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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-12-09
IUNIATA VALLEY BANK,
or MaFFLINToWN, PA.
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BRANCH At PORT ROYAL.
Stockholders Individually Liable.
J. NRvIN PosEROT, PresIdenf.
T. VAN IRWIN, Coshier

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cent. urs months certificates, yer cent. on
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
With Bashi-Bazouks.

l find that / am the first correspond
ent who has reached as far as Debbah,
and this [ have done in a voyage from
Dongola in a little lateen-rigged open
boat. The village was destroyed long
ago by the Mudir, and there is now
nothing but the fort built, as all these
forts are, on the very worst plan fort
can be, that of square. Maj. Kitch-
ener has, however, improved on its con-
struction by running out bastiOns to en-
flade the ditch. He had gone to Am
bulol the day | arrived, and the only Eng
lish there We're a sergeant and two cor
porals in charge of the telegraph. ''Ev-
cry day is pretty nearly the same here,
ST., . they said, land atnight we are ter
ribly bitten by sand-hies, and terri
BILE plague the sand-fiies- as they are
called, are. They are nearly micro
scopical. [ have never seen one, but
they get into your bed through mosqui-
to curtains and under the sheets and to-
tally prevent your sleeping.
For the little garrison of Bashi-Baz-
ouks | have great respect. Time after
time it has been attacked, and has sue
cessfully defeated the attackers. The
last time the Arabs had recourse to
strategy. They beat their tomtoms
very vigorously half mile off; mean
time they crept silently into the ditch
underneath the low bastiOn where was
the one gun of the fort. One of them,
however, let eff rifle by accident, and
the garrison We're at once alarmed.
Though it was dark they could perceive
thousands in the ditch, and they opened
a whitening fire upon them. The enc
my, however, succeeded in actually
Selling the wheels of the gun, and also
the legs of the Turkish commandment,
who was standing by, and pull-deVil-
pull-baker took place. At length the
officer was dragged within the ram
parts. Hundreds of Arabs were moved
down in their desperate attempt to en-
ter. In some places they threw skins
over the zariba, and thus walked over
the prickly abattis. At others, where
there was no ditch, but merely mimosa
against the wall, they mounted on each
others shoulders. At one time they
actually succeeded in bursting open
wicket near the gate, but all who en-
tered were caught in rat-trap-they
found themselves in an open court from
which there was no exit, ana they were
moved down mercilessly. For two
hours did the assault continue. At
length the Arabs, having lost the great
er part of their number, retired.
In these desperate assaults by these
Arabs one is reminded of the heroism
of their ancestors, the Saracens. The
different points where the besiegers
made their attacks were shown me-
The ground was still strewn with belts,
torn garments and sandals. The
bodies were flung into the Nile. Eve
are tired of fighting" said the old COM
mandant to me. Il wish you English
would come and do some of it for US"
1t must indeed be watchdog life, as I
used to find it when | was the only
Englishman at Rowa Fort, just before
Gen. Hicks advance from Khartoum.
London Ne1CS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
Deceiying a Trusting Wife.

1t is not often men reform after mar
rage. They do sometimes. Once in a
while [ meet man who goes home
early and devotes himself to his wife for
a week or so, but woman generally
goes into matrimony as she goes to a
circus. She is not particular to get a
check for a reserved seat in the tent,
and finds her ticket only admits her to
the menagerie. But I know man who
really entered into q scheme of practi-
cal reform. He had as a single man
been fond of poker. Indeed, as a meas
ure of economy, being tired of support
ing several institutions in town on a
limited income, he made big bluff at
matrimony He thought he could mas
ter the gambling propensity by teach
ing his young and blushing bride the
fascinating game, and she entered into
it with all her heart and soul. The
stakes were beans, coffee beans-plain,
innocent and healthful articles of after
dinner refreshment. But, alas, the
gambling spirit grew upon her, and one
fatal game upset the happiness of their
lovely home, He had been honest with
her. He had concealed his deep knowl-
edge OF the game. But there came q
time when he saw his chance and took
it. He stocked the cards. He gave her
four kings, and he himself took four
aces. Her eyes glistened. She grab
bed half of her pile and put it in. He
put everything he had to it. She add
ed hers. He went into the pantry, and
taking handful of stakes from the
bean repository, threw them down de-
family. She went to the same place,
seized the canister, and, returning in
wild excitement, turned it up on the
table. Against her four kings were
four little simple spots. There was a
pause for moment. He has had his
hair cut, and wears piece of plaster
where the tin can struck him, and the
dy-in-waiting finds coffee beans all
over the house. Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
"a Chance Acquaintance"

