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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
Through Friesland.

Open enough, certainly; and fiat:
with little beyond the sheep and cows,
the windmills and fields of grain, to
claim attention. But it was something
to watch the peasants reaping and
stacking; strengthening, sunburnt,
happy men and women. A change to
have the sun shining. Yesterday We
had travelled in great coats: to-day airy
garments and windows open to the
grateful breezes. The very sheep looked
pure and white, while yesterday they
were dingy brown. The old Spanish
proverb ought To be especially applica-
BILE to Holland; Feed sheep with
grass and he repays you in wool" Now
we passed over canal upon which a
barge, with its brown sails filling to
the wind, was pleasant object TO break
in upon the monotony of the landscape.
At Grypskerk we waited many minutes
apparently for no causes but that the
train, slow enough to all conscience,
was yet before its time. So the guards
and officials assembled together in the
waiting room, and over sundry glasses
of beer chatted about the change in the
weather and the beauty of the cattle we
were carrying, and the wonderful
patience travellers must exercise in Hol-
land. The surrounding prospect was
pretty; almost diversified. Rich green
fields and dykes, and happy cattle chew
ing the cud of reflection, or appearing
to do so small picturesque cottages sur
rounded by trees and shrubs and creep
ers, each rejoicing in a small garden
and a bit of cultivated land. Trees
bounded the horizon, which to-day had
taken quite purple and romantic tone,
that really seemed out of place in prac-
teal Holland. As seen this morning
there was nothing dreary or dismal or
monOtoDOus in all this wide tract of
land, this sameness of prospect. The
sky, with its white fleecy clouds, was
in itself picture. Not one of the least
pleasant features in the landscape was
the reflection of the bright blue sky and
white clouds in the surrounding dykes,
lighting up the landscape as mirrors do
a room. The sun, too, sparkled upon
the water like so many jewels, bright
and dazzling. Here white patch upon
the emerald grass announced 4 brood
of ducks. a picture of calm repose after
a midday meal.-The 4rgosy.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10

Facts Prored by Science.-A slight blow
is sufficient to smash whole pane of
glass, while a bullet from a gun will
only make a round hole in it: because in
latter case, the particles of glass that
receive the blow are torn away from the
remainder with such rapidity that the
motion impaired TO them has no time TO
spread further. A door standing open,
which would readily yield on its hinges
to gentle push, is not moved by can
nOn-ball passing through it. The
ball in lpassing through overcomes the
whole force of cohesion among the
atoms of wood but its force acts for so
short time; owing to its rapid pas
sage, that il is not sufficient to effect the
inertia of the door TO an extent to pro-
duce motion. The cohesion of the part
of the wood cut out by the ball would
have borne very great weight laid
quietly upon it; but suppose the ball 10
fly at the rate of twelve hundred feet in
a second; and the door to be one inch
thick the cohesion being allowed to act
for only the minute fraction of second,
its influence is not perceived. 1t is an
effect of this same principle that the iron
head of hammer may be driven down
on its wooden handle, by striking the
opposite end OF the handle against any
hard substance with force and speed.
In this very simple operation, the mo-
ton propagates so suddenly through the
wood of the handle that it is over -
fore it can reach the iron head, which,
therefore, by its own weight, sinks
lower on the handle at every blow
which drives the handle up.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
A Landlord at Trenton Falls.

We are at Trenton Falls, and here
we meet another dream, or what seems
very much like a dream,-a landlord
who is a cOnnoisseur i'm art and lover
of science, and who understands his
business. Paintings, old and new, adorn
the walls. Here is Durand, there a
Boutelle, there, and there, and there,
how many paintings by Hicks we do
the first story of the large house. In
the office stands cabinet of natural
history-a special branch of it-which
has cost the landlord ten thousand dol
lars. The specimens form the record
of a geologic age so remote that no i'm
agination can grasp it. Professor Agas-
siz declared that the land reaching from
Trenton Falls to Saratoga was the first
that appeared above the sea on the ere
alton. But here are the trilobites in
great variety, all modelled in black
marble, so perfectly preserved in form
that the multitudinOus lenses of their
eyes are as apparent under the micro
scope as are those of living fly. Mil
lions Of years before man walked the
earth these creatures lived their little
life, the limestone took on their forms,
and here they are! What is a seven
teen-year locust to ten million year
trilobite? A trader in these curiosities
offers us one of the size of pin, and
now We own an antique that deserves
the name. What are scdrabGi and an
eient int0glI, or any other engraved or
modelled semblaDce of the old life COM
pared to this which we hold in our
hand? This creature lived, not only,
but had become everlasting stone mil
lions of years before there was living
man to see it. The old hotel-keeper is
enthusiastic over his treasures, and
proud of the distinguished visitors who
have been attracted by what he has to
show them. "In September" he says,
with touch of pardonable pride, 81
shall have Tyndall and Huxley and
Darwin here all together, for they have
written me that they are coming"
May the light that came into the old
landlords eyes as he made this an
nouncement last for many years =
Scribner.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
shun Ahectatiou.

