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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
How Gas Is Made.

1t is very easy to make gas, but it
costs much trouble to purify it, that it
may burn well and give off no noxious
odors. Below is sort of gas catechism
which conveys good deal of important
eight" on this subject:
"How do they make gas p
'First, they put about two bushels of
bituminous coal in long air-tight re-
tort. This retort is heated red-hot.
when the gas bursts out of it, as you
see it burst ont of soft coal when on the
parlor-fre. The gas passes off through
pipes. A ton of coal will make ten
thousand cubic feet of gas. The gas,
as it leaves the coal, is very impure"
"How do they purify it?"
First, while hot, it is run off into
another building; then it is forced
through long, perpendicular pipes, sur
rounded with cold water. This cools
the gas, when a good deal of tar ,on-
denses from it and runs down to the
bottom of the perpendicular boiler, half
full of wood laid crosswise. Then ten
thousand streams of cold water are
spurted through the boiler. Through
the mist and rain, and between the wet
sticks of wood the gas passes, coming
out washed and cleansed. The ammonia
condenses, Joins the water and falls to
the bottom"
"What ne1t?"
"Well, next, the gas is purified. 1t
is passed through watts of lime and oxide
of iron, which takes out the csrbonic
acid and ammonia"
what next?"
eThe gas is now pure. 1t passes
through the big sta.ion-meter, then
through the main and pipes, till it
reaches the gas jets in your room. Then
it burns. while you all scold because ii
does not burn better"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
Proverbs.

Proverbs in general are more read
than followed. We hear often of the
expression "the more the merrier."
Now go and ask couple of doting
lovers, if they believe in that sort of
thing. They would undoubtedly think
that two was company, and three was
a crowd. One thing is certain it is
hard, very hard to crowd that idea into
the heads of some that is or that was to
be mother-in-laws. When I sparked
Mariah McGoozleum, her dear mamma
always helped to make up the crowd.
But for that might have had the gall,
if she would have had me. can't for
the life of me, see why some mammas
so far forget themselves, as to forget
that they were once girls, and once con-
sidered three was a crowd. The old
saying is that can honest mans word is
as good as his bond" but that's ''too
thin" Shakespeare AGAIN. nowadays s
It might have been so at the time Of
the food, when the world had q good
washing, but il won't wash now.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
Silk Manufactures In America.

The monthly Statistics of the Sill
Association of America for November
show a decrease in the amount of ex
ports of S155, ,347, as compared with the
corresponding month of the previous
year. The report furnishes a detailed
statement of the quality and value oi
the importation of silk manufacture tc
this port for the month of November
from 1866 up to the present year, and
for the first eleven months in each oi
the intervening years, and embraces
upwards of twenty classifcations of silk
goods. The principal items of the i'm.
portations are included under the de-
nominations of silks proper, satins,
grapes, pongees, plushes, velvets, rib
bons, laces, silk and worsted and silk
and cotton fabrics. The value of the
importations in these goods during the
past month was 1924, 746, of which
S6i2, ,375 was thrown upon the market.
The largest amount of silk manufactures
imported in the month of November
during the last seven years was in 1871,
when this class of goods reached
81, ,012, sos. The amount of imports for
the first eleven months in the year 1866
was S2l sos. .067; for the corresponding
period of 1867 it was S15, ,649, 600; in
1868, S1S, ,06i, 554; in 1869, 81, 166, ,39l,
and in 1870, 80, IA, ,326. In 1871 the
imports during the same period rose to
49,, ,324, ,542. During the first eleven
months of the present year the imports
have fallen to S23, 59S, log, which shows
decrease of S,726, 4S6 as compared
Ia hn Of ha ,o1 -.
1871. This affords conclusive evidence
of the rapid growth of silk manufactures
in the United States during the last
twelve months. The figures quoted
represent only the foreign gold cost of
these articles, exclusive of freight and
duty. The steady increase shown in
the value of the imports of raw silk
during the last seven years may be
taken as a further illustration of the
progress of this branch of American
manufacture. While the imports in
silk goods have been decreasing, it will
be seen that there has been a yearly
increase in the value of the raw silk
imported into this country. In 1866
the value of the imports in raw silk re-
ceived at the ports of New York and
San Francisco was 81 sol sos; in 1868,
3, 462, 201, and in 1872 the value of the
imports during the same period of the
year rose to Sc, 767, ,3H. When these
figures are taken in connection with the
fact of the yearly increasing trade in
silk manufactured goods, it will be at
once apparent that the day is not far
distant when American manufactured
silks will be brought to such perfection
in style, texture and finish as to COM
pletely shut out the products of the
looms of England, France and other
European countries.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21

