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Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

How TO CLIP Fowls WING.-A cor
respondent of the Poultry World gives
the following mode of clipping a fowls
wing:-My way is not to cut the quill
or shaft of the feather at all only trim
the feather partly off with pair of
scissors, except about one inch at the
end. 1t shows but little when the wing
is closed, and does not disfgure the
fowl, but lets the wind through, so as
to prevent any flying.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
DIRECTIONS

- All persons who hs,. to perform long and
hard labor, and while doing It often exposed to
sudden changes Of temper tu-e. the draft or air
or obnoxious dus,s. smells or vsprr., sho1ld not
fail to use the swedish Biit.rs a. Few drop. Of
II, added TO their dr. nx sueicient to preserve
them In iaestiTusbIs health and vgor Those who
are accustomed to drinh Ice water during the sum
nsr, should never omit 70 sdd some sw, dish Bit,
tsrs toit
~ Persons given t. ssdsntary life should use
the swedish Bittsrs & will nsutraiiss the bad Of
feets Of their want Of xerciss open air and hssr
them in good health and good spirts
81 To the Ladies' the Swedish Bi,,.r. .u,,
especially be recommended Because Its use cor
tributes most essentially to the regularity
Of the physiological functions peculiar to the dst
cate fsmais constitution and IL rs proves 40 r.
fsetuai barrier sgainet those innumerabls N.rvou,
and Blood Diseases, which nowadays hAv. grown
80 frequent ss to Be taksn BY n.ay for Evs n.tur,
Inheritance
- But the Swedish Bittsrs does no, only sseur.
good health, it alss effects the full dev.lopm.u, Of
the female body and Of Its beauty BY perfect form.
and nns completion and color.
Thus the swedish Bittsrs has sss.ns ..s Of II.
sfsss AID most sAsisAt
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
Humorous.

ACRUEL HUSBAND. lady, of Croton,
who had some trouble with her hus-
band, determined to punish him. She
had read in the papers of the revenge of
PENNSYLVANIA woman whose husband
had struck her, and she determined to
initiate that females action. When the
Pennsylvania woman was struck she
threw herself into tragic attitude, and
exclaimed, "Villain nothing but death
can wipe away the stain of your blow. i"
Then she rushed out of the house, ran
to the canal, and throwing her hat and
shawl on the bank, flung in big stone,
which made a loud splash. She then
hid in the bushes and watched with de-
moniac Joy her husband and party of
friends graphing for the body.
When she thought she had sufficiently
punished her lord she made her appear
ance, and was received by him with de-
monstrations of Joy, and he begged her
forgiveness, took her home and promised
to be kind and loving to her forever.
The other day the Croton woman had a
battle royal with her husband. He
didn't strike her-he was too manly for
that-but he said such irritating things
that she was driven to madness.
"Iphuman monster ~ she shrieked,
81 will never again rest beneath this
roof. The river bed shall be my tomb
its waters my winding sheet"
Out she rushed to the river, which
ran within a quarter of a mile of the
house, threw her handkerchief on the
bank-she had neither hat nor shawl
on, and then she flung into the clear
water a large stone. This done she hid
in some trees and awaited the coming
of the remorse-stricken husband. She
continued to wait for about eight hours !;
but the remorseful man didn't come
Horrible thoughts began to agitate her
mind. Perhaps he had killed the chill
dren and then committed suicide. She
could not bear the suspense longer. 1t
was dark now, and she quietly stole to
the house.
There were lights in it, and every
thing looked as CHEEKY and pleasant as
usual. She crept to the window and
stricken husband, with his arm around
the waist of young lady neighbor, and
he was saying Jennie, the old woman
got her back up to-day, and she went
off and drowned herself. Now, you see,
| don't want to break up house Ike eping,
and if you'll consent, why, we'll get
hitched in two weeks. What do you
say?
''Sne shan't do anything Of the sort,
and neither will you, you miserable,
unfeeling, heartless wretch!" came from
the wife and she dashed into the room
For few minutes Jennie was tossed
and tumbled about by the undrowned
woman in the most horrid manner, and
when Jennie retired from the house she
looked as though she had been through
a carding machine. The Croton woman
doesn't intend trying any more senti-
mental experiments on her husband
but will hereafter do all her fighting in
the old fashion. 1t need hardly be
mentioned that her husband is not liv-
ing in state OF perfect and unalloyed
beatitude at present.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
Domestic.

