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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
He Won a Dollar.

John Waffen, German, aged 81, has
been living with his wife ald five small
children IN Bethel block, Cleveland.
He came to America eighteen months
ago. He worked about the docks, and
spent more money for whiskyt han he
did for food Tor his family. Last night
while slightly intoxicated, Waffen en-
tered Duggett's saloon On Seneca street.
Here be met party OF sailors, with
whom he was acquainted. After seve-
Ial rounds, the master of a vessel pro-
posed bet to John Waffen.
''WhaG is the pet?' asked John.
''l'll bet a dollar you can't drink
fifteen glasses OF whisky in fifteen min
ttes,"
IN take that bet," replied Waffen.
and forthwith he began,
At every glass a chalk mark was
made on the counter. Ten glasses had
been disposed Of, and Waffen began to
feel IaInI. When he had swallowed the
fifteenth glass of poison, the sailors
wanted hun to take still more but he
declined. With his last strength he
tottered home. Entering mis- room he
sat down Oh a chair but fell on the
the floor. He grew worse, and the
parish priest attended him and gave
MIN the last sacrament. The man re-
tanned his full mental powers until his
death. He gave adetaiied account ol
the scene IN Dugget's saloon, and ex
pressed contritlon for his misspent life
At 9 O'Clock he died in great agony
rhe police are investigating the case
with view to bringing the guilty par
tiss TO justice.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
Tying up Vast Acres.

There is significance about some
French statistic recently published, that
ought to have lesson for Americans.
1t is frequently stated that the French
peasantry are the most prosperous
people of their class in the world, and
in support of the declaration is cited
the ease with which the immense
indemnity required of France by Ger
many was raised; the national bonds
providing for it being all bought up by
the French peasants. The prosperityof
the French people is accounted for in
the recent statistics, which show that
132, ,0OO, 600 acres of real estate, and
only about one-fourth of which is avail
able for agriculture purposes, is owned
by S,454, 900 different persons, which
necessarily subdivides it into very small
farms, but every foot of which is care
fully titled, and made to produce the
largest possible profit. The value of
these lands has increased enormously
since 1880. Meadow lands from S165
to S237 per acre; vineyards from s165
to S237, and gardens and orchards from
$3.50 to $40. Another result to the
French of this extensive small farming
is, that while the English farmers are
suffering disasters from American COM
petition, French farmers are unaffected.
One of the greatest burdens which
oppress the English, Scotch and Irish is
the vast landed estate. Some Ameri-
cans have thought they saw in the
purchase of large tracts of land in
various parts of the country by foreign
ers cause to fear that we would some
times be visited by this curse of land
lOrdism; but it is hopeful sign that
those who owned such large tracts have
found them burden too heavy to carry,
and some, among them the proprietors
of the famous Glenn wheat farms of
California, are unloading. To tie up
two or three hundred thousand acres of
land in any part Of this vast country is
to blight tine growth of the region in
which it is located; and if that is done
the owner might as well have put his
money in hole. Land is so plentiful
in the United States that only those
regions where it is in the market can be
expected to develop.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12

