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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
Talkatiye Parrot i'm a Car.

"Ah, there, BABY! screamed the
parrot, hid behind paper which Willie
had placed over the cage.
The old maid looked startled, says a
Philadelphia paper, and grin ap-
peared on the faces of the other passen-
gers.
"Oh, mammal" croaked the bird.
The old maid glared at each passen-
ger, highly indignant.
"Where did you get that hat, I'd like
to know?" went on the irrepressible
bird.
The clerical passenger looked up in
alarm and then felt his hat in hasty
confusion. Every one noted the action
and ripple of suppressed laughter
went over the car.
"Ah, there, whiskers
The clerical man leaped to his feet and
frowned at smooth-faced young man
near the front.
81 won't be insulted!" he cried.
"Ding, ding; two more fares out Of
the company's pockets"
The conductor flushed and hastehed
into the car from the back platform.
Who said that?" he demanded.
Willie looked as demure as an angel.
"Johnnie, get your hair cut"
An old man with long hair made a
precipitate departure from the car.
AT Bend street Willie lifted the
paper, grabbed the cage and got off the
car.
Then the passengers tumbled.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
The Belle Of Deadwood.

The belle of Deadwood is a young
and dashing girl who turned her 18th
year few days ago. Her name is
Margaret Sanford and she is an orphan.
Who her mother was no one seems to
know. Her father entered a mining
camp about twelve years ago, footsore,
ragged, and almost starved, having
walked across the canons from Nevada.
The miners gave him food and cloth
ing and began TO constitute themselves
little Margaret's bodyguard. One night
the old man was found dead before his
door, which the drifting snow had
fastened so he could not enter. The
child was asleep inside. After the
funeral she became a sort of wanderer,
going and coming at will, and making
many valuable discoveries of ore. She
learned to use the rifle and revolver.
A year ago she struck an ore bed richer
than most in that vicinity, and again
led the miners to the spot. This time
they made voluntary contract to give
her one-fourth of the yield. They kept
their word and she is now a rich
woman. She is tall, slender, and good
looking, and wears long golden hair
streaming down her back.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
The Girl with the Dagger.

The man of to-day is not very much
to blame if he concludes that he is in
Corsica, and that all womankind have
declared vendetta against him. The
reason why is easily discovered after
YOU have looked at several sweet young
things, who seem to think no more of
a dagger sticking in their belts than
they do of ring upon their fingers.
Just how this fashion arose nobody
can find out, but l believe it comes
from a caprice of the divine Sarah,
who walks around stately and statu-
esque in her long, black widows
gowns, with dull silver-handled dag
ger stuck through the belt abont her
waist. The daggers themselves are by
no means play toys, and not even the
bravest of men would care to have one
stuck into him. Indeed, some women,
given to little bit of horse-play and
inclined to flourish the dangerous
dirk, have been warned off by the ner-
vous brothers about whom they per-
form a war dance, dagger in hand, to
the tune of, "We'll stab him all over
until he is dead" The curio shops
are searched for the daintiest of weap-
ons. and the man who has japanese
collection soon finds that his tiniest and
fiercest-looking daggers are seized by
his sisters, and that if he has enough
TO 90 around even his cousins expect
TO pet one.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
What Young People want.

Boys want pages and pages about
Washington, Old Put, Old Hickory,
the Three Militia Men, Commodore
Decatur, Commodore Perry, Admiral
Farragut, the Battle of Bunker Hill,
the coming over of Lafayette, Tecum-
sch, Ben Franklin, the pioneers of the
great West, the building of the Brook
lyn Bridge, the jetties of the Missis-
sippi River, and the oratory of Patrick
Henry, Clay and Webster.
These things captivate the young
only when they are related in detail,
with simplicity and truth.
By and by they will want history Of
another kind, which will relate few
stories, pass lightly over most wars,
and dwell only upon events which
affected the lot of the people perma-
nently. Boys and girls want to know
what Major Andre said when he was
captured, and how thick the rope was
with which Farragut tied himself to
the rigging. Such facts are the vehicle
through which more important truths
find lodgment in the young mid.
After all, our boys and girls arc
already very patriotic. What they
now need is to be taught the duties we
all owe to such a country as ours-to
keep it pure and good.-Youth'
Companion.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
A Valuable. Animal.

