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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A Neu Plant for the DOorydrd.-
Among the plants distributed this year
from the botanic garden in Washing
ton, says the Star, is the dralid pdyvri-
ferd. This plant produces the beauti-
full substance known as rice paper; it
has soft, dOwny, palmate leaves; it
grows ten feet high, with stem four
inches in diameter, full of white pith
like the elder; in full grown speci-
men the pith is about one inch in dia-
meter. 1t is divided into pieces three
inches long, and by the aid of sharp
instrument is unrolled, forming the
thin narrow sheets known as rice pa
per, greatly used by the Chinese for
drawing figures of plants and animals,
and also for making artificial flowers.
Until about 1850, the source of this
substance was unknown to scientists.
The Chinese, on inquiry, gave very
fanciful figures and descriptions of it,
illustrating the fact that then, as now,
'fOr ways that are dark, and for tricks
that are vain, the heather Chinee is
peculiar" 1t was first introduced from
the island of FormOsa to Europe, at
Kent gardens, in 1853; from there it
has been widely disseminated. it is
almost naturalized in some parts of
Australia; in the Southern States and
perhaps California, it will flourish. As
an outdoor ornamental foliage plant, it
is well worthy of cultivation in any
part of the country.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

Nor OrEN ON SUNDAY.-The question
whether or no the great Centennial Ex-
position shall be open on Sunday, is
still undecided, but Bennett & Co.'S
Tower Hall, No. 51S Market St., Phila-
delphia, (sign of the big clock,) is never
open on that day. During all the rest
of the week, however, they will sell
you good clothes, handsome clothes, in
every variety and at wonderfully cheap
prices. Call any day except Sunday.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

CUTTING OFF LOWER LIMBs.-It is a
very common error, and very injuri-
Gus one to cut off large limbs near the
body of a tree. We meet with mutila-
ted fruit trees all over the country
which have suffered in this way from
the use of axe or saw. Forest trees that
are hollow, furnishing habitation i'm
their trunks for squirrels and other an
imals and birds, should teach lesson
showing the danger and folly of remov-
ing large limbs from the trees trunk.
Rotting is almost certain to follow, for
the wound is too large to heal over, and
sufficient care is seldom taken to cover
the surface with sufficient protection to
keep out moisture in the atmosphere.
And besides, the growing tree itself
keeps the wound moist. The cOnse-
quence is that decay sets in and event
ually the trees become rotten at the
heart, and the whole becomes injured
nd losses much of its vitality.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

II ONIONS are sliced and kept in a
sick-room, they will absorb all the at
mospheric poison. They should be
changed every hour. In the room of a
smallpox patient they blister and de-
compose very rapidly, but will prevent
the spread of the disease. Their appli-
cation has also proved efectual in the
case of snake-bites.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07
YOUTHS COLUxN.
Beheaded Rhynes.

The silent monk. with gloomy
Stood muffied In his heavy
As solemn a. the wisest-
That ever sat on nest.
The while the gallant knight. St.
Arose and left his loneiy-
-I'Il co. said he. "snd take the
Upon yon mountains crest"
But As he climbed, he felt A.
'.If sbonld stay upon this
I'm sure" said he, ''I should be
To 20 back will be best"
Twas then then the gloomy monk did
ssBe satisfied with what's in
Remember this, my hesrers-
And put it to the test"
Ans: Scowl, cowi, owl.
Clair, lair, air.
Chill, hill, III.
Preach, reach. each.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

COOKING PoTAToEs.-Many persons
in preparing potatoes for cooking pare
off thick slice from the surface instead
of digging out the eyes. The skinning
process is all wrong, as the strength of
the vegetable lies near the surface-the
starch growing less abundant as the
centre is approximated. The best way
is to scour them well, and either boil or
bake them with their skins on.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

To MAKE single cup of chocolate, or
a greater quantity by a like course and
proportion of ingredients, CRATE desert
spoonful of chocolate; dissolve it in
half cup of boiling water; bring to
boil cup of rich milk, stir in the chOco-
late when thoroughly melted, boil up
three minutes, pour out and serve.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

