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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

MAxIMs FOR FARMERs.-It is worth
while for all farmers everywhere to re-
member that thorough culture is better
than three mortgages on their farm.
That an offensive war against weeds
is five times less expensive than a de-
fensive one. -.r ID. --er-.
That good fences always pay better
than lawsuits with neighbors.
That hay is a great deal cheaper made
in summer than purchased in winter.
That more stock perish from famine
than founder.
That horse who lays his ears back,
and looks lightning when anyone ap-
proaches him, is vicious. Don't buy
him. --.., .,t5' ...- l.-- -f.
That scrimping the feed of fattening
hogs is waste of grain. -t $50
That overfed hens won't lay eggs.
That educating children properly is
money lent at 100 per cent.
That one evening spent at home in
study is more profitable than ten loung-
ing about country tayerns.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

How TO raise beets-take hold of the
tops and pull.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

An ENGLISH STEW OF COLD RoAsr
BEEF. : Cut the meat in small and
rather thin slices, season them highly
with salt and pepper, and dip each
lightly in bread-crumbs mOistened In
gravy or melted butter. Dress them
neatly on dish, and lay over them q
thin layer of cut pickles, and moisten
the whole with glassful of pickle
yinegar and the preserved gravy of the
roast beef; heat in Dutch oven, and
garnish with fried sippets or potato
balls.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

As Mr.. JOSH BILLINGS remarks,
''truth is simple-so simple that the
phOolish often mistake it for weakness"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

-Boyton has been swimming at New
Orleans hundred miles in twenty-five
hours.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

New Mode of Hardening Sandstone
In Saxony, sandstone is soaked in So
luton of alkaline silicates and of alu-
nina. The liquid penetrates some IN
ches into the stone, and renders the
surface SO hard that it resembles mar
BILE and will bear polishing. On being
heated to a high degree, the surface
vitrifies, and it may be cOlOred at plea
sure
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

DATE PUDDING SAUCE.-Stone one
pint good dates, cover with water, and
stew three-fourth of an hour, or until
the dates are perfectly soft; then rub
through colander and add to taste,
strawberry, raspberry, plum, prune, or
apple juice, or whatever agreeable tart
you may have; thin enough so that it
will require level spoonful of wheat
meal to thicken it to suit you. Boil five
minutes and serve warm.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

To detect fusel oil in whisky, the
readiest process is to shake one or two
fluid ounces of the liquor with an equal
volume of pure ether. and about one
fourth of its volume of water. The
supernatant liquid being decanted,
will, on being svaporated at the Ordi-
nary temperature, leave behind the fu-
sci oil present in the whisky, together
with some of the flavOring ingredients
that may have been introduced artl-
ficially,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

As AN illustration Of how busy every
one is now in Washington, Miss Grundy
tells of lady who recently went into
of the largest dry goods emporiums and
asked for gloves. "T want" she said,
ga pair Of white kids and pair Of black
kids, and l want them quick. / am
going to wedding at II, a funeral at
3, and q reception tonight"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

ARE farmers aware that half cup of
kerosene turned down the throat of
their hogs will save them from the hog
diphtheria
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

DIET for lovesick maidens-Tender-
lines.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

A NARROW EsCAPE.-A tramp, after
the daughter of New London gentle
man, had given him some food the
other day asked her for some money,
adding that the gift of a little money
would save him ''from something aw-
full" This was a clincher which in
duced the young lady to furnish him
with little legal tender. Then she
asked him what the awful thing was
from which her liberality had saved
him. He replied: ''From hunting up
work !"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05
Pimples, Eraptions, Rongh Skin.

