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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
ABOUT RED HAIR.
1t Has Long Been Held In nl-Repute. nnd
as Indicating ViIlainy.

For centuries the popular notions
throughout Europe associated hair OF
this unlucky color with villainy, un-
trutworthiness and deceit. In Henry
Bebel's Collection of Proverbs" pub
lished in 1912, occurs the following:
Proud are the short, untrustworthy
the red-haired."
An o!d French proyerb, which +
known to be over five hundred years
old, says: salute red-haired man
or bearded woman at thirty feet of
with three stones in thy fists to de-
fend thee if need be-"
In very early times all pictures Or
Judas, Christ's betrayer, were shown
with great shocks OF red hair falling
down well on the shoulders. This
and the fact that the Judas in the
Miracle Plays" was provided with a
red hirsute worked the superstitious
people of the middle ages up to such
a degree that it was actually unsafe
for a red-hai ed person to appear in
company. Seeing that things were
coming TO a serious pass, writers OF
all classes began to rebuke and de-
nounce the senSeless prejudice
against those OF lively colored hair. "
Cyrano de Bergerac, in his "States
and Empires Of the Sum-" boldly
praised and gloritled the despised
color in the following words:
"A brave head, covered with REQ
hair, is nothing else but the sun in
the midst of his rays, yet many speak
jN Of it because few have the honor
60 be So"
The adjective, "Judas-colored hair, ,
and many similar illusions are often
met with in writings of the older
authors. In "As You Like 1t,
Rosalind says Of Orlando, His very
hair is of that assembling color To
which Celia replies, Something
browner than Judas"
Dryden in writing of Jacob Ton
son, publisher whom he thoroughly
despised, says:
He has leering looks bull-faced and freck
led fair
Two left legs and Judas -colored hair.
Hundreds of other citations to this
popular prejudice could be given,
but the above are sufficient to prove
that the red-haired persons position
was not an euviable one in the years
gone by,-Republic.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
CHINESE LAUNDRY MYSTERIES.
JHs Man Appear. Able to Do Any Con.
ceivsbIe Amount of Work.


Curious things about Chinese laun-
dries-the Chinese laundry, whether
the working force is one or many, re-
fuse no work, f.ad it is always finished
at the time specified. This remark
was made 10y well-known club
man during conversation with
some friends a few weeks ago when
the conversation had drifted to shirts.
There were some fifteen gentlemen
present, according to the New York
World, and some one Of the party
suggested that it would be good fun
for the crowd to look up all their
laundry for that week, personally
descend one at a. time on some soli-
tary Celestial and engulf him with
custom unexpected.
\ solitary Chinese laundryman wa.
nard TO find. But after some search
there was found in a basement one
who sprinkled clothes through his
teeth. All that day a long line OF
customers dropped down and in, each
loaded down with his washing for the
week.
1t could be seen that the exile from
the FlOwery Kingdom had already a
very large business connection in the
neighborhood. But he said no word
al the influx Of new custom, but took
the packages one by one, tore his
paper checks in two, handed half
to the customer and biandly re-
marked, "Slateday," and resumed his
ironing. He seemed unconscious Of
the fact that the place was crowded
80 that moving around was difficult
with the accumulation of new work.
And promptly Saturday afternoon
1t was all done. A watch had been
set upon the place, and though the
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
She Did Not Forget.

Everybody is familiar with the sto.
fy Of Queen Victoria and the old
peasant women with the umbrella.
Ex-Mayor Smith of Philadelphia, had
an experience of somewhat similar
nature with the conditions reversed.
He loaned his umbrella to an old
woman on crutches who was hobbling
along in the rain, and a friend with
him at the time intimated that the
parachute was as good as lost, but
Col. Smith expressed his faith in her
honesty. A short time ago the aged
borrower received a heavy award from
the spoliatiOn claims committee, and
her first act was to send the ex-
Mayor magnificent gold-headed silk
umbrella.-New York Word
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
The Word Fur. -

Fur" is word well understood,
and so is father" Outwardly OBJ.
served there is very little Ia common
between them. Inwardly considered
they are related closely-both mean
ing protection-both from the Aryan
root-word pa, to protect, to feed, to
cherish. Through its paternity fur
has many sister words, such as posse,
hospital, hotel, fodder, papa, pope,
despot, panic, pantry, palace, pastor,
potent, and many more. A slight
knowledge of letter changes that
come from varying pronunciation in
different languages makes the reIa-
tionship perfectly clear. Davenport
DemOcrat-Gazette.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

