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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
ENCAUSTlC PROCESSES.
Those Practiced by the Egyptians in the
Time of the Roman EmperOrs.

Those Practiced by the Egyptians in the
Time of the Roman EmperOrs.
In the older Egyptian mummies the
face of the outer casing is usually
modelled in relief, in purely conven-
tional way, but in this latest form of
burial under the Roman empire a por-
trait of the deceased was painted on a
very thin piece of wood and then fixed
over the dead face. 1t is very re-
markable to find such fine coloring
and skillful drawing in work of this
late date, which must have been
turned out of an ordinary undertaker's
workshop. The portraits, both male
and female, are most vivid and life
like; the ladies are mostly dressed in
a purple garment and the men in
white, with red Orphrey. The model
ing of the flesh is very skillful, and in
some cases the cOloring reminds
one of the Venetian school
from its rich depth of tone. A
special point of interest about these
paintings is their technical execution
in the hot wax, or encaustic process,
as it was called. The pigments were
mixed with melted wax, and then fixed
in their places by holding a charcoal
brazier near the surface of the paint
ing, as is described by Vitruvius. The
somewhat lumpy in1pdsto of the sur
face is due to the hardening of the
melted wax when the brush touched
the cold surface of the panel, and, ow-
ing to the non-absorbent nature of the
wood, the subsequent application OF
heat was not able to drive the wax be-
low the surface, as was the case with
encaustic painting upon stucco. One
of these portraits is noticeable from
its ornamental framing with a flowing
pattern, formed by pressing wooden
stamps upon soft stucco, which was
afterward gilt, a process exactly like
that which was so often used to deco
rate medieval pictures on panel, es-
pecially retables, or ancone, as the
Venetians called them. Re-
view.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
EXCITEMENT IN MUNICH.
The Serious Mistake Accidentally Mad
by a Bavarian Drug Clerk.

The Serious Mistake Accidentally Made
by a ISavarian Drug Clerk.
A lady entered one of the prominent
drug stores, the other day, desiring a
cure for cold. The clerk, man of
long experience, reached into one of
the chests for a popular remedy for
colds, and handed it to the woman, who
went on her way rejoicing. A few
minutes later he opened the chest
again, and, to his horror, found it filled
with poison which had been placed
there temporarily owing to the lack Of
labels. The police were Immediately
notified, but failed to find the lady in
question. Criers were sent out, who
ran about the city proclaiming the
incident, and telling all who had pur-
chased the popular remedy to proceed
to the station to have it examined.
Red placards were placed upon the bill
boards. Extras" were thrown about
the city, with sensational headings
"a Life Endangered, "a Case of
Poison" and the like-until the whole
town was excited, and the majority of
the inhabitants seemed hunting the
woman with the popular remedy"
The station was overcrowded with
people and invalids of all kinds, who
had come to have their medicines eX-
amined. There was moaning and
crashing of teeth, and historical wom-
en- declaring, despite rudy cheeks,
that they were at the point of death;
others ready to take farewell of their
dear ones; in all, a scene like mild
pandemonium, frightening the poor
policemen out of their senses. But
though the firm paid over one thou
sand marks in advertising, the investi-
cation proved unavailing, The un-
fortunate woman did not appear
| Munich Letter
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
The CrocodiIe's Rich Feast.

Better far to bear the ills you know
than fly to those you know not Of If
the seventy-fve Kaffirs at the cape who
bolted from the May Queen reef to rid
themselves of daily toll had borne the
old adage in mind the bulk of them
would have been in the land of the liv-
ing to-day. Instead of that some of
them are in the land of the leal-per-
haps-and others in a much warmer
place. This is how it all happened:
When said natives bolted pursuit was
hot. Black men jumped into a river,
but only four out of the lot reached the
other side. 1t was a case of crocodile
first, and natives next to nowhere.
The crocodiles had high old time OF
it with seventy-fve plump Kaffirs to
feed upon. In a race for liberty a
policeman may be outstripped OF
outmaneuvered- crocodile never-Or
scarcely ever.-Cape Town Argus.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
ACROSS GREE inland.
The Thrilling Story of a Danish Explorer
Snow-ShOe Trip.

