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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
The Canal of Joseph.


How many of the engineering works
f the nineteenth century, remarks
Engineering, will there be in existence
in the year 5000? Very few, we fear,
and still less those that will continue
in the far-off age to serve usefnl pur-
pose. Yet there is at least one great
undertaking conceived and executed
by an engineer which during the space
of four thousand years has never
ceased its office, on which the life of
fertile province absolutely depends
today. We refer to the Bahr Joussuf
the canal of Joseph-built, accord
ing 10 tradition, by the son of Jacob,
and which constitutes not the least of
the many blessings he conferred on
Egypt during the years of his prosper
GUS rule. This canal took its rise
from the Nile at Asiut, and ran nearly
parallel with it for nearly two hun
dred and fifty miles, creeping along
under the western cliffs of the Nile
valley, with many bend and winding
until at length 1t gained an eminence,
as compared with the river bed which
enabled 1t to turn westward through a
narrow pass and enter district which
was otherwise shut off from the fer
tilizing floods on which all vegetation
in Egypt depends.
The northern end stood seventeen
feet above low Nile, while at the south
ern end it was an equal elevation with
the river. Through this cut ran a
perennial stream, which watered
province named the Fayoum, endow-
ing it with fertility and supporting a
large population. 1u the time of the
annual flood a great part of the canal
was under water, and then the rivers
current would rush in more direct
the rich silt which takes the place of
manure and keeps the soil in state Of
constant productiveness.
All this, with the exception Of the
tradition that Joseph built 1t, can be
verified today, and it Is not mere sup
position OF runor. Until eight years
ago it was firmly believed that the de-
sign has always been limited to an ilTi-
cation scheme, larger no doubt, than
that now in operation, as shown by
the traces of abandoned canals and by
the slow aggregation Of waste water
which had accumulated in the Biket
Ell Quorum, but still essentially the same
character,
Many accounts have been written by
Greek and Roman historians, such as
Herodotus, Srabo, Mutisnus, and
Pliny, and repeated In monkish legends
OF portrayed in the maps Of the middle
ages, which agreed with the folk lore
Of the district, These tales explained
that the canal dug by the ancient Is
raelites served to carry the surplus
waters of the Nile into an extensive
lake lying south, and so large that it
not only modified the climate, temper
ing the arid winds of the desert and con-
verting them into the balmy airs which
nourished the vines and the olives into
a fullness and fragrance unknown in
any part of the country, but also added
TO the food supply of the land such i'm
mense quantities of fish that the royal
prerogative of the right of piscary at
the great weir was valued at $3.50, 900
annually. This lake was said to be
45O miles round, and to be navigated
by feet of vessels, while the whole
circumference was the scene of indus
fry and Orosneritv
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
Strange Death Of an Artist,

A curiou. accident, which, unhappily
aas since proved fatal, befel NJ. Boutet,
An artist, residing In the Avenue Vic
or Hugo, on Saturday morning. N.
Boutet was working in his studio,
when, inconvenienced by the sun, he
asked his bone to go on the roof and
pass a light linen covering over the
glass. As the woman was az. nging
his awning she slipped H-|falling
through the glass, aligbted on the table
1t which her master was seated.
Oddly enough, she sustained no injury
worth mentioning. N. Boutet, how
.ver, was not 80 fortunate. A piece
II the broken glass struck him on the
aeck, scvering an artery. 10 tried to
'tanch the blood, and falling, ran out
# the house in the direction of q
aeighborins druggists shop; but he
ELL down fainting ere &c reached the
place, and two hours, afterward he
tssashsd his last.-Londosa Zsnsse.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
DOWN BY THE GATE.
There is dew on the grsss and the taros,

There Is q dew on the grass and the tArostle
Is still,
But the crickets are piping above on the hill !;
The hrefies are lighting their lanterns, and
There's the smile Of the moon through the
boughs Of the tree.
And catch the perfume OF the rose as I wait
For the sound of light feet tripping down to
tbs gate.
"Wfn she come? VIII she conner cries hope
in my heart,
TIL the stir Of q lesf makes me tremble snS
start;
And peer through the dusk till my eyes al,
a-blur
With warm mist Of love that Is only for be, =.
o, the minutes drag by like the slow feet Of
fate
As listen and look for her down by the gate !
There's step on the path, there's glimmer
of white.
And the darkness around me grows sudden.
ly brightI
And there's no one to see, save myself and
the moon,
This tairest Of all OF the roses or June.
With soft hand in yours would not you
Inger late
For another "good night" o'er the bars OF the
Sates
-AunSey's Weekly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
A ROYAL Lunatic.

