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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
PITH AND POINT.

The greatest of faults is to be con-
scious of none.-Carlyle.
Some men are so lazy they
wouldn't help unload if their ship
should come in.
If none but those without fault
threw stones nobody would be hit
Galveston News.
No blindness or lack of opportuni-
ty to do great things deprives any of
the right to be good man.
The lighter the individual the
easier to float in the social SWIM
Washington Critic.
"A daughter is a little white lamb
in the household to teach men to be
gentlemen.
Many voyager has made ship
wreck on the sea of matrimony because
he didn't choose the right mate
Ocean.
There are three things in speech
that ought to be considered before some
things are spoken, the manner, the
place and the time.
Wearing a diamond pin is not al
ways ign of great wealth. Many a
man carries his pocketbook on his
shirt front. Jewellers Weekly.
1t makes difference about mans
value, whether you take him at his
own estimation or that of his wife,
Somerville Journal.
The lookingglass is the only truth
teller that is universally popular. But
this is because we interpret its refec-
tions to suit ourselves, and not literal
ly.-Puck.
1t was very proper answer to him
who asked why any man should be de-
lighted with beauty, that it was a
question which none but q blind man
should ask.
An acquaintance grilled, scored,
deviled and served with mustard and
cayenne pepper, excites the appetite;
whereas a slice of cold friend, with
currant jelly, is but a sickly, unrelish-
ing meat. t.-Thackeray
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
THE MOONS REVOLUTION.
Why We Have Need to BE Devoutly Crate
full for Our Satellite.

ful for Our Satellite.
If we could take bird's-ey view of
the portion of the solar system con-
tanning only the sun, the earth and
the moon, we should see the sun NOV
ing with rapid pace through the vast
regions of space, taking with him the
earth and the moon. We should see
the earth revolving round the sun,
taking with her the moon. We should
also see the moon revolving round the
earth, her motion round both sun and
earth causing her to move in an ir-
regular curve, always concave to the
sun.
We could then realize as no words
can describe how exceedingly COM
plicated is the motion of the moon in
her orbit, and admire with reverent
awe the heavenly harmony that pre-
walls even in this small portion of the
material universe. For it must be re-
membered that our majestic sun is but
a shining point seen from the nearest
fixed star, and our earth and moon are
invisible to the suns of space.
The moon revolves around the earth
from any fixed star to the same star
again, in twenty-seven and three-tenths
days, completing periodic or sideral
revolution.
The earth meantime has advanced in
her orbit, and the moon requires more
time to complete revolution in regard
to the sun, bringing sun, moon and
earth into line, and making the time
from new moon to new moon again
twenty-nine and half days. This is
called lunar month, lunation or
synodic period.
The moon is often considered as of
little consequence in the economy of
creation. But what would the earth
do without her? She is our minister
and companion. If she were blotted
from the skies there would be no tides
of any amount, no silver crescents
hanging in the golden West, no glori-
Gus full moons flooding the sleeping
earth with soft lights and shadows,
and no total eclipses of the sun, the
most sublime phenomena on which
mortal eyes rest.
We have need then to be devoutly
grateful for our satellite, for her posi-
tion in the heavens, for the short period
of her revolution, and for all the bless
ing that follow in her train. Her move
ment round the earth is but one short
chapter in the complex history of our
nearest and most intimate celestial
neighbor. youths Companion.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
ARTIFICIAL EYES.
A Trade That Is More Extensive Than
Many Imagine.

