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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

HINrs.-One ounce alcohol two
drachms cayenne pepper; one ounce
kerosene oil let it stand twenty-four
hours after mixing. 1t cures the worst
toothache ever known.
Kerosene oil is good for removing
rust from cutlery.
Soft-soap should be kept in a dry
place in a cellar, and should not be
used for three months after it is made.
Lard should be kept hard and white ;
and that which is taken from hog over
a year old is best.
To select nutmegs prick them with q
pin; if they are good, the oil will in
stantly spread around the puncture.
When keg of molasses is bought,
draw of a few quarts, else the fermen-
tation produced by moving it will burst
the cask.
Two small arteries branching mp from
the main arteries on each side of the
neck, and passing over the outside of
the jawbone, supply the face with blood.
LII the nose bleeds from the right
nostril, for example. pass the finger
along the edge of the right jaw till the
beating of the artery is felt. Press
hard upon it five minutes and the
bleeding will cease.
The best way to enjoy things is to
use them, and thus get the worth of
our money out of them. There is no
sense in gorgeous parlors kept in
darkness.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

COUNSELLOR RUDD. of the Irish bar,
was equally remarkable for bis love of
whist and the dingy color of his linen.
Ny dear Dick, said Curran to him one
day, you can't think how puzzled we
are to know where you buy all your
dirty shirts.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

TAKING PIcrUREs. Somebody has
found out new way of taking pictures,
by which they can he taken better in
the night than in the daytime. A pho
togrspher has missed several frames
that hung by his door, and doesn't
approve of the plan.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

"BUsTED ~ exclaimed a bewildered
darkey; ''you don't gwine tole me dat
Freedmsn's bank busted ?"
"Yes, it's gone up"
''Done clear gone ?"
"Yes."
Evidently the old man couldn't un-
derstand it. He mused deeply and
sadly. and with a last, sorrowful look
into the open but vacant room, turned
away. muttering as he went:
Oats what always made me 'spise a
bank"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

IMITATION GoLD.-An alloy having a
very fine and msllesble grain, suscepti-
BILE to high polish and impervious to
rust (Which, while closely resembling
gold, may advantageously replace that
metal in a variety of cases), Is made of
100 parts pure copper, II parts tin, 6
parts magnesia, Sc parts sal ammonisc,
Is parts quick lime, and 9 parts bitra-
trAte of potassa. The copper is melted
first, and the magnesia. ammonia, lime,
and tartrste are successfully added in
small quantities. The tin in small
pieces Is then placed in the crucible,
and the whole brought to fusion for 80
minutes, after which the alloy is allowed
to cool.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

DRAMATIC scene at the reading of a
will. A rich dame who recently died
at an advanced age at Fontainebleau,
left will containing, among others. q
bequest to her physician of all the OBJ
jects contained in an olden oak chest of
her cabinet de toilette. for "his enlight-
ened care and the sage instructions"
which had enabled her to live to such
an advanced age. There was great
commotion among the heirs when this
clause in the will was read, and greater
curiosity to know what treasures had
escaped them. The notary handed the
key TO the doctor, who on opening the
chest found all the drugs and potions
that he had ordered for his patient
during the past twenty years.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

The deepest musical wave note that
can be heard by the human ear is pro-
duced by regular successive impulses
of sixteen times a second, while the
highest note which is susceptible to the
ear is four thousand times a second,
hence the range extends over eleven
octaves. The human eye can perceive
the difference between the red and vio-
let rays. The waves of the former are
lao. 000th part of an inch apart, and of
the latter l &c, O00th of an inch long
about one octave. Hence the ear is
eleven times keener than the eye
Roscoe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

A GENTLEMAN was surprised during
the late frosty weather, to see his little
daughter bring home from the Sunday
school grave treatise on "Backsliding "
my child, said he, "this is too old
for you; you can't make any thing of
it." 81 know it. papa: L thought it
would teach ne how to slide backward. F"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

the outside, and you will slwav, h.
get the genuine article. ~ sure to
Sold BY all Druggists and dealer.
where. every
TApEwoRx REMOVED ALIvE.-Hs.d
all complete, in two hours. No fee Tin ana ana
passes. Seat, Pin and Stomach Worma aeaa -
moved by DR.. KUSKEL, 259 NoRru N, re
STREET. Advice free. Come, see over ~ Soa =
specimens and be convinced. He ~. N
fails. Ae'es
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

How TO DRY OFF Cows.-The qnick-
est and best way of drying off COW SO
that she may Immediately fatten. is to
feed her four or five quarts of dry corn
meal daily, and all the dry wheat straw
she will eat. Two weeks ef this diet,
milking so as not to let the udder be in
iured by over detension, dried off an
Ayreshire COW that could not be dried
off the ordinary way.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

