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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12

Nv entire household, SAYS writer, /
full of satisfaction over the fact that is
have just driven the axe handle into
the axe and wedged it there, 50 il cannot
under any circumstances come out. Ii
may read like small matter 10 you but
do you know that that helve had been
loose for nearly five years. Yes, for
five years that axe has flung itself
across the yaId whenever | struck a
heavy blow, leaving the helve in my
hand, and L suppose that | decided
more than thousand times to go in and
get a hammer and chisel and fasten the
helve in. l was thrown down and had
my arm broken by the axe flying off,
two girls had their noses broken, we
spoiled the stove boilers, nearly killed
three boys, and yet didn't fix the axe
until to-day. Foster was telling me the
other day that ne had finally glued the
knob on the bureau drawer, and he
seemed greatly relieved. / remember
when the knob was knocked off-al-
most seven years ago. L was helping
him move the bureau wheh the acci-
dent occurred, and L never was in the
house afterwards without hearing Mrs.
Foster say-''come, Henry, hav'n't you
got time to fix that knob this eyening,"
-"Yes, Martha," he would reply and
vet il was seven years before he got 10
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
How Alcohol Enters the system.

Again. when taken in by the more
ordinary channel, the stomach, il finds
its way by two routes into the circula-
ton. A certain portion of it the
greater portion of it's absorbed direct
by the veins of the alimentary surface,
finds its way straight into the larger
veins, which lead up TO the heart, and
onward with the course of the blood.
Another portion is picked up by small
structures proceeding from below the
mucous surface of the stomach, and
from which originate series of fine
tubes that reach at last the lower por-
tion of a common tube, termed the
tlloracic duct-a tube which ascends in
front of the spinal column, and termln-
ates at the junction of two large veins
on the left side of the body, at point
where the yenous blood, returning from
the left arm, joins with the returning
blood from the left side of the head on
its wav to the heart. 1t is so greedy for
water that il will pick it up from all the
watery textures of the body, and de-
nriye them of il, until, by its saturafion,
it can take up no more, its power OF re-
ception being exhausted; after when
II diffuses itself into the current OF cir-
cuIating fluid. When we dilute alcohol
with water before drinking It, we
ouicken its absorption: and, If we do
not dilute it sufficiently, it is diluted IN
the stomach by the transudation oi
water in the stomach, until the required
reduction for its absorption is eifected-.
Popular Science Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
The Venetian navy.

In the sixteenth century Venice kept
in permanent employment about sixteen
thousand men. The pay of these was
exceptionally good, and their privileges
were great; their sons, at an early age,
were entered in the workshops, and in
structed i'm some one of the many trades
carried on in them: they themselves,
when old, were pensioned or admitted
into a hospital established especially for
the navy. On the other hand their
work was severe. They were not only
workmen, but soldiers. trained to the
use of arms and the strictest discipline;
their leading men. foremen and over
seers being in turn their sergeants,
lieutenants and captains. The govern
ment, in all working details, was In the
hands of practical men, chosen from the
workmen themselves, the highest Of
whom, with the title of Grand Admiral, !,
exercised superintendent over the
whole. But the supreme command was
vested in the Proveditor General,
noble of high rank and distinguished
service, either as commander afloat or
as statesman ashore. 1t was marked
popularity OF the Venetian Constitution
that uItried men could not hold any
important office; their public men had
TO serve a long and laborious apprentice
ship i'm subordinate positions before
they were considered qualified to take
. iy prominent part in the affairs of the
State; and amidst people so peculiarly
nautical few could mount the several
steps of a long career without obtaining
an insight into the conduct of naval
business. At the end OF the fifteenth
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
Colossal statue Of the God Buddha
I'm India.

