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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-05-13
Whipping a Bloch.

From governing aspect the Bloch
Is Infinitely to be preferred to the
Afghan. Though ply sically inferior
in bulk and weight of body, he is the
Afghan's equal in courage, and his
superior in endurance and intelligence.
One specially good trait in his charac-
ter is, that he never sulks or bears
malice long, whereas the Afghan does
both. Here are illustrations in point.
l never remember having an Afghan
whipped in Jail without the fellow
showing by his sullen looks and scowl-
ing face that he bore the striker, if
not myself, grudge for it. But here,
in the Derah Ghazi Khan Jail, the
punishment over, the Bloch is as
frank and pleasant as he was before.
One man, remember, who was in as
bad character, would not work. He
was warned that he would be whipped.
He merely laughed, and said, "That
won't make any difference, sahib."
He was shown a man being whipped !;
he only looked grave. Finally, he was
whipped himself. He was taken out
of his cell, stripped naked, tied wrists
and ankles to the triangle, and given
twenty or thirty forget the exact
number-srokes with rattan. During
the operation he bit at the wood, bit al
most through his tongue, but never
either groaned or WINGED. The pun
ishment over, he threw himself on the
ground on his face, when the usual
skim of cold water was dashed over
him, and then the commiserating wa
ter. carrier stood upon the beaten parts
to deaden the pain. Still he would not
work. / saw him day or two after
in bis cell, looking happy and uncon-
cerned, though hestill must have been
very sore, and for days would not be
able to sit down. He was pleased to
see me. He seemed to have an idea
that not being in Jail for any specific
and proved offence, it was not right to
give him hard labor, and so put him
on the level of convicted felon. ! re-
monstrated with him for his obstinacy,
to no effect.
One day I observed his splendid
curls shining with oil or ghee. I asked
how he had got it. He had saved it
from his food, was the answer. I cut
his ghee; still no effect. At last, IS
his example was becoming infectious,
I warned him that if be would not
work should have him transferred to
the Multan Jail, where l believed his
Absalom-like hair would be cut short.
That threat frightened him-his ring
lets being the glory the OF the Bloch
he said he would try to do work. He
made pretence of trying, and falling,
was sent eff to Multan where / have
no doubt he is now, though prison.
cropped, as smiling and lighted heart
ed do-nothing as he was here. Now
it is not in the Afghan nature to be-
have as that Bloch did, and that
Biloch's case is typical of others.
Similarly c1rcumstanced the Afghan
would have sulked, worked, fallen i'll
from fretting, and some day after his
release, perhaps killed the human in
strument who had beaten him. l
have known that happen in Bannu.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-05-13
A Personator Pcrsonated

The Fanfulla relates with glee an
anecdote of the late Carnival in Turin.
The Artists Club gave ~ masquerade
ball, to which a number of eminent
residents had been invited, including
among others the Duchess of Genoa
and Count Ferraris. The latter is one
of those many dilettanti who in both
halves of the globe have gone mad
over the genius and the charms of the
sensationalist Sarah Bernhardt. The
committee informed the Count that
they had succeeded in persuading the
"great actress" in spite of her slight
Illness, to appear at the ball. The ex-
element was intense. When men,
Der of the committee rushed into the
salon and announced that the sensa-
ton Sarah had just arrived everybody
thronged about the doors. The Ouch
ess of Genoa held her lorgnette 10 her
eyes. Count Ferraris prepared a
speech of welcome. The door was
flung open, and the famous Diva, worn
and feeble, and resting upon the arm
f Signor Giacosa, entered the ball
room. She replied with a graceful
bow to the eager and reverential salu-
tons of the company. She held a
huge bouquet in one hand, and in the
other lace pocket handkerchief, be-
hind which she coughed slightly
while Count Ferraris was greeting her
with an adulatory speech. The
Duchess of Genoa gra ciously told her
now delighted she was to make the
acquaintance of SO wonderful personal
an artistic.
After perambulating the room for
some time, chatting with one and an
other, the tragedienne requested cav.
alier to lead her to the robing-room.
Here she threw other magnificent ball
dress, and reappeared in the ball room
clothed in a masculine black dress
coat and trousers. While the company
81 large WcIO Whispering NO esoOOhAoh
ment at the eccentric bizarrerie of the
actress, one of the guests looked the
supposititious Sarah closely in the
face, and suddenly exclaimed, why,
it is Signor Calandra!" 1t appears
that young sculptor named Calandra,
with the assistance of a few fellow
conspirators, had resovled to play a
trick upon the gushing admirers of
the sensational Frenchwomsn, and
had succeeded only too well. The de-
luded victims are not likely to sit to
Signor Calandra for their busts but
he has been applauded for bis highly
practical criticism of rival ar list
Sarah Bernhardt being sculptures as
well as actress-by his companions OF
the ch1sel.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-05-13

