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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

81 stdnd,r said a Western stump
orator, ION the broad platform of the
principles of '6s, and palsied be mine
arm if | fOrsake 'em ~ "YOu stand on
nothing of the kind ~ interrupted a
little shoemaker in the crowd; "you
stand in my boots that you never paid
me for, and / want the money!
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Eerer. waste fly in huckleberfy sea-
son. One fly in plate of huckleberries
contains more nutriment than three
berries.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

HoU to Make Oil Lamps Safe.-A
great many accidents are happening
every day from the use of kerosene. 1
will tell you a method by which they
can be, to q great extent, prevented,
and l hope you will publish it for the
benefit of poor people who are obliged
to buy cheap oils. If the body of the
lamp is filed with cotton, such as
jewellers use to wrap their articles in,
after it is stuffed lightly 1t will receive
One-half the quantity of oil which it
would if the cotton were not put in. If
any accident happens, the oil cannot
spill or flow about, but is, as it were,
"sOpped up in the cotton, which burns
like a fagOt, but all in one place
Erchdn1e.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Lire fish (pickerel or trout will keep
cistern free from worms and bugs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Motto for the Arabs-Up and Be-
d0uin. t
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

"Mothers,n says Rev. DIR. Hall, "are
the great primary educators True.
Who, like mother, can point the way
through the slippery paths of youth y
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Ode to my landlady-Three weeks
board,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

A notorious gentleman, who has been
in Jail. is reported to have said that he
had left prison, after having served his
sentence, without any stain on his char
acter. Very likely. Some characters
are of such color that they never show
the dirt.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Josh Billings remarks: "The only
way to git thru this world and escape
censure and abuse, is to- take sum
back road. You kant travel the main
turnpike aud do it."7 s,-ws--. 0
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

LNIRST GRAND EXPOSITION Of the fKKDEsxES'
Il IsDusTRrAL INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh. Pa. opens Oct
!, closes Nov. q. Address A. j. NELLIs, Pres. I.
N
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

The Form of Lightning 0ROds.-KnOw-
ing that electricity at rest always tends
to ditfuse itself on the surface, in fact,
that it always confines itself to the sur
face, it became, at an early period, a
question whether electricity in motion
did not follow the same law. POuillet
determined the question in a very in
geDiOus manner. He took cylindrical
wire of a certain size and measured the
resistance which it offered to a current
of electricity. He then rolled the wire
out fiat and measured the resistance
again it was found to be the same. al
though il is evident that the extent of
the surface of the conductor was by
this means greatly increased. Other
experimenters have determined the
question by different methods, but al
ways with the same result. The COM
mittee of the French Academy, which
included Becquerel, De la Rive, POuil-
let, and others, adopted solid square
bar as the best form for lightning-IOds;
and Sir William Snow Harris, though
often quoted as favoripg rods which
present large surface, says: PrOvi-
ded the quantity of metal be present.
the form under which We place it is
evidently of no consequence to its con-
ducting powers, since it would be ad-
surd that a mass of metal, under any
form, did not conduct electricity in all
its particles indeed, we know that it
does sso.'-P0puidr Science Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06
SCIENTIFIC.

Importance of MdtheMatics.-In the
recent eloquent dedicat0ry address of
President Seelye, of Smith College,
Mass, the importance of mathematical
knowledge was illustrated as follows:
ut would be easy to show the in
creasing Importance of mathematics to
practical life. the assistance it gives
the en- gineer, and our Indebtedness to
it for the most highly priced comforts
of our civilization. But it is not for
Its practical utility that advocate its
place in the higher education. That
utility, indeed, is due to the study,
which had no thought of practical re-
suits. Nor does it owe it's place to its
importance as a mental discipline, al
though the testimony of many genera
tians of educators bears witness to its
value as an intellectual exercise.
Rather would justify the prominence
of mathematics in the higher educa-
tion because it is the study, above all
others, which gives us knowledge of
the mind in Nature. To it, more than
to any other source, we are indebted
for what we know of the physical sell
ences. Long ago its importance IN as
trOnomy was recognized. 1t made Ia
miliar to our common schools the Sc,
crets of the earth's motion, of day and
night. of the changes of the moon and
the tides. Problems in the starry fir
mament, about which the wisest sages
for centuries were hopelessly puzzled,
mathematics has enabled school boys
to solve. Yet its triumphs in astronomy
represent only fragment of what it
has accomplished in the physical sci
euces. Sound, light, electricity, heat,
have all become subject to mathemati-
cal formulas; algebraic signs explain
to us not only how the subtle forces, ,un-
recognized by any human sense, make
interpret for us the music which we
hear, the colors which we see, the
warmth which we feel. So wonderful
have been the results of mathematical
analysis that modern scientific discOv-
cry has been forced to introduce it into
all departments of physical science"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

