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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

The Best REMEDY FOR TROUBLE
The world has often been told that work
is the best remedy for trouble. The
saying often sounds trite through much
use; but though trite it remains true.
81 should have died." a mother said
lately, ''when / lost my two children,
but that the others were sick, and
hadn't leisure to realize how desolate
was" 1t is the fashion to pity a mOur-
ner because he or she has no time to
grieve; but this very lack of time is
often Gods best medicine for the af-
flicted. The physician who goes home
from his wife's funeral and has to make
a half-dOzen visits to patients in stages
to strange hands, the actor who sheds
bitter tears over his child's grave, and
then must go before the footlights the
same evening, the wife who turns
away from the sod that hides her dear
est, only TO bake and brew and mend
for her children,-have all of them their
cure, provided by destiny. 1t is the
mourner who need only mourn who is
TO be pitied. Busy hands prepare food
which he cannot eat; the wide, hand
some rooms through which he walks
alone are haunted; he need take no
thought for the morrow; aye, but he
takes all the more for yesterday. He
has nothing which he must do, and
therefore he gives himself up toe long.
Pity him because he has no natural
door of escape from the desolation of
his own heart.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

FLOWING GROUND FOR TREEs.-Let it
be borne in mind that it is next to i'm
possible to plow the ground too deep
according to our long and large expe-
rience, when preparing it for setting
out trees or vines, or too shallow after
they are planted. Where the ground
has been deeply plOwed or spaded
among trees few roots will be found
within six inches of the surface. There
fore use only a fork or a cultivator
among the trees and invite the roots to
the surface, where they will have the
benefit of the warmth and air. But
keep the surface finely pulverized so as
TO absorb moisture from the air.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

As NY wife at the window, one beau
tiful day, stood watching a man with a
monkey, a cart came along with broth
of boy, who was driving stout little
donkey. To my wife then spoke, by
way Of joke, "There's relation OF
yours in that carriage" To which she
replied, when the donkey she spied.
"Ah! yes, a relation by marriage"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

Deep Red Glass. ss.-Pettenkofer. who
analized the intense red glass used iu
antique mosaics. proposed to make it
by fusing lead glass with about per
cent g. oxide of copper and per cent
prOtosesquioxide of copper as a reduc-
ing agent. In this case. however, some
of the lead is also reduced. giving d
dark brown or black color to the glass,
and hence DIR. kayser employs bOrax
as the fiux. The following proportions
are taken Clean quartz sand, 60 parts; |;
oxide OF copper. 10 parts; prOtosesqui-
oxide of iron. 3parts; calcined bOrax.
10 parts; calcined soda, 10 parts. A
high temperature should be employed
during the fuslng and reduction, and
then it should be moderated to dark
red and kept there some time. When
cold, the red glass will be covered with
a thin layer of green copper glass.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

WHEAT BRAN is very much richer in
phosphOric acid than corn bran. Wheat
contains in the whole grain 50 per cest
of phOsphoric acid and corn only 2
per cent; but nearly the whole of the
phosphOric acid of the grain exists i'm
the husk or bran. Thus wheat bran
contains nearly 90 per cent of this
valuable substance. What percentage
is i'm the bran of corn we have no means
of ascertaining, but it is certainly less
rich in phOsphoric acid than wheat
bran.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

PoTAToEs La DUCHEssE.-The fol-
lowing is the recipe of good cook i'm a
private family in Paris: Take five
middle-sized, cold, boiled potatoes, CRATE
and mix them with five desert-spoon-
fuls Of fiour and a half-penny worth of
milk, aiding to the mixture two eggs
well beaten up; prepare a painful of
boiling fat, and drop spoonfuls of the
paste into the fat, taking them out the
instant they have acquired a delicate
golden brown color. With moderate
care potatoes thus cooked are delicious.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