A Trade That Is More Extensive Than
Many Imagine.
The trade in false eyes is more extern
sive than many imagine. The best are
made in Uri. Those of German manu-
facture have more curvature, and are
deeper and appear more liquid than
those of French make. False eyes are
also made in London and in New York,
Pittsburgh and st. Paul Those made
in this country are considered defect
i've. They are usually made of
glass, though the London firm
make them of cellulOid, but these only
merit praise from English authors. The
value of a glass eye is from 81 to SO.
A local specialist averages three sales
a fortnight and keeps on hand a stock
of from five hundred to eight hundred.
In selecting false eye it is more diff
cult to match color than to fit size and
shape. A cross-eye's aspect is often
given because of false eyes bad
shape. A well-ftting artificial eye
may be worn as easily as false teeth.
Glass eyes will wear from one to four
years. The luster wears away from
dust and the movement of the lid. 1t
should be removed at night to give the
socket rest. Sympathetic symptoms
must be passed before artificial eyes
are worn. In general terms, artificial
eyes are sections of the surface of
spheres made of enamel, to which are
added an enameled cornea and iris.
When an existing deformed globe is
only little smaller than normal one
very small artificial eye suffices to hide
the deformity, and has a decided lateral
motion. Fitting closely on the stump,
they are frequently as movable as the
normal one. The posterior surface of
an artificial eye must always be hollow.
Generally the corneal part is only half
a line and the sceral part no more than
a quarter of a line in thickness, --CleVs-
land Plain-Dealer,
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
WAsHINoToN's YOUTH.
The Interesting Anecdotes Told by Parson
Weems.


The Interesting Anecdotes Told by ParsOn
Weems.
People who have forgotten Washing
toms battles remember the cherry-tree
and his hatchet. Weems started that
pleasing tale, and it is he who tells also
of race on foot between George and
his neighbor, 'Langy Dade."
First, let me tell you-for boys to-
day resemble the Apostle Paul in one
thing, certainly: they like to prove all
things that among the many authors
who have written about the youth of
Washington, the one upon whose pre-
serves all. the rest have browsed, whose
qua; mt stories have come to be our
classics, was this very Parson Weems.
People who have grown up in the
neighbOrhood of Mt. Vernon, where
Weems was we'll known, are not quite
sure whether there ever was hatchet
or, for that matter, even a cherry
tree in the garden of excellent Mr..
Augustine Washington, near Freder-
icksburg!
For Parson Weems was reputed tc
have very vivid imagination He
used to drive about Fairfax County in
an old fashioned gig with a calash,
peddling his own books and others,
plantation to plantation. When he
succeeded in making a sale, he would
whip out the fiddle that always accom-
panied him, and. standing up in his gig,
play the merriest, maddest dance mu-
sic. The negroes, -"rhc s+cHd "9pin%
round his gig, cou q no more resist
him than the rats co q resist the Pied
Piper of Hamelin! First, they swayed,
then they beat, time with foot and hand,
and at last broke into q regular corn
shucking jig! When Weems remained
over night at the house Of one or his
patrons, he would volunteer TO rea0
family prayers, and at the moment the
last Amen was said, would fall to
playing reels and jigs upon his fiddle
His sermons were the oldest ever heard
from Church of England clergyman.
He was often at Mount Vernon, and
lrOIu OSuSFdl Stuu MIS- W etcnAllS 1OA 10
received many kindnesses. In the
course of much freside gossip, during
his wanderings from one country house
to another, Mr.. Weems picked up the
anec1etes of-Washington's youth, which
he has told in his book. And g Z; rN;, are
ever so fortunate as to visit the Society
Library in University P ace, New YORK,
ask permission to see a copy they have
there, an early edition, of this famous
Lille of George Washington. 1t was
published in 1914. with an introduction
by Light Horse Harry Lee.
And now for the fOOt-races, as re-
ported by Parson Weems: "'Egad! he
ran wonderfully said my amiable and
aged friend John Fitzhugh, Esq, who
knew Washington we'll. We had no
body hereabouts that could come near
him. There was a young LanghOrn
Dade of Westmoreland, a. cOufOunded
clean-made, tight young fellow, and a
mighty swift runner, too. But then,
he was no match for George. Langy,
indeed, did not like to give it up, and
would brag. that he sometimes brought
George TO a. tie. Butt believe he was
mistaken, for l have seen them run to-
gethcr many time, and George always
beat him easy enough. Mrs. Burton
Harrison, in St. Nicholas.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
TRUE POETRY DEFINED.
Prof. Rice Attempts to Contradict Some
Prevailing Notions.

