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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17
Patriofx I'm Humble Llre.

In 1909, at the time when the Frenon
marched upon Vienna, peasant OF the
neiohborhood was summoned to act as
guide to column of troops "heh
the proposal was made TO him he cried'
"God preserve me from il. That Is
what l never shall do"
The officer who commanded the ad-
yanced French guards insisted eagerly ;
the Austrian steadfastly refused. Inc
officer offered him more gold than the
poor man had ever seen in his life, but
il was useless. In the mean time the
bulk of the army arrived; the general
was displeased when he found the ad-
vanced guard still in this place.
When they told him that the only
peasant who knew the road refused to
serve as guide he had the man brought
before him, and said to him with
terrible voice, 'sYou win go and show
us the road at once, or will have you
shot,
Every well," said the peasant. "1ou
Will cause me 10 ulc ds an hViCSe A"'A'''
and | shall be saved from betraying my
country"
At these words the generals anger
melted away; he held out his hand TO
his loyal enemy, and sent him home,
saying, "Ah, well; we will do without
a guide"
After the example of courage in the
Austrian peasant, we may tell oil the
bravery of Frenchman. -....
A gardener of Bongival, Francois De-
bergne. widower, and father of three
children was accused of having broken
the Prussian telegraph wires five times.
He was led before a council OF war.
AS they proceeded to an inquiry to es-
tablisE his guilt, he stopped the presi-
dent with these words: ''l have cut
the telegraphs. and if L were free. L
would do so again, because / am a
Frenchman ~
This heroic answer was the cause OF
his death, which he met with full eorr-
age.
1,f,ax, u-ara both noble patriOts
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

4 Nel1 ITeGpOH Of D0r.-AccOrding
to the San Francisco Chronicle, another
terrible instrument Of war has been in
vented, by a resident of that city.
The new gun patented by Leonard and
De NTv, and christened peace Con-
servator,n was exhibited at the Pacific
Iron Works. The prompt action of the
instrument, delivering seventy shots in
four seconds, and ten hundred and fif-
ty shots in one minute, through thick
oak barTicade, proves that it is one of
the most terrible death-dealing inven-
tions ever known. The machinery is
simple and easily worked, requiring
but few attendants. who are perfectly
protected from their adversaries' bull
lets: and it can be transported with
much greater ease than an ordinary
six-pOunder. The bullet from this ter
rible machine will, it Is claimed, di-
verge 300 feet in 1000 yards the dis
tance claimed at which it will etfectual-
ly deliver shots-and the gun can be
easily worked by one person in any di-
rectIon, or made to shoot almost solid.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

The Cornell OrL-During the past
week, a bittern, a duck, and four owls
have been received at the laboratory.
One of the owls is kept alive. He has
disposed of parts of several fish, a
chipmunk, and a live snake two feet
long. The encounter with the snake
was quite amusing. The owl, on spy
ing him in a glass case, evinced a de-
sire to form a closer acquaintance, and
so the snake was placed on the Hoor of
the laboratory. The owl with one fell
swoOp came down upon his snakeship,
and, striking its claws into his back.
raised his head to its mouth and in
stantly smashed il. Then commenced
the process of deglutition. The owl
proceeded To swallow the snakes mead
first, and proceeded badly enough, un-
til, after a minutes struggle, all was
swallowed but two inches of the tail.
At this point the owl stopped to take
breath, and stood with Its ewes slowly
blinking, while the two inches of tail,
still visible, was wiggling vigorously.
At last, snmmoning up courage, the
owl gave last struggle and the end of
the tail disappeared. still wiggling,
down his tbroat.-COrReU Era.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17
Spare Moments.

How many moments have you to
spare ! Five, ten, fifteen Much may
be done with them. We have heard OF
a young man who read through His
tory of England while waiting for his
meals at boarding house. We have
read of mathematician, who is said
to have composed an elaborate work
when visiting with his wife, during the
interval between the moment when she
first rose to take leave of her friends
ana the moment when she finished her
last words.
The small stones which fill up the
crevices have almost as much to do
with making the fair and firm wall as
the great rocks, so the wise use of
spare moments contributes not a little
to the building up in good proportions
mans mind.-ReU. f.. Parton Hood.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

Magnetism and Cdrbon.-MM. Treves
aud Dnrassier have recently shown
that the distribution of magnetism in
magnet is strongly influenced by the
proportion of carbon in the steel. On
comparing steels containing 1, !, and t
per cent. of carbon, it was noted that,
the less the percentage, the more uni
form the distribution. Carbonization
tends to concentrate magnetism to-
ward the poles.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17
CRADLE SONG.
Sleep, my baby, beside the fire,
Cr1on oL.l1 alo1,.

