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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-27

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Evening -Iinsced oil, 2,s. I'D. per cwt
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Linseed cake. 60 los per ton
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-27

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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-27

RIO JAsgiRo. May % 1870.
Coffee quiet: prices maintained without change; good
hrsts, O. 500 $3.50 reis per 10 kilos.
Exchange London. asa. . -.
Coffee market quiet with DOWN. ard tendency prcess
superior quoted $500 $3.50 reis per ~ kiloa
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
Nails.

The origin of the terms "6 penny"
80 penny" &C., as applied to nails,
though not commonly known, is in
vOlved in no mystery whatever. Nails
have been made q certain number of
pounds to the 1000 for many years, and
are still reckOned in that way in Eng
land, a 10d. being 1000 nails to ten
pounds, and Cd. being 1000 to 6 pounds.
a 90 penny weighing 30 pounds to the
1000, and having just 0ne-half the num-
ber nails to the 10 pounds of the 10
penny, and in ordering the buyer calls
for the pound, pound or 10 pound
variety, &C., until by the EnRlishman's g
abbreviatiOn of pun for pound, the alb
breviatlOn has been made to stand for
penny instead of pound, as originally
intended and when it comes to less
than one pound to the 1000, such as
tacks. brads, &C., they are reckOned
o., 8 o., 12 o., &c, and the manufac-
turer who would make less than 1000
nails to ten pounds for q 1Od. nail,
would be looked upon as a cheat, as in
former times the difference in the cost
of the manufacture Of one pound of
small nails over the larger sizes was
much greater. As nails are now made
and sold, the dealer only asks for the
sizes needed, by the usual designation,
and the fact that there are now but
twO-thirds of the number of nails for
merly called for in the pound does not
lessen the value.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
APermanent Home.

To have home which q man has
himself reared or purchased-a home
which he has improved or beautifed-
q home indeed, which, with honest
pride and natural love, he calls his own
lis an additional security for any
mans virtue. Such home he leaves
with regret to it he gladly returns.
There he finds innocent and satisfying
pleasures. There his wife and little
ones are happy and safe ; and there all
his best affections take root and grow.
To such q pair, as time advances,
the abode of their early and middle
life. whence they have, perhaps, all de-
parted, becomes constantly moro dear !;
for it is now q scene of precious memo
ries-the undisturbed declining years !!
And say-what lapse of time, what
varied experience Of prosperity, or sor-
row, can ever efface the good impress
SION made by such home on the ten
der heart of childhood To the tempted
youth, to the wanderer from virtue, to
the sad victim of misfortune, such re-
membrance has often proved . strength
ening monitor, or healing balm. Nor
can this kindly influence wholly fail 80
long as the dear objects of that famil-
lar scene retain q place in memory,
connected, a. they inseparably are,
with thoughts of . fathers councils, q
mothers tenderness, sisters purity,
and brothers love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

1t is possible that some one who reads
the title of this article, says the Ne,o
Engl0nd journal Of Education, may find
himself guilty of failing to pronounce
the ci and sh in shun. find that my
lady friend, who is very precise in her
language, will persist in accenting 'eti-
auette' on the first instead of the last
syllable. Ny good minister, who has the
greatest aversion to anything wrong,
was greatly surprised when l mildly
suggested to him that 'aspirant' should
be accented on the penult, while my
musical niece mortified me the other
day by pronouncing finale in two syl-
tables. heard my geological friend
explaining the subsistence of the
earth's crust, but he should have ac-
cented the second instead Of the first
syllable. The same mistake happened
the other day to my friend the Presi-
dent of the reform society, who spoke
of the "vagaries" Of some people by ac-
centing the first instead Of the second
syllable. He also announced that l
would deliver an "address" that even
ing, but l knew that it was not polite
to tell him to accent the last syllable.
My boy says he left school at "recess"
accenting the first syllable, and he was
10th to believe that, whatever the mean
ing of the word is, it ought to be ac-
cented on the final syllable. Then my
friend, the President of the debating
club, who is great student of ''Cush-
ing's Manual" tells us that a motion to
adjourn takes the precedence" by ac-
centing the first instead of the second
syllable. My other lady friend says
that she lives i'm house having scupe.
low.' She should consult the dictionary
for that word. But 1 will close by re-
marking that my legal friend, who is
very scholarly, always accents "coad-
jut0r" on the second instead Of the
third, where it rightly belongs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
History Of Baking.