CHICKEN RAISING As a SOURCE OF
NATIONAL WEALTH.-One of the secrets
of the prosperity of the French people,
and their ability TO bear even the heav-
lest burdens without giving way under
them, is the extraordinary thorough
ness with. which they cultivate their
farms, vineyards and orchards, and the
profits which they cOntrive to obtain
from the smallest and most insig-
nificant products. We find fresh eX-
emplification of this in some figures
lately published in a French paper, eX-
hibiting the extent and profits of
chicken raising. There are i'm france
about 40,0O0,O 600 hens, valued at 500
000,0 900. One-fifth are marketed yearly
for the table, bringing about 81. 900, 900.
The annual production of chickens is
so, ,000, 900, worth in the city markets
$24 ,000, 900, and $2,000,000 are added
for the extra value of capons and fatted
hens. The production OF eggs Is esti-
mated at 4s,O00,00O, making the total
value of eggs, chickens, capons, and
hens annually sold about $50, 200 900,
2.22 to every man, woman and child in
France. The power to make much out
of little, and to live frugally on small
means, and with limited resources to
fall back on, is the distinguishing trait
of the French people, and one well
worth emulating.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

REGULARITY IN FEEDING.-It is very
comfortable i'm cold weather to sit by a
warm fire. Many who have the care
OF stock dislike to leave warm quarters,
and cling to the fire place, letting half
hour after half hour pass by, while the
hungry stock are shivering and hun
gering for food and water. In thus
waiting for food and water, an animal
loses flesh rapidly. Brutes are the best
time keepers i'm the world. They know
the very minute their food should be
supplied, and are disappointed il it
does not come. The good stock breeder
therefore, should see that regularity
and promptness prevail i'm the care and
management of stock. Their various
wants should have attention at the
very minute daily. If hired men will
not be prompt in taking care of stock,
if they don't sympathize with brutes in
winter, they ought to be discharged
and more humane men employed in
their places. The poor brutes do suffer
severely i'm winter. Even in warm
barns and stables they can hardly keep
warm i'm cold weather, but if left out of
doors, exposed to storms and cold their
sufferings are intense, and they should
be fed with the regularity of clock
work, and fed all they can eat, and
they will require at least one-third
more food to keep up animal heat than
they would if kept in the stable. All
stock should have shelter. 1t is cruel
to leave it exposed to the rigors OF
winter without shelter.-RHrai World.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

QUIZ, who took trip to the country
yesterday, remarked, after night OF
serious contemplation, SHOW closely a
farmer, who has a big load to pull, re-
sembles a locomotive. He puffs, and
blows, and gets up his team"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

"Is THERE much water in the cistern,
Biddy?" inquired gentleman of his
servant girl as she came up from the
kitchen. 1T Is full on the bottom, sir, +,
but there's none at all on the top" was
the reply.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A RESIDENT who reached Detroit by a
noon train yesterday, after an absence
of two weeks, was met at the depot by
his eight-year old son, who loudly well
coined him. 'And is everybody well,
Willier" asked the father. ''rhe we'll
est. kind" replied the boy. ''And
nothing has happened?" "NOthing at
all. I've been good, Jennie's b''en
good, and 1 never saw ma behave her
self so well as she mas this time ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

PUNCH once told droll story of man
who, being suddenly raised TO riches,
exclaimed, in the fullness of his salts
faction, ''Oh, that l could stand in the
road and see myself ride by in my car
riage,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

Beet Cider.-We mentioned not long
ago that cider made from beets was
coming into use In France. We learn
that it was prepared by adding 2 lbs.
of red garden beet to every 81 bushels
of apples, pressing all together. The
cider must not be used for about eight
months. when it will be free from the
beet flavor.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

To CLEAN BLACK KIDs.-A good way
to clean black kids gloves is to take a
teaspoonful of salad oil drop few drops
Of ink in it, and rub it over the gloves
With the tip of feather; then let them
dry in the sun.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23
s.EvM COMMUNICATIONS" !"

''Evn CoNMUNICATIoNs," ETC.-
Scene-Mrs. Lyon Hunters drawing
room, during lectdre on "WOman's
Rights" Modest youth Tin a whisper
to young lady looking for seat: "Er
excuse me, but do you believe in the
equality of the sexes, Miss Wilhel-
mina." Young lady: "Most certainly
L do, Mr.. Jones'" Modest youth:
"Haw! I'm that case of course 1 needn't
give you up my chair. Punch.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

EQUAL parts of American potash and
pearlash, two ounces each to about one
quart of water, give good oak stain.
Use carefully, as it will blister the
hands. Add water if the color be too
deem
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A BROOKLYN GIRL lately sang ''Darl-
ing, l am growing DID," with an ex
preston so penitent and forcible that
her procrastinating lover was brought
to time on the spot.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