The second position is obtained from
the first by inverting the two middle
vertical columns, and the third from
the second by inverting the two middle
horizontal columns. 1t will be observed
that, in the third position, each vertical
column, each horizontal column, and
each diagonal column sums up 81.
In square OF eight figures to side,
invert the four middle vertical columns,
and then the four middle horizontal
columns.
In general, invert the middle half of
the vertical and horizontal columns.
After discovering this rule, 1 applied
it to square of twelve figures to side,
and SO simple is the process that l wrote
down not the first position or the
second, but the third, at the very first
dash, and without mistake. 1 subjoin
one with eight figures to side, so that
the application of this principle may be
seen
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
Miscellany.
Taking Wood ON the River.

Al one point, when we supposed We
were comfortably holding our way in
the charnel, torch light fared up, and
showed US nearing scraggy bank. The
thin, long PROV OF the bOst ran upon
the land. Gangways were lowered
pianks were run from the boats side to
the bank, two score negroes sprang
from some mysterious recess below,
and assembled forward before the cap
stan. The shower of harmless sparks
from the torches cast momentary red
CLEANS over the rude but kindly black
faces. A sharp-voiced white man, whom
we learned afterwards to call the
WASP" because he always few ner-
vousiy about, singing the sprawlirg
negroes into activity, thrust himself
among the laborers. Twenty stings
from his voice, and the darkey forms
plunged into the darkness beyond the
gsngways. Then other torches were
placed upon the bank,-and long wood
piles appeared The Wasp fitted rest
lessly from deck to shore, while the
negroes attacked the wood piles, and,
each taking half dozen sticks, hurried
to the deck with them. Presently there
was an endless procession of black
forms from the wood piles to the vessel
and plunging back across the Pickering
light, to the tune of loud adiurations
and oaths from the Wasp. Now and
then the dusky chain of laborers broke
into a rude chant, beginning with a
prolonged shout, such as
"Ohl 1 los my money dare =
and followed by a gurgling laugh, as il
the singers were amused at the sound
Of their own voices. The Wasp, always
kindly and well-disposed towards the
negroes, despite his rough ways, broke
into appeal, threat, and entreaty, when
one of the darkies stumbled or Jagged.
Then il Was that he cried raspingly,
You, Reuben ~ 'You, Black Hawk T.
with en- oath. Come on there, you
Washington amt you going to hear
mew Sometimes the Wasp sped among
the negroes, singing them into such ac-
tivity that a whole wood-pile vanished
as if swallowed by an earthquake. So
it was that in two hours and . hall,
sixty cords of wood were transferred
from the bank to the boat, and the
Wasp, calling the palpitating wood
carriers around him, thus addressed
them, "Now. you boys, listen. You
Black Hawk. do you hear, You and these
three, first watch You, Reuben, and
these three, second watch !" etc. The
.orches were dipped in the river, the
light Missed dying defiance at the dark,
and the great white boat once more
wheeled around into the channel.-
.Scribner's Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
VOL. XVIII.
Poetry.
Advice Gratis.

