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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
Gloves.

These products of mans industry,
skill and patience are first spoken of by
Homer, who alludes to their being worn
by Laertes for protection to his hands.
Nenophon also mentions them as being
worn by the effeminate Persians as early
as $50 B. c.
From which we infer that even at so
early period they were considered ar
ticles both of luxury and use, as with
us at the present time. In the Middle
Ages gloves were sometimes articles of
great value, being profusely embroidered
with gold thread and ornamented with
jewels. The hawking glove had usually
golden bells or heavy tassels for orna-
ments. Many curious customs have
been associated with this article of dress.
Giving a glove as pledge was con-
sidered as binding as a bond. From
this custom was derived that of chal-
lenging by throwing down the gauntlet.
Entering the stables of Prince or
great man without removing your
gloves or neglecting to remove them at
the death of stag in the hunting field,
were both punished by forfeiture of the
gloves TO the grooms or huntsmen. 1t
is still customary among some sects to
give pftcculc dl VI SlONtc W
pallbearers and officiating clergyman.
There is an old law in Massachusetts,
that forbade this under a fine of f20, as
it was considered a waste OF substance
In the days of the Borgias gloves were
made the vehicle of deadliest poisons,
and the Inquisition had few more dread
full tortures than that of the Iron glove
Few of our readers have any idea of
the magnitude to which the manufac-
ture of gloves is carried. 1t is fair to
estimate that fully 100000 pairs of
kid or leather gloves are annually i'm
ported into this country. The manu-
facture of fine kid gloves outside of
France seems to be an impossibility.
Germany, Switzerland and Italy manu-
facture large quantities of so-called kid
gloves, but in reality they are made from
lamb skins and not from kids. They
are fully as soft and as flexible as the
kid skins, but not rs smooth-grained, as
strong or as elastic, neither do they re-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
Companfons for Life.

When does adaughter appear so attrac-
tive as when showing her love to father
or mOther-as when employed in light
ening their cares or relieving their
burdens? 1t would not be far from
wrong to say to young man who is
looking with some degree Of interest for
a life companion Would you know
what kind of wife she will make upon
whom now you have your eye? Ask
what kind of daughter she is now. Ii
she is indolently selfish, leaving care
and work to her mother-especially If
she is unloving or undutiful-beware OF
her-she is not likely to make you happy.
If she is an affectionate and self-denying
if she is intimate and conf
Dental with her parents, you have in
that the best promise of happiness in the
future. The eye of mother or father
beaming with delight as it rests upon
form, moving lightly in their
presence, is an unspoken recommended
ton of untold value.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
About Bananas.

Few people who see bananas hanging
in fruit stores think of them as more
than a tropical luxury. In fact they
are a staple article of food i'm some parts
of the world, and, according to Hum
boldt, an acre in bananas will produce
as much food for man as twenty-five
acres of wheat. 1t is the. ease with
which bananas are grown which is the
great obstacle to civilization i'm some
tropical countries. 1t is so easy to get u
living without work that no effort will
ever be made, and the men become lazy
and intolerably shiftless. All that is
needed is to stick a cutting in the
ground. 1t will ripen its fruit in twelve
TO thirteen months, without further
care, each plant having IS to 125
bananas and when that dies down after
fruiting, new shoots spring up to take
its place. In regions where no frost
ever reaches, bananas are found in all
stages of growth, ripening their fruit
every month and every day i'm the year.
Col. Whitner, near Silver Lake, Florida,
has probably the largest banana planta-
ton in the United States, containing
fully ten thousand plants in bearing.
Some of these are large trees, which do
not die after bearing their fruit, but the
majority are of the dwarf species, which
are renewed every year. Slips are
planted about eight feet apart and ra-
pidly push up leaves disclosing six or
eight bananas behind this protection.
Some plants will have sixteen or twenty
leaves and branches of fruit. bending
over as it ripens, forming a beautiful
sight. The culture of bananas is very
profitable, and with the unlimited capa-
city of Florida and the West India
islands for producing it, there should
always be supply equal to any possi-
BILE demand.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