Some miles from Calliana lies an an
cient seat of Jaina dominion, Karkul, nj
present a considerable town, with
thronged bazaar streets; and n few
followers of the vanquished religion still
reside near the monuments of their de-
parted greatness. Upon the outskirts
of the town rises rocky hill of gener-
ally rounded form, like basin reversed,
approaching 300 feet i'm height, its base
rough and bushy, the upper slopes
smooth and steep. Looking up at the
hill from distance, the enchanted
castles of fairy tales come back to mind.
for on the top is seen a castle-like wall
pierced with wide-arched entrance,
and dark gigantic form towering over
it waist-high This is one of three colos-
sal statues that are found in this part of
the country-statues truly Egyptian in
size, and unriyaled throughout India as
detached works On the hilltop a
crenellated quadrangular wall incloses
a stone platform five feet high, on which
rises the stupendous image, forty five
feet i'm height. Nude, cut from single
mass of granite, darkened by the mon
sOOns of centuries, the vast statue stands
upright, with arms hanging straight,
but not awkwardIy, down the sides, in
a posture of :omewhat stiff but simple
dignity. The form and lineaments are
evidently the same with those which,
from Ceylon to China and utmost Tar
tary. have handed down with unvarying
tradition the habit as he lived of that
most wOndrous of mortals that ever
wore flesh, Buddha Gautama; for assur-
edly no other mere man ever spread so
widely, and maintained so long, su-
preme influence over so many successive
millions of souls. Remarkable it is, too,
that though born in India, the features
show nothing distinctively Hindoo. The
hair grows in close, crisp eurls; the
broad, fieshy cheek might make the face
seem heavy. were it not for the marked
and dignified expression conferred by
the calm forward-gazing eyes, and aqui-
line nose, somewhat pointed at the tip.
The forehead is of average size, the lips
very full and thick, the upper one long
almost TO ugliness, throwing the chin,
though full and prominent, into the
shade. The arms, which touch the body
only at the hips, are remarkably long,
the large, well-formed hands and fingers
reaching TO the knees; the exigencies of
the posture and material have caused
the shoulders, where the arms JOIN, to
be rather disproportionately broad and
massive. The feet, each four feet rine
inches long, rest on a stand wrought
from the same rock, that seems small for
the immense size and weight eighty
tons) of the statue; a lotus stem spring
ing at each foot is carried up in low re-
lief twice round each leg and arm. A
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
Tell-Taie Lips.

L have observed that lips become more
or less contracted in the course of years
i'm proportion as they are accustomed TO
express good humor and generosity, or
peevishness and contracted mind.
Remark the EJECT which moment of
ill-temper and grt,dgingness has upon
the lips, and judge what may be expected
from an habitual series of such move
ments. Remark the reverse, and make
a similar judgment. The mouth is the
frankest part of the face; it can't con-
ceal in the least its sensations. We can
neither hide ill-temper with it nor good !;
we may affect what We please, but affec-
tation will not help us. In a wrong
cause it will only make our observers
resent the endeavOr to impose on them.
The mouth is the seat of one class of
emotion, as the eyes are Ofanother; or
rather, it expresses the same emotions,
but in greater detail, ard with more
irrepressible tendency to be i'm motion.
1t is the region of smiles, and of .tremb
ling tenderness; of a sharp sorrow, or
a full, breathing joy; of candor, Of re-
serve, of anxious care, or liberal SYM
pathy. The mouth, out of its many
sensibilities, may be fancied throwing
up one great expression into the eye-as
many lights in a city reflect a broad
lustre into the heavens.-Leigh Hunt.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
Character in Caligraphy.
At a recent meeting of the Psychologist