GREEN corn fodder is preserved in
France, by being buried in trenches
and the whole covered with earth. Its
presentation is due to the exclusion OF
air. The fodder is used for feeding the
cattle in winter. The ground must be
dry where 1t is preserved.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

COMPRESSED yeast consists usually of
beer lees. flour moistened with beer, and
other fermented matter, the superflu-
ous moisture having been removed by
pressure.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A CERTAIN parson, who is also a
schOol-teacher, handed a problem to his
class in mathematics the other day.
The first boy took it, looked at it awhile,
and said: 81 pass" Second boy took
it and said: 81 turn it down." The
third boy stared at it awhile, and
dra" led out: 81 can't make it," every
good boys" said the parson; 1--WE will
proceed to cut for new deal" And
the switch danced like lightning over
the shoulders of those depraved young
mathematicians.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

To BAKE SoUAsH.-Take squash, cut
in two; clean inside; put into the oven
flesh side up, an hour before dinner.
Serve hot, with butter, pepper and sa t.
Squashes not quite ripe are also good
thus baked.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

French Experiments wih AHoys.-M.
Deville has found that, on analy zing
pIatin- iridium, iron aud platinum are
united in the state of oxides intimate
ly mixed. If this matter is treated
with a current of hydrogen. oxide of
iridium is reduced at common temper
ature from 392 to 1,112 degrees. The
metals are then alloyed; for, if diges-
ted with hydrOchlOric acid, few bub-
bles only of hydrogen escape, and very
little-irOn is dissolved, even when il
exists to the extent of ten per cent
Iron and iridium are thus capable OF
combining at low temperatures, and
the same is probably the case with iron
and platinum and, under these con-
ditiOns the alloy is evidently not hO-
mOgeneOus. NJ. Breithaupt mentions
the existence of platinum ores contain
lug fourteen to nineteen per cent. OF
iron NJ. Berzelius. however, only once
found a specimen containing nearl,
thirteen per cent. and NM. Debray
and Deville have never found more
than twelve. Platinum may he freed
from iron by cupellatiOn in chlorine
gas if heated from 2.192 to 9, 73s de
grees, in this gas, it is volatilized in
brilliant crystals.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

LEWISTON teacher I'm Philosophy !:
"Wny can fat man swim easier than
a lean one?" Young lady who is pro-
ficient scholar: "Because fat always
rises to the top OF the water"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

American Genfus. Moody 4 Sankey.
The great revivalists, Messrs. Moody
and Sankey, who electrified staid old
England with their eloquence and en-
thusiasm, are fair samples of American
genius. Springing from among the
common people, their sympathies are
alive to the wants of the ,chole people.
and herein lies the secret of their great
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

Snow OR BRIDES CAKE.-A pound
each Of flour and sugar, half pound of
butter, and the whites of sixteen eggs
beaten TO stiff froth. Flavor it with
rose.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A PRACTICAL farmer says it is dead
loss to fall-feed on moving fields. He
says one ton of grass fed from that field
will diminish the next years crop at
least two tons.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

CALL lady ''chicken," and ten to
one she is angry with you. FELL her
she is mo chicken" aud twenty to one
she is more angry still.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A YOUNG LADY at a piano, desiring to
favorably impress a young man,
shouldn't place lamp so il will throw
her profile on the wall.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A COOP VoICE-"Madam, do you
know that you possess one of the best
voices in the wOrld?" said saucy fel-
low to Division street woman one day
this week.
"Indeed, do you think so?" replied
she, with flush of pride at the COM
pliment.
81 do, most certainly" continued the
rascal, "for if you hadn't it would have
been worn out long ago."
For the first time in that woman'S life
she hadn't word to say.-CAicGgo
,IOHr1inl
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

The New York WEEKLY Sun, of Jan.
II, 1876, says: The readers of this pa
per who would like to get more than
the worth of their money are referred
to the advertisement headed a NOVEL
IDEA in another column. This is GER
tainly "A new DEPARTURE 0nd rs the par
ties ,7ii! DO all they clam, we would re-
commend our readers to peruse the same
carefully. 10 IS certainly one Of the best
CHANCES for AGENTS erey offered"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

The New York ILLUSTRATED CHRIS
rIAN WEEKLY, of Jan. -, 1876, pub
lished by American Tract Society, saws:
I'VE are personally acquainted with G.
F. WNGATE & Co., the publishers of
The HoUsESEEPER, whose advertisement.
headed a NOVEL IDEA,' will be found
in another column. We haze no hesita-
zion it assuring Our friends tbUt The pron,-
iseS made By them t1iH be kept 10 the letter."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

