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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
How the Russians Regard Their Czar.

The Emperor is regarded as having
been set apart by God himself as vice.
God for the government of Russia. And
with this feeling of religious reverence
there is blended a child-like and afIec-
tionate dependence, as upon a present
earthly providence, and a patriotic pride
in the glory, renown and power of their
great father king. l speak, of course,
of the generally prevailing sentiment
among the great body of the people, and
especially at st. Petersburg, and not in
forgetfulness of the fact that the wide
spread conspiracies in the days of the
first Alexander and Nicholas were or
ganized, ard there are various forms of
dissent from the Greek Church, in some
of which aspirations for political free
dom are blended with a desire for relig-
ious reforms. But this theory of the
immense supremacy and the quasi-di
vine character of the head of the Rus
sian Government has kept its place in
the Russian heart and mind and con-
science, Notwithstanding the reigns of
two licentious Catharines, the grossly
incorporate Elizabeth, and the medic
ere Anne. AS modern Russia, became
such by the wonderful genius of the
first Peter, and st. Petersburg was
created by him, it was not unnatural, in
a nation accustomed to despotism, to
come to regard their Gar not only as
power over them, but power almost
like divinity's over nature and its re-
sources. Such impressions, surviving
the female reigns, and those OF the half
crazed Peter and Paul, would receive
new force from such exemplary Empe-
rors as the first and second Alexander.
and would be intensified rather than
diminished by the splendid personality
of the imperial and imperious Nicholas.
-ChurchmdR.
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Antioehin Syria.

Antioch in Syria, called "Antioch
the Great" to distinguish it from an
other Antioch in Pisidia,-a district of
Asia Minor,-was founded about 300
B. c., by Seleucus Nicator, and named
either from his father or his son Antio-
chus. The city was situated three hun
dred miles north of Jerusalem, on the
left bank of river Orontes, sixteen and
a half miles from the sea by road, and
in the pass between the mountain ran
ges of the Lebanon and the Taurus. A
wall fifty feet high and fifteen feet thick
encompassed the town, which was five
miles long from east to west.
For the first two centuries of the
Christian era, Antioch was the Gate of
the East" being on the highway be-
tween Arabia and Mesopotamia, and
the countries about the Mediterranean.
1t ranked next TO Rome and Alexan-
dria in wealth and population, and was
itself "almost an Oriental Rome" Many
Jews were settled there. In the history
of the apostolic Church, Antioch stood
only second TO Jerusalem. Here the
disciples were called christians" Acts
xi. 49, 1t became an important CEN
tire for the propagation of the new faith
(Acts kill; and from thence Paul de-
parted on his missionary tours (Acts XIV.
So; xviii. 30. In the time of st. Chrys-
ostom, who was born at Antioch, one
half of the two hundred thousand
inhabitants were Christians. The
city has been fifteen times besieged and
plundered, and four times destroyed by
earthquakes. The modern town, called
AntGkieh, is a mean-lOoking place, with
less than ten thousand inhabitants.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
Social Pictures.

We are all more or less familiar with
individuals Of obscure origin, imperfect
education, and vulgar tastes, who, hav-
ing made money or succeeded to its
possession, mix in polite society, and
aspire to the grace and polish which
distinguish the truly refined. This
they do not readily acquire. Their
dress and manners are like the pictures
and gildings of their houses. and their
general demeanor as stiff and uncom-
Portable as their own new furniture. 1t
is sometimes their boast that they are
j. dependent, and don't want anything
from any one; yet, except money, they
have nothing, and constantly covet the
homage of the poor, the respect of the
educated, the copgeniality of the WELL
born, or the recognition of the aristo-
cracy. So long as a confiding public
believes in appearance and persists in
bowling the knee to the man of wealth
without any consideration as to how he
has made it, we can not wonder that
rOguery should triumph and that fraud
should flourish. On s'the other side of
the sea" where money seems to be the
sole criterion of merit and respectability,
There is less scruple, as rule, in the
mode of its acquisition. Instances are
not uncommon of successful spectators
attaining notoriety who, rising like a
rocket, not unfrequently come down
like the stick. 1t is not yet forgotten
how an individual of this class recently
met with an untimely and disgraceful
end, whose remains were followed to
the grave by hundreds of admirers, over
which funeral Grafton was delivered,
and of whom it was truly said at the
time that journalism wrote him down
as sternly as man ever was written
down, but without the smallest effect
on the masses. Newspapers exposed
his dishonesty, and the people thought
it smart; they ridiculed his vulgar
splendor, and the people thought it gave
color to the scene; they recorded his
lavishness, and the people exulted in
his free-handedness they limited at his
immOralities, and the people were
rather pleased to find hero so very
human.-TmSley'S Magazine.
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The Shortest Days.