Why is railroad conductor like a
systematic drinker? Because he takes
his punch at stated intervals.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

THE obituary notice of a much re-
spected lady concludes with-''In her
life she was a pattern worthy to be
followed and her death-oh, how con-
soling to her friends"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

A FINE SoUTHDowN RAM.-The value
of the Southdown sheep in America for
the purpose of crossing upon and i'm
proving'our common sheep, is probs-
bly, greater than for the purpose of per-
petuating the pure race. There are
few focks of Southdowns that are kept
up to high standard without renewed
importations, but there are many cases
in which our common sheep have been
materially improved by admizture with
this blood. Again, the Southdown is
the basis. from which in England several
cross bred races of sheep have originally
sprung, and these races have been since
interbred, until constant type has pre-
vailed, and a permanent breed been
secured. Such is the origin of the
Shropshire sheep, which is one of the
most hardy and profitable race in Eng
land. The Hampshire and Oxford
Downs are also indebted to the South
downs for some of their good qualities,
and in fact it is as an improver of other
races, rather than as a distinct race,
that the Southdown excels in this
country. We need to establish Ameri-
can breeds of sheep, and to stop i'm
porting with view to maintain the
standard of the English breeds. We
need to do with other sheep, what has
been done with the Merinos, establish
an American race that suits our
climate and other circumstances better
than any foreign race can. To do this
for mutton sheep, and for a certain
medium class of clothing wool, the
Southdown breed furnishes an admira-
bic groundwork.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

The young lady who thought she
could make her voice clear by straining
it, made great mistake.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

A LADY was asked the other day, why
she chose to live q single life. She
naively replied, Because I'm not able
to support husband.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

81 GUESS I'll take this book" re-
marked Chicago lady to the clerk OF
a book store 'it's got twice as much
gold leaf on the cover as any of the
rest .
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

WHEN Shakespeare wrote about pa
tience on a monument, did he refer to
doctors patients ?" NO" "How do
you know he didn't? because you
al ways find them under q monument. ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

So much snow has fallen this winter
in France has not been seen there be-
fore for twenty years. At some points
it is six feet deep on the roads.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

WHAT is the difference between a
belle and burglar ?-One carries false
locks and the other false keys.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

WHAT is the difference between a
plan of the battle field and q roasted
pippin ?-One is a war map, and the
other is q warm apple.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

If YoU want your boy to make mark
in the world give him q piece of chalk.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

Mrs. PARTINGToS thinks that the
grOcers ought to hire q music teacher
to teach them the scales correctly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

A REPORT on the paper manufacture
in Massachusetts gives the list of liz
different materials for making paper.
Among this list are enumerated aspara-
gus, beet-root, cabbage stumps, frog
spittle, hop vines, hornets nests, lily of
the valley, lesther-cuttings, mummy
cloth, sswdust, thistles, and willow
tvirs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24
pOIEsTIC.

HoxE MADE RUGS. There il in every
household q great quantity OF worsted
and flannel pieces that are Of small &C.
count, and can be of no service for
garments, but if saved it can be rendered
useful and beautiful in the manufacture
of hearth rugs, or mats to lay before
bureaus, sofas, or organs. Take q
piece of hemp sacking, and draw some
pretty design in the center-a bouquet
of flowers, q wreath, or some animal,
mark border with q chain or heralary
pattern; sew the canvas into q frame
like quilting frames, only smaller, so as
not 70 occupy too much room; have q
hook made like a crochet, hook or
needle one can be manufactured easily
by taking parasol brace and filing the
end into a proper form cut the strips
of cloth into strips of half an inch in
width-if thin fabric make it wider.
Pass the hook through the canvas with
the right hand, have the cloth under
meath the frame in the left hand, insert
a loop on the hook, and draw it to the
upper side about three-fourths of an
inch leave about two threads space
and close in another loop. Regard the
selection of colors, so as to shade them
nicely. and keep the form of your
pattern. 1t is very quiet, easy and
fascinating work work the figure first,
and then draw in the filling up, or
groundwork of some dark color-blsck,
brown, or drab. After it is completed,
shear the whole surface evenly but not
too close, and you have a fine, sub
stantial, durable rug, that will last a
life time, and do more service, and be
prettier than an imported article that
would cost anywhere from ten to thirty
dollars; and, best of all, it is home
made.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

