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New-York tribune., 1890-04-20

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST 56th:st;, near sth'a'e''
the Rev Is. Is. TYLER, Psstor; -
Preaching SUNDAY moTnngg ana y, Wsshssctog n Z,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
Children IN a Den OF Snakes.

A party of sportsmen from Fort
Stockton, Tex, while hunting into
lopes in the Sierre Charrote a few days
ago, made "A most singular discovery.
Riding up a narrow gorge they caught
signt of gigantic rattlesnake trailing
his hideous length along the steep
crag Just above their heads. Several
Of the party. states the truthful corre-
spondent, fired at the reptile, but none
Of the shots had any effect beyond
causing his snakeship TO accelerate his
lcisurely movement. The sound OF
their shots brought a man out of a cave
in the rocks, and after some talk the
hunters We're invited to enter. They
found woman and children there.
The woman lighted torch. revealing
the cave swarming with snakes of
every description and size. They hung
from rocky projections in the roof and
sides of the cavern, kissing at the un-
wunted light, and glided about from
one corner to another. One great
shiny black monster lay across the
throat of a sleeping infant, gently
waving its horrid head above the
child's mouth. An older child was
eating something from an earthern-
ware vessel, and large rattler leaning
I from his shoulder would swing over
aud eat from the dish, while the child
would strike il with its bare hand
whenever its strange messmate seemed
getting more than its share.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15

"Iou want to know how we get on
to mail clerks or letter-carriers wha
steal money from l~tters, YOU say
remarked a postofIice Inspector. 1.-The
method is simple enough. and vet we
catch them every time OF course
there are a good many schemes we can
work on them. but the least complI-
Gated Is the decoy letter.
When We think man is opening
letters, We prepare a letter and give il
n semi-fictitious addre-s-to the wrong
street, the wrong number or something
of that sort We put in e dollar or so,
and make it just bulky enough th-t i,
will attrEct the clerks attention, Wben
he handles it. These clerks get so
skillful, YOU know, that they almost in
varisbly can tell by the sense of touch,
when letter contains money. This
decoy letter Is stamped with some post
mark selected. and i thrown into thu
clerks or carriers box.
"He gobbles il almost every time.
We are on the watch, and if we hear
nothing from il, we know that il must
have been lost in transit This test i
used oftener outside the post-office than
in it, however. in the interest of busi-
ness men, who suspect their employees
and others. BOSTON Globe
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
Selling Real Birds Nests.

ssWhen the robins nest again" seems
iiEciy to have a future bearing upon
trade. In conversation with a pretty
little French woman the other day, a
reporter discovered that the largest
part of her living was made by tho
sale of natural and artificial birds
nests, containing from three to five
tiny eggs and mounted or not, as the
purchaser desired.
The enterprising little tradeswoman
Tives. moves and has her being in
u cOntented way, giving no sign of
nervousness through being haunted
bv viSitants from the world of the de-
parted spirits of birdlings. Carriages
Of wealthy women roll up to the small
shop where her merchandise is, and,
without hesitation, leave the S3 which
Is her price for her nest with eggs,
and, being tastefully mounted on Il
pile of stones or rustic branches in the
shape of corner piece, they make a
unique decoration for a home, and bid
fair to be one of the most popular ar
ticles for sale in the Fall. In this
greed for gain on one hand and a de-
sire TO have beautiful, if forbidden,
fruit on the other no notice is taken of
the robins song, which has changed
fr.m merriment to woe. No one
thinks of her as she reaches the home
tree and finds her nest gone and her
hopes blasted.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15