The art of baking consists in heating
anything i'm an oven or fire so as harden
it. and this term is applied to the man.
facture of bread, porcelain, pottery and
bricks. The origin of baking, as of most
arts of primary Importance, precedes
the period of history, and is involved In
the Obscurity of the early ages of the
human race.
The very early mention of bread in
written history further bears out the
great antiquity of the art of baking. We
are told in Genesis, xviii, 5, that Abra-
ham, wishing to entertain the three an
gels on the plains of Mamre, offered "to
fetch a morsel of bread" and told Sa-
rah to ''make ready quickly three mea-
sures of fine meal, knead it and make
cakes upon the hearth" A little later,
the art of baking was carried to high
perfection by the Egyptians. From an
cient Egypt the art of baking travelled
with the march of civilization into
Greece. We also learn that the Roman
bakers had special privileges granted to
them. The calling Of the baker during
the Middle Ages was considered to be
one so closely affecting the interests Of
the public that it was put under strict
regulation and supervision, and con-
tinued to effect the trade until very re-
cent times.
In England as early as 1906 an act
was passed regulating the price of
bread by public assize, and continued
until 1886. In 1872 the captain of an
English ordered baker in one of the
towns of Sweden to bake q quantity Of
bread to the value of fl sterling. The
baker, confounded at so large an order,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
CONTENT,
My heart and but lately were at strife,

My heart and but lately were at strife.
She fell a-longing for . certain thing,
The which / could not give her. and my life
Grew sick and weary with her clamoring.
God knows / would have given my youth 9
wide scope,
To buy my heart but one brief, blessed day
OF the blind bliss she coveted but hope,
When appealed to it, turned dumb away.
Until hope failed, did not chide my heart
But was full tender to her misery.
i knew how hard and bitter was her part;
But when saw that good Was not for me,
felt that time and tears were vainly spent
Heart" said l. '.hope is silent ; be content "
Poor heart She listened earnest, humble-vise,
While my good angel gave her counsel strong.
Then from the dust and ashes did arise,
And through her trembling lips brake forth
q song,
soothing song that grew into q strain
OF praise for bliss denied rs well as given.
She sang it then to charm a lingering pain,
She sings it now for gladness. morn and
even,
She sings it, seeing ON hfe's garden wall
Loves deep red roses in the sunshine stir,
And singing. passes, envying not at all
Content to feel that love is not for her.
The roses are another's bloom and scent,
.. An The Year Round
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
An Indians Prayer.

The prayer, which we copy below is
that of an Indian of the Crow tribe once
addressed to the Great Spirit with de-
vout simplicity, clearly illustrating the
distorted ideas Of right and wrong that
govern the conduct Of our savage BROTH
er of the American wilderness. 1t adds
weight to the opinion stoutly main
tained by most intelligent travellers
among wild tribes in all countries, that
the races who to day remain In a con-
dition of barbarism are Of inferior men,
tai organization, and consequently in
capable of being elevated to the moral
and intellectual place occupied by civil
lied and enlightened peoples:
/ am poor; that Is bad (murmurs the
Crow Indian to his God). Make me
chief; give me plenty of horses; give
me fine clothing. l ask for good spotted
horses.
Give me a large tent; give me great
many horses; let me steal five horses: !:
grant it to me.
Give me guns by cheating; give me a
beautiful woman; bring the buffalo
close by.
No deep snow; little snow is good.
Give me q Blackfeet to kill or die !;
close by, altogether.
Stop the people from dying, it is good.
Give instruments for amusement; !;
blankets too, and plenty to eat.
Give the people altogether plenty Of
fine buffalo, and plenty to eat.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