Sleep. my baby. beside the fire,
Sleep, child. sleep;
Winds are wailing. higher and higher.
Waves are rising, higher and higher.
Sleep, child, sleep;
While thy father, out on the sea,
Tolls all night for thee and me.
Sleep. my baby, content and blest
Sleep, child. sleep;
Whether the heart in thy mothers breast
Be light or hsavy-so best 60 best
Sleep, child, sleepi
While thy father, out on the sea,
Tolls all night for thee and me.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

Coal Tar a Preserrafire Of Hood
We often notice that coal tar is named
as a preseTvative of wood, and the
comment is correct if those who advise
would add that, in using, it must have
the acid in II destroyed by mInglIng
fresh quicklime with it. Half bushel
of lime, freshly dissolved and mingled
with barrel of tar, has kept posts,
saturated with it and planted in clay
ground, perfect over 90 years.-E IL.
f., IN the Cuitirdtor and Country Gen
HemaH
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

It's sad that the price of steel rails,
which has fallen one third within the
last few years, Is now so low that the
business is really profitless- A move
ment is on foot for an agreement be-
tween the manufacturers for regulat
ing the production and prices.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17
Natural Proof.

1t has been observed by frequenters
of watering places that female swim
mer never learns to use her neither limbs
as gracefully as her arms. The fact
should be considered by the strong
minded sisterhood as natural proof that
lovely womens' mission is to embrace,
not TO kick,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

BEEF STEAK PUDDING.-Cut up one
and half pounds of beef into neat
steaks. Dip the chopper in cold water
and beat them little to flatten them
and make the meat more tender; roll
them up with little pepper and salt
inside. Line a pudding basin with a
suet crust made in the proportion of six
ounces of suet to three quarters of a
pound of flour. Take care to put the
crust quite down to the bottom of the
basin or the pudding will break. Cut
the crust oil even with the top of the
basin, lay in the meat; if liked, add
some chopped onion, half fill the pud-
ding with cold water, cover over the
top with a lid of paste reserved for the
purpose, having previously wetted, or
better still egged the edges of each. Tie
up in a pudding cloth wrung out of
boiling water and sprinkle with flour.
Boil for at least three hours. A couple
of sheep kidneys sliced and added to
the pudding, very much improves the
flavor of the gravy, and, if liked, three
quarters of a teaspoonful of baking
powder may be added to the crust; but
it should be borne in mind that when
ever baking powder is used. the utmost
expedition in finishing up is necessary,
as fermentation commences from the
moment the water is added.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

GIVE HEARD, captain" said an Eng
lish traveller to the captain of steamer
running on the upper Mississippi, "that
your Western steamboats, can run in
very shOal water-where, in fact, the
water is not more than two or three feet
deep" ''Two or three feet deepr ex-
claimed the captain, in tones of wither-
ing contempt; ''why, we wouldn't give
a Pin for boat out here that couldn' I
run on the dew on the grass
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

The raisin product of California
for the year amounts to {, 1000 packages.
The Grangers of that state have a
raisin trade with China.
The San Francisco Chinese pay
tax on personal property assessed at
$500, 200.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

SCENE in a debating society: Presi-
dent-We will take the ayes and noes
on the previous question. Member-A
word or two, Mr.. President. Friends,
Romans, countrymen! lend me your
ears. President-Order, sir! We will
take the eyes and nose first.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

FLOWERS OF FAsHIoN.-Dressmaker {:
SHOW would you like the dress made 2"
Cook: ''The latest fashion, of course"
Dressmaker: "A pocket, 1 suppose"
Cook: ''No! everybody wears pockets
now-a-days; even Missis and young
Miss has 'em n'-PuRch.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

HOTEL PUDDING.-Boil one quart of
milk; add one fourth cup of butter /;
one cup of corn meal, mixed with cold
milk; One-half cup each Of sugar and
molasses, one teaspoon cinnamon; one
of ginger; two eggs; salt; one-half cup
of ralsins. Sauce, if you like.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17
SCIENTIFIC.