A syndiaateo of merchants t Madria
Spain, has addressed a petition To tba
Cortes praying that the trt aty of oon
merce with France be ratified onI-
after an inquiry has been made NV :.
committee into the industrial conditjor
of the country.
A hand car carrying eight or ion
section hands cOllided with a n.oson
ger train in the Bier Ridge tunnel
two miles south of New [ exinoton
Ohio. Two of the workmep Jobn
Franey and James Farrell, were fatally
injured.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-05-13
A New Prophecy.
When lawyers fail to take q lee,
And Juries never disagree;

When lawyers fail to take q Zee,
And Juries never disagree;
When politicians are content,
And landlords don't collect their rent;
When parties smash all the machines
And Boston folks give up their beans;
When naughty children all die young
And girls are born without tongue:
When ladies don't take time to hop.
And off1ce-holders never flop;
When preachers cut their sermons short;
And ali folks to the church resort;
When back subscribers all have paid
And editors have fortunes made;
Such happiness will sure portend
This world must soon come to an end.
N. Y. Express
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
Showing His nisnlaasnre-

Col. Ferguson cites a most amusing
instance of the exaggerated importance
which the earl OF Buchan attached to
his public censure. The then youthful
Dagon of wig idolatry, the Edinburgh
Revieg, published in October, 1903, an
article on Don Pedro Cevallos' account
of the French usurpation in Spain, the
unpatrIotic tone of which alarmed even
those wigs who had been diligently
lending their countenance to Bonaparte
as means of embarrassing the tory
ministry. This article was the work OF
Brougham; and though Jeffrey had
endeavored to take the sting out of the
more offensive passages, ii raised a
tempest little less violent than that ex-
cited by the Chaldee manuscript nearly
ten year afterward. at is recorded that
Lord Buchan, at his abode in Castle
street, with the utmost solemnity, after
having directed his servant to open the
door and take number of The heuiese
containing the offensive article, and, in
technical phrase, tee it in the innermost
part of the lobby; personally kicked the
book out of his house to the center OF
the street, where he left it to be trodden
under foot of man and beast. He never
doubted that this performance would
be the death blow to The entire work. -
We have heard that Jeffrey in person
happened to be passing when the "blue
and yellow" like stone from a catapult
was hurled out at his feet; but the con-
juncture is probably too apt to be true.
- RI0eLYpon1's Mo0azig1o
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(CorkI Insoles: what They Do!

THE Magnetic Insoles contain a series OF Magnets.
scientifically arranged, that form minute batteries.
recharging the blosd With magnetism, ana exertinE
tranQuilizing influence upon the entire system,
| through the consequent improved circulation. 5 .
Insulate the feet froa the and damp earth and
thus prevent the abstraction OF the positive force from
| the body Is. Miss
Generate by their magnetic action an agreeable
warmth and perfect Circulation In the feet and
| lower extremities,
Cure ChilbIains and remove oil ppeatura heat per-
SEPARATION, swelling Of the feet and ankles.
Prevent. relieve, and, In some cases, cure rheuma-
| tsm, neuralgia, aud kindred diseases
all forms OF chronic and nervous disease ana de
| kility are invaluable
great and direct nv rer Il genora hcaith
and he at All seasons ~ e year tsns very Thin,
take up very little room la tho shCe4 hF&f4aS
pair the Magnetic Inoles viii demonstrate the truth Of
| these claims. Price sl00 per pair.
Fifty thousand and drcn, in the CITY OF Chi
and the West wearing thou. EN- eL f#
The Magnetic Insocs will vince the OF the
residing IL; other Magnetic Appliances
REMIT DO mado postage stamps cur
| rency / in letter az risk.
Sent b, receipt Of price aud the size Of shoe usually
by the Magnetic Appliance CO.. No 2S State street, Chi
eago, m sole manufacturers Of the United States
For full Instructions in the Magnetic Treatment or ner
and chronic diseases send for the new departure m
healing and physical culture containing testimonials othe
obtained from wearing Magnetic Appliance
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
Scientific GOssin.

