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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-20
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TURSrP Sled One bushel of Turnip
Seed for sale, ut - cents per pound-by
mail So cents. Call on or address
MAURICE LEONARD,
Oakland Mills, Junilta Co., Pa.
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p f. BURLAN,

Office opposite Lutheran Church,
PORT ROYAL, JUNiATA CO., PA,
Where he will spend the first ten days OF
each month, commencing December lst.-
The balaace OF the time his office will be
occupied by j. 5 kiimer, a young man
worthy of confidence, and who has been
associated with the Doctor as student and
assistant two years and upwards. Those
who call dnring DR.. Burlan's absence fer
professional service, may. and will please
arrange the time with Mr.. kilmer when they
may be served, on the return of the Doctor.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-20

PUBLIC SALBs.-Joseph Long, administra-
tor of Sylvester C. Frey, will sell at public
sale at the residence of Fannie Frey, in
Delaware township, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, on
Monday. September Is, 1876, two horses,
one mare, one colt, one COW, aud lot OF
farming utensils.
Mary A Anderson will offer at public sale
at her residence in McAlistervile, at two
o'clock p NJ, on Saturday. October 9TH,
1876, l dressing bureau, lounge, chairs,
tables, cook stove, and other articles OF
household furniture.
John Mirtz will offer at public sale, at his
residence in Spruce Hill township, at ten
O'Clock A. NJ, on Friday, September 29th,
1876, one bay horse, tive good mich cows,
one steer, one spring calf, a number OF fine
hogs, together with his entire lot of house
hold goods.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-20

/ There is report afloat of the multitud,
OF people who go 70 Philad delphia, many gct
sick. No wonder. The wonder is thai
more do not sicken and die. The strange
diet that they receive there induces then
10 be Incorporate in eating and drinking
and they mast needs get sick on their own
excess When You GO there, be temperate
IN eating. in drinking, in exercise, and YOU
Will be exempt from all but the most malig.
nant Of diseaaes, which do not prevail there
That's all.
Centennial Christian Homes.-This ar.
rangement TO provide for Centennial visi.
{ tors good accommodate ms at low rates in
private families, is proving quite a success.
by letter or IN person, from five hundred
to one thousand persons are daily seeking
Tor assignment to home. As accommoda-
tons are thus offered for twenty thousand
people, churches, Sunday schools, and other
large parties are being provided for in houses
adjacent 10 each other. Near one thousand
OF these homes are along the steam car
rontes by which the Exposition is reached
IN from ten 10 twenty minutes for about
eight cents
As prices range from s. to Sl4 week
and from s To $3.50 day, all classes are
suited. and the comforts and conveniences
OF home enjoyed. Rev. Edwin ". Long
superintends this movement. Apply by let
ter or IN person at his Office, S. Z. corner
OF Twelfth and Berks treets, adelphia,
Pa. The Office is directly east of the Ex-
hibition-is open day and night, and can be
easily reached by street cars from any depot
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-20
F. BRUGMANS SON
CAUTION,

Al Ann ST.. New York.
POSt-Ofiice Box 1886.
Oct I3. IS75-IV
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-28
The Wonders of the Deep.

In her scientific cruise of three years
and half the Challenger steamed and
sailed 69,99o miles, crossing both the
Atlantic and Pacific-the former several
times. The deepest soundings were A..
575 fathoms, in the Pacific, between the
Admiralty Islands and Japan; and in the
Atlantic 1872 fathoms, ninety miles
north of the island of St. Thomas, in
the West Indies. We have noticed the
principal movements of the expedition
from time to time. It's return to Eng
land has revived p1blic interest in the
work of Professor Wyville Thomson
and his associates, and many interesting
details conceaning it have appeared in
the English journals. Many curious
crabs were brought home One very odd
specimen which came to the surface at
night, is described as having a head
which is nearly all eye, and body SO
transparent as to render visible all the
nerves, muscles and internal organs,
while another more lobster-like creature
had no eyes at all. Near Amsterdam
Island, in the South Indian Ocean, the
ship encountered belt of gigantic sea
weed, of which single plants are said to
attain length of thnusand feet and a
thickness equal to that Of "A mans body
A gale of snow, to which the vessel was
exposed in the Antarctic Ocean consisted
of exquisite star-like crystals, which
burned the skin as if they were red ho:
The history of the expedition abonnds
with similar unique xperiences-TSci-
entilic American.
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Owning a Home.