An extraordinary story, first publish
ed in Vienna newspaper and then
generally disbelieved, has since been
confirmed in every particular, says
dispatch from Vienna TO the London
Standard. "a young man calling
himself Count Sander Way, who pre-
tended to have fallen out with his
family in Hungary, married last
August teacher at Klagenfurt, aged
twenty-seven, daughter of an Inspector
of Woods and Forests there. The
marriage took place on lonely farm
IN Hungary, a certain Father lmre Off
cisting at the wedding ceremony.
.'The newly-married couple lived
together for some time, and afterward
visited the girls parents in klagen-
furt, where the father-in-law was con-
tantly fleeced by the alleged Count.
Quarrel arose, and ultimately 1t turned
ont that the young Counts tales of him
self were all inventions. The persons he
referred TO were imaginary, and the
Inspector was convinced he was a
swindler. Something still stranger,
and indeed unparalleled, soon came to
light. Ere long it was found that the
man of thirtv-six, the Countess Sarolta
Way, daughter of the late Colonel of
Honveds, Count Ladislaus Way, one
of whose daughters, named Sarolta,
had been educated as boy.
..All her life she had worn male at
tire, and recently had appeared in the
uniform of the Honyeds. She pub
Iished a collection of poems under the
name Sander, and associated with
Young men, who were not in the Sc
| cret, in manly amusements. From
| Pesth, where eccentricities of that sort
are hardly a rarity, she disappeared
about a year ago, after which she wa'
not again heard of till her arrest, or
! the demand of her nominal father-in
law at klagenfurt. 1t is probable tina
| Father Imre was not a priest, and tina
the girl, in going through the form OF
marriage, only executed another eccen
tricity in order to procure money, o,
which she was greatly in need
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
brilliant Policemen.

The intelligence of the average New
York policeman was well illustrated
the other day in the case of Rounds
man Schanwecker, late addition TO
the .sfinest." Schanwecker was being
drilled in the little yard attached to
one of the station houses and received
the command, Forward, double
Quick" He obeyed promptly, and not
hearing the order to halt ran with
much force against stone wall,
sprained his wrist and otherwise IN
turing himself. The surgeon who Is
looking after the case does not know
whether to prefer charges against the
man who gave the unfortunate com
mand on the ground of destroying
public property (as the policeman be-
longed to the city), or against Schan-
wecker himself for criminal negligence
for running into the wall. The New
York police are evidently an inteili'
pent body of heroes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
Old Jones. Philosophy.

Soap don't cost a. much as dia-
monds, but lots o people don't seem to
be able To afford both.
A man who needs forty cents worth
of whisky TO give him an appetite for
a fifteen cent dinner always has the
dyspepsia.
never feel comfortable wsJd
there's a man around that smiles all the
time. The only dog that ever bit me
never stopped Vaughn his tail.
Wen a man goes n sleighriEn' with
a parcel o girls an comes home with
his ears froze, it shows he needs more
hands. OF course he's got To- use one
hand to drive, an that don't leave
none to rub his ears with.
You can't rely on signs. Lots o
folks say that u man with big ears is
generous and stupid. Wen | was a
boy went TO a cirkis, and they had a
little mule no bigger than ten-wecks'
calf. They asked for boys TO ride tho
crittcr, an sez: '.IIe's only mule,
an he's got big ears. lie must be
stupid an he won't play me no mean
tricks" Wen they took me home my
father licked me for bein' a fool. an
said he'd like TO give the mule medal
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15

