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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
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The clam, says writer, has foot
which he protrudes and uses like a
spade to shovel up the sand when he
would retire out of sight, and beneath
the sand he lives in peace, coming ont
only at night to bask in the moonlight.
to behold the wonders of the sea and
gaze at the starry sky spread out above
him in all its splendor. Walking on the
shore on a bright moonlight night one
may see thousands of these beautiful and
highly organized beings forming them
selves into communities and hopping
gayly abont, emitting their peculiar cry,
which is not unlike that of the katydid.
Their loeomotion is performed by OPEN
ing and shutting their shells with great
rapidity and force, some of the larger
ones being able TO jump several inches
at time in this way. Men who have
closely observed their habits for years
say that at times they are not 80 amiable
rs might be supposed by the superficial
observer and that they engage in terrific
combats, when the whole shore will re-
sound with their savage growls and
maddened yells a they rush upon each
other and endeavor, by inserting the
edge of their shells into each other, To
pry them open. The dying cries of the
victims may be heard even above the
noise of the surf.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

Their ministry is sacred; in their pres
ence the most irreyerent become sub
dued. do not find i'm the lyrics of Isa
Craig, the Scottish pOetess, anything
better than the ode in honor Of Burns,
which took the Centenary prize. Chris
tina Georgina ROssetti demands closer
attention. She is woman of genius,
whose songs, hymns, ballads, and vari-
Gus lyrical pieces are studied and origi-
nal. do not greatly admire her longer
poems, which are more fantastic than
imaginative; but elsewhere she is poet
of profound and serious cast, whose
lips part with the breathing of a fervid
spirit within. She has no lack of mat
ter to express; it is that expression
wherein others are so fluent and adroit
which fails to serve her purpose quickly
but when, at last, she beats her music
out, it has mysterious and soul-felt
meaning. Another woman-poet is Mrs.
Webster, already mentioned rs trans
latOr. For many poetic qualities this
lady's work is nearly equal, in several
departments of verse, to that of the best
of her sister artists; and ! am not sure
but her general level is above them all.
She has a dramatic faculty unusual
with women, a versatile range, and
much penetration of thought; is Objec-
tive in her dramatic scenes and longer
idyls, which are thinner than Brown
ing's, but less rugged and obscure /;
shows great culture, and is remarkably
free from the tricks and dangerous
mannerism of recent yerse.-ScriJner' s
HOnthig.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
Large Brains and Intellect.

The relation between weight of brain
and extent of intellectual capacity is as
yet in obscurity, and this obscurity is by
no means cleared up by a report of DR..
Lawson. .pathologist to the Lunatic Asy-
lum of the West Riding of MiddleseX.
Six distinguished men are instanced as
having exceeded the male average of
forty-nine ounces, and opposite their
brain weights are placed those of six
lunatics, the aggregate of the latter eX-
ceeding that of the former by more
than ten ounces. The following are
the figures: DIR. Chalmers, 53 o., luna
tic, IS OF. (; David Webster, ,53.5, lunatic,
IS; Sir J. Y. Simpson, 81, lunatic, 5S.5; I;
Goodsir, 57.5, lunatic, 59.5; AbeTcrom-
bic, 63, lunatic, 60.5; Cuvier, 6i, luIa-
tic, 81. 1t must, of course be remem-
bered that lunacy is no indication of a
want of intellectual capacity, and also
that the size of the body should be taken
into consideration in all comparisons
instituted between brains. This last
circumstance is not alluded TO by DIR.
Lawson, although the advocates of
woman's rights forced attention to it
by their efforts to account for forty-four
ounces being the average for the female
brain. This is subject of great sci
entific interest; but in all Investigations
great care should be taken to carefully
discriminate between mental weakness
and the destruction of mental equilib-
RUM.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
Tips and Walls.

