service, in fact, owe about all their
value to the application of the tele-
graph, which enables us to keep ahead
of the storms simply because the cleo
tric spark can outrun the wind, and not
to the mastery of the laws of the
weather. There are at least three con-
spicuous theories Of the laws Of storms,
the advocates of which cannot agree.
We find those who adopt one theory
telling the seamen to steer for safety In
a certain direction when the winds be-
have in certain way, while the advo
Gates of another theory warn him to
steer in Just the opposite direction, or
he will be lost. Not even the ordinary
laws of weather changes are thoroughly
understood, much less those which pro-
duce sudden and violent disturbances.
1t was not to be wondered at that the
famous and dreadful storm of 1703,
which spread CONSERVATION through out
Great Britain, where it caused enorm-
GUS loss of property and of life, came
entirely unannounced, for nobody then
pretended to have mastered the laws of
the weather. But within q few months
two great storms one of which is said to
be the most destructive and fatal of the
present generation. burst upon the
coasts of the British isles, and not only
the weather prophets, but the scientific
weather theorists, were dumb. 1t is no
disparagement of the labors of those
who are honestly trying to discover the
laws of the weather that their theories
are often found incapable of accounting
for the facts or of fortelling them. That
is the history of all science, and the cir
cumstance that for thousands of years
men have remained in comparative IL
norance of these laws, is proof of the
enormous difficulty of the problem our
meterologists have undertaken to solve.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22
THE FARMERs DAUGHTER.
8 ars,t within q quiet home

She dwslt With, = quiet home,
Ne model Of the srscss,
Uukuown TO cultures highest walks,
or fashions giddy places
A thoughtful girl, SO sweet and wise,
With earnest face and deep gray eyes,
The farmers gentle daughter.
Prom morn till eve the little maid
Ia busy at her labor;
She sweeps and dusts, and feeds the hens,
And never minds her neighbor.
No gossip ever listens to,
"A msrit rare, tween me and you,
Thus lives the farmers daughter
ON baking days her tiny hands
Are skilful al the making;
No bread more light and sweet than hers
Was ever made by baking,
She churns the butter, golden sweet,
And keeps ihe dairy clean and neat.
The farmers busy daughter.
Her garden is an Eden fair,
Abloom with pink and roses; q.
She knows the name of every nower,
And makes some gorgeous posies-
Grow. pess, and radishes, and cress,
And corn, and squash, and herbs 10 press,
This farmers happy daughter.
Long may she bravely smile on US,
our darling household fairy,
The queen of garden, house and lot,
And princess OF the dairy,
To teach US by her pleasant way
To love the thing Of ''eyery day."
Cod bless the farmers daughter.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22
Eating Before Sleeping.

The lion roars in the fornest until he
has found his prey, and when he has
devoured it, he sleeps over until he
needs another meal. The horse will
paw all night in the stable, and the pig
will squeal in the pen, refusing all rest
or sleep until they are fed. The ami
mails that chew the cud have their OWE
provisions for late meal Just before
dropping off to their nightly sIumbers.
Man can train himself to the habit OF
sleeping without preceding meal but
only after long years of practice. As he
comes into the world, nature is too
strong for him, and he must be fed be-
fore he will sleep. A child's stomach
is small. and when perfectly filled, if no
sickness disturbs it. sleep follows natu-
rally and inevitably. As digestion goes
on tine stomach begins to empty. A
single fold IN it will make the little
sleeper restless, two will waken it, and
if it is hushed again to repose, the Lap
is short, and three folds put an end to
the slumber. Paregoric or other mar
cotic may close its eyes again, but with
out food or some supplying drug. it will
not sleep, nomatter how healthy it may
be. We use the oft-quoted illustration
sleeping as sweetly as an infant" be-
cause the slumber of the child follows
Immediately after its stomach is COM
pletely filed with wholesome food. The
sleep which comes to adults long hours
after partaking Of food and when the
stomach is nearly or quite empty, is moi
after the type of infantile repose. There
is all the difference in the world be
tween the sleep of refreshment and the
sleep of exhaustion. To sleep well the
blood that swells the veins in the head
during our busy hours must flow back
leaving greatly diminished volume
behind the brow that lately throobet
with such vehemence. To digest well
this blood is needed at the stomach, ,anC
nearer the fountains of life. 1t is
fact established far beyond the posi-
bilty Of contradiction that sleep aid
digestion, while the process of digestio
Is conducive to refreshing sleep. i
needs no argument to convince US Q
this mutual relation. The drowsines
which always follows the well ordere
meal is itself a testimony of nature I
this interdependence.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22
w. w. Waddell.