gasIight cleaned day and night until
the weeks end, no other hand save
his own had rubbed a wristband OF
polished a collar. And the clubman
said, Il told you So" and took the
dinner that a friend was foolish
enough to bet the other way.
But there is another curious fact
about the same class of citizens No
matter how many Cinnamon are at
work in the laundry they never seem
engaged in anything save ironing.
No mortal eye has e'er beheld a Chi.
! naman over the tub in the beginning,
or tying up the neat packages OF
snowy linen at the end, and yet the
work is always finished at the time
stated, nothing missing and neatly
done, and every one of them is iron.
ng still.
The American laundry boasts OF
steam washers that wash 100 dozen
pieces at q time, rotating machines TO
dry, starching machines to starch.
and ironing machines to iron. Many
people believe that the Chinaman
does not believe in machinery, that
he scOrns its use, But such is not
the case. Chinese laundrymen can
not get laundry machinery for either
love, or money. Each piece sold is
with the solemn promise that it shall
not fall into the hands of the Chinese
competitor
The American laundry journals
and there are five or six of them
keep up the crusade. The Chinaman
is quick enough to see the advantage
improved machinery would give him,
but there is no Chinese laundry In all
this land that has as much as starch
machine, save one solitary exception,
duly chronicled in the laundry trade
papers.
a Cinnamon on Nineteenth street,
near Third avenue, Birmingham,
Ala, has an old-style collar and cuff
IRON, the motive power of which is
supplied by an aged but muscular
negro, who industriously turns the
handle, while the almond-eye pro-
prietor Of the place gazes at the work
lngs of the gas-heated rollers with
complacent pride. For he is the only
Chinaman in this country, so far as
known, who has machine TO assist
him in his work. Where he got it is
4 mystery the laundry papers are still
trying to solve.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
In Book binding.

Yet another application has beeL
tound for metal, which is now being
substituted for cardboard in book
finding. This novelty is known az
the British Pellisfort" binding, and
it consists in the use of thin sheet
metal for covers. The metal is spe-
cially prepared, and the cover may be
bent and Strengthened again without
perceptible damage. The metal is,
If course, covered with the leather
usually employed in book binding,
and the finished book presents no
difference in appearance ;cept in the
greater thinness Of the cover.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

A spray of pure OIL of turpeutine,
mixed with one per cert. of lavender
oil, is said to have an astonishing effect
In purifying the air Of living rooms. tho
action being attributed to the ozore
formed.
The Central Paci6c Railroad has sopo7
monster engines in use on the western
end of Its route-those made at the
Sacramento shops In 1888. Each of
these gigantic locomotives weighs.
exclusive OF tender, 123, 900 pounds,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

y novel case of poisoning has been
reported in one of the Berlin hospitals
A common metal thimble, which W.
found TO have small spots OF verdigris
inside, caused the poisoning through a
small scratch on the end of the finger.
Near the summit of the Cascade
range, east OF Roseburg, Oregon, were
recently found porphyry boul lers that
so closely resembled watermelons in
size, Shape and color that it would
puzzle IN sxpert to tell the difference
without putting hIs hands on them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

TIE advocates OF cremation an
taking advantage Of the cholera
pl g0e where it exists, and the scare
where the scourge is Dire ided, to urge
their method Of disposiDg of the dead
because Of the thoroughness with
which 1t destroys disease germs of
every kind. <
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
A wELLKNowS divine. in hi

A wELL-KNowS divine, in his wise
old age, once took a newly married
pair aside and said: Il want to give
you this advice, my children-don't
try to be happy. Happiness is a shy
nynph, and If you chase her you will
never catch her; but just go quietly
on and do your duty, and she WI
come to YOU"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
Diamond Cut Diamond,

She-Are you really engaged tc
her?
His LordshIp Yaas. l tried to
make ner think Twas proposing with
out really proposing, don't YOU know
just TO find out what she'd say.
She-What did she say?
His Lordship-Funny thing-by
Jove-she made me think l was pro.
posing. Life.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
IF HAD KNOWN.
p HARRIET PRESCOTT spoFroRp.

II hal thought so soon she would have died
He said, had been tend .rer in my speech
] mad a moment fingered at her side
And held her e'er she passed beyoIs my
reach
n had thought so soon she would have died.
That day she looked uO with her startled eyes
Like some hurt creature where the woods
are deep;
with kisSss / mad stiileG those breaking sIghs.
With kisses closed those eyelids into sleep
That day she looked up with her startled ewes
on, had known she would have died so soon
Love had not waited on a barren land
Love, Ike those rivers under toTrId noon
Lost on the desert iured out on the sand
Oh, had known she would have died so soon /,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
This Is Success In Travelling.

Friend-Did you enjoy your sojourn
IN Europe?
Relic Hunter-Enjoy it? / should
say SO. cut some gold fringe from
the emperor's throne in Berlin,
hooked door knob from the vatican,
broke an ear off an old statue in Italy
and chipped off piece Of Shakes,
peare's tomb. wouldn't take 81, O00
for em.-Puck.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
New YorK dentist has ns

a New York dentist has De n
sued for pulling the wrong tooth, and,
what is more, the patient refuses to
pay for the molar which was ex-
tracted, though the job was well and
speedily done. Dentists must arrange
pull with the courts.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
a Serious Onense.