DIR. SCHENCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, SEA
WEED Tonic AND MANDRAKE Pills.
These medicines have undoubtedly per-
formed more cures of Consumption than
any other remedy known to the Ameri-
can public. They are compounded of
vegetable ingredients, and contain no
thing which can be injurious to the hu-
man constitution. Other remedies ad-
vertised as cures for Consumption, pro-
badly contain opium, which is some
what dangerous drug in all cases, ,and if
taken freely by consumptive patients,
it must do great injury; for its tendency
is to confine the morbid matter in the
system, which, of course, must make a
cure impossible. Schenck's Pulmonic
Syrup is warranted not to contain a
particle Of opium: 1t is composed of
powerful but harmless herbs, which act
on the lungs, liver, stomach and blood,
and thus correct all morbid secretions,
and expel all the diseased matter from
the body. These are the only means by
which Consumption can be cured, and
as Schenck's s Pulmonic Syrup, Sea Weed
Tonic and Mandrake Pills are the only
medicines which operate i'm this way, it
is obvious they are the only genuine
cure for Pulmonary Consumption. Each
bottle of this invaluable medicine is ac-
companied by full directions. DIR.
Schenck is professionally at his princi-
pal Office, corner Sixth and Arch Sts.,
Philadelphia, every Monday, where all
letters for advice must be addressed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

DELMoNICo PUDDING.-One quart of
milk; three even tablespOonfuls of corn
starch, dissolved in cold milk; the yolks
of five eggs; six tablespoonfuls ofsugar.
Boil three or four minutes; pour in a
pudding dish and bake half an hour, or
perhaps less time will do if the oven is
hot. Beat the whites of the eggs with
six tablespoonfuls Of sugar; put it over
the top and return the pudding to the
oven till it is a nice light brown. No
sauce.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A TABLESPOONFUL of black pepper
put in the first water in which gray and
buff linens are washed will keep them
from spotting. 1t will also keep the
colors of black and colored cambrics
from running, and does not harden the
water. A little gum arabic imparts a
gloss to ordinary starch.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

Publication Of Suiphide Of Carbon
Instead of the usual method of puri-
fication with mercury salts, S. Kern re-
commends the nitrate of lead, pulver-
lied and mixed with little metallic
lead. The bisulphide is shaken with
fresh quantities of the salt as long as
it continues to blacken it; then it is
decanted and distilled. The affinity of
lead for sulphuretted hydrogen and
sulphur in general leads us to believe
that Mr.. Kern's method will prove q
good one. Strips of bright metallic
copper will also soon remove the color
and much of the Odor from bisulphide
of carbon. Unfortunately exposure to
light causes both odor and color to re-
turn.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

Absorption Of Oxygen by Plants in the
Ddrk.-According to Deherain, leaves
kept in a confined atmosphere in dark
ness will absorb the whole of the oxy-
gen, and still continue to give off car
bonic acid, the resistance to asphyxia
varying with the species. The rapidity
of growth and energy of respiration of
plants are both favored by obscure
heat; and 1t is shown that the internal
combustion, by the absorption of Oxy-
gen and emission of carbonic acid, is
the origin of part of the heat necessary
to the elaboration of new proximate
principles in the plant.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

OLD Boggs was toasting his shins in
front of the fire last night and reading
the paper, when he suddenly grunted
out: - "Thunderl Court again this
week." ''Not unless Willie gets back
from the city," RESPONDED Angelina,
whose tender conscience appropriate
the remark to herself.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

MoLAssEs CAKE.-Two cups of Porto
Rico molasses, one cup of lard, three
quarters of cup of water, one table
spoonful of ginger, three teaspoonfuls
of saleratus, dissolved; flour enough to
make it stiff as pound cake dough.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

The Theory of Errors of Obserration.
Mr.. G. s. Peirce, in an interesting ar
ticle on the laws of errors of Observa-
ton, and the nature of the s0-called
personal equation, gives the results OF
some experiments made upon an en-
tirely unframed observer. young man
about eighteen years of age, who had
had no previous experience whatever
in observations. He was required to
answer q signal consisting of sharp
sound like rap, his answer being
made by tapping upon telegraph ope-
ratOr's key, nicely adjusted. Both the
original rap and the observers tap
were recorded by means of u delicate
and five hundred Obser-
vatiOns were made on every week day
during q month. 1t was found that on
the first day the observations were
scattered through very large range OF
error, the difference in time between
the records of event, and of the Obser-
walton varying In fact between the
extreme values from 0-16 to 0-9S OF q
second. The personal equation proper
on the second day was between O-2 and
o 3 of q second. and from that time 1t
steadily decreased until it amounted
only to one seventh of a second 1t
then gradually increased until the
twelfth day, when it amounted to 0-0
of a second. While this variation In
personal equation occurred, the range
of error or discOrdance was constantly
decreasing, until on the twenty-fOurth
day the probable error of the result
did not exceed one eightleth of sec
opd. This is considered to clearly de-
monstrate the value of such practice in
training the nerves for observation !:
and he recommends that transit Obser-
vers be kept in constant training by
means of similar observation OF an ar
tificial event, which can be repeated
with ease and rapidity, it not being es-
sential, he thinks, that those Observa-
tions should very closely initiate the
transit of star over the wires of te.
lescope, inasmuch as it is the general
condition of the nerves which it is i'm
portant to keep in training more than
anything peculiar to this or that kind
of observation.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