He Remembered.-A few days ago an
insurance agent hired boy to mind his
Office and run errands. and he had a
long talk with the lad. telling him what
be must do and what he must not do.
The boy got along all right until yester-
day when the agent entered the Office
and found him up to deviltry.
''See here, my boy" said the agent,
didn't | tell you just what you'd have
to do if you staid here?"
'YOu did," replied the hoy; you
said mustn't sing or whistle; that |
mustn't have boys up here; that | was
to come at eight and quit at five; that
| was to keep up the fire, sweep out.
run errands and be civil; that was to
be careful and lock the door. scrape my
feet on the mat, keep my knife away
from the furniture and not idle my
time away. YOu told me all this, but
you didn't say word about my not
pouring ink on the cockrOachesW
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Hedry Us. Light Toois.-The great end
at which all improvements aim IS the
maximum of power combined with the
minimum of material and weight. A
man shOveling dirt with a shovel one
pound heavier than it should be will
lift 5000 pounds more in a day of ten
hours than he would do with suitable
shovel. All this strength is wasted.
The same is true of machinery. So
simple thing as an nnlubricated pull
ley is felt in the furnace, and the cost
of the coal is augmented. Every use
less pound in a truck or carriage takes
vitality from the horse which draws it,
and costs the owner many extra dol
lars for his keeping. The man who
pulls an oar in the great boat races at
Saratoga puts himself IN training and
reduces every ounce of surplus flesh.
The racing horse carries not one extra
ounce of fat to burden him in the eff
fort to win. Yet working men will
carry through half their lives fifty
pounds more flesh than is needed for
the best working condition, burden
which tells against their efficiency and
personal comfort through many years
of their industrial life. These may
seem little things ;; but whatever wastes
power, increases expenses. and burdens
the laborer is not little thing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

A bad position-imposition-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.

For 81 VIII send directions how to produce
light without fire; safe. simple and costs soc.
year 20 light room- BY mail 70 NJ. DRLAs ALLIE.
Box 2I1s, New York. 9-6-4t
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

A Little Mistake.-He took the eve
ming train up from Cleveland. and in
| looking through the cars discovered q
| female sitting alone in q seat, and 1t
instantly occurred to him that she
might be lonely. A veil dropped over
her face, but there was no reason to
suppose that she was not good looking,
and he calamity raised his hat and sat
down beside her, Iemarking, with a
lovely smile:
"It's lonely travelling alone"
She just murmured reply. but the
accent was captivating. and he was
won at the start. He was practiced in
all the arts of polite tactics. and spoke
to her softly of this great desOlate
world, with appropriate allusions to
human hearts. He told her how he had
hungered and thlrsted after the affec-
tions of true heart and had yearned
to feel the breath of the heavenly flame
of love.
"No,r he sighed, he had no wife, no
one to love and caress him and mend
his suspenders: and when he inquired
if she was treading the path of life
single and alone, she murmured so
pensively and sad that he felt COM
PEELED to put his arm on the back of the
seat lest she should fall out of the win
dOw-which was closed.
They reached Norwalk, and just as
the train stopped he heard grating.
kissing sound close to his ear, and the
words:
"Y-o-u william. You old hypOcritical
sinner. I'll make you think you've. been
struck by breath of heavenly flame,
you old owl"
He looked around just far enough to
and the face of his wife, who had muir
INJURED so fOndly to him along the jour-
ney. A sudden spasm seized him, but
he managed to accompany her from the
train, and as they moved into the dark
ness toward home her flashing eyes lit
up his pale face with spectral effect
From the Huron (Ohio) Chronicle.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Vanilla as a Waste Product in the Nan
atdctre of Pdper.-We take the fol-
lowing interesting suggestion from a
recent number of Dingier's Journal: (:
In the preparation of wood pulp for
paper, fine wood is treated to sOlu
ton of caustic soda under high pressure
in iron boilers. After the operation
the solution contains the soda salts of
resinic acid, humic acid, and carbOnic
acid, and some resinOus bodies. In
this solution the soda salt of vanilla
must also be present, if it has not been
destroyed by the high pressure and tenn
perature, The presence of this body is
indicated by the intense vanilla Odor
which always appears on treating the
above liquor with acids and allowing
it to stand a few days. The writer
above referred to has not yet succeeded
in obtaining CRYSTALS of vanillin, and
hence does not describe his process in
full. If any of our readers possess suf-
ficient quantities of this lye to expert
ment upon, we have strong hopes that
their laDors will be rewarded with bet
ter success than those of our German
friend, and that America will one day
boast of a vanillin factory.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Sugar as a Remedy for Wounds.-This
recipe is excellent, and ought to be
published once year. | found it in a
paper sometime ago and have tried it
and can recommend it from experience /:
Take a pan or shovel with burning
Goals, and sprinkle upon them common
brown sugar, and hold the wounded
part in the smoke. In few minutes
the pain will be allayed, and recovery
proceeds rapidly. In my case, rusty
nail had made a bad wound in the
bottom ofmy foot. The painand nervous
irritation was severe. This was all re-
moved by holding it in the smoke for
fifteen minutes. and l was able to re-
sume my reading in comfort. We have
often recommended it to others with
like results. Last week one of my men
had finger-nail torn out by pair of
ice-tOngs. 1t became very painful, as
was to have been expected. Held in
sugar-smOke for twenty minutes, the
pain ceased and promised speedy re-
cOvery.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Pursuits of the Foridans.-A recent
letter written from Florida says: ''At
'TOcOi,' where we connect, or rather
wait for st. Augustine's train. We have
an hour for observations. Since the
advent of the Yankee, every cOnceiya-
BILE device and agency have been en-
plOyed to decOy him out of his spare
shilling, and well may we exclaim how
adrOitly this has been done.
"'What do you keep heref asks a
burly son of New Hampshire.
"'Canes. alligatOrs and oysters, re-
plies FlOridan.
"'Any gators this morningf
".SOrry to inform you last one just
sOld.'
Every nice canes. What are they
made off"
Palmetto, SIR . .a
"'HOw many can You make a dayf
"'0nly three, aud it is hard work at
that
"'What do you ask p
"'One dollar apiece
"Well. give me five.'
Looking around on the banks of
white sand that glared in his face he
continued 81
".What do you live off of here in the
Summerr -..
"Fish!
"'What in the Winter9"
ankees IN -.-,. ..
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

