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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12
A Sure Helper.

How often We say, in great anxiety,
who shall roll away the stone ?" and
when We look again, behold "the stone
is rolled away" though it was very
great. Every time God helps us out
Of difficulty, we should return and
give glory to Him, and then 90 on our
way with Joy and fresh courage. We
should often review the circumstances
and see how God was at work for us,
maybe in distant places at the very
time of our trouble how He was or
dering events and disposing of mems
wills, so as to bring us just the help
we needed. 1t is un- Christian to call
all these occurrences chance of good
luck. "An our steps are numbered. I"
Let us learn to see Gods hand in all
that befalls us. An old man who had
been long engaged in business said, 81
have had my ups and downs. but as 1 re-
view my life, those things which l
thought at the time, most against me,
have proved the best for me even tenn
porally, besides teaching me submis-
sion to Him who rules the world"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12
POEfRY.
HONE.

There is Q ample little word
Oh, ne'er It's charms destroy,
Threughout the universe It's heard
And nowhere but with joy;
There's music in its meagrefow,
Wherever we may roam
The dearest, sweetest sound below
That little word is Home!
care not where may be its site,
Or rooted with straw or tile,
So that the hearth FIRE burns more bright
Meath voman's radiant smile:
Affection on her fondest wing
VIII to its portals fy.
And hope viii far more sweetly sing
When that blest place 10 nigh.
1t may be fancy-it may be
Something far nobler-fsr;
But Love is my divinity,
And Home is my polar star.
oh, sever not Homes sacred tie-!
They are not things Of air;
The great and learned, and the wise
All had their teachings there
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

LEAcHEp AsHEs.-After the farmers
family have made soap (as is a common
practice in timbered country, there
remains hopper full of leached ashes
which have a higher value as manure
than is generally believed. A writer
in the Country Gentleman tells his
readers that he has used an average of
1000 bushels yearly, for the past seven
years at q cost of 25 cents per bushel
at the railroad station, about two miles
distant. This he says may seem a
high price to many of your readers.
Yet we have found their use profitable.
Our land is what would be termed
hard-weed soil-the higher portion
gravel, the lower clay loan, inclined to
be coarse and lumpy. We have made
and saved all the yard manure we could
and have taken pains 70 increase our
supply. We pillow and dress literally
with this. After narrowing, apply $50
bushels of ashes to the acre, working
them well into the soil with the har-
row. Then SOW to grass. Where the
land is too high to SOW grass seeds
alone, we SOW in spring with oats, and
cut them in the milk for fodder, which
when well cured, makes excellent feed,
and leaves a good stand of grass. We
get from one and one-half to two tons
to the acre, for seven or eight years.
The first two or three or four years,
two crops are cut in q season. There
is great good sense in the above named
practice. In New England farmers pay
cfxv oapko a eba1 fov ho ri n ohaa that
have not been dipped.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

GREASE THE NAILs.-One of the tech
nical journals says: Every farmer who
has had occasion to drive q nail into
seasoned oak posts knows its liability
to bend and break. If the point be
moistened in the mouth it will usually
drive more kindly. Oil is still better,
but then it is inconvenient, to dip each
nail separately into it.-Another point
observed is that boards become loose
eventually from the rusting of the
nails, which, communicating to the
wood, causes not only an enlargement
of the nail hole, but the wearing away
of the nail itself, rendering the fence
shaky and insecure. This may be pre-
vented by heating any rough grease
until it smokes, and then pouring it
over the nails to be used. The grease
will penetrate the pores of the iron,
and cause the nails to last, without
rusting, an indefinite period. Besides
this, no trouble will then be expert
enced in driving them into the hardest
wood. The reason is that the coating
of grease prevents contact Of the air,
and, consequently, oxidation. Oxygen
is the great destroyer of iron, and
moisture is the inducing cause.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A letter writer in Constantinople
says: "One of the perplexing things
is the computation of time. The
Turks reckon from the flight Of the
prophet from Mecca, and il takes 537
Turkish years to make 521 Of our years.
At sunset of each day watches and
clocks are set to mark II O'Clock, and
until the twelfth hour after sunset the
hands on the dial indicate the time
that has elapsed since sunset. After
that hour they indicate the number Of
hours that will intervene before sunset
Of the neIt day plus or minus the daily
variation in the length Of the days.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

