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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Ko-nut for pies and all pastry-onct
used, always used; for sale at Zierolf's.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Ko-nut-a pure sterilized vegetable
| fat, at Zierolf's.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Big bargains in mems and boys
summer suits at Nolan & Gala
hans.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Sweeping reduction in all sum.
mer goods at Nolan & Callahan's
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Ladies' shirt waists, crash skirts
and wash dress goods at cost al
Nolan & Callahan's.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Big stock harvesting outfits at
Nolan & Callahan's.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
A Sssacions Elephant

G. e. Peal states that he once saw Z
young elephant deliberately fashion q
surgical instrument. He saw the ami
NAL in question go to a bamboo fence
and break off one Of the pickets; this
picket 1t further fractured with iti
trunk and one Of its fore feet until II
obtained sharp fragment some ten OF
twelve inches in length. Then, leaning
forward on one Of its forelegs, it thrus,
this fragment, which 1t grasped with
Its trunk, into its ''armpit," and Wig.
orously moved it to and fro. As a re.
suit Of this operation a large elephant
ieech was dislodged, which dropped tc
the ground and was at once ground to
mlncemeat beneath the horny toes OF
the sagacious brute, which grunted it.
Intense satisfaction!
Jessie, the elephant mentioned above,
had some knowledge Of pneumatics.
One day tossed peanut, which fell
to the ground some eight or ten inches
beyond the utmost reach of her trunk
She stretched out this organ to its full.
est extent toward the peanut, then
blew through it a sudden, quick and
powerful blast. The peanut was hurled
against the wall, whence 1t bounded
and then rolled beneath the feet of the
Intelligent animal, which at once swal
lowed. tried this experiment several
times, each time with a like result
Scientific American.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
Never Admit Defeat.

Never admit defeat or poverty,
though you seem to be down and have
not a cent. Stoutly assert your divine
right to be a man, to hold your head up
and look the world In the face; step
bravely to the front whatever opposes.
and the world will make way for you.
No one will insist upon your rights
while you yourself doubt that you pos
sess the qualities requisite for success.
Never allow yourself to be traitor to
your own cause by undermining your
self-confidence.
There never was time before when
persistent, original force was SO much
In demand as now. The namby -pamby,
nerveless man has little show In the
hustling world Of to-day. In the twen-
tieth century q man must either push
or be pushed.
Every one admires the man who can
assert his rights and has the power to
demand and take them II denied him.
No one can respect the man who sinks
In the rear and apologies for being In
the world. Negative virtues are of no
use in winning ones way. 1t Is the
positive man, the man with original
energy and push that forges to the
trOnt.-Success.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
or,e,n.l Ch,mney sweeper.

The first people who employed boys
for the purpose Of clambering up chin
neys to clean them were the French;
and the greater part of chimney sweep
ers in Paris at the commencement Of
the century were Savoyards. One
might then see everywhere in the
streets large groups of these boys,
many not above eight years Of age.
clad In linen frocks, and who, when
called upon, would scramble up Chin
neys at the hazard Of their lives, with
their brooms and other instruments,
often through a narrow funnel fifty
feet in length, filed with SCOT and
smoke, and In which they could not
breathe till they got to the top, and
all In order to gain but five sous. The
custom was introduced into Great Brit
ain, but put down by an act of Parlia-
ment in 1910, in consequence of the
many serious accidents which attend
ed the climbing of chimneys; and, al
though the use of machinery was sub
stituted, 1t does not perform the op-
Grafton so effectively as the old mode.
AS long as chimneys were simply and
wisely built they We're easily cleaned
by servants with wisps of straw or
brushwood fastened to rope; but
when, to save room. narrow fues We're
made, the cleaning of them became so
difficult that 1t was necessary to have
small boys for that employment. The
first who thus swept chimneys were
the people in the northern part OF
Italy, more particularly the inhabitant
Of Piedmont and Savoy.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30


