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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16
japanese Novelties.

a recent traveller in Japan writes; in
his trip to Nikko we observed upon the
road, in the several villages and posting
stations, many curious things. Women
seem to perform the most of the out
door work, ditching and laboring in the
rice swamps, with irfants lashed to
their backs. When they were met tax
ing articles to market, upon the lit
tie country ponies, they rode aStride,
man fashion. Hens were seen with
hair instead of feathers, hens as small
asltofs sestic pigeons, hens with plumes
on their heads like militia captains, and
hens with bare Crowns like shaved
priests. There were also green pigeons
and speckled crows tame as domestic
fowls, among which was seen that
anomaly, white crow. At the tea
house where We stopped for the night,
our passports, specially granted, were
taken by the local officials and returned
to us in the morning. The passport
was rather a curious document, anu
disclalmed all responsibility on the part
Of the mikadO and his Government
should the holder be murdered by the
way, from whatever cause. In short,
we were permitted to travel inland, but
at our own peril 1t is still looked upon
by many as somewhat risky to travel
we met with no special trouble.
The natives upon the route were in
clined to be little curious as to the
ladies' bOnnets and dresses, nor were
they quite satisfied, without using some
familiarity, about the gentlemenS' at
tire; but they seemed to be of soft and
plant mould, easily managed by eXer-
ciSlng little fineSSe. IL was curious
TO observe how entirely opposite to our
own methods were many of theirs. At
the post stations the horses were placed
and tied In their stalls with their heads
to the passage way. and their tails
where We place their heads. Thus they
are fed and kept. In place of iron shoes
the Japanese pony is shed with close
braided rice straw. Carpenters in us
ing the fore-plane, draw it toward them
instead of pushing it from them. 1t is
the same in using the saw, the teeth of
which are set accordingly. So the tai
lor sews from him, not towards his body,
and holds the thread with his toes.
They have no chimneys to the houses,
the smoke finding its way out at the
doors and windows, though brasiers are
used instead of ireplaces, and in the
hot weather are placed outside the
dwelling for cooking purposes. The
men shave their heads just where the
Chinese do not, making bald spot on
the top; and so we might go on specify
ing peculiarities, showing that the Jap
anese are our antipodes not only geo.
graphically but also in manners and
customs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16

1t is said by literary men that books
drawn from the Cleveland public Ii.
brary over 80 per cent. are works of fic-
ton. This is lower percentage how
ever, than any other city. Cincinnati
heads the list with so per cent, while
Chicago, Boston, and other large cities
take between 60 and 40 per cent. of fic-
tion in their library banquets. 1.-The
reason the percentage is kept down in
Cleveland, remarked Librarian Boards
ley, sis because the board have oStracised
a certain class of books, which are very
popular and in great demand, but which,
tney claim, contain love stories of tie
sickly, sentimental, 'namby pamhy'
kind, and other reading which is not
only not instructive but liable to give
young folks wrong ideas and false i'm
pressions. A young boy who made his
debut IN police court, a few weeks ago,
for making a walking arsenal of him.
self and attempting to leave his home
by the freight train route, with the firm
determination to seek the land beyond
the setting sun and wipe the noble red
man from the face of the earth, con
feSsed that he got his ideas from Oliver
Optic. Mrs. Southworth's books have
been dropped from the list, as have also
the works of Mrs. Ann 5. Stevens, Mis-.
Mary j. Holmes and Louisa de la Rame,
the latter author being better known as
''Ouida." The old board frowned upon
Marion Harland, but the present direc'
tors have again purchased a set of heI
books. 1t is not claimed that these
books are radically bad, but they art
very sensational, and serve no good pur'
DOSE.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16
The Cup and the Lip.

