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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-27

Tho In. ...W makes 10 appear
that iu .ri.eu. 'uo partial failure Of th.
apple crop iu fUn west we arc lilioly @.
have % ION Hap'y0f that crop from th,
east Mn'ur. new Hampshire. Vernon
and Ma 1rhliott. will hayo rnormau
crops, while ,ha ,iOlG win Or largo Boz
Rhode Island Connecticut, New York
Michig1l and 900 ~ the states u th,
Pacific slope Prices. however. especial
y In tho wcst promise TO b. high.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

who made it some valuable presents.
After the revolution Maryland offered
to cede Annapolis to the general
government as the federal capital
During the negotiations for a per.
manent site, it was resolved in 1883
that Congress should meet alternately
at Annapolis and Trenton, the first
session TO lie held at Annapolis Ii
was at this session that Washington
surrendered his commission as com.
mander-in-chief, December %, 1888.
Some Old Landmarks.
The Annapolis of to-day is a very
iull and stupid place. Nearly every.
body retires at 10 o'clock, and the
most important news is allowed to
keep" till morning. Nothing could
be more mOnOtonOus than the daily
current Of life. The colored folk
lounge about in the manner of their
race. and the white population have
much The same druwsiness, the same
absenre of hurry, the almost com.
plete leisure which is met with in the
Latin countries Of the South. Family
pride is very strong, and counts for
more than wealth. The names of
Chase and BriCe, of whom Chase
House and Brice House stand as me-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
A Dull and stupid Place.

One Of the most old-fashiOne
towns of the United States is Annap
OILS, the capital of Maryland. LOn-
before Baltimore had become noted
Annapolis was the seat Of wealth. re.
finement, and extensive trade. Now
it is chiefly important as the site OF
the Naval Academy. 1t was former.
ly port OF entry and has many
beautiful bridges, though they arc
very antique. From the peculiar
style of architecture it gives to the
stranger the impression of European
town rather than OF an American
city. The population is small, an6
none Of the most sanguine hope il
will ever be much larger. The city
has been regretfully, though ap9ro.
priately, styled by the inhabitan :.
The finished CITY," There remains
nothing to linger over but its agree.
able traditions.
Annapolis, says the Utica Globe,
was settled in 1649 by Puritan
refugees from Virginia, and was at
first called Providence. The next
year the name was changed to Anne
Arundel town, then it was changed
back to Providence, and was not
called Annapolis until about the
time Of its Incorporation as a city in
l70S. 1t was named for Queen Ann
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

A Chinese farm house is curiou,
tookirg abode. Usually it is sheltered
with groves of feathered bamboo and
thick spreading banyans. The walls are
of clay and wood, and the interior of the
house consists of one main room extend
ing from the floor to the tiled roof with
closet looking apartments in the corners
for sleeping rooms. There is sliding
window on the roof made out of oyster
shells arranged in rows, while the side
windows are mere wooden shutters.
The floor is bare earth, where at night
fall there often gathers together a mis-,
cellaneous family of dirty children, fowls,
ducks, pigeons and litter of pigs, all
living together in happy harmony. In
some districts interested by maraudins
bands houses are strongly fortified with
high walls, containing apertures for fire.
arms and protected by a moat crossed by
rnde drawbridge. With grain, swine
and a well under his roof the farmer and
his men might hold out against a year's
siege.-Jenisa Messenger.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
A Railroad Village on the Frontier

A moonless night soon closed around
he boat, and in the morning we were at
Sproat's Landing, place two months
Did. The village consisted of tiny
clutter Of frame houses and tents perchec
IN the edge of the steep bank of the
Columbia. One building was the Office
md storehouse of the projected railroad,
:wo others were general trading stores.
,ne was the hotel, and the other habita
ions were mainly tents.
1 firmly believe there never was
lotel like the hostelry there. la q general
gay its design was au adaptation of the
,lan OF hen coop. Possibly box
made of gridirons suggests more clearly
The principle of its construction. 1t was
wo stories high, and contained about
bakers dozen of rooms, the main one
Being the bar room, of course. After
he framework had been finished, there
vas perhaps half enough "slab" lumber
% sheathe the outside of the house, and
ibis had been made to serve for exterior
md interior walls, and the floors and
ceiling beside. The consequence was
hat flock Of gigantic cauaries might
have been kept in it with propriety, bus
Is place of abode for human beings 1t
compared closely with the Brooklyn
5ridge. The queer hotel was but little
more peculiar than many of the people
who gathered on the single street on pay
lay to spend their hard earned money
upon a great deal of illicit whisky and
few rude necessaries from the limited
stock on sale in the stores. There never
mad been any grave disorder there, yet
The floating population was as motley
collection of the riffraff OF the border
as one could well imagiue.-Harper''
Kd1azine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
Diamonds in the Rough.