THE COOKING OF CHICKEN.
to boiI.-Dress in the usual way, cut
off the neck, legs, wings, and break the
back in two; put into cold water till
the animal heat is gone, then put into a
kettle of cold water and boil till nearly
done; salt and pepper and boil the
water nearly out. If the fowl is not fat
add lump of butter when thoroughly
done, and it is ready for the table. Or,
better way, after cooking as above,
mix a spoonful of -four with one egg
ard quart of milk add to the chicken
and boil one inmate.
Fried Chicken. Chickens must be
young to fry well. If no larger than
pigeons they may be fried whole; if
larger, dessect as above, wash rub
salt on while wet, pepper and fry in
butter or lard, keeping the dish covered.
Mix one or two eggs with a spoonful Of
flour and teacup of milk, and pour
over the chicken when done, setting the
frying pan in the oven long enough to
cook the egg.
Roasted Chicken or FO,ri.--In dress
ing do not scald enough to shrink the
skin. Cut as little as possible in clean
ing remove the neck-bone as low as
you can slip the skin down. Loosen
the crop all around with one finger and
draw it out at the neck. Hold some
thing hard under and with hammer
break the bone an inch above the joint
at which you cut off the leg, then you
can easily remove it when it becomes
bare and perhaps burnt by touching the
oven. Rub salt outside and in while
the fowl is wet pepper, cut the neck,
gizzard, liver and heart in small pieces;
put in cold water enough to fill the
bowl boil half an hour, salt and pep
per. Add as much stale bread sliced
thin as the water will wet put in a
little butter, stir well and put into the
chicken sew up with coarse thread !;
fill the neck and tie it. Put into the
oven, keep the bottom of the dripping
pan covered with water, which dip over
the fowl occasionally, and turn carefully
twice. Chickens light months old Will
roast well in an hour; old fowls require
half day they had better be boiled.
when done take out the chicken, dip off
most of the oil and make a gravy by
adding spoonful of -four and pint of
rich milk. The above directions are
good for turkey, goose or duck
Household.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

IRON surfaces may be gilded by the
use of sodium -amalgam the iron is
first rubbed with the sodium-amalgam,
the surface of the iron thus becoming
amalgamated, strong solution of chlo-
ride of gold is then applied, and the
whole heated until the mercury is vola-
tilted the gold surface which remains
may then be highly polished; by sim
liar treatment with silver or platinum
solution, surface of these metals may
be obtained.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

IT is estimated that there are from
10000 to 25,000 persons in Europe daily
engaged in the preparation of hair, and
the manufacture of felt hats, in which
processes they -e exposed to mercurial
poisoning. NJ. Iilairet has found that
some neutral sDl,stances, such as mo-
lasses, dextriue q sugar, may be sub
stituted for the ercury, and the poi
soning thus avold ID.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

If I were in the sun and you were ont
Of it, what would the sun become , Sin.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

SPUTTERINGs FROM JUDY's Pen. A
House of Detention-A pawnbroker's
shop.
How to Rise in the World-Go up in
balloon.
Club for Young Married Men-The
Junior United.
Best Wine for Lawyers - A-tawney
port.
A leading Article-An old maids poo
die dogs chain.
An Eye Calling-Helping the sur
geons at the Ophthalmic Hospital.
Not a Teetotaller-One who must
have his glass before he can do days
work-a glacier.
One who always gets Bread when he
Kneads it-A baker.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

How To TEST THE RICHNESS OF MILK.
Procure any long glass vessel-a CO.
logne bottle or long phial Take
narrow strip of paper, just the length
from the neck to the bottom of the
phial, and mark it off with one hundred
lines, at equal distances; or, if more
convenient, and to obtain greater exact
ness, into fifty lines, and count each as
two-and paste it upon the phial, so as
to divide its length into hundred equal
parts. Fill it to the highest mark with
milk fresh from the COW, and allow it to
stand in a perpendicular position twen-
ty-four hours. The number of spaces
occupied by the cream will give you its
exact per centage in the milk without
any guess work.-NiSs. AgricultWist.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

THE Ohio Farmer says: 'Mrs. Aurora
Love, of Jackson township, in Jackson
cownty, took a pig that was thought to
be dying, and fed it from sucking
bottle and raised it. When she first
took charge of it, it weighed twelve
ounces. From its offspring she has
had 1,500 pounds of pork, sold one SOW
and pigs for five dollars, gave one SOW
to one of her children, and has several
left that will weigh over one hundred
pounds each.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