tain their shape as well, but soon stretch
out, and the glove becomes broad and
short The undressed kid glove, or, as
they are called, "Gdnfs ds Suede" are
just now the most fashionable hand
dressing, both for street and party wear.
The light opera shades are exceedingly
beautiful, and were worn in Paris last
winter to the almost total exclusion of
the dressed or finished kid gloves.
1t would take too much space to de-
scribe the various processes a skin is
subjected to from the time it leaves the
back of the kid until it appears on the
fair hands of the wearers. Suffice it to
state that the skin with the hair on
passes through some two hundred and
thirty hands before it is finished glove.
1t is estimated that the sewing of pair
Of ladies' gloves comprises $500 stitches.
One factory in France consumes in the
process of dressing and dyeing kid skins
the yolks of thousand eggs per month.
England excels in the manufacture of
mems driving and walking gloves, of
thread, cloth, dogskin, calf, and cape
leather. Germany also manufactures
vast quantities of cheap thread and
tioth 6hONCcs Ii tuC OniO CtdlCc Tic
manufacture is limited. Gloverville, New
York, is the principal place where they
are made. Buckskin, stout winter and
driving gloves are the chief products.
These gloves are cut out with knives,
shaped like an outstretched hand; the
backs and fronts are cut separately, then
the thumb pieces, cores and finger sides,
care being taken that each pair of gloves
are cut from the same skin or one pre-
cisely like 1t, so that each glove is of the
same thickness. They are then put in
packs of twelve each, and distributed
among the farmers daughters for miles
around to sew, comparatively few being
sewn in the factories.
The girls use little affair like a wise
that holds part Of the glove to be sewn,
and has little hicks or notches to guide
the length of stitches. So expert the girls
become that they can almost work as
well in the dark on straight seams.
Putting in the thumbs and CORES requires
more care, and on fine work is reserved
for special hands.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
Portuguese Etiquette.

A writer on the Portuguese says
The punctiliousness and formality of
their social converse exceed even those
of the Castilian. In Spain a man may
safely use the title listed (your Worship
in addressing every rank and class short
of royalty itself. Not so i'm Portugal.
He shows his ignorance and makes HIM
self simply ridiculous if he fails to dis
tinguish at least six different classes
with their different forms of address.
A little beggar-boy he will speak to i'm
patiently or charitably, as the case may
be, but always in the second person
singular-''Vai tie embora" ego thy way
or ''Pega n istO dake this.) If the
same boy has grown to years of discre-
ton, more ceremony must be employed
in bestowing or refusing aims: "Nao
pode ser" (itcannot be, ava com Deus"
(pray 60 off)-in the third person be it
observed. A wOrking-man takes rank
with our magistrates at home, and is
literally ''his worship" A tradesman
is ''The lord'' % senhor), or "Your
lOrdship"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
ssCats."

Under the general appellation of seat"
are classed, commercially, the lynx, the
wildcat, and4 shudder as 1 write it
the ''harmless, necessary" house-cat. l
freely confess that / have little or no
compassion for the lynx, who, if his
eyes are as sharp as they are said to be,
ought to be able to take care of himself; ;
nor am inclined to bewail the fate of a
hecatomb of wildcats. Bat, poor pussy !!
She is here i'm hundreds and thousands,
black, white, tabby, and tortoise-shell.
That huge pile of rugs is made entirely
of cat-skins. In each rug lie imbedded,
like fossil specimens, the beautiful tabby
or tortoise-shell backs of a dozen pets.
1 wonder who the people are who buy
these rugs-whether they keep a cat
themselves, and how that sagacious
animal looks when one of these dreadful
rugs is brought into the house.-AH the
Year Round.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
Ka0Ps af Noea1.

The Kaf1irs, in their free unciv1lI~o%f
state. are q most interesting peOp!c, "
0uick intelligence, very honest, ssIalsm
forwsrd and truthful. Indeed. 80 great
il their honesty, that ii kamt sSI-
want leaves one, as they constantly uo:
for the sake of holiday, the best WAY u
insurinQ his return to ones service ~
tn lend him some money. ana ne vii
he nn;te certain to come back and work
ont the worth of it. Kaffirs cannot oe
said tO he hard working or industrious ];
they have the sleepy, lazy way OF go'nk
ahcuf any business they may nave IN
hand that ia, perhaps, peculiar 10 IN
habitants of hot countries, though tney
are capable of enduring great fatigue,
and. If pressed. will travel great
many miles in the day with next 10
nothing to eat. They are merry, happy
creatures. always singing and iaughine'
seldom afflicted with low spirits, ex-
cepting when they get home-sick, wnicn
they describe as q choking SENSATION IN
their throat when that symptom SHOWS
itself nothing will do but they must ee
off to their kraals. They VIII stay IN
service tor three, SIX, or even Twelve
months sometimes, before they ieeI
that irresistible longing to return 10
IQclT DcODtc. n hoAAiA CO. AAS
TO thirty shillings month according
TO his age and worth, which money he
slows away in a little leathern bag to
buy cows, and with the cows he buys
wives, and the more cows the more
wives. Ii often takes a kaffir several
wears to earn enough to buy q wife,
and he saves all his money for the pur-
pose, scarcely spending penny for
himself. do not know the number OF
cows the father of a girl expects from
the man who would marry her; but !
think it varies according to the social
standing of the papa, chiefs daughters,
of course, costing great deal more
than an ordinary Kafiir's, The kraals
are composed of number of small
round huts, exactly like bee hives, with
a small hole for q door. that are built
in a ring with an open space in the
middle, and the huts and ground round
them are pictures of cleanliness and
neatness. Large families. sometimes
two and even three generations, inhablt
them, all agreeing and living happily
together, in way that would be a good
lesson to some Observation-Disclosures
persons, who have had the advantages
of civilization and Christianity to teach
them better.-Frdser Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
The women or Nantucket.