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Snow-Shoe Trip.
Since DR.. Nansen's return to Den
mark he has added very interesting
details to the story Of his trip across
Greenland. The fact that his party,
after leaving the ship within twelve
miles of Umivik, where they expected
to begin their land journey, drifted
many miles south in the ice and were
over three weeks reaching their desti-
nation on the coast, shows the i'm
mense difficulty of penetrating the ice
barrier that the prevailing winds keep
constantly packed against the eastern
shores of Greenland.
Some of the isolated natives unac-
customed to the sight of white men,
fed in terror, though Captain Holm's
sojourn among them during one winter
should have taught them better.
Probably no tribe were so thoroughly
introduced to the public by means of
the camera as these natives, of whom
numerous photographs appear in Cap
tain Holm's recent book.
The six men of the Nansen eXpedi-
ton were a spectacle worth seeing as
they gained the lofty summit of the in
land ice, all tied together with rope,
as though they were climbing the Mat
terhorn. 1t was a wise precaution. for
| the snow concealed not few gaping
crevices in the thick ice, and now and
then the fragile bridge gave way un-
| der some member of the party. 1t
was heavy sledging in the soft snow OF
the Arctic summer, but the party, on
their snow-shoes, dragging five little
sledges, made fifty miles in the first
twelve days They were steadily
climbing toward the summit of Green.
lands ice plain, which, as we have
learned within the past few years, is
higher than any other extensive pla
teau in the world except those of the
Pamir and some parts OF Thibet.
The party occupied over two weeks
in crossing this almost level ex
panse of ice, 5000 feet above the sea-
1t was now September, and at thu
enormous height of nearly 5000 fee
above the summit of our Mount Wash
ington, it is easy to understand tha
the Greenland tourists were impedeC
no longer by soft and yielding snow.
The temperature, however, was S eli
dom lower than twenty degrees below
zero. but many snow storms and grea
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| drifts impeded the progress OF the

drifts impeded the progress OF the
travellers.
At last they reached the eastern
slope of the frozen sea, and, hosting
their sails, they found that pnuch OF
the time it was no longer necessary to
haul on the sledge ropes. Often they
travelled behind their sledges to hold
them back and ratified down the long
slope at splendid rate. Now and
then, however, they were face to face
with the most startling dangers, as
once, when they paused on the edge OF
great crevice which seemed like the
mouth of a bottomless abyss. They
had other hairbreadth escapes, and
once nearly lost their lives through
the breaking of snow-bridge.
Earlier travellers on the inland ice OF
Greenland have found that the need of
making long detours to get around
crevices was one of the greatest OBJ
stacles in their way.
At last the fords of the western coast
were reached. In forty days the little
party had travelled three hundred
miles, from sea to sea. We do not yet
know what scientific value attaches to
this expedition; but it is likely to add
interesting facts to our knowledge of
this stupendous ice mass, which, NOV
ing very slowly toward the coasts, finds
some outlet for it's accumulations
through the fiords. Contemplating
this tremendous ice movement, it is
not difficult to believe that we see in
the Greenland of to-day the conditions
that, in past geological age, tore
great powders of trap from the Pail
sades, and huge granite and other rock
masses from far northern regions, and
strewed them along the shores of Long
Islaud.-N. Y. Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
ABOUT ETIQUETTE.
Concessions That Are Absolutely Neces'
sarv to Social Harmony.

COnces siOnS That Are Absolutely Necces
sary to Social Harmony.
In arranging their methods OF living ana
social intercourse men are striving TO so
repress and regulate their bas T lives as 10
make them of as little prominence as posi-
BILE and offend in the least degree the inner
sensibilitiea 1t is desirable to make the
service and eating of meals not mere
feeding to which we shall go with dread
and from which We shall come with dis
gust, and, if possible, not only inoffensive,
but positive source Of refined pleasure.
Hence have grown up these little laws and
customs which have excited the contempt
of our thoughtless friends. If it offends
my neighbors to see me shovelm food into
nv mouth with knife, Twill learn TO use
my fork, even if 1 do not at first feel that
there is sufficient ground for his feeling.
He will doubtless reciprOeate by refraining
ON dipping his fingers into certain arti-
cies of food which it distresses me to ses
eaten that way. And so we shall establish
a little code of forbearance, desiring to give
the least possible otfense to each other, and
this will grow, as others come Into our
circle into an elaborate code Of etiquette.
1t is much easier and better for us to sub
scribe to and observe these little things,
even when they appear to us unnecessary
and even silly, than to go on in a course
that we can not help seeing is offensive to
our friends and gives them pain without
giving us any corresponding satisfaction,
and finally makes us dislked or pitied-
| Good Housekeeping.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.
Effective Treatment of an Old Kentuck
Apple Orchard.