BARS OR GATKs.-Bars at the en-
frances to the fields are far from being
as cheap as gates, although gates cost
more than bars. The time lost in tax
ing down and putting up bars in year
would pay fer several gates. But gates
need to be well constructed, and of
such kind that they cannot swing
open of themselves or be opened by
cattle rubbing against them. The
safest gate is one that slides upon roll
ers at the bottom of the posts upon q
plank laid upon the grounds in the way
that barn doors are sometimes made
to do. Running between double posts
at each end, il may be made to open
either way, and if made of light strips
of wood, fastened with light carriage
bolts, is easily handled and cheaply
made.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A LITTLE ADVICE TO FARMERS. Help
your wives in every way you can, tri-
vial though it may seem to you. For
instance, keep an extra pair Of shoes OF
slippers in the hall or entry, and al
ways remember to change your dirty
boots before entering her clean rooms.
Then you may be sure of q smile OF
welcome, as no dirt will be left after
you for her to clean up. In the even.
ing comb your hair as carefully as you
ever did in your counting days. Put
on a clean coat or dressing-gown, and
when you take your paper to read, do
not read to yourself and leave her to
lonesome thoughts while sewing and
mending, but remember that she, too,
has been working hard all day, and is
still working. Read to her whatever
interests you, so that her interests and
opinions may grow with yours, and
that she may comprehend something
besides love stories, which too many
have read more than they should. You
will both be happier, and being q far
mer's or mechanics wife will not be
such q dreadful tiresome and lonely
life as many girls have every reason to
think it is.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

START THE PLANTS EARLY.-Almost
everybody nowadays sows seeds of
early vegetables either in hotbeds or in
pots or boxes within doors, long before
it can be done in the open ground.
The crop, or period of use and ripen-
ing, can be hastened one or two months
by this forcing process. and this is
worth striving for in q cold climate
where the seasons are none too long
for producing a satisfactory crop Of
annual fruits, and vegetables. But
while We are making preparations to
satisfy the stomach, it is well to re-
the organs of sight, and put in
q few flower seeds at the same time
Moore's Rural.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

To CURE RoUP IN FowLs.-Wash the
eye, mouth, and nostrils. with Q solu-
tion of chloride of zinc, ounce in q
pint of water, by means of . feather.
The cause is frequently cold, infams-
tion resulting from feeding too much
grain, foul unventilated quarters, OF
over crowding. One of the symptoms
Of roup is inAsmmation of the eye,
with swelling and discharge Of fetid
matter. Unless some remedy il ap-
piled, the eye is destroyed or the bird
dies.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12
Dyspepsia! Dyspepsia
Dyspepsia!

