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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06
Lau. hter.

The following paragraph we find
floating through the newspaper world,
occupying a prominent space in the
local departments of some of the most
influential journals in the country.
As it suits almost any locality where
people of buoyant spirits and Jovlal
disposition dwell, it will assuredly find
willing readers in this latitude: After
all what a capital, kindly, honest, jolly,
glorious good thing is a laugh. What
a tonic What a tdigester What a
febrifuge What an exorciser of evil
spirits Better than walk before, OF
a nap after dinner. How it shuts the
mouth of malice. and opens the brow
of kindness Whether il discovers the
gums of infancy or age, the grinders
of folly, or the pearls of beauty
whether it racks the sides or defOrms
the countenance of vulgarlty, or deer
lines the visage, or moistens the eye OF
refinement-in all its phases and on all
faces, comforting, relaxing, overwhelm-
ing commissions, throwing the human
form in happy shaking and quaking OF
idiocy. and turning the human cOun-
tenance into something appropriate to
Billy Burton's transformation, under
every circumstance, and everywhere, a
laugh is a glorious thing. Like a
thing of beauty" it is "a joy for
ever" There is no remOrse In it. Ii
leaves no sting, except in the sides, and
that soon goes off. Even a single un-
participated laugh is great affair to
witness. But 1t is seldom single. 1t Is
more infectious than scarlet fever. You
cannot gravely contemplate a laugh
If there is one laugher and one wit
ness; forthwith there are two laughers
And so on. propagated like sound
What a thing it is when it becomes
epidemic
Laughter, 'tis poor mans plaster,
Covering up each sad disaster.
laughing he forgets his troubles,
Which though real seem but bubbles
Laughter whether load or mute,
Tells the human kind from brute.
Laughter? It's Hopes living voice,
Bidding Us TO make a choice
And TO Gull from thorny bowers,
sl...r, I a..
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A BEAUTIFUL but blind young lady
recovered her sight after marriage. On
hearing this an old bachelor wickedly
observed that it was no uncommon
thing for peoples eyes to be opened by
matrimony.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

"IT WAS too bad to sentence that sick
old man to prison for life," said SYM
pathizing author at the close of trial.
''Yes. poor fellOwW said another; che
won't live to serve out half his sentence.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

"WHAT did you give for that horse? ~
inquired friend.
"My note"-
"Cheap enough"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

HULLED CoRN.-Soak over night in
warm water, in the morning put it on
in an iron kettle, with warm water
enough to cover it. To each quart of
corn put rounding tablespoonful OF
soda; boil until the hulls come of
readily, then wash in several clear
waters, and after it is thoroughly washed,
put it on to boil again in clear water.
Boil until tender, and then salt it and
let it boil little longer. Turn into a
sieve and drain thoroughly. Eat hot
or cold, in milk.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

RYE BREAD.-Set the sponge with
wheat flour, the same as for wheat
bread. After the sponge has raised
we'll, mix the dough with rye flour,
working it well; after the dough has
raised well, mold it into loaves, and
raise again. Bake on an oven bottom,
and when almost done, take the loaves
out of the oven and wash them on top
with a little brown sugar and water,
and then set them back to finish baking.
Those who like caraway seeds in rye
bread, can put them in while mixing
the dough.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A DREAMY PHILOSOPHER has discovered
that mosquitoes are animated by the
souls of wicked men who have gone to
their last account. If this Is so good
many wicked mems souls are being
plastered up against bedroom walls.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

The young man who wrote and asked
his girl to accept a ''bucket" of flowers
became little pale when size said she
woodent ware it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

i WHEN ought mariners to have fruit at
sea? When they stem the currents.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

WHEN is blow from lady welcome |?
she strikes you agreeably.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

ADVICE to young men about to settle
down-Settle up first.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

"WHAr blessing it is" says hard
working Chicago Irishman, ''that night
niver comes on till late in the day
when a man is tired and can't work any
more at all, at ALL"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

WALBRIDGE, German writer, says,
he saw forty large bee-hives filled with
honey, to the amount of 20 pounds
each, in two weeks, by being placed
near large field of buckwheat in
flower.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

TIE Dog rhO stole HdtS.-Not long
ago a new kind of rObber was caught
in Paris, not far from a hatter's shop.
it was a dog; and he had new hat
between his teeth, and with it was
scampering along, as if to get out of
the way of the police.
When some one tried to take the hat
away from him, he would not let it go
and there was fight which ended very
badly for the hat.
On inquiry it was found that the dog
was owned by a man who had trained
him to go where certain things were
exposed before a shop, for sale, seize
one of them, and run off. The halter
said he had lost no less than six hats
in this way during the week.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

