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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

When Luther began the important
part of his public career in 1917, by
mailing to the church door his ninety
five theses against the sale of indulgen-
ces, wood engraving was an art which
had been practiced nearly century.
He found also as We have seen, a
public accustomed to satirical writings
illustrated by wood-cuts. The great
Holbein illustrated Erasmus Praise
of Folly. Brandt's Ship Of Fools, as
well as the litter of works which il
called forth, was even profusely illus
trated. Caricatures as distinct works,
though usually accompanied with
abundant verbal commentary, were
familiar objects. Among the curiosi-
ties which Luther himself brought from
Rome in 1910, some years before he
began his special work, was a carica-
ture suggested by the Ship Of Fools,
showing how the Pope had fooled the
whole world by his superstitions and
idolatries." he showed it to the Prince
Elector of SaxOny at the time. The
picture exhibited a little ship filed
with monks, friars and priests casting
lines to persons in the sea, while in the
stern sat comfortable the Pope with
his cardinals and bishops, overshadowed
and covered by the Holy Ghost, who
was looking mp to heaven, and through
whose help alone the drowing wretches
we're saved.
In talking about the picture many
years after, Luther said, "These and
the like fooleries We then believed as
articles of faith" He had not reached
the point when he could talk at his own
table of the cardinal as "peevish milk
sops, effeminate, unlearned bloekheads
whom the Pope places in the kingdoms
where they lie lolling in kings courts
among the ladies and women"
Finding this weapon of caricature
ready made to his hands, he used it
freely, as did also his friends and foes.
he was himself caricaturist. When
Pope Clement VII. seemed disposed to
meet the reformers halfway, and pro
posed council to that end, Luther
wrote pamphlet ridiculing the scheme
and to give more force to his satire he
"caused a picture to be drawn" and
placed in the title-page. 1t was not
work describable to the fastiduous ears
of our century, unless we leave part of
the description in Latin. The Pope
was seated on lofty throne surrounded
by cardinals having foxes tails. and
seeming 'Sursion ct deorsum repur-
gare." In the Table Talk We read
also of a picture being brought to
Luther in which the Pope and Judas
we're represented hanging to the purse
and keys, Twill vex the Pope horribly
said Luther, "that he whom emperor's
and kings have worshipped should now
be figured hanging upon his own pick
locks, "-Hdrper's Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

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all human ailments. Its symptoms are
almost infinite in their variety, and the
forlorn and despondent victims OF the
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05
MISCELLANY.
A Rhy ming History OF England

The invasion of Britain by Cesar the
bold
Was fifty-fye years ante-Christ, we
are told;
The date of the Saxon invasion is
gwen,
The figures are Ammo d., four forty
seven,
Another grand fact. and its date / allix,
The battle of Hastings is ten SiXty-slX,
Then Harold was killed, and the Nor
man is king,
And William the heCOnqueTOTdoth change
every thing;
King John and the haTOns at last are
agreed,
For council. to meet in the vale Runni
And there Magma CLdrio, in twelve and
fifteen,
Was signed, on the fifteenth of June,
on the green.
Then Henry the Seventh the king is
alive,
And comes TO his throne in fourteen
eighty-five;
The long wars of Roses, the red and
white, cease
The mobiles depressed-the people have
peacei
Elizabeth, Queen in fifteen fifty weight,
Ascends to her throne and her regal
estate;
Then Charles, who was first, must his
scepter resign,
With his head taken off in sixteen
fOrtY-nine,
Confessing his sorrow, with life,s latest
breath,
His conscience condemning for Stat
fOrd's sad death.
The Commonwealth Parliament, six
teen fifty-three,
By Cromwell dissolved, then ceases to
be,
And he, the sole head and Protector of
State,
Dies. worn out with troubles, in six
teen fifty-eight.
In sixteen and sixty the Kingdoms re
stored,
Republican factions forgotten, ignored.
And Charles, now the second, begin
meth lis reign,
And the regicides, ten, by his order are
slain.
And then revolution and change to the
state
Comes on with the year of sixteen
lightweight
King James, who was second, abandons
his throne;
Prince William of Orange Teigns mon
arch alone.
Then William and Mary their destinies
twine,
Uniting their glories sixteen eighty
nine.
Theu Anne succeeds TO the hOnors of
Queen,
But the years of her glory are only
thirteen.
And then comes the Georges, First
Second and Third,
And their wars with the nations, of
which you have heard.
The French do their Canada province
resign
Defeated in seventeen fifty and nine.
The tyrant, King George, Is IN a bad
fix
In seventeen hundred and seventy-siN !
American subjects declare they are
From British oppression and tax upon
tea;
The seven-years' struggle is ended and
done
In seventeen hundred and eighty and
one.
Napoleon, emperor in eighteen and
four, ..-
Has made many conquests is still
seeking more:
But BOnaparte loses in eighteen and
fifteen,
And Waterloo withers his laurels so
green.
In eighteen and thirty the "Bill of Re
form
Grows out of debate and Parliament
storm.
Victoria governs in thilty and seven
As England's fair Queen, with tine
blessing of Heaven.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05
YOItaire and Rousseau.