Prof. Rice Attempts to Contradict Some
Prevailing Notions.
Prof. Thomas R. Rice, the head of
The department of English at Columbia
College, delivered an instructive leet-
ure on "Shakespeare's Dramatic Con-
struction." A great drama, he said, is
made up of two elements; first, emo
ton, and second, action. The problem
of dramatic poetry is to convert an
emotion into an action, and in showing
this Prof. Rice used "Othello" as an
example of the perfect English drama.
He also gave some useful hints regard
ing the composition of poetry as fol-
lows:
'The true theory of poetic art, the
poetic movement in all ages and among
all peoples, is the movement of the
human spirit bound in the fetters of its
acts. These fetters are the rules of
poetic construction. To affect to be
outside of them is to be essentially un-
poetic. To break the law is to pro-
duce discord and ugliness; to
obey the-law is to produce a poem AS
the kind of poetry becomes grave and
thoughtful, the laws of poetry become
not only more difficult to understand,
but also more difficult to apply. Ex-
pand the ballad into an epic and even
the genius of Milton stumbles, even the
art of Virgil fails, in applying at all
nOintS the laws of narrative DOetrV
Expand the song into an ode and the
world, having brought forth one Pin
dar. seems unable ever again to appre-
ciate or to apply the highest laws of
lyric expression. But there is one kind
of poetry that in the strictness, the
goodness, the majestic force of its COM
peling and restraining laws goes even
beyond the epic art of Virgil, even
above the lyric art of Pindar. Dra-
matte poetry as fashioned into sys-
tenn by Sophocles, and, under changed
conditions, perfected by Shakespeare,
reaches its results by obedience to such
laws of form and movement as tax the
mind to the uttermost. To UNDER
stand these laws rightly and to apply
them successfully is feat that has
been accomplished by hardly half
dozen of the greatest poets. IN. Y.
Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
p.

ran and found her, ''don't fret! I'll
take you home to nurse and Miss Kate!
Come ON, my dear!"
The child put her arms round Johns
neck. and laid her small, wet cheek on
his rough coat.
mice John; take me homei"
The man in the cart had stood to see
if the child was found, and now he
drove them home. How Kate and Jack
and nurse ran to the cart to get the first
kiss from their dear Bess! No one
could bear her out of their sight for
moment, and she could not tell much
of what the tramp had done.
''She took my frock and my shoes for
her poor girl" said Bess, land then
she ran and left me-"
Mr.. Grant, who was very fond OF his
small girls and of Jack, made the men
lock the gates each day. so that tramps
and thieves could not get in.
The bad one who had been there was
soon caught and sent to gaol. Mrs.
Grant told Kate that nurse must be
with them all the time now when they
were out.
did you think the bad tramp would
hurt you, Bess dear?" said Kate, as she
sat by the cot that night.
NO" in slow voice. ''but my doll
did-oh! she shook with fearT
Kate could not help a laugh at this,
for the doll, whose head was on the bed
by Bess, did not look at all as if she
had had such a shock. Her eyes were
very wide and very blue, and there was
calm smile on her face.-Minnie
Douglas, in Little Folks.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20

in review of our navy, London
Engineering says: I'm closing these
details, we may add that Great Britain
has now ten war vessels of 5000 tons
and upward with. a .prinimum*speed OF
10: =ka0ts per hour, the United States
eight, France five, Spain three, Japan
two and Russia one. The United States
accordingly now claim that, in the i'm
portant matter of high speed war ships,
they range second. and are not far be-
hind Great Britain. The Americans
are, in fact, going in for high-speed
cruisers"
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20

-''If you mus marry, let common
sense have a show in de transackshun.
Doan' go off yer feet bekase you meet
a girl who kin sing like robin, smile
like a rose, and jump off a street kyar
widout bodderin' de driver to stop. A
wife will have much to do besides
singin' an cultivatin' dimples. Befo'
you fall in love wild gal who looks
too sweet for anythin' in a red plush
sacque, kinder fgger on how many
sich duds your income would afford
her. Befo' you let par O. fashin'
eyes an a cunnin' dimple captivate ye,
look aroun' little an see if de owner
has got a temper like a wildcat. Mar
riage am failure simply bekase peo-
pie take each odder insight an un-
seen. IN. Ledger.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20

1t is in the time of trouble, when
some to whom we may have looked for
consolation and encouragement regard
us with coldness, and others, perhaps,
treat US with hostility, that the warmth
of the friendly heart, and the support
of the friendly hand acquire increased
value, and demand additional graft
tude. Bishop Mant.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
Defective Acoustics.