It has often been said that the enpae4.
ty Of the negro race for endurinx heai
has never been fully tested. An incs.
dent related by dairyman living on
the outskirts Of the city seems to bear
out this assertion. He has . young ne
gro boy. who looks after the cattle and
does chores around the place. The
only effect that the heat produces in
his case Is q desire for slumber. Ths
dairyman had a young calf in the barn
yard and as the sun was pouring in on
the poor animal his wife sent "Carlina"
out to turn the calf loose. 20 that he
could seek q shady spot. After wait
Ing an hour for his return the house
wife went to the barnyard to investi-
gate. There she found both boy and
calf curled up in the hot and stiflinS
tarnyard. The calf was dead from the
effects of the sun. but the boy was
Numbering peacefully by its side.
While negro can stand any amount
Of heat on his head, he loves to cool his
heels. 1t Is a common sight In the win
ter to see a negro boy on a frosty morn
Ing with his head bundled up to keep
out the cold and at the same time walk
Ing unconcernedly along the frosty
ground In his bare feet. One of the
hottest places in the city on a hot day
Is at the lumber wharves Of the Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad.
When the men knock OF for noon they
frequently take nap with their faces
upturned to the rays Of the blazing
sun; at the same time they get their
feet under the shadow Of some friendly
lumber pile.-Florida Times Union.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30

he dining-roOm. The heavy black lines
show where to cut with the scissors.
The dotted lines show where to fold
he mantle to give 1t the form Of Fig.
Ire Z.
When the space in the panel above
he mantel is cut out, as shown In the
iiagram, paste a cOlOred picture from
1Ome paper on the back, so that the
PANEL frames the picture. as in Figure
:. Bend the crate back inside the fire
,lace, and I'LL It with crumpled pieces
If bright red paper to represent fire
The paper fire will be warm enough for
paper doll. and prevent her from suf-
iering with cold feet. Figure 8 shows
low to make vases Of flowers, the point
I'd ends at the bottom being intended to
stick through the Sits cut in the top of
he mantel.
Figure 9 shows how to make a man.
:el clock. A grandfather's clock to
match the Janice Meredith chairs can
De made by simply making Figure 8
:hree times as long as it appears in the
Illustration.
Dolly cannot sleep upon the chairs,
md bed is as necessary a thing for
he bedroom as a stove is for the kitch-
IN. Figure 13 tells you just how to
build fOur-pOst bed for the little miss,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
Trio Ks OF Choir Singers.

One Of the English bishops has been
complaining that he notices about
many choir boys and men a want of
reverence and Of attention to the serv.
Ices that are going on, and he exemph-
fies this by saying that the choristers
talk in song and have a sort Of "volun.
tary" Of their own wherein they drop
the original words and, to sacred mu-
sic. chant, Il am so hungry; hope we
shall finish soon"
But this, in reality, is a very old COM
plaint, and the average stage manager
Is far more afflicted by 1t than even are
cholrmasters connected with places Of
worship. The rows Of chorus men and
girls one sees on the stage carry on
long and animated conversations about
everything under the sun, and all to
music. And all the time they indulge
in the gestures they have been taught
as appropriate to the scene, their
thoughts are really with the themes of
their musical chat, and thus it is that
these gestures seem 80 wooden and
artificial. And 1t Is fact that the
great bulk Of the chorus people engaged
in the highest class Italian" opera sing
any gibberish they please.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30

s.burbanite's Scheme TO Get Even for {
Grudge Against . Railroad.