A man, while crossing lot, was
attacked by young bull calf and was
severely bruised. Just as the victim
had landed on the safe side of the
fence, an old negro came out of a
cabin near by, and, calling the man.
said:
"Does you wanter buy dat animal.
sah?"
"No; l want to kill the infernal
thing, and Pm going to do it if l have
to walk ten miles for gum"
"W'y, what is you got agin him?'
Didn't you see him butt me over
the fence?"
'W'y, look here, he didn' mean dat
ter be buttin'. He thought he wuz
'commerdatin' you, sab, in he'pin you
ober. Is trained him to hep folks
ober de fence, an dat's wy lie 80 val
liable. Wy las winter Wen / had do
rheumatic couldn'ter got erlong wild.
out him."-ArkansaH Traveller
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
A Poets Venerable Age.

Il saw and talked with Tennyson
recently" writes an English friend to
me. at was at the annual flower
show at Hazelmere, Surrey, and The
poet had been prevailed upon to leave
his seclusion for the botanical display.
1t was his first public appearance since
his illness, and had not seen him for
six months. That the poet-laureate il
rapidly ageing | saw at glance, and
this became more impressed upon me
during our brief conversation.
"He is no longer the Tennyson of q
year ago; talk meant distress TO him,
and references to persons very close to
him in friendship, which formerly en-
listed his interest, seemed TO meet with
but little response. In his walk be
shuffied heavily, and the cane that he
once carried as a companion to idly
swing in moments of thought had be-
come almost staff. lie told me his
health was good, but his general ap-
pearance scarcely verified his state
ment. The strong aroma of a pipe,
carelessly jammed into one of his coat
pockets, was about the only thing that
suggested to me the Tennyson of old
there was certainly nothing in his
conversation, manner or appearance" :"
-Philadelphia Times.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
Humpy Came Up.

"Boys, what's the meaning Of that
crowd down there?" he asked, as he
pointed down Congress street.
"Awful time down there" was the
reply.
"But what is it?"
"You know Jerkey, the boot-black P"
"No."
"Know Humpy, the newsboy?"
"No."
"Well, you know, Jerkey was sit.
TIM on the hydrant eatin' an apple,
when Humpy cum up and"
"Oh, it was only quarrel between
boys2 Funny why such thing should
draw crowd"
"Only quarrel! What ar We CIV
in me! Quarrel! Didn't Humpy gi:
IN two square knock-downs before the
copper got there, and didn't Jerkey
reach out with his right and get in a
blow over the heart which is goin' to
keep the other fellow in bed for two
weeks? Wonder to me that the crowd
don't number 10000. It's the scien-
ndGkedest mill we have had in year."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
An Imperial Courier,

The Chinese papers describe the re
ception of the imperial courier from
Pekin, who conveyed to the Viceroy
of Canton the news of his transfer TO
another province. Arriving at the
Niceroy's Yamen in the afternoon, he
was received with salute of nine
guns. Every one of the doors from
the outer gate into the sanctum sancto-
rum was instantly thrown open, and
the courier, dismounting from his
horse, was met by the Viceroy in rich
~ embroidered robes Of state. After
greetings, the courier was conducted
into the great hall of justice, where a
table with incense and candles was set
facing northward. The courier
walked up to the table ami took from
the folds of his dress the imperial
edict, gorgeous i'll yellow satin, and,
with averted face unfurled the roll in
front of the Viceroy. Suddenly every
one in the room, from the Viceroy to
the lowest attendant, fell down on his
knees and performed the nine prostra-
tions, at the end of which, all still
kneeling, the courier read out in a So
norous, sing-song style the imperial
command. The Viceroy then rose, and
taking the edict in both hands, raised
il aloft.
The courier then retired, not a word
having been spoken, but instead of
going out as he had come in, by the
front door, he went by an obscure side
door suitable to his rank, as, once the
edict was delivered, he reverted TO his
own rank, and, being now without a
message, lost all his honors as an i'm
perial messenger. A few moments be-
fore he was treated as all but an en-
pcror; now he was only small Off
cial.-London Truth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
What to do for Squeaking Shoes,