IL YOU are made miserable with chills
and fever, dissolve fifteen grains of
citric acid in cup of hot coffee, and
drink it just before the chill attacks
you. 1t has been known to cure the
worst cases Of this disease. Lime.
lemon, or sour orange juice will have
the same effect.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

MILK AND ATMOSPHERIC IMPURITIES.
Attention has been called in the daily
papers to a practice prevalent in some
parts of the country which appears to IL
lustrate the power possessed by milk of
absorbing atmospheric impurities. 1t
is that of placing saucer of new milk
in a larder to preserve meat or game
from taint. 1t is said that not only does
it answer that purpose, but the milk,
after few hours, becomes so bad that
no animal will touch it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

Shell lime, which contains con sider-
able phosphorus, is superior to stone
lime for agricultural purposes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

"CAS you speak GeSmang" enquired
a merchant of young gentleman ap-
plying for the position Of foreign cor
respondent. "N-o, not exactly was
the reply; "but l have brother VINO
can play the German flute.'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

LApY-"Are those the hardest boot
brushes you have?" Shopkeeper-'Oh,
yes 'm'm fact is, MN, they re generally
considered too hard for boots, m m, and
are used by laundresses to scrub gents
shirts and collars, m'm. They're the
hardest brushes made, m'm?"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A FRENCHMAN got exceeding angry
with a waiter at an English hotel.
s'You rascal!" exclaimed he, 81 blow
your nose for yOH.' ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A BREWER having been drowned in
one CT his own watts, "Alas? poor fel-
low," said Jekyll, Floating on his own
watery bier :"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

New SCHOOL eloquence-College oar
ations.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

Two ENTERPRIsING lawyers in New
York are named respectively Yard and
Furlong. Do they belong to the Union
League?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

BLACK TEETH IN PIGs.-About two
weeks ago, had fine Berkshire pig,
about five months old, that was taken
lame. took it out of the pen and put
it on the ground. 1t kept getting worse
its hind legs became so weak 1t could
not stand on them. i killed it, and in
few days another one was also taken
which had been in the yard some time.
A neighbor told me to ''knock out the
black teeth" which did, and now it
is as well as ever.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

WHAT is the difference between the
ace of trumps and musical instrument? !?
One is a pet trump, and the other a
trumpet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

"THE Indian Department bids are
marked "U. S. 1. D."-"U Steal, /
Divide'-eh?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A DANBURY school teacher has hit
upon an ingenious device for punisiilns
children who laugh in school. one
stands them on chair, with cioth
over their heads. This knocks the levity
out of them, and adds nightly to the
scenery of the room.-Ddn6ury Netes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

Why ought cobbler never to "peg
out?" He's supposed to be everlasting.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06
YOUTHS CoLUMN.

Little Eindnesses. sisters,
did you ever try the effect which little
acts of kindness produce upon that
charmed circle which we call home
We love to receive little fayors our
selves, and how pleasant the reception
of them makes the circle To draw up
the arm chair, and get the slippers !or
father; to watch if any little service
can be rendered to brother; 10 heIp
brother, to assist sister, how pleasant
it makes homei
A little boy has hard lesson given
him at school, and his teacher asks MIN
if he thinks he can get it; for q mo-
ment or two the little fellow hangs
down his head, but the next he looks
brightly up. -,
II can get my sister to help me- he
saws. That is right, sister; help little
brother and you are binding tie round
his heart that may save him In many
an hour of temptation.
81 don't know how to do this sum,
but brother will show me" says anoth-
"Sister, Eve dropped stitch in my
knitting; l tried to pick 1t up, but II
has run down, and can't fix IT."
The little girls face is flushed, ano
| Sle watches ltT SlSltT Win a hCA'o.1
anxiety while she replaces the "naugh'
ty stitch"
"Oh, am SO glad ~ she says, as She
receives 1t again from the hands of hel
sister, all nicely arranged. "You are
good girl, Mary"
"Bring 1t to me sooner the next time
and then it won't get so bad,n said the
gentle voice of Mary. The little ont
bounds away with light heart to nm
ish her task.
If Mary had not helped her, sh'
would have lost her walk in the gar
den. Surely 1t is better to do as Mary
did than to say, "Oh, go away, am
don't trouble me :" or to scold the llttl
one ali the time you are performing
the trifiing favor.
Little acts of kindness, gentle words
loving smiles, strew the path OF In
with flowers; they make the sunshin
brighter and the green earth greener
and He who bade US ''love one anoth
er," looks with favor upon the gentl
and kind hearted, and He pronounce
the weak blessed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A BULL-FRoG is never entirely s'broke"
financially. He always has a green
back, you know.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