The system being put under the in
fiuence of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery for few weeks, the skin be-
comes smooth, clear, soft and velvety,
and being illuminated with the glow Of
perfect health from within, true beauty
stands forth in all its glory. The effects
of all medicines which operate upon the
system through the medium of the blood
are necessarily somewhat slow, no mat
ter how good the remedy employed.
Of pimples, blotches, eruptions, yellow
spots, comedones, or "grubs," dozen
may possibly be required to cure some
cases where the system is rotten with
scrofulous or virulent blood poisons.
The cure of all these diseases, however,
from the common pimple to the worst
scrofula is, with the use Of this most
potent agent, only q matter of time.
Sold by dealers in medicines. IL
GOOD CLOTHING AT REASONABLE
PRIcEs.-The well-draped man is every
where q welcome guest, and a clothing
house which enables him to dress well
at small cost is q public blessing. Such
an establishment is the TOWER HALL of
Messrs. BENNETT & Co., No. SIS Market
Street, where visitors are always sure
to find a. large assortment of Mems,
Youths, Boys and Children's Clothing
Of all grades Of goods, marked down to
figures lower than they have been for
twenty years. They will send samples
Of any goods on their shelves by mail,
with directions for measurement, and
forward made-up garments by express,
paying the expressage both ways if they
do not fit and give perfect satisfaction.
All they ask Ia q fair trial. Once tried,
they feel satisfied that their fair mode
Of dealing viii secure you as regular
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

COUNTER claims-Your wife's shop
ping bills. rlar
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

KIDNEYS WITH HMACcARoNI.-COOk two
ounces OF maecaroni broken into con-
venient pieces, in boiling water; skin
two or three mutton kidneys, remove
the fat, and cut them into thin slices
season with salt, cayenne, and finely
minced herbs; fry them on both sides
in butter; then stew them in half pint
Of gravy, well favored with fresh or
canned tomatoes; dish with layer of
the maccarOni over them, the gravy
poured over; add pepper, salt, and some
grated cheese; brown with salamander.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

FRICAssEE OF COLD BEEF.-Cut away
all skin, gristle and fat. Cut the meat
in thin, small slices. Have ready a
sauce made of stock thickened with
butter rolled In flour, seasoned with
shred parsley and young onions, pepper
and salt. Strain the sauce when 1t is
well favored, and just heat the meat in
it, soaking by the side of the fire; add
glass of red wine, the yolk of an egg
well beaten, and the juice of a lemon.
Stir for few minutes, but do not let it
boil, or, like all rewarmed things, it
will harden. r.r ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

I A Parement Animaicule.-Professor
Leidy, of the Academy of Natural Sci
ences, describes in recently published
proceedings of that body a curious ami
malcule which he discovered on street
pavements. 1t is named grOmia and
resembles a cream -colored ball about
one sixteenth of a line in diameter.
When placed in water, it in a few min
utes projects, in all directions, most
wonderful and intricate net. Along the
threads of this net, (Which are less
than one thirty thOusandth of an inch
in diameter,) float minute nariculG
from the neighbOrhood. like boats in
the current of a stream, until. reaching
the central mass, they are swallowed.
Professor Leidy states that during dry
weather the creature remains quite in
the dust, and that when rain falls it
spreads its net and gathers food.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

CHEAP CURrAINs.-One of the most
agreeable materials for curtaining win
iu~s irrsis is coarse unbleached cotton. The
ness OF offa,5,,sy ,,,sy ofthe thread and the rough
much the chsrs,faee hsSsfaee gives its soft folds
its hue warns the neSS9s SS9ssla crash, ana
windows almost to the q ssss cool, nor.n %
shine. OF sun
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

The Lighting of London.-The streets
of London have an aggregate length
of 2,J00 miles, requiring about 5000
miles of gas mains, and upwards of
1900 public lamps, which consume
something like 1000. .0OO, 900 cubic feet
of gas year, or about 100000 a day.
The gas supply of the entire metropolis
is about Il, ,000, 600 cubic feet year, or
3S,500,0O0 cubic feet day, requiring
for its production the coking of ,500,-
900 tons of Newcastle coal. The cost
of the coal is reported to be $3.50, 900.
The value of the residual products,
such as coke. breeze, tar, and ammonia
liquor is, as much as S3,5O0.00O The
gas rental of the city is $4,000, 900, of
which 3, $500 goes for street lamps.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