Frequently some of the dearest friend
ships Of life date from chance travelling
mountaineering. Do you remember
what Dickens makes that odd piece of
human nature, Miss Wade, say, when
the English traders, who have been
qgarantined IN that pol1ey little inn at
MarseilleS, are bidding one another
goodbye, as they suppose forever? Let
me quote it:
In our course through life we shall
meet the people who are coming to inset
us, from many strange places and by
many strange roads; and what it is set
is to do to them, and what it is set them
to do to us, will all be done"
To young people especially these
travelling acquaintanceships often have
an important significance. Just think
over the number of marriages among
your acquaintance which resulted from
chance meeting on a railroad train or
on steamboat. Novelists make free
use of such incidents. but do they not
occur in real life hundreds of times ev-
cry season? a young man sits oppo-
site young lady in railway car and
pays her. some trifing. attention, or
brings her chair on the crowded deck
of steamboat. They get into CONVEX
sation, and in three cases out of five, I'M
less arrangements are as fixed as the
laws of the Modes and Persians, he al
tiers them and sees her very frequently
during that trip. The first link has
been forged in an indissoluble chain,
which will eventually draw them with
in the circles of a common house and
bind them in mutual love. OF course
love affairs that make pleasant exper-
fences of journey do not always end
at the altar. A stern father, or an awk-
ward blunder misconstrued, may divert
a brief but ardent courtship which
promised to 'come to something into
fleeing romance of fast fading
youth. But think these are exceptions
to the rule
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
Governor HiII's Photograph.

Governor Hill has the reputation of
being one of the most bashful of men,
and various anecdotes illustrating this
are current in Albany. One of these
accounts for the singularly youthful APP
pearance which he presents in the sets
of photographs of Assemblymen, dur
ing the time that he was in the Legisla-
ture. The first note that new mem
Der receives on arriving at the Capitol
is usually circular from photograph
ic establishment, asking him to call and
sit for picture, which will appear in
the Legislative album annually made.
About three-quarters of the members
respond to this first call, and a second
circular brings nearly all the remain
der. The few who do not respond are
then personally waited on, first by the
photographer in person, and, if he fails,
by an attractive lady attendant; and no
one down to 1871 had been known to
resist the various applications. But d.
B. Hill, of Chemung, in that year was
found to be incorrigible. The circulars
had no effect, the photographers call
had no effect; and he succeeded in elud-
ing the visit of the young lady. Time
passed, and the artist was IN despair.
Many albums had been ordered, but
none could be completed without the
photograph of the bashful member from
Chemung At length letter was sent
to a photographer in Elmira, asking for
q negative of the bashful lawmaker.
But it appeared he had had no picture
taken since he was schoolboy, and the
NEGATIVE of that was SiIpDOSed TO be
USELESS since he had arrived at mans
estate. The Albanian was not, how
ever, to be daunted by any such objec-
ton. He promptly sent for the youth
full picture; filled the waiting space in
the albums with copies, and thus com
pleted the set of members. This ac-
counts for the appearance of face, APP
parently that of a page boy, on the
Chemung page of the album of ISL
NeU York Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
How Mime. Nilsson Raised Her Price

