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The New York herald., 1876-02-04
CULPABLE. NEGLECT.

For some time past there has been considerable dis
satisfaction among the residents OF row or tenemeni
houses Ninth avenue, between Thirtysoventh and
ThirtyeIghth streets, arising from grievance from
which they have long been suffering and from which
they have yet been unable 10 obtain any protection
Il appears that through defective system Of
age Tho ducts underlying the buildings frequently
overnowed and the stencil arising from the cellars IL
unpleasant AZ u Ia detrimental 70 health The prop-
erty belongs the McGrane estate and applications
the seemed utiess tho Board OF Health were
notified several times 70 Investigate the nuisance and
insist on It's removal Health o1cors at various periods
visited the premises and len with the understanding
that the matter would receive immediate attention but
nothing ever came OF IL kemonstranccs sent TO
the Board, ana ~ they, too proved unavailing the
press has been appealed 10 BY various residents TO bring
thia neglect TO public noticA
The New York herald., 1876-02-04
THE CANAL BOARD.

ALBANY, Feb 5, 1876
The Canal Board held session to-day and all Of the
members were present A number OF petitions were
presented and referred State Engineer Van Buren,
from majority OF the Construction Committee. re-
ported favor of cancellng the contract Of Mr. D. p
Mcqueen for building tree dam in Moose River the
contractor releasing the state from all damages
Adopted
The Treasurer reported the amount OF contractors
deposits and where deposited There appears to be no
deficiency the fund.- some OF the investments are
worthless in part in whoe-namey the deposits In
the Bank OF Rockport, and In the Farmers and No
chanics' Bank OF Rochester.
On motion OF Mr. Dorsheimer, the Auditor was re-
quested 10 report the amount and disposition Of
tractors deposits In his custody.
On motion OF Mr. Van Buren, Mr. John B. Gates d.
vision Engineer, was removed. also on his motion
Mr. Elnothan Sweet Jr, was appointed TO Oil the va
cancy; also on hts motion, Mr.. Bryant Goodwin was ap
pointed Resident Engineer; also his motion, Mr. q
A. 0lmsted, Division Engineer, removed Mr Jack
William IL. Searles was appointed Division Engineer.
The Secretary Of State presented report OF the
mttee 30 which was referred the question TO the
best disposition 10 be made Of the lateral canals OF the
State With direction to make inquiry OF the Superin
tendents Engineers &c, accompanied with numerous
communications from canal officers In regard TO the
matter An explanatory statement attached
fng that the report failed be presented the old
Board, which ordered the inquiry in consequence OF
the sickness and death Of Commissioner Stroud
MI Rogers appearing for the Boat Owners Associa-
,ion addressed the Board At length favor OF taking
the tax on boat owners tor passing boats through tho
locks
Commissioner Jackson said he never knew OF any
such tax; certainly no complaint had been made
The Lieutenant Governor said IL was the fault Of the
boat owners; they had submitted to this exaction
without protest There was a law against such prac-
tees.
Mr.. Rogers stated that the aggregate tax amounted
10 $50, 900 annually, which boat owners paid 70 lock
tenders Il was impossible for him 70 Identify the
parties making these exactlons and II understood
he would obtain denhcations and report them TO the
Board
The Board adjourned 70 February II, at eleven
". when The appointments will be made.
The New York herald., 1876-02-04
sw1NDLING THE ERIE RAILWAY

Henry Sweet, Superintendent Of the weehawken on
Docks belonging 10 the Ere Railway, who vas sus-
pended from his position last tuesday supposed
have Incorporated from $4,000 10 81, 900. The
mode OF swndle was by falsiying the books, payros
40 Drawing regular salaries for who were never
employed seems TO have been his generally adopted
plan The fraud goes back for year. and foreman
Jarvis and the bookkecper believed have been i'm
pllcated Both are suspended. The matter was dis-
covered BY Mr.. Briggs, weigher.
The New York herald., 1876-02-04
FOUND DEAD.

Last Wednesday afternoon, at three O'Clock, the body
OF an unknown picked up at the foot Of pier
IS East River The deceased was about thirty ave
years OF age eve feet inches high had blue eyes
light hair, nustachc and full beard. Ha was dressed
In black frock coat corded vest ani pants white mus
lin Shirt gray ribbed drawers woolen socks and laced
shoes In his pockets we're found bunch Of keys an
oval blue agate sleeve button sir bread tickets for
steinbcrg No 20 HAdson street. and brass night key
Tho body sent 10 tho Morgue where Coroner
EIlineer will hnd INQUEST
The New York herald., 1876-02-04
MUNICIPAL NOTES.