Times are altered since those early
days of Capt. Gronow, when he relates,
''if one dined at any of the great houses
in London, it was considered absolutely
necessary TO give guinea to the butler
on leaving the house." Yet this "yery
bad habit" as the gallant officer pro-
nounces it, could boast long continu-
ance-a distant origin. a century and
half before, Pope had decided that he
could not afford to dine with the Duke
of Montague, finding that each dinner
involved the disbursement of five
guineas TO the servants of Montague
House. Subsequently the Duke accom-
panied his invitation to the poet with an
order for the amonnt i'm question. This
was his Grace's way of avoiding Offense
to his servants and the breach of an old
custom, the while he secured the pleasure
of his friends society, which, to so rich
a nObleman, was surely cheap at five
guiDeas. In the World of the 26th Feb
ruary, 175i-the World being the publi-
cation famous for the contributions it
received from the great Lord Chester
field-a correspondent discusses the alb
surdity of giving walls to servants, and
the Inconvenience arising from that
perverted form of benevolence. Ii is
charged against a certain noble Lord
that, by his connivance at the custom of
bestowing gifts upon his servants, he,
in truth, compelled his guests to pay for
the entertainment afforded them at his
table; indeed, il is almost hinted that
his hospitality had thus been turned into
a source of profit. The attendants are
described as very numerous, and their
exertions are done full justice to. ''They
get about you, are very diligent, fetch
you whatever you call for, and retire
with the tablecloth." But the departure
of the guests is the signal for the de-
mands of the servants. He is then made
sensible of the responsibilities he has
incurred. "They are drawn into two
lines, right and left, and make lane
which you are to pass through before
you can get to the door. You are now
required to take out your money and
apply it first on your right hand, then
on your left, then on your right, and
then on your left again, till you find
yourself in the street" Meantime the
situation of the master of the house is
described as particularly ridiculous. HE
attends you to the door with great cere-
mony; but he is so conscious of the
awkward appearance he must make as
witness to the expenses of his guests,
that you can observe him placing him
self in a position that he would have it
supposed conceals him from the inhospi-
table transactions that are going ON
under his roof. He wears the silly look.
of an innocent man who has unfOrtun-
ately broken in upon the retirement of
two lovers, and is ready to affirm with
great simplicity that he has seen moth
ing. All the Year Round.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
View. OF the Man I'm the Noon.

A writer i'm the British Quarterly in
dulges in a glowing description of the
appearance of our earth to an inhabi-
taat cf the moon; but, according to the
inculcations of science, the imam i'm the
mOon'' is creature of the Imagination.
We cannot conceive how it would be
possible for a human being to exist
without air or water. He says; AT
last, however, night sets in. Gradually
it CONES, after the sun has gathered up
his smn"Ng beams and gone down to
rest. All at once We are plunged into
comparative obscurity, for again there
is no twilight to stay the steps of the
departing day. But looking into the
sky, we behold a vast orb, which pours
down a milder and more beneficent
splendor than the great lord of the
system. 1t is such moon as We ter
restrials cannot boast, for il is not less
than thirteen times as large and lumi-
nous as our own. There it hangs in
the armament without apparent change
of place, as if ''fiXed in its everlasting
seat" But not without change of sur
face. For this great globe is painted
panorama, and turning round majesu-
cally on its axis, presents oceans and
Europe and Africa, locking the Medi-
terranean i'm their embrace, roll away
to the right, the stormy Atlantic offers
its waters to view. and then the two
Americas, with their huge forests and
vast prairies, pass under inspection.
Then the great basin of the Pacific, lit
up with island fires, meets the gazer's
eve, and as this glides over the scene
the eastern rim of Asia and the upper
portion of Australia sail into sight.
The Indian ocean, and afterwards the
Arabian sea, spread themselves out in
their subdued splendor, and thus in
four-and-twenty hours the great rotun-
dity we tread turns its pictured coun-
tenance to the moon and grandly re-
pays the listening lunarians by repeat
ing to the best of its ability the story of
its birth. Nor is the sky less marvel
lous i'm another respect. For the alb
sence of any atmospheric diffusion of
| light permits the consultations to shine
out with distinctness which is never
parallelled on earth. They glitter like
diamond points set in armament of
ebony. Stars and clusters which we
never see with the naked eye flock into
view and crowd the lunar heavens.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
Advice to Girls

Somebody give the following advice
TO girls. 1t is worth volumes of fiction
and sentimentalism: Men who are
worth having want women for wives.
n bundle of gew-gaws bounded with Il
string of flaps and quavers, sprinkled
with cologne and set in a carmine sau-
cer-this Is no help for man who eX-
poets to raise a family of boys on bread
and meat. The piano and lace fabrics
are good in their places, and so are the
frills and tinsels; but you cannot make
a dinner out of the former, nor a bed
blanket of the latter; and awful as such
an idea may seem to you, both the din
ner and the bed-blankets are necessary
to domestic happiness. Life has its re-
alities as well as faneies, but you make
1t all decoration, remembering the tas-
sells and curtains, but forgetting the
bedstead. Suppose man of good sense
and good prospects to be looking for a
wife, what chance would You have to
be chosen? You may catch him, or you
may trip him, but how much better to
make it an object for him to catch you.
Render yourself worth catching, and
you will not need shrewd mother to
help you find a market.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