About go years B. c., Hero, Of Alex
andria, formed a toy which exhibited
some of the powers of steam, and was
moved by its power.
A. d. 45O, an architect arranged sew
eral chaldrOns of water, each covered
with the wide body of leathern tube,
which rese to a narrow top, with pipes
extending to the rafters of the adjoining
building. A fire was kindled beneath
the chaldrons, and the house was shaken
with the efforts of the steam ascending
the tubes. This Is the first notice Of the
power of steam recorded.
In 1543, June IL, Brasco de Garay
tried steamboat of 200 tons with tolera-
BILE success, at Barcelona. Spain. 1t con-
and movable wheel on each side of the
ship. 1t was laid aside as Impractical
BILE. A present however. was made to
Garay.
In 1920, the first railroad was con-
structed at Observation-Disclosures.
The first idea of a steam engine in
England was in the Marquis of Worces-
ter's ''History Of Invention" A, ID. l6-
63.
In 17O1, Newersman made the first
steam engine.
In 1853 James Watt made the first per-
feet steam engine i'm England.
In l766 Jonathan Hulls set forth the
idea Of steam navigation.
In 1879 Thomas Payne first proposed
the application in America.
In 1871, Marquis Jouffrey construc-
ted a steamboat on the Saone.
In 1855 two Americans published a
work on it.
In 1889 William Symington made
voyage in one on the Forth and Clyde
canal.
In 1902 this experiment was repeated.
In 1882 Ramsey propelled boat by
steam at New York.
In 1883 John Fitch, of Connecticut.
navigated a boat by steam engine on
the Delaware.
In 1894 Robert Fulton first began to
apply his attention to steam.
In 1882 Oliver Evans, a native of Phila-
delphia, constructed steam engine to
travel on turnpike road.
The first steam vessel that crossed
the Atlantic was the Savannah, in the
month of June, from Charleston to
Liverpool.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
Had Habits.

Understand the reason, and all the
reasons, why the habit is injurious.
Study the subject until there is no lin
gering doubt in your mind. Avoid the
places, the persons, and the thoughts
that lead to the temptation. Frequent
the places, associate with the persons,
indulge i'm the thoughts that lead away
from temptation. Keep busy; idleness
is the strength of bad habits. Do not
give up the struggle when you have
broken your resolution once, twice-a
thousand times. That only shows how
much need there is for you to strive.
When you have broken your resolutions
just think the matter over, and endeavOr
to understand why it is you failed, so
that you may be on your guard against
a recurrence of the same circumstan-
ces. Do not think it an easy thing
that you have undertaken. 1t is folly
to expect to break off a habit in day
which may have been gathering long
years.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
Mild Applause.

Mrs. SiddOns once described with no
small humor to Campbell the scene of
her probation on the Edinburgh boards.
The grave attention of the Sc0tchmen,
and their eanny reservation of praise
till they were sure it was deserved, she
said, had well-nigh worn out her pa
thence. She had been used to speak to
animated clay. but she now felt as if
she had been speaking to stone. Sue
cessive flashes of her eloquence that
had always been sure to electrify the
South fell in vain on those northern
flints. At last she said that she had
worked up her powers to the utmost
emphatic possible utterance of one
passage, having previously vowed in
her heart that If this could not touch
the Scotch she would never again cross
the Tweed. When it was finished. she
paused. and looked at the audience.
The deep silence was broken only by q
single voice exclaaming, THAT'S no
badw
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
European Lases.