The squeaking of shoes, as the Liste-
ner believes he once before explained,
is due to the rubbing of the upper upon
the under sole. This is prevented by
putting soapstone powder between the
two thicknesses of leather, which acts as
sort of lubricator. A shoe which has
squeaked can be cured by the dealer or
a cobbler simply by ripping the soles
apart, putting in soapstone and sewing
or pegging the feathers together again.
Some people like to have their shoes
squeak; it serves very much the pur-
pose of an announcement of their pre-
scence and takes the place of the run
ner who, in India, precedes the great
mans carriage, shouting, "Make way
for the sahib!" The Listener is not
one of those persons. He prefers
mute shoes. But he can stand any,
thing except a pair of shoes one of
which squeaks and the other does not.
To go down room in the face of a
considerable company, with a pair of
shoes making unlike and alternating
noises, thus, "Squeak, clump! Squeak,
clumpl" is one of the greatest trials in
the world.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
Not His I,OOkoUt.

4 horse attached TO a wagon loaded
with light wood was slipping and
sprawling along State street in the
heavy frost of Saturday morning, when
a policeman halted the rig and said to
the colored driver:
"Your horse Lasn't got shoe on
any foot"
'.No, sab. Hes jist like de Lawd
dun made him."
"But how do you expect he's to get
along in this frost"
"Dat's not my bizness, sab. II de
Lawd makes hoss widout shoes an
den brings frost to make him ship
down, it hain't fur me to find fault.
Reckon dar's an objeck in it, an it's .
good 'un. Hey, Douglass-hole yer
head up higherW
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
Mrs. Mackay,s Parasol Timepieee.

Among her jeweled knickknack.
Mrs. Mackay had a dainty parasol with
a tiny open-faced watch snugly fixed
into the silver handle so that she could
know at glance what the moment
was, for in such life as a leader OF
fashion pursues, her hours are as
methodically apportioned to teas and
dinners and the rest of the diversions
of society as those of business man
are given to mora solid affairs. The
watch could be wound up by turning
the silver knob which served as the
head of the handle.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
Josh Billings Philosophy.

Thare IL nothing we are more apt to
parade before others than our kares and
sorrows, and thare il nothing the world
Kares so little about.
If you hav emmy doubt about the vast
amount Of virtew that the last genera
shun possest, go and study the epitaffs
Ia the grave-yards.
Take atfability, good sense, honesty.
and good breeding, mix them together,
and shake them well, and you hav the
ingredients for gentleman.
The good things a man duz are hard
20 remember, the evil things are dread
full easy.
The world seems to be governed bi
example; thare IL hardly emmy one 50
low down the skale but what he haz
hiz immitators.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
M1FFL1NTowN PENNA WEDNESDAY MARCH H. 1

which frightened the negroes the more
They ran right over the soldiers, as il
seemed, without knowing they wer.
there. The soldiers shot, knocked
down and captured as many of them
as they could, and all was captured the
next day. Some of them were cap.
tured over in North Carolina, forty
miles away and still running.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
A Literary Crank.

1t is related of the late Colonel Tom,
line, very rich Englishman who col
lected books and pictures, that he
would not permi: book above cer-
tain size to enter his library, nor a
book written by clergyman or Q
woman,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
VOL. XIV.
NEXT

A row Of human forms,
With faces upturned, white,
Arrayed In shrouds and motionless,
saw one fateful night.
The group who sat around
And talked on slight preteIt,
Gould not conceal their questioning
Whose turn will happen nexts
Was battle field In view,
Where shot and shell had ceasedf
Dissecting room or hospital,
Where souls had been relesssdf
We're tenants of the Morgue
Uplifting mute appeal
That charity's swift burial
Might sanction loss Of zeal
Oh, no; twas none of these
Impatient gaze enslaved-
The forms were in the barber shop
And slowly being shaved!
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11

The best way to clear out and straight
en- the fringe of towels, doilIes, etc.,
before ironing, is to comb 1t, while
d mp, with an inch length Of eoarssst
toilss somh.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
TAKE yuUR PICK.
6ere Is a List OF New York Heiresses
and Their Market Value.