OUTDOOR relief-A breath of fresh
air
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

Poor land which needs improving
ought to be manured before seeding to
grass or clover when this can be done,
that is, when manure can be had; but
a common practice is to seed the poor
est land as a means of bettering its con-
dition. Land which is laid down to
grass ought to be in the best condition
in order to be profitable. Manure can
not be applied to better advantage than
to poor land when seeded to grass.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

"SURE, which is the entrance out ?"
asked an Irishman at railway station,
the other day.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

SIZE SIMPLY COUNTED THEM.-"There
are just exactly seven real gentlemen
In. this audience" observed Chicago
young lady to her escort, as he came
back to his seat, smiling and chewing
on a Glove, between acts, at the opera
one night this week.
elbow do you arrive at so definite a
number?" he softly inquired, as he
dropped into the seat.
"By simply counting them," replied
she, roguishly; "when the curtain
dropped last time, counted all who
didn't have to go out to see man
The young man started, hemmed, ane
seemed very anxious to have the mex
part OF the evenings performance star
in.-ChicdgO Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A Post Office in Indid.-A post-Otfice
in that country is a dark, bamboo hut,
only lighted by lamp, which Is moth
ing more than a wick In a sort OF shall
low copper pan, more like large ink
stand than a lamp. Inside the places
you find some men busy doing what
they call "sorting letters :" and you are
asked to throw your letter in among
the rest, by way of posting 1T. You feel
much inclined not to do it-fOr it seems
to you you may as well throw it any
where, while you are about it, as to
toss it upon the heaps of other letters
lying about. There are plenty of other
people there, who are standing about,
looking on, evidently with nothing to
do, and having no business where they
are. But if you try to hint this, or ask
the postmaster what they are doing
there, he answers: "Tnis man, Sahib
OH he is my brother" And this
man Pr you say, pointing to one who
had been very Industrious. indeed, in
looking on at other people working.
"He Oh he has married my sister,
So, of course, you can say no more ;
though you don't see that being the
pOstmaster's great grandfather would
give a man anything to do with the
letters or the pOst-Office (; and you walk
away, feeling very much as if you had
just dropped your letter out of your
pocket, instead of having taken it TO
the post office. But if you were to
wait until the end, you would see all
the letters sorted and fastened up quite
safely in their paper bags, and taken
away to be sent to their different ad-
dresses.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

APPLES FOR Mich Cows.-A cores
pondent of the Country Gentleman
writes: "For many years l have fed
apples TO cows, very much as recon-
mended, except that usually, after the
cows had become used to eating peck
or half bushel each at one feeding,
have fed them a bushel each at once,
for a day or two, and have then allowed
the cows the run of the orchard lthe
marketable apples having been pickle d
and barreled), where they ate as many
as they pleased during the day. If
cows are i'm the habit of eating apples
they seldom choke, unless a few apples
are fed to many cattle, when the fear OF
losing the choice morsel causes them to
take more than one apple at time into
the mouth. The yagrant cow that
Jumps into an orchard and eats at her
leisure, never chokes, neither will a
herd. if not hurried or hooked by each
other. In twenty-five years expert
ence have never had an animal get
choked except one calf. This one
would, when a basket of apples was
poured over the fence into his pasture,
invariably take into his mouth as many
apples as possible before attempting to
eat. Many of my neighbors fed cattle
and horses as freely as | did, and /!
never heard of the loss of an animal:
have seen three or four hundred bushels
piled up on barn floor to use after
cold weather came to fatten steers, OF
keep up the milk yield in dairy; and
these apples were always fed with
scoop shovel, in the managers, giving 3
half bushel each to cows, and bushel
to fattening steers, at each feed. The
only precaution was feeding salt very
freely until the cattle had become ac'
customed to eating large quantities OF
apples,n
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