Dyspepsia is the most perplexing of
all human ailments. Its symptoms are
almost infinite in their variety, and the
forlOrn and Respondent victims of the
disease often fancy themselves the
prey, in turn, of every known malady.
L his Is due, In part, to the close sym
pathy which exists between the stOm
ach and the brain, and in part also to
the fact that any disturbance of the
digestive function necessarily disorders
the liver, the bowels and the nervous
system, and effects, to some extent, the
quality of the blood.
E. +. Kunkers Bitter Wine of Iron
a sure cure. This is not a new prepar-
alton, to be tried and found wanting {:
it has been prescribed daily for many
years In the practice OF eminent physl-
clans with unparalleled success; il is
not expected or intended to cure all
the diseases to which the human family
Is subject, but is warranted to cure
Dyspepsia IN Its most obstinate form.
kunkers Bitter Wine of Iron never
fails to cure Symptoms of Dyspepsia or
loss of appetite, wind and rising of the
food, dryness of the mouth, heartburn,
distensiOn of the stomach and bowels,
constipation, headache, dizziness, sleep
remedy and be convinced of its merits.
Get the genuine. Take only Kunkers,
which Is put only in 81 bottles. Depot,
259 North Ninth Street. Philadelphia.
For sale by all Druggists and dealers
everywhere.
TAPEwoRM REMOVED ALIvE.-Head
and all complete, in two hours. No fee
till head passes. Seat. Pin and StOm
ach Worms removed by DIR. KUNKEL,
$50 y. NINTH STREET. Advice free.
Come, see over 1000 specimens and be
convinced. He never fails.
THE GREAT PILE REMEDY, ANAKE-
SIS, the discovery of DR.. SIIsBEE. is
entitled to be called the wonder of the
age. 10000 grateful sufferers bless the
only infallible remedy for PILES ever
introduced, only those who have used
lotions, Ointments and internal reme-
dies in vain, will understand the CRATE
full feeling of instant relief from pain
and bliSful hope of certain cure for
the terrible disease, that ANAKESIS
assures. IL is used by Doctors of all
schools. Price 81. Depot, 46 Walker
St., New York. Sent free by mail on
receipt of price, 12
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12
T n E
GRhAF
RUSSIAN SPECIFIC
CURES
RHEUMATISM
AND
NJ EUR ALGIA A.

mi. xreat remedy, until recently Was unknown to
the American people, and in giving IL more pron-
nsnt plsce before the public, do not claim, do
many other scsiled renesiies that IL VIII cure every
a,.e.~a To which humanity subject, but We 10 clam
and have the evidence TO prove that II viii SyALLlsLY
r1xr kHxUnArIsn AND NEURALGIA totslly srsiieatfnx
them rom the system Sold BY Druggists generally
p,,rc,paI Demo, 50 " ELEVENTH ST, PHILsDrPH1.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

THE ELECTRIC LIGHr.-It has long
been known that the carbon electric
light is not due to q direct luminous
effect of the electric current, but merely
to the property which this current pos
sesses Of heating the conductors which
it traverses, and that with the greater
intensity the more resistance they
oppose to its passage. The intensity
OF the ordinary electric light with car
bon points, arises from the circumfer-
ence that the stratum of air, bad
conductor, which is found between the
two charcoal points, is heated to an
excessive degree by the passage of the
electric current, and thus produces
indirectly the combustion Of the coke
or charcoal electrodes heated to white
ness. 1t has also long been known that
solid bodies may also be heated to
whiteness without the presence of
gaseous matter. Thus, slender plati-
mum wires have often been heated by
the current. The light from this source
is more fixed and constant than that of
the luminous arc between the carbon
points but it is too feeble and too
costly. NJ. Ladeguin replaces the wire
by slender rods of carbon (coke), her.
metically sealed in q glass receiver,
from which the oxygen has been re-
moved.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

"Ir's wonnerfu' place. is Australia. I"
said Scotchman the other day to q
friend cts thirteen times as big as
Europe" How can that be, man. !"
asked the other, "since Europe's one
of the quarters of the globe 2" "Ill
tell ye how it Is; it wasns discovered
till after the globe was quartered, and
so it's made ffth quarter"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A MAN lately made application for
insurance on q building situated in q
village where there was no fire-engine.
He was asked, "What are the facilities
in your village for extinguishing fire ?"
well, it rains sometimes" he re-
piled, with great simplicity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

HINTS IN CABvINa.-To carve fowls,
which should always be laid with the
breast uppermost, place the fork in the
breast, and take off the wings and legs,
without turning the fowl then cut out
the merry y-thought cut slices from the
breast, cut ont the collar-bone cut off
the side pieces, and then cut the
carcass in two. Divide the Joints in
the leg of turkey. In carving sirloin,
cut thin slices from the side next to
you Gt must be put on the dish, the
tenderloin underneath), then turn it.
Help the guests to both kinds. In
carving leg Of mutton or ham, begin
by cutting across the middle to the
bone. Out tongue across, and not
lengthwise, and help from the middle.
Carve fore-quarter of lamb by separat
ing the shoulder from the ribs, and
then divide the ribs. To carve q loin
Of veal, begin at the smaller end and
separate the ribs. Help each one to a
piece of kidney and its fat. Carve pork
and mutton in the same way. To carve
q fillet of veal, begin at the top and help
to the stuffing with each slice. In q
breast of veal, separate the breast and
brisket, and then cut up, asking which
part is preferred. In carving a pig, it
is customary to divide it and take off
the head before it comes to the table,
as to many persons the head is revolving.
Cut of the limbs and divide the ribs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