Comptroller Green has concluded to pay the Board q
aldermen their salaries for the past month notwith
standing the solemn protest entered BY the ''Rump"
Common Council The warrants yestorday
signed and the joyful officials viii be paid to-day.
The order OF arrest against ex-Justice Shandley
yesterday aside and the Sheriff directed release
the doferdani
The New York herald., 1876-02-04
A FIREMAN INJURED.

while No truck was proceeding 10 the Gre Al Ma
10 Newark avenue, Jersey Cty, yesterday morning u
was upset In Grove street and one Of the men, Asa D.
injured
The New York herald., 1876-02-04
SO 600 $40 500

Totals.-... $4,000 81 $40, 500
Includes the amount refunded shares Of wrran
Vanderbilt assigned 20 Henry Murphy, subsequently,
70 the l4h Of Nay 1875 the dats Of the passage Of the
Of 1875.
= Includes the refunded Of Abram s.
Hewitt assigned 70 s. T. StranAhan subsequently tho
The New York herald., 1876-02-04
EXPENDITURES YoR OUTDOOR POOR

The per capita expense incurred in the maintenance
OF the inmates OF the several during 1875 s
less than any preceding year In 1874 the average
number supported 10 2S9, in 1875 TO- 387 The fol-
lowing figures exhibit the relative expenditures those
years.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14

The groves of rose-trees and the
flOwer-farms of Morocco are said by a
recent traveller to exceed in extent those
of Damascus, or even those of the val
ley of Mexico. The general climate of
the country is very favorable to this
kind of culture. Swept alternately by
the breezes Of the Atlantic and Mediter-
ranean, and tempered by the snow of
the Atlas ranges, the degree of heat in
Morocco 10 much lower than In Algeria,
while the soil is exceedingly fertile. To
the date palm, and to orange and lemon
trees, the climate appears to be especi-
ally suited, the dates of Talifat having
been famous even from Roman times.
The orange plantations are of very
great extent in various parts of the
country, while olives and almonds are
also staples exported in large quanti-
ties. Seeing that this fertile land, with
in five days steam of London, produces
so much vegetable wealth under the
most barbarous cultivation, it appears
extraordinary that European enterprise
does not in such a climate, seek pr0fita-
BILE employment for its over-abundant
capital in its application to the develop
ment Of such vast resources 50 close at
hand, instead Of going to 90 distant q
field as Australia or America.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14

0nd. The errors of both these Obser.
vers between actual visual occurrences
and the precise time when the passage
Of star was noted, were as much as 8
quarter OF . second. Summing up
these errors, the period when we are
conscious Of receiving an impression
shows us to be as much out of the way
as from the fifth to the tenth of a sec
Ond. Again; the effect of the impress
sion or its distinguishing character,
acts on US differently. Another term is
employed for this personal equation,
which is called physiological time. Now
this time varies with the various sense,
and whether the effects are single or
double. The physiological time for a
single sound Is 15S-l0O0 of second, but
when two sounds are received it is 203-
1000 Of q second. OF course it is evil
dent that, when there is the expectancy
Of any known effect, such as of light,
sound, or touch, the mind being pre-
pared for some impression, the physiO-
logical time is very much lessened. One
very curious portion of this study would
be that Of discovering whether modifi-
cation in the human brain, brought on
by medicines or disease, did not cause
differences IN this physiological time.
Do the insane have quicker or slower
physiological time? When DeQuincy
asserted that to live q thousand years in
single night was quite possible by
simply increasing his dose of opium, he
inadvertently touched on the problem
Of physiological time.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
Effect Of Light.

Doctor Moore, the metaphysician,
thus speaks of the effect of light upon
body and mind: "a tadpole confined in
darkness would never become a frog,
and an infant deprived of Heavens s
free light will only grow into shape
less idiot, instead of a beautiful and
reasonable being. Hence, in the deep,
dark gorges and ravines of the Swiss
Valais, where the direct sunshine never
reaches, the hideOus prevalency of idi-
ocy startles the traveller. 1t is a very
strange and melancholy idiocy. Many
persons are incapable of articulate
speech; some are deaf, some blind, some
labor under all these privations, and are
mis-shapen in almost every part Of tho
body. l believe there is marked diff
ference in the healthiness Of houses, ac-
cording to their aspect i'm regard to the
sun, and those are decidedly the health
lest in which all the rooms are, during
some part Of the day. fully exposed to
the direct light. Epidemics attack in
habitants living on the shady side of
the street, and totally exempt those on
the other side; and even in epidemic's
such as ague, the morbid influence is
often thus partial"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
An Unhealthy Occupation.