We are witnessing the production
of a new race of humanity, which is at
present in its infancy, and will be best
named as the "Don't Children" says
the New York Sun. The Don't Chill
dren are the offspring of the fashiona-
BILE women up town and on Columbia
Heights and the Hill in Brooklyn.
What kind of men and women they
w make time alone can tell, but the
result is worth waiting for, and will
be very Interesting. There are few,
if any, adults now alive who spent
such childhood as these little things
are going through, but as there are
now tens of thousands of such little
ones, they will make some sort of a
distinct mark on the future social and
business life of the town.
The Dou't children are those little
things we see III front of the brown
stone houses with the nurse-girls in
mob caps and starched aprons. These
little children are very peculiarly
dressed; alw avs ultra fashiOnably. If
they are little girls, barely able to walk,
they are dressed in long skirts that
reach to the pavements, and have on
either bonnets like old women or very
great sprawling hats. If they are boys
thev are dressed equally within an inch
of their lives. and in either case they
never stray five feet from their nurses.
Their little faces look prematurely old,
and are often deeply lined, because it
is the fashion 10 keep them up with
their mothers, assisting at entertaining
in the parlors, eating rich food at the
regular family dinner, and cake and
ices at 10 or l o'clock at night. They
have their own tastes in wines and
cordials, and drink with the grown
folks. They go to the theatres and
discuss the actors on the stage; indeed,
they are all '.made up" themselves as
Elsie Leslies or Fauntleroys, or what
ever the child heroes of the stage may
happen to be called.
They are called Don't children be
cause the word don't" is like an iron
band that cramps their little lives.
When they try to do ANYTHING that is
childish, when their spirits etiervesce,
and their infantile nature asserts itself
| in any way, ''dont' is the word that
checks them. If they start to run, the
| nurse saws don't; if they begin to
romp, she says don't; if they leap up
and down with glee, the nurse says
don't. If they chatter at home, as little
things will, the mother says don't; Sc
she does if their hands are soiled, il
they smear their little mouths will
chocolate or get down upon all four'
with the family kitten. Don't, don't
don't is the chorus of their seniors, anC
the obstacle to all their natural inclina
tons.
They become as unnatural as dwarfs
as stilted and cramped and abnormal a
the trees the japanese stunt for centu
ries or the feet that Chinese wOmel
compress in bandages. Their mother
rear them much in the same spirit tina
they guard their jewels. They are no
10 be free a moment, or to get out o
sight or to be left to the expression o
a legitimate desire or trait of childhood
1t will be interesting to happen up i
the brown-stone district twenty-fiv
years from now just to see what sol
of men and women these Don't chi
rem will become.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
The Flood Cure for Badness.

Frank Maybury is just recovering
from a frightful experience in the
Johnstown flood. For seven long hours
he battled with the waters for his life.
Every hour seemed a day, but at last
he was rescued several miles from the
place where the hotel had stood. MIR.
Maybury is 80 years of age, and for IL
wears he had been entirely bald, and
the top of his head had become quite
popular with the flies as a summer re-
sort. He had used the wonderful hair
restoratives people read about in the
hopes of starting the hair, but all TO no
purpose; it refused TO grow. Two
davs after the food he noticed
a downy substance all over the
hitherto bald head. As time passed
the down became hair, which grew re-
markably fast, and now has reached
the length of one inch all over his
bead.-Kansas City Times.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
Royalty at the Circus.

Barnum's show had great send-ofl
in London and i turning away people
nightly. II i patronized by the Prince
of Wales and other members of the
royal family, who declare that there i
nothing like il. Charley stowe. Bar
NUNS pres agent, writes Us that
ROYALTY at a circus acts very much like
other folks. IL laughs and applaudS,
and claps its hands, saws "Oh my.'
when the trapeze act i on. and nearly
splits it- sides laughing over the antics
of the clowns in the general rings, Just
about as the rest do. Stowe had
imagined until he went To England,
that a plantation darkey got more fun
out of a circus than anybody, but he
saws now that a prince i the one who
gets the most for his money. He takei
it all in, from the grand entray' &c
the monkey riding, and then rushe.
of to inspect the animals. He has 70
be warned not to get too near the paw:
of the great Siberian bear, and To alb
stain from giving the elephant tobacco,
lie makes himself familiar with tho
wild Zoolos, and playfully chucks thg
fat woman under the chin. Royalty
has fun at the circus, You had better
believe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
Der Hash Vas GOOt.