Porosity of Brick Watls.-Pettenko-
fer's interesting experiments on the
porosity of brick walls are described
at much length in the scientific papers.
1t appears that he caused TO be erected
upon a cast-iron plate a section of wall
two feet high. two and half feet long
and one foot thick, the bricks used be-
ing twelve inches long. 1t was pat up
with bricks carefully laid in lime NOR
tar. After the brick work was thor
oughly seasoned the two faces of the
walls, containing five square feet each,
were plastered with fiOated brown
finishing coat: tLis being well dried,
the edges were pargetted with plaster
of Paris. Time was again given for
evaporation, when the plaster of Paris
was overlaid with a coating of wax,
oil and resin. Next, metal plates with
fianges turned over the edges were ca-
mented TO both faces of the wall, firm
ly clamped and screwed tight.
In this manner, the rims and margins
of the metal plates were fitted and Sc
cured to the wall, the whole being air
tight, while there remained thin layers
of the air inside the margins, between
the faces of the wall and the metal
plates. Both the latter had holes in
their centres of one-third of an inch
in diameter. and to these short tubes
were soldered. If air was impelled
through the tube attached TO one metal
plate, it had to penetrate the wall be-
fore it could be discharged through the
tube of the opposite metal plate. The
clear area of each metal plate, facing
the air cushion between it and the wall,
was three and half square feet.
A lighted candle was placed directly
in front of the open tube on one side,
and. by blowing In the open tube on
the opposite side, the AIR would pass
through the wall, and eXtinguish the
light, without any trouble whatever.
The current of air had, of course,
much more velocity in the tubes than
in the wall, since the exposed area of
the wall was 2,S60 tunes larger than
the area of the tubes. Assuming that
a light wind of ten feet velocity per
second had acted on the iron tube, this
velocity. though much diminished
within the porous wall, would regain
its original speed when passing through
the other tube, and, no doubt, suffice to
extinguish the light. SuppOsing the
solid particles of bricks and mortar
occupied three fourths, and the pores
one fourth part of the exposed surface,
the air would thus have moved seven
hundred and fifteen times slower in the
wall than in the tube, and velocity of
ten feet would have been reduced to
about Il 100ths of a foot.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

A NoURIsHING BROTH. = Put the
knuckle OF leg of veal or shoulder, an
old fowl, piece of mutton, some mace,
ginger, salt, piece of bread, an onion
if liked, and three quarts Of water, into
a stewpan, and cover close; simmer
slowly and skim il well, then strain and
take of the fat. 1t will take four hours
boiling.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

"MY BUSINESS is to talk" said a
stump speaker; 81 deal in words and
sentences" ''6es," said voice in the
crowd, and as long as I've known you
your place of business has never been
clOsed.''
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

"YoU CAN'T drink so much brandy
with impunity," said a physician to a
gouty patient.-'Perhaps not with i'm
punity, doctor, but with little pepper
mint l can go it," was the reply.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

An Indiana exchange says: An In
diana farmer don't pay any tolls. He
shoots the gate-keeper and jogs right
along. They have tried him twice, . 1t
he gets clear, since one OF his aunt's
cousins used to act 'highty like"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

(WHICH side of the street do you live
on, Mrs. kipple?" asked a counsel,
cross-examining a witness. '.On either
side, sir. If you go one way, it's on
the right side; if you go the other way,
it's on the left.''
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

"EvERY heart knows its own misery" -"
she said, as she looked into the nest and
saw that those Cochin China eggs that
had cost three dollars per dozen had
Matched out Muscovy ducks.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

BRowN, SENIOR: "Well, Fred, what
did you see during your trip abroad ?"
Brown, Junior: ''Aw-'pon m word,
don't know what l saw 'xactly, only
know did more by three countries,
eight towns and four mountains than
Smith did in the same time"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

BEEF RIssoLEs.-Mince and season
cold beef and flavor it with mushroom
or walnut ketchup. Make of beef drip
ping very thin paste, roll it out in
thin pieces about four inches square,
inclosing in each piece some of the
minee, in the same way as for puffs,
cutting each neatly all around; fry
them in dripping of very light brown.
The paste can scarcely be rolled out
too thin.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

To MAKE WHITEwAsH THAT WILL NOT
RUB OUT.-Mix up half a pail full of
lime and water, ready to put on the
wall. then take quarter of a pint of
flour, mix it up with water, then pour
on 1t boiling water, sufficient quantity
TO thicken it, then pour it while hot into
the whitewash, stir all well together,
and il is ready
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

AN OLD GENTLEMAN, whose nose was
not only very large, but very highly
colored, was asked by George ~. now
much it had taken TO paint it, ''Sire, 3"
was his reply, 81 cannot tell you, for it
is not finished yet"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

Mrs. SPILKISs innocently inquiries
why it's always the long shoremen who
take part in these strikes? Why don't
the short ones r"rticipate, too, some
times, she wants to know?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

BRUCE had recourse to the sword.
Tell to bow and arrow, and Washing
ton appealed to the God of battles, but
when woman strikes for liberty, she
uses anything she can lay her hands on.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