The Hon. George S. Hilliard, writing
from Nantucket, says:
DECAY and decline press more heavily
upon women than men. Men can 90
wherever the spirit of enterprise, or the
necessity of gaining living, may call
them. But women, as a general rule,
are debarred this privilege Of thrusting
their sickle into the golden harvest Of
opportunity. in whatever region they
may wave. Nantucket is no exception
TO this general rule. There are more
women than men here, and their supe-
riority is more than numerical. 1t
is melancholy to think how many wo-
men are here, well educated, attractive
in person and manners, of fine moral
sense, capable of self-sacrifice, that
could warm poor mans home or grace
a rich mans mansion, who must pass
their lives ungathered on the virgin
thorn. 1t is idle to say that they accept
their lots with cheerfulness and content.
have no doubt they do. 1t is rather
for the husband whom they miss that /
speak, than for themselves. Every true
hearted woman must wish, or ought to
wish, to be a wife and mother. If she
fails of this she misses in some sort her
destiny. The life of a woman may be
useful and happy without marriage,
yet, still, marriage affords larger oppor-
tunities for the growth of virtues of the
heart and gifts of the mind than an un-
married state. In my heart of hearts i
honor and reverence the women who
accept their solitary lot with cheerful
ness. l think every man who has had
as long an experience of life as l have,
will agree with Inc in thinking that
women who do not marry are often led
to decline marriage because they have
more depth of sensibility, a more exact
ing moral sense, a more fastidiOus taste
than their sisters who do. Still, / can
not but lament that with the progress
of civilization, the increase of luxury
and the multiplication of artificial wants,
the number of those who do not marry
is rather enlarged.
''But am getting out of my depth.
/ am discussing one of the problems of
human life and destiny instead of writ
ing about Nantucket. The Vicar of
Wakefield writes that he chose his wife
for the same qualities for which he
chose her wedding-gown-not for its
glossy surface, but because it would
wear well; to all young men who are
of the same mind as good Mr.. Primrose,
L would recommend visit to Nantucket
before final choice. They will find
here women who, in all the changes
and chances of life, will be help-mates.
They have been reared in that middle
station in life, equally removed from
both poverty and wealth, which is on
the whole the best soil for the growth
of human virtues. They are not too
fine for use; they will supply the fur
niture of life as well as its garniture.
And il may be pertinent to mention,
for the benefit of young men of mOder-
ate fortunes, that have the word of a
lady Of experience and authority that
certain domestic arts, which elsewhere
are growing obsolete are here still -four
ishing, and that the young women of
Nantucket are good housewives, neat
handed cooks and dexterous needle
women"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Rev. DIR. Osgood says: "Strictly
speaking, health is a part of the higher
culture, for body and mind are practi-
cally inseparable, and we know nothing
of the sound mind apart from sound
blood and brain. am willing, for the
present purpose, to take Herbert Spen-
GERS definition of life as the basis, and
to allow that life is the continuous ad-
justment of internal relations to external
relations, if by external relations we
comprehend those which are social and
religious as well as those which are
physical. If life is the continuous ad-
justment of internal relations to external
relations, then healthy life is such ad-
justment truly and fully carried out,
and he is the healthy man who lives in
true relations with nature, man and
God"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
OUT OF REACH.
We two wandered By the bay

We two wandered By the bay
Ny sweetheart and L
Quietly the water lay,
Quiet Wa the sky.
And my darling stood and eazea.
With her fair face upward raised
"would the starr might be
Nearer earth :" said she
Tell me, tell me. o my love,
Why are stars 90 far above?"
On the shore We found boat:
Come, sweetheart" said I.
''O'er the water let us floet.
There the stars are nigh"
So she leaned her DER the side,
Gazing down into the tide:
Would the stars might be
Nearer earth !" said she
Tell me, true love, il you know,
Why are etars 20 far below"
Temple Bar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

$4,000 REWARD can safely be offered
for more infallible cure for PILES than
ANAKESIS. The cures performed by
this wonderful remedy are simply mi
raculous. Lotions, Ointments and in
ternal remedies produce more harm
than good, but ANAKESIS is an exter-
nal remedy, simple suppOsitOry, sup
ports the tumOrs, acts as a soothing
pOultice and medicine, gives instant
relief and cures absolutely. All Doc
tors prescribe ANAkESlS. Price 81.
Sent free by mail on receipt of price,
T. Neustadter & Co., 46 Walker St.,
New York. 2
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