At q recent meeting of the Psychologi-
cal Society of London, the Vice-Presi-
dent, Mr.. G.. Harris, read a paper on
"Caligraphy as Test of character"
After commenting on the various modes
by which character is exhibited, and
upon the infinite diversities of hand
writing, the author proceeded to poi N
out the peculiarities of the latter which
display the distinctive qualities of the
writer. His theory was illustrated by
the exhibition of number of original
including those of Napoleon
L., Wellington, Nelson, Brougham,
Horn Tooke, Southey, Cowper, Sheridan,
Dickens, the contrast between the
writing of the last two being especially
dwelt upon. A lively discussion, we
are told, followed the reading of the
paper. ss4.4 fa
There is no gainsaying the fact that
character may be read from hand
writing, but not by any means from all
In the first place, there
must be character i'm the writer, and
among the millions of mankind who
use the pen there are lamentably few
marked and distinctive indIvidualities.
The multitude of people have no aim
but to be copies of each other, to do and
to be i'm every event of life just like their
fellows. 1t is impossible to expect from
these handwriting that will show any
thing save an absence of character
Hence it is that the idea universally
prevails that mere caligraphy means
nothing. Nevertheless it does convey
a great deal of. meaning. The old saw
that "Straws show which way the wind
blows" finds a just application in this
as in many other things, and masterful
traits assert themselves in the penstrokes
as in every other act of human being.
When you see notably prominent,
vigorous, reckless style of caligraphy
you may be pretty sure that the writer
is a person of bold, dashing, indepen-
dent disposition, that overrides all bar
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
French COurtship.

In France the parents of the inter-
ested ones first consider the matter of
their marriage. 'Look, Monsieur" +"
says Mama, ''here is my daughter, and
all her graces and accomplishments, and
her good heart; and here, is the dover
1 will give with her," ''And here,
Madame" saws Monsieur, who is very
likely her neighbor or friend, ''here is
my son and his probable inheritance /;
his education has been what you know ;
his profession and talent, what You
know, also; as to his amiability you
shall judge, for I'll give you every
opportunity of observing; and more
over, when he marries, will give the
boy-so and so." The youngsters meet
and, unless they are very difficult to
suit, are obliging enough to further
their parents plan. And, on my word,
l believe them more dutiful in the Old
World than in the New.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12

III is interesting to trace some sur
names back to their original meanings.
The name Latimer is a writer of Latin !;
Barker is synonymous with tanner :;
Miner is an old form of miller; Lander
is a contraction of lavandier, washer
woman: Banister is the keeper of a
bath Tupmau-a name familiar To the
readers Of the Pickwick Papers-means
a breeder of rams, which used to be
called ''tups." The names Spinner,
Fuller, Tucker and Dyer are derived
from the wool manufacture carried on
by Flemish colonists, who settled in
New England. A. general rule says
Mr.. Lower, all names terminating with
er Indicate some employment or profess
sion er is believed TO come from the
AnglO-Saxon wer, a man; hence Salter
is saltman, Miller mill-man; Webster
is the old feminine form of webber,
Spinster OF Spinner, Brewster of
brewer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
WINTERS HOPE.

The Autumn days are gone-all flown:
Tie yellowing leaves from on the trees
Are shed. with sad and doleful moan
OF whistling wind and mournful breeze.
The cumbered earth bears far and near
Those saddening signs OF Autumn's death
And leafiess forests, moist and drear,
Cypress us with their chilly breath
But lot us look around once more
L. there no beam to cheer our sightl
No rift in these dark clouds: All. sure.
We are not left without some light?
No; It's not so, Zen while We gaze,
See. from yon hill the red sun rise.
uIuming with his cheering rays
The earth that all so dsrkly lies
And in deserted hedgerow springs
The hawthorn berry. brave and bright;
While perched atop the robin sings
His clear. sweet song with all his might
Our life will come to Autumn hours.
And all may chill and dresry SEEM
But even then well find some flowers,
And even then some joyous beam.
Repine not, therefore, that thy youth
And manhood's prime so swiftly flee;
LoI with advance OF years come truth.
New light. new hope. calm joys for thee
Chambers Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
speculation. Derived from a skull.