One Of the early Italian nOvelists has
left us an anecdote of pleasant old
Florentine, Scolaio Franchi by name,
which, il the proverb had not been as
old as the Greeks, or probably as phi
losophy itself, might be supposed to
have originated the famous admOnitiOn
about ''the cup and the lip"
Signor ScolaiO, the story gees, was
entertaining some friends at tavern,
and the wine had been flowing for some
time, and the company very merry,
when the old gentleman, who had the
spirits of a young one and who was gifted
with corresponding flow OF words,
wound up panegyric which he had
been making on the juice OF the grape
with the following peroration:
$50 much, gentlemen, for the glorieS
of wine in genel al; and now for a sample
of them in particular, and that, too, in
connection with my own glory, and in
the shape of this particular glass of wine
which hold in my hand, and which |
am about to have the honorand felicity
of drinking,
Gentlemen, it is a very remarkable
circumstance, and worthy, if you reflect
on it, Of your deepest consideration,
that this particular glass of wine--look
at 1t, if you please, and observe it well,
as thing contemplated in the DEGREES
of fate-was destined from all eternity
to be drunk by me, simple as L stand
here, Scolaio FTanchi. Moot as you
will the point; bolt the matter to the
bran; sift. with all the inquiries on such
subjects, Aristotle to st. Austin. every
particle of evidence left in the resDec-
tive sieyes of your subtletles out OF the
whole grinding and trituratiOn of the
great question of fate, free-will, fore
knowledge, liberty, necessity, and una
vOidabiiity; and you will lind nothing
in the whole rounds OF certainty more
certain than the drinking and inhibition
of this particular glass OF wine by me,
Scolaio Franchi. All the folljes that
could be written on the other side all
the armies that could be brought
against me to hinder me, though they
were bigger than Charlemagne's or tlan
Agrican's-all the eclips-s comets and
earthquakes gathered tOgether-if that
were poSsible-from al time-Or what
sOeyer else might turn, terrify and an
initiate man from his purpose,
if it were not absolutely decreed as i'll
this instance, could turn, terrify or i'll
the least degres interfere with or OBJ
struct the passage OF this particular
preOrdinated glass of VINE into the
throat and stomach of Scolaio Fran
chi"
The orator had no sooner uttered these
words than the friend who sat on his
right, and who had been nicely calcula-
ting the mode of doing it, snatched the
glass out Of his hand, and swallowed
the wine himself.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16
Three Cents Profit.

viii Kieth is a very clever drug clerk
who compounds cross-bone prescrip-
tiOns for leading drug house on Wash
ington street, Boston. lie is a very
genial young man, and some of his
many friends often call upon him at his
place of business. Last week while en-
tertaining three or four Y. NJ. G. A.
boys man entered with a prescription
which was promptly compounded, ana
with an air of ''see-my-mOdus-operandi'
he threw the package before the custo-
mer with:
Twenty-Five cents please"
The man who was almost deaf threw
out five cents and started away.
twenty-five cents, sir" said W. X.
in a louder tone.
"There is your five cents, "said the d.
M, pointing to the nickel and walking
toward the door.
Il say twenty-five cents" at the top
of his voice.
81 say their Is your five cents" said
deafy, as he passed through the door
way.
Our affable d. C. allowed a bewildered
expression to hover over his handsome
feature for but moment when it
was dIspelled by bland smile as he re-
marked:
"Oh, well, let him go; there's three
cents profit anyway"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16

vorites, Fortune had great faults; ht
was very noisy, and bit everybody, Ma
pOleon included. One day at Monte.
bello. he was Sd imprudent as to attack
a great dog belonging to the cook, a
fierce mastiff who lald him low with
one bite. Josephine was in despair,
and the cook thought it was all over
with him.
"What are you running away fOr?''
''After what my dog did, general,
was afraid that my presence might be
disagreeable.
"Where is your dog? Have you sent
him awayp"
mo, general, but he never comes in
the garden any mole, especially since
madame has another dog"
''Oh, let him run about; perhaps j
shall get rid of this one also."
The gentlest, most Indolent of creoles
controlled the most self-willed and i'm
perloVs of men. Bonaparte could win
victories, accomplish miracles, create
or destroy governments, but he could
not turn dog out of doors.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16
NO. l6.
Foreign Crematories.