of business when he had o telephon
put in his grocery. 1t took the old gen
tleman several days to get the hang O
the thing; but it paid to have customer
order goods by telephone of him from
distance. when, before he had a tele
phone, they would run to the neares
shop. Mr.. Jones was eongrstulatin,
himself upon this the other morning
when the telephone bell rang. After tn
usual number of helloes, he distinetl,
caught an order for ten pounds of suga
two pounds of coffee, pound Of crack
ers, half bushel of potatoes: q peck o
apples and Goldfish to be delivered
but he didn't quite catch the name
After several vain trials, he asked the
other party to spell it, while his pencil
he prepared to write it down on a sheet
of wrapping paper.
Double u" said the voice. Jones
wrote 1t down and said, "Yes."
Double u"
'1've got that
"Well, put it down again
"Yes; go ahead"
Double u
why, I've got that"
PUT it down again"
"But have it down twice"
"Well, put it down three times" a."
Jones sighed and wrote it again.
"A double d."
"a double d-that's add" soliloquiz-
ed Jones; then he shouted back, ''add
what?"
'Add nothing. just put down a
double d."
'"This is Internal ronsensel' 'muttered
Jones; but he cheerfulIy called backs
"Yes go aLead."
.'E double l."
"Wha-a-ty'
'E double l."
Mr.. Jones stamped ON the floor and
pulled his whiskers sayagely; but lie
put it down and sweetly answered,
"Yes.''
That's ALL"
''All what?"
"All the name"
Then Mr.. Jones studied his papers
carefully moment, when he had writ
ten thus:
"Uuu uuu u e ]" and remarked
to himself. "Why, that's confounded
nonsense" He then halloed through
the telephone in vain, and rung up the
central Office and inquired in vain who
had been talking with him. Then he
studied the writing some more. Pretty
soon, in came his son, the junior part
ner. Mr.. Jones showed him the letters
and told how he got them. The junior
partner studied then hard, read them
both ways, looked on the back of the
paper, and finally said it was the infer
nalest bosh he ever saw. They showed
the paper to the bookeeper, and he said
it was sheer foolishness. The big clerk
said it was absurd. The little clerk
thought somebody was crazy. Finally
the errand boy looked at it and was
told it was meant for some customer's
name; thereupon he asked Mr.. Jones to
call off the letters as near as he could
remember the same as he had received
them by telephone. Mr.. Jones did 30
when the errand boy nearly choked
with laughing, and said, "Why, that's
perfectly plain; it's W. W. Waddell. I"
Mr.. Jones never felt such an immense
relief since he went into business.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22

Alligator skin is becoming an i'm
portant article of export from Florida.
Edward II. prohibited the use Of
coal In London by royal proclamation.
There are 134. 48S colored persons
in Maryland who can neither read NOR
write.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22

-Rhubarb grows in China. Turkey
and Russian Tartary.
TuE intelligent compos.tor LETT out .he
letter d in paragraph about beautiful
sc,ress and informed the puplic that
.-o-e focked TO see her wherever she went
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22

THIS poetical license, talked about is
ne yer paid, notwithstanding the general
sentiment IL that no person should be al
lowed to make poetry without nrst pay
ing license to the city and State.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22

