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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

To PRESERVE CITRoN.-Peel the
citron, taking out the seeds; cut in
quarters, put them in a preserving
kettle, add some water, cover tight, and
boil until you can thrust straw, easily
through them; then skim out care
fully, so as not to break them. To one
pound of citron add three-quarters of a
pound of sugar, using only the best
white, adding as many lemons as you
prefer, removing the seeds or they will
render the whole batch bitter add the
sugar to the liquor you boil the citron
in boil to a nice syrup; add the
citron, little at time when done,
skim out, and keep doing so until all
are cooked; add your lemons, cook a
few minutes more, pour over your
citron, and they are done.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

AMONG the recent physical problems
is that suggested by the fact that ball
or bar of solid iron will float upon
molten mass of the same metal. To
account for this it has been argued that
iron, like water, expands on solidifying
and hence that solid iron is specifically
lighter than when in a molten state,
and that, this being the case, the iron
floats, Just as ice does in water. Un-
fortunately for the acceptance of this
theory it is stated by its opponents and
with good reason, that iron does not
expand as described, and hence is not
subject to the law that governs ice.
The second and apparently just theory
to account for the phenomenon is that,
when ball of solid iron is brought in
contact with the molten metal, it does
not sink. owing to a film of air adhering
to it, which repels the molten iron and
prevents contact. This phenomenon
will be at once recognized as kindred to
that known as the spheroidal state of
liquids.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

GREEN PIcKLEs.-A premium recipe.
To two gallons of vinegar put four
ounces black pepper, four ounces ginger,
two ounces turmeric, two ounces cloves,
two ounces allspice, two ounces mace,
one pint mustard seed, two tablespoon
fuls celery seed, one large handful
horse-radish. one handful garlic, three
lemons sliced, two pounds brown su-
gar. The spices must be well beaten.
The brine should be we'll soaked from
the articles to be picked before they
are put in the spiced vinegar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

SHELTON LEAvEs.-Leaves to be
skeletonized should be gathered only
in dry weather, should also be per-
fectly matured, July and August being
the best months to gather them. Among
the choicest varieties are vine, poplar,
beech and ivy leaves. Dissolve four
ounces of washing soda in one quart of
boiling water add two ounces of quick
lime, and boil fifteen minutes allow
this to cool: then pour off the clear
liquor into clean saucepan, and when
at boiling point place the leaves care
fully and boil one hour boiling water
should be added occasionally to supply
that lost by evaporation. If after boil
ing one hour the cellulor tissue does
not rub off between the thumb and
finger, boil them till it will, always
placing the leaves in cold water to
separate the feshy matter from the
skeleton. Bleach the skelatons by put
ting them in a solution of one quart of
water, large tablespoonful of chloride
of lime, and few drops of vinegar let
them remain in twenty minutes and
then remove and dry between sheets of
white blotting paper, beneath gentle
pressure.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

THE whole secret of full form and
rosy cheeks lies in pure blood, manu-
factured from wholesome food, by
healthy and vital organs, oxygenated
and vitalized in well-expanded lungs,
and kissed by the ife-given sunlight
on the surface of the warm cheek. She
who will have the color she covets on
any other terms must buy it of the
apothecary, and renew it every time she
makes her toilet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

A TERRIBLE PoIsoN FROM PARIs.--At
a recent meeting of the Academy, II.
st. Claire Deville, a distinguished
French chemist, offered to the gentle
men present tight-corked vial con-
tanning fifteen pounds of osnaiuna, the
most deadly poison known. In short
explanation NJ. Deville said that twenty
pounds of the metal would be sufficient
to poison the entire population of the
world. One thousandth part of grain
of osmic acid, set free in a volume of
air of one hundred cubic yards, would
possess such deadly influence that all
the persons respiring this air would be
nearly killed. Osmic acid is SO much
the more dangerous that no counter
poison is known against it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

BED. BUGS will live year without air
or food when placed in Theoretically
sealed bottle; but birthstone will kill
them. Place in the centre of the room
a dish containing about four ounces of
birthstone remove from the room such
metallic surfaces as might he affected by
the fumes; close every aperture, even
to the key hole, and light the brim-
stone. After four or five hours, enter
the room and open the windows for a
thorough airing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

The wheat straw which has hitherto
been burned by the California farmers
will in future be used in making barrels
for shipping the very wheat it bore.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

THE hardest things to deal with An
old pack of cards.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