Dc y0u mssu what You ssyt Did hesr ahghif
Were you In earnest or In sportg
IN love with Poetf Are You quite
At ODDS with sanity. to assert
That you with genius radiance grace
Instead Of the station these N ght buy
Have suilinsly set your feet and face
Toward paths where such low ehpas.sg- iie'
Poet-s maker Of verse; one
VINO daily Gins for his daily bread,
The blood Of bis hears in rhymes that run
HI. brain to fever with fear aud dread
Lest that he mar. in rpeakiug il.
Tie tone Of the Voice which to hin
ssmevhsre OF OF the Irfaits-
sJnewhere out from tie vast and dim
foa need rot answer: know your thought
You tell ne that since there must be those
Whose lips. Ike the thrO.ts of birds. were wrought
Chiefly for singing, it follows close
Fnst God-sttu -ing them to .uch pitch
Accepts their songs for service, thEs
dskias orr sneers ct scul IN which
He has laid His pressure, periou--
.sa tbs, Il q sense 10 true b ihi-
]. si-o mystical; We shoait take
SAe world In the gro.-: We ma-t not ni,-
or ease and elegance. for ;he sake
Of dreams, and dreaners. ARd OPiae
IL would strike fresh heat in your Poet'- vsrSe
II you dropped some aloes into hi- wine
They write sIprensly uodsr curse
VIII shat .avi..ble truth OF thIass
which shines your u nstrsi, compensate
Tse lack Of tie visib!e eomfor,iags,
The tsasihle gifts and goods, that WIS.,
On stocks and dIvidendss Which Is host
These vsgsboat inspirst'ons-or
ss-d cash n hsni, and the sens. IL the breast
That yos have gained whs; yoa bsFEsi1st f.f
! Is soe1, no s9ub:, that 8 mza should -
Cast n suck welrd and Singular nosld
As dower> his vision with power 20 see
Heavens .rlsniors Z ming. whore W. b'h,id
aEly the hsring Of lighted gas
But IN d husband demand
lLettlag the glfr Of prophecy Ps--:i
The coin which il earrsn' in The !-a+.
Wherefore -houid advise you. dear,
To give yea lyrical vsgrsRt such
slkeseot hiat Of prudent fear,
A--vithou: woanding him ovsrnueh--
Will serve "a srnite his in,sleat hores
Down 70 levels O! lesser range;
seIdins hin back 70 his erowding t:lP,
Wiser and ssdaer for that change
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
scottish Games at Oban.

A correspondent describes the annual
celebration Of the national games OF
Scotland at Oban, q favorite watering
place near Glasgow. These games con-
sist OF manly sports, throwing the ham
mer, wrestling, running. walking, box
ing, throwing and lifting heavy weights,
and are presided over by the lords of
the estates, and by them the prizes are
awarded. The gentry of the neiQhbor-
ing counties attend. and in the evening
Q hall and display Of fireworks close
the event. The people belonging to the
Marquis of Lorne's estate were the prin-
cipal competitors on this occasion, and
the Marquis awarded the prizes. They
were all dressed in the national costume,
the different clans wearing three dis
tinct plaids. This Highland dress is
the Same that was worn in the days OF
Wallace and Bruce, and consists OF a
black silk velvet jacket, trimmed with
gold or silver buttons; q plaid skirt
reaching nearly to the knees; a plain
sash Of the same as the skirt, with
stockings reaching below the knees,
thus leaving them bare; a dirk with a
jeweled head is stuck in the stocking,
the head just appearing above the top
OF it. The Marquis of Lorne appeared
in the plaid of the house of Argyl-a
bright scarlet and yellow. The Marquis
is an insignificant looking fellow in
comparison with the stalwart, brawny
chieftains with whom he moved about.
He is very small, with smooth, beard
less face, very light hair, and very blue
eyes. He is difident and shy in man
ner, and when cheered or toasted he
blushed like q girl. He moved among
the people with an air of kindness, and
seemed to much respected and beloved
by them. The hotel WAS full Of people
from the surrounding country, who had
come for the games and the ball. The
yachts were gaily decked out in colored
bunting; the bag-pipers filed the air
With strange. wild music; and . blaze
Of hre in the early evening kept the
scene lively until the hour for the ball,
which was held in . canvas pavilion Just
On he border Of the bay.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21

