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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
Look After The Eyes

Multitudes of men and women have
made their eyes weak for life by the
too free use of eyesight, reading small
print and doing fine sewing. In view
of these things, it is well to observe the
following rules in the use of the eyes
Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.
Never read by twilight, or on a very
cloudy day.
Never sleep so that on waking the
eyes shall open on the light of the win
dow.
Do not use eyesight by light so scant
that it requires an effort to discrimi'
nate.
Never read or SOW directly in front
Of the light of the window.
1t is best to have the light from above,
or obliquely or over the left shoulder.
Too much light creates glare and
pains and confuses the sight. The mo-
ment you are sensible of an effort to
distinguish, that moment stop and talk,
walk or ride. -.-.
As the sky is blue and the earth green,
it would seem that the ceiling should
be blush tinge, the carpet green, and
the walls of some mellow tint.
The moment you are instinctively in
clined to rub the eyes, that moment
cease to nse them. f-'
If the eyelids are glued together on
waking do not forcibly open them, but
apply saliva with the finger, and then
wash your eyes and face with warm wa
ter,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
Miscellany.
Case of Hydrophobia

A medical man recently died in the
Paris Maison Municipale de Sante of
the most undoubted symptoms of IA
bies. DIR. Fcreol, who had the man
agement of the case, gives the follow
ing summary: An individual enjoy
ing perfect health, temperate in his
habits, and with no hereditary propen-
sity to insanity, is seized, after labor
ing under low spirits for a few days,
with fits of rabies, which carry him off
in three DAYS. On post mOrtem eN-
animation the LESSONS usually observed
in cases of hydrophobia Were found.
Two years and a half before the outset
OF the fearful disease which destroyed
him in SO short time, the patient had
been bitten 10y bitch which was IN a
rabid state. The animal was examined
after death by a veterinary surgeon,
who certified to the existence of rabies.
1t should, moreover, be observed that
the bitch. at the time she became rabid,
was sucking pup, which died hydro
phobic three weeks after the mother.
Mr.. Fereol, under whose care the pa
tient died, has sent an elaborate essay
to the Academy of Medicine on the
case. 4 lively and instructive discus
sion is expected. The essay concludes
with the following deductions: l The
incubation of rabies, which is mostly
limited within the first two months
after inoculation, may exceptionally
last much longer, and may reach eIgh-
teen months, or even two years and a
half. . The symptoms of the disease
are generally of a uniform description,
but they may assume various aspects
under the influence of numerous
agents. as insanity, alcoholism, hys-
terra, &c. There are, however, certain
signs. such as spasm of the, glottls, a
peculiar mode of sputation and the
symptom known under the name of
aerophobia, which belong especially TO
rabies, and which allow of the dag
nosis of the disease, although accom-
panied by the above-named compllca-
lions. 3. Idiopathic or imaginary
rabies. which is not generally fatal
may end in death; in such case the
symptoms will yield sufficient reasons
for holding that actual rabies did not
exist. 4. The bronchial spuma with
rabid patients plays an important part
in the phenomenon of sputatlon; ana
it may be safely affirmed that the prinl-
cipal symptoms as.weu as the prlnel-
pal LESSONS of rabies in the human sub
iect, are concentrated upon the func..
tion of respiration. The characters OF
the breathing distinguish rabid hydro
phobia from the cases of hydrophobla
depending OF a nOnvlruleR cause.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
An Eastern Legend.

The plunder of the tombs, says the
Manchester Courier, is not an employ
ment that would be likely to prove re-
munerative in England, but in certain
countries it seems to be practiced with
audacity and success. According to
the Monitetr de PAlgerie, the celebrated
tomb of the Rabbi, near Babel-Oued,
has lately been broken into, and its
contents, including some valuable bra
zen lamps, removed. The legend con-
nected with this tomb is of curious in
terest. When the Mussulmans ruled
over Spain, the Jews who dwelt there
were permitted to follow their religion
without molestation, but after their
expulsion a system of tyranny was
commenced which fell heavily on the
Hebrew race. About the commence
ment of the fourteenth century the
Grand Rabbi Ben-Sinah-Durand was
thrown into prison with the Rabbi Ben
Kaoua, and their execution was deter
mined on, when, as the legend goes, a
miracle delivered them from their con-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
Cat.