''By the end Of next June" said
VIM. J. Scanlan, the Irish comedian, ,
lover 300, ,000copies of my Peek -a-boo
song will have been sold, and my roy
atty will amount to $4,000. get six
cents for every copy Of the song that is
sold. That is not the usual royalty.
Some songs are sold outright for from
50 to S25, and when a writer or COM
poser who is not well known wishes to
retain an interest in his work when
published he is usually allowed 10 per
cent. of the sales. If 1t is good song
it may reach as many as 10000, but it
has TO be very good to go over 5000.
'Peek-a-boo' belongs to the class we
term craze songs. 1t is written in a
catchy way calculated to become popu-
Lar, as it deals with children, home and
the fireside; it combines the elements
that recommend work to universal
acceptance. Iwrote 'Peek-a-boo' when
twas living in Fourth avenue five years
ago, and first used it to help along a
comic opera entitled The West Point
Cadet in which man named John
Kenton collaborated with me. Kenton,
l see, now claims to have assisted me
in writing this song. and claims that he
should share my royalty, but Kenton
had nothing to do with this or any of
the other thirty-one musical numbers
in the opera; he merely helped ne a
little with the dialogue of the piece.
The Cadet was failure, and the next
time l used 'Peek.a boo was with
Minnie Palmer, when / played with
her in Our Boarding School, 1 sang
it for week, but saw at once that it
had not the proper surroundings, and
50 determined to lay it by until the
right time came to use it. That time
came when L began starring In Friend
and Foe at the beginning OF last sea-
son, L introduced Peek -a-boo' into the
home scene of the last act, and it i'm
mediately became popular. During the
summer months that song alone paid
me $500 or 800 month. 1 get lar
ger royalty than other writers because
| sing my own songs, and in that way
keep them constantly before the public.
There is a great deal in that. Dave
Wambold, the minstrel, you know, got
a royalty from the publishers for merely
singing their songs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
The Bogus "Bouncer."

Size is OF consequence, in fighting, Of
course, but it often serves etfectually
in the place of both skill and valor. In
the TomDs Police court, New York,
the complainant in a case of assault
was over SIX feet in height, and in build
like Hercules, while the prisoner was
not more that half that bulk. 1t was
not denied that there had been a whip
ping. A battered face was good evil
dence of the fact.
'I'm an usher in the varie-
ties" said the big man, naming one of
the worst resorts in the Bowery. 1.-The
prisoner was disorderly, and, when l
ordered him to be quiet, he assaulted
me-"
And you wasn't sandy enough
to hinder him from glttin' away
with you!" the aStonished justice
asked.
DO not let the language of the judi
cial quotation raise doubt as to its
accuracy. Police magistrates talk that
way III New York.
NO, L guess L wasn't" was the
abashed reply.
yCol guess HC wash l, luC piOuu
prisoner ecnoed.
The payment of fine of ten dollars
did not expel the joy from the little fel-
lows mind. After the case has TINS
been disposed of, 1 undertook 10 put it
IN shape tor the use L am now making
OF it by asking the manager of the es-
tablishment, who was in court, how
1t had happened that he employed
so incompetent peace -compeller.
We've got for to have bouncers,
understand" he replied, ''or else the
housed be cleaned out every night in
the week. Generally we hire regular
sluggers, men what all de boys know
can mop de floor wild 'em. But they
come high, and they don't earn their
money. They just scowl at disturber
and he shuts up wIdout hit. Thinks
to myself, all got to do is to get a
big, cheap dutfer, put HIM up as a bad
man from de west and set him a
frownin'. Well, this is der bogus BONN
Ger. the boys shlyered when he
scowled, for a couple OF weeks; but
they dropped to the game, and you seen
wnat the small un did TO him. lie ain t
of no more use to me. His racket's
finished.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
Mush An d Cheese.

Swiss guides and parters who have to
bear extreme cold, which is always sup
posed to require much animal food,
and whose labors are severe, are said
to live entirely on diet of polenta
mush), and cheese, and to be fine,
hardy specimens of manhood. carrying
great weights with ease. The East
India coolic lives on a little butter with
his rice, and pulse, but his climate is
very different from the bracing air OF
the Alps, frosty air that anywhere
else would be supposed to create de-
mand for the heaviest animal food.
There Is considerable (vegetable) oil in
mush, and cheese furnishes albumen
so that in this simple dat are com
bined the carbons and nitTogens o.
food
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
NO. so.
Jumping From Trains.