There is nothing more beautiful in
the young than simplicity of character.
Ii is honest, frank and attractive. How
different is affectation! The affected are
simply unpatural. As for originality,
if they ever had it, they have crushed
it out and buried it from sight, utterly.
Be yourself, then, young friend. To
try to be somebody else is worse than
folly. 1t is impossible to attain it. But
suppose you could succeed in initiating
the greatest man that ever figured in
history; would that make you any bet
ter? BY no means. You would always
suffer in comparison with the initiated
one, and be thought of as shadow of a
substance, the echo of a real sound, the
counterfeit of pure coin. Let the fabric
of your character, though ever so hum
BILE, be at least real. Shun affectation.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
Frozen Kindness.

This world is full of kindness that
never was spoken, and that is not much
better than no kindness at all. The
fuel in the stove makes the room warm
but there are great piles of fallen trees
lying on the hills where nobody can get
them; these do not make ANYBODY
warm. You might freeze to death for
want of wood in plain sight of all these
fallen trees if you had no means of
getting the wood home and making a
fire with it. just so in family: love
is just what makes parents and children,
and brothers and sisters happy, but if
they take care to never say a word about
tiff they keep it profound secret :
as If ii We're crime-they will not be
much happier than if there was not any
love among them; the house will seem
cold even in the summer, and if you
live there you envy the poor dog when
anybody calls him 'poor-fellow."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
a Valuable Work.

The well-known advertising agents,
Messrs. 5. NJ. Pettengill St Co., OF this
city, have just issued in handsome
form their Newspaper Directory anu
Advertisers Hand-Boo for 1917. III
"a without doubt the most valuable and
Trustworthy compilation Of its KIND
published in this country, and WORK
which no advertiser or newspaper puo-
Usher should be without No fewer
than S,57i newspapers or periodlcais
are described, showing the day and
place of publication, character, pup
Usher. circulation; in short, all that an
advertiser requires TO know regardlnS
any medium published. Besides the
general list there is list of periodicals
by counties, which must be valuable 10
those who desire to reach any partlcu-
lar section of the Continent, and tables
of daily and weekly newspapers having
a circulation of 5000 copies or over, re-
Iigious, agricultural, and other CLASS
organs, Two or three striking portraits
of prominent editors are scattered
throughout the volume, which, alto
gether, gives US a capital idea oil the
wealth and variety OF American journal
ism, and proves the immense connection
and great business facilities which lts
publishers and compilers must have al
their command. - ". Y. Scottish Amer.
Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
How Marriages are Made.

1t used to be believed that marriages
were made in heaven, but the delight
ful principle which too often imputes
the results of our own folly, or the in
trigues of matchmaking mammas, 10
Providence, is, in our practical age, the
adopted creed of but a very limited
number of disciples.
The old theory has, however, much
in its favor. 1t is very convenient and
very romantic, and what more could be
required of a theory which processes to
deal with the hearts of young ladies
For instance, here is an outline OF
one of the most ordinary cases of fall
ing in love"-charmingly expressive
phrase NOT walking in love-" nor
vet ''going into love-" but simply fall
ing" and see how far union for life
will be likely to prove productive OF
real happiness.
Now, suppose the hero TO rejoice in
the euphOniOus and not very common
% name OF Brown, for Love, like Jus
tice, is color blind, and in the elegant
words of Curran. .'cares not what color
an Indian or African sun may have
burnt on his face" or what name he
may have inherited from the author OF
his being. Let Brown be invited on a
visit for few weeks by his uncle or
his grandmother cousin, or anybody,
in fact, TO the country residence of the
aforsaid somebody. Let it so happen
that a certain Miss Green had been in
vited to the same house exactly one
month previously, but that as her man.
ma was suffering with neuralgia tilial
love compelled Miss Green TO postpone
her visit a few weeks. Ii so chances
then that, on Browns arrival, in addi-
ton to the inevitable-"Mr. Brown.
my daughter is added the
further instruction-"Mr. Brown, Miss
Green. Brown sees pretty little hat
bow TO him, and a dainty little skirt
wrinkle in a courtsey before him, and
Brown feels so pleased. Now ii hap
pens, a ii so often dOes-is il not
strange THAT there are only two sad
die horses, and as ii would not be polite
on the part of my daughter TO monop-
ollie one Of then, Miss Green and Mr..
Brown 20 out riding together. We
will suppose the lady 10 he good looking
and Brown not in this respect worse
than the ordinary run OF Browns in
general. They soon attract each other
and finally fall in love-" Brown and
Green both agree that their parents
ought at once 10 give consent to their
Browny-Green alliance. And if you
ask either why they fell in love with
the other, they do not know. Mar
riages are made in heaven"' There is
no accounting for these things, but they
feel a. though they can never love any
one else. In short, they have both
stumbled into love- without in the
least stopping to consider their fitness
for marriage. And, after all, this whole
romantic affair results from old Mrs.
Greene's face ache preventing her
daughters visit preceding Mr.. Browns
and the old gentleman not being able
TO afford a third saddle horse, both cir
combining most romanti-
cally TO carry out the purposes of
heaven.-DetrOu Free Press.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
A Curious Old Ceremony.