VELOCITY OF CoMBUsTIoN.- Science
has disclosed the fact that in combus-
tion nothingis consumed or annihilated.
Combustion is molecular velocity.
Matter is not continuous. 1t may be
divided, yet there is an end to its di-
visibility. The ultimate particles are
called atoms. Atoms unite and form
molecules molecules unite with each
other and assume a certain physical
structure, in which they are never i'm
pact, but are held near each other by
virtue of their resultant force. In
creased temperature forces the mole
cules further apart, and when the
maximum distance is attained they fly
off and form new alliances. The energy
with which they fly, determines the
velocity of their combustion.
The molecular forces are e1erted in
different bodies, in different degrees,
consequently each elementary body
exerts a special velocity of combustion.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

GAIN IN CArrLE.-It takes eleven
pounds of milk to add one pound of
live weight to calf, and an OK that
weighs l 300 pounds will consume %
pounds of hay in "a hours to keep from
losing weight. If he is to fatten, he
must have just twice the quantity,
when he will gain two pounds q day.
This is one pound live weight to eleven
pounds good hay. To obtain so cents
a hundred for his hay, a farmer must
sell fat steers at $3.50 per hundred
pounds.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

OCcLUsIoN OF GASES BY IRON WIRE
In drawing certain numbers of iron
wire, it often becomes necessary, in
order to continue the use of the drawing
bench, to annesl the iron. This is done
in hermetically closed receptacle, so
as to avoid, as much as possible, the
oxidation of the metal. In spite of
this precaution, however, the latter be-
comes covered with an ochraceous film,
which it is necessary to remove by an
acidulated bath. 1t frequently hap
pens, however, that, subsequent to this
process, the metal becomes so brittle as
to render its further drawing impossi-
BILE. NJ. Seroz, engineer of the Societe
dss FOrges de La Frdnche Conlte, has
examined into this phenomenon, and
finds that the iron becomes charged
with condensed gas. On breaking the
wire under water in test tube, infiam-
mable bubbles were generated, which
detonated in the air. The exact nature
of the gas has not yet been decided,
nor that of its direct action upon the
metal but it is believed to be either
hydrogen or carbonic oxide.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

EIGHT pounds of oxygen gas and one
pound Of hydrogen are combined in
nine pounds of water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

"WHAr are you digging there for p
81 am digging for money!" The news
few-the idlers collected. "We are
told you are digging for money.
"Well, L amt digging for anything
else." "Have you had any luck ?"
First rate luck pays we'll; you had
coats, aud laid hold most vigorously for
a while. After throwing out some cart
loads, the question arose "When did
You get any money last p Saturday
night" "Why, how much did you
get?" "Four dollars and a half
"Why, that's rather small" ats
pretty well /; six shillings day is the
regular price for digging cellars all
over town" The spades dropped, and
the loafers vanished.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

PRESERVING BUTTER FOR FUTURE USE.
One of our exchange in replying to
an inquiry, says: Many ways have
been proposed to keep butter, but we
think that of suspending it in brine the
most certain. Our inquirer in that
case would have to select such butter
as is satisfactory to him in market, and
put it into new packages. Use a good
tapering oak tub with head in each
end. Take out the largest head, hav-
ing packed your butter in a cambria
sack of the shape of your tub, only two
inches smaller. put it in the tub ana re-
place the head, SO as to be quite brine
tight. Now through hole In the head
pour the strongest brine to fill, plug,
place upon the large end, the butter
will float entirely in the brine and thus
be excluded from the air and preserved
for any length of time. This may also
be done in a common butter pail, by
putting a small block of oak wood on
the under side of the cover, so as to
sink the sack of butter under the brine
in the pail. The first method of float
ing the butter in the tub is an excellent
way of putting up for distant market.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24

WHY Nor CULTIVATE SPEED IN OXEN ?
Our agricultural fairs have been very
generally turned into more horse races,
in the rage for fast rosdsters. Speed
in horse flesh is to a large extent the
mania of the day. Good draft horses
sound, steady workers, of fine form and
powers of endurance-have had to
stand back and let the trotters occupy
public attention. But we have scarcely
ever seen the importance of cultivating
quickness of movement in working
oxen alluded to. And yet there are
farmers who will follow yoke of oxen
around field, ploughing or drawing
a load at snails pace, now and then
applying the gad with q shout of "go
long" but making scarcely more than
half dozen rounds of a ten acre lot in
the course of the day. Oxen are pro-
verbally slow, but they are capable of
improvement in this respect as well as
other animals, and more attention
ought to be paid to cultivating in them
a quick step. In oriental countries es-
pecially in India, they are used extern
sively for the road, in place of horses,
and they may often be seen trotting
off at spanking gait. We do not need
trotting oxen, but fast walk is of
great importance. Doubling their
speed would double their value as work
ing cattle. Why may not our agricul-
tural societies offer prizes 70 the fast
est walking oxen as well as for the fast
est horses? 1t would take some years
to rear race of good walkers, but it is
worth an effort. and worthy of encour-
agement. One of the strongest object
tions to the use of oxen on the farm is
that they are slow. This objection can
be and ought to be removed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24
AGRICULTURAL.