EFFECT OF HYDROGEN IN IMPAIRINa
THE TENAoITY OF IRoN.-Iron or steel
wire which has been acted on super
ficially by sulphuric acid is usually
found to be altered in its properties.
Its weight is increased, its tenacity is
injured, so that, though originally soft
and flexible, it easily breaks and when
q freshly-broken end is moistened by
the tongue it effervesces as if acted on
by q mineral acid. These effects after
a time disappear. Prof. Osborne Rey-
nolds, of Manchester, has sscertained
that they are owing to the absorption
of hydrogen generated during the
chemical reaction which takes place
when the wire is immersed in the acid.
He found that, if an iron tube, closed
at one end, be immersed in dilute
solution of sulphuric acid, hydrogen
passes through the walls of the tube
into the interior, and may be collected
by attaching an india-rubber tube to
the open end of the iron one, and pass
ing it under gas-holder. Professor
Reynolds concludes that, whenever
iron undergoes oxidation under water,
it becomes saturated with hydrogen,
and thus loses tenacity-an important
consideration in the case of iron steam
boilers or iron ships.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

AT ONE of our schools recently, in
answer to the question "Whst is the
difference between an island and con-
tinent, and upon which do We live p a
bright little shaver replied "The
difference is that a continent is much
larger than an island, and We live on
bread and meat and other things"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

OLD Mrs. Smith left her patent churn
open last Saturday to dismiss q book
agent from the door. The cat that was
taken out, after an hours churning,
was not q lively % when it Jumped in.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A BOZ stood with his hands in his
pockets one cold morning, watching
the burning of the schoolhouse, and
after the novelty of the thing ceased,
he ran home, saying: "Pm glad the
old thing is burned down, for 1 didn't
git my jografy lesson no how"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A ANKw YORK lady, travelling out West,
said to ferry-man on the upper Mis-
sissippi, "Are passengers ever lost in
this river ?"-"Lord bless you, mum,
no; We al'ays find 'em, if it takes a
week." was the consoling reply.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A CLIENT is never certain about q
lawyer. and generally takes him ON
trial.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A GENTLEMAN, not satisfied with the
grooming Of his horse, thought to re-
buke his groom by currying the animal
himself. and received violent kick.
'1t's no use trying to curry favor with
that horse" said the gentleman. as he
laid down the comb.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

MAX ADELER says: "a coroner of
ours seized an Egyptian mummy that
was brought into town, summoned q
jury, held an inquest on the mummy,
brought in q verdict of Death from
causes unknown and charged the
county with the usual fee, with COM
pound interest from the time of Moses. Z"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A6RlCCL1CRAL.

SwNR MAxAaKWT.-A correspon-
dent writes First, - to breeding sovs.
They should, q general ru1e, be kept
by themselves, and where they can have
q good range. Sufficient exercise seems
essential to their progeny. Matured
sows have have Letter and stronger
pigs than gilts, and should be separated
from young sows. And for this reason
Q yeariing past or Q two year-old Sow
can eat Q great deal faster than the
gifts. Therefore, If the two kinds are
kept together for breeding purposes,
the matured SOW will become too fat to
do we'll, and the gilt, or young SOW,
will lack the food 20 essential TO her
growth and perfect development.
Every farmer should have Q hog
house for hogs. They should be put
into It about the LIST Of December, and
taken out the last Of March or LIST Of
April The hog-house should be well
ventilated, and have tight roof by al
means for, with it and Q good door,
it would be worse than no house at al
for the reason that they should sleep
dry and be free from dust or wet. And
having Q good floor to sleep on, they
will smother each other. In cold
weather, for the purpose Of warmth,
they should be bedded with good wheat
straw. But as often as ence in three
or four weeks the old bedding should
be removed, scattering it on the field,
or putting it on the manure pile. This
use of wheat straw will make it pay
largely for the cost of bedding. Fiji
teen or twenty stock hogs are enough
to bed together. A hog house may be
twenty feet long, and eight feet wide,
and divided in the middle. If possi-
BILE it should always face the south,
placing the doors, one on the east and
the other in the middle, adjoining the
partition. Such house will comfort
ably accommodate forty shoats and if
their house be kept clean, they will
naturally occupy both apartments.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