The Hartford Times in genial article
says: "The shortest days of the year
are upon us. All this northern half of
the planet is now turned so far away
from the sun that we who live in this
part of what is by pleasant fiction
called the temperate zone only get his
life giving beams at such an angle that
we lose most of his heat giving power,
Notwithstanding We are two or three
million miles nearer to him than we are
in the long, bright and heated days of
June. Then he shines down upon us
from position almost vertical; at pre-
sent he shines, if at all, from point
low down in the south.
"It is not easy to get realizing
sense of the actual situation in the is
lands only on the other side of the Gulf
Stream, with their brilliant and splen-
did summer weather and their world OF
sunny warmth and green, when we,
who are comparatively so near them,
have turned the cold shoulder to the
sun, and betaken ourselves to the
catarrhal heats of tight stoves and fur
naces, and the fiickering light of poor
gas and poorer kerosene and candles.
"Those who (chletiy in the country
rejoice in open fires. cracking merrily
in the hospitable old-time fire-places,
are to be congratulated; they have a
healthier as well as more genial and in
viting arrangement than the people
H. - F,r IAatnI
They may still feel something of the
sturdy, old-fashioned patriotism that
was ready to strike for its affairs and
its fires. But who feels moved to strike
a blow in defence of black hole IN the
floor, even though it be a warm hole 7
These advances in modern civilization
have taken out much of the heat and
sentiment of life, as well as its health
and vigOr.
"But these winter days of the North
are, after all, like the milder and brief
er winter of the South-the liveliest
and cheeriest season. There is more
oxygen to the square inch in this ting
ling frosty air than we feel in summer;
it brightens the blood and sends it
coursing healthfully through all the ar
teries, it freshens the cheek, invigorates
the mind, enlivens the spirits and lends
a delicate roseate blush, like that of
the Paphian dawn, to the tip of ones
nose.
'It is the time for hearty, wholesome
life, and the enjoyment of existence.
To be sure, it isn't quite so comfortable
going to bed in a cold room. where the
air is at the freezing point; nor does the
matin song of the bobolink invite one
TO arise betimes in such weather. The
truth is that the bed, if the LATEST, is
still the most comfortable place these
cold mornings.
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Rust.

Did you ever find lying IN some ne
elected spot, buried amongst the grass,
perhaps, some old tool, which you re-
member, sharp and bright, and useful,
but which is now covered with rust,
and useless? The rust and the dull
edge have come of its long rest. Had ii
been constantly used it might have been
broken, but it never would have been
that dull, useless thing while it lasted.
tits just so with human beings. Inaction
is worse for them than hard work. Un-
used talents rust. The mind that is
never sharpened grows dull. One
who has not done what he might finds
his power gone at last. Sometimes,
when mind lies useless, and hands are
folded, the soul rusts also. / do not
know st Simon's history, but doubt if
he was as worthy a saint as many
another, just because he lived at the top
of pillar, and, to quote Miss Braddon,
chad his meals sent up to him in a bas-
ket." Had he come down for his food
he might have found some chance of be-
ing useful. There is work in the world
for every mind, and heart, and body.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
AGRICULTURAL.