By singular coincidence, the casual
finding of the mutilated skull of ru-
minant helped to evolve, independently.
from the minds of Goethe and of Oxen,
full and distinct conceptions of new
theory of the bony framework of the
head. Each of these thinkers conceived
the idea that the skull, instead of being
las had been universally supposed1 an
altogether peculiar structure. was in
reality similar in composition to the
backbone, or spinal column. The
backbone is made of series of rings
of bone mutually adjusted. called YER
uebr9, Goethe and Oxen conceived
that the skull was also made up of
series of vertebr9-much altered, how
ever, as to size anu shape, from those
which form the spinal column. This
idea, once emitted, was rapidly taken
up by Oken's countrymen las at later
periods they have vehemently taken
up the ideas of Schwann and of Oar
win j and Spix, Bojanus, and C.. G..
Carus further developed and modified
the original idea. Nor did Oken's coun-
trymen by any means stand alone, for
De Blainvllle and Geoffrey St. HiIaire
in France, and GOOdsir, Maclise, and
Owen in the British Isles, more or less
accepted and modified, in different
ways, the hypothesis propounded.
Oxen, indeed. at once pushed his spec
ulati0n to extremes; expecting, on
priOri grounds, to find the whole trunk,
with its appendages, represented in the
head. He was by no means content
with assimilating the skull to the back
bone, but insisted on finding the arms
and legs, the hands and feet, even the
fingers and toes, of the head imagining
that the aforementioned members lin
gers and tOesl were represented by the
teeth, Such a conception may he taken
as good example of those fanciful
notions before referred to, which, not
being sustained by objective facts. are
surely destined, as was this, to die out
and to disappear.-The Contemporary
Be,.ieIr
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
The Mosaic Dfssineifen Of Animals
for Feed.

Rev. DIR. Wechsler, rabbi of the Jewish
church in New Haven, read a very in
teresting paper on the above topic re-
Gently before the body of ministers
assembled at the weekly gathering of
the Ministers Association in that city,
in part rs follows: aFs
In the llth chapter of Leyiticus there
are specified the various beasts, birds,
fishes, and reptiles which are distin-
glished by the terms clean and unclean.
The former are permitted to be eaten
and the latter are forbidden. There are
also laid down certain rules for dis
tinguishing generally those that are
clean from those that are unclean.
First, with regard to quadrupeds. All
beasts that have their feet completely
cloyen. above as well as below, and at
the same time ruminate or chew their
cud. are clean. Those which have
neither, or are one or the other, are
unclean. Tlt ff
,. The systematic distinction of fishes
is especially clear and simple. All those
having fins and scales are clean; all
others unclean. s.f iii.
3. With regard to birds no particular
charac eristics are given for dividing
them into clean or unclean, but judging
from those which are specified it must
be noticeable that birds Of prey as
general rule are prohibited, that is those
with crooked beaks and strong talOns
with which to prey on lesser fowls or
animals or on fish are prohibited, while
those which eat vegetables are permitted
to be eaten.
4. With respect to serpents and insects
it is declared that all creatures that creep
going upon four, and whatsoever goeth
upon the belly, and whatever has more
than four feet among the living things,
are an abOminatiOn.
Besides the general distinction already
noticed another is made. relating to
whatsoever goeth upon the paws among
all manner of beasts that 90 upon feet,
being therefore pronounced unclean.
The literal translation of the Hebrew
would be "palms or hands," and there
fore this probably refers to those ami
mails whose feet resemble human beings,
such as apes, monkeys, etc., and all
creatures of that genus, together with
bears, lions, cats, dogs, frogs, etc. e..-
Tho Talmud draws very closely the
line twixt clean and uncIean animals.
There have been written various ESSAYS
mon the dietary laws. which show much
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
MIFFLINTOWN COUNTY, PENNA. JANUARY r. 1876

riers and thrusts aside all impediments.
A penmanship full of fiourishes indi-
Gates character fond OF ornament and
addicted to vanity. Cramped writing
and crowded lines proclaim that econ
omy, perhaps parsimony, is strong at
tribute of the writer. A distinguished
American scientist whose passion is
study with the microscope forms such
minute letters when writing that there
is almost necessity for using a magni-
fying-glass TO decipher them. Is there
nothing more than fancifitl signi-
ficance in the connection between this
mans writing and his dominant pas
sion? E
1t requires training to interpret hand
writing, and very seldom is any atten-
ton whatever given to the subject. Yet,
when once the mind has been led to it,
there is opened up an Interesting and
prolific source of entertainment. Moth
ing is more delightful, and it might be
added more novel, than to meet with a
consistent, complete, and harmonious
that expresses in all its opera
tions the symmetry and wholeness of
its nature. The chirography. of such
character will be clear, certain COM
mentary, telling its story as plainly as
a perfect picture or piece of sculpture.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12
The Speed OF Railway Trains.

