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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15
The ssShOOtiug Fish. -

Those who study the perfectibility of
aquariums, says the Pail Mall Gazette,
should send to Java for specimens of the
shooting fish, (Chelmdn ros,iGtas),
which a correspondent of the Madras
Standard describes as now frequently
made a sort of pet of, and found in
proper receptacles in respectable native
houses. A small stick is fastened i'm the
reservoir, projecting some two feet
above the level of the water, and when
the fish is to exhibit a large fly or other
insect is lightly fastened on this. The
fish swims round the stick once or twice
to examine the object; then, rising to
the surface, remains for few seconds
motionless, and suddenly elects a few
drops of water at its intended prey with
a noise not unlike that of a squirt,
generally bringing the mark down with
the first shot. If this fails, however,
he repeats his circuit of observation
pauses again apparently to measure his
distance, and then discharges at the fly
once more. This curious pet is de-
scribed as seldom reaching ten inches
in length, and being of plain yellow
ish color, marked with dark stripes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

HOUSING STOCK.-All stock should be
housed nights at this season of the
year, or have at least the protection of
open sheds accessible, and young calves
especially need be taken in early. Cold
nights and stormy weather are ex-
tremely detrimental to young cattle,
and many farmers leave them out too
late i'm the season. Exposure to cold
weather checks their growth and thrift
of young stock is apt to be disastrous.
The true system of raising young cattle
is to keep them well fed and thriving
right straight along. Let cattle or
sheep get hunger bitten from poor keep
when young, and evil will cling to
them. When older they can be fat
teRed only by an extra expenditure of
time and food, and they are of far less
value weight for weight, than if they
had never been lean or run down in
condition. They cannot be stinte,l and
starved at any period of their growth
with impunity.-Ploughman..
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

MILDEw.-This is one of the worst
diseases that attack the peach, but for
tunately all varieties are not equally
subject to it. Dryness at the root is
considered to be a fertile cause Of mill
dew. Probably anything which lowers
the vitality of the tree during the grow
ing season will help to produce it; but
we have generally noticed that it ap-
peared on the young leaves and points
of the growing shoots after spell of
fine growing weather succeeded by cold
and have thought that under such cir
cumstances the disease was worse in
unheated peach cases than on the open
wall, probably owing to a more stag
nant atmosphere. 1t makes rapid pro-
gress, and destroys the leaves and
young wood wherever it appears.
Good management generally will help
to ward it off, but sulphur is the only
real preventive and cure, and may be
applied either by the duster or syringe
before there is any sign of mildew.
When it does appear, the sulphur must
be applied at once, and the application
should be repeated two or three times
i'm the course of few weeks, if neces-
sary. The signs of Abatement are a
fresh growth, free from the mold and
the curl which it produces i'm the leaves.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15
ONLY A FERN.

Only fern, q leafiet Of gold;
A tiny spray, fragile and rare-
Close 70 my heart fondly hold,
This precious relic Of days moro fair.
In lone ravine meath tree and vine,
Close it grew to the river's shore;
There the low, sad moaning of the pine,
Like an echo answers the oceans roar.
In that sweet spot meath bending boughs,
From all the busy world apart,
In answer to my tender vows,
She placed this fern above my heart
Long years have passed and she that gave
Has gone from me forevermore;
No more / see the dark pines wave.
Or hear the distant billows roar
But on my heart lay the fern,
My weary heart 80 worn and sore;
And DER the love, and DER the fern,
drop the tribute Of tear.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

RAPID Cure FOR CATARRH.-We find
in the last ''AnRudl Record Of Science
and Industry" a remedy for catarrh cold
which, from its constituents, should
prove more or less efiicaciOus. 1t is given
on the authority of Hamilton, who says
it will remove the severest affection of
the kind in about ten hours. The recipe
is as follows; 10 drops of carbolic acid,
rs drops of iodine, and the same of
chlorofOrm. A few drops of this mix
ture are to be heated over a spirit lamp,
in a test tube, the mouth of which is to
be applied to the nostrils as soon as that
liquid vaporizes. The operation is TO be
repeated after an interval of two Ii in
utes, when the patient will deliver a
number of vigorous sneezes, and then
his troublesome symptoms will quickly
disappear.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15
seheuck'. Mandrake pills