GRAyEL-DRAINs.-J. Wilkinson, of
Byron, ILL.,, gives the following method
for making gravel drains, dug in the
usual manner, being partly filed with
coarse gravel. He says
"For ordinary laterals. or side drains,
| rarely find the quantity of water TO
be conducted requires more than one
fourth of a square foot as section of
the gravel in the bottom of the drain,
or six inches wide and six in depth. 1
have, in my experiments, found that a
gravel drain, formed OF pebbles from
the size of kernel of wheat to that OF
partridge's egg, six inches by six
inches, will convey in level ditch four
feet in length as much water as Will
flow through a section of two inch drain
tile four feet in length, said pipe also
TO lie on a level bed. This rule may
serve as guide to the inexperienced.
have, however, used of similar gravel
in understands, a cross section OF one
foot six inches each way. When shaw
ings are convenient, l use them on the
gravel, but unless the soil returned on
gravel is very friable alluvial or muck
soil, no covering is required before the
earth is returned. In case the veins
break out of the bank higher than six
inches above the ditch bottom, the
depth of gravel should be increased so
that it will receive the lateral water di-
rectly in the gravel instead of the soil
overlayingit. The reasons are obvious.
Until latterly | have found more dIfii-
Guilty in maintaining intact the dis
charge ends of main gravel under
drains, than l have where stones or
tiles are used, but 1 am now able to
make them equally as durable as with
other material"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
Surfnk age.

Jones says that the white flannel suit
he bought year ago has proved a very
economical investment, aud has been Of
much use in his family. Jones weighs
$50 pounds, and when he bought il 1t
fitted him remarkably well. After the
first washing, his eldest son, who
weighs hundred pounds less than
Jones senior, found il an excellent tit
Two washings more, made the garment
delightful for a youth of nine, and at
the end of the season the baby was
adorned with the habiliments, which
had shrunk just enough TO make them
fit for q child just out OF creeping
clothes. This year Jones' wife uses
them as a di.hcloth. Where all that
flannel has shrunk to Jones can't see,
and says he would willingly take his
whole family and his mOther-in-law to
a lecture which would explain it, and
nav double price.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
Worms Removed Alive.
From Mr.. W. p. Oglesby, of Harris
burg, Pa.


burg, Pa.
"a little over year since | was taken
with bad cold, and for some time was
confined to my bed with severe pains
in my breast, back, and side, accom-
panied with a violent cough, so that |
was fearful that the disease had made a
lasting impression on my constitution.
Through the family of Rev. W. X. De-
Witt, | was informed cf the efficacy of
DR.. WIsrAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY
in cases like my own. 1 gave it trial.
with the most salutary results. 1 had
not taken il three days before my cough
commenced to yield, and before the
contents of bottle were taken it had
entirely left me. Since then | have in
duced several persons to use the Bdlsam
for coughs, colds, whooping-cough, etc.,
and always with the most satisfactory
results"
90 cents and 81 bottle, Sold by all
druggists.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
LITTLE PEOPLE.

Full Of frolic. full of fun
Little people. how they run; Istree
Through each lane, and through eat
Trace their busy, happy feet,
Over meadows sweet and fair
Little people everywhere.
In the palace by the sea;
In the house of high degree
In the gardens Of the great:
In the towns of ancient date,
Children ramble free from care,
Little people everywhere.
In the novels made of clay,
Full of glsdsome, merry play;
In the wigwsms, in the cots,
Indian babes and Hottentots
Frolic with their dark limbs bare
Little people everywhere
On the mountains, in the wales;
Along the roads and fiowery dsles,
Chasing butterfly and bee,
Airy. graceful blithe and free,
Children ramble sweet and fair
Little people everywherel
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

To Boil RICE.-(A black mans re-
cipe. WASH him well, much wash in
cold waters, the rice Hour make him
stick. Water boil all ready-very fast.
Shove him in, rice can't burn, water
shake him too much. Boil quarter of
an hour or little more; rub one rice i'm
thumb and finger, if all rub away him
quite done. Put rice in cCiander, hot
water run away, pour cup of water on
him, put back in saucepan, keep him
covered near the fire, then rice all ready
eat him up. The above quaint recipe
was given to the writer by friend long
resident in India, and she believes has
not before been printed. 1t is an ex-
cellent recipe, and if followed exactly
the rice will be cooked in great perfec-
tion. A pinch Of salt may with advan-
tage be added to the water when the
rice is put in.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