The brakemen on passenger trains
seldom have occasion to jump from
the train while it is in motion. Most
of those who jump live at way stations
where express trains donot stop. Some
f W regular passengers are well up in
the jumping act. The people who jump
from the passenger trains seldom jump
when the train is going at the rate of
more than ten miles an hour, but few
have been known to risk the jump when
the train was going twenty-five miles
an hour. Most of the trainmen dislike
to run the risk when the train is in
motion. Even the most reckless prefer
the rear platform of the last car, as there
is not so much danger being drawn
under the wheels if a misStep is made.
Some of the men jump off with the
left foot first and the body well thrown
back, 50 that when they strike the
ground they come into an upright posi-
tion almost Immediately. Even then
most are obliged to run some distance
before they can stop. Some of the old
train hands. however, can jump off and
come to a standstiil almost as soon as
their feet touch the ground. The brake
man on the freight trains are the men
who jump off the most. They jump
when the train is going at the rate of
from twenty or twenty five miles an
hour, always from the rear car and
always land in a perfectly upright posi-
tion. The ability to jump with COM
parative safety when 4 train is going
faster than ten miles an hour is attain
ed only by long practice, as it is danger
Gus for a novice, who if he did not
happen to calculate just how to jump,
would fall and break some of his bones.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
David Paul brown.

David Paul Brown was a young
practitioner, only then about three
years at the bar, when judge Of Penn
sylvania was impeached berore the Sen.
ate or House. The impeached judge
selected Mr.. Brown as his counsel, who
expressed doubt of the wisdom Of the
selection. The judge insisted and
Brown accepted the responsibility.
The trial was protracted through
several days in examining and cross
examining numerous witnesses. The
last day was reached near it's close and
the members, witnesses, counsel and
spectators, wearied with the labors of
the trial, hastened from the State
House pell nell for their hotels and
lodging for dinner. So rapid was the
exodus that Brown lost his head in
hustling his notes Of cross and direct
examination into the drawer Of his
desk without thought that the whole
was to be reviewed, digested and ar
ranged for argument next day. After
dinner and a cigar, while walking up
and down the hotel parlor, 1t flashed on
HIM that his papers were locked up in
the State House. Quick as flash he
started for the building only to find it
dark and securely bolted against in.
gress. He inquired for the janitor only
10 find he had gone several miles from
Harrisburg. Late bed time came and
all prospect of getting access to the
coveted papers vanished. Desperate,
he sought his room, undressed and went
to bed with bitter thoughts at the
notifying exhibition he would make
of himself on the morrow when he had
to begin the argument. As there was
no help his only thought was sleep, to
escape from thought. But sleep refused
his summons. AS thought followed
thought his mind became calmer.
Then he endeayored to recall some of
lie evidence, taking up the witnesses
in the order of examination. The eff
fort was well repaid. As each one was
passed before his mind the testimony
was read without aid, from photography
or manuscript Of any kind, and each
material point indelibly reproduced in
his mind and the whole analyzed for
prosecution and defense. This mental
effort carried him into the small hours.
Then he snatched a few hours repose,
arose refreshed, breakfasted, repaired
to the scene OF trial, opened the argu-
ment, indicated his client and secured
his acquittal, and without having re-
course to his notes at all.
His friends congratulated him on his
brilliant effort, which he himself re-
garded one of the greatest efforts of his
long years of practice.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
SInnie PippIn.