Diamonds in their rough state are moi
auch mole attractive than pieces of
luartz or glass, and one picked up in the
liamond fields of South Arric9 would
,robably be thrown away as a worthless
pecimen of stone by boy or girl. In
act, something like this first led to the
discovery OF the rich diamond mines near
;ape Town, South Africa. A Dutch
ettIer's child was found playing with
pretty pebbles one day near her fathers
oneiy home in South Africa when a
tranger happened to pass. Noticing the
ylassy pebbles carefully, he induced the
!hild to give the playthings to him, and
fter an examination he was satisfied that
hey were real gems. History does not
ell whether he made the child present
or the valuable discovery, but the incl
.eut led to an exploration of the coun-
~, and to the establishment of the
argest diamond mining industry In the
world.
Most of the diamonds that are now
nnually added to the worlds stock OF
,recious stones come from these South
african fields, and great sums of money
ire invested in the industry. Expert
miners can tell instantly the good from
The bad stones, and many of them make
desperate efforts to smuggle the precious
,ems out of the mines. To prevent such
robbery, evey miner is compelled to
put on different clothing before going
nto the mines, and then at night time
ie is examined and washed all over be.
fAra ha e. al 20 Iaara hA 1looa
For long time they smuggle1 the dia-
nonds out of the mines by hiding them
n their ears, hair and mouth, and some
" them even ventured to swallow the
more precious ones. But such perfect
ystem of vigilance is now kept up that
his work is generally failure.
Everything depends upon the cutting
md polishing of the diamonds after they
re brought to the light of day, and il
he dozen most precious diamonds in the
world are examined it will be found that
Iize does not always count. The dia-
nonds that emit white rays of light are
usually more valuable than those that
give forth yelIowish light. But, other
hings being equal, the cutting changes
he value of the diamond very much.
The highest briIliancy of the gem is
brought out in certain way of cutting,
md so important is this considered that
he great Kohinoor diamond, which
very one has heard about, was recently
'ecut to develop its brilliancy, although
many kaIats of the diamond were lost
the operation. 1t is considered more
Ialuable in its smaller form than when
{ was larger but less brilliant.-E02cI.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

The whole group Of relatives of the
ost cereals would be passed in strict re-
REV. Size of grain, strength and vigor
md Elasticity of stock, adaptability to
different surroundings, aud fiexibility in
Fariation would be examined with scrupu.
ous care.
But the range of experiment would,
Inder the circumstances, extend far be-
yond the relatives of our present cereals.
II would embrace an examination of the
other grasses which are even now culti-
yated for their grains, but which are 50
little known, outside of their own limit,
hat it is surprise to hear about them.
For example, the milIets, great and
small, would be investigated. These
grains, 50 little known here, form an i'm
portant crop IN certain parts of the East.
One of the leading authorities on the
subject states that the milIets constitute
"a more important crop" in India ethan
either rice or wheat, and are grown more
extensively, being raised from Madras in
The south to Rajputana in the north.
They occupy about eighty-three per cent.
of the food-grain area in Bombay and
Sinde, forty-one per cent. in the Punjab,
:hirty-nine per cent. in the central
provinces, sin all about thirty million
lcres."
Having chosen proper subjects for ex
2erimenting, the cultivators would make
use of certain well-knovn principles By
simple selection of the more desirable
seeds, strains would be kept as races, Or
attempts would be made to intensity
wished-for characters. b. s;ulful hybri-
dizing of the first, second, and higher
orders, tendencies to wider variation
would be obtained and the process Of
selection considerably expedited. -Papu-
.ar Science MONTHLY.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
Meat Making in the United States.

