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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07
Young Female Clerks.

ALondon paper says: 1.-The expert
ment of employing young ladies as
clerks in an insurance Office has been
tried and found eminently successful In
the case of the Prudential, on Ludgate
Hill. For more than a year and half
the little band, beginning with ten, now
reaching thirty-six in number, and In
tended to be still further reinforced,
has been working steadily, and giving
entire satisfaction to the managers Ihe
rooms occupied by them are light and
airy. separated altogether from those
occupied by the male clerks in the es-
tablishment, and furnished with conve-
nient chairs and desks. The lady clerks.
who are of various ages, from eighteen
to thirty, seem to enjoy excellent health
and spirits. and are unanimous IN agree
ing that regular employment, If moder-
ate. is peculiarly salutary. They are
exclusively ladies, strictly so-caiied, the
daughters of professional men Iney
arrive from their various homes at Lua-
gate Hill at ten A. NJ, stop work for an
hour at one o'clock, and leave the office
at fiyePM. Several holidays in the
wear are allowed. The work is chiefly
simple kind of copying, requiring only
careful attention, good handwriting,
and intelligence to decipher names of
persons and places-the Welsh one es-
pecially affording limitless field for
conjecture. The salary of these ladies
is small, beginning Inclusive OF certain
fees) at f32 per annum, and being raised
flO each year up to EGO. 1t would
appear. however, that there are abun-
dance of candidates to be found for
each chair and of course, as the work
is as we'll done as by male clerks, the
advantage to the Company must be very
great indeed. 1t should be added that
all directions for the work pass through
the hands of lady superintendent"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07
BOils.

A boil is generally very small at first
and q fellow hardly notices it; but in a
few days it gets to be the biggest of the
two, and the chap that has it is of very
little account in comparison with his
boil, which then ''has him." Boils ap-
pear mysteriously upon various portions
Of the human body, coming when and
where they "darn please, and often in
very inconvenient places. Sometimes a
solitary boil is the sum total of the afhic-
tion. but frequently there is ''rubishin'
lot of EN-" to help tine first one. If a
boil comes any where on a person, that
person always wishes it had come some
where else, although it would puzzle
him to tell just exactly where.
Some persons called them damboils, ("
but such persons are addicted to pro-
family, the proper name being boil. If
a chap has boil he generally has good
deal Of sympathy from others-''in a
horn" Whoever asks him what ails
him laughs at him for his pain to an
swer, while many unfeeling persons
make game of his misfortune, or boil. 1t
is very wicked to make fun of persons
with boils; they cannot help it, and often
feel very bad about it. Physicians
don't give boil patients very much salts
faction as q general thing, although
young physicians Just beginning to
practice are fond of trying their lances
on them.
Boils are said to be healthy" and
judging froIa the way they take hold
and hang on and ache and burn and grow
and raise Cain generally, there is no
doubt they are healthy and have strong
constitutions.
They are generally very lively and
playful at night, and it is very funny to
see a chap with good large one, pro-
specting around his couch for a place
where his boil will fit in "without hurt
ing" Boils tend to purify the blood"
strengthen the system, calm the nerves,
restrain the profanity, tranquilize the
spirits, improve the temper, and beau
tlfy the appearance.
They are good things for married men
who spend their evenings from home,
as they give them an opportunity to rest
their night keys, and get acquainted
with their families. 1t is said that boils
save the patient "fit of sickness" but
if the sickness is not the best to have, it
must be an all fred mean thing. 1t is
also said that person is better after he
has them, and there is no doubt that
one does feel better after having got rid
of them. Many distinguished persons
have enjoyed these harbingers of good
health. Job took the first premium at
the county fair for having more achers
under cultivation than any other person.
had them, and meat boils
when he said, "One woe doth tread
upon another's heels, so fast they fol-
low."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07
Mis- ceIlany.
Sermons by the Hour.