Everybody in the full tide of the eigh-
teenth century had something to do
with Voltaire, from serious personages,
like Frederick the Great and Turgot,
down to the sorriest pOetaster who sent
his verses to be corrected or bepraised.
Rousseau's debt to him in the days of
his uniformed youth We have already
seen, as we'll as the courtesies with
which they approached one another
when Richelieu employ ed the struggling
musician TO make some notifications In
the great mans unconsidered court
piece. Neither of them then dreamed
that their two names were destined to
form the great literary antithesis of the
century. In the ten years that elapsed
between their first interchange of letters
and their first fit of cOldness, it must
have been tolerably clear to either of
them, if either of them gave thought to
the matter, that their dissidence was
methods were different, their training
different, their points of view different,
and, above all these things, their tenn
persments were different by a whole
heavens breadth.
A great number of excellent and
pointed half-truths have been uttered
by various persons in illustration of all
these contrasts, as that the philosophy
of Voltaire is that of the happy, while
Rousseau is the philosopher of the un-
happy that Voltaire steals away their
faith from those who doubt, while
Rousseau strikes doubt into the mind
of the unbeliever that the gsyety of
the one saddens, while the sadness of
the other consoles. If we pass from the
marked divergence IN the tendencies OF
the work of these two extraordinary
writers, which is imperfectly limited at
In such sayings as these, to the diver
gence between them in all the fundamen.
tai conditions of intellectual and moral
life, the variation which divided the
revolutionary stream into two channels,
flowing broadly apart, through unlike
regions and climates, down 20 the great
sea, is Ineligible enough. Voltsire
was the arch-representative of all those
elements in contemporary thought, its
curiosity, irreverence, intrepidity, VI
vaciousness, nationality, to which, as
we have so often had to say, Rousseau's
temperament and his Genevese spirit
made him profoundly antipathetic. He
was the great high-priest, robed in the
dazzling vestments of poetry, and
philosophy, and history, of that very
religion of knowledge and art which
Rousseau declared to be the destroyer
of the felicity of men. The glitter has
faded away from Voltaire's philosophi
cal raiment since those days, and his
laurel -bough lies little leafiess. This
cannot make us forget that he was III
his day and generation one of the sover-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

