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New-York tribune., 1877-08-07
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New-York tribune., 1877-08-07
ANOTHER LETTER FROM Mrs. C. KRAPf

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ALL, ,Iv benevolent. Size hls been tr f1 Ns
OF selling many bottles OF t" Resoy'n' by tne u.tss X
Ann Ari1r to urrslns afflicted with uterna fum.U. Mo
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HOME NEWS.

THERMOMETER YEsTE9DAY AT HVDNUT' II
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trasi Park & Tford sent to the 22d Regiment Armoy
O1O cigars Capt Briggs sent several cooked ionis OF
noat tUd Mis-. Mccormick Of No 81 west fll'eeh'As'
sent a quantity Of cookie food.
New-York tribune., 1877-08-07

JAMES r. FIELDS will contribute an article
20 tho kenttmhtr issue of naldWin's MOntlIy
New-York tribune., 1877-08-07

an acre potatoes are large and looking we'll ard mere
are prospects the crops of all kinds ever khoNu
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IADnOuncementSl

FORTUNATE Is TIE BABY
whose mother MILK MAGNfflA Ina tho louse, since
nothing admirably regulates Tie digestion OF child
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15
Something about Venus.

1t is strange that OF all the stars we
see, Venus is the only one which re-
sembles the earth in size. All the
others are either very much smaller or
very much larger. Most of them-in
fact all the stars properly so called-are
great globes of fire like our sun, and are
thousands of times larger than the globe
that we live on. A few others are like
Venus and the earth in not being true
stars, but bodies travelling round the
sun and owing all their light to him.
But it so happens that not even one of
these is nearly of the same size as the
earth; they are all either very much
larger or very much smaller. Venus
is the only sister-world the earth has
among all the orbs which travel round
the sun. There may be others in the
far off depths of space, travelling round
or other of those suns which we call
''stars," but if so, we can never know
that such sister-worlds exist, for no
telescope could ever be made which
would show them to us.
In the first part of this article | have
given an account of the various change
OF appearance presented by the beauti-
full star which sometimes shines as
Hesperus, the star of evening, and
sometimes as Lucifer, the morning star.
Let us now consider what this star really
is, so far. at least, as we can learn by
using telescopes and other instruments.
Venus has, i'm the first place, been
measured, and we find that she is a
globe nearly as large as the earth.
Like the earth, she travels round and
round the sun continually, but not in
the same time as the earth. The earth
goes round the sun once in twelve
months, while Venus goes round once
in about seven and a-half months; so
that her year, the time in which the
seasons run through their changes, is
four and a-half seasons less than ours.
If Venus has four seasons like ours
spring, summer, autumn, and winter
each of these seasons last eight weeks.
Venus, also. like our earth, turns on
her axis, and so has night and day as
we haye.-PrOf. Proctor.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15
Canadian Sports.

The English element in Canada has
lost none of its wonted fondness for the
sports of flood and field; finding fuller
vent in the free scope of our woods and
waters, and the wildness and abun-
dance of our game. There is indeed a
"new world" opened TO the lover of
gun and rod from the old lands across
the sea, who here finds himself the lux
urious monarch of all he can bag from
sunrise to sunset, with no other let or
hindrance than those which the CORY
pot-hunters compel.
Does he come in quest of the wary
moose and running caribou, the quail
thief of the corn-field, the mud-loving
snipe, the stupid pheasant, the pine
loving grouse, the cosmopolitan plover,
the strategic partridge, the saucy wood
duck, the shy black duck; does he court
the bear, wolf, beaver, marten, mink
or the otter, or does he WOO the salmon,
the trout, ct hoe genus omne,-here he
may find everywhere food for his SPORT
mans fancy. If his spirit waxeth hot
to chase the fox, can commend him to
the courtesy of the Montreal Fox Hunt,
who will give him fences to leap,
harder than any English hedge, and
fox to run down, cunning as an Indian.
From ''find to finish" he will have all
his nerve and daring can do, with the
clear blue Canad. an skies above, and
the hard, dry ground below None OF
your fogs and swamps, wet to the skin,
and mud to the eyes, horses, hunters,
hounds, all a color, and wild splutter
of slop when the carcass, head, pads
and brush excepted, is thrown to the
yelping, frothy dogs. Or doth his fancy
turn to thoughts of football, yachting,
rowing, cricket, golf, here he will find
acclimatized and natural as life, the
recreations, good, bad and abominable,
high and low, costly and cheap, prince
ly and plebeian, of almost every coun-
try on the face of the earth. Some OF
the worst immigrants have brought us
their best diversions. The footprints
of the earliest known Indian races are
left in their particular games; the very
Mennonites, the last arrivals, have
fixed the imprint of their pastimes
among tbe settlers of the far West.
Canadian sports, however, have a
character of their own. They Smack
more of the ungoverned and ungovern-
able than the games of the Old World,
and seem to resent the impost Of regu-
Iatinns Srribupr
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15
A Mouse's Stratagem.