"After the Reformation" says a wri-
ter, ''long sermons came into fashion.
The medieval and pre- Reformation di-
vines contented themselves with q
homily varying from ten to thirty min
utes in length; but the Huguenots,
Waldenses, Puritans, Covenanters. In
dependents, and other protesting bod
les, conceiving it their duty to assert
and maintain those relating to doctrines
and discipline, made their sermons ar
gumentative, and sometimes spun out
the argument to an inordinate length.
The hour-glass literally corresponded
with its name, for it ran for one hour
before the sand had all passed through;
and the preacher claimed his full sixty
minutes. Sometimes he was provided
with a half-hour-glass, which he used
when a shorter sermon was to be
preached. 1t was about the middle of
the seventeenth century, when Puritan
sermons occasionally reached the enor-
nous length of two hours, that the
hour-glass limit was applied. Many
pulpits were furnished with iron stands
for the reception of the hour-glass.
One such is still existing at Comton
Bassett Church, Willis, with Jie,tr-de-
lis handle for turning the glass when
the sand had run out. Another, at
Hurst, in Berkshire, has a fanciful
wrought-iron frame, with foliage of oak
and ivy, and an inscription, "As this
glass runneth, so mans life passeth. )"
At Clife, in Kent, is a stand for an
hour glass on a bracket affixed to the
pulpit. The parish accounts of st.
katherine, Aldgate, contain an old en-
try, Paid for an hour glass that hang
eth by the pulpit where the preacher
doth make a sermon, that he may know
how the hour passeth away, one shil-
ling and another relates to a behest
of AN hower-glass, with frame to
stand in One preacher had exhausted
his sand-glass, turned it, and gone
through three-fourths of another run
ming; the congregation had nearly all
retired, and the clerk, tired out, audi
bly, asked his reverend superior to lock
up the church and put the key under
the door when the sermon was done, as
he 1.-THE clerk and the few remaining
auditors were going away. Hugh Peters,
after preaching an hour. turned his
hour-glass and said, Il know you are
good fellows; so let's have another
glass Daniel Burgess, an eloquent
Nonconformist divine in the early part
of the last century, let his hour-glass
run out while preaching vehemently
against the sin of drunkenness. He re-
versed it, and exclaimed, Brethren, l
have somewhat more to say on the na-
ture and consequences of drunkenness ;
SO let's have another glass, and then
- which was a regular toper's
phrase. A rector of Bibury used to
preach two turns of the glass after the
giving out of the text the squire OF the
parish withdrew, smoked his pipe, and
returned to tie blessing"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07
Poetry.
The Meeting.

Hello, Bob How are yOr. DAar
I'm glad TO see you to-day;
It's been many long year now
Since you and were at play.
Let's go and have day OF ii,
And imagine ourselves boys again,
When we used to plsy around the Old sehoOl-hOus
That stood there IN the lane
long, long time ago it's been,
And we've both gone through lot;
I've been right successful in biz,
And you, believe. have not,
Well, believe this Iife's picked out for ",
"Ii's bat game Of cards"
I've held one OF the winning hands,
So here goes my regards.
You're all the same to me, Bob,
The same as you were years ago;
60 I'll them up agsiu, landlord
There-thai's enough-jusi So
J went to California, Bob.
When the 'sold fever" broke out,
And had little unusual luck
That's how got my start.
TOa had good business, / believe,
But 1t fetched you In 1fty-seveu;
Lost everything you had, you say.
Fifty Thousand and eleven,
These Psuics are fearful things, Bob,
Aud don't see why they should be,
In great country ike ours,
Where every ones equal and free
Bat you aud are boys to-day,
So we'll leave the subject pass,
And think Of our ty-go1e days
Come here. and fiji Up your glass.
Well 20 and hunt the "boys" ND
That is, those that are alive:
We've outlived good many, Bob,
Let's .ee we're sixty-fyef
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07

PoRco, OR ITALIAN BLIND Mans BUFF.
Several persons, male and female,
join hands so as to form circle, and
one person, who is blindfolded, is placed
in the center, with small stick in his or
her hand. The players dance around
the hoodwinked person, who tries to
touch one of them with the wand, and if
he succeeds, the ring of people stops.
The player then grunts like pig
hence the name of the game-crows, or
initiates some animal, and the person
touched must endeavor to initiate the
noise as closely as possible, without
discovering his or herself. If the party
touched is discovered, then the hood
winked player transfers the bandage
and the stick to that player, and takes
the vacant place in the ring of persons,
who once more resume their dance,
until another player is touched.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07
A Cemetery that Lacked Symm

