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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18
Health and Godliness.

TIE truth that man is half animal
has too often been ignored by divines
/ and moralists. The health which is
dependent upon a good digestion has
much more to do with a mans piety
than has generally been supposed.
Every minister CT the Gospel has TO
grapple with cases of conscience which
battle all ordinary spiritual treatment,
and which turn out at last TO be simply
cases of physical disorder whose rem
edy is in the pharmacopeia, or more
| frequently in the larder or cookbook.
Constitutional, hereditary. and occa-
sional diseases are constantly at work,
modifying mems opinions, feelings,
and practices. DIR. Mason, used to
say that the grace that would make
John look like an angel would be only
just enough TO keep Peter from knock
ing man down. If the house of thi,
tabernacle be shattered, and in con-
slant need of props and repairs, it,
sympathetic tenant is apt to be like its
crazy dwelling-place. There are only
two bad things in this world, said Han
nah Moore-sin and bile. Was she ig-
norant that large part of the sin
springs from bile? The doctrine that
health has great deal to DO with god.
illness may not be very flattering to our
pride; but We must accept our natures,
as the transcendtalist did ''the uni
verse;" and, accepting them, We mnsI
bow TO the plain fact that ladder
reaching to Heaven must, if we are to
climb il, have its feet upon the ground,
and that to reach TO the highest degree
of spiritual excellence. we must begin
with physical and mental soundness.
1t is an indubitable truth that a man
warmly, gives more generously, and
prays more fervently when well than
when i'll. A man of unquestionable
piety once said that he could not wor-
ship God until he had eaten his break
fast. Ii is equally true that a man who
is well fed, clothed and housed is
more amiable being than one who lacks
the comforts of life. A man befor.
dinner may talk scandal or write scath.
ing criticism; may crawl like horse
fly over the character or the writings
os a neighbor; but after he hiss well
eaten and drunken the thing is an i'm
possibility. There is something in a
generous meal that exercises the devils
of disparagement and calumny, and
substitutes therefor the spirits of good
fellowship and philanthropy. 1t may
be doubted whether half of the suicides,
murders, heresies, false PHILOSOPHERS
and apostasies that have stained the an
nails of our race have not had their
origin remotely in a disordered stom-
ach. Voltaire affirms that the massacre
of st. Bartholomew was primarily due
to the utter incapacity of the King to
digest his food. Had Josephine been a
good cook, perhaps history might have
been spared one of It's saddest scandals.
1t is not the "fat, sleek-headed man,"
but the ''lean and hungry Cassius"
that is dangerous.-Hours ,eith Men and
Books.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18
Indifference at Home.

Ingratitude and indifference some
times mar the character of men. A
husband returns from his business at
evening. During his absence and
throughout the livelong day, the wife
has been busy with mind and hands
preparing some little surprise, some
unexpected pleasure to make his home
more attractive than ever. He enters,
seemingly sees no more of what has
been done to please him than If he were
blind man, and has nothing more to
say about it than if he were dumb.
Many loving wife. has, borne in her
heart an abiding sorrow, day after day,
from causes like this, until, in progress
OF. time the fire and enthusiasm of her
original nature has burned out, and
mutual Indifference spreads Its pail over
the househoid.s e ogoisf ssssisfrs5
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18

Ii was by revival of classical STRAIT
egy that England was, in the seven
teenth century, put into EXTREMIST
peril. Louis the Magnificent's galleys
in Torbay were more real danger
than the fleet with which DE Ruyter
had burned our ships in the Medway.
For however great the alarm caused in
London by the sullen roar of the Dutch
guns, the Hollanders had not a siugle
regiment to disembark. whereas the
French King had sent to the Devon
coast formidable force of whitecoated
grenadiers, TO cooperate with the eX-
pected Jacobite rising. The galleys
were an especially French, as they had
been an especially Roman Institution.
The force had been patronized by
several Kings, nor was il until the
reign of Louis XIII. that the General
of the galleys was made subordinate to
the high Admiral of France. For haT-
assing an enemy's coast, and for the
transport of troops, this fair-weather
fiotilla was unsurpassed. But galley
of fLouis XIV. : time, rowed by wretches
chained TO the oar, the vilest felons
mingled with runaway Protestants,
whose sole crime was their attempt to
escape to Holland or England, was the
nearest approach TO a floating pande-
monium ever devised. To every ten
convicts was allotted a Turkish or
Moorish prisoner of war, whose knotted
cord fell on the bare shoulders of all
who flinched. while boatswain and Of
flcers patrOlled the narrow space be-
tan and lash unsparingly. 1t was by
sheer fear of physical suffering that the
chained rowers were urged TO keep the
great oars rising and falling with such
mechanical regularity. The galley
slaves were not expected to fight !:
there were soldiers on board to do that.
But they were expected to row, and no
plea of illness or exhaustion was adj
mitted. So far from the sick or weary
being sent to an infirmary, they were
deliberately beaten TO death. Painting
bleeding, the miserable wretches were
to the last regarded as so much mech
anism, to be stimulated by cuts of the
whip, and when they died, their bodies
were unclaimed from bench and oar,
and tossed into the sea.-TAU the Year
Round.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18