Tho London Garden copies from
PsIorsve's work on Central and East
ON i-abis- an account of q plant whose
Goods produce effects similar to tnose
~ Iangbine gas. 1t is o native OF
Arabia A dwarf variety OF it Is iouna
at Ksseem, and another variety ~
Oman. which attains to Q nelgnt ol
from three 10 four feet, with ~oooy
stems. wide-spreading branches, anu
bright green foliage. Its flowers are
produced in clusters, and OF bright
yellow color. The seed pods are sois
and woolly in texture. and contain TWO
or three seeds of the size and shape OF
a French bean. Their flavor Is little
like that of opium, and their taste Is
sweet the odor from them produces
sickening sensation and is slightly of-
feusiye.-The seeds contain the essen
t;aI property of this extraordinary
plant ; and, when pulverized and taken
in small doses. operate on q person In
a most peculiar manner. he beglns 10
laugh loudly, boisterously then ne
sings. dances, and cuts all manner OF
fantastic cspers. Such extravaganza
of gesture and manner was never pro
duced by any other kind OF dosing.
The effect continues about an hour,
and the patient is uproariously comi-
cal. When the excitement ceases, the
exhausted exhibitor fails into deep
sleep, which continues for an hour or
more and when he awskens, he is ut
terIy unconscious that any such de-
monstrations have been enacted by
him. We usually say that there Is
nothing new under the sun but this
peculiar plant, recently discovered, as
Il exercises the most extraordinary IN
fuence over the human brain, demands
from men of science careful investl-
cation.
Life runs not smoothly at all seasons
even with the happiest but after a
long course the rocks subside, the
views widen, and it flows on more
enuabiy at the end.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05
What he Reserved.

The anecdote, related of John Jacob
Astor, as follows, may be known to
many of our readers I'm public con-
veyance, on a certain occasion, Mr..
Astor overheard a young man express
ing the wish that he could possess that
old mans wealth. whereupOn Mr.. A.
turned to the speaker, and said to him,
Young man, l sometimes feel weary,
and would gladly throw OFF my load.
For what will you take charge of my
business, and take care of my property.
watching with ever-vigilant eye that
there be no leak-no mistake; and at
the end of each quarter rendering up a
clear and sure balance sheetf'
The young man opened wide his eyes.
He knew not what tn say Said Mr..
Astor,-"lf you are capable, and will
do this, will pay you your absolute
necessary expenses of living"
As may be supposed, the young man
expressed his surprise in his looks,
which the old merchant
simply added-"Ihdt's all 1 GET
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05
POETRY.
BEAUTY OR FIDELITY.

Now the moon has kissed the sea,
And the waves, all tremblingly,
Throw aloft their silvery arms,
Full Of love and ecstasy.
But the stars, they only weep;
Grieving tears fa1 from each eye !;
All unheeded by the sea
Is their sorrowiDg jealousy.
Sea and moon and trembling stars
Love, and give of love again
Stars and moon and loving main,
All must taste Of jealous pain.
Love is measured but b. this
Burning pain Of jealousy;
Love that feels no fear at all
Would not be the love for me-
the sea, and he the moon,
/ the moon, and he the sea
Or the jealous, hopeless stars
Never one shall know from me;
But when the moon has gone away
To other seas-may 1t be soon--
Then the sea will softly say:
Stars are trner than a moon.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

How SALT FISH SHOULD BE FRESH
ESED.-MaDy persons are in the habit
of freahening mackerel or other salt
fish. and never dreamed that there is
right and a wrong way to do it. Any
persons who has seen the process of
evaporation going on at the salt works,
knows that the salt falls to the bottom.
Just so it is in the pan where the
mackerel or white fish lies soaking /;
and as it lies with the skin side down,
the salt will fall to the skin and there
remain, when, if placed with the flesh
side down, the salt falls to the bottom
of the pan, and the fish comes out
freshened as 1t should be. In the other
case, it is nearly as salt as when put in.
If you do not believe this, test the
matter for yourself.-PtaRter and
Farmer
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

