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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-12

Glass paving blocks were laid in the streets of Lyons. France, several months ago, and it is reported that they have proved very successful, neither showing wear nor becoming clipped. The blocks have surface area of about sixty-four square inches which Is cross ed by a series of grooves, dividing it in- to squares and affording better foot hold for horses. In setting, the blocks are placed very close together, so as to 'obviate percolation, and are cleaner than blocks of wood or asphalt, while they are more durable than granite. A large factory has been built near Lyons for the manufacture of these paving blocks, and they will be produced in or namental forms for building purposes as we'll as for pavements
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-12

Business is business, and art is art. In the biography of the artist Milais by his son it is related that the artist was furious against 8 certain soap con cern for having used a reproduction of one of his pictures as trade advertise ment. This statement has brought out 2 very vigorous denial from the repre- sentatives of the soap establishment, who show that such use of the picture was paid for, and that the artist was perfectly satisfied with the treatment he received at the hands of the enter prising soap establishment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-12

Burnt Ivory Handles, exquisitely mounted, pearl with silver trimmings, Colored Silk Umbrellas with rich han- dles, new things all made to our ex- elusive order, $5. %, $50, 5000 and $7.00
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-30
salutes or Rulers.

Emperor William is one Of the two
European mOnarchs who delights In q
hearty handshake. He has a strong
grip and the person honored BY him
with a clasp of the hand Is apt to re-
member the dignity thrust upon him.
william usually kisses royal hands.
When he visits or IL visited by a mon
lrch he kisses him three times on each
cheek. Under NO circumstances viii
Franz Joseph Of Austria shake hands
with anybody except brother sover-
.igns. A nod and kindly smile IL all
ae ever vouchsafes the most distin-
yuished Of his subjects. Nicholas Of
Russia shakes hands with no none but
l fellow-monarch. Relatives he kisses
IN the forehead. Every one who
zones to see the King Of Italy finds a
landshake and hearty greeting II the
King likes him. Humbert is a demo-
,ratic king. sweden's king does not
ike official handshaking and rarely
gives one Of his ministers his hand.
When he is OF the throne and free to
De himself. he Is different, however.
md shakes hands as heartily as one
If his own subjects. Only with rela.
dves will Queen Victoria shake hands.
Outside her own family she occasion
ally gives her hand to be kissed. The
Prince of Wales, ON the contrary, likes
20 shake hands, and always offers his
1and to the person who Is introduced
70 him.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-30
TWO SCARE CROWS KILLED.

! What remarkable evidence of
nineteenth century enterprise. says the
Philadelphia Call. is the fact that a
! summer theatre" is no longer a thing
to be Stunned for the double reason
that II is too hot within the four walls
to breathe comfortably and for the 9TH
er fact, once SO apparent, that there
can never be gathered in a playhouse
during the torrid days talent suffi-
ciently worthy to make the going worth
while, even if the temperature is toll
cradle
Mr.. Keith has killed off both OF these
scarecrows. His handsome Philadel-
phia playhouse is positively a cool re-
treat-large parties having actually
this summer deserted the breeze-swept
boardwalk at Atlantic City in order
to enjoy the novelties presented from
week to week by the management of
this theatre. 1t is not surprising to
learn that the summer season has been
this Is accounted for when one consid-
ers the bill given, for instance, this
week; and what may be seen every day
and evening this week is but fair
sample of the excellence of the usual
offerings at Keiths.
Furthermore. 1t is not any wonder
that an audience yesterday and last
night packed the house from top gal
lery down and overfiowed in the boxes
md aisles. causing a suspension of the
sale of seats earlv In the afternoon.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-30
THs oLo HOME.