At the last census in Wales and Eng
land of persons engaged in manufacture
ing pottery, the number of people so oc-
cupied was found to be about 45, l22 of
Of these q, ,l69 were males, and l6, ,953
females. Among the males the mortal
ity was DO less than thirty-eight per
cent. higher than the average death
rate for the males of the whole commu-
nifty above the age Of fifteen years, and
this increase principally showed itself
in carrying off men in the prime of life
say thirty-five years of age. The eli
mate being good, the wages fair, and
the workmen fairly temperate and
cleanly, nevertheless the potters were
poor in physique. Now, repeated chem
ical analysis of the human lungs have
shown that silica is absent as a normal
constituent of these organs. Prof.
Church, having, however, incinerated
the lungs of potter, found that there
existed in the ash left the amazing
amount of fOrty-eight per cent of silica,
eighteen per cent of alumina, and five
per cent. of oxide of iron. This showed
to what an enormous extent finely di-
vided clay was being constantly breathed
by the pOtters, and was evidently the
cause of the premature deaths.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
Candy.


The Boston Journal Of Chemistry says:
So much has been written about the
relations of candy to health. and par
tcularly to diseased teeth, that it
would seem presumptuous to add even
q word. But supposing the question
cannot be settled at once. there are
some facts about candy, or sugar ra-
ther, which have not seen mentioned.
As food 1t is q failure. The chemist
tells that cane sugar contains three ele-
ments. The human body has some
fourteen elements. How can three ele-
ments make fourteen Dogs fed on
sugar died In forty days. Their eyes
liberated and came out. Dogs. fed on
nothing lived just as long. The system
has a natural lOathing for food con-
tanning nothing but sugar. We pass
then to the occasional use Of sugar.
Does 1t affect the condition of the or
gans OF the b0dyf Several years ago
Dr. ). Weir Mitchell, OF Philadelphia.
proved that he could produce cataract
OF both eyes IN half an hour by simply
injecting teaspOOnful OF q saturated
solution OF sugar between the skin Of
a frog or guinea pig. DIR. b. w. Rlch-
ardson, OF London, has confirmed this,
and these results are received by the
H1SuASo' PioiCSSiCu 80 ooeiSioS'Oiy'
Now II a teaspOOnful OF sugar solution
Will make frog or guinea pig totally
blind in half an hour, can sugar be re-
garded as an innocent substance for
young and growing persons, especially
when they diet so largely upon white
hour. which Is chiefly composed of
starch. whose chemical formula is
Identical with that OF sugar. Accord
ing to DIR. L. X. Agnew, of New York,
out OF 900 children under 1S years of
age In large school In his vicinity,
7OS were found with defective organs
OF vision when examined with the oph-
thalmOscope. Have we right to infer
that sugar and starch diet have any
thing to do with this large percentage
OF deficient eyesf The experiments
quoted show that sugar does act
promptly, quickly, and terribly upon
the substance OF the crystalline lens of
lower animals. Can we::deny the pro-
liability. OF its action upon the eyes of
human beings. Mark, we do not say 1t
does thus act. We simply raise the
question. We wish the State Board of
Health would have it investigated, as
it is q matter germane to their invalu-
able department of labor.
Now for candy and diseased teeth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
Religious Establish ments.