of course you have, If you thought
you had any chance of winning this
lady. She's bespoke sir-she's mine!'
cried Rejoicing, smuggling up closer,
and hugging me tighter than ever.
1 never saw anything like Cuthbert's
face! From green it turned deadly
white, and he tried to speak but couldn't.
Stop? cried getting alarmed. Il
can explain this all. 1t Is only
There is no need of explanation p
thundered Cuthbert. ACTIONS are
stronger than Words
And he pointed to that mischievous
critters arms which were like vice
around me.
Then he tore from the house as il he
was mad, and Rejoicing Peters rolled
over on the floor. laughing ready to
choke herself.
I've done you a good'turn, Nina, she
cried. I've cured Cuthbert Jones OF
jealousy; for when he hears little,
ugly, fat old maid reused the green eyed
monster in him this time, he will be so
mortal ashamed of his folly that he will
reform for life, depend upon it!'
Aunt Jemima paused and sighed
again, this time more deeply than ever.
She was wrong, Emma Matilda
wrong in one thing. She had not done
me a good turn. l received short let
ter from Cuthbert, but l never saw
him again.
Rejoicing had long tongue. She
spread the story everywhere, and it met
him at every turn.
He believed that il was plot bet ween
US, and wrote some bitter things in re-
proach TO me before leaving the town,
where every one was laughing at him.
L had a spirit of my own, as l told
told you, and L wouldn't condescend to
defend myself when accused in such a
way; and so we parted.
Heigho! it's good while since that
day, and I've got over the pain of it,
but L can remember it well enough to
want to spare you from doing such.
No, no, Emma Matilda, thank heaven
for giving you a kind, even-tempered
lover, and doa't you long for jealous
one.
1t may seem nice, as the apple did to
Eve before she ate it, but don't try il,
my dear, or you may live to rue it, as
she Gid. And so she ought; for, if it
hadn't been for her, we women would
have had better show in the world
That's my opinion.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18

Says Ear be il from me 20 do sicf
an action; but the clock is not there on
the wall, Eliza and where is it:''
Ii was a little round clock as you
could put anyway without stopping it
and it was hanging on the wall at six
for I'd looked at it.
But now it was gone, and the dooI
fastened and all, and il frightened mt
so that | went off into Mysteries, and
missus heard them, and down she came
and there she stood in her black silk
with big panier, and there was Eliza
with her gray merino and as big pan
nier, and her hat and shewl on. all
| ready for the meeting.
"And what as 'appened," says mis-
sus.
And says | E: '-Oh, Il believe the
kitchen is bewitched, mum:''
And says Eliza:
"Saving your presence, mum, / be-
lieye Satan is abroad, mum. And, how
ever will you believe me honest, comm
into this house a stranger, when thing
20 like this. The clock is gone, mum. y
Missus looks at the wall and looks al
me.
''Them's the keys OF my box, mum,
says |, handing them out.
"And there's mine, says Eliza
"And if you'll do me the favor to look
in my pocket, mum, I'll feel obliged,
for my conscience is clear, and they'll
speak of me as knows me-
'.Oh, dear" said missus Il don't
suspect any one-but who has been
here -
Not a soul, says 1.
''NOt a soul, says Eliza.
And I'm so glad" says Eliza, lit
'appened afore | went out. | might
have been suspected. But when body
does right why / think the angels
watches 'em. mum. And may / go out
as usual, mum, for eff don't have my
evening at meeting l shan't be able to
control my evil passions as I'd like
when cook scolds me-
''Oh, yes; go, Eliza" said missus.
''I'm glad you're so anxious 10 improve
yourself; but about the clock. Do you
think-hark
Il said ''hark," too; for hall of a
sudden we heard kind of a whirr-
and-one-struck a clock somewhere.
Eliza turned pale, and sat down on a
chair.
"Two," says the clOck-'.three-four
-five-six." Ii was our clock.
knowed its voice-for clock has a
voice of its own, as you may say, like
human being-but where did it come
from? "Seven," says the clock, and
all of a sudden | knew where it was.
Itwas under that Eliza : dress, my dear,
tied onto the panier, and when she
stole it, my love, she'd forgot about the
striking. I'm strong woman when
I'm aroused, and have a will of my own.
Eliza didn' take my taking of that
panier very quiet, but took it all the
same and sot it before missus, and |
says, "Let your own senses convince
you, mum, of depravity sieh as has no
equal, before | went off again in hys-
terics.
And that's why Eliza is gone, my
love, and why missus wants an uptairs
girl again. And it's upset me so, my
dear, that I'm obliged to strengthen
myself a little, and that's why you see
me putting little of the best in my tea.
Will you have cupr
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18
French Home Industries and Morals.