Trains are now run at about the rate
of forty miles an hour, sometimes much
faster, and generally somewhat slower.
The fastest trains in England run at
sixty miles an hour. To run at this
rate, the piston or driving rod of the
locomotive must travel at the speed of
500 feet per minute, or so rapidly that
it cannOtbe seen to move at all. George
Stephenson, the first to claim that the
locomotive could run at twelve miles
an hour, was called insane until he
proved il. 1t was but a few years af-
ter this that prominent engineers said
that railway trains. could be regularly
run at the rate of 100 miles an hour; and
Stephenson was again called insane
because he said that 80 miles an hour
was as fastas trains could be regularly
and safely run. But it is now dis
covered that he was nearly right, and
locomotive makers are no longer build
ing engines to run faster than at this
rate. But they are trying, instead, to
save the time lost in taking coal and
water for supply ing the engines. On
some lines a long open trough, forty
feet long, is laid between the rails.
This is filled with water. As the loco
motive passes at the speed of fifty
miles an hour, pipe or scoop Is low
cred from it into this trough the water
is thus dipped up and placed in the
water box for use by the engine.
Another invention is huge box raised
above the road and filed with coal. As
the locomotive passes, it touches a
spring, the box turns instantly upside
down, and the coal drops into the ten
der, which runs behind the locomotive.
The time which is thus saved will, of
course, make the the trips shorter.
without calling for an increase of
speed. 1t may be that when you are
grown, railway trains will not be run
any faster than they are now but, in
spite of what George Stephenson has
prophesied, lsuspect some future Amer
lean engineer, who is now a boy, will
find means of running them twice as
fast as they are now run, and hope
with greater safety to the passengers.
st. Nicholas for December.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12

The New York Produce Exchange
has adopted the rule that a seller of
property has a right to demand payment
for that property on delivery Of the title
to the buyer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12

The WRk Of Time-You never heard
of such thIngf Why III warrant
you We alluded to it often and often,
without knowing it. Didn't you ever
speak of such or such matter coming,
going. or happening in .'the nick of
time ?" Very well. The little School
ma'am SAYS that nick comes from the
German word NiekeR, to nod or wink.
So the nick of time, is the wink of time,
or my name is not Jack.-IS. Nicholas.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12

The receipts at the White Mountain
hotels last summer were AT the Craw-
ford and Twin Mountain, SOS 500; at
fbe Fabvan, 0.00O.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12

The Story ofa Little PriRcess.-Queen
Nictoria's daughters have all been very
carefully educated indeed and as for
Queen Victoria herself, why. when she
was little girl there seems to have
been no end to the things that were
expected of her little ladyship. 1t was
not until she was twelve years old that
she understood that she might come to
be queen. Being only neice of the
reigning monarch, William ", who
had no children, her wise mother did
not want NictOria's head elated with
dreams OfacTOwn she might never wear.
However, she one day discovered it by
what we may call an arranged acci-
dent, for a genealogical table was slip
ped into her history and there little
Miss found it. She took il up, SO her
old gOvernness told the story, and read
ing it said:
II see that am nearer the throne
than | thought. never saw that be-
fore.r
1T was never thought necessary that
you should, Princess replied the gov
ernness.
Now" said the child, after some
moments of thought, many a child
would boast, but they don't know the
difficulty. There is much splendor,
but there is more responsibility" The
princess lifted up the foreiinger of her
right hand rs she spoke. and then put
ting her little hand into her teachers
said Il viii. be good. | understand
now why You urged me SO much to
learn Latin. My cousin Augusta and
Mary never did. but you told me Latin
is the foundation of English grammar,
and all the elegant expressions, and
learned it, as you wished it, but | I'M
derstand it better now. i will be
good