Oh conscience conscience mans
most faithful friend.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

"WHY did you leave your last place?"
inquired a young housekeeper about to
engage new servant. "Why, you see,
ma'am, replied the applicant, 81 was
too good-looking. and when / opened
the door folks took me for the missus. 4"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A PAIR Of rubbers-A washerwoman's
hands.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

Mn. SPINKs is not going to do any
more in conundrums. he asked his
wife why he was like donkey, and she
said because he was horn so and he
says the answer is very different from
that.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

A SPOONFUL PUDDINa.-A spoonful
Of milk, . little nutmeg, ginger and
salt, q spoonful Of -four. an egg mix it
we'll all together, and boil 1t in pud-
ding dish.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

NOTICES IN SPArrKR WoRK.-Cut ont
large letters from pssteboard of stiff
paper, (Which may be of as fanclful a
pattern as one plesses, according to the
taste, to form the words for the motto
chosen. Place the letters in shape of
words in the center of piece of bristol
board, and with fine brush dipped in
ink, spatter all around them. This
must be done evenly, with ink enough
to make it quite dark around theletters.
and less used until it is shaded out
gradually towards the edge, which
should be left white. When dry, take
off the letters, and there we have the
motto. These are very pretty for any
thing so easily made, and quite an or
nament for the sitting room.
As will be seen, the beauty of them
consists in having the letters placed
Alright, and nicely cut out; having no
ragged edges. To get the letters, it
would be well to cut printed ones from
any paper, the size and style desired,
and paste them on thin pasteboArd,
then cut out. The notices can be hung
by a worsted card or braid, held at
each upper corner on the wrong side,
by strips of paper wet in glue, paste, or
any mucilsge. For all such purposes,
the writer keeps on hand a bottle of
gum-arabic dissolved in water, with a
few drops of vinegar, to keep it from
souring. 1t keeps good for months.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12

DENSITY OF HYDROGEN IN CoMBINA-
TIoN.-The avidity with which certain
metals, as palladium, sodium, and iron,
absorb hydrogen is well known. The
hydrogen thus absorbed forms proper
alloy with the metal absorbing it.
Since, according to Graham, the ele-
mentary metals in alloys preserve the
densities belonging to them when un-
combined, it follows that, by comparing
the ascertained density of any given
metal with that of the same metal
alloyed with hydrogen, it is possible to
deduce the density of hydrogen itself in
the solid state-a state to which it is
impossible to reduce it by pressure or
by reduction of temperature, or by
both combined. This method has been
applied by Messrs. l.. Troost and p.
Hautefeuille in the case of alloys of
hydrogen with palladium and sodium /;
and the results are briefly stated in a
recent number of Les Mondes. These
e1perimenters found the density of
palladium saturated with hydrogen to
be 11.06, while that of the palladium
itself, previously to the experiment,
was 12.0. From these data, combined
with the increase of weight consequent
upon the absorption of the gas, they
deduced density for hydrogen in the
solid state of 0.62. A similar expert
ment made with sodium having an
original density of O. $40. and density,
when alloyed with hydrogen, of o $50,
gave. for the hydrogen in combination,
q computed density of 0.630. The two
determinations very nearly agree. and
the mean of them, viz, 0.625, may be
taken as the probable density, which
would give to hydrogen in the solid
form specific gravity somewhat above
that of lithium, which is 050.