A strange sight was witnessed one
afternoon recently by writer in the
Corinne Record office. Our attention
was attracted by several lusty squeaks
from the inside of pail, almost full of
water, into which half grown mouse
had fallen. The alarm had hardly died
away before four or five more mice ap-
peGred on the scene, and began Chamber
ing to the top edge of the pail. For
several moments after gaining the top
of the pail and catching sight Of the
mouse in the water squeaking confab
was held.
First ore mouse and then another
would cling to the rim of the bucket
with his hind legs, and while almost
touching the water with his nose,
squeak out either consolation or advice
to the immersed; but while all this was
going on the swimming powers of the
unfortunate mouse in the pail were
rapidly giving out. At last happy
thought seemed to strike the biggest
mouse in the crowd, and almost with
out squeak he firmly fastened his fore
feet to the edge of the pail and let his
body and tail hang down. The drown
ing mouse saw it, and making last
desperate effort for life, swan to the
spot, seized the tail of his brother
mouse, and amid squeaks of delight
from all the mice present, was hauled
high and dry out of the water and over
the edge of the bucket.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15
Rrai0 and Muscle.

Men who use their muscles imagine
that men who use their brains are
strangers to hard work. Never was
there a greater mistake. Every sue
cessful merchant does more real hard
work in the first ten years of his busi-
ness career than 3 farmer or blacksmith
ever dreamed of. Make up your mind
to work early and late. if necessary,
that you may thoroughly master every
detail of the business upon which you
purpose to enter. The system of per-
sistent, rapid work once formed, you
have gained momentum that will
carry you very successfully through
many a pinch in business where less
persistent worker would find 1t vastly
easier to lie down and fail.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15
Climbing Ben Nevis.

1t was a clear, cool night when Rom
aid and 1 joined the little party of sun
worshipers who aspired to ascend four
thousand three hundred and seventy
three feet of as bleak and perilous
mountain slope as the Scotch mount
aims afford. We were driven in three
coaches TO the base of the mountain,
where we arrived at twelve O'Clock,
with four hours left to make the ascent
before dawn. On our way / had
a glance at the dark crumbling walls of
Inverlochy Castle all that remains of
stronghold whose antiquity no Schlie-
mann cares to ascertain; and also at
the handsomer modern structure Of the
same name occupied by Lord Abinger.
At the Ben Nevis Distillery, which was
to be our starting point, and which
nestles cozily in the shadow of the
mountain, guarded by a posse of gov
ernment "gaugers, we were each
handed flask of the S'mOuntain dew"
as inspiration for our journey: then,
each man grasping his staff, and re-
spending to the hoarse ''Are-you-
ready?' of the guide, we marched
away in pairs.
When we had accomplished the easier
half of the ascent, most of us were suf-
fering from intense thirst, and we
halted beside a tiny stream TO have a
draught qualified with a portion of the
now warm contents of our flask. There
was little conversation: all seemed to
have set themselves down to piece of
hard, silent work. The peak of the
mountain was not yet visible, being far
withdrawn behind the range, and we
could only see above us a dark semi
circle drawn across the sky. As we
slowly climbed the slope, picking our
way among masses of rock and patches
of strong. prickly heather, the preci-
pices on our right and left were apall-
ing i'm the dismal shadows which filled
them; but the sense of power and calm
self-possession was exceedingly sweet,
as from time TO time we paused to take
breath anu lODk dToullu US ~ ii>t We
emerged on a damp, barren plateau,
and sighted the peak. Up the arch of
the opposite heavens the moon, within
one day of being full, was sailing.
While for some minutes we leaned
against the shattered powders. which
pointed their long, weird. parallel
shadows toward the lurid northeast,
she appeared exactly touching the cone
of the mountain-the projection of the
peak on the disk darkening for time
our face to each other, and lifting of
the plateau, as if by magic, the attenu-
ated reflection of the rocks. Only for a
short though gloomy interval, however; !;
for the queenly orb sailed aloft, cleared
the mountain, and bore splendidly away
through the tinted sky. The motion
was quite visible, and resembled that of
vast balloon. All the lower portions
of the mountain were deeply shaded,
while the peak, craggy and irregular,
was fully exposed to the raining moon
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15

Girls Attitude to Young Men.