TEE WAY To BLANKET HoRsEs But
few people, comparatively, understand
how to blanket q horse to prevent him
from contracting cold. We frequently
see the blanket folded double, and laid
across the rump and a part of the
animals back, leaving those parts of the
body that need protection entirely ex-
posed to cold storms and cutting winds.
Those parts of the body of a horse
which surround the lungs, require the
benefit of blanket in preference to
his TANKS and rump. When we are ex-
posed to q current Of cold air, to guard
against any injury from contracting
cold, we shield our shoulders, neck,
chest and back. Ifthese parts be kept
protected, the lower part of the body
will endure q degree of cold far more
intense without an injury to the body
than if the lungs were not kept warm
with suitable covering. The same
thing holds in the protection of horses.
The blanket should cover the neck,
withers and shoulders, and be brought
around the breast and buttoned or
buckled together as closely as q man
buttons his overcoat when shielding
bis bosom. Let the lungs of a horse
be protected with heavy blanket, and
he will seldom contract cold, even if
the hindermost parts of his body are
not covered. We refer more particu-
larly to blanketing horses that have be-
come unusually warm by violent eIer-
tion or hard driving, and exposing them
to current of cold air while standing
still Many of our best teamstrers pro-
tect the breasts of their horses by a
piece of heavy cloth about two feet
square, hanging from the lower end of
the collar. This is an excellent prac-
tice in cold weather, as the animal is
shielded from the cold wind, especially
when travelling toward a strong current.
The forward end of the horse blanket
should be made to fit as closely around
the breast of horse as our garments
fit our bodies. Most horses will con-
tract violent cold almost as soon as a
man, if not blanketed while they stand
still after having been exercised SO
violently as to produce profuse perspi-
ration. So long as a horse is kept in
motion, there is little danger of his
suffering any inconvenience from cold
winds but allow him to stand still for
few moments while loading or unload
ing, without a heavy blanket to protect
his shoulders and lungs, and he will
take cold sooner than a man.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24
SCIENTIFIC.

FAT In FORAGE PLANTs.-To any one
not chemist or o quadruped, the last
place to look for fat would be q hay
NOW or Q stack of straw yet it appears
from recent investigation that fat is not
only an essential constituent of hay,
and straw, and similar forms of vegeta-
ton, but one of considerable economic
value.
In the lower leaves of oats in blossom,
Arndt found as much as ten per cent. of
the dry weight to consist of fat and
wax. the latter appearing as the blush
bloom SO conspicuous on the leaves OF
luXuriant cereals. In fodder crops,
generally the greatest proportion of fat
is found in young and thrifty plants.
Thus Way found early meadow grass to
contain as much as six and q half per
cent of fat while in that of the same
meadow, collected in the latter part of
June, there was but little more than
two per cent. The proportion of fat is
increased by nitrogenous manures the
grass of sewaged meadow at Rugby
contained above four per cent. of fat,
while similar grass, not sewaged, af-
forded less than three per cent. Of fat.
The nature of this sort of vegetable
fat was investigated some little time
ago by the German chemist KOnig,
who found that by treatment Nth
strong alcohol the fat of grass and
clover hay could be separated into two
parts, one a solid waxy substance, the
other fluid fat, soluble in alcohol. At
first he considered the latter to be a
trne glycerin, but changed his mind
after the Investigations of Schulz, who
proved that, though it contains the
same proportion of carbon and hydro
gen as fat, the fluid fat of hay is some
thing quite different, since no glycerin
can be obtained from it.
konig has since confirmed these re-
suits and carried forward the investiga-
tion, showing that the fat of oats, rye,
and vetch seed is similarly constituted.
In all these forms of vegetation, hay,
oat straw, the grain of oats, rye, vetches
and possibly others, be finds oleic and
palmitic acids, not combined with gly-
Germ but in free state; and as these
acids in their combinations are well
known as large ingredients of nutritive
fats and oils, it is likely that they have
a considerable influence on the value of
these plants for fodder.
Konig also finds in hay and in oat
straw the important ingredient of ami
NAL bile, chOlesterin;, still further,
cerotic acid, a waxy body which forms
twenty-five per cent, of ordinary bees
wax and two fatty substances new to
Science. one fluid the other solid. They
are distinct compounds. having the
character of fatty alcohoIs. Another
interesting discovery in hay is the pres
ence of a hydrocarbon, the relations OF
which are not fully made out. In sew
eral respects, it agrees with some of
the paraffins. american.