n the quiet shadow Of twilight
stand By the garden door,
And gaze on the old. old homestead,
30 cherished and loved Of yore.
BUT the ivy now il twining
Unframed Ger window and wall:
And no more the voice Of the children
II echoing through the hall.
Through years Of pain and sorrow,
Since first I had to part,
The thought Of the dear old homestead
Has fingered around my heart,
The porch embowered with roses,
The gables dropping caves,
And the songs Of the birds at twilight
Amid the orchard leaves.
And the forms Of those who loved me
In the happy childhood years
Appear at the dusky windows,
Through visions dimmed with tears,
I hear their voices calling
From the shadowy far away.
And stretch my arms toward them
In the gloom Of the twilight gray.
But only the night winds answer,
As cry through the dismal air:
And only the bat comes swoOping
From the darkness Of its lair.
Yet still the voice Of my childhood
Is calling from far away,
And the faces Of those who loved me
Smile through the shadows gray.
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60l8oO W VOuAQ Qov0 kLhk00 Z.
I'm my search for bits Of life which
are literatesque, to use Bagehot's 9
word" said Caster, gently rotat ting the
cherry In his glass. II seized with avid
lty on one that came to me yesterday
In q letter from q relative in a distant
town. I may say, by the way, that I
don't approve Of letters from relatives;
they have to be answered.
'The town Is the one was born In,
and, set In q waste Of family affairs
like an oasis, the letter told about the
death Of q woman whom remember,
I never made her acquaintance. She
was a widow and lived with her spins
ter daughter, and I believe the first
man to enter their house was the doc
tor who attended her In her last illness.
They kept a big and savage dog for
protection, and they rarely left the
little yard which surrounded the house.
All the work on the premises they did
themselves. even to cutting the grass
In summer.
''They kept no servants, and yet they
were not poor. The postman rarely
apparently desired.
Il was Informed by the letter tn.
widow died last week, and 1t seems
that she left instructions for a funeral.
One Of the local ministers was asked to
read the burial service. and my CORE
spondent tells me that the daughter
was the only other attendant, except
the pail bearers. Had she relatives at
all or friends anywhere? l do not
know.
The pail bearers were her trades
men-the butcher, the baker, the gro
GER and the coal dealer who had SUD
piled her wants.
Her tradesmen were the pail bear
ers," repeated Caster softly, and then
asked curiously: would not Balzac
have handled that wenr'-New York
Sun.
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Worse Yet.

A fresh story about the odd names
II the colOred people Of the South
>omes from the New Orleans Times
Democrat.
An uptown housekeeper has wash.
.rwoman with the queer Christian
name of Damsel, and it once occurred
to the lady to ask this madonna of the
tubs for whom, or what. she had been
called. In reply to the question the
washerlady replied:
"'Twas n frien' Of meh nav gimme
that entitle-an' a mighty ugly one 1t
8. I mus say. But I've got worse
names than that" she added, glOomily;
inch full names Queen Victoria Dam
,el Jones'"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-30
A Swan 9fo-

The story Of two stays which. while
fighting, interlocked their antlers ar
tenaciouaiy that they could not separ
ate them. and both starved to death. IL
paralleled by the following swan story
told by a correspondent Of the London
Spectator:
The incident was described to me by
a friend who heard 1t from the lips of
the man who saw 1t. My friends In.
formant, laboring man. passed on his
way to work every morning a pond op
which were swans.
One morning he saw a swan with
ats head under water, no unusual
thing, so he thought nothing Of it. The
next morning the bird was In exactly
the same place ant position. Still, that
was not remarkable, and he passed on.
On the third morning, seeing the
swan in precisely the same position, he
called the attention Of the keeper to Il.
The keeper proceeded to examine, and
found that the swans head had been
swallowed by a large pike Both. Of
course. were dead.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-30

-. a,caoaAp Wore Wen4osss
eers % tAs Are
pverybedy has heard the seoty =
wIIliam Tel, who shot an app'e 49,
~. head of his son with . DOW
arrow. and Of the wondefiua 49, - =.
Robin Hood. who roamed tne .-s1
woods Of "Merrie England. ana . e
MN. down q Wild goose ON tne w.
or split an opponents arrow va" -
own. S..t,
- .rcharv. however. that are not p
well knowu. There was . fam
william Of Cloudesley. VINO
basel wand with his shaft mo" !.
ance Of 200 yards. -...A
Homer tells how Penelope peomas.e
her many suitors that he only snoo'o
be favored
Who arst Ulysses wondrous bow shsa'o
And through twelve ringlets the heee ar
row send.
veil knowing that only her husDano
could display such power. In PROOF Oh
which. when they failed, he rewon nis
wife, for, bending his elbow.
The whizxing arrow vanished from tns
string,
sune on direct and threaded every ring.
The Romans were very skillful bow
men, although they discarded tne
weapon In warfare. trusting TO tne
charge and to hand-to-hand fighting.
Many Of the Roman EmperOre were IA
mons archers. 1t Is said that D0miuan
would place boys in the circus at con-
siderable distance from him, and. ms
they held I'D their hands with the nm
GERS outspread he would send the ar
rows between them with such nicely
and accuracy Of aim that he never IN
dicted q wound.
The wicked Emperor COmmoduA
Doasted that he never missed his aim
,r failed to kill the wild beast he shot
with a single arrow. He would set
shaft in his bow as some wild beast
was set free in the circus to devour q
living criminal condemned to die. Just
when the furious animal was spring
ing on his prey the Emperor would
strike 1t dead at the mans feet. Some
times one hundred lions were let loose
at once, in order that he with one hun
dred arrows might kill them. With ar
rows, the heads of which were semi
circular, he would sever the necks Of
the ostriches in full flight.
The Persian archers. according to
Charlian, practiced at mark placed
on top Of a mast twenty-six feet from
the ground. Toward this the horse
man rode, with bent bow, at full speed,
and in passing the mark turned and
shot at 1t backward, sometimes to the
right and sometimes to the left, sell
dom missing. The Persian bow re-
quired pull of 500 pounds
1t Is said that the Turks were at one
time very skilled archers. An old
writer says that they practiced regu-
larly with the bow from the time they
were or 8 years old to manhood. 1t
was a common feat for them to shoot
several arrows from a distance Of ten
yards into a mark not larger than a
die. In July, 1872, Mahmoud Efendi,
secretary to the Turkish embassy at
London, shot an arrow 415 yards partly
against the wind. In 179S the Sultan
of Turkey shot an arrow 972 yards
4 feat scarcely surpassed by those at
tributed to Robin Hood.-Cincinnatj
Tribune
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BENJAMIN lOE WHEELER.
eminent Professor Chosen Preside