e~burbanite's Scheme TO Get Even for Z
Grudue Against . Railroad.
"The lengths to which q man will
sometimes 60 to avenge real or fan
cied injury are amusing" said a con
ductor on q suburban train one morn
Ing last week. do you see that pros
porous looking. middle-aged man in the
third seat on the left? Well, sir, he
must be worth at least 100000. from
the style Of country place he supports
up on the Sound. You will find in the
baggage car a big battered-lOoking old
trunk with his name and address paint.
ell on II in large letters. Every morning
when that man comes into New York
his trunk comes with him, and when
he goes home at night the trunk is on
board. Between trips it rests in the
baggage room in New York or at the
station in the country where its owner
gets of That trunk has been travel
ne back and forth for two seasons now
aud it's an awful nuisance.
The reason for this is: Two years
,po this man was thrown down in the
rar by a sudden jolt and he sued the
road for 5000 damages. He WASN'T
Injured q particle, but he stated that
he had been waiting to sue the road fol
something for . long time. Well, he
was unable to prove carelessness on the
part of the road or injury to himself
and he lost his case. He was an angry
man, and II he had not had an expens-
i've home on our line he would not have
used the road. He looked around fol
some way to get even and he hit upon
the trunk idea. He found that he was
entitled to the transportation of 1OC
pounds Of baggage on each trip. he
rigged up this big trunk, the largest
one that he could find, and put in
enough lead to make 1t weigh just LOG
pounds. So that every one might know
that he was revenging himself he paint.
ed his name in large letters on the
trunk. Every morning he has 1t check
ed into New York and every night he
checks 1t home again. During the trip
he usually walks through the baggage
car to gloat over the sight Of 1t. He
gets q lot of fun out Of 1t, but IL means
a lot Of bother also. He must get to
the station ten or fifteen minutes be-
fore his train leaves In order to check
his trunk. have known him to miss a
train rather than leave that thing be-
hind. Every man who rides In our
train knows that old trunk now. It's a
nuisance, Of course, but we have got
used to II and we dom: kick. The
owner Of the trunk thinks that he Is
getting even with the road, and Re
made out q little statement ut the end
of last season showing how much bag
gage he had forced the road to carry.
He sent 1t to the treasurer OF the road
but never heard that he received any
reply. Funny trick. isn't ItY-New
Ycrk Sun.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
Old Joke Given a New rv,..


A man well known in professions
circles was standing in the Union De
pot few days ago when a woman
came up to an officer stationed at tn.
depot. and the following conversation
took place:
"Will this train take me to Detroit ?
mo, madam, but you can chang.
cars at Toledo and get to Detroit"
What time will that get me thers1s
"Sfx twenty p. M"
Are you suref''
well, II it's on time It will"
Are you sure I'll make connsctaons
at ToledoT
"Yes'm."
The woman went away apparen*ly
satisfied, but came back q moment Il.
ter. and asked all the questions oves
again. When she had departed the pro-
fessonal man walked up to the officer
and inquired:
How many durn fool questions do
you have to answer in a dayr'
ITS the third time to-day" said the
officer. with q twinkle IN his eye, THAT
I have answered tAA4 AnaL"-Clsvslan<
Plain Dealer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
Porcelain Tower.

This was one Of the architecture
boasts Of Nankin, China. It was rearet
In the ninth century before Christ b.,
King A-yon, and has been twice rebuil
once in the fourth century Of th'
Christian era and again in 1418 b.,
Hoangli-Tai. The tower originally at
tained a height Of $50 feet. 1t consisted
Of nine stories surmounted by a grea,
mast bounded by a spiral cage and
crowned by an immense globe. A hun
ired and fifty-twO large bells were hunt
from the roofs of the nine stories
which we're ornamented also with 12e
lamps. The cost Of the original edifice
was estimated at between $35, ,00O, ,OOe
and $4O, O,OOO,O 900. 1t was made Of white
brick and the walls and roofs were
brilliantly ornamented with porcelain.
The great porcelain tower was destroy.
ed in 1853. during the Tae Ping oecupa
ton of the city.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
A SYMBOL Of Wealth,

The Joneses did not know they were
rich, or even considered SO. until an
other tenant in the fat building said
that the janitress had spread the re-
port Of their wealth. What's more,
the janitress said she was sure of their
financial standing, because she herself
had seen their means. She gave out
this piece Of gossip on rent day: Yer
see this bit av white paper with some
writin' on ut? Yes? Phweli. that's
wut Mrs. Jones gev me for the rint.
and it's all roight cause the owner
takes ut without a wurrud. That pa
per Is wort $35, and-would yer be
lieve ut?-Mrs. Jones has got a little
book with hundreds of thin in ut.
Them Joneses is wealthy."-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
Take Caro- OF the Old Newspapers.