Certain figures published i'm the Inde-
pendence Beige show for what amounts
some fifty religious establishments in
Paris are insured-their buildings and
furniture alone. The Sisters of st. Vim
cent de Paul, Rue de Bac, value their
house and property at 2, ,SSO, 900 francs |;
the Sisters of the Visitation, Rue d'En-
fer, at 200, 900 francs; the Convent
des Oiceaux, Rue de Sevres, 902 ,OO0fr. !;
the Carmelite Sisters, Avenue de SAKE,
695 900 francs; the Sisters of the Sacres
Occurs de Jesus ct de Marie, sos, 900
francs. Religious houses of men are
equally rich. The Lazarists, Rue de
Sevres, assumed for 2,340,000 francs !;
the Benedictines du Temple, Rue de Mon
sieur, for 6l7 900 francs; the Petit Sem
inaire du Paris, Rue NOtre Dame des
Champs, for 737 600 francs the Jesuits
of the College de Vaugirard, for 727,
$50 francs; of the Rue de Lafayette, for
GAL 600 francs. These amounts are taken
from the list of fifty establishments,
which altogether insure for is, S,570, 900
francs-f750,0 600. Their lands must be
worth a great deal more. The Cores
pondent of the Independence Beige has
obtained sights of the business done at
one insurance company only. By OF
fetal returns there are at present L.,
Paris 223 religious establishments viz. ::
Twenty-seven male communities, sew
enty-six female, fifty-four establish
ments de bientdisdnce, thirty-seven in
stitutiOns and pensionndts, thirty divers
and nine prisons. 1t seems, therefore,
that rather less than one quarter of
them possess gear and goods TO the COM
Portable amount named. The insurance
company has twenty-five churches on
its books, and one is struck with the
contrast displayed. NOtre Dame, itself
a treasure house, is insured for less
than EDO, ,OO0-building, relics, plate,
museum, and all. st. Sulpice goes for
EDS, 800; the Madeleine, admiration Of
English visitors, for 81, ,650.-London
Standard.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
A Cure for Strikes.

This is the war between labor and
capital: Capital continually withdraw
ing itself from healthful work because
it is afraid Of losing its price, continu-
ally at difference with its one FREUD,
without whom it must perish; Labor
striking, demanding shorter time, more
wages, debating imperiOus rules about
piece-work and apprentices, quarreling
with its one friend, without whom it
must die or seek the pOOr-house. To
adjust these differences is the problem
of the day.
One way out of the difficulty is to
make the labOrer capitalist. The saw
ings bank is the chief aid in this direc-
tion. Let the worker put part of his
earnings in bank, and he becomes a
capitalist i'm small way. He learns to
view the subject of interest and divi-
dends with the eyes of lender, and he
is straightway Jealous of his capital and
its rights. He joins the other party,
and, belonging to both, he the more
readily sees that it is for the interest of
both to work together. Education is Of
fered as another solution. Give a work
ingman business education, and he
learns to see and understand the laws
that govern the movements of wages
and interest. Finally, comes the idea
Of co-operation-the giving the laborer
share in the guidance and profits of
Of the work, the union of capital and
labor in any particular undertaking.
Cooperation is, in theory, the most
sensible and the most just solution to
this question that has been offered.
In practice, 1t has been attended with
every imaginable degree of success and
failure. 1t has been repeatedly tried In
every branch of business, both here and
in Europe. In q certain way, it is al
ready in active operation through the
agency Of savings banks, loan, friendly,
and building associations, and insurance
companies. But, as these are usually
managed, they are not wholly cooper
ative i'm a commercial sense. In the
case Of savings banks, the laborers con-
tribute to the capital and have no con-
troll over it, while capitalists manage
the funds for a salary, or an extra divi-
dend, or other consideration, over and
above the interest paid to the real own
ers Of the money.-Scribner for Nay.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
Duty.

1t is so hard to do right always! So
hard to walk with bare bruised feet over
the ragged pathway! While, all the
while, you hear the song Of birds,
catch the flash of brilliant plumage, the
fragrance of flowers on the other side,
and know that only a little way off lies
a smooth, green sward, whose dewy
freshness would be so grateful to your
weary wanderings! Sometimes you
catch your breath at some new burst
of melody, and are almost tempted to
turn aside; but the voices in the invisi-
BILE beyond plead with you, and you
stumble on In pain and weariness, over
the first road. unto the end. But you
look back, oftentimes through tears,
over a life of battles and skirmishes,
and you find the scars of many wound
on your nerveless body, and you almost
ask: sis it worth the while?''
Ave, but when the goal IL reached,
and the crown won, when standing on
the summit and looking back from the
farther shore we shall be able to say,
81 did what could" then will all the
Iuster have faded from the brilliant en-
ticement of pleasure, then will we for
get the weariness and pain, the strug-
gles and temptations Of the siren, and
the rugged pathway will look 80 smooth
and even, that we will wonder that
ever we could have thought 1t hard to
walk. Let us have courage then and
tread on in the path Of duty to the end.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
An Old Danish War GALLEY.