The poor demented king of Bavarl.
had narrow escape the other day.
The enormous chandelier In the dining
room at the castle of Furstenried,
where the unhappy monarch is con-
1ued, suddenly fell, smashing the table
at which his majesty was sitting and
wounding an attendant. In conse-
quence commission of architects was
sent to examine the state of the castle,
with tho result that the whole building
has been declAred In state Of collapse,
and it has been considered necessary to
close all the principal rooms, except
two. which are occupied by his majesty.
In all probability, therefore, King
Otto will shortly be removeS 20 SONS
other castle, probably Berg, one Of tie
famous architectural residences left ay
the late King Ludwig
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
Abraham's Oak.

The old oak at Mamre In Syria, or
as It is known everywhere, "Abra
hams Oak" is one of the mos
famous and venerable trees in tn,
world. 1t is reYerenced alike by Jew
Christian and Mahometan. for it il
supposed 10 mark the spot where tn,
patriarch pitched his tent in the desert
There is superstition in Jerusalem
end in all the country about, that who
ever shall cut or injure this tree viii
lose his first-born son. So for cen
turies it has been allowed to toss it
gnarled aud contorted limbs in tn,
gales which sweep from the Mediter
ranean over the Syrian plains.
This tree was visited by Sir JOSEPH
Hooker in the autumn of 1850; and IL
his paper upon Syrian Oaks, read tn,
following year before the Linnear
Society transactions. kill, he gayt
a description of 1t and a portrait drawn
by his own hand.
Abraham's Oak was found TO be.
long to Quercus pseudo-coccifera,
which, to quote from Sir Joseph's pa
per, sis by far the most abundant tree
throughout Syria, covering the rocky
hills, of Palestine especially, with 3
dense brushwood of trees eight te
twelve feet high, branching from the
base, thicSly covered with small ever.
green rigid leaves, and bearing aoorns
copiously.
On Mount Carmel 1t forms nine
tenths of the shrubbery vegetation, anC
it is almost equally abundant on tht
west banks of the Au-ilebanon snG
many slopes and valleys Of Lebanon
Owing to the tndiscriminate destruction
OF the forests In Syria, this oak rarely
attains its full size" The circumfer
ence CT the trunk of "Abraham's Oak
Is given as twenty-three feet, and th,
diameter of the spread of the branches
as ninety feet.
Quercus pseudo-coccifera is an ever
green species with the general appear
ance Of the Hex of Southern Europe
and closel related, botanically, to Q
cocciferG, e common and widely dis
uibuted scrub oak of Southern Europ
and Of Algeria; indeed, Hooker wa
Of the opinion that the two plSnts wer'
merely geographical. varietiS Of tn
same species.-Ganlen and Forest.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
Too HastY.

There are some things which men
10 from excellent motives, but for the
ioing Of which they afterwsrd find 1t
lard to forgive themselves. Such a
oaradoxical experience is related by a
Rhode Island soldier among his reruin-
sciences Of the war. The incident
occurred at the Battle of Pegrsm's
Farm, when the Union Line broke,
md it looked for time as though tae
,nemy would force passage through.
In company with other officers, /
,ndeavored to rally the men fleeing TO
he roar, and of course meds uEe of
ny sabre when g. man refused to stop.
{ hit one man pretty heavy blow.
he stopped Immediately, and, think.
ng he meant to scharge his piece at
he, was preparing TO strike again,
aheu the expression Of his face, up
armed towards me, disarmed Inc Of
NY suspicious.
"Colonel," he said. "I'm not q
coward and Pm not running because
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01