SAVE THE SoAPsUDs.-However de-
plorable washing day may be to the
household (and the careful house mis-
tress or tidy maid has it in her power
to greatly modify its discomforts), to
the garden it is a very bountiful day.
Our hungry and thirsty grape vines
and flowers are glad of every drop of
wash water, and will repay every bit
of fatigue it may cost to give them the
fertilizer. If the sun is shining hot
when we go out to dispense our favor,
it is best for us to dig slight trench
not far from the root of the plant, and
pour the water into it, and cover again
with the top soil. This makes the water
90 farther, and at the same time does
not tempt the rootlets TO the surface of
the ground. duchess Farmer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

A SANITARY measure "a medicine
glass.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

Tale has been recommended by NM.
OF iEaer sa and AragOn for the prevention
ty os t ttustatlon in boilers. The quanti-
abont S an lntroduced into the boiler is
H' posit one tenth Of the weight of de-
offs. oetWecn two blow
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

HoMINY MUFFINs.-Take two cups of
fine hominy boiled and cold; beat it
smooth; stir in three cups of sour milk,
half cup of melted butter, two tea
spoonfuls of salt, and two tablespoon
fuls of white sugar; then add three
eggs well beaten, one teaspoonful of
soda dissolved in hot water, and one
large cup of flour; bake quickly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

OK IA o0n per day a. home Samples worth 81
Oh III 0ZO free. sTrssoS Co. Portland Maine
34ly
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

WATER FOR COws.-Dr. Crafts, of
Binghamton, n. Y, said to the Ver-
mont dairymen's association that cows
prefer warm water TO cold, and there
fore often pass by a stream of pure
water and drink in pools of surface
water. Mr.. Hawley referred to the
ability of cows 10 sift out bad matter
from their food, SO that the same food
affects the milk of different cows differ
emily, but there is no safety in feeding
bad food or water. Rotten potatoes are
bad for cows, the putrefactive germs in
them often remaining undeveloped un-
til they come in contact with the air in
the milk. DIR. Crafts said that water
which is covered with green slime,
frog spittle, is not stagnsnt, and that,
as general rule, it was safe to drink
water in which frogs live.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

COOP Thing ABOUT RYE.-A writer
in the Chicago Times says: ''Rye will
grow and produce fine crops far north
of the degree of latitude where wheat
will fail. 1t is, indeed, one of the most
hardy crops that is cultivated. In re-
gions where fall-sown wheat is almost
sure to be killed, fall-sown rye is al
most sure to survive and do well.
Throughout the prairie regions of 1lli-
nois very little wheat went through
last winter without injury, but rye
came out all right and generally pro-
duced good crops. In many places
where wheat was ploughed up last
spring, rye yielded twenty-five or
thirty bushels to the acre. Rye will
grow and produce very fair crops on
soils so poor that little else will yield
enough TO pay for harvesting. 1t de-
lights in dry, sandy soils, and will
yield a return for the labor and seed on
land that will produce little but white
beans. There are many thousands of
acres of land in different parts of the
West, that yield hardly anything, that
would produce paying crops of Eye if it
was sowed. Southwest of this city rye
is grown on land that will produce no
paying crop of any other grains. Rye
is one OF the best grains to sow where it
is'desired to seed the land down to tim
othy. clover, or other grasses. 1t has
little foliage as compared with oats and
wheat, and accordingly does not shade
the ground so much. 1t allows suffi-
cient sunshine to reach the soil to cause
the young grass TO grow very well.
After the crop of rye is harvested the
young grass is not likely to be burned
up, as is the case when wheat and oats
are cut, and often the young grass is
entirely lost
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