NOurishment in Cocoa. - Mr.. John
Holm, of the Edinburgh Chemical
Society, has shown, by recent analysis,
that cocoa closely resembles beef in its
nutritive constituents, and largely ex-
ceeds milk and wheaton four in its
value as an article of diet. 1t differs
widely from tea and coffee in being a
food or flesh former, while they are
rather condiments and stimulants. One
half the weight of cocoa consists of fat,
and 20 per cent. of albuminoid material,
whereas milk contains 3.5 per cent. of
fat and per cent. of albuminoid mate
rial; beef contains 2.S7 per cent. of fat
and 20.75 of albuminOid matter; and
wheat contains 1.2 per cent. of fat and
14.6 per cent. of albuminoid material.
In addition cocoa contains starch, which
is absent in milk and beef, and present
in but small proportion in wheat.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

A comic song Is an absurd-ditty.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Here Is the refined style of eating
peaches: Cut the fruit open in the
middle, and remove the pit; hold the
hemisphere in the left hand-it will
scarcely be esoiled-theOu outer skin shield
ing the fingers, and use a spoon. dessert
or tea, to scoop out the pulp and juice,
and carry it to the mouth. You thus
escape the disagreebleness and vul-
garity of sOiled fingers, and that fright
full temptation to suck the finger-ends,
which not all, even ladies, are able to
resist. To add little powdered sugar
to the fruit as it reposes in the velvety
covering adds to the exquisite feast the
sacch rine which, in cold season like
this, it seems to need in order to be
palatable to most persons. Who cOuld
wait to read all this before biting a
peach? .--...
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06

Do Not Eat RdU Eggs.-One of the
most common prejudices of housewives
aud mothers is that hard eggs are diff
cult to digest, especially the white and
that the less they are boiled the better
they are for weak and dyspeptic stom-
achs. The reverse is the case, as there
is more danger of raw and soft white
of an egg passing through the digestive
apparatus without beingreally digested,
than when thoroughly boiled and hard.
In fact then it constitutes q most ex-
cellent food for dyspeptics, as ex-
perieDce is proving. A writer In the
Medical Journal says: "We have seen
dyspeptics who have suffered untold
tOrments with almost every kind of
food. No liquid could be taken with
out suffering; bread became burning
acid; meat and milk were solid and
liquid fires. We have seen these same
sufferers trying to avoid food and drink,
for sustenance. And we have seen their
torment pass away and their hunger
relieved by living upon the whites of
eggs which had been boiled in bubbling
water for thirty minutes. At the end
of week we have given the hard yolk
of the egg with the white, and upon
this diet alone, without fluid of any
kind, we have seen them begin to gain
flesh and strength and refreshing sleep.
After weeks of this treatment they have
been able, with care, to begin upon
other food" And all this the writer
adds, without taking medicine. He
says, what we also have always main
tanned that hard-bOiled eggs are not
half so bad as half boiled ones, and ten
times as easy to digest as raw ones;
and we have no doubt that an animal
may be starved to death by eating only
the raw white of egg; for the same
reason that dogs have been starved by
eating gelatin alone. Only tOothless
babies can digest soft food, such as milk.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14