wall, his shadow was cast before him
he covered back from it, iabberinc.
and putting his hands supplicatiuply
toward it; then he slipped down the
bank, laughed, and ran across the
marsh, with his shadow behind him,
and thought in his bewildered brain
that he had cunningly eluded and
escaped the figure that stood before
Linn TO stop him. He reached the mill
that worked the pump. He must have
remembered it: it was mixed up some
how With the. confused recollections in
his brain, for 1t did not seem to startle
or frighten him. He scarcely noticed
1t, but, uttering a howl, wild, trium-
phant shout, sprang upon duck punt
hauled up on the wall. 1t was Elijah's
punt, left there occasionally, quite as
often as at the landing near the house,
a small, fiat-bottomed boat, painted
white, with pair of white, muffled
oars.
In a moment, before Mehalah had
considered what to do, or whether she
could do anything, he had run the punt
down into the water, and had seated
himself in it, and taken the oars and
struck out to sea, out toward the open,
toward the unbounded horizon.
he rowed little way, not very far,
and then stood up. He could not ap-
parentiy endure to face the land, the
place of long confinement, he must
look out to sea.
Mehalah stood ON the sea wall. The
waves were tapping at her feet. The
tide had turned. 1t flowed at midnight.
She had forgotten the gull she bore, in
her alarm for the man. She opened
her arms, and the bird futtered down
and fell into the water.
The moon was now swimming in a
clear space of sky free of cloud-fioes.
IN that great light the man was dis
tinctly visible, standing, waving his
arms in the white punt, drifting, not
rapidly, but steadily onward. In that
great light went out also, on the same
cold, dark water, the dying bird, that
now stirred not wing.
Mehalah watched motionless with
yearning in her heart that she could
not understand, her arms extended
toward that boundless expanse toward
which the man and the bird were being
borne, and into which they were fad
ing. He wa. singing! Some old,
childish lays of days that were happy,
before the shadow fell.
There stood Glory, looking, indis-
tnctly longing, till her eyes were filled
with tears. She looked on through
the watery vail, but saw nothing.
When she wiped it away she saw moth
ing. She watched till the day broke,
but she saw nothing more.-From
''Mehalah," story Of the English Salt
Marshes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01

II am afraid. IwN stand - Tong q
you or any other man, but am badly
wounded"
He turned his head and showed me-
= fearful bullet wound across the side
of his neck. Z
1 remember the expression Of his
face as well as If I had seen it yester.
day. No fear, no animosity, no any.
thing but look of Indignation that he
should have been suspected OF coward.
ice.
I made the best apology 1 could
under the circumstances, and after thai
L did not strike any man till had
made sure he was running from fear
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
iIacauley's Picture of Queen Elizabeth,

Elizabeth was now in her twenty.
9th year. Personally, she had much
OF Eer mothers beauty; her figure
was commanding, her face long, bui
queenly and intelligent; her eye,
quick and fine. She had grown up,
amidst the liberal culture Of Henry,
Court, q bold horsewoman, q good
shot, a graceful dancer, q skilled mu.
sician, aud an accomplished scholar,
She read every morning portion OF
Demosthenes, and could "rub up heI
rusty Greek" at need to handy pedantry
with vice-chancellor. But she wai
far from being mere pedant. The
new liter ture which was springing up
around her found constant welcome in
her court. She spoke Italian and
French as huenty as her mother
tongue. She was familiar with
Ariosto aud Tasso. In spite Of the
affectation of her style, and her taste
foc anagrams and puerili6es, she
listened with delight to the "Faery
Queen" and found a smile for MAS.
ter-Spenser" when he appeared in the
presence. Her moral temper recalled
in its strange contrasts the mixed
blood within her veins. She was at
once the daughter of Henry and Of
Ann Boleyn. From her father she in.
herited her frank and hearty address,
her love of popularity and of free inter.
course with the people, her dsuntlesa
courage, aud her amazing self-con-
fidence. Her harsh, msnlike voice,
her iuspetuous will, her pride, her
furious outbursts of anger, came to
her with her Tudor blood. She rated
mobiles as if they were school-boys |;
she met the insolence Of Essex with q
box on the ear; she would break now
and then into the gravest deliberations
to swear at her ministers like a ash-
rvifa
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
CATECHISM IN ELECTRICITY,