The cat is called a domestic animile
but never have bin able tew tel
wherefore.
You kant trust one emmy more than
you kan case of the gout. There is
only one mortal thing that you kan
trust cat with and cum out even. and
that is bar of hard soap.
They are as meek as Mosies, but as
full of deviltry as Judas Iscraft.
They will harvest dozen young
chickens for you, and then steel into
the sitting room as softly as an under
taker, and lay themselves down on the
rug at your feet, full of injured in
nocence, and chickens, and dream of
their childhood days.
All there IL about cat that IL do
mestik, that know ov, IL that you kant
looze one.
You kant looze a cat-they are az bad
to looze az bad reputation IL.
You may send one out ov the State,
done up in a meal bag and marked @.
o. D., and the next morning you will
find him or her according tew sex, in
the same spot alongside ov the stove,
ready to be stepped on.
Cats have got two good ears for
melody and often make the night atmos-
phere melodious with their opera musk.
But the most wonderful thing about a
cat that has been discovered yet is their
fear of death.
Yu kant induce one, by any ordinary
means to accept of death-they actually
scorn to die.
You may kill one, az yu have mind
to, and they will begin life anu in few
minetts, with a more hattering pro-
spektus.
Dogs I love; they carry their kriden-
shuls in their faces, and kant hide them,
but the bulk of cats reputashun lays
buried in their stumuk, az unknown tew
themselves az tew emmy boldly else.
There IL only one thing about cat
that 1 like and that IL, they are very
cheap-a little money, well invested,
will go great way in cats.
Cats are very plenty in this world just
now. Icounted eighteen from my board
ing house winder one moonlite night
last summer, and it want fust-rate
night for cats neither.-Josh Billings.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
A Dumb Dialogue.

IT wrenches-on one badly to step OF the
wrong chair, but few can help laughing
at the awful stride he makes. lt If
e1ually funny to see man meet the
wrong customer" and go to talking
and eesticulating at him as if he was
somebody else.
Jones went to the deaf and dumb
asylum the other day to inspect the IN.
stitution. Upon entering he encountered
q man, evidently an inmate, and he al
once endeavoured to explain to the
man by making signs upon his fingers
that he wanted tc look through the
place. The man also made signs, which
Jones could not comprehend. linen
Jones made other and more elaborate
motions. which set the man at WORE
with great violence, and for the next ten
minutes they stood in the hall gesticu'
lating and twisting their fingers, with
ont being able to comprehend what the
other meant. Finally Jones became
angry, and in an outburst of wrath ex'
claimed:
"Oh, get out, you idiot I'm tired oi
bothering with you" =,
Whereupon the man said. f'That's
ust what was going to say to you:
80, you can speak, can yon? Then
Why didn't you do so, and not keep me
standing motioning to you? L though'
Won were deaf and dumb.
81 came here to inspect the asylum,
said Jones, "and took you for o
patient" =,
"That's what 1 came here for, and !
thought you were an attendant, said
the man.
Here Jones and the man shook hands,
and hunted up genuine attendant and
went away happy. After this Jones Will
always use his tongue, no matter where
he il. .-Youth's Companion.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
How we Fade.

As the trials of life thicken, and the
dreams of other days fade, one by one,
in the dim vista of disappointed hope,
the heart grows weary Of the long con
tinued struggle, and we begin to realize
our insignifcance. Those who have
climed to the pinnacle offame or revel
in luxury and wealth, go to the grave
at last with the poor mendicant who
begs by the wsyside, and like him are
soon forgotten. Generation after gen.
Grafton, says an eloquent writer, have
felt as We feel, and their fellows were as
active in life as ours are now. They
passed away as q vapor, while nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as when
the Creator commanded her to be.
The heavens will be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our path;
the world has the same attraction for
offspring Iyet unborn that she once had
for ourselves, and that she now has for
our children.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
Wonders of A Hens Egg.