A curious annual ceremony has just
been performed on Da-tmoor. 1t goes
by the name of "Ye Fyshinge Feaste"
(the spelling is cardinal point) and
was instituted TO celebrate Sir Francis
brakes feat of supplying Plymouth
with pure water from the river New, by
means of leat or watercOurse carried
across the moor.
The Mayor and Corporation and their
invited guests meet on the these oe-
casiOns at the Head Weir under Sheep
stOr, and a silver goblet filed with
water from the leat is passed from hand
to hand, each person drinking, or ap-
pearing to drink, and repeating, "TO
the pious memory of Sir Francis Drake"
After this, as measure of prudence, or
perhaps as a penance for the sin of
water drinking, another goblet filed
with wine is passed round in like
manner to the burden of MAY the de-
scendants of him who brought us water
never want wine" This is followed
by banquet at which trout, netted in
the leat, are served up; and which this
year was graced by the presence of the
president of the British Association.
1t is no doubt goOdly custom thus
to commemorate the boon conferred on
Plymouth by Sir Francis Drake, who,
with singular foresight, was careful
to secure the watershed. In conse-
qence of this, when leat was wanted
of Devonport, it had to be sought so far
that its makers hailed with delight the
news of an unfathomable tarn, called
Cra%well Pool, which lay right in
their way. This was said to have been
sounded with miles of bell ropes, and to
have seemed absolutely bottomless.
$40" according to a well-known Devon
shire humOrist, "zay yet up zteam-
engine sndp ump un dry in dree hours"
London Examiner.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10

PRESERVING SWEET CORN,-lt is all
very well, perhaps, TO advise people 10
can sweet corn, for the experience may
he valuable in sweetening their tenn
pers, but the corn will sour. If it is
well done, it will look beautifully
white, and be sweet (if you add sugar
enough beforepreparing it for the table)
but requires so much boiling, and TO be
canned so quickly and so hot, that, ex-
cept in factories, people are apt 10 have
bad luck with it. The thing TO do is to
shave and scrape the corn from the
cobs daily during the season of surplus
sweet corn. TO dry this at first on sheets
of tin in the sun, then on sheets on
which ii can be moved and mixed fire.
quently. In hot, dry weather the corn
will dry enough in the sun, but should
the weather come on moist or rainy, II
must be brought into the house and
dried slowly in the stove oven, the
door beng open, upon bricks over the
stove, or In any similar safe place. Ii
must not scoreh nor lie in masses so
that it will ferment. Ii is no ''trick"
10 do this well, and it is sweeter and
Letter, but not so nice looking as the
canned It is on account of the danger
of having large masses at once when
rainy weather comes on, that we ad-
wise drying some daily. When dry,
preserve it in bags, hung up away from
mice.-N. Y. Tribune.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
A Struggle with Stove PIpe.-A Littl'
Story for the season.