1. How strong q current is used tc
iend a message over an Atlantic cable
A. Thirty cells of battery only, equa
to thirty volts.
2. What is the longest distance over
which conversation by telephone il
daily maintained? A. About 75C
miles, from Portland, Name, to Buff
falo, New York.
). What is the fastest time made b.
an electric railwayp A. A mile min
ute, by a small experimental car
twenty miles an hour on street railw ay
system.
4. How many miles of submarine
cable are there in operation2 A. Ovel
100, 900 miles, or enough to girdle the
earth four times.
3. What is the maximum power
generated by an electric motor? A.
Seventy-five horsepower. Expert
ments indicate that 100 horse-powsi
will soon be reached.
8. How is break in submarine
cable located? A. By measuring the
electricity needed to charge ths ss.
naming unbroken part.
z. How many miles of teleSrsps.
wire in operation in the United Stsses
A. Over a million, or enough to en-.
circle the globo forty times.
8. How many messages can be trans
mitted over wire at one time? A.
Four, by the quadrup.ex system, in
daily USE
9. How is telegraphing from a mcy-
Ing train accomplished? A. Through
4 circuit from the car roof, inducing q
current in the wire on poles along the
track.
10. What are the most widely sepa
rated points between which it is pos.
'ible to send telegram? A. British
Columbia and New Zealand, via
America and Europe.
IL. How many miles of telephone
wire in operation in the United States
A. More than 10000, over which
l,O55 900 messages are sent daily.
~. What is the greatest candle
oower of arc light used in q lig At
house? A. Two million, in the light
house at Houstholm, Denmark.
1S. How many persons in the
United States are engaged in business
lepending solely on electricity? A.
Estimated 250, 900.
IA. How long does it take to trans
port a message from san Francisco to
Hong Kong? A. About fifteen min
ties, via New York, Canso, Penzance,
Alden, Bombay, Madras, Penang, and
Singapore.
15. What Is the fastest time made
~ an operator sending messages by
he Morse system? A. About forty
:wo words a minute.
16. How many telephones a. e In use
n the United States? A. About
800, 900.
II. What war vessel has the most
complete electrical plant? A. United
States man-of-war Chicago.
18. What is the average cost per
nile of a transatlantic submarine
:able? A. About 81, 900.
10. How many miles of electric rail
way are there In operation in the Uni
ed States? A. About 400 miles, and
much more under construction.
20 What strength of current is
dangerous to human life? A. Five
hundred volts, but depending largely
NJ ply steal conditions.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
4 Remarkable Canal.

The most remarkable canal in ths
Rorld is one between Worsley and ST.
Helen'., in the north of England. II
Is sixteen miles long and under ground
from end to end. In Lancashire the
soal mines are very extensive, half the
country being undermined; many yeara
ago the Duke Of Bridgewater's mans
gers thought they could save money by
transpc rting the coal under ground In
stead Of on the surface. So the canal
was constructed and the mines con-
nected and drained at the same time.
Ordinary canal boats are used, but the
power Is furnished by men. On the
coof of the tunlel-arch are cross-pieoes,
and the men who do the work Of pro-
pulsion lie on their backs ON the coal
and push with their feet against The
syess-bars on the roof, -
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
Superstitions About Old Garden Herbs.

Borage, from since the days Of Ly-
curgus, has been supposed to give
courage, or, in the language of Lord
Bacon, "repress the fuliginous vapors
of dusky melancholy"
Thrift, the old garden plant, was In
variably planted before new house in
"Old Connecticut days" to bring ON
omy and wealth.
No one, in far away days, dared to
pull or dig the root Of the mandrake,
because, though it was grown In the
herb-bed for use of the leaves In med
icine, 1t was deemed murderous to
touah the root
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
THE TAI sIAHAL BY MOONLIGHT.
PAGET ToYNBEE.

Sot purest marble from Carrars hewn
Or Paros, not the everlasting SHOWS
On Himalaya's primal peaks, nor those
About the cone Of Puji-yama strewn
By April storms, not summer clouds at noon
That drift across the blue, or in repose
Lie banked at even ike aerial foes,
GHsten more white than thou beneath the
moon!
Thy pearly dome, and spires, and frette5
walls,
Upborne upon the terraced marble, SEEM
60 full the magic food Of moonlight falls
To hang more lightly than the gossamer
That floats at daybreak from the dreaming
hr,
selr-poised in ether Ger crystal streami
-Spectdt0r.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-11-19
Travels and AdventuresofaFor rer.