The following observations on the
changes that occur from hOur to hour
during the incubation of the hens egg
are from "Sturm's Reflections "The
hen has scarcely sat on her eggs twelve
hours before some lineaments OF the
head and body of the chicken appear.
The heart may be seen to beat at the
end of the second day; it has at that
time somewhat the form of horse
shoe, but no blood yet appears. At
the end of two days two vessels of
blood are to be distinguished, the pull
sation of which is visible. One of
these is the left ventricle, and the
other the root of the great artery. AT
the fiftieth hour one auricle of the
heart appears, resembling moose
folded down upon itself. The beating
the heart is first observed of in the
auricle, and afterwards in the ven-
tricle. At the end of seventy hours
the wings are distinguishable; and on
the head two bubbles are seen for the
brain, one for the bill, and two for the
fore and hind part of the head. To-
wards the end of the fourth day, the
two auricles already visible draw near
er to the heart than before. The liver
appears toward the fifth day. At the
end of seven hours more, the lungs and
stomach become visible;and four hours
afterwards, the intestines, and lOins.
and the upper jaw. AT the one hun
dred and forty fourth hour, two ven
tricles are visible, and two drops of
blood instead of the single one which
was seen before. The seventh day, the
brain begins to have some consistency.
At the one hundred and nineteenth
hour of incubation, the bill opens, and
the flesh appears in the breast. In
four hours more, the breast bone is
seen. In six hours after this, the ribs
appear, forming from the back and the
bin is very visible, as well as the gall
bladder. The bill becomes green at
the end of two hundred and thirty-six
hours; and if the chicken be taken out
of its covering, it evidently moves it
self. At the two hundred and sixty
fourth hour, the eyes appear. At the
two hundred and eighty-eighth, the
ribs are perfect. AT the three hundred
and thirty-first, the spleen draws near
the stomach, and the lungs to the chest.
At the end of three hundred and fifty
gve hours, the bill frequently opens
and shuts; and at the end of the
eighteenth day the cry of the chicken
is heard. 1t afterward gets more
strength and grows continually, till at
length it is enabled to set itself free
from its confinement.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
Courtesy Compensated.
A young editor of a theatrical iourna

A young editor of theatrical journal
. called lately on an actress living on a
third story in the Rue Richelieu. Leav,
ing her rooms he descended the stair.
way. At the first floor landing door
suddenly opened, and a black coated
gentleman stepping suddenly out, ran
against, the young man; begging
pardon, he abruptly asked, Monsieur,
have you half an hour to lose?"
''For what, sir ?"
''To render me a service which will
bring you IN trifie of say hundred
francs"
"Do you cali that losing half an hour
What is it you wish ?"
''To serve as a witness to will. One
witness has failed to come; the sick
man is dying. Will you serve ?"
The journalist consented, and follow
ing the notary, found himself in a
sumptuous chamber near the bed of the
moribund, and seated himself with the
other witnesses. The old man had no
relative, and made short work with his
will. 1t was ready for him to sign.
They opened the curtains to give him
light. A ray fell across the journalist Is
face. The sick man saw him, and mo-
toned him to approach.
''Sir, he said, in feeble voice, ''do
you know me?
81 have not that honor, SIR"
''Do you not recall seeing me at the
Theater Francais ?"
"No, SIR"
81 can refresh your memory. Did you
not attend the first representation of
"Fire in a Convent ?"
81 was there, certainly"
"And l, too. You had good
orchestra stall; l a miserable stool,
right in the doorway. The draft made
me i'll. You gave me your comfortable
seat and took my poor one."
81 did but my duty, sir, toward an
old man and an invalid"
"Ah They are rare-those people
who do their duty. Allow me to give an
evidence of my acknowledgment"
And turning toward the ear of the
notary, the old man added codicil to
his will. The witness signed, the notary
countersigned, and the former, each
noted for hundred francs of legacy,
retired. The next day the journalist
revisited the actress. Coming away, he
rang at the old mans door, and asked
after him. He had died during the
night. In due time the young man at
tended his funeral. After it the notary
said to him :-"To-morrow we open the
will. Be there. You are interested" "
. Our editor did not neglect the invita-
tion. He attended the reading of the
will.
The old man had bequeathed him a
hundred thousand francs.
The orchestra seat was well paid for.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY.