VIII be found TO pussess those qualities neees-
sary 70 the total eradication OF all bilious at-
tacks. prompt to start the secretions OF the liver
and give a healthy tone TO the entire system
Indeed, it is no ordinary discovery In medical
science TO have invented a remedy for these
stubborn complaints, which develop all the re-
suits produced by heretofore free use OF calo,
mel mineral Justly dreaded by mankind anu
acknowIedged to be destructive In the extreme
10 the human system. That the properties OF
certain vegetables comprise all the virtues OF
calOmel without its injurious tendencies. Is now
an admitted fact. rendered indisputable oy sci
enrific researches: and those who use the Man
drake Pills VIII be fully satisfied that the best
medicines are those provided by nature IN the
common herbs and roots of the fields .
These pills open the bowels and correct all
bilious arrangements without salvation or any
OF the Injurious effects OF calomel or other pol
sons The secretion OF bile is promoted by
these pills. as viii be seen by the altered color
OF the stools. and disappearing OF the sallow
complexion and cleansing OF the tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany each box
OF pills.
Prepared only by ). II. Schenek & Son, at their
principal office, corner Sixth and Arch Streets,
Philadelphia, and for sale by all druggists and
dealers. Price 25 cents per box
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

A CHEAP FUMIGATOR.-The following
will be found to be cheap and pleasant
fumigatOr for sick rooms, ,diffusing
healthful, agreeable and highly pene-
trating disinfectant odor i'm close apart
ments or wherever the air is sdeteriorated.
Pour common vinegar on powdered
chalk until effervescence ceases, leave
the whole to settle, and pour off the the
liquid. Dry the sediment and place it
in shallow earthen or glass dish, and
pour apon itsulphuric acid, until white
fumes commence arising. This vapor
quickly spreads, is very agreeably pun
gent, and acts as a powerful purifier of
yitiated air,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

FIRES AND WARNER CLoTHING.-The
glorious autumn weather has come
again-hOw delightful, how invigorat
ing! And yet the cool, beautiful days
will carry to many door hearse
which might be kept away. And why !?
Merely for the want of a little fire
mornings and evenings, and an increas-
ing warmth of clothing. Do not post
pOne undergarments for yourselves, and
especially do not postpone them on the
children. Otherwise dysentery, or
typhoid fever-that terrible disease-or
illness in some other form may enter
your dwellings and bear off some loved
inmate. Warm clothing; timely fires /;
warm hearts; cheerfulness; health and
happiness; these all belong together in
our autumn.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

The Best FARMER.-The best farmer
is he who raises the best and the largest
crops on the smallest surface of land at
the least expense and at the same time
annually improves his soil, who under
stands his business and attends to it;
whose manure heap is very large and
always increasing; whose corn crop
and smoke house are at home; who is
surrounded by all the necessaries and
comforts of life; who, studies his pro-
fession, and strives to reach perfection
III 1t; who keeps strict account of his
oufgoes as well as his incomes, and who
knows how he stands at the end of each
season. Such farmer, in nine times
out Of ten, will succeed, and not only
make farming pleasant but profitable
occupation: Try it and soc how it is
yourself, reader.-Fdrmer's Vndicatov.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

GALL SoAP.-This soap, excellent for
washing silks or ribbons, may be made
by heating one pound of cocoanut oil to
90 deg. +. and gradually stirring into it
half pound of caustic soda. To this
half poundof Venice turpentine, pre-
viously warmed in another vessel, is
added. The kettle is allowed to stand
for four hours, subject to gentle heat,
which is afterwards increased until the
contents are perfectly clear. One pound
of ox-gall, followed by two pounds OF
Castillo soap, is then mixed in, and the
whole allowed to cool, when it may be
cut into cakes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15
The Dairyman.~ commandments.

