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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

CUTTING AND STORING GEAFTs.-
There is no better time to cut gratis,
says the London garden, than at the
commencement of winter. In cutting
and packing them away, there are some
precautions to be observed. In the
first place, let them be amply and dis
tinctly labeled, as it is very annoying
to find the names gone at the moment
Of using them. For this purpose they
should be tied up in punches, not over
two or three inches in diameter, with
three bands around each bunch-at the
ends and middle. The names may be
written on strip of pine board or lath,
half an inch wide, a tenth of an inch
thick, and nearly as long as the scions.
This, If tied up with the bunch, will
keep the same secure. For convent
ence in quickly determining the name.
there should be another strip of lath,
sharp at one end, and with the name
distinctly written on the other, thrust
into the bundle with the name project
ing from it. If these punches or bun
dies are now placed on end in a box,
with plenty of damp moss between
them and over the top. They will keep
in a cellar in good condition, and any
sort may be selected, and withdrawn
without disturbing the rest, by reading
the projecting label. We have never
found sand, earth, sawdust, or any
other packing substance convenient,
clean, and easily removed as moss, for
packing gratis. 1t is needful, however,
10 keep an occasional eye to them, to
see that the proper degree of moisture
is maintained-wh should be Just
enough to keep them from shriyeling,
and no more.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

The POSSIBILITIES OF PAPKR.-Hardly
a year passes by without some new use
for paper being discovered, the posi-.
bilities of that article seeming yet un,
developed. 1t is now very successfully
used for making buggy boxes, baskets,
betting for machinery, boats, clothing,
and household materials, and in some
branches of trade it is rapidly super
seding wood in the manufacture OF
fancy articles.
According to Dingler's Polytoch-
nisches Journal, if sheet of paper be
immersed in an ammoniacal solution of
copper Qiqueur de schweitzer) prepared
by treating copper filings with ammonia
of 0.SS0 density in contact with air, the
paper becomes entirely impermeable to
water, and maintains its consistency
even under the influence of boiling
water. When two sheets of paper thus
prepared are passed together through
rollers they adhere completely to each
other, and by placing number of such
sheets together board of great solidfty
is obtained, which may be still further
strengthened by the interposition OF
fibres or tissues between the sheets
boards thus formed are quite equal to
wood in solidity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

POWER OF MIND.-One half the men
who become Incorporate are driven
from home because of its lack of con.
geniality. These unhappy homes are
full of scolding and fretfulness. The
mother spends her evening talking
about the unfaithfulness of servants,
and the father nouns about family ex-
penses. And these parents are not
satisfied until their children feel as
badly as they do. For such young
people you need a reading-room. There
is also large class of young men in
boarding-houses who need such re-
sort. In winter they have no fire in
their rooms, and if they want to read in
their parlor they are hindered by groups
Of ladies talking spiritedIy about new
styles of fur, or three or four gentlemen
pay their attentions to lady, each one
determined to stay till the others are
gone. Many of our young men need,
for reading purposes, room well
warmed, well lighted, and quiet, and
they can find it nowhere except in a
public library. Is it now better for
them to resort to such places than to
resort to the pnblic-house?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

BLOOD CoLoRuNG MATTER FREE FROM
IRoN.-Two French chemists announce
that they have obtained the hematic
pigment in state of perfect purity and
free from iron. Hematosine, as it is
termed, burns without ash, similar to
resinous substances. 1t is insoluble in
pure water, and dissolves in small pro-
portion in ammoniacal water, to which
it gives a light yellow tinge. 1t is altered
by potash and caustic soda solutions,
to which it gives brown color, and is
lightly soluble in alcohol. The solvents
of hematosine are ether, chloroferm,
benzine, and bisulphide of carbon.
With these bodies the weak solution is
amber-colored when concentrated,
red.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

RANGE OF ToRPEDoEs.-From expert
ments conducted by an English Tor
pedo Committee against the iron hulk
Oberon, with the view of ascertaining
the maximum distance within which
the engines of an enemy's vessel might
be rendered useless, if not the ship
herself destroyed, by the explosion of a
submarine torpedo, it appears that the
hull of an ironclad is practically safe
from danger at a range of 100 feet from
500 pound charge of gun cotton, ex-
ploded in As feet of water, but that her
engines are liable to arrangement at
that distance.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