A Cemetery that Lacked Symmetry.
Some people have ghastly way of
blending business with sentiment. One
of our residents who was showing our
cemetery to q visitor, in answer to note
of observation, observed: Eyes, it is .
very fine place, considering its age and
opportunities; but there are not enough
graves to give it symmetry and tone.
But that will be overcome in time, We
hope"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07

The corporation of the city of Lon
don is arranging salary grab, by which
the salary of the Lord Mayor is to be
increased from S35, 900 to $50, 900. The
Lord Mayor, however, is expected to
spend all his salary in municipal enter
tainments,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07

A railroad train in England recently
ran through flock of sheep, killing
thirty of them. The train was running
at the rate of fifty miles an hour, ...d
according to an English paper "con-
tinued its journey uninterruptedly."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07

KINDERGARTEN is a term applied to
Froebel method of teaching children.
Its object is to combine instruction
with amusement so skillfully that the
child shall be developed harmoniously
in body and mind without fatigue and
with only plessurable effort. This is
accomplished by what is called object
teaching. The child does not study
books, but things, and is taught to give
the name, the shape, the qualities, the
colors, the uses, and perhaps the origin
of the various objects around him. This
method of teaching is admirably set
forth in "Calkins's Primary Object
Lessons" There are object teaching
aids, consisting of forms, cards with all
the tints and shades Of the various
colors, and great deal of like material
that can be obtained at educational
agencies. The system is gaining ground
in our large cities, and there are Kin
dergarten schools in New-York and
Boston, where teachers are trained in
this new method.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-07

Nor anything should 1 destroy
Which others may for good employ;
Not even tread beneath my feet
A crumb some little bird might eat.
-Cniidrens Hour.
, 1874-10-29
truth.

It naournful commentary on ths calous
syasem That tho Republicans Of tho First Sem
atorinl District arc compelled to continue Mr.
George A. White as candidate for tho State
Senate; aud that they. aa party, aro compelled
to support him at the polls against Mr. John G.
1lnincs. We aro informed that hlr. Whites
friends actually enrolled, as q preparatory
stop towards his oortiont some GOO addi-
tonal nameH to tho lcgistry in tue Elov-
onth Ward, and TINT partial examination
dtgclosos the fact that the residences
giyon by many Of theso enrolled voters are
fraudulent, no buildings Of tho numbers given
existing. OF cou,se this Wholesale illegal yot-
Ing will not bo confined to ono ward these same
mon may be enrolled III soyoral wards, or, aaopt-
ing tho plan Of repeatcrB, will vote in as many
wards us they arc paid for. The district Ia COM
posed Of tho First, seoond, Tenth, mud Eleventh
Wards, and 1t will be reproach to tho dis
trict aud to tue city it this mnn Whits DO
elected. There aro considerations OF fitness aud
Of common docency that riso above all party con.
siderat,oue, md VIC trust that tho people Of tho
d'ssric: WILL for tleir own crodit, aoa that that
Mr.. Elaines be elected by tho solid vote Of aIl
respectable men Of all parties.
, 1874-10-29

The Minors Convention ut Cleveland ia dis
posed 10 initiate tho example OF the Engineers
Brotherhood, and disregard tho advice Of its
President. 1ndeed, tho President may bo thauls-
full II l'u long lelains ut ths head Ut the organ
ization On any terms. Hls oifonso appoars to bo
good scrHc, and Willingness to exercise It on
behalf Of tho minors. Ho has advisod sub
mission to tho lernsr Of tito prupriotors, aud
argued tho rcasonablonoBs of bis viows ably and
In excellent temper. Ills addresBhas thus far Ind
no otiect, except to provoke the submission Of
resolutions reaiting the injury caused by tho en,.
ploytnent Of "lazzaroni III the Mines, and call
lug Tor tho distribution Of arns among n,ombera
Of tho Union. It Is eaBy to uutloratand now why
a President with brntns and aolf-respoot may be
troublesome 10 The MinorB' Association.
, 1874-10-29