THoUeH Hattery blossoms like friend
hip, yet there is great difference in the
ruit.
rAsuIoS item: Among the newest ttingz
In stockings is the baby's foot
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Mississippi aud Missouri i'm
provement bill was debated in the Senate on
the 18th, but went over. The agricultural
appropriation bill passed.
THE town of Brownsville, Saline
by tornado, April IS. Seven persons were
killed and many injured.
PRESTON COVERS, of Emporium,
Pa, while under the influence Of bad whis-
ky on the 18th, killed Charles Lindsey, his
brother-in- law, and then went home and
murdered his wife, after which he commit
ted suicide.
THE Farragut House, the largest no.
tel at Rye Beach, n. H., and all the cot
tages east of it, burned on the 18th. ...t
AT dance in Bloomington, ILL.,, a
few days ago, young man named Michael
Lynch was struck on the head with cham
payne bottle, which rendered him at once
insensible. He fingered until the morning
of the 18th, when he died from conclusion
Of the brain. A friend named Engleton
furnished information that Frank Wochner
was the guilty party, and Wochner was ar
rested. He is a well-known and popular
young German, son of r. x. Wochner, OF
the firm of Myer & Wochner, brewers.
A DISPATCH from Fremont, Ohio,
says a tramp ransacked the house of Theo-
dore Marsky, in Riley Township, while the
grown members of the family were at
church, few days ago, and then compelled
two children to bend over some powder
while he ignited it. The helpless victims
were shockingly burned. The wretch es-
capped, but the people were greatly excited
and started in pursuit.
THE committees of the Amalgamated
Association Of Iron and Steel Workers and
manufacturers held a consultation at Pitts
bugh, Pa, on the 18th, relative to the new
scale proposed by the former. Several
hours were taken up in discussion without
arriving at an agreement, and the confer
ence was adjourned until the 2Sth inst. The
Amalgamated Association insist upon an
advance, and the manufacturers are unanl-
nous in their opposition. AT Lawrence
Mass. !, the strikers not having returned TO
work, the upper mill has been ordered
closed for six months. This throws 2'ooU
hands out of employment. At Cohoes, n.
Y, the operatives would not agree to a ten
per cent. reduction and the Harmony Mills
magnates threatened to close.
THE latest advices from Engineer
Melville indicate that he has hopes of finding
De Long and his men alive.
In an ARRAY at Des PLANES, ILL.,, the
other day, Christopher Howard was fatally
wounded by Jack Thompson, = wood carvei
OF Chicago, who is said to have deserted
from the regular army and Joined the Guam
trell gang in Missouri.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Attorney General Mcintyre on the Time to
Pardon.

Attorney-General Mcintyre on the Time to
Pardon.
The question having repeatedly arisen
as to the power of the Executive to grant
pardon prior to conviction and sentence.
Gov. Crittenden referred the matter to the
Attorney General, who gives it as his opin-
ion that such clemency can not be exercised
until after conviction and final judgment.
This decision is entirely in accordance with
the views held heretofore by the Governor.
The Attorney General says:
In The State vs. Woolery, 90 No., D. 800, tne
Supreme Court said that the Governor had
the power to pardon, with single exception,
In an absolute and uncontrolled sense as well
was rendered under the Constitution of 1920.
which provided, in section 6, article 4, "the
Governor shall have power to remit
cases of impeachment, to grant reprieves
and pardons." Sec. of Art. of
Governor shall have power to grant reprieves,
combinations and pardons after conviction
Tor all offenses, except treason and cases OF
such restrictions and limitations as he may
think proper. subject to such regulations as
by aT to
Sec. 2,023 follows the language of the Consti-
tuition and provides no regulations as to the
is IN @ e
pie, Scam, s, it was held that the
Constitution is to be- regarded as
judiciary, and that "neither the Executive
nor the Judiciary therefore, can exercise any
authority or power such as is clearly granted
by the Constitution" And in the State vs.
Cunning, 9 Ind, %. it was said "that the pow
er to pardon offenders is vested by the sever
al constitutions in the Governor. It is not,
however, power which inheres in the Exec,
utive." Delegated powers must be exercised
in accordance with the terms and conditions
seems very plain to me that since the Constf-
tuition has provided that the power shall be
exercised after conviction, that it can only be
exercised after verdict and final Judgment
has been rendered in the case, and not other
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

may be found, at the cost Of the United states.
nnder s,1ch regulations as the Secretary of th0
Treasury may prescribe.
SEC ID That this act shall not apply 70 dip
lomatic and other officers of the Chinese Gov
ernment travelling upon the business or thar
Government, whose credentials, In the usuai
form, shall be taken as equivalent 70 the pass
them and their body and household servants
from the provisions of this act as TO otner
Sec. ID. That hereafter no State court or
court of the United States shall admit Chinese
to citizenship, and all laws in conflict with TINS
act are hereby repealed
SEC. Is. That the words s'Chinese laborers,
wherever used in this act. shall be construed
to mean both skilled and unsk1lied laOorers
and Chinese employed in mining.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27
Remarkable Display Of Northern
lights.