1t is said that there are $50 naptha
wells on the Apsheron peninsula of the
Caspian sea, and that they yield annu :
ally 100000 cwt.
There has been an earlier departure
than usual of the swallows and mar
tins this year from Paris. They left
about the end of August, instead OF
Oct. 10.
There are already in England thirty
electric lighting companies, with a CAPT
tai of $30,000,000. France has not so
many companies, but has invested
nearly as much money in introducing
the new light.
Alkaloidal compounds having specific
poisonous actions have been found by
Selmi in the excretions of persons
afflicted with paralysis, tetanus, etc, he
is inclined to think that the death OF
the sufferers is finally produced by
these poisons.
The rumor that the German govern
ment is about to take active steps for
the excavation of canal between the
Baltic Sea and the German Ocean
seems to have no foundation. 1t is as
serted that the report of Col. Vogel yor
Falkenstein has stopped the execution
of the project.
The notion that dogs and cats con.
tract hydrophobia because they are
confined, chained or muzzled, does not
appear to be we'll sustained by fact. Al
any rate, rabies, according to Prof
Xavier Landerer, is very common
among the wild dogs, cats and jackalf
of the east.
Less than century ago, on July 10
1888, France, Belgium, Holland and
Switzerland were swept by cold wave
so intense that the Lake of Geneva was
covered with ice three quarters of ar
inch thick. If those countries had
been we'll wooded the disaster, it is
thought, would not have occurred.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
What We Have Noticed.

That the strongest horse is generally
placed between the shafts.
That it is better to be good and home
ly than to be pretty and bad.
That beopie who wear the best
clothes do not always wear the best.
That people who boast that they al
ways speak what they think have some
very mean thoughts.
That learning is powerful auxiliary
to the fool bent on displaying his folly.
That the man who could do thing
if he tried is always very careful not to
try.
That he who sees no good in human
nature is too much given to self-con-
temptation.
That is the same with thought as
with money--the less one has of either,
the more eager he is TO make dis
play of it.
That the photographer who can
make fiattering picture is more sue
cessful than he who makes correct
likeness.
That the man who is always able to
say the right thing IN the right place ls
usually found in the right place to say
it.
That when man tells you of q
chance to make money, he neglects to
mention the hundred or more chances
to lose it in the same enterprise.
That the girl who declares that she
would not marry the best man alive.
quite frequently proves her sincerity
by marrying the worst man she could
find.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
rHE NEvEn-wELco aED GUEST

Tnro' summer wales Of star and blossom,
With drdgOon-hies aid wandering bees,
And birds that soar with songs and rapture,
And warm, sweet winds from tar-of s.as
Come, heart, We two will 90 together
In search OF that strange mystery, rest
What brides sur tenderness will offer
For her TO come AID be our guest
Poor heart! We seek. but never find her,
These hoWery chains win never blind her.
Ger winter lands we went together,
Ny heart and / thro' bitter eoldi
With frozen skies and dreary weather,
Ger moor and hill, and lake and void.
The snow lay white beneath our ioOtstep,
The wind pierced sharp with icy sfaan,
We only spoke in mnfled whispers
So filed we we're with hopeless fears.
Poor heart Art tired with this long quest.
After our strange ne'er-selcomed guest
For weary years we've searched together,
Nv faithful heart and lin vaia
ThrO' every phase Of sweet spring weather
In sun and snow, and falling rain.
How sad and tired we often grew
How filed with pain and dumb unqulet,
In smiling dreams that brought no balm,
In the long, brooding, tear-wet night
And yet. ali me- She never cane,
In bud or perfume, dew or fame
But now, dear heart-how strange 1t Is
To-day our sweet guest came TO me,
With cool, soft fingers, loving lips,
And tender words Of MINISTRY.
How strange she never came before
When I was young, and bright, and glad
But waited till / grew so old
So old, and worn, and weak, and sad.
True heart, good by 0 new found, rest,
Come let me sleep upon thy breast
Funny DriscoU.
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.DEIECTIYES.
Branch OF the Leading Agency Estab-
fr1 esnf@a1a