During the time OF general prostra-
ton of business, chiefly caused by the
withdrawal of capital from its usual
industrial channels, there is perhaps no
more powerful aid for the nation than
home industry. Perhaps in no country
in the world is this soextensively SO prac-
ticed as in France and neighboring
Switzerland. These industries consist
of such occupations as those wherein
all the members of a family can and do
take part. The head of the family or
ganizes this labor and frequently IN
vents special labor-saving arrange
ments for his own use. and delivers his
products to large manufactures. in
stead of sending his children there.
As labor is the source of all wealth,
that nation must be the wealthlest in
the end where they are the greatest
number of workers; and in this, France
has a great advantage. The working
at home by children, especially girls,
has another incidental advantage over
the English and American customs of
sending them into large factories
namely their moral character. and for
this the latter custom Is most ruinous.
and from this cause, no matter how
much England may sneer at French
morals, the average French girls, the
daughters of the working class, are far
more virtuous than those of other ma
tions, among whom immortality is often
most sadly diffused and much more
generally than is suspected by the un-
initiated. In France, however, this
immortality is more confined to certain
classes, who do not hypocritieally dis
grace their true character. as they do in
other counties; and this undoubtedly
has, more than anything else, contri-
buted to the unjust prejudice genera
ted among foreigners against French
morality.-Americdn Builder.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18

ments, and considerably raise our heat
losses by a one-sided and increased ra-
diation. Diseases which are known TO
be often caused by cold are particularly
frequent i'm damp dwellings-rheuma-
tism, catarrh, chronic Bright's disease,
etc.
What can we do TO get rid of that i'm
mense quantity, of these 10000 gallons
of water, before we remove into the
new house? All this water-we can
not make 1t run off, we cannot squeeze
it out, we cannot boil it away-it must
take its leave in one way, very safe
but rather long one, that of spontane-
Gus evaporation into and by the air.
The capacity of the air for receiving
water depends on the different tension
of the vapor at different temperatures,
on the quantity of water already con-
tanned in the air flowing over moist
body, and finally on the velocity of that
air. For the first two moments let US
assume the average temperature of the
year W NC dDoul cV utSitcS ohi- anu
the average hygrometric condition of
the air to be seventy-five per cent. of
its full saturation. Under these con-
ditions, one cubic foot of air can take
up four grains of water, in the shape
of yapor, but as it contains already
seventy-five per cent. of these four
grains, which amounts to three grains,
it can only take up one additional
grain. As often, then, As one grain is
contained in the 10000 gallons of water
mentioned above, as many cubic feet Of
air must come in contact with the new
walls, and become saturated with the
water contained in them; or about 70O,-
000, 900 cubic feet of air are required TO
dry the building in question.-Popa'ar
Science Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18

Glory is like circle in the water,
which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
until, by broad spreading, 1t disperses
to naught.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22