Take Caro- OF the Old Newspapers.
Old newspapers form an important
item in domestic economy, and are use
full for polishing window-glasses, for
cleaning lamp-chimneys. for testing and
cleaning fiat-irons, and for dozen
other things. You will also need heaps
of them when you come to pack away
the winter clothing. The clothmOth,
like other evil-dOers, has an aversion to
printers ink. An excellent mOth-proof
bag, second only to the expensive tar
paper, and costing nothing, may be
made of two thicknesses Of newspaper,
with the edges folded as II for an inch
wide hem, and securely pasted. Bags
Of the same kind are about the best
thing you can use for keeping seeds
and dried herbs. They are dust and in
sect proof, and can be labeled and hung
In the store room until needed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30

Death Robs q eouthern Claimant Iupt
When His Hopes Are Realised.
The big cotton claim which was left
- q legacy to the Touro Infirmary and
Jewish Orphans home reminds me Of
. curious story" said prominent New
Orleans lawyer to q Times-Democrat
writer. Zone Of the many people who
lost cotton through confiscation during
the war was Mississippi planter.
whose name I would rather not men,
don for fear Of hurting the feelings Of
somebody now living. He had been q
rich man, but after peace was declared
his bill against the government for his
cotton was practically all he had left
and he went on to the capital to press
the matter personally.
HE found II a bigger Job than he
anticipated. and eventually he became
one of the great army of chronic claim
ants who form such pathetic element
In Washington life. / used to encoun-
ter him during the occasional visits,
and he always assured me that he was
on the point Of securing a settlement
think he had a small income from the
remnant Of his estate-just enough to
keep soul and body together-and II
was easy to see that he was desperate
ly poor. but he was a gentleman to his
finger tips, and he never made the
slightest reference to his straitened
circumstances
Fully fifteen years went by in hope
deferred. and the old man was begin
ming to fail rapidly In health. when at
last. in 1884. n special commission ap-
pointed by President Arthur ordered a
compromise Of his claim at SO. 600
cash. That was less than a fifth Of
what he asked. but he Immediately
drew the entire amount in currency
at the treasury. I suppose he wanted
to feel the actral money in his hands.
and II so II was the only good 1t ever
did him. for that very evening. while
he was unlocking his bedroom door In
cheap Washington boarding house
he dropped dead OF heart failure. To
cap the climax Of utter futility. the
money for which he had waited so pa
tiently and bravely for so many years
was stolen In the confusion that fol-
lowed. and never recovered.
Poor old fellow, Whenever think
about the case II seems to me that des-
tiny went to work deliberately to per.
petrate a grim practical joke"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
Dead LanRuaoes.

There are certain languages which
although they are still spoken and
written in, are to all intents and pur-
poess dead. For instance, Icelandic ID
practically identical with the dead
Morse language, out Of which the Scan
dinavian tongues have grown. So, too,
Provencal, the ancient language of
Provincial, and the speech in which
the trOubadours sung. has now sunk to
the level of patois. although a certain
French literary school is making eff
forts to revive it as literary language.
Hebrew, again. though still spoken, h
to all intents and purposes dead In the
sense that Greek and Latin are. Corn
bh, Manx and the old, mysterious
Romany tongue are also examples
watch should b mentioned
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
POWER OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES.

misconceptions of the Force Exerted by
Dynamite and Gunpowder.
There is a widespread misapprehen-
sion in regard to the devastating effect
Of these high explosives, for when un-
confined the effect even Of large
charges Of them upon structures is
comparatively slight. At the naval
ordnance proving grounds, SO long ago
as 1884, repeated charges Of dynamite.
varying from FIVE pounds to one hun
dred pounds In weight, were detonated
on the face Of a vertical target consist
ing Of eleven one-inch wrought iron
plates bolted to twenty-inch oak
backing, until 40 pounds Of dynamite
had been SO detOnated in contact with
it. and yet the target remained practi-
cally uninjured. while at Braamfontein
the accidental explosion Of ffty-fve
tons Of blasting gelatin, which was
stored In railway vans, excavated but
10000 tons of soft earth.
This last may seem a terrible effect.
but the amount Of explosive involved
was enormous and the material one of
the most energetic that we possess,
while. il we compare 1t with the action
Of explosives when confined, it's effect
becomes quite moderate. Thus at Fort
Lee, on the Hudson, but two tons of
dynamite placed in a chamber in the
ock and tamped brought down 100, 600
ms Of rock: at Lemberis, Wales, two
ms and a half of gelatin dynamite
milarly placed threw out $50, 600 tons
rock, and at the Talcen Mawr, in
Wales, seven tons Of gunpowder, placed
two chambers Of the rock, dislodged
from 125.0O0 to 100000 tons of rock.
We might cite many such examples,
but on comparing these we find that
the gunpowder confined in the interior
at the Talcen Mawr was over forty
two times Is efficient as the explosive
gelatin on the surface at Braamfon-
tein, while the dynamite at Fort Lee
was over ninety times as destructive
Popular Science Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
BELOW THE BOILERS.
The Mighty Powers Of Propulsion Of
Transatlantic Liners.