THE --LATEST NOVELTY IN PAPER.-In.
asmuch as paper has been made avail
able for the manufacture of almost
every variety of furniture and articles
of dress, it is passing strange that paper
collins should have been left till this
late day unthought of. The under
taker is certainly not an enterprising
party. Trunk makers have long been
credited with using all the unstable
printed books but at the present rate
of production, where every traveller
supplied with a van load of these trou-
blesome impedimenta to travelling,
such a stock would remain that all
the bookshelves in the world would not
contain a tithe of them. To further
reduce the stock, a manufacturer out
West proposes to supply every jour
meyer, to that bourne whence no trsv-
eler returns, with last trunk made of
papier mache, waterproofed with as
phaltum.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

A SAFETY LIGHT.-A contrivance,
said to be used by the watchmen of
Paris in all places where infammable
or explosive matter is stored or used, is
constructed in the following manner :
Into an oblong vial of clear glass piece
of phosphorus about the size of a pea
is put, and the vial then filed one-third
full of olive oil heated to the boiling
point, after which it is sealed her
metically. To obtain light the cork is
removed to allow the influx of air, after
which it is replaced, and the empty
space becomes luminous, with radi
ance equal to that of lamp. If the
light grows dim, more air is admitted.
In cold weather it is sometimes neces-
sary to warm the vial a little to increase
the huidity of the oil. 1t is said that
vial prepared in this manner may be
used six months without replenishing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

BEET CIDER-M. Plouard, a lawyer
of Andelys, France, has invented new
cider, said to be very cheap and Of ex-
cellent fiavor-the peculiarity of which
is that a large proportion of sugar beets
is mixed with theapples before pressing;
S0ibs. of beets are mixed with 700
quarts of apples, or about IL lbs. to 100
quarts. The beets and apples are
pressed together, then saturated with
water, left quiet in cellar for twenty
four hours, and pressed anew. This is
repeated seven times. The inventor
says he makes 100 quarts of cider for
so cents, which seems rather questiona-
BILE.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

The EYES IN DKEP-SEA CREATURES.
In his "Notes from the Challenger"
Wyville Thomson says : The absence
of eyes in many deep-sea animals and
their full development in others is very
remarkable. 1 have mentioned the case
of one of the stalk-eyed crustaceaps,
Ettusa granulota, in which well-de-
veloped eyes are present in examples
from shallow water. In deeper water,
from ITO to $40 fathoms, eye-stalks are
present, but the animal is apparently
blind, the eyes being replaced by
rounded, calcareous terminations to the
stalks. In examples from 500 to 200
fathoms, in another locality, the eye
stalks have lost their special character.
have become fixed, and their termina-
tions combine into a strong, pointed
rostrum. In this case we have gradual
modification, depending apparently
upon the gradual diminutioD and final
disappearance of solar light. On the
other hand M,mida, from equal depths,
has its eyes unusually developed, and
apparently of great delicacy. Is it
possible that in certain cases, as the
suns light diminishes, the power of
vision becomes more acute, while at
length the eye becomes susceptible of
the stimulus of the fainter light of
phosphorescence?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

PETROLEUM IN ALGIERs. petroleum
well, capable of giving large and pay
ing yield, has recently been discovered
in Algiers, neer the plain of Cheliff.
The substance looks like tar. is soft and
very tenacious, melts in boiling water,
and dissolves in turpentine. 1t burns
with very bright flame, and yields a
large variety of products and consider
able carbonaceous residue on distilla-
ton. 1t is neither tar, naphtha. btu
men, nor asphalt, but seems to possess
the properties of all, in measure. 1t
has most characteristics in common
with naphtha, but. unlike that sub
stance, is almost completely insoluble
in alcohol.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBA.-A Saxon
forester named Gastelo, now eighty-two
years of age, unwilling to take to the
grave with him a secret of importance,
has made public, in the LEIPZIG Jour
nal, the means he has used for fifty
years, wherewith he affirms he has saved
many hundred human beings and cattle
from the fearful death of hydrophobia !:
Take Immediately warm vinegar or
tepid water, wash the wound clean with
it and wipe dry, then ponr on the wound
few drops of hydrochloric acid, as
mineral acids destroy the poison of the
saliva, by which means the latter is
neutraliZed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