A CURIOUS instance of spontaneous
combustion is reported from New
Hampshire. A physician had prescribed
linseed oil and camphor for a severe
pain in the chest, and the patient COM
planned of the heat soon after its appli
cation on cotton batting. In about an
hour he protested he could bear it no
longer, and before it could be removed
it took fire, actually blazing up and
burning the poor fellows neck severely.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

How TO BLEACH CoTToN CLoTH-To
five pounds of cloth take twelve ounces
of chloride of lime. Dissolve the lime
in a small quantity of boiling water /;
when cold, strain it into a sufficient
quantity of water to cover the cloth.
This must first be boiled fifteen minutes
in strong soapsuds, and rinsed well in
clear water. Then put it in the lime
water from ten to twenty minutes, air.
ing it well by lifting up and down.
Rinse thoroughly in warm or cold water.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

PASTE THAT WILL ADHERE TO ANY
SUBSTANCE. Sugar of lead, 720 grains,
and alum, 100 grains; both are dis
solved in water. Take 2! ounces of
gum arabic and dissolve in two quarts
of warm water. Mix in dish one pound
of wheat -four with the gum water cold.
till in pasty consistence. Put the dish
on the fire, pour into it the mixture Of
sugar of lead shake well, and take it
off the fire when it shows signs of ebul-
lition. Let the whole cool, and the
paste is made. If the paste is too thick,
add to it some gum water, in proper
consistence.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

To Color BLAoK.-One ounce extract
of logwood, one ounce of copperas,
one-half ounce of verdigris tie the
verdigris in cloth and boil. Dissolve
the copperas in an iron kettle and soak
the goods at scalding heat three-quar-
ters of an hour, stirring occasionally.
Dissolve the logwood and add the water
in which the verdigris is boiled. Dip
the goods three-quarters of an hour,
stirring frequently. This makes beau
tiful black. Always use sufficient to
cover the goods and stir easily. Rinse
thoroughly.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
ADMONITION.

It is known to all readers that since DI
L. O. C. wISHART has followed the cause
and cure of diseases, and the great value u
TAR as a curative remedy, as directed BY
Bishop Berkley and Rev. John Wesley, that
many have attempted to make TAR pre-
paration for THROAT AND LUNG Dis
EASES. Be it known that DR. L. Q. c.
WISHARTS
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

To live long = is necessary to live
slowly.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
Scientific.

SIMPLE TESTS FOR MrNERALs.-One of
the first tests to which mineralogist
submits a specimen is test OF hard
ness. Hardness is expressed in two
ways; By the degrees from one to ten,
or by comparison with familiar SUBJ
stances, which are able to scratch it or
which it is able to scratch so We must
begin with
SCALE OF HARDNESS.
/. Tale, Iaminated light green variety,
which is easily scratched by the nail.
9, Gypsum, crystallized. Not easily
scratched by the nail does not scratch
a copper coin.
3. Calcite, transparent. Scratches
and is scratched by a copper coin.
4. Fluor spar, crystallized. Not
scratched by copper coin; does not
scratch glass.
5. Apatite, transparent. Scratches
glass with difficulty easily scratched
by the knife.
6. Orthoclase, white, ,cleavable felspar.
Scratches glass easily; not easily
scratched by the knife.
7. Quartz, transparent. Not scratched
by the knife.
s. Topaz. Harder than flint
8. Sapphire. Harder than flint.
10. Diamond. Harder than flint.
With a knife, piece of glass and a
copper coin, the hardness is soon de-
termined, and clue to its name and
value obtained.
The minerals which, like quartz, are
not coratchad by tho knife are seldom
of value as ores. Their principal uses
in the arts are as ornaments, or in cut
ting and polishing: for example, dia-
monds, agates, beryls, garnets. topaz,
tourmaline, and corundum. The most
remarkable exception to this is capi-
terite, an oxide of tin, with hardness 6
to 7, infusible and insoluble, but which
gives the blowpipe reaction for tin.
Ores of metals are usually heavy; and
with a small pair of accurate balances,
the specific gravity is easily taken.
Suspend the mineral freely by horse
hair, from one end of the beam or scale
pan, and weigh next allow it to hang
freely in a tumbler of water and weigh
again divide its weight in air by its
loss of weight in water, and the result
is its specific gravity.
The acid test is also easily applied.
Effervescence indicates carbonate, and
is frequently some form of limestone.
Iron ores usually dissolve in warm acid,
especially if pulverized. So too most
other ores of any commercial value are
dissolved more or less rapidly by acids
and heat.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24