IN &nfCnSb.
We are pIe~,c notice that the we'll
known detective Messrs. Mooney 4 Boz
land, of No. 1872 Broadway, New York,
have located branch Of their agency at
No. Isl Monroe street, In this city,
Thomas ii. Whippie SUP srintendent,
They propose to strive fer the best BUSH
ness usually given 10 private detectives.
The reputation of the Mooney & Boland
agency is worldwide; their facilities for
transacting work is unriyaled. II viii be
remembered that Becker, the forger Of
the 1000 franc notes of the Bank of
France; opposite. The Italian bandit, who
led 800 men. and was a terror over all
Italy; Charles Lawrence, stupeadous en-
bezzler ard forger; Alfred E. Iegrave,
who swindled western merchants 10 the
extent Of $500 600, and Escoit, the Mont
real embezzler, were all ferreted out and
captured by Mooney L Roland, within the
past few wears. This, aside fr.m the
thousands of lesser operations IN which
their services have been retained sy this
and other governments, and the mighty
corporations of Europe and Americs, GER
tainly entitle the Mooney 4 Beland
agency to the highest professional stand
ing. 1t is rot too muck 10 say that their
appearance in Chicago, with trained Off
GERS and operatives, and capital to swing
any cases Entrusted to them, make an era
in our police annals. We have no doubt
that the people of the northwest will
eyince their apprt rotation of them. and
generously employ their services Chico
40 Journal.
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like English, and is one of -the best
scholars alive. But at the same time
he jumps around and howls like an IL
litsrate plumber when, in kicking on q
tight boot, a hole in the toe of his stock
ing causes that valuable article TO shoot
way back around his ankle.
at beats all, says Fogg, ''ho8 much
Parson Jones knows. He says that the
liquor sold in the village is vile stuff,
and that secret gambling clubs are
crowded nightly. and that the votaries
of vice are every night to be met in
their favorite haunts. I'd give some
thing to know how the parson found il
all out
A Honolulu paper describes one OF
the cabinet officers of the king rs "a
deliberate, shameless, and blasphe-
nous fraud; remorseless deceiver, a
renegade Mormon sWlndler, q grand
Panjandarum of the Latter-Day Saints
1t is curious what bad men will get into
cabinets the world over.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
Tad Lincoln,s Fast. Day Picnic

Ii ever there was boy IN danger OF
being Spoiled" it was the youngest
son of President Lincoln. Much of the
time it was impossible that he should
not be left to run at large. He was
foolishly caressed and petted by people
who wanted favors of his father, and
who took this way of making friend
in the family, as they thought; and he
was living in the midst of a most excit-
ing epoch in the country's history,
when boy in the white house was in
a strange and somewhat unnatural
atmosphere. But am bound to say
that Tad, although ne doubtless had his
wits sharpened by being in such strange
surroundings, was never anything else,
while | knew him, but boisterous roll
licking, and absolutely real boy.
Great was Tad's curiosity, in 1864, to
know what was meant by the Presi-
dents proclamation for day of fasting
and prayer. His inquiries were not
satisfactorily answered, but from the
servants he learned, to his great dismay,
that there would be nothing eaten in
the white house from sunrise to sunset
on fast day. The boy, who ives blessed
with vigorous appetite, took measures
to escape from the rigors of the day.
1t happened that. just before fast day
came, the family carriage was brought
out of its house to be cleaned and put
in order. Tad stood by, with feelings of
alarm, while general overhauling of
the vehicle went on, the coachman
busting, rubbing, and pulling things
about, quite unconscious OF Tad's
anxious watch on the proceedings.
Pretty soon, drawing out queer-look-
ing bundle from one of the boxes under
the seat, the man broaght to light a
part of loaf of bread, some bits of
cold meat, and various ether fragments
of food from the larder. Tad, now
ready to burst with anger and .disap-
pointment, cried, "Ohl ohl give that
up, sayl That's my fast day picnicl"
The poor lad, from dread of going
hungry, had cautiously hidden, from
day TO day, portion of food against
the day of fasting, and had stood bv
while his hoard was in danger, hoping
that it might escape the eyes of the
servants.
He was consoled by a promise from
his mother, to whom he ran with his
tale of woe, that he should not suffer
hunger on fast dag, even though his
father, the President. had proclaimed a
day of fasting, humiliation. and prayer
for all the people, From "a Boy in
the White House," by Noah Brooks,
| in st. Nicholas for November.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
The Voice of a Paniandrnm.