LoRgerity Of EeLs.-An inquirer, in
one of the English science journals,
wishes to know the supposed longevity
of eels. He has had specimen of the
common sharp-nosed eel AnJuitid Gcu-
tTostriS) In an aquarium Tor above
twenty years, and has desire To pene-
trate into the future, and learn how
mnch longer lie may expect To retain
the animal. 1t seems to possess extra
ordinary vitality, and is as lively at the
date of writing as ever il was, notwith
standing it has frequently crept out of
the aquarium ar night in years past,
and been picked up dry and stiff on the
hall floor in the morning. Its meals,
too have been extremely irregular, and
very little attention has been paid to
its diet. When it does get moTsel in
the way of a worm, it retires beneath
the shingle in the aquarium, and there
lies quietly for day OF two, until the
process of digestion is completed. The
Door worm is always swallowed head
first, and, after it has reached the sto-
mach, Its writings can plainly he seen
through the transparent TISSUES of the
eel, The latter animal is twenty inches
long, and weighs only two and One-half
ounces; yet it will dispose of worm
eight or nine inches in length.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

WHITE SoUP.-CUt up two fine fowls
and two pounds of lean veal and one sci
of calves feet; cover well with warm
water, and simmer two hours; take out
the breast aud wing of the chickens
take from the bone, and chop fine
crumb a small loaf of bread, and mOisten
hard-boiled eggs, one dozen of sweet
aud half dozen of bitter almonds,
blanched and chopped fine; mix minced
chicken, bread, eggs, and almonds all
well together; stain the broth, and
add the ingredients; season with salt
white and cayenne pepper and mace to
taste; boil one quart of cream or rich
milk, add this to the hot soup little at
"a time; let scald together, stirring all
the time and serve hot.
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ing, and her soul trembling on the
ragged edge" of impurity. suppose
that spirits have crushed together at
the touching of the lips" time out of
mind only it has not always been con-
sidered decent to put all the details into
print. kissing was all right, consale
planc0, but talking about it was vulgar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

FARMERS MAxMs. - Be cheerful
throughout storms as well as sunshine
because fretting over crops, etc., sours
the disposition and shortens the life.
Make home pleasant and attractive,
interspersing music and recreation with
labor. Be social in intercourse among
neighbors, and away with narrow
minded selfshness so prevalent in COM
munitles.
Have more system in the operation of
the farm, and less of the haphazard
manner of transacting business.
Feed your soil with plant food, as you
DO yourself with the produce of the
soil, and the results will be mutually
beneficial.
Experiment with new inventions,
theories, seed, etc., to a limited extent,
but don't bite at everything.
Pay more attention to the condition
and cultivation of the soil, and have
less regard to the phases ofthe moon.
Care well for your stock and you will
in time be well paid by them.
Pay strict attention to the laws gov
erning health, and save doctors bills.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

a MAN was taking aim at hawk that
was perched on tree near his chicken
coop, when his little daughter ex-
claimed, Don't take aim, pa; let it go
of by accident"' ''Why SOP" asked
the father. cause every gun that goes
oil by accident always hits somebody"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
DOMESTIC.

SEwING-RooM CONFERENCE.-The
ofalI. asewing-machine with hemmer,
but without a braider or tucker or q
corder. These are great consumers oi
time and sho aid be voted a nuisance.
Hang near the sewing-machlne scrap
bag. Ii may be crocheted of white cotton
and red yarn, and made to form GYM
drical shape by basting bits OF old hoop
skirt inside; or it may be cut from OLD
slate colored silesia and have three
sides, bound at the edges with red braid
A shoe box covered with chintz calico,
with a cushion on top to contain
materials to be made up. The shoe
boxes are convenient to have III bed
rooms, answering the double purpose ol
receptacles tor various articles and seats
for children.
A work basket of course, furnished
with all the appliances for sewing and
mending.
A stocking basket, or what is better
stocking apron, made after the style oi
hospital aprons, with two or three deeE
pockets extending from the hem hall
way up the length of the apron. In
these pockets yarns of various color'
and quality have place, and there Ii
room Tor perforated hose to bide its time
for repair; there are darning needles IN
it, and old stockings for making new
feet and heels.
A bag containing patterns. The pat
terms should be assorted, those for each
member OF the family wrapped separ.
ately in piece OF brown paper ano
duly labeled, that whenever any par
ticular pattern is wanted it may bt
found without search.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