We commend to the particular atten-
tion of all whom it may concern, the
following, from "The Dairyman's Ten
Commandments" The Tenth COM
mandment is: "Thou shalt not commit
adultery by adulterating thy milk with
burnt sugar, chalk, soda, or any ingre-
dent or compound whatsoever; nor by
giving stuff to thy cow: nor by means,
trick, device or process known or un-
known to the naturally depraved. The
laws of the state, the health of the COM
and the lives of the people, es-
pecially of the hosts of little ones, who
are likened unto the kingdom of heaven
cry out against his objectionable SIM"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

The ORCHARD PLAGUE.-That class of
insects usually called by horticulturists
the "borers," are far more bjuriOus
than our farmers imagine. In riding
over the country and noticing the large
number of sickly young orcharis, that
may be traced directly to this source, it
is to be regretted that the owners of
all sao:. d;-ea-cti trees 90 not sc once
apply the infallable remedy of. cutting
them out before the orchards become
entirely useless. Ignorance of the true
cause has much to do with it, as We
find the worst cases, as a genera rule,
in sections of the country where shook
farming" is at discount. That borers
are the first class of insects requiring.
our attention is true, arises from the
fact that they begin upon the young
tree as soon as planted in the orchard,
and of course before the tent caterpillar
and codiing moth are ready fer the
work of destruction. Either autumn or
the early spring is the proper time to
dislodge these pests, and asharp-Ointed
knife is the only weapon needed BY
examining close to the surface Of the
ground, or i'm many cases just below,
we can readily detect hole surrounded
by the borings of the grub. If it has
penetrated too far to be cut out without
injury to the tree, it is advisable TO in
sert stout wire and punch the tenant
to death. Some recommend plaring a
small piece of camphor in the mouth of
the cavity, and then plugging it up,
but the preceding remedy will be found
more effectual. Should this course be
adopted regularly every spring and
autumn, or at least annually, we shall
not see many half-starved boxing
young orchards, and shall hear less
complaint that apples are degenerating
from the good old times.-AR Old Or
chdrdist.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

Magnetism in Rdils.-M. Heyl, engi-
neer of one of the German railways, in
an official report upon the section un
der his immediate charge, calls atten-
ton to some interesting developments
of magnetism in the rails. He states tina.
he has observed that all the rails are
transformed at their extremities, after
they have been placed in position a
few days, into powerful magnets, ca
pable of attracting and retaining a
key or even heavier piece of metallic
iron.
These rails, he says, preserve their
magnetism even after they have been
removed, but they lose it gradually;
when in position, however, the mag
netism is latent, only becoming free
when the chairs are removed, aud dis
appearing again when they are re-
placed. Hence it is necessary to as
sumo that two opposite poles come to-
gether at each junction. and that each
rail is magnet, the poles being alter
nately reversed throughout the line.
This production of magnetism i'm the
rails examined, NJ. Heyl believes to be
attributable to the running of the
trains, and to the shocks, frictiOns, ETC.,
thereby produced, the hypothesis of
electric currents, induced or direct, not
being sustained, it is found, by expert
ments.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

A BED sowN with spinach, which
upon the advent of freezing weather
should be covered with a thin coating
OF straw, will give the owner many an
enjoyable meal in advance of any other
fresh crop. Then, too, a few plants Of
lettuce set out on a warm, sunny slope
on the side of ridges, will be ready for
cutting very early, and will be accep-
table to almost every one. Onions
planted now make early greens, as two
or three warm days after the frost is
out starts them into growth. All such
crops will be the better for thin coat
ing of straw.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

EARLY feeding adds flesh more rap
idly than late, and puts on thick COW
ering of fat during the warm weather
to protect them during the colder sea-
son of the winter. The early fed corn
being soft is easily digested and assists
the fattening process greatly, as all
know who have tried cooked food for
stock. We have known many farmers
to delay the feeding of their hogs until
late in the fall, so that they might save
their corn and hit late market for
their pork, but we never knew one to
secure the best results in that way.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