THE best apple butter is made by
peeling, coring and slicing, selected
sweet apples and stewing them in sweet
cider. Very little of this sort of apple
butter, however, comes to market. The
bulk of that sold is made from second
rate apples, peeled, sliced and stewed,
and sweetened with brown sugar. A
large quantity of such butter is made
and sold for ships stores for use by the
sailors.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

How PATRICK proposes to get over
his single blessedness-By proposing to
Bridge it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

The best legal authority on crema-
tion-Coke.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

GOLD AND VIOLET BRONZE POWDER
The process for preparing these So
called powders (tungstons tungstates
of an alkalD by means of tin and fused
acid tungstates has been so improved
by DR.. Schnitzler as to be adapted to
the preparation of them, in suitable
furnaces, by the hundred weight, if the
demand for them will justify it. He
increased the amount of tungstic acid
to such an extent that by pulverizing
the mass obtained by the fusion of the
ingredients at high temperature in a
crucible and heating it in a porcelain
tube by weak charcoal fire it, at most,
simply became adherent by fusion. The
reduction was then accomplished in
few hours by common burning gas. By
moderate temperature the yield was
considerable and gold bronze, after
repeated purification with hot nitric
acid and with caustic soda, appears by
sunlight as a beautiful gold yellow,
uniform powder; by higher tempera-
ture, it acquires a cast of red. The
violet bronze (the potash compounG
needs a higher temperature.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

The French astronomer Jansen has
invented an ingenious apparatus for
ascertaining the precise instant of con-
tact of the planet Venus with the limb
of the sun at the transit on December
10. A movable disk, having towards its
edge equi-distant round openings, turns
before a second disk covered with SEN
sitive paper. By means of clock work,
the outer disk is made to move every
second over a distance equal to the
diameter of one of its openings. Hence
every second there is a new plate ex-
posed, and new picture taken. By
examining each picture, it is possible
to determine exactly the time of con-
tact.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

OxYDIzISG POWER OF CHARCOAL
Freshly prepared leucaniline dissolves
in alcohol, and forms perfectly color
less liquid, which may be kept for q
long time without change. If this
solution is boiled for a few moments
with a small quantity of animal char.
coal, it becomes of deep carmine red,
due to the action of the oxygen con-
densed In the pores of the charcoal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

PARADoxEs.-W Water thrown into a
red-hot metallic vessel does not boil, as
We should expect, but quietly gathers
itself together, forming more or less
perfect sphere, and in that condition
floats about gracefully on the hot sur
face as it slowly evaporates away. If
at the same time a very evaporizable
substance, as liquid sulphurous acid,
is thrown in, the water may actually be
frozen in the red-hot vessel.
Water boiled in glass flask until the
upper part of the vessel is entirely filled
with steam, and then dexterously corked
before air can gain admission, and
placed in cold water, recommences to
boil. The boiling is produced by cold
instead of heat, and the experiment is
known as the ordinary paradox. If
steam from water boiling at 212~ is
passed into solution of salt in water,
the temperature of the solution steadily
rises, passing 212c, reaches the boiling
point OF the solution, and finally the
latter also boils at temperature as
high and even higher than $50. accord
ing to its nature. There We have the
extraordinary result of obtaining high
temperature, say-viz, 212.
If there is anything in nature that
possesses a positive character, it is
light. Yet the physicist may so reflect
the light from a given source as to
cause it to destroy itself and produce
darkness. In like manner, two sounds
may be made to interfere with each
other, and either produce silence or
increased intensity of sound, at the will
of the operator.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

The handsomest lady in horse car
is not always the one that is passing
fare.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

LET every family remember that each
particle OF damp dirt about their
dwellings is plague spot; and every
servant and child be visited with the
severest reproof. who knowingly per-
mits its continuance for q single mo-
ment.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04
Domestic.