Justice Gin surprise)-What's the
charge, officer?
McGlathery (new member Of the
force)-Fer resistiu' an officer, yer
Amer. OF troied t flirt wild her all
tn way from Twinty-sicond Strate
down to Union Square an she resisted
me livery attintion. Puck.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
Too Unanimous.

Husoand-Your Jealousy OF that
woman is wholly unreasonable.
haven't seen her for a month.
Wife-I happen to know that you
write to her every day though.
Husbaud-Humph! I'm merely de
clining her invitations Judge.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
SPAIN's NEW MINISTER.
tenor Henry Dupuy de LONE and His Long
Diplomatic Career.

Henry Dupuy de LONE, the new
spanish Minister to this country,
comes of distinguished ancestry, and
has already, at the age of Al, achieved
a renowned reputation. His family
is French, his ancestry dating back
to Hugo Raimundo Dupuy, who served
with GodefSoy de Bouillon, and one
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
No Place for Her.

Deck-Hand-You're on the wrong
side Of the ferryboatt this is the
mems cabin"
Mrs Maloney-An' that's the twin
Minis" over there. Where do the
ladies be after going?-Life.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
Exactly tho Reverse.

Clubson-Is Spongely much given
TO drink?
Treatly-Quite the reverse.
Clubson-What! total abstainer?
Treatly-No; much drink is given
20 Spongely. Puck.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

DOCTORS bills are often saved BY
reading advertisements. Try it. Read
the announcements of advertisers up
on each page Of this paper. ssSS,f
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
ChurninE 2.

1t is now conceded by experts in
dairy matters that from twenty to
forty minutes, churning produces the
best results in butter both for quan-
tity and quality.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

Bangs--What Is the matter with
Jour face?
Fangs-Oh, I got into a scraps,
Rangs-Who did it?
Fangs-The barber.-Exchange,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
Il Arected Both AIike.

Miss Bleecker-We have had such
long walk, l almost gave out.
Miss Emerson (ot Boston)-I, too,
approached the verge of making an
external presentation.--Judge
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
Not Very FIattering.

Dumley-MIss Ethel paid me such
ridiculous compliment, dontcher-
know.
Miss Sweet-Indeed! What did she
say?
Dumley-That Homer could not
nave seen a more heroic figure than
myself.
Miss Sweet-That's so. Homer wa,
blind. Judge.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

a wall that is inclined to be damp
may be made impervious to moisture
by applying a varnish of one part
shellac to two Of naphtha. The dis
agreeable odor soon departs, and it is
ready to be papered as soon as dry.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
HUMOROUS SELECTIONS.
GATHERED BY OUR PATENTED
REAPER.

Jokes of Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors,
and Editors-some of Them Very Dry and
Others Somewhat Juicy-They VIII Aid
Digestion II Perused After Meals-Do
Not Read Them Upon An Empty
Stomach
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

Some interesting experiments in
submarine lighting have been made at
Toulon, France. An nelectric lamp was
Low cred in the roadsteld, and illumIn-
atcd the sea-bed and the water around
Il to distance of more than 100 feet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

THERE are men with natures 81
small that, If there is anything In
transmigration, they will probably
appear as microbes. 4
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
An Attack of Conscience.

Coal Dealer-We'll have to stop
mixing slate and sJones and old irun
and things with our coal.
Yardman - Phwat's the matter
sor:
Coal Dealer-The stuff won't burn
and one ton lasts a customer ali
wInter-New York Weekly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

An ingenious man has invented an
automatic coalscuttle, which, on the
pressure Of a pedal, shoots a lump of
coal into the fire.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
Fences.

All wire fences are made visible to
stock by attaching scrap tin to the
;op wire. A good use for waste
product.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

Rastus - What yo' doin' now,
Claude?
Claude-I'se runnin' a coal busi-
ness.
Wholesale OF retail?
Claude-Bofe. Some gifts it by de
quart, an some by de peck!-Truth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
Spirited Fishing.

spirited fishlng.
Little Girl-Papa, what's in those
boLtles?
Papa-That's the bait
Little Girl-Well, don't they have
trouble to keep the bait on their
hooks?
Papa-No The trouble is to KEEP
their hooks off the bait Smith,
GRAY & Co.'S Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23

As late as 1772 women rode astride.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-22
THE FIsKE LECTURE.
History of Maryland and the Car
oIinas Scientifically Treated.