\ Dutchmau was travelling in the
far West, and stopping at a hotel in 4
small town, called for dinner. He
was little late. and a big dish of
hash was about all that the waiter set
before him. Being very hungry he
rould not restrain the anger that boiled
up i'm him as hr looked at the boiled
down rruluut uf the hostelry.
'.~c, here, my fruud, did'n 1 dole
ysu tu priug me zum dinner? \ tog
ruu'ju' caJ dot stutf.' The waiter
protested 81 was the best that could be
done. auf rh, guest broke out again
muarfrut.t. ..Not i-h dot? Der pest
dot gan bee dome for a hoongry draveler
who goc-h his breakfast mitout?
We're i~l der laudJlurt of dees meeser-
able hash house, Dell i'm 10 cook me
somriiugs gpot 10 eat at once fort
Widt.'
The waiter disappeared through =
side door and Immediately afterward
the startled guest heard grutf and
angry voice Prououuciug the terrible
sentences:
.-Thc rascal refuses To eat the dinner
furnished by my housed I'll see about
Il, Let mo Git at him,'
The guest began 10 shovel in the
hash like unloading coal, and a fierce
whi-ksrcd. stllwart fellow with two
pistol, aud "a dirk at his waist came
trumpiug toward the table.
..Hat / der pleasure ouf attressins
der hudlortt' said the Dutchman,
rising ucrvou-lv, and bowling with eN-
treme poljteue>s-
'Meestcr Landlordt, VIII You blease
pc So kiudt as to ordter der waiter tc
priug me "A lectlc more ouf decs hash. :.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
CnngressionnI Furniture.

II takes lot of furniture 10 tit om
the Capitol. 1t is pretty big build
ing 10 furnish with tables and chairs,
carpets aud rugs, desks and bookcases,
washstands, and what not, without
taking into account the articles of
ornamentation. There are no hundred
attics in the country that could furnish,
in a combined effort, as much rubbish
as IS slowed away in that building,
some living away in dark holes, and
some serving still as furniture. There
are. of course, some articles of furni-
ture that are made valuable by their
age and historic association. There
are the desks at which our great men
of the-early days wrote, and the chairs
they occupied, and there are rare old
pieces of mahogany that are valuable
independent Of their association; but
what an auction sale il would make to
sell out all the ramshackle furniture
thereabout. 1t ia proposed to recon-
mend to Congress this session TO have
such a sale, and TO make an aPpropri
alton to refurnish all the House side,
where the furniture is in tho worst
state of dilapidatiOn.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15

The "Uisag," of Budapest has re
ceived the following atrocious storiei
from its correspondent at Alt Becse. II
consequence of sheep-stealing at All
BecSe, the police arrested Blasius no
vacs, and subjected him TO terrible tor
lures. The pain wrung from him the
name of one Cseke. Cseke was arrest
ed and laid on his back. Two gend.
armcs held his hands and third knelI
on his chest, while n fourth beat him
on the soles of his feet with a leather
strap till he fainted. Cseke, however.
would not confess to the crime, SO his
tormentors steeped his feet, dripping
with blood, in vinegar, and thra-hed
him again till he tainted second time
The next day Cseke'5 innocence wa,
amply demonstrated. The gendarme'
waited till night, then turned him into
the street with stick 10 support him
He had to be conveyed home in a cart
and will remain, it is said, crippled
for life.
A woman named Szilak was latel,
arrested on suspicion of theft. Sh'
also was tortured, and the following
day her innocence was proved. Th'
doctor who examined her after her re
lease declared that there was not a placu
as large as ones hand on her body with
out a wound. Her husband instructe,
lawyer to obtain redress for him, bu
the gendarmes, learning this, hurrie'
round to the lawyers residence, an'
beat him till he promised to Withdraw
the action. Elizabeth Major, age sixty
three, was arrested on a charge of hav
ing found a sum of money and KEEP
the matter secret. She, too, was abl
to prove her innocence, but not unit
she had been tortured. As she wa
about to be discharged. the gendarmc
heard that she meant to prosecute thcI
so they shut her up and tortured ne
! again. Then, after setting her fre
for the second time, they ran after he
and gave her a brutal beating. I'll
correspondent of the I'll Ujsag' says tina
lie can establish evidence of other case
! equally horrible.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
Six ShnriIn. Sfarier.