PRAcrlcAL LESSONS TO WoMEN.-In q
recent letter on 1.-THE Uses and Abuses
of the Skin and Hair, 1--WE find "our
skin is formed of scales similar to those
Of fishes, only smaller in fish
others allowed to come, in their native
element the water; our are influenced
in the same manner by the air. The ex
clusion of this influence affects some of
the appendages of the skin. When
long confined by hats, excess of any
covering, false hair &C., the natural
hair falls out. The present fashions in
coiffures will soon make us all wig
wearers. The hair has been provided
with pomatum by nature, and needs no
other; this like all skin appendages
grows better, and is healthier, from
frequent cutting; being analogous in
this respect, as in others, to grass.
Dyes of all kinds are injurious, having
a tendency to cause paralysis. Regard
ing the nails, if not trimmed at all,
they will grow to a certain length and
then drop off-those of the hands grow
four times faster than those of the feet,
owing to the restrictions of the latter's
covering. In sickness the nails become
thin. DO not clean them with knife |;
use wood or ivory, which will not ir-
ritate the skin under the nails. Sweat
glands are another appendage or the
skin which need special attention. Each
human being is provided with twenty
eight miles of perspiratory tubing
drainage pipes of the system. Imagine
the effect of closing these, which is
done often by uncleanliness and expo
sure to very damp atmosphere. Much
neuralgia is caused from want of free
perspiration, as is Bright's disease of
the kidneys; the skin not being allowed
to do its share of elimination, these and
other evils are the consequence. The
body needs the tonic of water over its
entire surface each day; soft, fresh
water, with little, or better still, no
soap; when used, white CASTLE is the
best. Too much friction after bath
often results in skin disease. There is
no need for sponges or wash-cloths-
the hand is better adapted than either.
Do not use coarse towels or hair
mittens, &c.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

II will beacknowledged even by those
who practice it not, that clear and
round dealing is the honor of mans
nature, and that mixture of falsehood
is like alloy in coin of gold and silver.
which may make the metal work the
better, but it debaseth it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

One of the Beecher girls used to say
that she had three rules to guide her in
copying her fathers manuscripts If a
letter was dotted, it was not an l., if a
letter was crossed, it wasn't {; and, if
a word began with a capital letter, it
didn't begin a sentence.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

SOMETHING new for the Orientalists'
Congress-What did Noah's bees do
while afoat? They kept the archives.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

APRoPos of the Tyndall-Darwin the
ories comes in one of Gen. Sckenck's s
latest stories that he told to the wife of
British cabinet officer who assured
him that England made America all
that she is" Pardon, madam" said
the general; ''you remind me of the
answer of the Ohio lad in his teens,
who, attending Sunday school for the
first time, was asked by the teacher,
who made you?' Made me % Yes. >
Why, God made me about so tong
(holding his hands about ten inches
apart, but L growed the rest.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

''YoU ARE from the country, are you
not, sir?" asked a city clerk Of a
Quaker who had Just arrived. "Yes."
"Well, here is an essay on the rearing
of calves" THAT" said Aminadab |;
as he turned to go, "thee had best
present to thy mother"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

"WHAr do you mean ?" inquired an
inquisitive lady of a facetious lawyer,
"by the term, putting a leading ques-
tion 2" when l offer you my arm,
DEAR" said the learned gentleman
suiting the action to the word.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

To EEEP moths out of clothing Mix
half q pint of alcohol, the same quantity
of spirits of turpentine and two ounces
of camphor. Keep in stone bottle
and shake before using. The clothes
or furs to be wrapped in linen, and
crumpled up pieces of blotting paper
dipped in the liquid are to be placed
in the box with them, so that it smells
strong. This requires renewing once
year.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

A COUrLE of Irish lads, wishing to
obtain a little pocket money, deter
mined to go into the country during
harvest time and work among the farm
ers. "Can you cradle?" asked the
farmer. Now, an Irishman in search of
work was never known to confess ignor-
ance of anything, but the question was
perplexer. The boys looked at each
other for a suggestion. No use. At
length Dennis, looking boldly at the
farmer, said: "Of course we can
cradle but couldn't ye give us an out
door lob ?"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

A FAT French lady says: II am so
thin that l pray for a disappointment
to make me thin. No sooner does the
disappointment come than the mere
expectation OF growing thinner gives
me such Joy that 1 become fatter than
ever
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

IT IS solemn thing-a very solemn
thing to get married-to feel that hence
forth through life the mild-eyed girl at
your side is to be the only female in the
wild world duly licensed to throw fiat
irons at your head.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

THERE is one consolation in being
bald. When a policeman strikes you
on the head with his club, the doctor
doesn't have to waste any time in cut
ting hair away from the wound.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04
Scientific.