Meat is a manufactured product for
which a large amount of raw material is
required. The manufacture of meat is
process of Transforming the vegetable
protein, fats, carbohydrates of grass and
grain into the animal protein and fat of
beef, pork, and mutton. The same
principle applies in the production of
milk, eggs, and other animal foods. In
the most economical feeding of animals
it takes a number of pounds of hay or
corn to make pound of beef or pork. In
other words, let the farmer make animal
protein and fat from vegetable materials
in the best way he eau, and still he must
consume a large quantity of solid-pTo-
duct to produce small amount of ami
NAL food. Hence animal foods are
simple explanation of the fact ;hat in
most parts of the world meat is the food
of only the well-to- do while the poor live
almost entirely en- vegetable food. Thus
ordinary people in Europe eat but Little
meat, and in India aud Chint they have
none at all. 1t is hard enough for them
10 get the nutriment they neet in vege-
table forms. Meats they cannot afford.
But Matchmaking in the United States
today is far more wasteful than it need
oe, on account of the excessive fatnesS
Of our meats. This comes about very
naturally. We have a great excess of
soil product in the valleys of the Ohio
and the Mississippi and on the ranches
Of the West. At presen. the pork-maker
aud the ranchman convert a large portion
Of this into very fat meat. The pork
producers of the corn-growing States
select the breeds ofswicc which, as they
Iay, "will take the most corn to market"
and have thus got into the way of grow
ing animals that are little else than
masses of fat. The beef-growers of the
western ranches, and those in the East
as well, produce excessively fat meat.
Part of the fat is trimmed out of the
meat by the butcher, part is left on our
plates at the table to go to the soap-man
or garbage barrel, and part is eaten. Un-
fortunately very many of US eat much
more than fat, both in meat and buffers
:han is needed for nourishment and thuf
10 injury to our health. Centllry.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

Master Maloney pricked up his ears.
''Its my mother" he said, "an'
it's in the basement you'll find her.
Mr., Russel, with Miss Helena stand
ing austerely by, tapped at the door,
once, twice, three times. before Mrs.
Maloney's fine contlalto voice shouted
out:
Come in"
But Eugene Russell stood still in
doorway, his eyes glrcl to the scene
that met their gaze-Minnie AEer.ey,
in a white apron, ironing diligently
away, with a pile of snowy shirts on
her left hand, and basket of sprinkled
linen on the right. And Minnie her
self colored Ike the "red, red rose"
for q minute.
Why am | ashamed" she res1lute-
ly asked herself cam l doing any
thing wrong / won't be su ch a fool,
And with this doughty resolution
in her mind, she glanced calmly up,
the pink shadows still glowing on her
cheek.
Good afternoon, Mr.. Russell" she
said calmly.
And Eugene stammeringly intro
duced his sister, who had stood judi
ciously eyeing the whole scene.
s'It's the gentleman awantin' his
shirts, an sure they're not done yet, "
cried bIundering Bridget.
but they will be soon," said Min
ME quietly am on the last one now
if Mr.. Russell will sit down and wait
a few minutes"
you, Miss Akerly, ironing my
shirts?'
Even So, Minnie answered. The
truth is, Mr.. Russell. we are poor; and
although ironing shirts is not so genteel
an occupation rs giving music lessons
or making wax flowers, | am glad to
earn a little money in anyway. | be
lieve those shirts will give satisfaction, ."
and she smilingiy glanced at the COM
pleted pile.
Miss Helena came forward with her
gray eyes fairly luminous with salts
faction.
My dear" she said, II couldn't
have done 'em better myself, and that's
saying a good deal.
And she nodded in an approving
way at her brother.
Minnie Akerly went home with the
dollar and half in her pocket the
most triumphant little capitalist you
ever beheld.
L don't think Mr. Russel was very
much shocked" she said to herself,
for he said he would keep my secret
from papa, and promised to call this
evening"
And three months afterward Eugene
Russell was married to Minnie Ackor-
Is.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

The owners of Lake Merced, CalirOr
MIA, from which apparently portion of
the water supply of San Francisco is
pumped, found year ago that the lake
VAS getting altogether too full of carp.
So seventeen seals were put in the lake.
TIE seals seem to have decided that they
wanted only one mouthful of each carp,
for the daily patrol of the banks resulted
in the discovery of dead fish, each with
the middle part of him cut out out by
a c'ean, round bite. The theory is that
the seals knew that the remainder of the
fish was full of bones, and did not
bother with it beca-se there were plenty
OF carp left with boneless abdomens. This
engineer who is in charge of the lake IS
afraid the seals are indulging themselves
too prodigally, and that the supply of
carp neces5 5ary too feed them will give
out If they keep on at the rate they be-.
g'ln.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
INDIANS WHO GO WHALING.
The Makahs of Washington Make Good
Living Out of the Sea.