Putting up a stove is not so difficult
in itself. 1t is the pipe that raises four
tifths of the mischief and all the dust.
You may take down a stove pipe with
all the care in the world, and vet that
pipe won't come together again as it
was before. You find this out when
you are standing on a chair with your
arms full of stove pipe and your mouth
full of SCOT. Your wife is standing on
the floor in position that enables her
to see you, the pipe and the chair and
she gives utterance to those remarks
that are calculated to hasten a man into
the extremes of insanity. Her dress is
pinned over her waist, and her hands
rest on her lips. She has got one of
your hats on her head, and your linen
coat on her back, and pair of rubbers
on her feet. There is about five cents
worth of pot-black on her nose, and a
lot of -four on her chin, and altogether
she is a spectacle that would inspire
dead man with distrust. And while you
are up there trying to circumvent the
awful contrariness of the pipe, and tel
ling that you know some fool has been
mixing it, she stands safely On the floor
and bOmbards you with such domestic
notices as: "What's the use of swear
ing sop "You know no one has
touched that pipe" 'You aIn't got
any more patience than a child "Do
be careful of that chair" And then
she goes and reappears with an armful
more of pipe, and before you are aware
of it she has got that pipe so horribly
mixed up that il does seem no two
pipes are alike. You join the ends and
work them 10 and fro, and to and fro
again, and then you take them apart
and look at them. Then you spread one
out and jam the other together, and
mount them once more. But il is no
CO. You begin TO think the pieces are
inspired with life, and ache to kick
them through the window. But she
doesn't lose her patience. She goes
around with that awful exasperating
rigging on, with length of pipe under
each arm and a long-handled broom in
her hand, and says she don't see how it
is that some people never have any
trouble in putting up stove. Then
you miss the hammer. You don't see
it anywhere. You stare in the pipe,
along the mantel, and down the stove,
and off to the floor. Your wife watches
you, and is finally thoughtful enough to
inquire what you are looking after; and
on learning, pulls the article from her
pocket. Then you feel as if you could
go out door, and swear a hole twelve
feet square through block of brick
buildings, but she merely observes:
"Why on earth don't you speak when
you want anything, and not stare
around like a dummy" When that
part ofthe pipe which goes through the
wall is up, she keeps it up with the
broom while you are making the con-
nection, and stares at it with an intensity
that is entirely uncalled for. All the
while your position is becoming more
and more interesting. The pipe don't
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10

Muscular Contraction and Eieetrieity.-
Muscular contraction is always accom-
panied with electrical phenomena. The
difference of electric force between two
points of muscle undergoes diminu-
tion, which, according 10 Bernstein,
precedes the contraction by l-100 of a
second. NJ. De la Roche has recently
examined the electrical power of the
human heart. The electrodes consisted
each of a plate of amalgamated zinc
with pledget of muslin saturated with
sulphate of zinc at the lower extremi-
ties. These were applied, one with its
muslin wad opposite the heart on the
left breast, the other on another part of
the chest, and connection was made
with capillary electrometer. The
mercury column executed very dis
tinct series of periodic pulsations, syn
chronic with the pulse. Each pulsa-
ton marked the double moment OF the
heart. The result obtained cores
ponded to 1-l000 of Daniell element.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
Contentlnent.

Given all the comforts and many of
the luxuries Of life, how many people
are discontented solely from habit of
comparing their lots with those of more
fortunate acquaintances They do not
specially object TO walking-they like
exercise-but, whenever their next
door neighbor's carriage dashes by
them, they grow suddenly tired about
the knees and feel a weakness in the
back with which pedestrianism does
not agree. Woolen gowns would be
perfectly comfortable if silk ones never
rustled in front of them. John Smiths
brick house is better than he ever ex-
pected to own, and he would be content
enough with it if Tom Jones, who went
to school with him when he was boy,
had not moved into stone-fronted
mansion with handsome portieo.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
AGRICULTURAL.

The DAIRY INTEREsT.-The country
has $456, 600 900 in 100000 mich
cows whose annual product Is worth
1915, ,142, ,5S5, while the last cotton crop
was worth only $200, ,000, 900.
The enormous sum of this dairy in
terest-which includes nothing OF oxen
hides or meat-will surprise every one
who has paid no attention TO 1t. The
fallaey which destroyed the hay argu-
ment is partially wanting here too. For,
while our expectation of hay amounts
to nothing, and hardly equals consump-
ton, there is great and rapidly grow
ing export of butter, cheese, salt and
fresh beef and live animals. The sum
cannot be accurately computed, and
carries the particular valuations into
the same classification with cotton. For
in all these interests the final apprecia-
ton does not rest upon the amount, how
considerable soever that may be, which
is consumed at home and so lost TO
wealth, but upon the amount beyond
consumption, which is exported and
enriches the land by its equivalent in
gold or other needs and permanent
worths.
The gross value of cattle for labor,
manure, milk, cheese, butter. leather
and other ends, is susceptible of vast
addition and must necessarily expand
with Western settlement and increase
the returns shown in our foreign trade,
while sustaining labor at home more
abundantly and cheaply, and so en-
abling every industry to flourish in COM
petition with less favored countries,
and greater comforts and luxuries to be
enjoyed by all. Ii will not hold the
throne it challenges any more than the
hay crop; ;.provided the Southern energy
which has done so much toward re-
storing its early abundance, holds the
course it has with the energy it Is now
showing. But it may, and apparently
must, reach a higher sum than any far
mer or any statistician has dreamed /;
for, recovering IFS total, it has acquired
the best blood of the best herds OF Eu-
rope, has given practical attention and
study TO the manufacture OF cheese and
butter; has given the leather interest a
new power; is conquering Texas. Cali
fornia, Oregon and all the new States,
and is arousing wonder in and drawing
money from Europe and Asia at the
same time.