The passions are at once tempters and
chastisers. As tempters, they come with
garlands of flowers on the brOws of
youth; as chastisers, they appear with
wreaths of snakes on the forehead of
deformity. They are angels of light in
their delusion; they are fiends of tor
ment in their infections.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

A ner lighting apparatus has been
invented in Germany, the advantage
of which appears to be that it can be
affixed to all gas jets, and is made to
act not by any special mechanism, but
simply by the increased pressure of the
gas, which is always laid on from the
gasOmeter when the lamps should be
lighted. The act of turning on the
gas at the main ignites it at all the bur-
ners fitted with this apparatus. Another
feature of this invention is the arrange
ment by which, when the pressure is
diminished at the main, the gas can
either be totally extinguished or let
down to thread. By the use of this
apparatus, so soon as the gas is turned
on, a whole city may be simultaneously
illuminated; and when, in the early
morning, the pressure is reduced, the
light may be completely extinguished
or gradually diminished, as necessity
may require.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

There is no action of man i'm this life
which is not the beginning of so long a
chain of consequences that no human
providence is high enough to give us
prospect to the end.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Fill small vessel of earthenware
with perfectly dry saltpetre or nitre,
press down q cavity into its surface,
and then. in this cavity, place a piece
of phosphorus ignite this, and the
heat given of, melts q sufficient guam
tity of the nitre to evolve oxygen
enough to combine with the phosph0-
rus, and the effect is to produce the
most magnificent white light.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

The Gas Gun for Fog Signals.-A
very ingenious application has been
made by Mr.. Wigham of the explosive
nature of a mixture of ordinary gas in
air. He establishes, at any. point on
the coast where fog signal is desired,
a gas gun. 1t is simply tube of iron,
connected with the gas-hOlder by the
proper pipe the latter, of course, may
be at any convenient distance. The
holder is filed with q mixture of
one-fOurth air, and the remainder coal
gas and oxygen, and this mixture is al
lowed to flow into the gas gun, when
it may be fred off by touching a match
to the proper Orifice. taking care, of
course, to close all communication with
the holder. By using an electric spark
instead of the match, the service of
the gun NAV be made still easier. The
fash from this gun is said to illuminate
the fog much better than that from a
discharge of gun-pOwder.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Do not kill the toads. In Paris, they
are sold at fifty cents dozen, in order
to protect the vineyards and gardens
from insects. A toad will swallow the
biggest kind of tomato worm.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Cookies for Chiicren.-As an inquiry
was made for receipt for cookies for
children. send you the following:
Nine cups of flour; 5 of sugar; three of
shortening; tablespoonful of soda
dissolved in a little water. Mix -four,
and sugar fine; mix with
water sufficient to knead. They i'm
prove by keeping.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Paint skins, boiled with linseed oil.
and having, while hot, quantity of
sand and lime stirred in until the re-
quisite thickness is obtained. make o
durable cement for leaky roofs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Sleeplessness at night is often remedied
by applying friction to all parts of the
body and limbs. To accomplish it, take
a crash towel, and give it a lively
mott melton in rubbing downward from the
lively circulation, rubbing hardest upon
the hand may be used for the purpose.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

The Danger Of Wet Coal-People
who prefer wetting the winters store
of coal to lay the dust on putting it IN
to their cellars do not generally know
that they are laying up fOr themselves
a store of sore throats and other evils
consequent upon the practice. But so it
is said to be. Even the fire. damp which
escapes from coal mines arises from the
slow decomposition of coal at temper
ature but little eabOve that of the atmOs-
phere, but under augmented pressure.
By wetting mass of freshly broken
coal and putting it in warm cellar the
mass is heated to such a degree that
carbureted and sulphureted hydrogen
are given off for long periods of time,
and pervade the whole house. The Ii
ability of wet coal to mischievOus re-
suits under such circumstances may be
appreciated from the circumstance that
there are several instances on record
of spontaneous combustion of wet coal
when slowed in the bunkers or holds
of vessels. And from this cause, doubt
less, many issing coal vessels have
perished.IGLOndOn Medical Record.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Why is large joint of meat like an
omnibus fEBecause 1t accommodates
from twelve to eighteen insides
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Cabbage Sdlad.-Shave a hard white
cabbage into small white strips; take
the yOlks of three well-beaten eggs, a
cup and half of good cider vinegar,
two teaspOOnfuls of white sugar, three
tablespOOnfuls of thick cream, one tea
spoonful of mustard mixed in a little
boiling water; salt and pepper to taste.
Mix all but the eggs together, and let
it boil; then stir in the eggs rapidly !;
stir the cabbage into the mixture, and
str well. Make enough for two DAYS
at once, as it keeps perfectly and is an
excellent relish to all kinds of meat.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20

Tello,c stains commonly called iron
mold are removed from linen by hydro
chloric acid or hot solution of oxalic
acid. Wash well in warm water after
wards.