The heavens were brilliantly Illuminated
last night by the aurora borealis, or Northern
lights. The phenomenon was first seen about
an hour and a half after sundown, and then
the heavy masses of clouds piled against the
northern horizon were suddenly swept away,
giving place to countless avenues Of varied
colored light of most dazzling brlliancy. The
display lasted until an early hour this morning,
the lights m Meanwhile having shifted from their
original position to point in the center of the
heavens. The phenomenon admired
by all who witnessed its manifestations
and these, in the general opinion, exceeded
in duration and brilliancy the well-remem
bered aurora borealis of 1878.
While thousands were lost in their admira-
ton of this fascinating scene the atmospheric
conditions were the occasion of considerable
trouble and no little danger. The electric
storm last night was the most severe ever
known in the history of the country. 1t prac-
tically rendered useless all telegraph wires
from New York to Ogden. The air was sur
charged with electricity to terrible extent,
which was shown in the brilliancy of the dis
play of the aurora borealis previously men,
toned. From ten o'clock very little of the
ordinarily large amount of matter, either news
or messages, could be sent over the lines and
such as it was deemed absolutely necessary to
send was done with the greatest danger to the
operators in charge of the transmitters. A wire
u.
without any battery, the wire being grounded
at both ends. H H tE5
The oldest telegraph operator failed to re-
call any similar instance of the wonderful
power of the electricity in the air. Attempts
were made to carry on some experiments in
the offices of the Western Union Telegraph
Company during this condition of affairs on
wires used without batteries, and the opera
tors repeatedly suffered from burnt fingers
Such was the force of the element that sew
eral wires were burned Off entirely, and the
'sswitch board" upon which connections are
made, caught fire on several occasions
The night manager Of the Western Union
Telegraph Office was seen and questioned
the subject. He said such storms
are experienced five or six timea
year, and there is little dissimiarity
between them except in point of intensity.
The storm last night, which was unusually
severe, was first noticed as affecting the tele-
graph service in this city about ten O clock.
BY two o'clock this morning it had lost much
of its intensity. As is always the case i'm
electrical storms, the chief and staady.currents
are in the direction of north aud south. On
account OF this fact the north and south wires
can be used during storm without batteries.
the earth serving instead. The east and west
wires are often rendered well-nigh useless.
Fitfui gusts in the electrical current at times
will overpower the battery currents and melt
the wires. The observations of the storm last
night were carefully made, and the data will
be submitted to skilled electricians whose
conclusions therefrom may be of great scien-
tific value.-Chtcago Herald. April IL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27
FORTY.SEyENTH CONGRESS.

THE bill allotting to Southern Utes agri-
cultural lands in or near the Unitah reserva-
ton, Utah Territory. instead of those hereto
fore provided for them on Platte River and It's
vicinity, in Colorado and New Mexico, passed
the Senate on the 18th. The amendment re-
Quiring the consent of the Unitahs to the re-
moval and settlement was stricken out after a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

Grande has stationed troops opposite Lare-
do, and Americans are not allowed to cross.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

THE April report of the Department
of Agriculture indicates an increase of two
per cent. in the winter wheat acreage.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

PROCEEDINGS have been instituted in
Pennsylvania to make 213 insurance compa-
mics show cause why their charters should
not be surrendered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

UNITED STATES troops are expelling
stockmen from Cherokee lands on account of
non-payment Of the tax levied by the In
dians. s- -- .. .-. ...
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

PRESIDENT ARTHUR's reception to
the officers of the army and navy, the other
night, was a brilliant affair. He was as
sisted by Mrs. Frelinghuysen and Miss Fol-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

A PLOT for the assassination of the
Egyptian Minister Of War has been discov-
cred at Cairo, and many Circassian officers
have been arrested for completely.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

So deeply charged with electricity
was the atmosphere, between Chicago and
the Atlantic coast on the 18th, telegraph
wires were operated without batteries.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

THE President thinks that he can do
nothing in the Fitz John Porter case. All
the Cabinet concur.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

THE Mormon conference at Independ-
ence Mo-, has adjourned to meet next year
ut Lamont, Iowa