The Atmosphere and SOuad.-PrOfes-
sOr Osborne Reynolds read a paper on
the refractiOn of sound by the atmOs-
phere, and related the effect of expert
ments which he had recently made,
with a view of throwing light on the
subject. He had confirmed his hypOth-
esis that, when sound proceeded in a
direction contrary to that of the wind,
it was not destroyed or stopped by the
wind, but that it was lifted, and that
at sufficiently high elevations it could
be heard at as great distances as mother
directions, or as when there was no
wind. An upward diminutiOn of tenn
perature had been proved by NJ. Glai-
sher's balloon ascents and he showed,
by experiments with the sounds of fir
ing of rockets and guns. that the mp
ward variation of temperature had a
great effect on the distance at which
sounds could be heard. By other OBJ
servatiOHs he found that, when the sky
was cloudy and there was no dew, the
sound could invariably be heard much
farther with than against the wind I;
but that, when the sky was clear and
there was a heavy dew, the sound
could be heard as far against a light
wind as with it. Professor Everett re-
marked that Professor Reynolds had
given the most important contribution
to the subject that had been given for
very many years.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
Women Poets Of England.

Leaving the specialists. it is obserya-
bic that the voices of the female poets.
If not the best-trained, certainly are as
natural and independent as any. Their
utterance is less finished, but also shows
less of Tennyson's influence, and seems
to express truly feminine emotion,
and to come from the heart. As the
voice of Mrs. Browning grew silent.
the songs of Jean Ingelow began, and
had instant and merited popularity.
They sprung up suddenly and tune
fully as skylarks from the daisy-span-
gled, awthorn-bordered meadows of
old England, with a blitheness long un-
known, and in their idyllie underilights
moved with the tenderest currents of
human life. Miss Ingelow may be
termed an idyllic lyrist, her lyrical
pieces having always much idyllic
beauty, and being more original than
her recent ambitious efforts i'm blank
verse. Her faults are those common to
her sex-too rapid composition, and a
liffuseness that already has lessened
her reputation. But 1.-The High Tide
on the Coast of Lincolnshire" with its
quaint and true sixteenth century dia-
lect), "Winstanley," "Songs of Seven"
and ''The Long White Seam," are lyri-
cal treasures, and their author espe-
cially may be said TO evince that SINGER
ity which is poetry's most enduring war
rant. The gentle stanzas of Adelaide
Anne Proctor also are spontaneous, as
far as they go, but have had less signifi-
canoe as part of the literature of the
time. Yet it is like telling ones beads,
or reading a prayer-book, TO turn over
her pages,-so beautiful, so pure and
unselfish spirit Of faith, hope and
charity, pervades and hallows them.
These women, with their melodious
voices, spotless hearts, and holy aspira-
tions, are priestesses of the oracle.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
BRIGHTEST EYES.
fRoN TEE GERMax OF HEINE.

OF diamonds SO bright and pearls 90 clear,
Hast thou shining store;
And ewes hast thou. so bright, 90 black,
poets heart have they won Alsck.
Nv darling, what would st thou more?
Those eyes so bright, their hue, their light
Have been the theme Of ditties score,
And beyond the reach Of death or time,
Embalmed lie they in my rhyme
Ny darling, what would'st thou more?
The proud disdain Of those eyes so bright
Has troubled thy lovers heart sore;
To deep despair reduced your bard
And his happy plumbers sadly msrr'd-
Now, darling, what would st thou more!
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
Child Education.

Let parents not lament because their
children do not exhibit uncommon
powers of mind in early life, or because.
compared with some other children,
they are deficient in knowledge derived
from books. Let them rather rejoice if
their children reach the age of six or
seven with well-formed bodies, good
health, and no vicious tendencies,
though they be at the same time ignor-
ant of every letter of the alphabet. II
they are in this condition, it is not to be
inferred that their minds are inferior to
those of children who have been con-
stantly instructed. 1t is great mis-
take to suppose that children acquire no
knowledge while engaged in voluntary
play and amusement.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

THE New Orleans Times Unexpectedly
observes that whisky is always kicking
up rumpus somewhere. Sometimes
it nestles in the hat of man rs jolly
brick, sometimes i'm the boots of a man
as Kissing serpent, and anon it wraps
the pavement around the weary traveller,
and induces him TO believe the flags Il
patchwork quilt, stone sill a bolster,
the street lamp bedpost, and the gutter
a babbling brook. 1t is worse than
Banquo's ghost, yet unlike that classic
brook, it will ''down" at any mans
bidding.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