Sinnie Pippin is a yellow-haired girl,
tall and WHY, about l9 years old, and
weighs about lis pounds. She runs In
the woods with Fay Anderson, and
they live there together more like In
dians than white people. As soon as
Fayette gets hold of any plunder, Snnie
comes to town to sell 1t for him, and
buys coffee, cartridges and such things
as he needs, and goes back into the
woods, and they start out on another
expedition. Once they commit rob-
berry, they start off as fast as they can
thro ugh the woods, sleeping in tue day
and travelling in the night, until they
get into another county, or cross the
Kentucky line, but always manage to
get good way from the robbery before
people commence to hunt for them.
AndeIson'S plan is to meet man trav-
cling along the road, find out what he
can about him by talking to him friend
ly-like, and, if he thinks the stranger is
worth rObbIng. he Will take short cut
through the woods, and be waiting In
the bushes when the stranger passes
along the road. ''Halt and throw up
your hands," is the first thing way
faIer hears, and before he has time 10
collect his thoughts, Anderson has a
pistol muZzle up against his temple,
and is gong through him with his lett
hand.
VIII Fayette Anderson fight? Well,
/ Just believe he is one OF the gamest
men in the world. Deputy Sheriff
Bailey Mcclellan, of Putnam county,
shot him about a year ago and PrOke his
arm badly. What do you think Ander
son did? Well, he and the gill went 10
a spring in the woods and she kept
batning his arm with cold water,
washing it and keeping the wound
clean, and the bone knitted up. His
arm Is recovered so We'll that he can
handle sIX-shoOter with as much ease
as any of them; leaStwiSe he has never
been captured yet, and there have been
plenty of people after him, and game
ones, too.
But Sinnie, the girl, makes it hard
to capture hUn, because she lays around
the towns Ill Putnam, Smith and Over
ton counties, and gets all the news and
carries 1t To hlm. This keeps him
posted aud pu.s him on his guard.
Why don't We capture Sinnie PippIn,
you ask? Well, we have had her IN
Jail, but, being woman, We couldn't
get anything against her, so we had to
turn her out on The range again, and
this pair keep roDOing and running by
night, and sleeping III the woOGs and
Noun ,ans by day, and there is no way
OF doing an, thing to stop them so far,
but their time will Come just like all
the rest.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
Lafayette.

The cable announces the death of the
MARQUIS Jules de Lasteyrie. He was a
son of daughter of General Lafayette,
and was born at the historic chateau
of La Grange, in 1910. In 1882 he
initiated his grandfather's exploits on
a smaller scale by serving under Dom
Pedro 1, of Brazil, in driving the usur-
per Dom Miguel from Portugal. He
ioined in the official protest against the
coup d'etat of 1852, and was expelled
from France, but took advantage of the
partial amnesty to return. He thence
forth devoted himself much to litera-
ture in the columns of the Rerue des
De,cr Mondes, and issued in 1850 the
first volume of an uncOmpleted History
of Political Liberty in France. He was
chosen q Life Senator, December 10,
1875. He married a daughter of the
celebrated Nine. de Remusar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
Time.

In order to give its readers an idea
Of the proposed system of reckoning
time by enumerating the hours from l
to "a without regard to A. n. and P. n.
The Detroit Erening Journal printed
Is issue Of November II throu ghout
as if that system had been actually
adopted. Accordingly the readers of
that journal were somewhat startled at
the headlines, III O'Clock edition, :"
''12 O'Clock edition." and ''17 O'Clock
edition." and to observe that matinees
at the theatres would begin at IA o.
clock, that musical entertainment on
the preceding day beginning at 20 36
was delightful affair, that a furious
tire broke out in South Chicago that
day at Is O'Clock, etc.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
LOST

4 fair maid was lost
When the flowers were GOING
When the poppies' cap
Dropped within the MOVING
And tie brier rose tore its gown
On the fence rail, cid and brown
When the berries spilled
All their nectar sparkling.
And the cows came home
Under skies t'were darklinp
Fer the sun in that dim time
Would not wait for milking-time
Bright she was and sweet.
Bees and brooks all knew her
Every bird from far and near
Came TO praise and WOO her
And the children at her feet
Found the days so long and sweet
Many lovers fond
In the woodlands sought her.
On the breezy hills,
By the blue, blue water.
But too soon she stole away.
How, or whittier, who can saw
Now the days are sad,
Missing all her brightness,
skies are growing pale.
Feet have lost their lightness.
She was Summer, now you know
IL was sad to have her go.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12