FIRE AND WATERPROOF PAIsT.-S Slack
stone lime by putting into a tub,
covered, to keep in the steam; when
Stacked pass the powder through fine
sieve, and to every six quarts add a
quart of rock salt and gallon of water ;
then boil and skim clear to everyfve
gallons of the liquid add pulverized
alum one pound, pulverized copperas
half pound, and still slowly; add
powdered potash three-quarters of a
pound, then very fine sand or hickory
ashes four pounds then use any color
ing matter desired, and apply with a
brush. 1t looks better than any ordinary
paint, and is as durable as slate; will
stop small leaks in roofs, prevent moss
from growing thereon, make it incom-
bustible, and render brick imprevious
to water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

BOILED SHOULDER OF CoD.-Take the
upper half of fresh cod, we'll dressed,
pin in napkin, place in boiling water
with salt, and let it boil thirty or forty
minutes, according to its size. Turn
out a hot platter, and serve only the
fish without skin or bone.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

FAT SHEEP FOR HEAVY FLEECE
There is much said about ewes being
too fat to breed well. In my experience
of twenty years, / have never seen any
thing that led me to think so, providing
the flesh was put on with good pasture
during the summer, and a few roots
with good hay during the winter. The
fatter sheep become under these cir
cnmstances the more valuable | should
consider them. There is time in the
year when it pays better to feed a
small allowance of grain daily than in
the Fall, after the feed gets frozen, and
IL is not necessary to bring the flock to
the barn.
1t is an old saying, that ''sheep well
Novembered are half wintered." Keep
the ewes fat and the lambs will be fat
and feeces heavy. 1 do not say
whether it is better to have the lambs
come early or late, but do say that il
is best to have them fat then whether
early or late they are salabie. All ewes,
that with good care, will not raise a
lamb and shear four pounds washed
wool, should be sold. l have them in
my flock that Will shear nine pounds,
and raise pair of twins, and 1t costs
no more to keep one than sheep that
shears only three pounds. L think no
one will hear the man who keeps his
flock in this way, complaining that his
sheep are run out" and do not pay and
the like.
Ticks must be kept out of the flock
they are the worst enemy of the sheep.
If they are not killed they will destroy
the sheep. For killing them / have
never tried anything better than strong
tobacco juice.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

CLOTHES TAsEE. The he's, ia n. poorldl (Un,ver
sail for general is sold at $40: weighs but four
pounds. Easier than by hand, and less Of the
gods. Send for circulars to J. X. DUGDALE, White
water, Wayne Co, Ind. 1t
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

CELLARs.-Damp cellars are deep
cellars with bad ventilation. To avoid
this, the cellar should be mainly above
ground, not excavating more than one
to two feet at most below the surface.
If the walls are made of brick, there
should be hollow space of four inches;
and, In that case, the wall need be only
four inches on each side; that is, the
whole thickness of the wall, including
the hollow space, Iced be only one foot.
The windows should be large, say six
lights of ten by twelve glass, with
shutters on the outside of these the
cellar will need no other protection in
the average climate of our country, but
might where it is very cold. To keep
such a cellar cool in summer, we close
the shutters during the warm part of
the day and open them at night. The
cool night-air remains in the cellar
through the day and at night is re-
plenished with fresh supply. The
hues should go down into the cellar,
and, by leaving the stove-pipe-holes
open, free circulation is created. /
have a milk-room eighteen by twenty
four feet in the cellar that is thus ven-
tilated, and the room is always cool In
summer and flies are kept out of it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

If YOU have any difficulty in making
wall paper stick to walls that have been
whitewashed, it can be easily remedied
by making a sizing of common glue and
water, and applying with brush to the
walls, and if your paste be good the
paper will remain firm for years.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A SANDY or gravelly soil is usually
best adapted to the use of plaster, but
it is found beneficial upon any soil
abounding in vegetable matter. Aclay
soil has the power of absorbing ammo
mia from the air, which is one of the
offices of plaster, and therefore plaster
is not as beneficial upon a clayey as a
sandy soil.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A BAD style of an arithmetic-Div
sion among families.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06
DOMESTIC.