Eminent Professor Chosen Preside II
of the University of California.
1t is generally conceded that in NAM
Ing Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler Of
Cornell University to be president Of
the University Of California. wise Sc
lection has ben made. Prof. Wheeler
has been looked upon for several years
past as very promising piece Of pres
idential timber. He has been profes-
sOr of Greek and comparative philology
at Cornell since 1886. and he is now AZ
years Of age. His position as a classi.
cal scholar Is thoroughly established,
and his current papers on Alexander
the Great in the Century Magazine
have shown the wider public how
broad a grasp he has upon the great
movement of the worlds political his
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Very Curfoua

The Yale Record reports that "an nm
known friend" has lately presented
some choice specimens to the Peabody
Museum. A few Of them are as fol
lows: A wag from the Tale Of Two
Cities" some water from "alrs WELL"
the rollers from the shades Of even
Ing" a drink from a "sand-bar," a
rocker from the "cradle of the deep."
a free lunch from the Sandwich Isl.
ands.
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VERY QUEER FISH.

exuded an Inky Fluid Into the Water
~ hen Attacked.
| A correspondent was standing upon
he platform which runs out over the
water at Tampa Bay. Florida, when he
saw a strange sight-a bird, as it seem
I'd, flying about beneath the surface.
The water. as he says. is like French
plate glass for clearness, 80 that the
creature could be made out In all its
letailA Its head was like that Of q
bird. although thicker and shorter
han most birds heads. The creature
advanced through the water by q
series Of distinct fappings Of q perfect
" visible pair Of wings. 1t had q tail
somewhat shorter than most birds
tails that Of half-grown nedg-
ling. Its rump was much like that Of
| 1 SQUAD about a month old.
The creature was 80 manifestly like
bird that one could hardly suppose It
% be anything else. But who ever saw
bird flying In the water? 1 watched
t long time, and 30 did many other
>eople. 1t flew" or swan about, dis
appeared under the platform, reap
peared. rested against the edge Of q
)Ost. and again dispOrted itself.
A bystander who said he had lived
It Tampa many years told me he had
lever seen one before, and was filled
With as much wonder and curiosity as
was. Another told me that 1t was a
sea apIgeon;" and still another, who
vas well acquainted with the crea-
ure's habits, said that 1t was some
lines called by this name and some
lines an ''inkfish."
Why 1t should be called a sea pigeon
vas plain. Why 1t should also be call
ID an inkfish was presently to be made
apparent
The sea-pigeon came to rest near a
)iece Of rocky shore. and a young man
procured a tin pail and a stick, and sue
.eeded In forcing the creature into the
pail. He had no sooner touched the
ish with the stick than the water all
ibout it became of an intense purple
.olor, like strong purple ink.
When brought ashore the creature
vas apparently immersed In a pailful
# purple ink. This coloring substance
I could be seen to be still exuding copi-
,usly. The contents of the pail, fish
md all, were poured out upon the plat
Orm, and the water ran through the |
racks. The creature which had so
ricked our eyes was now revealed to |
lose scrutiny. and wonderful was the |
wrought by a change |
If element.
The sea-pigeon, which had flown. a |
winged. graceful creature. through the
water. was now a helpless and Jelly |
ike mass. apparently divided into two
iabby secretions, neither one of which |
lad more than feeble. pulpy move
nent. 1t was without scales and ap-
without members, and its
'olOr was a brOwnish gray. 1t was an !
unpleasant, even a repulsive. mass. /
Itwas soon replaced In the water. but !
t seemed to sink, inert, to the bottom.
do not know whether II revived and
esumed its graceful water flight.
Whatever Its name. 1t belongs to the |
General tribe of cuttlefishes, nearly all |
# which have the power Of exuding a |
lind Of ink when hard pressed, in the |
midst Of which they count upon max |
ng their escape from an assailant-
Youths COMPANION
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The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that Is atarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. atarrh being a constitu-
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ment. alls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
faces Of tie system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease, and giving the pa
uent strength by building up the constitution
proprietors have so much ia tn IN its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that It falls to cure. Send for list
Of testimonials. Address
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Sold by Druggists, 76c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
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/ hereby take
My pen In paw to say,
Can you explain a curious thing
found the other day?
There is another little cat
Who sits behind frame,
And looks so very much like me
You'd think we were the same.
try to make her play with me.
Yet when I new and call.
Though l see her new in answer,
She makes no sound at all,
And to the dullest kitten
It's plain enough to see
That either am mocking her,
Or she is mocking me.
1t makes no difference what play,
She seems to know the game;
For every time l look around
l see her do the same.
And yet no matter though I creep
On tiptoe lest she hear,
Or quickly dash behind the frame,
She's sure to disappear!
St. Nicholas.
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TO 60 TO PARIS