She stood at the bar of justice,
4 creature wan and wild,
In form too small for a woman.
In features too old for a child;
For look 30 worn and pathetic
Was stamped on her pale, Young IA &C.
1t seemed long years of suffering
Must have left that silent trace.
Your name" said the judge. as he eyed heI
With kindly look, yet keen,
''Isr-''Mary McGuire, if you please, sir"
'And your age :" Il am turned fifteen"
We'll Mary" and then from paper
lie slowly and gravely read,
You're charged here, am sorry to say it,
With stealing three loayes of bread.
You look not like an offender
And L hope that you can show
The charge to be false. Now, tell me
Are you guilty of this, or no:"
A passionate burst of weeping
Was at first the sole reply,
But she dried her eyes in moment,
And looked IN the judges eve.
Il viii tell you how it was. sir
My father and mother are dead,
And my little brothers and sisters
We're hungry and asked me for bread.
At first earned it for them
By working hard all day.
But somehow times were hard, sir,
And the work all fell away.
Il could get no more employment;
The weather was bitter cold,
The young ones cried and shlvered-
Gittle Johnny's bat four years old)-
So what was l to do, sir:
am guilty, but do not condemn,
took-oh, was IT stealing p
The bread to give to them
Every man in the courtroom.
Gray beard and thoughtless youth
Knew, As he looked upon her,
That the prisoner spoke the truth.
Ont from their pockets came 'kerchiefs,
Out from their eyes sprung tears,
And out from old faded wallets
Treasures boarded for years.
The judges face was a study
The stranGest you ever saw,
As he cleared his threat and murnured
Something about the law;
For one so learned in such matters
So wise in dealing with men,
He seemed, on a simple question,
Sorely puzzled just then.
But no one blamed him or wondered
When at last, these words they heard
The sentence of this young prisoner
Is, for the present, deferred"
And no one blamed him or wondered
When he went to her and smiled,
And tenderly led from the courtroom
Mary. the guilt" child.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
Wives Coming Home.

A recent paragraph in the Guardian,
calling attentian to the fact that the
Summer widowers were having the
jolliest times imaginable in the absence
of their voluble halves, has had most
remarkable effect. The wives come
trotting home to see about this thing.
One gentleman who was having an un-
usually good time, and whose wife had
gone away to stay till the middle of
September, was wonerfully astonished
on going home at four o'clock in the
morning yesterday, to find his wife
sitting up waiting for him. She gayehim
a rousing reception, and he looks like
the last rose of summer. The wide world
may wag as it will, but it is doubtful if
he ever smiles again. The wives are
coming home unexpectedly every day,
and husband had better look out little
in order that they may save some
trouble. Paterson Guardian.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

finement. The Grand Rabbi suddenly
felt possessed of extraordinary power,
and, seizing piece of coal, drew upon
the wall the image of ship, which
Immediately became real vessel, and
bore him safely out of the reach of his
prosecutors towards the shore of Al
geria. Here he was well received by
the Mussulmans, and his name, besides
being associated with this tomb. is
ranked as that of the first Israelitish
legislator in Africa. The tomb has
been venerated, not only by the Jews,
but also by the Mussulmans, and, as it
may be supposed, this act of theft is
viewed with considerable indignation.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

The Toledo Historical Society has
been presented with little, completely
formed egg, which was found inside the
yolk of a hens egg. 1t is nearly an
inch long, of the usual shape, and the
shell, which is hard, is formed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
Youths Column.