GIVE THE CHILDREN ONIONS. = "A
mother thus writes: Once a week in
variably-and it was generally when
we had cold meat minced-I gave the
children a dinner which was hailed
with delight and looked forward to
this was dish of boiled onions. The
little things knew not they were taking
the best medicine for expelling what
most children suffer from, worms. L
believe mine were kept free by this
remedy alone. Not only boiled onions
for dinner, but chives also they were
encouraged to eat with their bread and
butter, and for this purpose they had
tufts of chives i'm their little gardens.
1t was a medical man who taught me to
eat boiled onions Us a specific for a cold
in the chest. He did not know at the
time, till told him, that they were
good for anything else.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15
100000 ACRES
MICHIGAN LANDS
FOR SALE!

RAILROAD Company are New offered Fer Sale.
They are situated along its railroad and are
tracts OF excellent FARMING and PINE Lands
Inc nrming lands include some Of the most fertile
and weil-wAtered hardwood lands In the State Thev
are ,moered mainly with hard-maple and beech; so
osek sandy loan, and sbounds In springs Of prrest
water Michigan IS Of the least indebted aud mo.
prosperous States in the Union and its farmers have
greater variety Of crops and resources than snv
ern state While some Of the prairie States NAV nrr.
Once corn In great abundance they have no other rs
and when this crop fails destituton follows a
has been the ee~se the past year ana. and 49,.
rrice nom $3.50 to $500 per aere. Send ior n
instrafed pamphlet. Address o. n. BARNEa-
S~ mAssiensr, Lansing, Mich.
sE-5t-sov
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

A Silrer Bath from Ditch Water
"All our formula tell us to use pure
water in making up our silver solutions.
l was led into discussion, short
time since, with brother photo
grapher on this one point of our mani
pulatiOn, and it finally led to small
wager that | could not make a bath
with such water as he might furnish,
the first plate exposed in the bath 10
give a good negative.
"The water came /; it was evidently
such as he dipped up from some hog
puddle-muddy, greasy, and IN every
way filthy and from this stuff was
to make half gallon of silver bath
which would work from the start. l
commenced my lab0rs, and had one
week to finish the undertaking. First,
| let the mud settle in the bucket IN
which received the water, skimminR
off the green mass and the grease which
fioated on the surface. After leaving
it few hours to settle, carefully de-
canted the liquid into tall glass
candy jar, and found l had about one
gallon of stagnant water, anything but
inviting for the purposes intended. 1
let it stand over night, and, for re-
suit, had about an inch of settings IN
the bottom of the jar. l again decan.
ted 1t into another clean jar the liquid
from the mud, and l had little less
than three quarts of water. now ad-
ded half an ounce of nitrate of silver.
which turned the liquid brown before
it was half dissolved. l placed the
jar in the sun for one day, and in an
hour it was black as ink by next morn
ing it showed signs of clearing up, and
l again decanted the clear solution. |
filtered it carefully, and made my bath
by adding nitrate of silver sufficient to
bring it up to forty grains strength,
adding one and a half grains of iOdide
potassium for each ounce of silver used.
shaking thoroughly. put the bath
in the sun, and left it for two
days, when the solution was perfectly
clear. filtered through prepared cot
ton, and finally added chemically pure
nitric acid until blue litmus paper
turned slightly red. Placing the solu-
tiOn in my bath tub, coated a plate
with collOdiOn. and left it in the bath
over night. The result was that the
first plate dipped in the bath and
exposed in the camera gave fine neg
ative."-F. j. Il. in Western Photo
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