WHEELING, W. Va. Nov 1s.-After an ex-
tended correspondence. the police here have
gathered tie record of the fOrger. Colonel
Isaiah j. Porter arrested here week ago
and now in Jail at Martinsburg The story
shows Porter l. be one of the most versatile
rasca.s anu extensive operators known in the
criminal history of the country. Born in
Ork, Pa. he joined the Confederate service
ana rose TO he a colonel. He was shot
through the body twice during the war After
The war he fell IN with a well-known and
SICK confidence man. An extensive tor
eign plunderng trip was lad out
which embraced England, France, Ger
many and Italy. Both men smoke
German aud French. and they passed as
Aineric can railroad magnates. cutting q great
swell In the European capitals, being wined
and dlned by bankers and nOblemen and
shown every attention. Mexican railroad
enterprise was the snap worked and they did
II 10 much prOht, for when they returned TO
Now ork they had barrel Of money which
they spent 50 laylshly As 20 attract much at
tention even in the metropolis. Going
through the pile. Porter went 10 Washington
where he tried TO get into the political and
social swim. and he next turned up under an
assumed name. as Washington correspond
ent. and later as the private secretary Of
senator known throughout the country.
About eighteen years ago, while in Washing
ton, Porter studied law and he afterward
went To Missouri, where he was admitted 70
the bar.
lie got into trouble at Palmyra Mo-. and
started further West swindling lots oil peop q /
out OF large sums in Nevada and California. I
He then went to Mexico and piled his I
crooked trade with much success. Gradually |
working back to the States. he operated IN /
Texas. Louisiana and other Southern States.
He was arrested in Nashville October. 1850.
aud got three years on each of five charges
II forgery. etc, but after serving the first
hree years he was pardOned While in
prison he contributed articles 10 several
magazines. lie also served a term in Massa-
husetts and another III Illinois His opera.
ions extended in almost every State. and he
= now wanted by the police Of about twenty
tiles.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-11-19

Much grain is prematurely reaped by the scvtbe
OF disease That might have ripened to golden
maturity II minor bodily troubles had been
attended tom time. Nothing Is truer than this
bodily ailments not only grow apace. but be-
get one another Thus bIhousness. constipa-
ton dyspepsia follow close on the heels Of one
another flourish together the one pDrDetuating
the other. and begelting a numerous progeny
OF laleI ailments more or less severe As their
cause Us more or less di.regarded and NEGLECT
ca Ihclheni rheumatism malaria and "sligbfr
inactivity OF the kidneys. Of what dire disaster
uon IS paid TO their early warnings. Cherk
these minor ailments with Hosfetf,rs
stomach bltters and forestau the ineNoralle
penalty for disregariing the means of preserv-
ing ~. "a ''0'o' "
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-11-19
They Can't Agree to Live Together

WHEELING. w. Va. Nov. 1s.-lSpecial T.
There are forty-seven divorce Eases ready for
trial upon the docket Of the circuit court.
the session Of which began to-day. and a
dozen others being prepared. This is the larg-
est number OF divorce cases ever on the dock
ct IN this court In our conrts divorce mo
ceedings are always heard in chambers. there
being no publicity attached 10 the evidence.
which IS for the most part submitted in tie
form OF dispositions, for the inspection Of the
Judge at moments of leisure between cases
or III the Intervals between the daily sessions
OF court. Most of the plaintiffs are wives
alleging all sorts Of things against their hus.
bands
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-11-19
THE TIMES-RICHMOND VA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 1891.
that she wished to engage counsel, and JUS
tice Diver remanded her in S2,500 bail for
examination.

that che wished 10 engage counsel. and JUS
tice Diver remanded her in S2,500 bail for
examination.
STABBED HIS LANDLORD MINI 1fNRs.
Lawrence Smith. who stabbed Patrick Nc
Cauley nine times with a pocketknife at
their home. 203 west Sixtieth street, on Mon
day night was arraigned at the Yorkville
Police Court Yesterday Smith boarded with
McCauley and they had a fight over the non
pa ment OF rent. Smith caught McCauley
10y the throat and stabbed him seven times
IN the back. once in the abdomen and once
ia the shoulder. inhicting two serious
wounds. McCauley is under the attendance
OF DR.. Duffy. who fears that peritonitis may
result from the wound in the abdomen.
Smith was committed without bail TO await
the result Of McCauley's injuries.
WANTED TO DIE LIKE THAT" AND he DID.
Henry Rinkes. sixty years old, of Four
tenth street College Point. Monday night
attended a wake at the house of neighbor.
George Geidel. whose wife died suddenly. In
discussing the woman's death Rinkes said he
wanted 10 die likewise. He said. want 10
30 OIL Ike that. quick as that and snapped
his fingers He left Geidels house az IL
o'clock. Two hours later his wife alarmed
the watchers of the dead in Geide 8 house by
rushing in and CRYING out that her husband
was dead lie died sitting on a sofa III the
act OF unbuttoning his SHOES.