There is thing of which i want Ia
speak, and that is of the behavior Of
girls toward young men who are not
lovers but simply friends. Let me tell
you plainly that our sex were not
meant 70 be woOers- The custom pre-
valent among a certain class of young
ladies of asking, directly, or indirectly,
the attentions of young gentlemen is
not an admirable custom. "My son."
said lady to me, not long since, ''is
much prejudiced against young girl,
whom 1 admire, because she is con-
stantly sending him notes, inviting him
to be her escort here and there, and
planning to have him with her," A
modest and dignified reserve, which is
neither prudery nor affectation, should
distinguish your manner TO gentlemen.
Too great familiarity and too evident
pleasure in the society of young men
are errors into which no delicate and
pure minded girl should fall.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15

Saying rude things, or running peo-
pie down, springs not so much from i'll
nature as from that vanity that would
rather lose friend than joke. On
this point Mr.. johnson once remarked: !:
''Sir, man has no more right to say
an uncivil thing than to act one-no
more right to say rude thing to an
other than to knock him down." The
vain egotism that disregards others Is
shown in various impolite ways; as,
for instance, by neglect of propriety in
dress, by the absence of cleanliness, or
indulging in repulsive habits. Some
think themselves so wellborn, so clever,
or so rich, as to be above hearing what
others say and think of them. 1t is
said that the ancient Kings of Egypt
used to commence speeches to their
subjects with the formula; by the
head of Pharoah We are all swine" !"
We need not wonder that those who
take this swine theory of their neigh
bors should be careless of setting their
taste and feelings at defiance. Contrast
such puppyism with the conduct of
David Auction, a famous Huguenot
preacher, one of whose motives for
studying his sermons with the greatest
care was ''that it was showing too little
esteem for the public to take no pains
in preparation, and that man who
should appear on a ceremonial day in
his night cap and dressing-gown could
not commit a greater breach ofcivility. :"
"Spite and ill-nature, it has been said,
''are among the most expensive luxri-
ries of life;' and this is true, for none
of us can afford to surround himself
with a host of enemies we are sure TO
make it, when young, we allow ill ma
ture to produce in us unmanly habits.
Good manners. like good words, cost
nothing, and are worth everything.
What advantage, for instance, did the
bookseller on whom DIR. Johnson once
called to solicit employment get from
his brutal reply. $50 buy a porter's
knot and carry trunks" The surly
natures of such men prevent them from
ever entertaining angels unawares. 1t
is difficult TO see how the 'natural-born
fool'' can ever hope to be well man
nered, for without good sense. or rather
tact. man must continually make a
fool of himself in society. Why are
women. as rule, better hammered than
men: Because their greater sympathy
and power of quicker intuition give to
them finer tact. Nor is talent which
knows what To do of much use, If the
tact be wanting which should enable
us to see how to do il. He who has
talent without tact is like the millionaire
who never has penny of ready
money about him. Mr.. Smiles illus
trates the difference between man of
quick tact and of no tact whatever by
an interview which he says once took
place between Lord Palmerston and Mr..
Behnes, the sculptor. AT the the last
sitting which lord Palmerston gave
him. Behnes opened the conversation
with: ANY news, my lord, from
France? How do we stand with Louis
Napoleon ?" The foreign secretary
raised his eyebrows for an instant. and
quickly replied: Really Mr.. Behnes,
don't know: have not seen the news
papers?' Behnes, with much talent,
was one of the many men who entirely
missed their way in life through want
of tact.-ChdmJers Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15
Women i'm Medicine

| say that To open the study and
practice of medicine to wOmen-folk,
under the infallible safeguard of a stiff
public examination. will be to rise in
respect for human rights to the level of
European nations, who do not brag
about Just freedom half as loud "a we
do, and to respect the constitutional
rights of many million citizens, who all
pay the taxes like men, and by the con-
tract with the State, implied in that pay
ment. buy the clear human right they
have vet to go down on their knees for.
But ii will also import into medical
science a new and less theoretical,
but cautious, teachable, Observant
kind of intellect: it will give
the larger half of the nation
an honorable ambition and an honor
able pursuit, toward which their hearts
and instincts are bent by Nature her
self: it will tend to elevate this whole
sex, and its young children, male as
well as female. and So will advance the
civilization of the world, which in ages
past. in our own day, and in all time,
hath, and doth, and will keep step
exactly with the progress of women to-
ward mental equality with men.-C.
Reg,Ig
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15