THE POWER OF MIND OVER BODY
The secretions are arrested or made
active by nerve influence. Nursing
mothers who give way to anger or other
emotions poison their own milk,
whereby the infants health is often
injured for life, if it is not killed out
right. The bowels are purged by bread
pills Gas once was proved on q large
scale by the Emperor Nicholas) pro-
vided people are told they are to be
purged eighty out of one hundred
hospital patients have been vomited by
a neutral remedy, when told "there
had been a mistake made and they had
all taken emetics." Much sea-sickness
would be avoided if people could be
made to believe they were not going to
have it. The stigmata, or marks OF the
nails on the Saviour's hands and feet,
have been plainly seen to appear on the
corresponding portion of the bodies OF
certain of his more devout followers.
among whom st. Francis of Assist
must be specially named. Yet ought
we not to lose from our sight the pOssi-
bllity that these occurrences, however
unquestionable they be. are yet simply
owing to an action of the Imagination,
whereof notable instance is related
upon authority of great weight A
mother saw a window sash descend
with great violence upon her little
child's fingers, whereupon she herself
was instantly seized with extreme pains
in her own fingers, which did afterward
swell and infame in such manner that
she was long in being cured. The fakirs
of India are sometimes able to divest
themselves of the signs of life-respira-
ton and circulation being stopped and
bodily temperature elowered-for months
continually. The pain of toothache
vanishes at the sight of a dentists
chair, neuralgia once disappered as the
lecturer was about to enter on an
operation for its relief most factional,
and even some organic affections (as
dropsy) may be cured by giving a
patient the idea that he is to be cured !?
And the well attested list of modern
miracles is in the same category of
acts d. RroycD \eOUIrH
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

STARTLING.-It didn't rain for some
time in Western town, and when the
floods did descend, the editor said /:
"After many days of arid dessication,
the vapory captains marshalled their
laundering hosts and poured out upon
scorching humanity and the thoroughly
incinerated vegetation few inches of
''aqua pluvialis. Good gracious
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

4 MOBILE man, who, ON returning
home from his days business, was sur
prised to receive the congratulations of
his friends at his having narrowly es-
capped from drowning, thought it very
good sell. and laughed immoderately
until he learned that they had handed
his best Sunday go-to-meeting suit to a
darkey who had called to break the
news, and get him some dry clothes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

BAKED FIsH.-To bake fish, you
should empty the fish at the gills; then
stuff it with bread and herbs, forced
meat balls or oysters, just as you
prefer. Season the outside with pepper;
turn the tail into the mouth and tie it.
Lay it on sticks in your bake-pan and
flour it well. Lay some pieces Of butter
on it half an hour will cook a small
one.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

MI. MARRowFAT defines a fashion.
able church" as place from which
people go to heaven for wearing good
clothes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

SAID a conscientious auctioneer
"Ladies and gentlemen, there is nc
sham about the carpets; they are
genuine tapestry carpets. 1 bought
them of old Tapestry himself.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04
Humorous.
Nor TO BE DoNE.-The Court Journal
tells the following

tells the following:
Previous to the late Duke of Buc-
cIeuch quitting his princely mansion he
had occasion to visit q certain burg
lying some ten or twelve miles to the
northwest. On this occasion he pre-
ferred riding on horseback and unat-
tended. He came to the toll gate. "The
toll, sir, gin ye please" His Grace
Immediately pulled up, and, while
searching for the needful to .tisfy so
Just demand, he was thus accosted by
the gate-keeper. "Heard ye ony word
O. the Duke comm this way, the day,
sir ?" eyes," was the reply; che will
be this way to-day" "Will he be in a
coach an four, or only a coach and two,
think YEP" SIN all probability on
horseback" was the brief rejoinder.
'1n that case, do you think he wad be
offended if / offered him back the change
should he gae me saxpence or shilling
to pay wi as he passed ?" The Duke
stretched forth his hand to receive the
balance, and, with an arch and knowing
look, replied 'Try him, friend, try
him." and pocketed the coppers NUT
tering to himself "Not to be done in
that Way"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

Entered according 10 A.. of
congrsss. IN TIE ysar
l674. In the Once Of the In
rarian Of Congress-. &C wasa-
inGson-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

An OLD maid suggested that when
men break their hearts it is all the same
as when lobster breaks one of his
claws-another sprouts Immediately,
and grows in its place.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

"How MANY regular, steady boarders
are there in this house ?" asked census
taker of servant girl. There's fifteen
in all, sir, but not more'n four of 'em is
steady persons, sir"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04

GooD MORNING, Smith You look
sleepy" Yes" replied Smith, 81
was up all night. "Upl where -
up stairs in bed.