"What an odd echo this room hasm
observed the Chicago girl, as she
slipped her chocolate and looked about
the large dining-hall. Don't you
think it's acoustics is bad, Mr.. Ca
hokia?''
Toughest l ever struck" replied
the young man from st. Louis, saving
away on his steak with great energy.
Chicago Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20

In conversation, the medium is
neither to affect silence or eloquence;
not to value our approbation; and to
endeavor to excel us who are of your
company, are equal injuries. The
great enemies therefore to good COM
pany, and those who transgress most
against the laws OF equality, which is
the life of it, are the clown, the wit
and the pedant. Sir r, Steele,
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
A stout elderly lady was hangir

"A stout elderly lady was hanging
by strap, regarded with impertinent
looks by an ungallant, dude5'wh sat
sucking the head of his cane and did
not offer her a seat. A sudden lurch Of
the car flung the lady upon him with
great force. Say, dash it, don't you
know" exclaimed the youth, you've
crushed my foot to jelly~ Its not
the first time I've made calfs-foot jel-
ly," retorted the matron. severely. He
vanished and she sat down.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20
VOLUME XVIII.
A GREAT SCHOLARS FATE.
He'd studied every lexicon, from Portuguese
to Mexican.

He'd studied every lexicon, from Portuguese
to Mexican,
polyglot mosaic was his speech,
And his vocabulary to Tom and Dick Ind Harry
Was very altitudinOus and way beyond their
reach.
He could parley with a Guinean, '.'urk or
Abyssinian,
The savage tribes Of Wadelai, the men of
Kandahar
With modern Patagonian, an ancient Baby
lonian,
% Or the men OF Athabasca or BorrEoboola Cha
He coald talR with cold Alaskans or with tropic
Msdagascans,
Gould dialogue with Greek or Jew-and Rus
sian was his pride;
E9pt NE read fashion column" and it made
him very solemn,
And he struggled with the lockiaw, and
crawled away and died
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20

Many arts and sciences are more
easily acquired late in life than good
manner. If people are to behave well,
they must be taught early so to be-
have-a practice that demands unceas-
ing sacrifice of minute personal lik-
ing to the general pleasure and con-
Venience. Once a Week.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20

"A man must be excessively stupid,
as well as uncharitable. who believes
there is no Virtue but on his own side
Addison.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-20

What you leave at your death, let
It be without controversy, else the
lawyers will be your heirs IF. Os-
born.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-09-08

somida, a la Gu SO cOnvidaba &
todos los vihado es y On ella 10
bebia s la gioria de Dioe, protector
de todos 10, birnes terrestres.
En- el >igl XVIII la fiesta era
mas solemne, el pase por las ca
lies era una verdadera procession;
en- 1,706 . procession llevaba I'M
Baco de yeso, y en- 1760 ese Baco
de yeso 50 balIa represeDtado pOr
un ouea mozo de carne y huesO;
POGO q poo 'se pusieron al rededOr
iel r y de la VIVA otros per sonaies
nit d 5gicns, = al FIN del siglo pasa-
10 todos esos personajes sc divi-
dieron en- cuatro grupo represen-
tando las cuatrO : 9, taciones del
a6o. Ouando vino ell primer i'm
perio france, gu, representala Ia
guerra permanente, ces6 esa fiesta
y va no Sc celebr6 con pompa has.
ia el aiio de gracia de 1883, y des..
Ou6s Sc ha celebrado varias veces,
"a lie este aiio es la quinta que 90
IA verificado en- el siglo XIX; es
le esperar que nuestros amigos los
suizos "a podtan aun celebrar con
paz y concordia. @
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-09-08