A little western rhetoric now and
then is relished by the soberer eastern
men, for instance. such as Col. p.
DOMAIN, of the Fargo Argus, addressed
to a county fair in Dakota the other
day. He claimed to be "a real silver
plated paDjandrum of orchard, mead
ow, field and fold, regular he-Ceres
and Pomona melted into one, with q
Pan or two thrown in to boot" and
was transported into duek-fits OF
transcendent rapture at the opportu-
nifty to overwheln an astounded uni
verse with an avalanchean exhibition
of what I know about farming" For
the rest of his advice to the people
from where sthe famous Red rolls It's
golden flood along our eastern shores
to where our royal one-riobed western
mountain peaks punch holes in the
sky with Their cloud wreathed noses,
see the original paper.
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They Didn't Sell Stoves.
De rot Free Press

De.f0lt Tre6 ffeSe.
Four or five weeks ago a woman with
an undecided look on her face entered
a Detroit hardware store, threaded her
way for sixty feet among coal stoves of
every pattern, and timidly inquired:
"Do you keep stoves here?"
"Yes'm."
Goal stoves p
"Yes'm"
She said she had been thinking of
getting coal stove for the Winter, and
the clerk took her in hand. He showed
her how the doors worked and how the
hampers were arranged, and the hues
situated, and he talked of dobule drafts,
great savings, increased cheerfulness,
reduction IN price, and all that, and
she said she'd think 1T over and drop
in again.
In about three days the woman re-
appeared and inquired of the very same
clerk if they sold coal stoves. He re-
piled that they did sell one now and
then, and he cleared his voice and be-
gan the usual thirty-miE ute lecture on
the Michigan. the Detroit and the Pen
insular baseburners. The beautiful
nickel-plate, the place for the tea kettle,
the ornamental legs-the anti-clinker
shaker-all points were touched upon
and praised and explained, and the wo-
man said she wouldn't take one along
under her arm just then, but would call
again. She called again that same
week, heard the same lecture from the
same clerk, and started for the bank to
draw the money to pay fer base
burner. That was the last seen of her
for week. Then she walked softly in
and innocently inquired:
81 suppose you keep coal stoves ?"
''No ma'am."
mot any kind ?"
mot one. We used to, but went
out of business year ago."
There were twenty coal stoves on the
floor, but if she saw them she didn't let
on. She heaved sigh of disappoint-
ment, glanced around her, and went
slowly out with the remark:
"Well, l don't know as want to
buy one, but l thought it wouldn't do
any harm to look at some of the latest
makes -
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cabin and the moaning Oft the waves on
the beach, the dying man was heard to
murmur, s'She called me uncle
And the LATEST Man ON Island, salts
fed in the consciousness of duties
rightly performed, sank to rest in the
peaceful sleep from which there Is nc
awakening.
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United jealousy.

A young man in an Illinois town
stepped into church-door a moment
on Sunday while the services were
going on, and the smart minister saw
him and shouted, go out, young man,
she is not here" The young man was
embarrassed for q moment, and then,
remembering the several ministerial
scandals that were in the courts, he
said, loud enough for al to hear him
ayes she is, you old dufftr. You have
got her hid behind the organ, and you
want to go home with her yourself
The minister blushed, .nd said ths
services would close by singing the
| dnrnlnnv
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
Daniel Webster's Failing.

A Philadelphia tells the press a
characteristic story of Daniel Webster.
The statesman's father was a great
lover of military musters. One day
when he was going to training he gave
Daniel and his brother Ephram quar-
ter apiece to spend as they pleased.
AT night he called his two boys to him,
and asked them what they had done
with their money. Daniel was very
ready to tell; he had bought cakes,
cider, ETC., and had good time. But
Ephram refused to tell : how he had
disposed of his wealth. His father in
sisted, and at last he reluctantly con-
fessed that he had lent it to Daniel.