The Makah tribe of Indians o.
Neah Bay have been accustomed for
years to cruise on the ocean twenty
miles from Cape Flattery. boldly at
tacking whales, fur seals and sea
lions, catching halibut, the several
varieties Of cod. salmon and rock fish,
all of which abound in great numbers
about the care. 1t was in 1872 that
the Government established a reSer-
yation and agency at Neah Bay under
charge Of Henry Webster. The
Makah's are rot an agricultural trihe.
They are entirely self-supporting, re-
Ceiving only about $4OO a year from
the Government for educational pur-
poses entirely. They derive all Of
their subsistence from the ocean.
They have been encouraged To pro-
cure a larger class OF vessels than the
canoes of their ancestors. and they
have been allowed to own and COM
mand vessels capable of making vOy-
ages to distant seas in pursuit of
their vocation of sealing, whaling
and fishing.
In 1869 sealing schOOnerS first com
menced to take these Indians with
their canoes to the sealing grounds,
and they thus acquired knowledge
OF the superior facility Afforded by Il
schooner for safety and comfort. 1t
was not tefOre 1880 that any Indian
had confidence enough to purchase
and sail vessel of his own larger
than a canoe. Gradually the MaKah's
have increased Their business, and
having been successful in their seal
ing. they now own Il fleet of ten Inc
SchOOncrS varying in size from
twenty-five to fifty tons each. They
start out in January, as soon as the
seals begin to appear in the vicinity
Of Cape Flattery, and cruise south,
following the herds along the coast
to the Columbia River, ard return
ing with the seals as they slowly
wend their way north to the Aleu-
tian rOokeTics. From the Columb bia
River to Alaska the Makah natives
know the Coast and can navigate
their owD SchOOncrs, but when they
90 to Bering Sea or TO the Japan
coast they are compelled to take with
them Il Caucasian nayigat JE The
young men-ot the tribe are exceed
ingly bright. Most of them attend
the evening school, where they learn
to read and write English. Recent
" some of them have been studying
navigation, and it will not he long
before they will be able To navigate
their own vessels even in foreign
waters. The earnings of members of
the tribe from sealing aggregate over
$40, 900 year.
Under the present law, as laid
down by the Bering Sea tribunal in
Paris recently, the Indians have con-
siderable advantage over the white
hunters Firearms are strictly pro-
hibited in hunting seals, and this
causes the Indians to adopt their old
custom Of hunting with spears, at
which a large number of their tribe
are adopts. Practical sealers claim
that the Indians will fare much bet
ter than either the English or Amer
ican sealers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

The national costume of the Greeks i,
both pretty and picturesque. The men
wear tight pantaloons, stockings to the
knees, and short futed dress or kilt
about the hips, all made of a color and
texture to suit the wearer's taste, but
mainly light and white at this season.
Their hats are every possible variety and
color, and their shoes are generally red
or yellow and turned up at the toes like
our old style OF skates, with red blue,
Fellow or black tuft on the point. The
;emale dress cannot be satisfactorily de-
icribed. 1t consists of whatever strikes
he wearer's fancy, and there are just
about as many styles as there are women,
the short dress and polychromatic shawl,
with no hat, being most prevalent
PitteJsrs leader.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07


"Marr d saId Eugene kusse5
meiiIaIN' ". Aha why shouluh i i
get married he.eha. IS not d: " man til al
me H'IP'vI l"i u'I'LiIs Iis -, io''Uiie
vita ne truly consenlaI souI: ~, ..
'UhS HIuI,S I"M'."E2 are an 81
WAL S3I" Nr. h''''e' mature
NuoLiS -ii'luc" S'S'J.' 9,
MOST young ia'le9, l grant you
Observed Eugene h"' not aH'
ii'ltha,
Anu you are 'lc IeIS one 70 ,,. DC
imposed upon ana Diilueu' S'iu MSS $
iLg'eha lSu7SeI' VINO h.'l "gne It, ! e' ieiI
OH fes'FGiuS her younger oI|''l5I "s d
very Si'i.II OIy' VINO IgI.'''Gu s! I... auLlion
i,'-'iI7 "'" 'o"NI''S 'I'''' ~ every IT,
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ll'IeLia I''sS,i' sI GiS oIis u, "'''@eS'
al" siiIsS, "o o,o pay nf tba etIIs his, ;.,
-, - ;'' iano6inglv Jemanded EDapn" apt'a'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
PROSPEROUS COUPLE.