The London World contains the fol-
lowing confession about the ruinous eff
feet on concert and opera of very high
salaries: Some fifteen or sixteen years
ago, when the soirees were flourishing,
when the amateurs had not yet learned
to do without the artists, when, during
the summer season, some hundred pri-
vate concerts We're given, Nine. Nilsson
was N the zenith of her first success at
Her Majesty's, and was, of course,
much invited to such parties. One day
she asked could [ not give her an ad
vice to get paid better without offend
ing Nine Tietjens, who was then the
female chief of the troupe, and took the
now ridiculous price, (to which [ yet
hope we will return) of G25. said
''Yop can not ask more than Nine.
Tietens, anyhow; but what you can do
is to refuse all these soirees whenever
you are asked, and say that the rehear-
sails, ETC., fatigue you to such an extent
that you can not 90 to those late parties
and then get up early for the rehear-
sails" ''And how will that help me?"
she asked. IN this way. You say
that you don want to go, and thatin or
der to be left alone you demand EGO; that
you know very well nobody will pay it,
but that is just what you want. Believe
me, there are number of people who
will take you just because you ask $50,
and you can then pose as a victim who
did all you could to get out of it, but
people would not let you" Not a week
passed, and she was engaged for a par
ty in Grosvenor Square, and played the
whole scene just as arranged, and, just
as expected, the people paid her. The
funniest part of the story is, that when
she did sing, friend of mine, Jules Lee
fort, who sang in the same party, came
home and told me the whole story of
the EGO, and the reluctance of Nilsson,
who was too weak to stand the fatigue,
etc. But the evil consequence was
that the moment she went up with her
price the others did the same, and there
was an end of big party with great
names, except for those rich enough
and willing to spend an enormous sum.
And that is what brought the amateurs
forward to sing for nothing; then they
came from the drawing-room to the
concert-room; then they found that
royalties were a very agreeable thing
to pocket, and they began writing pol
kaS and valses and songs; and now
there is no saying what they will not do.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
The Case Proceeded.

Almost every lawyer in Albany has
practiced, in years gone by, in Jerry
Woods court. in Kenwood. 1t used
to be a famous place for some of the
younger members of the fraternity to
sue for petty debts, for in seven cases
out of ten the defendant would let the
matter go by default sooner than 90
away down to ''Jerry's' court. On
one occasion two young sprigs of the
law were engaged in the trial of a cause.
jerry sat back with proper dignity in
his chair behind the high desk, and the
young rustic who had been temporarily
called from farm duties to officiate as
clerk was enjoying a comfortable nap
while the argument progressed. At
length it became heated, and one of the
counsel gave his opponent the lie, who,
instead of resorting to the retort cour-
teous, threatened to color his adver-
sary's optic if the remark was not with
drawn. No retraction being made, he
let out his good right arm and smote
the learned counsel upon the left orb of
his vision. The latter appealed for pro-
lection to the court, stating that he had
been assaulted.
did you see the attack, Jasper
said the justice to the clerk.
Nav; there waz none, : replied the
sleepy clerk.
''Mr.--,n said the court, ''there is
no evidence of an assault, and if there
was, you must have BACKED your own
eye. Let the case proceed. - ALBANY
Express,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
Getting the Language With Speed.

An old man came from Wisconsin to
meet nephew and niece who landed
at Castle Garden from Ireland The
three went to a West street boarding
house, where they remained week,
during which the old uncle showed
them the city. No one could have
thought any relationship existed be-
tween the three for they were not even
once seen to speak to each other. The
old man came to pay his bill.
care these your children?" asked the
boarding-house keeper
''No, my nephew and niece
Il thought you We're strangers to each
other
Il don't blame you. I told them not
to open their lips while they would be
out with me so that people might not
hear their confounded gibberish which
no one could understand"
did they?"
''Why, not one word could / get from
them either in or out since until to-day,
when my niece came up. Uncle she
said, don't you suppose this business
has been carried on long enough? Are
you going to bring us to Wisconsin,
Yes, my dear sir, she spoke with as
great fluency as if she had been ten
years in the country. The Irish must
be extraordinary for picking up lam
guages. ''-Nea0 York. Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
- uSU From ~. "a.