To Fir Paper on DrariRg boards
Take a sheet of drawing paper and
damp it on the back side with wet
sponge and clean water. While the
paper is expanding, take a spoonful of
wheat -four, mix with little cold wa
ter. and make it a moderately thick
paste spread the paste round the edge
of the drawing paper one inch wide
with feather, then turn the drawing
paper over and press the edges down
on the board. After this take four
straight pieces of deal wood, inch by
81 inches wide place them on the edge
of the drawing paper, and put a large
book of heavy weight on each corner
to make the paper adhere firmly to
the board. In about an hours time
the paper will be straight and even,
and quite ready for executing draw
ing. When the drawing is finished,
take sharp knife and raise one cor
ner of the paper, then take a scale, run
it round the edges, and the paper will
come off easily. Turn it over and take
the dry paste off with a knife, and all
will be perfectly clean, and no paper
will be wasted.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

SLEEPS Tongue IN SAvoRY jelly
Skin the tongues, lard them and cook
them until they are quite tender, in good
veal broth or any white stock. Take
out the tongues, boil down the liquor to
stiff, clear jelly, and pour enough of
1t over them to cover them. To be eaten
cold. ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

An Automatic Srimmin0 Apparatus.
Under the auspices of the London
Swimming Baths, Golden Lane, Lon
don, an invention for facilitating the
acquisition of the art of swimming
was recently exhibited. The inven-
ton, which was Drachcaiiy Rstcu III
the case or persons who could not
swim, first consists in stretching across
the bath, in any direction, wire some
what similar to a single telegraph wire,
placed at some height above the water
and parallel to it. Upon this wire
groOved pulley is mounted, from the
axis of which an elastic cord depends,
terminating in an adjustable support
ing belt for the body TO rest on. The
weight of the body when in the water
is capable of receiving more or less
support according to the degree of pro-
ficiency the learner has attained. The
suspended weight from the axis of the
pulley, being under the line of support,
keeps the pulley in true vertical posi-
ton, so that during the time the swim
mer is striking out the supporting pull
ley travels along the wire at rate
proportiOnate to the speed of the swim
mer. To suspend the body in water
by string is not new idea but this
contrivance is self-acting. The men,
bers of the club, who are laudably Of
fering to teach swimming gratuitOusly
to all who lack the art, consider this in
ventiOn the best that has yet appeared
for helping the novice to attain prof.
cheney in swimming.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

To CLEAN GLAss.-This mode of clean
ing fine glass gives it great briliancy.
Take finely powdered indigo, dip into it
a moistened linen rag, smear over the
glass with it, and then wipe it of with
perfectly dry cloth. As substitute
for this fine sifted ashes, applied by a
rag dipped in spirits, will answer as
well. Spanish white is apt to make the
glass rough and injure it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

SUBSTITUTE FOB CREAM. Beat two
eggs, one ouuce of sugar, and small
piece of butter, with pint of warm
milk; then put it into hot water. and
stir it one way until it acquires the con-
sistency Of cream. 2. Instead of eggs.
as above, use a spoonful of arrowrOot
with little cold milk.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

BAKERS GIyGERBREAD.-One cupful
molasses, two and one-half cupfuls of
flour, three tablespoonfuls butter or
lard, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in
five tablespoonfuls of warm water, one
tablespoonful ginger, and half teaspoon.
full or less of alum.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

the abstraction of portion of his brain ;
and no less parsonage than Pope Gle
ment vi. owed the improvement of his
memory to slight conclusion of the
brain.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15


FARMERS, KEEP PosrED.-lhe case y
well put by a correspondent OF Ine
Fdrmer, who says what the isrneI 1r
wants is knowledge Of his business. II
he lacks this he will fail. The bettel
he is Informed and practices what ne
knows, the greater will be his success
tits all depending first upon knowledge,
correct information, and this inforha-
lion obtained from men Of experience
and superior intelligence. Next, y 70
apply this knowledge with what llloI-
nation he may have Of his own, NOW,
there is, perhaps. no one that may not
be benefited by information. now
this to be obtained? There are ntmer-
Gus agricultural papers and DOCKS
printed which will give the informa-
ton. The papers and books record the
best experience of farmers-yours, for
instance. if you have something that is
Of use. This is the way, principally,
that knowledge is disseminated. There
is, therefore, much good to be gained,
and for trifling sum. This should al
ways be at hand ready 10 De cOnsulteu.