Shipstuffs are plenty, and dull at $l4al6 per
ton. MiddliDgs continue steady and quiet at
$l7a2l per ton, all on arrival, and " more in
store.
MOLASSES-The is a fair consumptive
demand for New Orleans at 5Da51c for good to
choice, and inferior held at 40a4Jc per gallon.
Refined syrups quiet ami steady at 40ay0c, and
Sorghum at 26aS6c per gallon, according 40
quality.
OILS-Linseed is in moderate request at 65a
66c per gallon AMI steady Lard oil is in
active, and ee offerings OF extra at 83aS0c per
gallon. Refined petroleum is quiet and firm at
l5a16c per gallon.
POTATOES-The receipts are light, and the
market is frmer, with fair local and shipping
demand. We quote 81 lGal 25 per bu loose,
and So 25a3 rs per brl packed for prime to
| choice in store. Sales on arrival at 9Oc'ISl II
per bu, as to quality, loose.
| POULTRY-Ihe market is easier under
| more liberal receipts, and chickens are selling
| at ~ 25a4 per dozen, according to size ana
condition, Very little doing in turkeys, and
some few dressed are Offering at I04F2c per 10.
SALT-There is but little demand for Liver :
pool or Turks Island, and they are quoted
| " l0a1 20 per sack for the former, and 33a3bc
| per bu for the latter. Domestic salt Is in fair
demand. with liberal offerings OF ONO River
and Kanswna at f9c per bu and 81 10aI 10 per
| brl of 2S0 lbs.
SEED--Clover is quoted 15a15Ae per lb in
store and moderate demand. Timothy is quiet
| at 81 S0al 80 per bu for jobbng lots in store.
Flax selling at 81 S5a1 so per bu.
| SUGAR-Modera demand and market
| steady at previous prices. We quote yellow
| refined l0ai01Sc, extra "C' 104allC, "a" white
llallHC, granulated l1Xal2c, powdered 12ka
l2%c, crushed 121sc, and cut loaf 1870 per ID.
| New Orleans sells at l1all1sc for clarified and
| 9al0c for raw.
TALLOW-Is steady. and ample offerings at
TIC packed per lb for country and 711c loose for
| city rendered..
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22
City Health Statistics.

Health Officer Kearney has submitted
his report of the sanitary condition OF
the city for 1875.
The total number of deaths in that
year was 5,310, which was an increase
over the mortality OF the previous year
OF S04. There were 344 still-births, not
included in the above total. OF the s, ITO
deaths, 1906 happened in the first quar-
ter OF the year, 1,462 in the second, 1,404
i'll the third, and 1,040 in the fourth.
While the number of deaths exceed
that of any previous year, it can not be
said that Cincinnati 10 an unhealthy
city. The figures given represent prob
ably proportiOnate mortality of2l.55 in
each 1000 inhabitants. This estimate is
based on supposed population of 265,-
600, which have been the figures used in
calculating the death rate.
BY the census 1T was ascertained that
the number of youth in Cincinnati, be-
tween the ages of six and twenty-one
years, was 93,042, and by some who have
made such statistics a study it is esti-
mated the number between those ages
bears the proportion to the whole popu-
lation of one to three. On this basis our
population should be 279, ,126, and for the
ensuing year 1t Is proposed to compute
the death-rate on the assumption that
these figures, or 2S0000 in round num-
bers, are probably a closer approXima-
tion to our actual population.
at the late Presidential election the
vote OF the city was.47 ,085. Ii voters, as
some clam, bear the proportion of one
10 seven, then we should number 329, ,595
people.
TS~ teta' deaths from smallpox were
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22

HURRYING ToTHE SToRE.-During the
last dull season a well-known Main
street merchant was discovered taking
giant steps in the direction of his place
of business at O'Clock in the morning.
A rival tradesman. who was well as
sured that large sales was not the mo-
tive that induced this rapid transit,
hailed the swift commercial traveller"
and interviewed him as follows:
"Whaps broke loose, Charlie2 Where
are you going in such a hurryW
"I'm going to the store"
"Trade must be active withyoup
'Irs not the trade that has called me
out"
'Ips not woman, is itW
"No; of course not. But Pll explain
the thing to you to keep down your in
fernal suspicious. There are three part
ners in our store, and we have only two
chairs. The last man that comes in the
morning has to stand up all day. 1t is
very important for me to get to the store
early this morning-good day"
And Charley "lit out" like reporter
for newspaper en- route tor fire.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22
SENATE.

COLUMBUS, March N.-Among the bills
introduced were the following:
By Mr.. Andrews-To amend the act
relating to services by notaries public
to corporations extending into more
than one county.
BY Mr.. Stanton-Authorizing County
Commissioners TO resurvey old roads.
Bills were passed as follows:
Senate bill, providing that when any
special Sub-School District has bee II
created by the Legislature it shall not
be altered until after three years from
such organization.
House bill, authorizing the incorpora-
ton Of associations of ten or upWar ds
for mutual insurance against fire.
Senate bill, authorizing the city OF
Toledo to contract for gas.
Senate bill, to SO amend the Civil
Code as to allow notice to be given by
publication in proceedings to set aside,
vacate, or modify judgments.
House bill, to create the office of In.
terpreter for Court proceedings in Ham-
ilton County.
Senate bill. authorizing the Commits.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22