OlIIdS AECatCOs
Despite the inclemency of the weather
a good sized audience assembled in the
lecture room of the Church of the Re-
deemer last evening to listen to Prof.
Fiske's second lecture on colonial his
tory entitled Maryland and the Caro-
linas."
The professor spoke in general way
of the political, social and mercantile
life Of the early settlers, and cOntraSted
the progress of the inhabitants of Mary
land and North Carolina with the inact-
ivity, roughneSS and lack of enterprise
displayed by the people of their sister
colony. The debased condition of the
South Carollnans he ascrlbed to their
comparative isolation.
Their harbors were undeveloped and
unsafe; their coast was beSleged by
numerous bands of brutal pirates; their
roads were few and dangerous to travel,
and all communication with the outside
world was fraught with difficulty and
danger. Under such conditions the
people refrigerated and acquired much
of the lawlessness of the freebooterS
and pirates.
They smoked their pipes in church.
drank rum to excess and worked their
slaves to death, claiming it was cheaper
to let them die thus than to support
them. Indigo and rice were the princi-
pal products, and. strange to relate,
these have never been successfully cul-
tivated by white men.
The inhabitants of North Carolina
and Maryland were i'll position to have
their sons and daughters educated in
Europe, and the advantages of this edu
crtion and travel were productive Of q
high state of society even at that early
period of Americas history. The third
and last of the lectures will be delivered
next Friday night, and the subject Sc
lected is 1.-The Middle Colonies"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-22

time as travelling correspondent. He
was especially noted at that time for his
capable work as the representative of
the Times during the Indian wars in the
far Northwest. MIR. Finerty has also
enjoyed something of political career.
He was elected to the Forty-elghth con-
greSS from the Second district of Hi
nois in November, 1882, and his match
less oratory often reSounded through
the halls OF the house of representatives
during his term there. In 1890 he pub
lished a book entitled War Path and
Bivouck; or the Conquest of the Sioux"
which is a thrilling narrative of his
personal experience and adventures
in the Indian campaigns. and which
has received much praise at the
hands of the United States army
officers and the entire American press.
He was delegate to the national
league convention held in October, 1891.
In personal appearance he is giant in
stature, broad shouldered and possess
ing all the elements of strength. In
manner he is the most amiable and en-
tertaining of men and brilliant COIL
versationalist. He visited the scenes of
his adventurous career short time
since. being the orator of the day at the
one hundred and fourteenth celebration
of the birthday of Robert Emmett at
Butte, Mont. Mr.. Finerty's subject
next Thursday evening will be "Daniel
OConnell, the Lincoln of Ireland"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-22
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES.
They Will Be Royalty Entertained
One Week From Thursday.

The principal business topic before
the Union league last night was the en-
tertainment of the representatives of
the state league of Republican clubs
and the members of the state central
committee next week. The executive
committee of the state league of Re-
publican clubs has been called to meet
in Minneapolis March 30. The Repub-
lcan state central committee will meet
with the state league committee at the
Union league club rooms. The state
league committee will consist of one
representative from each county
throughout the state, and the state
central committee will comprise twenty
two of the most prominent Republicans
in the state. The committee of the state
league will listen to reports from officers
and from individual members of the
league on the progress of the work OF
the league. Both organizations will
listen to a discussion of the new election
law by the men who were most active
in securing its adoption. The proposition
of holding mass meeting during the
Republican national convention will
also be discussed by both committees.
The Union league had appointed a
committee to arrange for banquet OH
this occasion. The committee reported
last night that it had made preliminary
arrangements for dry banquet to the
two committees at the Guaranty Loan
cafe on the evening of March 80. The
report of the committee was Endorsed,
and it was instructed to 60 Oh with the
preparations.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-22
MEN OF THE CLOTH.
The City Ministers Hold Meetings
and Discuss Mighty Matters.

A meeting of the Congregational min
listers was held yesterday afternoon.
"The Missions aud Branch Sunday
Schools of Minneapolis" was the SUBJ
ject selected by Rev. r. P. Herrick. SUI
perintendent of the Minnesota Method
ist missions. He spoke of the life and
death of the City Missionary society,
which was organized in 1885, and of the
Congregational Union of Minneapolis,
which merely existed for brief year
and died for want of support. He
wished to know if the present policy of
each one for himself should not be
broadeEed into general and common
responsibility. He entered into re-
view of the work of the various city
missions and made strong plea for
concerted effort on the part of all
churches of this city for the saving of
the Metropolis.
Yesterday morning Rev. R. T. Hart
read paper before the Methodist min
listers covering the question of amuse-
ments. He was opposed to card playing,
dancing, theater going, horse racing and
the like. 1t was matter of conscience,
and in this he was seconded by Rev. e..
French. He favored the excision OF
that part of the discipline referring to
this matter.
At the meeting of the Presbyterian