The strength of the American Repub-
lie is the universal desire to own a
home. 1t is molding all the people
native and foreign born, into one homo
geneous mass. The ownership of a
home is something neither the Irish
peasant nor the German Iaborer have in
their own country. any conception; but
here it is the goal Of their hopes and
desires. Education comes next; it is a
something the need of which is not felt
until the adornments of home are thought
of. This desire to own the roof under
which one sleeps is distinctively an
American characteristic, and seems by
nature adapted to the growth which is
raising US in importance in the scale Of
nations. 1t is the link which connects
the man with the Government; it add
to his interest, in the making and exeu
ton of the laws, and identities him with
the usages and customs of the people
1t is this element which gives the people
of Switzerland their unity and power
and the lack of it causes nine-tenths O
the unrest in Ireland. No feeling i.
stronger than the attachments of home
and no nation whose people possesses
this as a common sentiment can lose its
libarfios
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A "Dynamite Fiend'' in France.

The latest French Journals recite the
discovery in France Of match for the
too famous Thomassen in the person of
a merchant in Paris, who recently i'm
ported from Switzerland several casks of
what he declared to be undutia BILE "elay."
The Custom House officers suspected
something, kept the cases at the ware
house, and sent for a chemist The
chemist was puzzled with his first speci-
men of the contents, until he bethought
himself of testing small piece of the
pretended clay with fire. 1t instantly
exploded with loud noise. Another
very small piece put into mortar ex-
ploded on being sharply touched with a
pestls. 1t proved to be dynamite. The
casks ontained enough, had any one Of
them been rolled off cart upon the
ground, to have blown up a whole quar-
ter of the city. Fancy such cask in
the hands of pair of American bag
gage-smashersl Legal proceedings have
been taken against this wretch, who
thus risked the fves of thousands to
save himself few francs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-28

A Detroit lady purchased jacket at
Woodward avenue store, and the clerk
said he would send it right home inside
of half an hour In about four hours a
package boy appeared with the garment,
and the impatient lady exclaimed: "You
boys are the greatest nuisance in town.
| suppose you stopped to play marbles
or hunt up lost dog!" "lndeed did
n't," he replied. 81 went home to change
hats, and ma she had to try the jacket on
and parade before the glass. Then Katy
put 1t on to make call, and when she
got back ma was determined TO walk ov-
er on Woodward avenue to show il of,
and / got here as quick as I could" y
Free Press.
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The Plnm Knot.

The exact end positive proof that the
plum knot is not the work of an insect,
but is the work of minute fungus, has
now been made manifest by Prof. w.
G. Farlow, of Boston, who, In the pro-
ceedings of the Bussey Institute, has de-
scribed and figured the whole process OF
termination of the fungus, and its in
huence on the wood of the tree from the
beginning TO the end. The little fungus
grows from seed Ike spores. These
spores germinate in early spring. They
attach themselves to the bark from the
outside and penetrate to the new wood
that is being formed, and in the delicate
substance easily play destruction The
fungus runs riot through the substance
passing through its various stages all
the summer season, not until near win.
ter does it ripen set Of spores for the
next winters work
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-28
Juvenile Smartness.

A friend of the writer, residing on a
farm in Illinois, has a four-year old
daughter Eta, who frequently amuses
herself by placing the chairs in row
and calling them a train of cars. One
evening, while thus engaged, Mr.. B., a
friend of the family called, and un-
thinkingly occupied one of the Gears"
Miss Eta, not wishing to have her play
disturbed, stepped up and said:
mister, dis is tram of tars."
"Oh!" said Mr.. B., ''then I'll be pas
senger and take ride"
Little Eta was not at all satisfied. AZ
ter hesitating moment she said:
"Where do 'on want to dit off ?''
Mr.. B. replied, "I'll get off at Bloom
ington."
"Well," said Eta, demurely, "dis is
the place"
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The First Steamer to Cross the At
lantic.