Next Year as an Honorary Con mis.
sioner to the Exposition.
In selecting Mrs. Artie Goodwin Cul
lop, of vincennes, Ind, as one of the
five honorary commissioners to the
Paris Exposition next year Gov. Mount
has made an excellent choice. Mrs
Cullop is a highly accomplished WON
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-30

Facts About Treen for Little One..
/. Cutting down trees spo!ls the
beauty of the landscape. l should not
Ike to live where there are no trees.
2. There are few birds where there
~eo trees. They have no place to
their homes.
oTaking away the trees takes away
The protection from our tender fruit
trees
4, Where there are no trees the snow
melts and goes of too rapidly; the
moisture that should sink into the soil
IS carried away into floods.
5: Because our forests are taken
,way we have severe droughts every
Jear.
O. The trees give US lumber, fuel,
wood, pulp for newspaper, cork, bark
'or tanning. wild fruits, nuts, resin,
.urpentine, oils and various products
Tor medicine.
Z. One full grown elm tree gives ou.
fifteen tons of moisture in twenty-four
hours. A large suniower plant gives
off three pints Of water in one day.
g. We should have greater extremes
II heat and cold II 1t were not for our
forests.
8. The leaves Of trees catch the rain
and hold it little while; then they
drop the water little at a time; this is
better for the ground.
10. The old leaves make a deep
sponge-carpet In the woods, and this
keeps the ground from freezing. II the
earth does not freeze 1t takes up the
rain better.
IL. We might have dangerous foods
il we did not have trees. The trunks
and root. Of tree stop the water that
Gomez poui down the hillsides.
IL. will b, very careful not to hurt
my tree, but will call every tree my
.riend.-Primary Education.
Whore Ten Dine on One E1r.
One egg for ten guests, says q trav
.ler, is the custom at the California
ostrich farms.
lone, two, three, four. i've, six, sew
IN. eight, nine, ten," said the farmer,
counting the guests he had invited to
spend the day at the ostrich farm with
aim. 81 guess that one egg will be
enough"
Having given utterance to this ex.
preston he went to the paddock and
soon brought to the house an ostrich's
egg.
For a whole hour 1t was boiled, ano
.hough there were then some misgiv-
lngs as to its being cooked, the shell
was broken, for curiosity could no long
.r be restrained, and a three-pound
lard-bOiled egg was laid upon tho
plate.
But. apart from its size. there was
nothing peculiar about It. The white
had the blush tinge seen In the ducks
egg and the yOlk was one Of the usual
color. 1t tasted as 1t looked-like a
ducks egg, and had no favor peculiar
to itself
AS it takes twenty-eight hens eggs
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DON, but help to kill 1t.
Engrossed in feasting on his gifts'
re oft forget the Giver.
Man is not candle that burns OUT
yut a lamp that God refills.
II truth Is a broom. one end b 70
lold, and the other to sweep with.
Our company contributes more to
,ur content than the car we are in.
God shines after the storm. and the
uin-drops Of tears become diamonds.
There is perpetual summer in the
ieart where the Sun Of Righteousness
hines.
Overzeal for one commandment II
'ften the attempt Of q guilty con-
,cience to overshadow some other.
1t is the Christ who is touched with
feeling Of our infirmities, who
touches and fills us with the might Of
ais strength
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and would recommend your Compound
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REMICKER, RENSSELAER,, IND.
The serious ills of women develop
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warning they give should not be disre-
garded.
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Hungry for a Kiss

The prettiest child story told lately
3 in French. A mother tells her little
;irl that because she has been naughty
ore two days have gone by the child's
ips hunger SO for her mothers kiss
hat she begs her not to punish her any
more. The mother says: mo, my
lear; told you that should not kiss
'Ou, and 1 must keep my word"
But" mamma, mamma" says the
title girl. would it be breaking your
word If you should kiss me just once
o-night, when I'm aslecp?"
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% equal in weight the ostrich's egg
which was cooked, 1t was evident the
lost knew what he was about in cook
ng only one. There was enough and
o spare; and before leaving the table
he party unanimously agreed that an
,strich egg Is good fare.