a correspondent writing about the in
creasing popularity Of cremation in
England aud elsewhere, says: On the
Sth of last month L was in Rome, and
visited the Campo SantO there, the
chief cemetery of the city, adjoining
| the Church or San Lorenzo, where tue
last Pope is buried. There, in .his
public cemetery, crenatOrIum has
been err cted. and one of the attendants
| told me that III the previous four
months forty bodies had been burnt
there. The building resembles a small
cottage. There is no high chimney, and
the furnace Is very simple oven OF fire
brick. The fuel used Is wood only and
at the cost of six francs an adult tOdy
is burned in about two hours. No
visible smoke and nothing offensive es-
capes from the chimney, as it is all con-
sumed III small coke lire at the lower
part of the chimney, just as in the more
perfect apparatus built for the Crema-
ton Society OF England.
The attendant told me that at first
the feeling was strongly against the
new practice, or rather against the
recent revival of the old practice, but
that now be had others employed In
the Campo Santo who had expressed
the desire that their own bodies should
rather be burned than buried. He SAID
that the feeling i'll Rome against Gre
nation would probably he less strong
than in other places because the modem
Romans were SO familiar with the
cOLUnbdrid and uTnS containing the
charIed remains of the Old Romans,
and that these were far less repulSlye
than the Gecaying remnants III a burial
ground, or in the walled-up cells OF one
of the corridors Ill the Campo oanJO.
In all the cemeteries in Italy which 1
have vlSiTed-GenOa, Pisa, Florence,
Bologna, Rome, Naples-the system OF
burial Is the same. 1he poor are SIMPLY
inferred in the earth in the Quadrangle
lar spaces, surrounded by colOunaues
and chapels. The rich are covered up
in vaults in chapels, or beneath the
stone flooring OF the arcade5, or III
inches along the walls, one above the
other from IiOOr to ceiling, IN ali Cases
going through a process, more or less
rapid. of putrefactive decay. Sol and
aspect affect the rapidity OF the piocess;
Jul l. W d. dSoulCu lAehI eAOCUS NNAA
is the period which must elapse before
body can be regarded as lnottsnsive
or not injurious to the wing. Compare
this with the two hours required ny the
practice of cremation, and compare The
Italian cemeteries with our own over
crowded hot-beds of corruption. ln
this metropolitan district, III the -
years (lS59 1889, the deaths registered
number l 1,S9S, ,3l4. OF course the dead
have been buried, and with scarcely all
exec ption i'll and around London. Grant
that i'll ten years body may become
harmleSs-although L do not at all be-
lieve that it does SO within 70 years in
our soil and climate-ean any Inaglna-
tion conceive the enormous mass or de-
cayiDg animal matter by which We are
surrounded?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16
A Useful Kitten.

4 short time ago the occupants of a
clearinghouse at No. 13S Eldridge
street, New York, were awakened by
dense volumes of smoke rolling into
their sleeping apartments. The house
is occupied by Mr.. Witpan, his wife,
Henry Hummel, Lizzie ALTERS, Minnie
Hayes and AndreaS Bauer, who board
with the Witpans. The house is of two
stories and an attic, abutting in the
rear on stable, the roof of which is
about two feet below the second story
windows of the house. Lizzie ALTERS
occupied a rear room OH the second
floor. Recently she took a kitten to
bed with her, and ii awOke her by
scratching her face. Her room was
then full of smoke, aud she opened the
door and rushed into the paSSage-way
crying ''Fuel fire!" and awakened the
other occupants of the building. With
out stopping to dress, they rusned into
the hallway and looked for avenues OF
escape. The girl ALTERS rushed back
into her room and jumped TO the root
OF the stable, but alighIed on skylight
and was precipitated to tue floor below.
While there she heard the othar win
dows open and moment later Henry
Hummel fell with a dull thud beside
her, where he lay with broken leg.
From one of the attic windows hung
Bauer, his feet nearly touching the root
of the stable, but lie was too much
frightened to realize that fact, and he
hung there until forced by the smoke
to let go, when he too fell into the
stable. In the meanwhile an equally
exciting episode had taken place on the
front OF tine building. Mrs. Witpan
had, In her eagerneSS to escape the
flames, sought TO leave the building by
the window of her bed room, and she
hung from the window sill over the
side walk until her husband pulled her
in and guided her to the rear, where
she stepped from the window into
another sky-light and received severe
cuts and bruises. Then MIR. Witpan
stepped to the roof with his infant
child. He thereupon rescued the Others
from the stable below and soon all were
on the stable roof, in costumes not at
all fitted to protect them from the chill
air of early morning. Although they
were all more or less bruised, bit two
were severely Injured. These we're
Hummel ana Mrs. Witpan. Hummel
was removed in an ambulance To the
Chambers Street Hospital, and Mrs.
Witpan and Lizzie ALTERS, who was
suffering from contusions on the head,
were cared for by nei yhbors. The girl
Minnie Hayes was uniniuIed. The lire
which had originated in the basement,
was extlnguished before reaching the
upper floors.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16