An nbsurd story has been started in tho Third
Congressional District to tho ciroct TINT Mr. Le-
MoysIo ia q kentucky copperhoad," that ho
opposed tho Var, discouraged on'stmonts, and
sympathlzod with the South. The facts arc
tlieas: Mr.. Le Sloyno ia sou Of r, ]. Lo Moyno,
Of Washington, POM, who waB ono Of the
founders Of the Liberty party. and VAS, II We
remember rightly, candidate for the Vice
Presidency on the ticket with James G. Birnoy.
atr. Le D1oyno, ST., is still living. ard his pres-
once at tho A.t-slavery Roun'on held III this
city laat juno WIS warmly gvoolod by the other
veterans Of the old Lihorty purity. Hin son, hlr.
]. Y. Lo Moyne, voted for Abraham Lincoln in
1860, and again In 1864. sofar from diacou,agiDg
onlIstmeuts he put man inso the three ycara'
service At his own expense at timo when thoro
was no draft pending, mud subsequently ton-
doroa hiB own services as private soldier. II
this kind Of record makes Kentucky Cop
ror!lead" It would bo bard to find any loyal meii
in the Third District.
, 1874-10-29

sansa1non has tho City Of Springfield and Mo-
Lem tho City Of Bloomington. and tho nou-yot-
Ing population ia 20 per cont in tho oue aud 25
por cot1t In tho other, whtlo in tho rural coun-
ties tho vote is proportiouatoly larger. Never
the!ess, the failure Of large proportion ot tue
voting population to exercise that privilege is
goneral In all parts Of the country aud In oyery
locality. Who are those nou-yoters7 AZ we
havo seen, q largo proportion Of them are in tho
c!ties and that proportion would SOON much
greator wero not tho number Of actual yotoa
pollod larsely increased by tho frauds which nro
not praotioed mud are not poHslb}e In The r,lrul
towns aud preosucsa. In the large c!ties tho non
voting class Ia mado up largely Of merohanta aud
their clerks. all Of whom ara engagod at busi.
usss remote from thsIs soaidonaes. Anothef
, 1874-10-29

A bit Of sharp practice quite unworthy Of the
pennsylvania Railroad Company Is expoaed this
morning by our spccial correspondent in Harris
burg. Ths Democratic candidate for Congloss
In tho Seventeenth District is tho Conlpany's
Superintendent Of Transportation, residing at
Altoona. Ho has boon making an oxcellcnt
CANVASS. and had IN oven chance with the
Republican candidate Of tic election. Tho Re-
publican candidate happens to be also an en-
ployo Of tho Railroad Company, and to stand
higher In favor Of the management than tue
Superintendent Of transportation. 60 tho lat-
tor haB boon summoned to Philadelphia and
forced to withdraw from the contest. Tao owl
don't design Of this movo ia to cripple tho Demo-
cratu at day too near tho election to permit Of
their recovery. After this account Of tho cir
cu'natanco 1t is refrcshing to read in tho letter
Of tho withdrawing candidate shat ho is 'san
oficer Of q corporation that avoids participation
in political Conflicts" Tho voters Of tho Bovcn-
toonth District arc likely to complain that ho has
been IN unrcasonably long time in making ths
=. -e*tes al, be telling An up-
, 1874-10-29

We have Ind Lord or two aud Grand Duke
as visitors. but not King for many day And
now King il coming. Ho ia not monarch of
very po,tontous power. His nayies du not swoep
the Southern Boay, nor do his invading hosts
spread terror and de8olation through continents.
lIo is not tho King Of the Cannibal Islands, but
comes very noar deserving TINT lyric Hppella-
tion. He is, SO to speak, King Of shrods and
patches, but whether llo DO a onc.horse or six-
ill~hand monarch, Kings King for a that.
Ills name il Kulakua, and he reigns In Hawaii.
lia visit to this continent is puroly one Of blsi-
ncsa. for ho cou,eR to negotiate reciprocity
treaty with tho United Suites. llia prodc-
cessos waa invited over hore two years
aGo, but death cut short Ills visit
nnd tiH reign ut once. The Honolulu Gasetle
Btates TINT tho American Minister received ds-
pateh from Washington directing him to invite
King Kalakua to tho Uuitel Statcs; thu: tho
United States steamer BenieIa WAS placed ut his
disposal, aud that he loaves so:ue timo III o. to
bor, TO as to arrive In Washington about tho tno
TINT Congress- meets. Kulakua IL bachelor,
aud will probably have timo for pleasure aa vol
aa business, Those young latlies who would pro
fer rotgning in Hawaii to sweeping carpets aud
kneatling dough III those United States had bet
ter commence preparing tho caps thoy ars to sot
At Him forthwith.
, 1874-10-29