An interesting fact to know at the
present epoch an our history is that the
first steamer to cross the Atlantic was an
American ship: From a letter written
to the London Times in 1851 by Mr..
John s. Cunningham, now Pay Director
of the United States Navy, we extract
the following items OF interest in con-
nection with the fact. Mr.. Cunning
hams letter was called forth by claim
made by the Times in q previous issue
that the Sirius, British steamship, was
the first to cross. He says:
On referring TO the Times of June
81, 1919, you will find the following
paragraph, credited to Marwade's Com.
mercial Report for that week:
"Among the arrivals yesterday at this
port we were particularly gratiied and
astonished by the novel sight of fine
steamship, which came round at u P.
NJ. without the assistance of single
sheet, in style which displayed the
power and advantage of the application
of steam to vessels of the largest size,
being three hundred and fifty tons bur-
den. She is called the Savannah, Cap
tain Rogers, and sailed from Savannah
Georgia, United States,) the 26th OF
May, and arrived in the channel five
days since. During her passage she
worked the engines eighteen days. Hel
model is beautiful, and the accommoda'
tions for passengers elegant and com
plete. She is the first ship on this con
struction that has undertaken a voyage
across the Atlantic"
The Times, of June 80, 1919, says
"The Savannah steam vessel, recently
arrived at Liverpool from America
the first vessel of the kind that evel
crossed the Atlantic-was chased whole
day off the coast of ireland by the Kite
revenue cruiser, on the Cork Station
which mistook her for ship on fire."
Lloyd's List reports the arrival o
the Savannah at Liverpool, on the 20tl
of June, 1919, bound to st. Petersburg
and in Cores Annals of Liverpool 20,
will find the American steamers arriva
recorded among remarkable events"
The steamship Savannah was al
American ship, built, owned and navi
gated by Americans. Francis Ficket
Of New York, built her for Daniel Dodd
and the engines were made by Ssephel
Vail, Of Morristown, New Jersey. Sh
was command by Captain Moses Roger
and navigated by Stephen Rogers, O
New London, Connecticut.
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NUMBER l6.
The Compost Heap.

No amount of experiments, talk, and
large results will draw farmers in a body
awav from keeping live stock, and the
manure pile, and turn them wholly to
chemical farming" The ompost heap
will still be an adjunct of the prosper
Gus farmers barn-yard; nor would we
have it otherwise. There is great deal
of unnecessary work expended upon this
plant food factory, however, in repeated
shovelings to prevent over-heating.-
Thorough mixing and proper pulveriza-
tion are of course essential; beyond this,
work spent in shoveling is thrown away.
Heating is the oxidation by the oxygen
of the air of various substances in the
compost, and is necessary, to certain
extent, for the decomposition of the
coarse materials. Over heating is usual.
iy checked by frevuent stirring. But
this only checks it for time, and after.
wards, by the increased access of atmo.
spheric oxygen, the heating (oxldation,
is accelerated. A better way is to pacl
the surface down solidly, by simply
treading upon the heap with the feer
(after pulyerization) or, still better, te
spread little. earth over the pile, takinf
care to compact it somewhat. Eithel
method tends to exclude air, and thu
prevents too rapid oxidation. By adopt
Ing this pratice SO far as advisable,
large proportion of the expense in max
ing compost is avoided [Scientifi
| Farmer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-28
Bible Riddle, or the Wonderful
Prophet.