poder nombrar los Alcaldes. no
70 en- ell periodo electoral, pc.
70 nj tampoco antes, Gque tempo
g que OCCASION le quedar& para
nombrarlos2 ILa otra vida2
Pero hay mae. Los autono
mistas de Csguas, por 10 que Sc ex
presa en- El CIan,or, sufren gran
des martirios de cavilaci6n por
que, seg4n han dido, "sus ad
versarios, y entire ellos alguu
empleado del Gobierno, aseguran
que a1tu cuan 10 estan en- minoris
en- el censo electoral, gansrau de
cualquier manera, y, 81 precise
fuese, para conseguirlo, hollarau
las leyes"
iH"jarasca, pura palabreria,
que no produce el etecto apeteci-
do!
No creemos se nos ofenda FL
CIGmOr y esos seiores autono-
mistas de Csguas, 81 nos permiti-
mos establecer ell siguiente simil'
Los ninos medrosos, psra dis
traer Ell miedo, gritan 8 cantan
cuando Sc hallan solos y en- para
les obscuros.
Ustedes, los que antes del com
bate electoral, vociferan "a, pre-
viendo y pronosticando arbitra
rieda 1es y coacciones, parecense
I aquellos pusilanimes nihos.
Estes cantan para distraerse de-
tenor de que Sc lie aparezcan fan
tasmas 8 muertos.
Ustedes denuncian, sin ton ri
son, faturas arbitrariedades, para
distraerse de una triste copvic
ci6n, 8 para disfrazarls; y esta,
que lee tiene preocupados y te
merosos, es Ia conviction profun
do dc otro pr6ximo fracaso, de
otra derrots en- buena lid, dc
hueste contra husste, no mar
ced & 10 coscci6n nj al atropello
81 Incondicionalismo nunca hs
neeesitado de este xecurso paTs
veneer, como ha vencido siempre,
lealmente, { sus eternos adverse
rios.
Pronto 10 hemos de YER nueva
mente probado.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-09-08
HONROSfSIMO.

Asi como la anterior noticis en-
honrosisima para Espafia, en- ge.
neral, la que va q continuation,
como dice muy Lien el peri6dicc
madrileiio que nos Ia propofcio.
na, honrosisima 90 para 'nuestro
heroico Ej6rc,to.
Dee la noticia, que CON suma
complacenria reproducimoe:
"Entre los 174 aspirAutes apro-
balos como alumnOs de la Aoade.
mia general miii'ar, f1guran custro
>argentos sesundos, un cAbo IL
soldados de infant' ria, cinco solda.
dos de caballeria, dos cabos Y tres
soldados de artiIleria, cuatro SOL
dados de ingenioros, un guardia
civil y un marinero de Ia fragata
Carmen.
No debe pasar inadvertidO Y sin
APPLAUSE el merito de estos ind,-
viduos del ejeroitO, hJos de fami.
lias POGO puCientes, sin duda al
guna, que a fuerza de- estudiOs y
desvelos logran llegar & 10 Acade-
mia general, para abrirse canine
hacia las atlas posiciones de Ia mi.
licia.
Como indican los datos consig-
nados, no Sc trata va de an case
suelto, sino de uu n1maro Ielati-
vamente considerable.
El hecho es no 1rosisimo para
uuestro ej6 'cito, y por este 10 hace.
mos notar con verdadera satisfac.
ci6n."
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-09-08
TOMA DE- POSSESSION.

Anteayer, a las IL del dia, tuvo
efecto en- Ia Sala de Justicia de Ia
Real Audiencia el solemne acto
de prestar juramento y tomar po.
session de su alto cargo el nuevo
Y muy digno Presidente de aquei
Tribunal Superior, Imo Sr D,
Ricardo Di.x Agero.
Asistieron & dicho acto, que fuG
lueidisimo, los st nores Pretidente
de Sala y Magistrates, Jueces de
/: Iustaucia y MunicipaIes. Abo-
gados, Registrador de 10 Propie-
dad, Notarios, Escribanos, etc.
Un numeroso pdblico presenci6 Ia
solemnidad.
Terminals 10 ceremonial, el Sr
Dias Agero obseqoi6 CON nm es
pl9ndido lunch 4 los setiores CON.
currentes q la misma.
Reiteramos nuestra respetuosa
felicitaci6n al nuevo senior Presi.
dente de Ia Audiencia Territorial.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-09-08
NOS RNORGULLRcR.