Some references have been lately
made in the public press to the above
subject and to Mr.. Horatio Ross having
shot his stag on several birthdays after
completing his eightieth year. 1t has
been custom ofmine, perhaps through
early education in very different and
possibly higher branches of knowledge,
to note the effects of genuine field
sports upon their followers. Accepting
the undeniable fact that genuine sports
men are, in all my experience, peculiar.
ly humane to inferior animals, lit is
your ignorant citizen, and, above all,
your citizeness, who drives horse to
DEATH nothing has appeared to NE
more certain, during observations ex-
tending now to exactly half a century,
being since first entered on business
1898, than that this humanity, by
some reflex influence, operates beneti-
cially upon themselves. 1t may be that
they come to acquire some peculiar
knowledge of higenic laws as applied tC
mankind who until recently were sup
posed to be superior to them. Hence
our black plaques, our Jail fevers, and
our still existing epidemics. What
soever is the cause, the longevity OF
sportsmen-I mean those who have
come within my own scOpe-shoOters
and anglers, is most remarkable. 1t is
not alone that they live long, but that
they preserve their faculties until near
|ly the closing scene. Not with them
the veteran lags superfuous on the
stage. The most tindefatigable angler
ever knew, and also the most expert,
was the famous Captain Murray, who
successfully welded his rod on the
river Eachaig until his ninetieth year.
The swiftly running streams of the
north are supposed, not without reason,
to clarity the air over their banks, and
so tend to the great longevity of Scot
tish anglers. In my own experience
comes SD ortsman who, to an extent
certainly not to be praised, seems t
have afforded living proof of what Sil
James Paget has lately advanced-tha1
our sporting proclivities are the heredi-
tary results of the habits and means o.
subsistence of onr remote ancestors.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12
A Fresh Street Cry
"S-a-w-d-u-s-t?"
"What's it worth?"
Thirty cents a bag

"S-a-w-d-u-s-t?"
''What's it worth?"
Thirty cents bag"
''No. Can get 1t for twenty"
The above conversation took place
between man who poked his head
into barber shop and the proprietor of
a place. In Milwaukee a reporter was
receiving the finishing touches of
good shave, and the barber ceased his
scraping a moment to talk with the
fellow at the door. "What do you use
sawdust for" inquired the reporter, as
the shaver returned to his work. ITO
dry the floor after scrubbing it," was
the reply. SIT Is the best thing in the
world for that purpose. 1t gives the
tiles gloss that nothing else can
approach. All of the barber shops that
have marble or tile floors and many
with only wooden ones use it. Then it
is used by many to fill spittons."
''Does that man make a living peddl-
ing sawdust?"
why, 1 should say 50. He sells it
for 20 or % cents bag and has lots of
customers. Besides barber shops, it is
used by all of the saloons aud there are
nearly 1000 in this city. The most of
the meat stores use it. 1t is handy and
convenient to buy it by the sack, and
SO nearly everybody patrOnizes the
peddler. Sometimes the price is higher,
sometimes lower. Occasionally l send
to q factory near here where they charge
scents for small pail full. Yes; it is a
peculiar business. How true it is that
one-half of the people don't know how
the other half lives Sawdust peddling
is one of the latest industries of all
large cities and it is good one where
there amt much competition.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12

LEAVES are the best Of mulch1ng ma
te-iaI, but they must be held down by
brush or cornstalks. No more straw
for rs; after wedding and hoeing 30
long we do not deslre the weed pests
scattered and nursed by this etherwise
good mulch.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12

The more deep and thorough our
knowledge on any subject, the more
humble is our estimate of that knowl-
edge. We then see heights to which
we have not attained, and depths
which we have not fathomed.
Tastes consist In the power Of judg-
ing; genius In the power Of executing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12

magniied lonely life of four years to
a term of two decades, and called tribes
of warllke cannibais to engage in dis
tant and unnatural expeditions, is qnite
too fertile to be lightly challenged.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-12

gosten the lesson of that long past sum-
, mers day. Never had she ceased from
tne nk1ng God that it had been given.
aitnough it came almost too late.n
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-14
ADVICE To MOTHERS.

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