Two young men in Benzinger town.
ship, named Geo. Sykes and William
Russell met horrible death from the
effects of taking an over dose of phos-
phorous. 1t seems that these young
men had received book from some
miserable quack, recommending phos.
phorus pills as remedy for weak
nerves They purchased a half ounce
OF crude phosphorus, and each of them
swallowed ten or twelve grains of the
fatal drug. They took the dose on
Sunday about 9 A. NJ, and did not feel
any bad effects until four o'clock p. NJ ,
when they were taken with retchings in
the stomach. Their friends did not
feel alarmed, and gave them some. home
remedies for cramps in the stomach.
But on Monday morning the sufferers
confessed that they had taken phos-
phorus, when medical aid was SUM-
mcned (Drs. Reynolds and Sterley,)
who did all they could to alleviate tue
sufferings of their patients, but without
avail, Geo. Sykes expired on Monday
night and William Russell fingered uu-
til Tuesday night in great agony, when
he expired. These are sad cases. Young
Sykes was rather prepossessing boy,
active Intelligent and industrious. His
family consisting of Hather, mothsr
brother and sisters are we'll nigh dis
tracted at this fell misfortune which
has oveataken him. Young Russell we
did not know. We understand he was
the brother-in-law OF Mr.. Baker, gun.
smith in this place.-St. Marys Ga
zette.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
About pleeI teas.

Few persons doubtless are aware Of
the fact that the original inventor of
Steel Pens is still living. Sir Josiah
Mason, now the great pen manufac-
turer of Birmingham, England, enjoys
that distinction. He is now very old,
being above eighty. 1t is in his great
factory that several of the most popular
Of the widely famed Spencerian Double
Elastic Steel Pens are made, the
models being supplied by the proprie-
tors OF the pens, Messrs, Ivison, Blake
man. Taylor & Co., the Educational
Publishers of New York. The Spen-
cerian Pens have attained their great
popularity from a variety Of reasons, all
of which will be apparent to any one
who may try them. OF one pumber
alone more than six millions were sold
last year We use them in our Office,
and are so well pleased with them that
we have no hesitation in saying that
they are, in our opinion, superior to
any o,her article of the kind with
which we are acquainted Their chief
characteristics seem to be fexibility,
elasticity, durability and evenness OF
point, and nearer approximation to
the real quill action than has been here
tofore attained in a steel pen. The
Spencerian are comprised in fifteen
numbers, all differing in Aexibility and
iueness OF point, and for the convenience
of those who wish to try them Messrs
Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor & Co., 1873
and 14O Grand Steet, New York, will
send by mail sample card, securely
enclosed, containing one each of the
different numbers, on receipt of Twenty
five cents.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Notice..
Augl9.3ni

To achom Il may concern:
L. F. s. r, G. Morey have in their posses
sion the following property which belongs
to the undersigned, aud all persons are
hereby warned against purchasing the
same.
One grey horse, one set Of double harness;
2 2shovels, water pail, , beds and bedding,
3 cook, and l coal stove and furniture, 3
pieces of Potatoes, and l piece Of corn In
field, bob sled, grind stone, 2 neck yokes,
l set spreaders. set tackle pullies, Whit
tetree l set dishes, l leg rule, ] lot Of
vegetables IN garden, 3 tables, set Of chairs
wood cb airs, = looking glasses, lot of
chairs aid goods ] basket, crock, Lags. &C.
work stands, lot Of tinware, carpenters
square, set old harness, pair bob seds
a, st. Mary's. b. F. ELY.
Il 32t3
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
"Bantam" Miller has paid an "oli

Bantam" Miller has paid an "off-
cial visit" to the "high school. He was
surprised that the female portion of the
class "know so little about the human
heart and its functions" he has had
much experience in affairs Of the heart
and should have instructed the young
ladies what the human heart was made
for. No wonder, however, they couldn't
recite. being in the presence of such a
giant in intellect as "Bantam," it would
even have frightened county Superin-
tendeut.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Mr.. James Card, who in England,

Mr.. James Card, who in ngland, is
accepted as the most reliable authority
on agricultural questions, has just pub
lished some interesting calculations as
to the wheat crop Of 1875. He shows
that the tall in the price of wheat last
year was followed by a reduction Of
$50, 900 acres in the breadth OF wheat,
or nearly one-tenth of the total wheat
crop in the United Kingdom, and that
there has generally in other countries
been diminished area of wheat. This
year the harvest in this country has
been three weeks later than last. year,
and its introduction to the market
whole month later; and MIR. Card calcu.
lates that, allowing for the surplus from
last year, little more than eleven
months consumption will now have to
be provided for until the next harvest
comes round. This is 22,000,O0O
quarters altogether, half of which will
be got at home, and the rest must he
got from abroad From, Russia and
Germany a liberal supply may be ex-
pected. There is also good stock to
be drawn upon in France, and the tar
mers are holding back tor higher prices