In the anclont religions. Tho opdomtcs
OF tho middle ages. tho spotted plague,
tho baok dtatIl, tho RwontinR sickness, tho
danctug lnana, tho nsv!ng mn1lfa, md lilo
biting mania, Ind Lheir origin In the neHlcct OF
pcrsonal cloan|uoua universally preyaous a. that
poriod.
Prof. playfar did not contlno hinlaelf to tho
1,'atotical rhnse of Ills subject. Ito throw out
practical suggestions which ARE worthy OF coll
Hdcration everywhere. Ho reminded his honrorB
tl,at wc allow gafl'ago to DO only partially ox-
illzcd. and thsis aaye 1t frotn being .u;o larn,-
loas. Wo dig loles and storo 1t up whore IL
cannot 10 fully oxidizod. Wo poison our
rivers by pouring moro matter Into them
than natural aBonts cut, reacll aud hreax
up into inocuuis otonlonts. Municipalities
nrd manufacturing establishments should Lo
prohibited to use rivera for pnrpoBog Of train-
ago. Next to this r,ea4uro, hs would forbid
osor-crowdiug, and utyo tho thorough yentia-
tion Of I'LL buildings. B.: adhering to tlcBo Hin,-
pts rules. 4.20O,t00 casos Of Illness might lo
thinks. bo prevented In England oyerY your
OF course, to carry out tho measures rccona-
mondod by tho Professor requires money. But
the cost would 10 moro tl,au saved In tho i'm
proved health of all olaeaes of tho community
aid tho efficiency Of their labor-tho source OF
.xhA
, 1874-10-29

Iho southosu "taa-party Which followed
tint Of Boston by nearly year has been cello
brated IN contennial ut Annapolis. Tho little
circumstance which WAS thon solemuly called to
mind "as not altogether unlike that Of Boston,
Iho Peggy Stewart was brig, owned by An
thony stowart. which arrived at Apnapo),a In
October, 1774, With cargo Of ton. Animated
by tlo example Of their Now England brethren.
they decided to destroy tho sayory hosb III em.
blesnatio Of tho tyranny ullloh they rosoutod,
They accordingly forced tho unfortunate trader
to run tho yassol aground at Windmill Point. and
, 1874-10-29

Dr.. Lyon playiair, an authority. If tAero be
ono. On the aub1oct Of eanitary science, has, in
his address before the Social scionce Congress-
word, and that not all unfamiliar one-cleanli-
.sess. From time immomorial, mon have con-
nected uncicanlIness aud disease as cause aud
effect. Everybody knows thAt II ho would Gu
joy health ho must be no stranger to ablution,
But 1t IL only in tho presence Of statistics that
ono Is apt to reaiizo the force Of this trutsm,
These Prof Playfatr furnishes.
In his investigation Of tic question, vhothor
or not wo arc making satisfactory progress in
our sanitary measuros, ho answers that, il we
date tho standard OF comparison far enough
back, VIC shall find marked Improvement.
THUS, tho death.rate in London from 1Goo to
1870 was 80 III every 1000. For tho last thirty
four yeara it has been only 22.4 in oyory 1000.
That tho moan age Of tho whole population, In
decade after decade, re1nninB tho Bamc is no
proof that sanitary science Is not improving, but
only that the Causes OF mortality aro increasing
We're 1t not that hyglenio improvements keep
paco With the Increase In tho caus-
es Of mortality. mortality itself would
OF course increase. Tho steady conyereenco
OF population to lavge towns has q tondonoy to
fncraaao the oausos OF mortality, especially
where hyglonfo meaauros are neglected. But
large towns in some counsrIoa are lsalthior than
In others, aud the dcath-rato il greater just Ia
proportion to tho neglect Of sanitary moasuros,
Thus. in London, where the health OF the city Ia
, 1874-10-29


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