How TO MAKE TEA.-In China tea is
never decocted, it is infused; and the
reason is that the acrid quality con-
tanned in the stems is not liberated in a
quick drawing" Take porcelain
pot for tea-Sevres china if you have it,
and not earthenware-scald it with
freshly boiling water, then to every
heaping teaspoonful Of tea add a break
fast cup of water; when the tea has
drawn exactly five minutes, and no
more, pour all off and drink with sugar
only. The leaves are very useful after
ward for carpet-sweeping, but tea ANA
teurs rarely try such an acrid prepara-
ton as a second drawing, the offensive
flavor Of which must be disguised with
milk.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

The Chicago Tribune says: A doctor
on West Adams street saved a young
woman's life two months ago. When
he brought round his bill the grateful
father replied: ''Take her, doctor; she
is yours; her heart beats only for you.
Me and the old woman will come and
live with you by and by" The son of
Esculapius said he wasn't that sort Of
man; that he couldn't afford it; that,
seeing it was him, he would take sG6.
.Sixty-six dollars" !" screamed the pious
father; "why, could have buried her
for half the money!"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

CATARRH Is a common disease-sO
common that snuffing, splitting, and
blowing of the nose, meet us at every
turn on the street. Your foot slips in
these nasty discharges on the sidewalk
and in the public conveyance; and its
disagreeable odor, communicating the
breath of the afflicted, renders them Of
fensive to their associates. There is the
highest medical authority for stating
that with fully one-half, if not two
thirds, of those afflicted with Consump-
ton Of the Lungs, the disease COM
mences as Catarrh in the nose or head,
the next step being to the throat and
bronchial tubes-lastly to the lungs.
How important then to give early and
prompt attention to a Catarrh. To cure
this loa:hsome disease correct the sys-
TEN by using DIR. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery, which tones it up, ,cleanses
the blood, and heals the diseased glands
by specific influence upon them; and
to assist, use DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
with DIR. Pierce's Nasal Douche- This
is the only way to reach the upper and
back cavities where the discharge comes
from. No danger from this treatment,
and it is pleasant to use. The two med
icines with instrument are sold by deal
ers in medicines, &c
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A GRUMBLING car-driver said to a pas
senger' "You always want me to stop
when you get off," ''No, sir" said the
passenger, who had no jumping notions,
81 don't care what you do. 1 only want
the car to stop. You can go on.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

RED ANTs.-If you will buy five cents
worth of calomel and put it on plate
with syrup, where the ants are trouble
some, they will disappear; or cayenne
pepper is said to be good cure for ants,
as well as other vermin.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

SOMEBODY says Tyndall calls his wifi
Mollie-cule. We suppose she calls him
a-Tom.-LotoeN Courier.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

"WILL this pipe smoke free?" asked
a gentleman who was purchasing a
pipe. ''Of course it will, If you can get
your tobacco for nothing" was the
reply.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

BETTER than door plate with mans
name on it, says Scotchman, is dim
ner plate with mans dinner on 1t.
The man who popped the question by
starlight got his sweetheart's consent
in a twinkling, says an exchange.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A LITTLE TOAD will break up a croquet
party quicker than the darkest thunder
cloud.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

WHY is a store that don't advertise
like Enoch Arden? Because it ''sees
no sale from day to day."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

NEURALGIA.-Great relief from this
distressing complaint can be received
by taking three or four drops of red
lavender in little water, or on lump
of sugar, two or three times day.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

Mary Clemmer Ames has returned
to Washington cured Of the affection Of
the eyes which has prevented her from
doing any work for a twelvemOnth past.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

WHY is talkative young man like a
young pigr Because, if he lives, he is
likely to become bore.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

WHAT class of men are always open
to conviction? Those who have violated
the law.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A DANBURY MAN carried home four
quarts of soft shell clans in an Ovcrcoat
pocket. In the same pocket was hand
full of loose tobacco. The sOft-shell
clans had often heard of the weed, Of
course, but this was the first sample
they had seen, and by the time the man
reached home, each clam had nice
quid comfortably rolled under its
tongue. The clans were opened and
cooked, without the family noticing the
filthy habit they had got into. They
were served for breakfast, and partly
eaten. The Danbury man is now con-
vinced that he must either find some
thing other than a pocket to carry clans
home in, or get wider back-door.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