HOUSEHOLD HINTs.-The best method
of easing a cough is to resist it with all
the force of will possible. until the ac-
cumulation of phlegm becomes greater !;
then there is something to cough agains,,
and it comes up very much easier and
with half the coughing. A great deal
of hacking and hemming and coughing
in invalids is purely nervous, or the re-
suit of mere habit, as is shown by the
frequency with which it occurs while
the patient is thinking about it, and its
comparative rarity when he is so much
engaged that there is no time to think,
or when the attention is impelled in an
other direction.
To make a good servant let the mis-
tress of the house take two pounds of
the very best self-control, pound and a
half Of patience, pound and half of
justice, a pound of consideration, and a
pound of discipline. Let this be sweet
ened with charity, let this simmer well.
and let it be taken i'm daily or dn ex-
treme cases. i'm hourly doses, and be
kept always on hand. Then the domestic
wheel will run quite smoothly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
Ancient Oaks.

The AHtiquary, an English paper, de.
scribes an oak felled at Newport 2slS
feet in circumference; the timber sold
for So, $50, and the bark for 81 900. The
Parliament oak in Chepstow Park il
supposed to be l 800 years old. Edward
l. held Parliament beneath its bOughs,
The ''Duke's Walking Stick" at welby
Abbey, is an oak l12 feet high. The
Greendale oak has spread of 200 square
yards, and a carriage drive is made
through its partly decayed trunk. The
largest oak in the world is supposed to
exist at Calthorpe, in Yorkshire; its
trunk is IS feet in circumference.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

SHE stepped into the ear radiant with
youth, and looking cool and bright in
her fiOwer-trimmed hat and her speck-
less suit of linen. FOdr young men
Immediately offered her their seats; she
accepted one with an enhancing smile
and instantly gave it to a poor, wan,
little old woman, who had been stand
ing for ten blocks. Whereupon the
young men did not know whether In
get up again or not, and tried their best
not to look foolish.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

PEOPLE who are afflicted with mos
quitOes will be pleased to know that
the buzzing wherewith the diligent in
sect enliyens the night is the way i'm
which he c"lls his mate. He does not
make this noise in sheer malice, but he
sings to his sweetheart, and these curl
Gus creatures listeL to each other with
their feelers. The antelne vibrate to
different notes, ard 80 the delicate crea-
lures commune with each other in the
darkness,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

THIS is the way it occurs: eyes, sir, +"
said gentlemanly looking man in
panic will have to come; no preventing
it. You see that man just going away ?
Well, he has a bill against me, and he
says if 1 will pay him that he can pay
some one else; or, in other words, that
if each man will pay what he owes, the
others can pay, and that thus under the
rules of political economy, the thing
will travel around i'm a circle. But he
didn't calculate that the thing must have
g bottom or the circle will break. You
see 1 owe him, but the trouble is that
nobody owes me, and that breaks the
circle, and the broken circle makes a
panic. / am the starter" And he took
Il peanut and departed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27

The True Test Of Fegetdbles.-Large
vegetables may indicate good strong
soil, thorough culture and high manur-
ing, but it is a question i'm my mind
whether the mammoth things should
always receive the first award. At the
table where we give the true test to
vegetables size does not rank as very
important attribute. L was astounded
TO see so little tasting and examination
of texture by the committee that judged
the vegetables. No man is thoroughly
capable of passing upon the relative
merits of specimens in this class unless
he can 90 more than skin deep in the
matter. l never saw so perfect an ex-
hibitiOn of garden products as was
shown at the State Fair. There was
earnest and close competition. Still in
the awarding of prizes saw no judg-
ing of quality by taste, which is the
true test. The prizes may be awarded
correctly, but not as the result of care
full comparison of quality. A man may
know vegetables so well as to judge
from the constant surface attributes
that accompany first quality, but have
failed to meet the man yet who consid-
ers himself so skillful as this. The
judges of apples would consider it ab-
surd to pass upon the value of an apple
by its size and complexion alone. Is it
not equally unjust to pass upon beets,
potatoes and turnips in this way? The
quality of these vegetables is just as ap-
parent to the connoisseur i'm its raw state
as that of an apple. 1 do hope there
will be progress in this matter, and that
men who judge will have a solid founda-
tion for their decisions.