A6am kengle and Augusta krau-
EAner, of Minnesota, were to have
been married October 15. In an un-
guarded moment Adam swore at a
Sunday school picnic Augusta faint
ed and was sick for some days In con-
sequence, being delirious most of the
time. She swore most awful oaths
while out of her head and her father
suspected Adam of having used such
language constantly in her pI Iesence and
the wedding is declared oil.
Mary Hall and James Flanders, OF
Ironton, Missouri, had never met until
the afternoon of October g. Their
meeting was accidental. Mary slipped
and would have fallen while crossing
the street if James strong arm had not
upheld her. As he grasped her both
were thrilled. An acquaintance was
soon struck up and at 9 o'clock that
night they were married. Mary Re,
grets the incident very much.
Esther Stevenson fell in love with
Thomas Newcombe, a clerk in her
fathers business house in Olathe, Kan
sas. Thomas was willing, but poor
and Youthful. He was but 10 and
Esther was p. Esther eloped with
him, having provided herself with
funds from her fathers pocketbook
without his consent. Thomas is now
in jail, and Esther is on a visit TO
friends in Montana.
John st. Georges of Florida and
Emily Lacinne of Louisiana never met
until they had been married a month
| The engagement and courtship was by
| letter. The marriage was by tele-
graph, in order that the bride could
execute certain documents in New
Orleans as Mrs. St. Georges without
! having to return. 1t took month to
! get the business transacted and reach
| her husband. The latter says he Ii
tolerably well satisfied with his bar
gain, but thinks his wife lied about
her age and sent him some other girl
| picture.
Terence O'Hara and Bridge
O'Rourke lived in adjoining houses a
Painted Post, New York, for thirteeI
years. They loved, were married, anC
have lived together seven years, bu
have never spoken a word to eacl
other. Both are deaf and dumb ano
Terence is blind. Bridget can no
smell very well, but their three chill
uTeh nave LUZ pOeoc7oIoA VI 1hS4
| senses.
1t is not William Peterson's faul
that he is single. He lives in Iowa
and has tried to elope four times. Hi
last attempt was coupled with the rob
berry of his prospective father-in-law
J.. William is in Jail, his adOred is i
tears, and her father in high spirits
William will remain single for som
time,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15

Christmas trees ought to be cheap
this year unless trust is organized to
control the evergreen market. In the
town of Orland. at the mouth of the
Penobscot, in Maine, Rockland firm
have large crew of men employed in
cutting fir trees, and expect TO ship
400 900 TO the metropolis between now
and the middle of December. The
firm pay about half cent tree for
the privilege of cutting the frs, and
all the expenses, except for freighting,
are small. The trees range from five
to thirty feet in height, but the great
est demand is for those measuring be-
tween five and eight feet. The BUSH
lest and most symmetris . trees bring
the best prices, and these are found
in abundance along the edges of the
woods. There are enough young 1ir
trees along the Penobscot River to
supply the world with Christmas ever
greens for centuries TO come.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
What the Chinese Cannot Understand.

From some extracts of "A letter pub
ii-hed in the Presbyterian Messenger,
We learn that the first major surgical
operation performed in Changpu by
the Presbyterian missionary was in
many WAYS a remarkable one. One
evening beggar with dreadful leg,
and in all but diving condition, was
laid by some Of his friends at the door
of Dr. Howe's house, and left there.
The doctor had the patient at once
carried to an empty house belonging
To one of our church members, and
there on the morrow, in the presence
of large and wondering crowd, am
putated the limb below the knee. To
the surprise of all, the man stood the
operation well, and has since greatly
improved in general condition. That
tine foreign doctor should pay so much
attention to and spend so much time
and trouble on the beggar seems to
have astonished the Chinese. They
cannot understand how any one should
give himself so much trouble without
being paid for it.