Equal FRIENDSHIPS Best. - "Ah
what has become of you late
Shag ?" cried Drover. ''Tve missed
you after evening shepherding this
week or more"
I've been engaged" said Shag,
coldly.
Engaged How? Where" said
Drover.
with company-the new company
at the great house," said Shag.
"Oh, hohl What, Crack and Bril-
liant. and the rest ?" said Drover.
"Yes. They seemed to wish for my
friendship, so 1 couldn't be uncivil, "
said Shag.
"very good and you are going
now ?" inquired Drover. Don't let
me hinder you"
81 was. You see, Drover, they are
highbred and think, when an open
ing offers, We should always try to
improve ourselves"
Certainly. A very improving even
ing to you, said Drover.
''You think so, don't you?" said
Shag.
81 think the best company is that we
get most good FROM" said Drover.
''Yes, that's it," said Shag; "and
Mr.. Crack has such beautiful way OF
moving faction they call it, and Mr..
Brilliant is so quick and clever, and
they are all so superior one way or
another"
'Happy to hear it. But think your
action and cleverness are quite suffi-
cient for your way of life. However.
please yourself" said Drover, running
on.
"Why, Shag you here !" he cried, a
few evenings after. 81 thought you
had cut low company, and were on the
improving plan l''
''Ahem ! 1 preferred walk with you
this evening, Drover," said Shag, look
ing rather shy.
"Very good" said Drover. "How
are your friends at the great house ?"
"Very well, for anything 1 know, +"
said Shag.
"What have you broken with them?"
asked Drover.
''To say the truth, l was deceived in
them They are low, ill-bred, con-
ceited fellows, and L despise them y
said Shag.
"When did you find that out ?" asked
Drover,
"Last night" said Shag. "They
were together with Mr.. Commodore,
the captains dog, and when / went to
them they looked as if they didn't know
me, and Mr. Crack asked me how it was
L wasn't shepherding. So / walked
away, and don't mean to go near them
again"
Then you've done being improved ?"
said Drover.
ooh, don't laugh at me-" said Shag.
81 won't; only be advised, and never
expect steady friendship out of your
own beat. You may, for some capricious
reason, be patronised and kept on suf-
ferance for a time, but the merest trifle
will be enough to take away the favor
in the same caprice that bestowed it. !"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

PIsIsrATUs, the Grecian general,
walking through some of the fields,
several persons implored his charity.
"If you want beasts to plow your land, F"
he said, II viii lend you some; if you
want land, 1 will lend; if you want
seed to SOW your land, will give you
some; but 1 will encourage none in
idleness." By this conduct, in a short
time there was not q beggar in all his
dominions.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

FUNNY PHoTOGRAPHs.- Is some
thing for the eyes. Take your stereo-
scope and collection of photographs
of your friends; the cabinet size is the
best suited. Select two, with faces
turned the same way, arrange them in
the frame until they form one picture.
The result is most comicul combina-
ton. You take, for instance, Mr. II.
and Miss W. Mr.. Ii. has the high
comb and braids of Miss W, while her
Jet earrings, and lsces and bows give
him a fanciful appearance. Or, Miss
". wears across her upper lip the well
waxed mustache of Mr.. H., while his
Alexis collar and her ruffies form a
unique style of neck-dress.
Bat the queerest effects are the COM
binations OF expression. You have fun
loving eyes over a stiff upper lip, and
Miss As gentle features with the
naughty tone of Miss BIS expression.
Move the pictures slightly, and one
looks out from behind the other like
the ''angel over the right shoulder. "
Try it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

VENICE AND BEADs.-There are nine
factories of beads in the Province of
Venice, 80 melting furnaces and and 80
annealing ovens. Besides this there is
a large number who are engaged in the
manufacture of glass beads by the use
of the lamp, where beads of every size
and color are produced.
The capital invested in the business
is about fifteen million forms, 81, ,200,-
600. 1t is supposed that over 1000
persons are employed in the different
branches of the manufacture.
To form an idea of the importance of
this branch of trade it need but be
stated that the annual products of the
different factories does not fall short of
=, 600, 900, which finds market in
every part OF the Globe, the greater
quantity being sold on the coast of
Africa, India and Portugal, and among
the American Indians.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

Real glory springs from the silent
CONQUEST of ourselves.