JAN wife, it,S fifty years ago sencs you an me
An We hev cium the hills er lie together side
by side;
Fow we hev prospered, han't we, wife? an nov
well of We be-
W'en we wuz spliced we owned one COW, az
now, gosh! we own three
owed five hundred on this farm, Eve hundre
dollars then,
But hey prospered far beyond tho geuI run ca
men;
A kindly Providence hoz shaped The rough
course Of events,
An now owe four twenty-five an thirty-seIer
odd cents.
Twas only fifty years ago you only had on"
To a9geryate your beauty and increase yom
lOve.iness;
Now you've got two scrumptious dresses, an a
most tremendous bonnet,
With a mouEt 'ous hOrticultr raj fair a-tourishln
upon fl.
Three chairs wuz in our sittin room but hftI
years ago,
But we hev prosperei wouderfly, an now there's
hve, yCu know;
We've gained lamp. & puddin' dish, an extra
yoke er steers,
A grin'stons, an dingls cart-an' all in fifty
years.
It's all true wat our pastor said: the worl
moves fast today.
An with quick electric whiz goes spinnin' OF
1t Jest goes sppinnin' on its way until its work
But there's few spinners, my dear wife, whoy
spun ez We have spun.
Yankee Blade
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
A EOMELY OCCUPATION.

Give dollars! Oh, Bridget, I wish
1 knew Of any way by which l could
earn five dollars"
Our scene was an underground kitch-
en-, with a gloomy range of washtubs
on one side and scantily-furnished
dresser on the other. And Minnie
Akerly, a girl of L, sat perched on the
aforesaid tubs, swinging her pretty
little feet to and fro, while stout Irish
woman, with n basket on her arm,
stood opposite.
you" echoed Bridget Maloney.
But sure that's n different thing alto
gether"
1--WE need money so badly" said
Minnie soberly. And now that papa
is i'll, and has lost his office, we have
50 little. Mamma mended point-lace
for Madame Cherie last week, and got
little And Sara advertised for a
place as gOverncss, but no one an
swered the advertisement"
The pity of it"' sighed sympathiz-
ing Bridget, "when the likes Of me gets
more than she can do For there's
gentleman sent a dozen shirts last
night to be done up, and it's meseIf
wIll have to send EN- back.
elbow much do you have apiece p
Minnie eagerly asked
a shilling, miss.
That would be twelve shillings-a
dollar and a half, " said Minnie medi
tatively. Bridget, would you let me
do them o.
You, Miss Minnie
do, coaXed the girl. Il know l
could, | did papa $ last week, and he
never knew they were not ironed by
regular laundrcss.
We'll, I declare, said honest
Bridget, rubbing her nose. ''And you
Judge Akerly's daughter. "
won't you let mo, Bridget"
Minnie had Jumped off the wash
tubs and come close to the good
Irishwoman.
Sure you'd be kindly welcome,
Miss, " accepted Bridget. 'Only --"
And away ran Minnie in great glee, to
make all necessary preparations for the
afternoon work.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

MORALS, are honOred in the annals OF
Maryland. James Brice was mayor
Of Annapolis, when, In 1888, the cor.
poration met and gave the menora
bic welcome to Gen. Greene and
suite. Samuel Chase was one of the
four signers from the State of the
Declaration Of Independence. The
Stewarts were another PROMINENT
family. One of the most notable in
cidents in American history was the
burning Of the brig Peggy Stewart
IN the Revolutionary War.
The town might, in fact, be almost
forgotten, were it not for the naval
academy, whose officers mingle freely
in society. The Saturday night hops
are among the most enjoyable fes-
lures Of the season. The cadet, it is
needless to say, is the AnDapolitan
pet. At the close of the scholastic
year comes the cadets ball, which is
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
Mater Filter.

An italian inventor in New Yo;k
has just devised water filter, the
principle Of which embodies a theory
Of his own, that water is best filtered
upward instead of from the bottom.
The advantage of altering water up.
ward rather than downward is OBJ.
vious When water is filtered down
ward it has to be strained through
the accumulation OF impurities In
titering upward the impurities fau
To tha hnttnm of tha vass4l