AIR AND LIaHT.-Did you ever think
of the difference between air and light,
in the way they come to us? You can
not catch the sunbeam in your fingers ;
you cannot shut it up you cannot even
feel it. 1t seems as thin, as intangible
as the air itself. Yet the air penetrates
everything; it creeps through; it glides
under it goes behind. There is no
escaping it while the sunbeam is
turned aside by every obstacle. What
if light moved as air does, instead of
only in straight lines? Do You see
what would happen? There ,0ould be
no shado,g;; no escape anywhere from
the piercing brightness. The thick
green leaves would not turn it aside ;
there would be no GOODNESS Of the
woods no shadow of a great rock in
a thirsty land /; no use at all for hat
brims or sun-umbrellas. Some One
seems to have planned very. wisely and
kindly, in this one little law of light, to
keep US all comfortable and happy.
Then the sunbeam itself, though it
looks like simple gleam of brightness,
is really a bundle of different colors
tied up together, and each color has a
different office to perform. The artist
can separate the ray into its original
colors, and letting them fall upon his
prepared plate, will show you that it is
only one or two OF the darkest rays that
have anything to do with printing his
wonderful sun-pictures.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA, JANUARY o.

of his life. If the project succeeds, the
admirers of the Emusic OF the future"
will be able to hear the compositions
of their great representative under cir
cumstances infinitely more favorable
and imposing than were ever accorded
to any operatic maestro before. And if
Wagner achieves hispurpose. he will shed
new lustre on the city in which he reaps
his new laurels-delightful Baireuth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21

Said Mrs. jerks on her return from
church: when / see the shawls OF
those Johnsons, and then think Of what
I have to wear, If it was not for the
consultations of religion, I don't know
what I would do. -
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21

YoUNd FISH, -HAwKs.-The Young fish
hawks are the funniest things you ever
saw, awkward, misshapen, and yet with
such a wise, dignifed expression L
watched for several hours a couple
learning to fly. They sat balanced un-
easily on the edge of the nest, solemn
and grave as judges, and looked as if
they had come out of the shell knowing
everything. The old birds were coaxing
and going through various exercises
which suppose were the first princi-
Piles of flying, and the young ones tilted
about and rolled over and finally got
fastened in the sharp branches OF the
tree. The mother and father fused and
scolded, ''Bill ee, Bill-ee, Stupidity.
The young are very slow In learning to
fly, and l have heard that they often
linger in the nest long after they are
well able to help themselves, to be fed
and waited upon, till driven away by
the parents, who beat them out with
their wings, and peck them with their
sharp beaks. / don't like to think this,
but it may be so, for one day We found
young bird dropping on the fence.
He allowed us to come very close to
him, and we discovered that his wing
was broken. 1t was not shot, SO he
must have fallen in his effort to fly. No
birds were near him-he had evidently
been deserted. He looked forlorn and
pitiful, so we took him home and put
him in the wagon-house. The children
were very attentive to him; they cut up
fish for him-pounds of it-and tried to
amuse him as if he were a lamed child.
But it was of no use-he dropped still
more. and then died, and was buried
with martial noise and pomp. He
would not have been a successful pet,
for these birds have lonely, isolated
nature. They seem to have bred In
them the wild, untamable spirit Of the
wind and wave, and if deprived Of their
free, soaring flight, and their sportings
in air and water, they will languish
and die.-H. Nicholas.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21

Inc sum OF each row is 2bU.
The reader may try his ingenuity in
constructing as many tables as he
pleases. Ascertain beforehand what
each column should sum up, by the
usual method Of arithmetical progress
sion. Thus the sum of the series l, 2,
8, 4, 5, etc., to G4, is--=20S0. Di-
viding by s, the number of vertical or
horizontal columns. we get 260 for the
sum of each. For the series l, 2, 8, on
to IA. briefly, each vertical column
145x144
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
=145x6=S10.

I found square of six numbers to q
side rather harder, and one of five to q
side quite troublesome. The reason
was that the above method is not appli-
cable. By approximating it. however,
as nearly as practicable, and then using
tentative means toward the close, i
succeeded in both cases.
These tables are not useful in the
ordinary sense of that term they do
not teach us how to measure corn cribs
or survey farms but they may interest
pupils in arithmetic. and may cultivate
the necessary but irksome art of adding
up columns of figures Let the teacher
take an ordinary checker-board some
winter evening. cut out of card or
leather sixty-four men, namely, round
pieces of the size of nickel number
them from to Ga, and set the boys and
girls to work to construct a magic
square. My word for it they will go at
it with an interest such as the rule of
three has failed to oawaken.-NoDlc and
School.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21

Du Chaillu has been discovered in
the interior of Norway, evidently re-
gardless of lectures or lyceums.;
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21

The King of Denmark is said to be
travelling in Italy incognito.
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MAGIC SoUAREs.-I will give three
positions of a square of four figures to
q side
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-21
Youths Column.
Under The Weather.