ANAKESIS is without dOubt, the
most infallibie, easy and scientific cure
for PILES ever discovered. 10000 CRATE
full patients attest its virtues, and ply
sicians of all schools endorse It unequi-
vocaly. Lotions, Ointments and elec-
tuaries are only a waste of time and
money. ANAkESlS relieves pain at
once and cures absolutely. lt is the
discovery of DIR. SILsBEE, a scientific
physician, and has been pronounced
the greatest contribution to medicine
of the age. Price 81. Sent free by
mail on receipt of price, Depot, 46
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

LIEUT.. CAMERoN's survey map of
Lake Tanganyika has reached England.
1t gives the entire coast line of this
inland sea. 1t is said that In some
parts it differs somewhat from Living
stones map; but the chief novelty, the
outlet to the lake discovered by Cam
eron, is laid down with great clearness
and is shown as issulng as a we'll
marked river, from the bottom of a
broad blight in the western shore. This
map is being engraved, and will be
issued with the next number of the
proceedings of the Royal Geographical
Society.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

THE Detroit Free Press says a con-
templated change of Postmaster at
Detroit made stamps no cheaper than
before, The Detroit Tribune, however,
says "The fact that you can now buy
two stamps for five cents at the Detroit
Post Office is sufficient to refute this
slander. One of the stamps. by the
way, must be two-cent stamp"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

AT LAST here is a new fancy in the
prestidigitation line. He borrowed a
bonnet from a lady in the audience, and
as he was about to return it, it caught
fire in the gas, and he had to stamp on
it with both feet to extinguish the
flame. Misery of the lady 1t was her
best bonnet. Then he fired a pistol,
and a bonnet just like it fell from the
chandelier in the middle of the theatre.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05
SCIENTIFIC.

INTERESTING FACTS IN PHYsIoLoGf.-
Why do some substances taste sweet,
others sour, others salt, &c? 1t is be-
ieved that the impressions of taste
arise from the various forms of the
atoms of matter presented to the nerves
of the tongue.
Why if we put nub of sugar to the
tip of the tongue has it NO taste? Be-
cause the guststory nerves are not dis
tributed to that part of the tongue.
Why do we feel? Because there are
distributed to various parts of the body
fine filaments, which have for their spe-
cial duty the transmission to the brain
of impressions made upon them by con-
tact with substances.
In what parts of the body does the
sense of touch more especially reside ?
In the points of the fingers and in the
tongue.
Why do persons whose legs and arms
have been amputated fancy they feel the
toes or fingers of the amputated limb
Because the nervous trunk which form
erly conveyed impressions from those
extremities remains in the part of the
limb attached to the body. The mind
has been accustomed to refer the i'm
pulses received through that nervous
trunk to the extremity where the SEN
sation arose and now that the nerve
has been cut, the painful sensation
caused thereby is referred to the ex-
tremity which the nerve supplied, and
the sufferers for time appear to con-
tinue to feel the part which they have
lost.
Why do we perspire? Because the
skin is filled with very minute pores
which act as outlets for portion of the
blood that serves to moisten and cool
the surface of the body, and to carry
away some of the matter no longer
needed in the system.
How is the perspiration formed By
very small glands which lie embedded
in the skin. 1t is estimated that there
are about 2, 400, 900 perspiratory glands
over the surface of the body, and that
these glands find outlets for their secre-
ton through no less than seven millions
of pores.
What is insensible perspiration In
sensible perspiration is that transmits
sion of watery particles through the
skin which is constantly going on, but
which takes place SO gently that it can
not be perceived. 1t is, however, very
important in its results, as no less than
from twenty to thirty-three ounces of
water may pass imperceptibly through
the skin in twenty-four hours.
What is sensible perspiration Sen
sible perspiration is that moisture which
exudes upon the skin in drops large
enough to be perceptible. when the body
is heated by exercise or other means.