a young woman with compact frame
and fresh complexion arrived at the
Rock Island Depot the other day from
the North. She cot I'i..,lt of the train
without any foolishness and walked to-
ward the street As sh,. reache1 the
sidewalk she set her biz >achel down
with dull thud ana stood a moment
looking around. as if IN uncertainty. a
depot porter asked her i ne should not
carry her sachel to carriage and a
hack driver made reach for it.
drop thatr said she TO the latter,
kicking it out of his hands. and as he
stood back respectfully she turned to
the porter and observed: Il can carry
anything that you can, thank you"
Just then policeman came around
the corner, and, seeing what he sup
posed was an outrageous attempt on
the part of the men to impose on an I'M
sophisticated girl. rushed up and grab
ged the sachel.
''COme on, miss" said he; where
did you wish to go?'
He had only just got the words out of
his mouth when the girl executed a
flank movement and tripped him up as
cleverly as professional could have
done. Selling her sachel, she observed:
when I've got any use for any of
you tenderfeet I'll just call you. I'm
down here on a little pleasure tour from
Dakota, and | want the city of Chicago
to understand right here that [ don't
need any help. The last thing I did be-
fore leaving my farm was to carry forty
five bags OF potatoes on my shoulder to
my nearest neighbor, a mile and half
away, and if can't get around this here
town with this little shopping-bag I'll
90 to the infirmary."
She was about to go on and her three
auditors were sinking away when d
fresh young man, hotel runner, came
up, and taking in the situation at a
glance, said:
Right this way, miss. Let me help
you with your baggage
He never got any further. The girl
picked up her grip and dropped the
young man as she had dropped the
policeman. Then the others laughed,
and as the young woman moved off she
observed:
IF you buffers were up at Grand
Forks do you know what we'd do with
you? We'd organize a home for the
aged and clap you in it the first thing.
Come and see me when I'm having"
-ChGc00O Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
The Poetry Did 1T.

Mrs. McCleve, of Nantucket, the
widow of a whaling captain, has large
collection of curiosities, gathered from
every cline, which it is her pleasure to
exhibit to whoever is pleased to call. A
party of yachtsmen doing the island
could not pass by her, but paid her a
visit and were shown her curiosities.
Here, : said the old lady, lis avase,
carved from a piece of a cedar post
which had been on my grandfather s
farm for many years. A cousin of mine
took me out to the farm in his carriage,
and we pulled the post up and sawed it
of. l composed some poetry about it. "
The lady then repeated her ''poem,
of the incident related :
"Then," she said, as she concluded,
"a great many people have admired
that poetry. My cousin admired it very
much. One evening he was here and |
repeated it to him and he went home,
and was found dead in his bed the next
morning. Boston Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
Copied BY Request.

The poor, harassed victim had been
in the chair long time. The barber
had talked with fendish industry, a
sardonic smile pervading his features,
while he shaved with degree of delib-
Grafton heretofore supposed to be en-
bodied in the adage in which the mills
of the gods have been starring for SO
many seasons.
At last the victims eyes closed, his
muscles relaxed, and he fell into the
corner of the chair in a convulsive heap.
The barber was smiling the smile of a
victor, when the object of his malignity
suddenly sprang to a sitting position,
at the risk OF having his neck sliced,
and exclaimed:
Barber, what day of the month is it?"
The eighth, sab.
And what day was it when [ came
in here?n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
Opened by Mistake"