The Secret of making the hammered
bronze Chinese gongs and Turkish
cymbals consists in forging the bronze
into shape while hot.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

"Now Is time" wrote a religious
weekly editor, ''when every Christian
should feel it his duty to cut down his
expenses to the lowest possible figure"
Accordingly, next week, eighty sub
scribers took him at his word, and sent
in orders to stop their papers forthwith.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

IT WAS drunken carpenter who sal,
he could not carry his spirit level.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

The Season and Tone of Homes.-0ne
stronger reason than all others for be-
ing glad that we live in the temperate
zone, is that it is the zone of homes.
Greenlanders and Laplanders, 1t is
said, each consider their own country
the fairest the sun shines upon, and
charming stories of domestic life have
come To us from those icy latitudes.
But the Esquimaux and kamtchatkans,
and those inhabitants of extreme Ar
tic regions who must live in snow huts,
or burrow underground for warmth,
cannot know the rich and tender mean
ings the word "hOme" has for US.
How much comfort their Is IN our
cosey houses alone,-in the clean. warm
room, perhaps with glowing tireside !;
the white table spread with wholesome
and delicate food J.; the cheerful circle
around the lamp at evening; the books,
the sewing, the games: the sound sleep
of the long, snowy night, in beds as
white as the drifts outside and the
many other nameless blessings of a
civilized homei These the children of
the eternal snow must do without.
There is more poetry in a really
beautiful home-life than in the finest
natural scenery; but it lies too deep in
the heart for words to express. It Is
poetry that is felt rather than spoken.
A happy home is poem which every
one of the family Is helping 10 write,
each for the enjoyment of the rest, by
little deeds of tenderness and self-sac-
ritice, which mean so much more than
words. This home-pOem is all the
more delightful because it does not ask
or need admiration from anybody out
side. The poetry that people live in.
of which they are part, and which is
a part of them, is always the most sat
isfactOry, because 1t is the most real.
Think, little folks, of all the poems
and fragments of poems you know,
that never could have been written ex-
cept in a country where tempest and
sieet and long hours of darkness drove
men and women and children within
doors, and kept them there to find ont
how dear and sweet thing it is for a
Eamily to live together III lOve.-St.
Nicholas
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

WHEN she struck him over the head
with tin dipper for trying to kiss her,
he called it the standardization of the
BELLE"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

THERE'S a mining town out West
called ''Nowhere." That's where a
man has always been when his wife lets
him in at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

For WHAT reason does fisherman
blow his horn? For selfish reasons.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

BECAUSE a bookkeeper habitually
wears his pen behind his ear, it is not
the cause of his penis earian style of
manship.-Hd,ckeye.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

IL THE cooks want patron, let them
adopt the god Pan.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

The ocean is the only power on earth
that can make woman Indifferent to
her personal appearance.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

MINCE MEAT WITH TRrPE.-To make
mince meat, take half pound of cur
rants, well washed, rubbed dry, and
slightly chopped; three good-sized sour,
juicy apples, peeled, cored, and finely
chopped; three-quarters of pound of
double tripe, with the fat in it, washed
we'll, dried with clean cloth, and
chopped very small. Add half pound
of moist sugar, saltspoonful of mixed
spice, and good sized wineglass of
wine or brandy. Mix these ingredients
well together. Put the mixture into
a pan, cover it closely with writing
paper, and keep it in cool place till
wanted. 1t will keep well for a month
or six weeks.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

A FRENCH TEACHER of the name of
Ducane, resident in Oxford, went to a
mercer TO purchase piece of material
for waistcoat, but could not recollect
the name of what he wished for. He
said that he thought it was ''de English
for de Diable." The mercer mentioned
several names of his Internal highness,
such as "Old Nick, "Beelzebub," &c.
mo, no, it is not dat" was the reply.
At last the mercer thought of Satan.
''Oh, dat is vat vant." said Ducane.
Il want Satan vaistcoat."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

Why does a pig resemble the best kind
of magistratel Because he is a sty-
pendiary.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17

Take Care Of the PeRRy.-Three little
girls were walking along the street.
As they talked and chatted, one OF
them dropped a penny. 1t rolled and
rolled-till it was out of sight, and
then all three looked for it, searched in
every nook and corner, but it was so
late and SO dark that they could not
find it. They were very much discOur-
aged. but at last happy thought came
to one. and she said:
IL know-I know how to find it. I've
got three cents in my pocket. Let's go
and buy box of matches and we'll
light them one after the other till we
find il.
Ye worldly minded and extravagant,
take lesson in this simple, childish,
innocent economy. When you lose one
cent go follow their example, get a box
of matches for three cents and search
till you find it.