~ -- a week to Agents, Old and Young
Il Male and Female. in their locality.
Terms and Outft fre>. Address p.
VI o. VIcKERY Co., Augusta Maine.
1l-23-6m
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

Wafer Cdpsules for Medicnes.-
Among the latest devices for the ad-
ministratiOn of medicine is the wafer
capsule, by means of which any dose,
however unpalatable, can be taken
without the slightest disagreeable
taste. Capsules, generally speaking,
are nothing new but in the present
case the novelty lies in the shape,
which is much better than the gigantic
elongated pill form ordinarily adopted,
and also in the fact that the capsule is
made of -four and water waters, and
may be supplied to druggists empty,
and may be, by the latter. easily filed
when medicines are dispensed. They
are simple disks cut out of thin wafer
sheet by hollow punches. To render
them cOncave, they are dampened be-
tween cloths and placed between two
curved plates of tin, by which they are
quickly shaped. The medicine is then
placed between two waters, the rims
are brought together and mOisten-
ed. and slight pressure closes the
edges tightly. Some simple apparatus
for this purpose has been devised by
Mr.. E. NJ. Boring, of Philadelphia Col
lege of Pharmacy.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

WANTED PRoOP.-An English gentle
man was strOlling out with 4 eockney-
genuine cockney-when they finally
approached meadow in which was
standing q glorious crop of hay. The
cockney gazed at it wonderingly. 1t
wasn't grass, it wasn't wheat, it wasn't
turnip tops. "Vy, vateyer does you call
this stuff" said he to his companion.
''That, why hay to be sure" was the
reply. "Hay!'' exclaimed he, "come,
that's cutting it a little too thick. If
that's hay just show me the hay-corns
come nOW.o .ff .-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

A LONDON journal remarks; "When
fruit does harm, it is because it is eaten
at improper times, in improper quanti-
ties, or before it is ripened and fit for
the human stomach. A distinguished
physician has said that if his patients
would make practice of eating couple
of good oranges before breakfast, from
February till June, his practice would
be gone. The principal evil is that we
do not eat enough of fruit; that we in
jure its finer qualities with sugar; that
we drown them with cream. We need
the medicinal action Of the pure fruit
acids in our system, and their cooling,
corrective influence"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

TOMATO SAucE.-Melta piece of butter
the size Of an egg, and mix it well with
a dessertspoonful Of flour; add the con-
tents of can of tomatoes, mix well,
and then put in pepper and salt to taste,
pod of garlic, bay leaf, sprig of
thyme, another Of marjoram, and some
parsley, tied up together. Keep the
sauce hot until it is wanted, when the
herbs should be removed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

The newsboy's color-Yeller.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

To SAVE fresh meat sweet all winter,
let the meat freeze little, then take
old newspapers and wrap each piece of
meat separately. Then take a half
bushel of grain and put it into barrel,
then a layer of meat, then cover four
inches deep with grain, then layer of
meat, and so on until the barrel is full.
Don't let the meat lay against the wood
of the barrel. fl
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05
AaRlcUuruRAL

CosT OF PRopUcTrON.-Farnie are
generally beginning to realize that this
Is the great pivotal question on which
their success or failure most depends.
Until quite recently the importance of
this subject has been comparatively
overlooked, and there is even now
scarcely one farmer in fifty who can
tell with any accuracy. or certainty
what his cereals when harvested have
cost per bushel, or what his poultry,
beef, mutton and pork have cost per
pound. For this slovenly mode of hus-
bandry there is neither necessity nor
excuse, and there is probably no other
legitimate business wherein such indif-
ference to the main question would be
considered possible.
1t is very certain that farmers will
hereafter find it necessary to make a
point of ascertaining the actual cost per
bushel of their wheat and corn. When
ever they do this they will be surprised
TO find that in the very act of doing it
they are already reducing the cost.
One reason why these products have
hitherto cost too much is because no
body seems to know how they do cost.
Examination sheds light, and light dis
pels ignorance. Then let the discus
sion of this subject go forward. 1t is
evident that farmers have struck the
key note that is to inaugurate new era
in their calling. After careful study
of the subject for several years, and as
the result of some experience and OBJ
servation, We are confident there is a
point in the cost of production lower
than any yet reached I'm this country,
and which lies practically within the
reach of a majority of farmers. 1t
would be easy to show that the present
average cost of production for the
whole country might be reduced in the
present state at least ten per cent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