PARASITES IN BIRD -CAGEs.-Many a
person has watched with anxiety and
care a pet canary, goldfinch, or other
tiny favorite evidently in a state OF
perturbation, plucking at himself con-
tinually. his feathers standing all wrong,
always fidgetting about, and every way
looking very seedy. In vain is his food
changed, and in vain is another saucer
of clean water always kept in his cage,
and all that kindness can suggest for
the little prisoner done but still all is
of no use, he is no better-and why ?
because the cause of his wretchedness
has not been found ont, and until it is,
other attempts are but vain. If the
owner of pet in such difficulties will
take down the cage and cast his or her
eyes up to the roof thereof, there will
most likely be seen mass of stuff look
ing as much like red rust as anything /;
and from thence comes the cause of the
poor birds uneasiness. The red rust Is
nothing more nor less than myriads of
parasites infesting the bird, and for
which water is no remedy. There is,
however, a remedy, and one easily pro-
durable in a moment-fire. By pro-
curing lighted candle and holding it
under every particle of the top of the
cage, till all chance of anything being
left alive is gone, the remedy is COM
plete. The pet will soon brighten up
again after his "house-warming," and
will in his cheerful and delightful way
thank his master or mistress over and
over again for this, though slight, to
him, important assistance.-Land a..i
Water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

POULTRY MANAGEMENT.-TheP Poultry
World tells us of very successful pro-
ducer of poultry and eggs whose hens
ay regularly the year round. The
hens are of various breeds and their
profit is credited to the manner of feed
ing, as follows: Not one particle OF
meat or scraps is given, and but the
veriest trifle of vegetable food is fed
in the shape of few boiled potatoes,
about once a week. Abundance OF
grain is allowed, of various sorts,
ground and unground, but never cooked
and plenty of unburnt oyster shells,
pounded, are at all times accessible.
They have pailful of SKINNED milk
every day, so that they can help them
selves to all they want, no other drink
being provided.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A SINGULAR REMEDY.-An exchange
gives the following simple application
for the toothsche, on the principle, if
no cure, no charge for the advice. If
any of your readers suffer from tooache
or neuralgia affections arising from teeth
in any stage of decay, they may ex-
perience relief instantaneous and per-
manent, by saturating a small bit of
clean cotton or wool with strong solu-
ton of ammonia, and apply it immedi-
ately to the affected tooth. The pleasant
contrast instantaneously produced
sometimes causes fit of laughter, al
though a moment before extreme suffer
ing and anguish prevailed. / have used
the remedy for over one year, and /
have obtained sufficient proof to warrant
publication.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A FAMOUS banker was busily writing
a letter at desk in his office, when a
well dressed stranger entered. "Take
chair, sir, please" says the banker,
81 will finish my letter i'll a moment. p"
''Do you know who 1 am, sir?" cries
the stranger, drawing himself up, 81
am Lord =, Minister Plenipotentiary
to-" etc. ''Oh are you indeed ?"
was the bankers reply. "Then pray,
take two chairs"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

NOTHING so much destroys mans
peace of mind as to hear a woman ex-
press an intention to give him a piece
of hers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

ALASKA AGRICULTURE.-A visitor to
this far off region writes There is a
general impression that nothing will
grow in Alaska, and that it is a region
of hostile winter and savage icebergs,
all of which is extravagant nonsense.
On open land and along the streams,
succulent grass grows luxuriantly, and
sometimes to height of three feet and
a half. Red-top and wild timothy
abound on the island, and in the main
land something very like Kentucky blue
grass grows extensively. Considerable
hay has been made this year, the hay
ing season being nearly the same as in
Oregon. Heretofore the Government
has been paying $40 ton for imported
hay, but this year the natives are cut
ting and storing native hay for about
$50 a ton in currency. Barley was
raised last year and it yields as well as
elsewhere. Potatoes, turnips, onions,
and the like have all been produced on
the islands and generally turn out as
in other places.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

THE fastest city in the wOrld-Elec
tricity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

STEwARDEss. stewardess, called Mrs
Timidity from her state-room one night
aboard an English steamer, ''come here
quick, the ships side has cracked. 4"
The stewardess rushed in in a great
state of excitement only to find that the
water pitcher, carelessiy left on the
lounge, had jumped into Mrs. Timid-
ity's berth, and somewhat saturated
the old lady.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