above upon the hook have a peculiar
water, which Il hungry trout is utterly
unable to resist: while one may, on the
other hand. cover the whole hook and
part of the gut with a worm stiffiy
strung on without motion, and the same
trout will let it be carried past him by
the current without winking.
There is a great science in batting.
and it chiefly rests in the skill of having
the worms lively, and with the extremi-
ties left dangling. The bait is often
carried over little fall into a smooth,
deep pool allow il to sink, and all the
while il is doing so these four ends of
the two worms are moving about in the
clear water in much too enticing way
for any chance trout to resist. When
you have bite, do not pull at all, but
strike your fish, as it is called; this is
done by motion of the wrist, sharp,
short, abrupt; not jerk "a motion
which is commenced sharply, but ends
almost instantly and abruptly. | can
liken it only to quick movement of the
hand in bringing 4 foil, in fencing,
from tierce 10 carte. Ii is done by bring
ing the finger nails, which are down.
ward, holding the rod, suddenly 20 the
left and upward, moving the end of the
pole upward and to the left some one or
two feet. Having struck thus, you
will in most cases have captured your
fish. Be in no hurry to land him; that
is a simpler thing to do; you can do il at
your leisure, stepping back TO sure
foundation should you be in an uncom-
Portable position in reaching TO make
the east, or make any other disposition
that you desire before raising your fish
gently from the water, thence to your
creel. The great mistake often made
by those who do not understand this
sport is to pull the moment they have
bite: the result usually is to see the
trout wind himself round about some
limb overhead, or if he fail to be hooked
which is often the case in pulling, To
see the bait and hook in the same posi-
ton, causing a loss of time, patience,
and too often temper, especially when
you feel confident that there are other
trout in the pool ahead, and become
aware of the fact that you have got TO
make a splash and dash and complete
exposure of yourself to get at your
dangling line, SO that you may fish in
vain in the same pool afterward. Re
member that trout are very shy, and
once having disturbed them, it is use
less to fish for them.-HaTer's Maya
zine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-15
How to Fish for Trout.

Always, if possible, fish down a
stream. There are many reasons for
this, among others the following; In
fishing up stream the bait is continually
coming home To ones feet after every
east, and the nearer it approaches the
person the less chance of a bite. The
contrary is the case in fishing down
stream; the bait is carried by the cur
rent away from the fisherman, and his
chances of capture are each moment
increased.
If the brook is large enough-and
even in very small ones-if practicable,
it is ALWAYS best to wade in the bed of
the stream, as by this means one can
keep the bait in the water for long dis
tances without making a east, which in
the localities am speaking of, almost
always, unless skilfully done, ends in
ones seeing ones tackle fast TO some
overhanging bough or bush overlapping
the stream. Again, in fishing up stream,
il is impossible to keep the bait station
airy i'm any spot one may desire to cast
in, unless by standing upon the bank,
and the chances of capture are thus
greatly decreased; while in fishing
down stream one can not only hold the
bait in any one spot, but by a motion of
the arm conduct it in any given direc-
tion-sink it toward the bottom, draw
it up stream, to the right or to the left
to tempt the hidden trout, the motion
of the running water upon the bait Civ
ing one complete control of it by the
slightest motion of the arm. To he sue
cessful in this sport, first give up all
idea of using artificial flies: there is
usually no chance to cast them, and
very few fish will rise to them, and
then only, usually, at early morn or
sunset. Use a light but very short
jointed pole, not over twelve feet in
length, with fine delicate running gear
and small compact reel; small hooks,
ganged upon silk-worm gut, of any
make that one prefers, there being great
diversity of opinion on this matter
among fishermen. The Limerick hook
has nearly gone out of date, and how it
was endured so long is a mystery. The
Kirby and Aberdeen have taken its
place. Put no lead upon your line at
any time: il kills the artistic and ma
tural motion of your bait. Use. as the
most killing bait yet discovered. angle
worms, and these may be much i'm
proved by being kept few days upon
clean moss in an uncovered. large
mouthed bottle, that they may scour
themselves. In batting, do not pay the
slightest attention to whether the point
of your hook is covered or not; it is of
small consequence, or, rather, it is more
deadly and better not to be covered
than otherwise. The trout does not
ni5ble, he darts: he takes, as a rule, the
bait at once, or leaves it severely alone.
You will find no more taking bait the
year round than angle-worms, although
grasshoppers at certain seasons are very
killing. In batting, take worm by
the middle and pierce the hook through
a small portion, say half an inch; then
put on another i'm the same way at the
same time. If the fish are very small,
half worm treated in this manner will
do; but trout has a large mouth, and
large bait no doubt attracts. The
dangling ends Of the worms placed as