About two and one-balf miles from
Botley. on the bank of the Hamble
which runs ont of the Soutbamn.on
Water. there lie exnosed at low snrino o
tides two tiers Of old niles covered with
mud aud sa.neod wh;oh hana ,onn
haan . ~ favor;te bannt Of ,ha nnrmor.n; ,o
and otbar saah;rJs The n;,.s % a~,ond an,
from % The wotsr's sJae for spma & d;stanoa a
int ,ha ~ of ,ha 80 ~ H. S;Hno
,;nO ns Smanr;or y, c and anoon'i,o onJ ie. -
,rod;,;on ,ha,, sorn,.J anu ror. ~ vho ~
~ nan;sh -. ~ LIZ 20. 49, -, .no . 49,.
y. a. .iI " Duin. . anu SUM
e Enn1ond; .Io I'M ~ III INC n SlH ou W,.S;O 80. VI
LIZ San =, d.n ~" ~ "in h se sne
ia,o,n ,." u " e -: "no na'
hnrhaod m onnoa;nod .hn an IN ~. aS .;l:-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14

opened to story, and asked her if she
would not like to hear il. Why, yes,
she'd be very glad to; she got so little
time to read now, there was SO much
sewing to do, and 50 many things to see
to, and so many Interruptions, that she
never had time to open a book, hardly
Frank was soon in the midst of the
story, but when he read a gorgeous de-
scription Of the boudoir of the heroine,
Mary interrupted him:
"That makes me think, Frank, that
We must have a new carpet for our best
chamber; that's been on The floor ever
| since We were married, and it's all
faded; it will do very well for one OF
the other bedrooms, but l think we
must have a new carpet for that room
and curtains to match; you know car
pets are cheap now. l saw an elegant
ingram at Sloan's, last week, just the
thing, and it wouldn't cost over $50
this room isn't very large"
"You shall nave il" said Frank, as
he went on with his reading. Presently
he looked up inGuiringly to Mary. and
said ''Doesn't this spirited fellow re-
mind you of Tom Bowling, nv old col
lege cfdm - your cousin Tom, you
do,Ibtfnl.
"Wbv ves uuess he docs ~ said
Mary who had been Thinking not of
the story. but how she would arrange
the new curtains and embroider a toilet
set TO match the carpet.
1t was easy enough to see that the
reading would be a failure, and when
the story was completed, Frank reclined
on the lounge and read to himself. ssIt's
no use," he thought, 81 can't get her
interested in anything but trifies, and
I'll go back to nv club"
$50 on the plea of business Frank
absented himself more and more from
home. until he rarely spent an evening
with Mary unless visitors were present
And She. absorbed in her domestic cares.
careful for his physical comfort uncon,
scious that thew were so rapidIy grow-
ING apart- gave herself more and more
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
Age Of the Pyranfds.

GAS old as the pyramids" is the say.
ing Of everybody, but just how old these
pyramids are is question which has
puzzled the wise heads Of all times and
defied solution. Modern Investigation,
however, stops at nothing, and at last
the studious application Of mind prom
ises to record the year, the day, and
even the hour and minute when the
caPstones were iaid upon OLD CheoPs
ana tne minor pyramids at Uhizeh. III
Is known tnat the Lgyptians were won
deriul astronomers, ana that all their
Important events were recorded IN Nero
giypncs, as occurring whiie some star
was occupying a certain place In the
heavens: inese records were made ON
stone, the hieroglyphics OF the Egypt
lals covering hearIy every stahaing
,,,' mohuhieht Vi their arcni.scturai skill.
inese recorus are tne riuuies whicn are
uestiheG, not ohiy 70 teli tne age OF the
pyramius, tne sphinA anu Tue Egyptiah
tomos, out 10 Ieseai the hatiohai history
oi .liat ancient people.
90 IaIe as april mere was meetlng
Oh 1ne rrencn Academy Oh INSCRIPTIONS
IN Iaris, when one m. ue Lauiy trea.ed
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-14
Post Mortem Eulogfes.

An old clergyman, who was particu-
larly happy ON funeral occasions, hap
pened to get very far from home, when
his old ''one-horse chaise" was recog-
nized, and he was importuned to take
part in some funeral services where the
circumstances were peculiar. On in
quiry, he found two sisters. having lived
in the same house more than eighteen
years, had died within few hours of
each other, and that theirs was the fu-
neral in question. The old man was un-
usually eloquent, and, of course, quoted
the lines, ''They were lovely In their
lives, and in their deaths they were not
divided" After the services he was
told that the sisters had led most quar-
relsome existence, so much so that they
had put up a board partition between
their apartments twenty years before.