WoMAN's impulsiveness in forming
conclusions is well illustrated in the
following note from Brooklyn gentle
man: 81 was relating at tea a moment
ago, the account in the papers of the
collision on the Chesapeake. How did
you say the passengers were saved 2
asked my wife. why, the Falcon, the
other boat, took them off, 1 replied.
My! she said, what fortunate
thing that other boat happened to be
Just there"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

LIQUID MANURE IN THE GREENHOUSE
Manure is best applied to plants in
pots in liquid form. That obtained
from sheep dropping or from COW dung
with little SCOT added if it can be
had) is preferable to that obtained from
chicken or pig manure, guano or even
horse droppings it is less stimulating
and does not cause such an excessive
leaf and stem growth, or produce as
serious injury if incautiously applied.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A YANKEE gentleman. escortlng a
British friend to view the different
objects of attraction in the vicinity of
Boston, brought him to Bunker Hill.
They stood looking at the splendid
monument, when the Yankee said
"This is the place where Warren fell. u
" All !" replied the Englishman, evi-
IDENTIFY not posted In local historical
matters, "did it hurt him much p
Hurt him y said he, che was killed.
sir" ''Ah, he was eh?" said the
stranger, still cycling the monument,
and computing its height layer by
layer. swell, 1 should think he would.
have been, to fall so far"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

THE only unoccupied real estate in
New York is advertised thus "a nice
three cornered lot in a cemetery, short
and, just right for fat man with only
one leg"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A YOUNG lady, known as a regular
chatter-box, having monopolized the
conversation for the first half hour at
table, asked Quaker present how he
liked tongue, remarking at the same
time that she had prepared it in several
tempting ways; to which he meekly
replied "In repose. A slight lull in
conversation followed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

You've people who are troubled with
a cough can be greatly relieved by mix
ing spoonful of honey with water and
drinking it before retiring to bed. The
"honey" extracted at the front gate,
between ten and eleven o'clock, is what
causes that cough, as a general thing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

IT Is remarkable fact, that one who
loves his mother, who honors that
mothers memory, is never bad man,
she is never o bad woman. Tell me
how young woman treats her mother,
and will tell you what her general
character is. Tell me how a young man
treats his mother, and I will tell you
what his future prospects are for time
and eternity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

Two YOUNG gentlemen were looking
at fashionable ladies promenading in
front of a fashionable hotel. One OF
them asked the other why he did not
get married. "You have got money
enough" said he, ito feed a wife. -
"Yes," replied the other, "but have
not money enough to clothe her,"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A HUMOROUS old man fell in with an
ignorant and rather impertiuent young
minister, who proceeded to inform the
old gentleman, in positive terms, that
he could never reach heaven unless he
was born again, and added: 81 have
experienced that change, and now feel
no anxiety. ," "And have you been born
again % said his companion musingly.
"Well," said the old gentleman, eyeing
him attentively, "I don't think it would
hurt you to be born once more"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

An AMBITIOUS Biddy, applying for a
cooks situation the other day, was I'M
fortunately a little too glib in self
praise for her own interest, when, in
reply to the inquiry if she could pre-
pare a dinner of three courses, said she
could ''purvide dinner nv a dozen
courses, or ayen twinty, no matter how
many, if the butcher STINT the'cOorses in
sayson-for there was niver the coorse
L couldn't cook-sure it's a coorse cook
L am entirely" mo doubt" replied
the lady, entirely too coarse for me. ]"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A HUMOROUS old gentleman, having
handed a few coppers to an itinerant
music-grinder, has entered the disburse-
ment in his petty expenses book as
"organic change |"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

A LITTLE boy asked lady who made
her teeth. 'My Creator" she replied.
swell" said the youngster, "Dr.-
made my mas, and they beat your'n
clean out o'sight."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

QUICK TME.-A gentleman was one
day arranging music for lady to whom
he was paying his attention. "Pray,
Miss d., said he, "what time do yOu
prefer ?" co." she replied carelessly,
''any time will do; but the quicker the
better"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06

The celebrated Chesterfield is said to
have died with witticism on his lips.
When told that he was dying by inches,
ne thanked heaven that he was not so
tall by foot and half as Sir Thomas
Robinson.