BRowN's WOODEN WEDDING.-BrOwn,
young insurance friend of ours, says
the Boston Traveller, had the fifth an
niversary of his wooden wedding occur
about week ago, and his friends deter
mined to celebrate his wooden wedding
by surprise party. Brown came in
yesterday and told us how they sue
ceeded. They commenced by sending
servant round with a team to take
Brown and his wife out to ride at about
seven. Then they began to come with
presents and materials for supper.
There was little party of five came
first, all laden-hands full. They all
got nicely inside the garden gate, which
shuts with a spring, when Browns big
mastiff, who is always left unclaimed in
his masters absence, came round the
corner and surprised them. One woman
stepped ON her dress, and in her fall so
demoralized a fragile black walnut
bookcase she carried, that it was after
wards done up in bundle and presented
as kindling- wood Another fellow got
safely out of the yard, all but part of
his pants, while old Smithers, who
weighs 20pounds, plunged wildly, with
the eight gallon pail of ice cream he
carried, through Browns glass hot
house in the corner of the yard, and
surprised some $50 worth of exotics.
Finally, they fixed things up and got
into the house, and, as it was about
time for Browns return, they COM
menced laying the supper-table. They
got down a tea set of rare china that
friend of Browns in the trade had
loaned him a week before, and broke
two pieces, SO that Brown has since
been obliged to mortgage his hen-house
and buy the set; and the comments of
Mrs. Brown, when she saw the condi
ton of the carpet, were sarcastic in the
extreme. Finally, as a crowning touch,
they tried to hang ont Chinese lanterns,
with the word "Welcome" ON them, on
the porch over the front door. They
succeeded in hanging two lanterns, and
when they had saved the house from
the fiery fend there wasn't porch enough
left to pay for the trouble of trying to
hang ont any more. Then they sat
down and waited for Brown and his
wife to come home. We draw the veil
over the scene that followed their re-
turn. Some scenes are too joyous to be
described in cold, cold words.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24


Is the only Known Remedy for Bri-ht's D-
case aud has cured every case of Diabetes l.
which il has been given. Irritation of the Nee.
Of the Bladder and Inflammation Of the kidney
Liberation OF the Kidneys ana Bladder, Retcu-
ION nf Urine. Diseases of the Prostate Gland
,tuI,. in the Bladder. Gravel. Brick Dust Doposif
and Muccns or Milky Discharges, and for E.
fccbled aHd Delicate Constitutions Of both Sexes.
attended with the following symptoms: Los
pf Power Loss Of Memory. Difficulty Of Breath
Ing. Weak Nerves. WakefuiBcss. Pain in The
Back Flushing of the Body. Eruption on the FACE
Pald IUuntenance, Lassitudc of the System, etc.
Used by persons in the decline or change OF
life; after confinement or labor pains, bed-wet-
ting in children, etc.
In many affections peculiar to ladies' the Ex
tract Buchu is uncqualcd by any other remedy
As in ChlOrosis or Retention IrregulHrity. Pain.
fulness or Suppression Of Customary EvacratioHs
liberated or Schirrus state Of the Uterus, Leu
corrhea or Whites, Stcril.ty. AID for all CON
plants incident to the sex. 1t - prescribed
extensively by the most eminent Physicians GuG
Mdwiycs Tor cnfechlcd aGd delicate cOnstitu
lions of hDth sexes and all aces
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

LIVING STOVES. What sight more
pleasant than row of sleek, well cared
for, healthy animals in Winter Outside
the thermometer stands close upon zero;
inside, the temperature is so comfort
able that we can well dispense with our
overcoat. From whence comes this
genial warmth? No coal or wood IS
consumed to raise temperature. The
problem is easily solved. Here are tif-
teen stoves not constructed of iron or
stone, but OF flesh and blood, and in
these stoves hay and grain are burned
constantly, and hence the heat. 1t is
the warmth radiated from the animals
that we feel, and this comes from actual
combustion, produced by the play of
vital or chemical forces within the Or
ganisms. A large per cent. of the food
supplied adds neither to our store of
milk or flesh, but is burned to produce
animal heat, and in winter the amount
of food must be increased to compen-
safe for the loss by direct radiation from
the surface, and through the respiratory
organs.
No greater mistake can be made by
farmers than to house their animals in
cold open sheds or barns. 1t is not
only extremely cruel, but the worst
possible policy, looking to material
interest alone. A shivering COW can
give no milk nor gain any flesh. Every
function is disturbed and waste goes on
rapidly. To feed COW or other animal
in the cold, open air is about as foolish
and wasteful as to place stove out of
doors, fill it with fuel, and expect to
receive benefit by warming the atmos-
phere generally. Animals need protec-
ton and warmth as well as human
beings, and none but careless, unthrifty
farmers viii deny it to them.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
..EaEgNEy.S EXTRACT RUCRU.