Effective Treatment of an old Kentucky
Apple Orchard.
The following from notes on the
treatment of an old orchard at the farm
of the Kentucky Experiment Station,
together with some suggestions, may
be of use to persons who have old Or
chards in the condition described.
Many of the trees were old and full OF
suckers and dead limbs, the trunks
were rough. the tops were almost mat
ted with branches, and many of the
branches were so low as to prevent
proper cultivation. The situation was
on very wet, thin clay soil, which
had been seeded to English bluegrass.
So far as known, the orchard had been
an entire failure heretofore as to fruit.
Sometimes the trees fruited heavily,
but the apples dropped prematurely
and were always wOrmy.
1t was concluded to attempt an i'm
provement of this orchard by trim
ming, fertilizing and cultivating, and
also by destroying the codling moth
with London purple. Accordingly all
dead limbs were removed and the tops
of the trees trimmed, though not to
such an extent as to allow the main
branches to be exposed too much to
the sun. Tobacco stems we're placed
around the trees and the ground was
plowed, and spaded where the
plow could not reach. The trees
were sprayed with London purple,
four ounces to forty gallons of water
in a barrel mounted on cart, which
was driven to the windward side of
the trees, when one man pumped
while another held the nozzle apply
ing the spray, so as to go just above
the tree and fall down on the leaves
and young fruit.
AS the result it is stated that most
of the trees in the orchard bore fruit,
and many were loaded down. But few
apples dropped prematurely, and but
few of these were wOrmy. Of the ap-
pies on the trees only a few could be
found that had been attacked by the
cooling moth, while in neighboring
orchards it was rare to find sound
apple.
The experiment affords another
added to the many instances already
known of the beneficial effect of
spraying with the arsenites as a pro-
lection against the codling moth. From
the description it would seem that the
location was poor one for an orchard.
Where situations better adapted to
fruit can not be had, such as the one
described would be much improved by
undertaking, In general, proper
! pruning, stirring the soil and manur-
ing will renogate an orchard that Is
not too old to be improved in that way,
and at present 1t looks as though spray
ing to save the fruit after it has formed
VIII have to become more and more
common. Not only is it effective
against the codling moth, but it is at
the same time equally so on all leaf
eating insects. Y. World
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
LINE-MEN'S DANGERS.
Work That Requires Cool Head, u Steady
Nerve and Much Courage.

ga line-man carries his life in his
pocket, and it may slip through very
tiny hole, said an employee of the
Brush Electric Light Company. "a
cool head and a steady nerve, with a
smattering of electrical knowledge, are
the prerequisites of a frst-class line
man. Unless man be apt to judge
and quick to remember he will be
liable to serious plumbers in his manip-
ulation of the wires. Where there are
dozens of them attached to one pole it
is necessary that he should be able
readily to distinguish each from the
others, and have no doubt as to whether
it be quick or dead. Contact with the
earth through means of conductor
should be stunned like death itself.
Moisture in the atmosphere, or on the
wire, or the pole greatly accentuates
the danger that always prevails. What
is ordinarily non-conductor becomes
imbued with conducting properties
when it is wet, and this is why many
line-men dread to mount the poles after
or during storm.
eff a man exercises due diligence
and certain amount of what is termed
'gumption,' he may pursue his bust
ness for years without receiving any
worse injury than burn or two. But
even the coolest-headed man is liable
to blunder occasionally, and there is
no other department of life where a
blunder of microscopic proportions eff
fects such disastrous results. The
contact of dangling watch charm or
little finger nail with the wrong wire
at the wrong time may cost a man his
life. So long, however, as he sits
astride the cross-piece of a wooden
telegraph pole and confines his atten-
ton solely to a wire that has no com
munication with the earth he is as
safe as if he were in his mother S
arms. n-Pnnadelphia Record.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
A GALLANT SOLDIER.
How He Rescued a British Officer at the
Risk of His Own Life.