The statement is made that the num-
Der of lace makers in EurOde is some
five hundred thousand, and of these
nearly one-half are employed in France,
almost all Of whom work at home. OF
the French laces, the most noted is the
point d'Alencon, which has had a wide
celebrity for more than two centuries,
and has been styled the queen of lace.
1t is made entirely by hand, with a fine
needle, on parchment pattern, in small
pieces, which are afterwards united by
invisible seams. The firmness and So
lidity of the texture are remarkable,
and hOrse-hair Is often introduced along
the edge to insure greater strength. Al
though the workmanship Of this lace
has always been of great beauty. the
designs in the older specimens were
seldom copied from nature. This cir
cumstance gave a marked advantage to
the laces of Brussels, which represen-
ted flowers and other natural designs
with a high degree Of accuracy. The
defect, however, has disappeared in the
point d'Alencon of recent manufacture
specimens containing admirable cop
les of natural flowers, intermixed with
grasses and ferns, being now produced
in abundance. Owing, however, to its
elaborate construction, this lace is sell
dom seem In large pieces. A dress made
of point d'AlencOn, the production of
Bayeux, consisting of two flOunces and
trimmings, was exhibited at the expo
sition of 1867. Its price was $l7, 900,
and it required forty women seven
years to complete it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

for one week, then draw it to year
and then to twenty! But to fully COM
prehend its weight to him you must re-
member the life he had led, the ultra
refined and naughty nature Of the man
and his intense sensiveness both TO ply
sical pain and to anything in the slight
est degree lOathsome. Remembering
these, and the burden of the secret to
be kept while the curious world which
missed its idol clamored to be told the
reason of his living death to them, you
may imagine little of the acute and
almost unbearable suffering Of those
twenty years.
At last there came a time when the
meals were scarcely touched, when
there were no orders put below the
curtained doors at all; until one day a
written paper lay there bearing a sum-
mons for the clergyman.
An old man the vicar was then-as
old as i am now-and it was he who
told me this story just as / tell it you.
He came and prayed as he had been
bidden to do, kneeling in the outer
room. He knew the door was opened
leading into the bed chamber where the
squire sat, but he had been hidden not
to pass beyond the closed curtain, and
he never dreamed of trying to do SO.
He raised his voice and prayed in terri
BILE earnestness, but no answering voice
reached him through the heavy drapery.
He might have thought that the squire
was dead but that there came written
word of thanks at last.
Next day the vicar came again, but
the doors were fast then, for he had not
been summoned, and there was no sign
from within that his plea for admission
was even heard.
That night the frightened servants
sent for him again. They could hear
and for two days now. they said, he had
not even admitted them with food.
"You shall fetch the doctor, /" he said,
''and we will enter somehow-he and l
and save him, If we can You must
all remember his orders and your oath. +"
They broke the lock of that first door
with great difficulty and the doctor and
the clergyman stepped softly in. This
door, the one that leads into the cham
Der, was ajar behind its curtain, and
when they entered they saw at glance
the solution of this ghastly mystery.
The squire lay dressed upon the bed,
his loaded pistol still grasped in the
stiffened fingers Of his thin right hand,
and his left stretched towards the cur
tain of the bed, as If he had been going
to draw it round him when the end had
come.
He had not used the pistol, though
heaven knows If there could ever be
enough temptation to excuse self-mur-
der it was here! No, in this solitude
and pain and ghastliness Of suffering,
he had waited his release.
The doctor gently covered the face
which had been SO proudly beautiful,
that the ghastly sight might hurt no
other eyes; and it never did. The
faithful old servants remembered and
obeyed their masters order even now.
For nearly twenty years they had lived
with him and never looked upon his
features; and through this one day that
they had access to his room they kept
their oath most sacredly, and left the
soft, white covering on the face which,
in its decay, they never could have re-
C gniZed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
InfAnrile Experiments.