He is not Noah, nor Noah's son, nor a
Levite, nor John the Baptist, nor yet
the wandering Jew, for he was with
Noah in the ark; the scriptures make
mention of it particularly in St. John,
St. Mark and st. Luke, so that we may
believe he is no imposter. he knows no
parents, he never lay upon his mothers
breast, his beard is such no man ever
wore, he goes bare-footed and bare-leg.
ged, like grave old friar, he wears no
hat in summer or winter, but often ap-
pears with crown upon his head: his
coat is neither knit nor spun, nor hair,
silk, linnen, wooden, bark or sheepskin,
yet it abounds with variety Of colors
and fits close to the skin; he is wonder
fully temperate, he never drinks any
thing but cold water; he would rather
take his dinner in a farmers barn than
in Kings palace; he is very watchful.
he sleeps not in bed, but sits in singu-
lar kind of chair with his clothes on.
he was alive at the cruciixion; nearly
all the world hear him; he once preach
ed short sermon, which convinced a
man of his sins and caused him to weep
bitterly; he was never married yet he has
fayorities whom he loves dearly, for il
he has but one morsel of meat he divid
es it among them; though he never rides
on horseback, he is in some respects
equipped as a horseman; he is an advo
cate of early rising, though he never re-
tires to bed; his prophecies are so true
the moment you hear his voice you
may know what is approaching.
Who was this prophet and what die
he foretell? CHAs. MARKS.
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A Love Story.

He was young, he was fair, and he
parted his hair like the average beau, in
the middle; he was proud, he was bold,
but the truth must be told, he played
like fiend on the fiddle. Barring his
voice, he was everything nice, and his
heart was so loving and tender, that he
always turned pale when he trod on the
tell of cat lying down by the fen
der. He clerked IN a store, and the way
that he tore of calico, jeanr and brown
sheeting, would have tickled calf and
ID ade the brute laugh in the face of a
quarterly meeting. He cut quite a
dash with darling mustache, which he
learned to adore and cherish; for one
girl had said while she dropped her
proud head, that 'twould kill her to see
the thing perish. On Sundays he'd
search the straight road TO the chusch,
unheeding the voice Of the scorner; and
demurely he sat like young tabby cat
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-28
A Few Hints.

In dressing your fields, cut yoar coat
according to your cloth; that is, don'i
run in debt for fertilizers, and when
your sheep are feeced don't let the wool
dealer pull the wool over your eyes AS tc
the price.
When you feel like currying favors,
go into your stable and curry youI
horses and cattle, that will pay best.
DO not do as money brokers 90, sell
yonr stock of hay short; it is better to
have several tons left over till another
season than to be obliged to buy in the
spring.
The time to shear sheep is when you
throw off your coat for the season.
The only kind Of stakes that farmers
should hold is fence stakes.
After raising the best crop you can
the next thing is to raise the mortgage
on your farm; when that is taken up, d
farmer feels in better spirits.
Spend rainy days in spring in practis.
ing dentistry on rakes and harrows, you
can do it just as we'll as to employ car
penter-[ Colorado Farmer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-28

Recently Mrs, c. l.. Applegate, living
at Toms River, went to the well, and,
becoming dizzy, fell in. When her hus.
band returned to dinner he was surpris.
ed to see no signs of life about the
kitchen, and searched every part of the
house for his wife. When passing the
well, which is thirty feet deep. he heard
his wife call: "Charley, l am in the
we'll" He soon drew her up with the
windlass, and found that she had fallen
in several hours before, and had been
standing on tiptoe to keep her head out
of the water, waiting for him to come
She said she was nearly frozen, as her
whole body was in the water, and it was
only by laying her head back that she
could breathe without drawing in a
mouthful of water. Strange to say, she
was not hurt by the fall although she
went down head first.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-28
Human Enjoyment.