HAIR REsToRATIvE.-At tea, made by
pouring one pint Of boiling water on
two tablespoOnfuls Of dried rosemary
leaves, with q wine-glassful of rum
added, is excellent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

AFTER all sed and done (says j. b.
if thare wasn't anything but lambs in
this world, life and mutton would be a
CRATE drug.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

"BIG long legged man don't always
sometimes get ahead of little boy" is
Chinese for "the race is not always to
the swift"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

WHY was Samson the greatest actor
the world has ever seen? Because at
his first and only performance he
brought down the house.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

OLD CANs.-The Housekeeper gives
the following suggestions for utilizing
old tin cans. Take off the top of the
can, punch holes on opposite sides near
the rim, put in a wire bail; and you
have a little bucket, which may serve
for paint pot, to keep nails in, or
other handy purposes. Take off the
top, cut to the proper shape, and fasten
on a handle by means of a screw through
a hole in the bottom, and useful scoop
may be made. A saucepan for small
messes may be made by cutting down
can, leaving a strip to be bent at right
angles, and turned around a stick, to
serve as a handle. A coarse crater for
crackers, etc., is easily formed from a
piece of tin fastened to board. The
holes in the CRATER should be made with
an old three cornered file.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A MEMBER of Parliament, well known
for his ready and unfailing humor, had
lately to undergoa a serious operation for
an abscess in the leg. 1t was at one
time feared, but we are glad TO say
without cause, that amputatiOn of the
limb would be necessary. Just as the
operation was about to begin, the honor
able member quietly remarked to the
surgeon n:-''Remember that if you cut
off my leg can't stand for the city any
more. "But," he added, after pause,
as if for consideration, "after all l shall
be able to stump the county"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

WHY are bees like merchants? Be-
cause they cell their honey.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

Pork CUTLErs.-Fry tOa nice brown !;
beat three eggs with three teaspoonfuls
Of -four, dip each slice In the batter,
and fry again, until the batter Is cooked.
This is very nice.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

RooT CRoPs.-On free working land,
for the use of stock, carrots, sugar beets
and rutabagas may be cultivated with
more profit Oh the same quantity of
land than any other crop. An acre in
carrots, wisely managed, will be as
likely to yield five hundred bushels as
an acre in potatoes to produce one hun
dred bushels, while carrots, bushel for
bushel, are worth more for stock than
potatoes. 1t is true an acre of carrots
will cost more for cultivation than an
acre of potatoes; but the seed of pota-
toes cost many times more than that
of carrots. If the ground is prepared
in the fall by manuring and plowing,
and then thrown up in ridges two feet
apart in the spring and left laying until
the weeds have germinated, then with
4 hoe and steel rake subdue the weeds
before planting, there will be but little
more trouble from this source. The
seed must be of last years growth. Put
it in a bag and bury it in the ground a
few inches deep so that IT will germi-
nate before planting. When this oc-
ours, roll it in plaster or dry soil and
drill it in. Put some radish seed among
it which grows much quicker than car
rots, and marks the rows so that weed
ing may commence before you can
scarcely see the carrot plants.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

"I DON'T like WINTER" said one pick
pocket to an another; Everybody has
his hands in his pockets"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

WHEN can a lamp be said to be in
bad temper? When it is put out.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

For WHAT complaints do doctors pre-
scribe most frequently For profits.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A MAN with lots of time on his hands
The matchmaker.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

FOx's MARTYRs.-Ducks, chickens,
turkeys, and geese.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A correspondent .rrites My neighbor
is a good man and has good wife who
conducts family prayers. The children
all kneel with their mamma and she
prays for them. She had just got as
far as ''amen" the other morning when
the little three years old girl interrupt
ted and said: "Pray for the frdmps,
mamma, pray for the trdmps!"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

The MosT PROFITABLE HoG.-The
most profitable hog is that which will
grow you the most pounds of pork at
ten months old for given amount of
food. This will require an early ma
turing breed, and one that utilities its
food to the greatest extent. The Berk-
shire, or Essex, or Suffolk, in health,
will do this, but either of the two are
thought, by many, to be more hardy
than the latter. The Berkshire, all in
all will lay on as many pounds of food
for the food consumed as any breed yet
found,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

WHAT is the worst kind of an omen ?
To owe men.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

A LITTLE common soap lather mixed
with starch gives linen good gloss.