Il have seen men who wouldn't sit
down to a game when all the chairs but
one were full, and then again I've seen
some who wouldn't take the first seat.
Some old cranks wouldn't bet accent on
anything unless they had a stone with
a hole in it in their pockets. Then I've
seen men who wanted cat in the
room, and some who wouldn't play
with dog near at hand, and they firmly
believed it would be bad luck for them
to do it. I've seen men sit down in a
game and buy stack of chips, and the
next minuse get them Ca he'd again
they would suddenly see aman wi h a
q ger on his left hand missing and that
would settle that game for them. One
night | remember there was a big game
of poker in progress IN certain place,
and several thousand dollars had
changed hands. One man was about
S, 600 ahead and was betting pretty
heavy. TIE game had been in progress
all night and, as the forenoon advanced
the players became hungry. Tne porter
was called and sent over to the reStau-
rant to order breakfast. Well, when it
was ready one of the walters brought t
up to the rooms, and the moment he
entered, the winner, who was an old
man, threw down his cards. The
waiter was cross-eyed, and the old man
was superstitious. This time it seemed
as if there was some power in it. His
luck changed ana he lost everything he
had before he got out of the game. In
my opinion, however, it was simply a
scare. He saw the cross-eyed man, gave
up for lost, played recklessly and did
lose, of course.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16
Dimcult to BeIIeye.

Here, conductor, this young mans
tainted"
The words were uttered in a tone of
great excitement bv stout woman of
about forty years of age last evening in
a Columbia avenue car, and as she
spoke a slim youth who was seated be-
side her in a corner of the car fell for
ward and dropped in heap upon the
straw.
With the assistance of gentleman
the conductor lifted the senseless youth
on to the seat, and two minutes later.
as the car passed drug store, pulled
the bell-strap, and, followed by half a
dozen interested passengers. five of
whom were women, carried him into
the store, where he was placed on a
lounge in back room.
\ doctor was hurriedly summoned,
and after disappearance of about ten
minutes the yonng man and physician
came out of the room, which had been
kept closed, arm in arm. The young
man S face was still pale, and he walked
with very perceptible tremOr.
After few moments rest the young
man got on another carand went away.
and the doctor said: "That is the
fourth case this month have seen of
the deadly effects of wearing tight
trousers; and had that young man not
been attended to promptly he might
have been in great danger"
"Tight trousers?" queried a by
stander, incredulously
"Yes, sir; tight trousersl Why, you
cannot imagine how often we doctors
have to treat cases OF illness brought on
by no other cause. Take that young
man, for instance; his trousers were at
least four sizes too small for him; not
too short, of course, but too tight, and
for hours and hours he had been walk
ing about with pressure of at least
2I5 pounds to the square inch on his
Olerii UiriSectOri arteries, which are sit
uated in the calves of the human leg.
This tremendous pressure forces the
blood into channels not able TO carry it
without undue straining, and although
the victim feels no pain he is liable at
any moment to topple over il a swoOn,
and unless relief is promptly given Il
long and serious illness is likely to fol-
low. 1t Is similar trouble to that e1-
perienced when it was the fashion for
ladies to wear very tight sleeves, except
that i'll the case of tight trousers the
material is heavier. the arteries larger,
and the result apt to be more danger
Gus and difficult to relieve"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16