Transatlantic Liners.
twenty-five years ago the Engineer,
of London. the recognized authority on
all matters pertaining to steamship
navigation, made the prediction that
the crossing of the Atlantic ocean, by
a steamship, at the speed of twenty
five miles an hour, was one OF the
things impossible Of accomplishment.
At that time the Atlantic had never
been crossed by a screw steamer at as
high speed as fifteen miles an hour;
the Cunarder Scotia, the last Of the big
sidewheelers, never doing better than
An average of fourteen and half knots
Therefore the prophecy of the Engineer
was not at all a Wild one. But to-day
thert are steamers that have reached
the speed of twenty-five miles an hour,
and others are In course of construc-
ton which are expected to surpass it.
The fastest liner of to-day has done
more than an average Of twenty five
miles. Her enormous engines and pow-
srful propellers. mlgnty powers of pro-
pulsion, have forced her through the
toughest waters of the Atlantic at an
average speed of twenty one knots,
which Ii a fraction over twenty-six
miles In the hour.
The distance Of the Southampton
New York route is 5000 miles, which
covers on the average In five days and
seventeen hours, considerably over
twenty-five miles an hour for the en-
hre trip; her mighty engines-that
throbbing, humping heart down below
-revolve about eighty times per min
ute, or about $4,000 revolutions to
cross the Atlantic.-Frank Leslie's Pop
ular Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30
The Thinner Market.

On the last Wednesday Of Angus
every year there Is a fair called the
Thinner Market" held in the Castle
Square in Aberdeen, Scotland. Some
fifty or sixty years ago nothing coult
be bought at 1t but wooden articles
from which arose the name Thinner
Now. however. 1t Is the Scotch house
wife's last chance OF getting her Der
ries for preserving. Every patron OF
the market knows that after thai
month the only chance Of fruit is gone
hence the rush. Great and small
rich and poor alike turn out
Booths. set to the best advantage anc
numbering perhaps two hundred, are
arranged in rows, ample room beinl
left for the buyers and pleasure-seek.
ers between. Fruit stalls, old clothes
dealers, shooting ranges, wheels Of for
tune-everything to make a penny car
be found there. Schools and colleges
have no recognized holiday on tina,
Wednesday, yet the average "med" is
a regular attendant. Up and down he
parades. blowing his trumpet in the
face of everyone he meets and looking
the very picture Of happiness. although
past the age Of three.
By o'clock the "tarry rope" lamps
are Lit and the fun commences. Coun.
try "bumkins" fetch their "lasses" and
buy them candy and pears or whatever
is wished for; provided that the cost
does not exceed sixpence. The elite
of both sexes mix with the crowd and
treat" the one the other. When all
is about sold out the students start fol
home with a rush. upsetting the stalls
as they go. Nothing, Of course. is sait
by the police, 1t being Thinner" day
Should any one be so absent-mindet
as to forget the months and the day,
thereof he has no doubt whatever
from the head-splitting noise, Of thi
last Wednesday in August.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30

A boy who is evidently very nice to
MS little sisters writes to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer a description Of a lot of
paper furniture he made for the girls
1Oll house. AS he tells how the articles
are cut and shaped we reprint the ar
icle for the benefit Of our little read
.rs:
There is nothing more cheerful than
IN open fire in the dining room. and a
,aper lady has just as much right to
cheerful surroundings as any one else
Who depends entirely upon other peo-
ple's labor for their comforts in life.
Figure 6 is a pattern for a fireplace for