Locke, the great German philosopher,
gives, in regard to the duty of man to
enjoy life, the following valuable
thoughts: at is mans proper busi-
ness to seek happiness and avoid misery.
Happiness consists in what delights and
contents the mind; misery in what dis
turbs, discomposes, or torments it. l
will therefore make it my business to
seek satisfaction and delight, and avoid
uneasiness and disquiet; to have as much
of the one and as little of the other as
may be. But here I must have care !
mistake not, for if prefer short pleas
ure to lasting one, it is plain / cross
my own happiness. Let me then see
wherein consists the most lasting pleas
ures of this life, and that, as far as ]
can observe, is in these things: 1st.
Health, without which no sensual pleas
ure can have any relish. I'd. Reputa-
ton, for that find every body is pleased
with and the want of it is q constant
torment. Sd. knowledge, for the little
knowledge l have l would not sell at
any price, nor part with for any other
pleasure. 4th. Doing good, for find the
good turn l did yesterday. year, or
even seven years since, still continues to
please and delight me as often as I re-
| feet on it. If then I will faithfully
pursue that happiness propose to my
self, whatever pleasure offers itself to
me, must carefully look that it cross
not any Of the great and constant pleas
ures above mentioned. For example,
passion tempts me, but it endangers my
health, part with a constant and last
ing pleasure for a very short and tran
silent one, and so foolishly make myself
unhappy, and am not true to my own
interest.
"Innocent diversions delight me. II
I make use of them to refresh myself
after study and business, they preserve
nv health, restore the vigor of my mind
and increase my pleasure; but if l spend
all, or the greater part of my time in
them, they hinder my improvement in
knowledge and useful arts, they blast
my credit, and give me up to the un.
easy state of shame, ignorance and con.
tempt in which I cannot but be very
unhappy. Drinking, gambling and vic
ious delights will do me this mischief
not only by wasting my time, but by q
positive efficacy endangering my health
impair my parts, imprint ill habits
lessen my esteem, and leave constant
lasting torment on my conscience. There
fore all vicious and unlawful pleasures
I will always avoid, because such /,
mastery of my passions will afford me {
constant pleasure greater than any sucl
enjoyments, and also deliver me from
the certain evil of several kinds, tina
by indulging myself in present temp
tation shall certainly afterward suffer
All innocent diversions and delights, a
far as they will contribute to my healtl
and consist with my improvement, con
dition, and my other more solid pleas
. ures of knowledge and reputation,
will enjoy, but no further, and thus
will carefully watch and examine, tha
may not be deceived by the fatsery O
present pleasure to lose greater."-
Exchange.
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have been the cause of it all. Go hence
and bury your love, for passion can
never be awakened in this breast!"
Chester Vane was overwhelmed with
grief. He sank at her feet, and pleaded,
besought her love, his life, but alas. the
woman was immovable.
&C.," she said, with commanding au-
thority. 81 can never forget that you
laid the foundation of my fame, and
that it overwhelms you in the end is
not my fault. Good bye; it is best we
part"
"Oh, will nothing move you?" cried
Chester, in dispair.
"Nothing!" And cold smile over
spread her face, which was as pale as
marble.
He rushed from the apartment, his
hope forever buried, and feeling that be
had lost all hope of happiness by his
one great fault.
He buried himself in his rooms, and
did not appear until a fortnight had
passed, and then be came out changed
man, whose purpose in life seemed end
ed. From that day be was never at
rest. He followed the idol of his afIec-
tions into strange countries, and never
failed TO catch. the FIRST glance made
moiselle chanced to cast over her au.
dience. 1t became customary for her to
see him near the stage, and she grew to
expect him.
But all things have an end. One
evening Viviola did not meet the usual
glances Of admiration from her evel
present admirer, and she suspected some.
thing had happened.
The next night she again missed him
the next and the next, until she became
fretful and uneasy; until at last she
made inquiries, and found to her grea
discontinue that he was i'll, seriously
i'll, the doctors said, and needed care
full nurse. He raved constantly abou
Dora Allen and Mademoiselle Diosene
and ever were these two names upper
most in his mind. The proud spirit o
Viviola gave way at this information
and she herself deyoted part of her tim'
in administering to the sick mans wants
unknown to any save the doctor and he
servant.
The crisis was over at last, and whei
consciousness returned to the invalit
she tenderly placed her hand in hi
weak, wasted one, and murmured:
"Take me, Chester! am yours ant
forever yours!" And the tears stol
softly from her eyes, and she mingle'
her sobs with his.
81 never dreamed that such happi
ness and joy would ever be mine agai
on this EARTH" said Chester, as he woun
his weak arms about Dora's neck, an
kissed her rapturously.
"We will live only for each other i
future" replied Dora, sweetly.
So the world lost bright, particula
star.
Who will say that love is not the ruI
ing passion of mankind? In this cas-
it was 30, was it not, dear reader?