Old age is part of the life history OF
the organism. There is that in the
child at birth which determines very
nearly when old age shall appear: Semi
lity is failure of nutrition. We can
only delay its appearance by living a
life which puts no undue strain on the
organism and ny furnishing 1t with the
easiest means of working. We cannot
expect to accomplish this end simply by
cutting off certain deleterious supplies.
If one would live long let him especially
take care of his ''master tissues" the
muscle and nerve, when young. This
means rational exercise of body and a
well-balanced cultivation of mind.
Brain-workers live long; brain and
muscle workers longer still. No one
has yet given better advice for the re.
tarding of old age than did Christopher
Hufeland a century ago. Let those
who wish old age study him and put nc
trust in distilled water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16

was faint and sick with terror, and as
We stepped on firm ground looked back
involuntarily. The men were quicken
ing their pace. Uncle glanced at the
priming of his pistol.
My Godl he gToaned. second
later, pal;ng terribly, they are unloaded
and have no ammunition. But regain
ing his composure, he said, hurriedly,
| Fannie, this is matter of life and
death. | was mad to put you in this
danger, but there is no time for regrets.
We've got TO put our trust in Provi.
dence and our heels. We must run
there, take the bag, hide it under you
cloak and if it comes to the worst, go
on without me. You understand me
Now, quickp
''We flew onward as fast as our legs
could carry us. had always been ac-
counted light of toe, and had taken
pride in my pretty, small feet, but
never knew their value before.
ION. on we flew. We had a good
start and we kept our advantage at
first. Once my breath nearly failed me,
but uncle's strong arm was about my
waist and he almost carried me along.
But soon we could hear the pursuing
footsteps more and more distinctly.
Suddenly the opening on the main
street came in view and with terrible
effort We reached it. As We did 80
several laborers came along the highway
and at their sight our pursuers who
were but few yards behind, and were
brandishing knives. fell back with hor-
rible curses among the trees. l was
carried to the bank greatly exhausted
and was afterward carried home.
1.-The bank directors were much
amazed at our arrival, for George Dol
drum had received dispatch signed
with my husbands name, saying that
we could not leave New York City
until Monday, while Tom had never
got our telegram at all.
n close investigation was Immediately
set on foot, and by the aid of able de-
tectives, it was discovered that a num-
Der of evil dOers with Silas, tie station
master, at their head had conSpired to
murder uncle and myself and steal
these $4,000. To this end they had
forged one telegram and had suppressed
another. Had it been a dark night
those two malefactorS would certainly
have murdered us, and as it was, we
should probably have met our fate in
the woods but for my lightnesS OF
foot"
And here Auntie Nixon quite inno-
Gently exposed her fur-bordered slipper.
"Well, / was much complimented for
my courage: in fact" said the old lady
flushed and excited by her spirited narra-
tive, ''the whole town was full of my
praises; but, dear me-" she concluded,
subsiding again, THAT was thirty years
ago and don suppose one of you here
have ever heard before this evening of
my midnight walk on the ice."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-16

a Berlin letter describing the En-
peror's appearance at the court ball,
held last month says. The loyal Ber-
lineSe were enabled once more to see
the Emperor lead the court polonaise
and TO see how he bore his four score
years and six or seven. 1t was bril-
liant festival. The Emperor led the
Princess Christian, the daughter of
Queen Victoria. whom she resembles in
most striking degree.
The Kaiser! How altered 1t gave
one quite a shock to see the once strong
noble-lOoking man now an aged, feeble
old man, walking with some difficulty,
his head bent forward as you see IN the
pictures of old Fritz. 1t was the first
time | had noticed the Emperor as
looking old and worn and apparently
breaking down. y kind of sorrowful
smile fingered about the old Emperor's
lips as he passed along through the lane
of humanity that opened before him,
as if he seemed TO say, "Ah, yes, kim
der, you see I'm growing old and weak.
L am eighty-seven. remember, and one
must begin to feel the teeth of time
sometime or other.'' He bravely
walked all around the large opera house
and then returned to the raised portion
leading TO the lobby. There he had a
few steps TO get over, and his leg seemed
to give way little, for he put his Land
down to his knee to give 1t assistance,
smiling as he looked round, and laugh
ing little to himself at the idea of his
limbs at last refusing to do their accus-
toned service. Then he went to the
royal box where ne sat with the MEM
bers of his family and later went round
to see the Baroness CouIcel, the wife
of the French Ambassador, with whom
he chatted at least for half an hour. 1t
was sign to all that he wished the
relations of Germany and France to be
considered as being on most friendly
footing.