Here is list showing the market
quotations of the heiresses Of New
York:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23
The Washington Monument

Have you seen by Potomac that shaft in the skies
From the meadows exulting to mate with the
sum-
Now misty and gray as the clouds 1t defes,
Now bright In the splendor its daring has wont
The winds are its comrades, the lightnngs, the
Storm
The first flush of dawn on Its summit shines fair.
And the last ray of evening illumines its form
Towering grand aud alone in the limitless air.
BY Nile rise the Pyramids, wrapped in the shade
Ot ages that passed as the waves on the shore:
AND harnak majestic, whose vast colonnades
god might have fashioned for man to adore.
And Baalbec upifts like vision divine
Its wonder of beauty by Lebanons wall:
But captive and slave reared in sorrow the shrine
The palace, the temple the pyramid tall.
To Freedom Potomac's proud obelisk towers.
And karnak and Baalbec In beauty outyies
for washington glory its grandeur empowers,
ana reeen with JOY piled its stones to the skies,
SYMBOL OF Liberty, matchless sublime,
sun soar from me meadows to mate with the sum-
And see thy Republic to uttermost time.
The noble, the peerless, the Many in One!
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

This was startling and hard to believe at
first, but after had tried the door by which
had entered and found ii securely locked,
and then. bounding to the other side OF the
room, tried the opposite one with the same re-
suit, could not but acknowledge that 1 was
caught. caught What did it mean? Caught,
and was in haste, mad haste Filling the
room with nv cries l shouted for help and
quick release. but my efforts were naturally
fruitless, and, after exhausting myself in vain,
stood still and surveyed with what equanim-
ity was left me the appearance CT the dreary
place in which had thus suddenly become en-
trapped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23


The Paris correspondent of the London Daily
Ne'cs telegraphs: s"One of the means of exer-
cising the German army, especially in vogue
at Metz and Strasburg. is that of nocturnal
'alerts. Every soldier mus. be ready to face
an enemy in given time. the time allowed
being very short. The 'alerts' are often 30 gem
eral as to resemble an instan taneous mobiIi-
the same system to be applied to the
garrisons of the departments of the
Meurthe and Vosges There is to be a grand
alert early in May. in which the troops are to
act on the hypothesis of having to take up
positions along an extended line against an
invading enemy, and to defend q number of
points, but in way to cooperate at any
moment with each other. Tho artillery and
cavalry at Luneville are to be brought into
play, and the Moselle will be defended at
Nancy, Flavigny and two other places. It
seems surprising that this system Of drill was
not borrowed sooner from the Germans"
81 have no friends" sighed . poor man.
"Humph." said millionaire grimly, ''you can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Reading the reports Of base ball games has
some obvious and great advantages over seeing
them played, and this only need be mentioned
to be recognized.
First Of all you do not have 10 wait for two
hours to see how il is coming out II il well
known that Q great many of the most expert
novel readers owe no small part Of their sue
cess TO the habit which they have carefully cul-
tivated Of beginning at the end Of a story.
They are thus at once able to determine at the
start whether the tale is likely 10 prove q salts
factory one or not So glance 1t the score Of
q ball game as published the next morning in
the newspapers gives all the important informa-
ton that those who watched the game the day
before had to spend two hours in getting. Thus
there is a great saving of time--and 10 most
men time Is more or less valuable. This seeing
the end from the beginning 10 what all the
great lawyers and doctors and business men
are constantly striving TO do, and il is certainly
power that is Of large importance. Its value
Is applied 10 the science of base ball IL so ap-
parent that words need not be wasted in die.
cussing it,
By this plan one not only sees the end from
the beginning, but he knows at once whether
he desires or not any further information. That
ID. he knows Immediately and thereupon decides
whether he wants TO know the steps by which
the result was reached. Thus your paper in
the morning tells you that Latham's company
OF leaguers we're defeated-and we have
observed that this 10 the usual announcement
by II to or King Kellys aggregation of talent
by to 5. Well, that ends your interest in the
thing, and il 10 all done in the twinkling of an
eye. You pass on to more interesting themes.
But those who saw the game bad 70 wait two
hours and more TO find this out
Consider, also, the anxieties OF spectators;
the feverish changes from high emulation 10
great depression; from hope 10 alarm, and
finally despair, and the humiliation and stings
of witnessed defeat All this he who reads y
spared e against him who goes 10 SEE
Il IL also much cheaper 10 buy your news
paper than to pay the amount that IL required
for entrance 70 the scene Of the contest And,
after ALL the man must be very rich or very
thriftless who does not think Of the difference
between cents and rs. Clearly the habis
should be cultivated Of economy, and this =
one way 10 do il.
The bose ball reports In sny veIl-conducted
newspaper-such as the COMMERCIAL Gosefte-
present, - it we're, Photographic snaps Of
every detail, incident, event OF the games.
They are pictures Of the most advanced school
Of realism, word pictures, and il the prelimi-
nary announcement Of the result proves 10 you
that the matter that follows viii be attractive
you can 20 into the body Of the report With I'll
Ia description, comments, talks, statistics and
calculations, with the full knowledge and i'm :
plicit confidence that the base ball editor has
worked IL out, and thought IL out. and watched
it cut far better and far more sccurstsly than
you could have done for yourself
So>--
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23
MAIDENs IN RUSSIA.
A Pen Picture Of the Mighty C.ar's Girl Sub