There has been mistake-a dread
tul mistake, : she said as She called al
the chlefclerk' window in the Postoffice
yesterday.
What is the matter, ma 'am?'
letter.
And hope YOU got one
''1es, sir. Ny husband is in Buffalo,
you know, and I've been expecting a
letter from him every day for fort
night. He was to send me some money.
you know, and | was on my last shil-
ing when got that letter
''Well?' :
Nell, sir. [ hurried right home and
opened the letter and out fell dollar
Dill. just think of a loving husband
sending his loving wife a dollar bill
with which to run the house and pre-
serve her station in society for whole
month";
but you put the money in your peck
ct and burned the letter"
''Oh, no sir? / threw the bill into the
fire and set out to read the letter. 1t
started off with: Dear MADAM, and
then began to suspect something. as
my husband always call me his angel.
And then it went on to say: so YOU
want q bangle. eh? Well, take the in
closed and jingle down town and bangle
your old head off and be hanged toyour
Oh, sir, | nearly faintedr'
''Well?n
''Weli. I looked down at the sigma
ture, and it was signed SLOUGH. Then
| saw, sir, that it couldn't be from my
husband at all, for it was written from
Chicago, while he is in Buffalo. 1t was
addressed to my name, but it couldn' t
have been for me-"
Ihe clerk received the letter and
carefully scanned the envelope, and she
handed him dollar with the remark:
PUT it in the letter, sir, and write on
the envelope: '.Opened by mistake
dreadful mistake-but the opener won't
give it away If you can think of any
thing else to soothe the poor woman,
put it OF, too"
Yes, I will"
''For [ know exactly how she'll feel
about it, and [ know if my husband
should tell me to bangle my old head
off and jingle around I wouldn't have
any one know it for million dollars
Dear me! but I'm so sorry, and it was
such Inistake-dreadful mistaken
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
Going Round the Horn.

The usual cracker barrel lyceum at
Spiggot's grocery opened with ST Slip
shod in the chair.
This ere Nicaragua treaty kind O.
ketches me. That ere canal, now, will
be the boss thing ter send ships right
across ter Californy. No more goin'
round the Horn
90 course that d be pop lar with you,
ST." remarked old Chummy as he put
in an extra cud.
s'Why with me more n anybody elseP"
cause you never could 90 round a
horn, you couldn't. Always take 'em
straight, We know, ST.
'.Ha! Well, We hey gotme. Spiggot,
give US a round from that new barrel O.
cider. ''-Hartford Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26

The Minneapolis Erening Journal
says very truly, that the American jury
which would award the Marquis de
Leuville a cent of damages on account
of any disrepect for his title which may
have been evinced, by, say, the New
York World, ought to be banished to
Patagonia. America is no place for
Marquises They should come here as
men. This government was framed for
the people. Some of the citizens OF the
East are losing their regard for Repub-
lean institutions, but they are as few
leaves in the foliage of June.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26

OF every twenty persons who, when
a bill is presented, almost inVoluntarily
exclaim: Leave it, I'll examine it, at
least eighteen know the bill is all right,
and OF the eighteen probably sixteen
could pay the amount just as well one
time as another. 1t is quite as often
the rich who thus thoughtlessly make
man run twice or more for his money
as people of moderate means. ''Inever
made man call twice for his due" re-
marked a gentleman few days since,
and he was so years Of age. Imagine
the amount of happiness this man has
contributed to this world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26

The value of chewing gum as fac
tor in education has been settled at last.
a Macon, Ga. schoolmarm had six
bright scholars come to school provided
with gum and six without Then she
threw twenty-nine problems at them
with astonishing results. The chewers
of gum correctly answer twenty-one,
while the gunless six had mastered
only eight. Thus is another vital edu-
cational problem solved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26

Texas was received into the Union by
Joint resolution of the United States
Congress after treaty for the purpose
had been rejected by the Senate, and
under the act it was stipulated that
Texas should keep her own lands and
pay her own debts. Under the compro-
mise of 1850 Texas was paid S5,000,000
for the cession of her claim to the Ter
.itory of New Mexico. Galveston
(IeG.) NeaCS