A Wonderful ock.-One of our fO-
reign exchanges gives an account of
"a marvellous piece of mechanism,
which just been exhibited in Paris. 1t
is an eight day clock, which chimes the
quarters, plays three tunes every
twelve hours, or at any intervals re-
quired. The hands go round as fol-
lows: One once q minute ; one once an
hour; one once a week one once
month; one once year. 1t shows the
moons age, the rising and setting of
the sun, the time of high and low wa
ter, half ebb, and half flood and there
is a curious cOntrivance to represent
the water, which rises and falls, lifting
some ships at high water tide as if they
were in motion, and, as it recedes,
leaving them dry on the sands. The
clock shows the hour of tile day, the
day of the week, the DAY of the month,
the month of the year and in the day
of the month provision is made for the
long and the short months. 1t shows
the signs of the zodiac; it strikes or
not and chimes or not, as may be de-
sired and it has an equation table,
showing the difference between the
clock and the sun for every Gay in the
year.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

SAVE THE BEST FowLs.-It Is the
worst policy to kill all the best and
handsomest fowls and save only the
mean and scraggy ones to breed from.
This is precisely the way to run out
your stock; for like tends to breed like,
and the result is that by continually
taking away the best birds, and using
the eggs of the poorest, your flock will
grow poorer and poorer every succeed
ing year. Nothing Is lost by little
self-denial to start with. The extra
pound or two Of poultry flesh that you
leave on its legs, instead of sending it to
the market, is as good seed, and will
bring forth tenfold and twentyfOld in
your future breeds. Save your best
stock for breeding.-N. Z. Homestead.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

Electricity from Dipping Metals IN
Ffuids.-f two similar pieces of metal
are simultaneously immersed in fluid,
they give no electric current; but if
dipped successively, an electric current
Is observed, as has been long known.
In fact, the electro-mOtive force, at
the separating surface of the metal and
the fluid, varies according to the time
that they have been in contact with
each other. This variation of the cleo
tro-mOtive force is, in many cases,
purely a secondary phenomenon, in
that by chemical means foreign sub
stance is formed between the metal
and the fluid, which greatly changes
the separating surface and gives rise to
a chemical polarization. Electric cur
rents are also, in these cases, due to
the accidental formation of foreign
substances, and to the exposure of the
metal to the atmosphere, or to contact
with the fingers. But even when fo-
reign substances and chemical influ-
ences are excluded in the most perfect
manner possible, as, for example when
platinum or gold is dipped in water,
movements of the needle are still Wis
ible; and it has been suspected that
the air which is retained in contact
with the surface of the metal, or per-
haps the method that has been en-
plOyed to cleanse the platinum or gold
may have had an important influence
in bringing about an electric current.
Quincke has recently subjected this
phenomenon to careful investigation,
and has observed that the strength of
the electric current increases with the
increasing resistance of the column of
fluid between the electrodes; that it
increases with the decreasing strength
of the concentration of the salt solu-
ton that may be employed; that it has
no relation to the capillary constants
of the fluids employed, and that it ori-
ginates probably in the change in the
molecular condition of those portions
of the fluids which are in the neighbOr-
hood of the metallic surfaces,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

IN FANCY CARDS, styles with name, 10 cents
~ By J. B. Hustled, Nassau, ,Renss. Co.. NY
320It
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

All who wish to consult DR.. Schenck,
either personally or by letter, can do so
at his principal Office, corner of Sixth