No solamente con gusto, sine
que tambi6u CON orgullo, 4 fuel
de espanoles, copiamos de un pc.
ri6dico madrileno Ia siguiente no.
cia.
Ella es una nueva demostraci6n
evidentfsima del alto prestigio
que gozsn en- los paises hispano-
americanos neestro profssorado,
uuestras ilustraciones civiles y
militares y nuestros articles.
Muchas instituciones docentes
existen en- la America que fu@ es
panola, fundadas y dirigidas por
profesores espafioles, que de Es.
oa1ia solicitaron CON ahinco aque
llos Gobiernos, aquellos Presiden
tes de RepIblica.
Y he aqui Ia noticia q que nos
rsferimos, y que nos suministrs
N Resuns6n de Madrid:
"Ya anunciamos que habia lie
gado d la Peninsula el presidente
del Oonsejo superior de Instruction
pdblica de la repdolica de Hondu-
ras, D. Antonio Ramirez Fontecha,
hijn de CAdiz.
ri Sr. F0ntechs ha sido comisio-
nado por aqnel Gobierno para
contratar en- Espala TN professor
de filosoffa y letras, otro de Glen.
cias morales y politicas, uu pada
gogo, I'm ingeniero de cam mos,
UtrO mecaDico, tres instructOres
militares, un instructor de ingenie-
ros. otro de Artilleria y otro de
Guardia civil, dos profesoras de
sehoritas, un fundidor de metales,
On tallista grabador y otro lapida.
rio.
Asf mismo trae el encargo de
comprar toios los textoa Y ttiles
de ensohanza que son necesari0s
en- el pals para el progresO de la
instrucci6nS.
Ttasmitimos estae noticias al
srimi0 yats hispano americana,
.otor de unos versos fepfoducidos
"a POGO en- El ClamOr dol Pdis, y
n los euales 90 pretend1a ridicu.
'Isar, con may dsaaheldca ehiatea,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-09-08

otras cosas mas que adivinara el
.ector, se puto fin & ID escens ,
que tiene algo de c6mica por IL
forma, y no de drsm&tica por
los nauer'os. heridos q comtnsos
gaIe resNltan.
Y nosotros NADIA queremos agre
gar. Basta 10 dicho por el sc nor
Labra y ell Corresponsal de 10
Rsvista. Y he aquf que para
nuestras campafias, para combati'
al adversario, no necesitamoa ys
de nuestras propias fuerzas, gu.
SON sobradas. Con las del adver
sario mismo tenemos 10 sufcien
to.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-09-08
INaLATRRRA.

Por fin verified el Emperador
GuiIlermo ell viaje que le tenia ofre-
cido 4 su abuela; los ingleses.
hombres muy correctos tocante & las
cuestiones de la vida social. No
miran muy bien ese viaie que ha
tardado tanto, comparando la rSpi.
dee con que Guillermo fu6 & San
Petersburgo.
La Reina ha recibido & So nieto
como un soberano; ha habido ban.
quotes, revistas, iluminaciones, pero
muy POGO entusiasmo; en- todas laa
ceremonies ell emperador llevaba
el unifOrme de almirante ingles se
ha p0dido almirar tranquilamente
el buen porte de la armada alema.
ma.
Segtn noticias, q cuyos autoral
TODD el mundo por shOra deia n
responsabilidad, este visie fcnis
por objeto cue Ioglaterra cntrara
On la triple slianzs, sino de un mo.
do efeotivO, pof 10 tienOa do 81,
rnodO i1ofalj ebtas ideas soh son.
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