fugal, sJIa9c; yellow clarified, IOalOkc Mo-
lasses firm: Common, 28asOc; fam, S4a8jc:
strictly prime, 42Ac. Rice quiet: Common u
good, 4aee. Bran nrm at 81 05.
NEW YORK. March 22.-Flour: No. 2.
"a OeaA Is: super6ne State and Western,
IS 40a5 15; common to good extra
So 75a5 30: good to choice, IS 95a6 10: :
white wheat extra, s6 o5a7; do fancy, 81 O5a
25 extra Ohio, s5 75a7 75; st. Louis. IS s5as Is:
Minnesota patent, 81 25al0. Rye -four steady
at "a 25a4 IS. Corn meal steady: W Western. $26Ja
8. Wheat: ungraded spring, ,sl 23al 81; mixed do
store, 81 55; No. 2 Northwest, in store, 81 40:
No. Milwaukee, 81 43: No. Milwaukee, store,
81 3s; No. Chicago spring is quoted at 81 40
al Al; winter red Western 81 45aL 50. Rye
cd Canada, 73aHkc. Malt dull: Canada 81 25.
Corn: ungradca Western mixed, 55Xc; do
yellow Western, SIC; steam mixed,
Oats: Mixed Western and state. 3sa6Sc: white
Western i2a45c. Hay firm; Shipping 70a15c.
Hops quiet and unchanged Coffee quiet and
unchanged. Sugar and moasses dull and un-
changed. Rice quiet and steady. Petroleum
steady: Crude. 1Ohc; refined 161fal6Nc, ca
ses nominal, naphtha 11Ase. TalIow
quiet and steady at 72Sac. Strained
RESIN unchanged. Spirits Of turDentine steady
at 4lc. Eggs firm: Western fresh. l7c. PorK
irmer and more inquiry: New mess. s14 75a
IA S5; May. 81 S5, Deef quiet; plain mess,
$40 50a1 So; extra do, $l2al2 50. Middles are
hrner: W estern long clear, nc; city DO,
7<aScc. Lard quiet and heavy: Prime steam,
9.70a9 901sc; April, 9.6Tb ba975c. Butter: Vest
ern. 12aa0c. Cheese steady at 9al51Gc. Whis-
ky quiet at 81 o.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22

A FoRNEY REMINIsCENCE.-I had done
my utmost to elect Abraham Lincoln
President OF the United States by the
only way in my power, and that was by
supporting the straight Douglas Elec-
toral ticket in Pennsylvania. He wrote
me kind letter, thanking me for what
he was pleased to call my inde-
pendent action, and asking me
what he could do for me. | re-
piled by recommending Horace Greeley
Tor Postmast-General, because dear old
Horace, four years before, without
knowing that l had fallen from grace
under Mr. Buchanan, recommended me
for that office. But as Lincoln had Sc
ected William II. Seward for Secretary
OF State from New York, he could not,
OF course, appoint Horace Greeley Post
master-General from the same State,
and so he replied, and that proposition
telI.-L Philadelphia Press.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22

929 In the year. OF the total Of 2, 7l9
smallpox cases reported during the
year, 2,0S9 or 1888 per cent. Cover three.
fourths Of them) occurred In s0-called
tenement houses. and only $50 or 2317
per cent. in private houses.
The report emphasizes the necessity
for city ordinance to empower sthe
Health Department to control smallpox.
An ordinance Tor that purpose has
been purposely smothered In commit
tee of the City Council.
There were 2,463 marriage licenses
taken out during the year. The report
| notices the looseness OF clergy men and
magistrates in the matter Of returning
marriages performed by them, and their
Noncompliance with the law requiring
them to do so.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22
FINANCIAL.
CINCINNATI, March %

CINCINNATI, March 22-l 80 P. M.
Gold is steady. Dealers here are buying at
104& and selling at l04X. Gold checks are
quoted los.
Eastern exchange is firm, but the demand is
moderate. Rates Unchanged. 1t is buying at
par ana selling at l. prem.
Sterling quiet and sJeady. Sight drafts are
drawn at 81 S61S. and sixty-day bills at 81 841s
per e in gold
The demand for money is moderate, and
business is quiet. All the prime paper offering
IL readily taken at to per cent.
Governments are quiet and steady. The fol-
lowing are the local buying and selling quo
tatIOns.