WHAT is that which flies high, filei
low, has no feet, and yet wears shoes
Dust
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

Jade.-A number OF sales of Japa-
nese and Chinese curiOsities have re-
Gently taken place, in which were in
cluded objects made of material little
seen in this part of the world, and
about which little here is known. 1t is
precious stone. valuable not on ac-
count of its scarcity, because in China
and Burmah large mines of it exist.
but for the great difficulty encOunt-
cred in cutting and carving it. neces-
stating an amount of patience and
manual deXterity rarely found save
among the inhabitants of the celestial
kingdom. Ii is a silicate of alumina
called jade, and is obtained in Tartary,
various parts of China. and in the Mo-
goung districts of North Burmah. The
true jade is hard enough to cut glass or
quartz, and the most valuable pieces
are of an intensely bright green hue,
the ordinary material being pink and
yellow. As many as 600 men are en-
gagged in the jade mines of Burmah,
and the substance is sometimes found
in huge blocks, which three men can
hardly move. The crude fragments
are cut by means of thin copper disks,
used in conjunction with fine siliciOus
grit, composed of quartz and little
particles resembling ruby dust. The
boring of earrings and bracelets is eff
fected by a revolving cylinder tipped
at the free end with the same siliciOus
mixture. The Chinese, with their pro-
verbal ingenuity, make an almost per-
feet imitation of jade out of rice, the
quality of hardness alone being alb
sent
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

RIcHELrEU was not contemplating
such times as the present when he said,
"There Is no such word as fail
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

HADN'T BEEN THERE.-In the Office of
one of the hotels the other day a man
spit great deal of tobacco juice around,
and had a great deal to say about his
voyage to Europe last year. He used
many oaths, made himself disagreeably
familiar to all, and finally stepped on
little mans cOrns and bluntly asked:
''Did you ever go to Europel"
''NO, sir, never did" was the reply.
81 have had all could do to stay at
home and learn manners"
There was lots of silence around there
after that.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

WHAT city does kiss resemble:- ?
Nice.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A NATTER of course-A river bed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

A WAIST of time-the middle of ii
day.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

VINEGAR MAKING.-To make good
cider vinegar, the first step is to make
good cider. That made late in the fall
from clean, ripe, but not rotten apples,
put i'm new or fresh alcohol barrels, and
allowed to ferment slowly, Is the true
kind of cider from which TO make No.
/ article of vinegar. The barrels should
be bunged up as soon as the first fer
mentation will allow, so that the cider
NAV not absorb the flavors Of the cellar
during the winter. If no cabbages or
turnips or any other rank-smelling
vegetables are kept in the cellar, then
there is no objection to the bungs being
out during the winter, but the bung-
holes should be covered with a fine
gauze to keep out dust, and possibly a
stray mouse.
As soon as the weather is warm and
settled in the spring the cider should
be removed into the open air, placed in
a sunny location, where the air circu-
lates freely. The oxygen Of the air l.
the acidifying agent, and the more air
we can bring i'm contact with the cider
the more rapidly will it be converted
into acetic acid. The process of manu-
facture may be hastened by putting into
the barrel pint of nice yeast, or, better
still, quart or two Of good cider vine
gar, and if little "m0ther"-a peculiar
fungus growth found i'm old vinegar,
sometimes called the vinegar plants
ad,led the fermentation is aided. Some
recommend blowing into the barrel
with bellows, but this is too much like
work.
With such crops of apples as we have
in America, there is no excuse for using
the villainOus compound sold i'm our
cities for vinegar. This Is often made
from sulphuric acid. The English ex-
else laws allow the use of this acid in
vinegar to the amount Of one part in a
thousand, and there is some excuse for
this in England, where neither grapes
nor apples are easily cultivated; but
here apples are so plenty that they are
often fed to cattle, and pure cider vine
gar should also abound. Every person,
certainly every one of a bilious tendency,
"hankers," as the Yankees say, for
vegetable acids, and there is no more
legitimate method of gratifying the de-
sire than by moderate indulgence in
pure cider and pure cider vinegar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23
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TRr-rLNGa affairs-wrestling matches.