How He Rescued British officer at the
Risk of His Own Life.
Death has just removed an aged man
in North Shields, England, who, though
he bore upon his breast the coveted
emblem of the Victoria Cross, was get
ting his living by sweeping the road
ways as a servant of the Tyne corpora
ton. Edward Jennings was the name
of this distinguished scavenger, who
was seventy-four years old. An Irish
man by birth, he entered the service
of the John Company" at the age of
sixteen, and was with the British army
that entered Cabul in 1882 The first
engagement in which he fought was
that of Ghuznif, where he received a
medal. He also took part in the capt
ure of Delhi during the great mutiny,
and in the relief of Lucknow, and the
saving of Agra from the mutineers, as
well as in a severe engagement at
Cawnpore under Sir Colin Campbell.
According to report, it was during the
siege of Lucknow that Jennings, &C
companied by half a dozen of his
troops, was one day intrusted with the
conveyance of a dispatch to a Captain
Remington. On the return journey the
attention of the party was arrested by
the cries of a European. Jennings at
once volunteered to go in quest, the
others remaining on the lookout. A
high wall had to be surmounted; then
the horseman galloped along a narrow
street, at the end of which he discov-
cred British officer standing with his
back against a wall, bayonet in hand,
endeavoring to keep at bay small
host of excited natives, armed with
short swords. The trooper shouted in
the vernacular, They are coming, :"
on hearing which the horde broke and
scattered, not before, however, the
Irish private had cut down at least
half a dozen. The ground thus
cleared, Jennings dismounted, and at
tended to the wants of his superior,
whom he found bleeding freely from
several saber wounds, and a gunshOt
wound, the most serious, on the hip.
The trooper had with him some rum,
which he administered, and then put
the well-nigh exhausted Lieutenant on
his own beast, and, safely emerging,
deposited his charge at the general
hospital 1t is stated that it was in
return for this act that Sir Colin
Campbell recommended him for the
Victoria Cross. Unfortunately, the
fact that Jennings could neither read
nor write was fatal bar to his obtain
ing a commission. Tele-
graph.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
HOME AND FARM.


When the soil is soft after q rain
q a good time to pull up mullen, plant
ain, dock or other undesirable weeds
N the lawn.
Teach boys and girls the actual
facts of life as soon as they are able to
understand them, and give them the
sense of responsibility without sadden-
ing them.
If the corn planting is week be-
hind the harvesting is likely to be two
weeks behind. The time that is lost
in the spring can't be overtaken during
the summer.
Any kind of succulent food is good
for cattle and will help them to in
crease in flesh. Mich animals are es-
pecially benefited by such food. The
only caution necessary is not to use
such food for mich COWS as will give
bad flavor to the milk.
Faith, Love and Hope in the
Home will weave their influence In the
heart. Pure affections and an earnest,
holy purpose will bring their own re-
ward of happiness in the end. Avoid
as crime the whining discomfort over
what is, and the feverish anxiety for
what is not.-St. Louis Magazine.
Creole Cake: Beat the yelks OF
two eggs with a cup and a half OF
sugar and two ounces of butter to-
gether until very light, add a cup OF
cold water, cup and half OF flour,
beat smooth, add the stiffiy-beaten
whites of two eggs, and cup and
half more of sifted flour, with a tea
spoonful of baking powder and little
grated nutmeg. Mix we'll and bake in
a moderate oven until done.
Don't you wish you had tiled that
low place last year? If you can not do
I it this year run two burrows through
it throwing them from each other,
then go through the same way again,
making ditch two burrows wide and
two deep, drag the ridge down and you
will be pleased with the result from
the little outlay of time and labor
Farm, Field and Stockman.
Dutch Cheese: Scald loppered milk
till the whey becomes separated and
the curd feels like sharp grains to the
! tongue. Stir lightly, occasionally, to
keep from sticking to the bottom OF
the pan or kettle; then set where 1t
will settle perfectly; then pour off the
whey and turn the curd into thin
cloth and squeeze dry; then rub fine
with the hands, salt to taste, and wet
up with sweet cream till it is OF a right
consistency to make into balls.
The farmers son is just as honor
able and is as honorably employed
when taking load of hay to town and
carting a load of manure home to en-
rich the farm, as he would be if stand
inc behind the merchants counter
measuring dry goods, and the prospect
! of setting up in business for himself is
as 100 to one in favor of the worker on
the farm, at the present low price OF
farms compared with the chances be-
fore the clerk.-Rural World.
"A good crop of hay for feed can
often be secured after it is too late to
plant corn to good advantage by SOW
ing millet or Hungarian. Or, if need
ed, sorghum or corn can be sown, on
wheat stubble, if reasonably rich and
well prepared, and good yield OF
fodder for winter feeding be secured.
Turnips can be sown in the same way
and they will make good feed for
sheep and cattle, adding to the variety
and increasing the supply of feed for
| winter
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
WATCHES AND CLOCKS.