BEETs FOR Cows.-Last year l raised
a lot of Mangolds and carrots. The
mangolds were gathered first and put
in the cellar; afterwards the carrots
were gathered and corded up on top of
them, so that when l began to feed
them to my cow, the carrots came first.
The cow gave about her usual quantity
of milk, except the usual shrinkage on
account of cold weather and being put
on dry fodder. Fearing that the beets
would not keep as well as the carrots,
and also thinking they possessed better
milk producing qualities, l was anx-
ious to get at them. Accordingly re-
moved part of the carrots and COM
menced feeding the beets, when to my
surprise, my COW began to fail of her
milk until the deficiency reached to
about one-third Wishing to test the
matter still further, l changed back
again to carrots, when her milk in
creased to about the usual Standard
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

Good and Bad Apples.-One day Ro-
bert's father saw HIM playing with some
boys who were rude and unmanDerly.
He had observed for some time achange
for the worse in his son, and now he
knew the cause He was very sorry,
but he said nothing to Robert at the
time.
In the evening he brought from the
garden SIX beautiful rosy checked ap-
piles, put them on plate and then pre-
sented them to Robert. He was much
pleased at his fathers kindness and
thanked him. "Iou must lay them
aside for few days, that they may be-
come mellow" said his father. And
Robert very cheerfully placed the plate
with the apples In his mothers store
room.
Just as he was putting them aside,
his father laid ON the plate a seventh
apple, which was quite rotten. and de-
sired him to let it remain there:
"But, father said Robert, "the rot
ten apple will spoil all the others.
"Do you think so?'' Why should not
the fresh apples rather make the rot
ten ones freshY' said his father. And
with these words he shut the door of
the room.
Eight days afterward he asked his
son to open the door and take out the
fruit. Robert did SO, and found that
the one decayed apple had infected all
the others.
The moral of this little sketch must
be plain to all. The goodcan sell
dom improve the bad. but asso-
citation with cOrrupting influences will
almost invariably contaminate the pure
in heart and reduce them to common
level of wickedness.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

IT Is difficult to explain the workings
of the youthful mind. A boy who Will
listen indifferently to the sublimest
truths of theology will be reused to the
acutest interest by the progress OF
caterpillar over the collar OF the oald-
headed man in the pew in front OF him.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

GETTING rAT-buying lard.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

WHAT TO EAr.-This term in medi-
cine, according to some, comprehends
the whole regimen Of life, with regard
to air, meat, drink, sleep, watching,
motion, rest, the passions, retentions
and excretions. l restrict the term to
eating and drinking alone. The natural
constitution of the body of man is such,
that it can easily bear some changes and
irregularities without much injury.
Had it been otherwise we should be al
most constantly put out OF order by
very slight causes. This advantage
comes from those wonderful commune
cations of the inward parts, whereby,
when one part is affected another comes
Immediately to its relief. Thus when
the body is too full, nature causes eva
cuation through some of the outlets
and for this reason, diseases from abso-
lutte inanition are generally more dan
gerous than from repletion, unless the
latter be excessive; because we can
more expeditiOusly diminish than in
crease the juices ofthe body. Upon the
same account though temperance be
beneficial to all men, the ancient ply
sicians advise persons in good health
now and then to eat and drink more
abundantly than usual. But of the
two, intemperance i'm drinking is safer
that eating. If a man is obliged to fast
he ought to avoid all labOriOns work
From safety it is not proper to pass
directly to sharp hunger, nor from
hunger to satiety;- neither will it b
safe to indulge i'm absolute rest immedi
ately after excessive labor, nor suddenly
to fall to hard work after long idleness
In word, all changes in the way OF
living should be made by degrees. Th'
softer and milder kinds Of Lament are
proper for children, and for youth th'
stronger. Old people ought to lesser
the quantity of their food, and inereas'
that of their drink; but some allowance
is to be made for custom, especially ir
cold climates like ours; for as in thes'
the appetite is keener, so is the diges
ton better performed. Milk pottag'
for breakfast is far more WHOLESOME
than tea with bread and butter; and, /
made after the following manner, Is IL
many respects preferable to milk alone
Let equal quantities of milk and waite
be boiled up with little oatmeal, whicl
will break the viscidity of the milk ant
be at the same time more easily digeste'
than the latter in an undiluted state
Besides, oatmeal is much warme
nourishment than wheaton flour, ant
agrees better with weak stomachs. s.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06

A BEGGAR accompanied by his dog,
stands at Paris street corner. He dis
plays a placard: "Have pity on the
blind" He is caught attentiyely re
garding q coin dropped into his cup:
"Ah! you can see then" Yes"
sswhy then the placard?" 1t Is not for
myself beg. 1t is my dog who is
Hind -