Fen Picture OF the Mighty CzAr's Girl SUBJ
Jects.
Nine Romanof in the English Msssrane
The daughter is a great pet in Russian fam
lilies, perhaps because there are generally more
sons than daughters Take the young mem
bers Of the imperial family, for example, and
We find twenty-five grand dukes and only seven
grand duchesses, and this may be stated 10 be
about the average proportion in most families.
The necessity for men in the rural districts az
assistants in the agricultural lAbors Of their
fathers has given rise to sayingi
Zone son is no son. two sons are half Q son,
but three are Q whole SON."
Notwithstanding the pride and satisfaction
little girl is the darling, the object Of the ten
derest affection and care of parents and
brothers, not TO speak Of other sdoring relA-
tves.
Much is not expected Of her In the way of
assistance to the family; she ID INDUCED ~ far
abe takes IL quietly and ~ her due, but it ID
rarely that she voluntarily and tacitly COM
tributes her share in helping her mother. Her
occupations are much the same those Of all
isteth not for her. She cannot have classes st
Sunday schools, a. religion il taught by priests
or deacons.
1t would be thought quite extraordinary and
improper were a young unmarried girl 20 visit
the sick or poor in towns, but in villages il is
sometimes done under the direction Of mamma
or grandmamma. She is undoubtedly fond Of
pleasures, likes to be well dressed and generally
sdores dancing Music is not the Russian girls
forte. nor is solo singing. Most OF the insti-
tukas, though they thoroughly know the theory
Of music, play like a child Of twelve. OF course
there are exceptions, but il is seldom you find
Q girl able to play quadrille or polka of hand.
Girls marry very young in Russia. and there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23
IN WOODS AND FIELDS
The District Furnishes Grand Re-
gion for Botanizing.
WILD FLOWERS AND TREES

Floral Riches ut Hand-A Flora That EN-
braces Almost All the Important Plants of
Americs-The Trees Of the District-What
an Observant Man Can See.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

He-sYou don't love me-? WHY, you IA
was man sitter your own hsartr
she-'You are, but yea von't ct T. "--Hw>
oDvd L0HpooA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

After We have called man q fool Il slvsy,
pleases us to have him get mad and prove it,
Binghamton Republioan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

Mrs Cumso-''The schuyIkill runs through
Philadelphia, doesn't it?"
Cumso Nothing runs through Philadsl.
phia my dear. The Schuylkill msauders
sleepily through the town."-NeW York consi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

81 have no Friends" sighed poor man.
..'Humph." said millionaire grimly. you can
have as many a. you want of mine. Judge.