To see that this is the case, one has
only to listen to her prattle for an hour:
it is wonderfully flexible. l am salts
fled that here every shade of emotion
surprise, joy, vexation, sadness-finds
expression in varieties of tone; herein
she equals or even surpasses the adult.
On comparing her with animals, even
those best endowed in this way-such
as the dog, parrot, singing -birds-I find
that, with less-extended gamut of
sounds, she far surpasses them in the
fineness and the abundance of her ex-
pressive intOnations. Delicacy of i'm
pressions and delicacy of expressions
are the distinctive characteristics of man
as compared with animals: here is the
origin of language and of general ideas.
Among animals, man is, what some
great and ingenious poet is among labO-
rers and peasants: in word, he is cog
infant of a multitude of shades and
tints, even to a whole class Of shades,
which are unnoticed by them. This is
further seen both in the kind and in the
degree of mans curiosity. 1t is easily
seen that, commencing with the fifth or
sixth month, infants, during the sue
ceeding two years or more, give all
their time t. making experiments in
natural philosophy. There is no ami
NAL, not even the cat or the dog, which
makes such continual study of all bod
les within its reach. Every day, the
infant of whom l speak Gage twelve
months) touches, feels, turns over, lets
fall, tastes, and experiments upon,
whatever the object may be-a ball,
doll rattle rOv-onee IL iS sufficiently
known. the infant leaves it alone it is
no longer a novelty; there is nothing
more to be learned from it; it no longer
interests the child. This is simple Gu
riOsity; the child's physical wants, its
desire of food, have nothing to do with
the matter. 1t would seem as though
already i'm its little brain each group of
perceptions tends to complete itself, as
in the brain of child that possesses
language. Science Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
The Length OF Days.

At London, England, Bremen, and
Prussia, the longest day has sixteen
and half hours.
At Stockholm, in Sweden, the long
est day has eighteen and half hours.
At Hamburg, Germany, and Dantzig,
Prussia, the longest day has seventeen
hours, and the shortest seven hours.
At st. Petersburg, in Russia, and To
bolsk, Siberia, the longest day has nine
teen hours, and the shortest five hours.
At Tornea, in Finland, the longest
day has twenty-one hours and half,
and the shortest two hours and half.
At Wardnuys, in Norway, the day
lasts from the 2lst of May to the End of
July, without interruption; and at
Spitzenbergen, the longest day is three
and q half months.
At New York, the longest day, June
10, has fourteen hours and fifty six
minutes, at Montreal, fifteen and half
hours
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
Cinnamon and Gloves.

The cinnamon of commerce is the
inner bark of tree closely resembling
the laurel, or sweet bay, a native origi-
nally of Ceylon, but which is now
grown in the other parts of the East
Indies, and also in Jamaica and other
West India islands. The trees are left
to grow unmolested until they are nine
years old, at which time the young
shoots or branches that are about three
years old are Topped off. The bark is
then slit on one side and removed from
the branch, tied up in bundles until
the next day, when it is lOOsened, and
the skin or outer bark scraped off. 1t
is then dried or rolled up into quills or
pipes, about three feet long, which have
a slit down one side, where the bark
was cut. The smallest quills are rolled
up inside the larger; the whole then
tied up i'm bundles of so or 80 lbs.
weight, and wrapped up in cloths, when
they are ready for expectation. 1t has
an astringent and highly aromatic and
warm flavor, and yields by distillation
an extremely fragrant and pungent
volatile oil, kept for pharmaceutical use
under the name Of oil of cinnamon.
The articles known in commerce as
cloves are the unopened flowers of a
small evergreen that resembles In ap-
pearance the laurel or the bay. 1t is a
native of the Molucca or Spice Islands,
but has been carried to all the warmer
parts of the world, and is largely culti-
vated i'm the tropical regions of America.
The flowers are small in size, and grow
in large numbers in clusters at the very
ends of the branches. The cloves we
use are the flowers gathered before they
are opened, and while they are still
green, After being gathered, they are
smoked by wood fire, and then dried
i'm the sun. Each Glove consists of two
parts, round head (Which is the four
petals or leaves of the flower rolled up,
inclosing a number of small stalks or
filaments), the other part of the Glove
being terminated with four points; it
is, in fact, the flower cup and the un-
ripe seed vessel. All these parts may
be distinctly shown if a few cloves are
soaked for a short time in hot water,
when the leaves of the flowers soften
and readily unrOll. The smell Of cloves
Is very strong and aromatic. Their
taste is pnngent, acrid, and lasting.
Both the taste and smell depend on the
quality of oil they contain. Sometimes
the oil is separated from the cloves be-
fore they are sold, and the color and
taste is consequence are much weakened
by this proceeding.