Geological Age Of Veins Of Mercury
Attention has been called, says Iron, at
the fact of native mercury presenting
itself, in various parts of France-the
Cevennes, Herauit and Aveyorn-in
places but little below the surface of
the soil, betraying its presence by its
effect on vegetation, and through that
on animal life. Nirlet d'Aoust recalls
the fact that the Able Savage point
ed out the existence of the same metal
III the most recent tertiary formations
in the neighborhood of Montpelier,
and that Daniel Sharpe mentioned a
Portuguese mercury mine, worked at
the end OF last century, which was sit
uated In the upper tertiary sands. AT
GuadalcaZar (San Luis PotosD the au-
thor of this note has seen cinnabar eX-
tracted from the calcareous formations
of the chalk period, which the mercury
had penetrated as, however, mercury
Is often met with in the argentiferous
veins of the country, 1t may be con-
ciuded that 1t Is of their age. In Spain,
whilst the famous mercury mines of
Almaden, in Andalusia, are situated in
silurian strata, those of Mieres, in the
Asturias, lie i'll the coal strata. In the
latter locality the meTcurial emana-
tiOns have penetrated to the alluvial
strata, probably old which rest upon
the coal formations, and have impreg-
mated them over considerable surfaces;
they form patches in the soil which
might serve as indications of the gen.
Grating veins.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

KINDNESS IN HANDLING HoRsEs.-One
very common habit of practice we OBJ
try among the rural population, is that
of yelling sharply AT horses before a
cart, wagon, omnibus or buggy, with
that of sudden and violently jerking the
reins, experimenting it with sharp
shrieks of the voice, provided they
make any untoward mOvement-a habit
we deem no less reprehensible than de-
testable, and one that should be cOrrec-
ted and abandoned forever. Gentleness
and kindness will be found not only the
wiser and better, but the more humane
and effective course in accomplishing
the desired.-BOston CultiUdtOr.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

JENKINS will be so exact in his ques-
tons that 1t Is difficult TO answer him.
tie reads i'll morning paper about a
man who fell into the rIver-''his name
was not ascertained," and innocently
inquires-"lf his name was not Ascer-
tanned, what was it!"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

''SEvENTY-sEvEN holes in one pair of
trousers, said Jones, meditativeIy.
land yet Mrs. j. said that no moth
would approach that camphor wood
chest for which | paid twenty dollars.
Can 1, oh, can l ever trust my souls
idol again ?'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

Cdr5oiic Acid InhalatiOns.-In a re-
cent monograph of DIR. Lee, of the Hos
pital for Sick Children, London. the
author states he has found marked
benefit from the daily use of carbolic
acid inhalations in whooping cough.
The carbolic vapor ought to be diff,us-
ed through the atmosphere of the
room. in a certain proportion, and the
patient must be confined 10 this atmos-
phere for several hours daily. DIR. Lee
has had vapOrizing apparatus con-
structed on purpose, and he has expos
ed his patients (out-patients for the
most part) to the vapOr, in little room
adjoining his consulting room. for an
hour or so once or twice a week. Even
under this limited use, there was un-
dOubtedly an amelioration of the severe
spasmodic cough.n
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

Cleansing Wool-M. c. Hammelrath
announces that he has succeeded in
making the following improvement in
the process of wooi-cleaning, which
consists in dissolving in 66 gallons of
hot water, 80 lbs. of caustic soda of 90
to 20 degrees Baume, and then adding
% lbs. of white resin or cOlophOne,
boiled for half an hour. This must be
done in an enameled metal or wooden
vessel. The rest of the process is as
usual, the wool being rinsed in water
after cleansing. The quantities given
above are about sufficient for tons of
wool. but this depends upon the quail
ty of the latter.