Look at the Dial and See How the Hours
Are Marked.
mark down the figures on the face
of a watch" said a Summit street
ieweler to a reporter.
l, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6-began the reporter
as he put pencil to paper
mo, l mean Roman numerals"
Then this was produced.
l. II, III, ". V, VI VII, VIII, TX,
X, II, XII
You are wrong" said the jeweler.
81 guess not" said the reporter.
TRY again." said the ieweler.
perhaps / don't know how to count
in Roman figures, said the reporter.
You know that well enough, but
watchmakers use different ones. Look
at your watch"
Haven't got one"
''Well, look at mine. See the figure
which stands for four o'clock"
The reporter looked, and was sur
prised. 1t was LII and not ".
''Are all the clocks and watches that
way" he asked.
Every one which has Roman fig
ures on its dial"
"WhyP"
well, I'll tell you the story. 1t is
nothing but tradition among watch
makers, but the custom has always
been preserved You may or you
may not know that the first clock that
in any way resembled those now in
use was made by Henry Wick, in 1870.
He made it for Charles V. of France,
who has been called The Wise.
Nov, Charles was wise in good
many ways. He was wise enough to
recover from England most of the land
which Edward III. had conquered, and
he did a good many other things which
benefited France. But his early edu-
cation had been somewhat neglected,
and he probably would have had trouble
in passing civil-service examination
in these enlightened ages. Still he had
a reputation for wisdom, and thought
that it was necessary, in order to keep
it up, that he should also be supposed
to possess book learning. The latter
was a subject he was extremely touchy
about.
80 the story runs in this fashion,
although will not vouch for the Ian
guage, but put it in that of the present
day:
Yes, the clock works WE'LL said
Charles, but being anxious to find
some fault with thing he did not I'M
derstand, you have got the figures on
the dial wrong
Wherein, Your Majesty?' asked
Wick.
% That four should be four ones, "
said the King.
You are wrong, Your Majesty,
said Wick.
4 am never wrong" thundered
the King. Take it away and correct
the mistaken and corrected it was, and
from that day to this four o'clock on a
watch or clock dial has been I'LL. in
stead of ". The tradition has been
aithfully followed. Toledo Blade.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27

ishment visited a school, not in a fashion
able part of the city, just as a boy was be-
ing f1ogged. Before going away she spoke
to the culprit and asked MIN to come and
see her on certain evening, promising to
make it pleasant for him. At the appointed
hour a boy, dressed in his best, came, and
for an hour and more the lady and her
daughter laid themselves out to amuse him.
Then the lady began to speak of the impor-
lance of good behavior and obedience to
rules, when the boy interrupted her: ''Oh,
amt that feherl He gi'me ten cents to
come lnStider him.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
The Best Work to Do.

The best work for any man to do is
the work that is just before him, by
the ordering of Gods providence. If
he neglects that work, in the hope of
finding something better suited to his
abilities, there are two things in
which he is practically failure-the
work to which God has set him, and
the work which he has picked out for
himself. Doing what he has to do is
better for any man than doing what
he wants to do. If, indeed, what a
man has to do happens to be what ne
wants to do, there is no objection ia
iAGk-S S. Times
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
n,.-,... for Con.unspfires.

The several climates of Florida, COLORADO
and California have each been MUCH pr ~.
scribed for sufferers from lung disease, yesi
thousands of the natives in those States dle
of this fatal malady. A far more re1apls'
remedy is to be had in every drug store 10
the land, and one that can be used at home.
a remedy which is sold, by druggists, under
the manufacturers positive guarantee tnat,
If taken in time and given fair trial, it
will effect a cure, or money paid for 1t Will
be s- promptly returned. We refer to that
vvorld-famed remedy for consumption ZOE
lupg-scrofula) known as DR.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery. 1t is the only rem.
edy for this terrible disease possessed Oh
such superior curative properties
Ivarrant its manufacturers in selling Il
under a guarantee.