fVTes diseases 4 igiH1 from InpTudences.
UsLifs of DissipGtion Etc. in all their stages at
little expense, little or 10 change in diet, no in.
convenience, and no exposure. It causes a frc-
qucnt desire, and gives strength to urinatc
thereby removing DISTINCTIONS Preventing and
Curing Structures of the Urcthrl. Aliayng Pain
and Inflammation, so frequent in this class Of d.
cases. and expelling all poisonous matter.
KEARNEIsS EXTRACT BCCHC.
$10O per bottle or six bottles for s. co. delivered
TO any addscs-, secure from observation. Sold by
druggists everywhere Prepared by
KEARNEY 6 CO. iGt Duane St. y i
TO whom all letters for information should b.,
addressed.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24

AT a meeting OF farmer's club, re-
Gently held at Cobourg, Canada, the
secretary gave some account of the orr
gin of oats and the countries where they
grow. Its native country is unknown,
but most probably it came from Central
Asia There is no mention of oats in
the Old Testament; we are told that
Solomon fed his horses and dromedaries
on barley. Oats were, however, known
to the Greeks, who called them BrOnoS,
end to the Romans, who made use of
them as prevender for their horses,
early in the Christian era. The oats
are better suited to moist than dry,
and to a cool rather than to a warm
climate, though their fields of cultiva-
ton do not extend quite so far north as
that of the coarser kinds of barley. In
Scotland, oats are grown to the north
point; in Norway their culture extends
to north latitude Sc degrees in Sweden
to latitude 63 degrees 80 minutes; in
Russia these polar limits appear to cor
respond with those of rye; south of
the parallel of Paris, oats are little cul-
tivated. In spain and Portugal they
are scarcely known, yet they are grown
with considerable advantage in Bengal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-12
\ o. of Apportion-
Children. ment.

Number of schools in the county, not in.
Guiding the schools of city of Watertown,
with two departments 10; with or more
8. Number of teachers required to teach
the schools OF the county l52. Number of
different persons employed as teachers dur
ing the year. 245. Average wages of male
teachers per month 1920, average wages
of female teachers per month $24.25. Mum.
her of schools visited by County Superin-
tendent during the year, 80. Number OF
volumes in district libraries $50. Cash val.
ne of same STA 90. Whole number of
school houses in county, including city of
WATERFOWL, 1876 dispersed as follows: Alta
Ian 3, Cold Spring 5, Concord ls, Farming
ton g. Hebron 8, Ixonia 10, Jefferson 10,
Koshkonong 9, Lake Mills s, Oakland 8,
Palmyra 5, Sullivan 7, Sumner 3, Waterloo
7, Waterloo Village l, Watertown IL, City
of W atertown 5.
Number of private schools in the county
IA, of which are situated in the city o.
Waterfowl. The number of teachers en-
gagged in such schools is 70
The school houses of the county will ac-
co immediate 1888 pupils. Cash value of the
school houses and sites in the county $751;
25l. Value of apparatus in schools S.
$50 co. Under the head of Financial Sta
tistics the receipts for Jefferson County
show as follows Money on hand August
list, 1871, s5.969,lo. From taxes levied
for building and repairing Sc, 7Ss, 90; for
Teachers wages $25, 437.26; for Apparatus
and Libraries 1928, 20; at annual town
meetings $e67.07; by County supervisors
$2l73 60 from income of slate school
fluid 81, l28.72 from all other sources 3d.
922.63. Total mount received during year
$50 $50 So The disbursements were as
follows: For building and repairing &c.
oOO3. 70; for apparatus and libraries ST.
I5l47; for male teachers $l4, 1885; for
female teachers 9,575.84; for old indebt-
edness Sc, 500le for furniture and records
s7609l for all other purposes S., 1886;
total amount paid out during the year $780,
742 %. Exclusive of city of Watertown
there are IL children in the county
iucapacated Tor instruction from defect
of hearing IS from defect of intellect, and
| from defect of vision.