Dirty fays ha- Septenbe-.
April, June and November;
From January up TO May
The rain II rainetn every dsy;
All the rest have thirt lone
Without a blessed < cam Of sun:
And If any Of them had two-snd-thirty.
Ihsy'd be just as Wet and twice as dirty
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-17

Business continues fair. There Is no mate
rial change ia quotations from last report.
our merchants hive fall and complete stocks
laid down NJ low ngures, aud purchases can
be made AZ unusual advantage. 1he lOllow-
ing quotations represent regular wholesale
prices. In hlling smali orders, higher rntoa
will have To be Dtid;
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-17
Condensed Through Time Gard
10 points North and Fast via the
Houston and Texas Central R'yI
AND CONNECTIONS.

Trains arrive and depart from Houston MS
follows;
ACCOMMODATION. TnR0tGH TRAIN.
Leaves. ..... 900 A. NJ Leaves. ...,. $40 p. NJ.
Arriyes-.,..,, 9:i0 A. Nj, ArrVes.,,,,. s:20 p. NJ,
Galveston Freight and Ticket Office, 20
fremont street.
A. FAULKNER, Agent.
New York city Freight and Ticket oilice,
3i5 Broadway.
II. l.. MANCHESTER, Agent.
Visitors TO above cities will lind these of
fees "A pleasant place of resort their leisure
hours, where the latest Texas papers will be
found.
J. DURAND, Gem Supt.
]. WALDO. Gem Ticket Agent.
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CIIECiS.RAHslNG.
A Fifteen Thousand Dollar job anu
Several PnrtieH Yet 10 Menr From.

A Fifteen Thousand Dollar job anu
Several Parties Yet 10 Hear From.
Several parties of this city were quite
severely bit bya neat financial trick
tried by one Mr.. Joseph Wiedner, of
this city. Wiedner is q young man,
about twenty-eight years of age, and
has been acting as broker in this city
for some considerable time. He did
very little business, but was always re-
garded as al honest and well meaning
young man.
The trick tried by Wiedner is an old
one, frequently resorted to, but seldom
accomplished Drawing three checks
on the Hibernia bank for S4l so, $1l,
and 1913, he managed to change these
checks to larger amounts by simply
removing the dots between the dollars
and cents. Thus Sal 80 became $4l5O,
and $500, $500
Before having effected this legerde-
main he got the checks for the smaller
amounts certified to by the banks.
When, therefore, they were changed,
they bore all the appearance of per-
fectly good checks, and Wiedner found
no difficulty in negotiating them. Mr..
Leon GodchauX took one of these
checks for $500, Mr.. Peter Helwege
one for $4l50, and Mr.. j. Strauss one
for $500, making a total of $4,000. 1t
was only after these checks had been
deposited by these gentlemen in the
banks, and when the bank runners had
met at the clearing house to arrange
exchange, that the forgery or alteration
was discovered. Wiedner was then far
away from the city. having left, it is
understood, on the earliest train.
Besides the money that he obtained
in this manner, it is believed that
Wiedner carried off some $4,000 to
$50, 900 in securities, bonds, gold bonds,
etc. The police are on his track, with
a good chance of catching him.
1t appears that these raised checks
We're used by Wiedner to redeem city
bonds, chiefly of the ten per cent and
gold class, which Messrs. Helwege,
Strauss and GodchauX held in pledge,
and on which they had previously
loaned him money. The bulk OF the
swindle, therefore, is expressed in city
securities instead Of cash, and rs the
victimized parties have the numbers
and classes of the bonds there is yet q
prospect of Identification ana recov-
cry.
Wiedner did not leave Tuesday after
noon, as was at first supposed. Several
persons saw him at 1880 that evening,
and it is presumed that he missed the
train. He can not be found now, how
ever, which practically amounts to the
same thing.-[Picayune. 9th.