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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1877-01-23

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1877-01-23
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Sacredness of Moscow Pigeons.

The pigeons have it all their own way
i'm Moscow, for no one dares kill them.
They are looked on as the incarnate
symbol of the Holy Ghost and Russian
would almost as soon think of becoming
a cannibal as of eating pigeon. Up
near the grain and flour markets there
are thousands of them, and toward even
ing the roofs are black with them. The
gilded domes and roof of the Kremlin
seem to be particularly dear to these
birds, and if You go down to the river
about an hour before sunset, and lean
over the parapet of the bridge, you will
see countless numbers darting and
wheeling about the Palace spire. 1t is
just what is needed to finish the beauti-
ful panorama before you. In the early
spring | meet numbers of men selling
cages of little birds. These the people
buy and liberate at Easter-tide. 1t is a
relic of the old habit of freeing slaves
at that time. When no more slaves
were to be had, birds were substituted
as a symbol by the church, and the
custom still existed i'm Russia with all
her serfs, without thought as to what
it meant, and how much better it would
be to do the thing of which it was a
type.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
The Turkish Soldiers.

A Gambia Crete, correspondence o
the New York Nal SAYS: In view o.
tke approaching hOstilities in which
the Turkish soldier will bear an i'm
portant part, your correspondent viii
give his views of that soldier as seer
through cursory glance of battalion
drill Just outside the gate of the city
at an early hour this morning, in com.
pany with the interpreter of the British
Consulate. My first impression wa:
that the men before me were conscripts
or raw recruits, as in their slOvenly APP
pearance and awkward movements,
they looked infinitely more so than the
Italian street sweeping brigade of your
city. But | was surprised upon being
Informed that the soldiers before me
going through the semblance eff a drill.
was tke celebrated regiment which the
late Abdul-Aziz esteemed so highly.
noticed in the breaking from line into
column, and from the order of column
into line, that the wheeling, or what
was termed such, was so confusedly eX-
ecuted, that in many instances the
right became the left, the front became
the rear, and officers became mixed
with other companies. The manual of
arms was simply eXecrable, being per-
formed without any attention TO detail
or time 1t was so striking as to make
me remember with pride even the Vet
eran Guard, cOlored, of New York City.
The officers are young and inexperi-
enced, and it is evident that few of
them will stand the brrmt of a fight.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
An Indian Tradition.
Among tn e Seminole Indians there is

Among the Seminole Indians there II
singular tradition regarding the white
mans origin and Superiority. They say
that when the Great Spirit made the
earth, he also made three men, all OF
whom were of fair complexion: and that
after making them he led them TO the
margin of a small lake and bade them
leap therein. One Immediately obeyed
and came out of the water pIfrer than
before he bathed; the second did not
leap until the water became slightly
muddy, and when he bathed, he came
up copper-colored; the third did not
leap until the water became black with
mud, and came out with its own color.
Then the Great Spirit laid before them
three packages of bark, and bade them
choose and out of pity for his misfortune
of color, he gave the black man his first
choice. He took hold of each of the
packages, and having felt them, chose
the heaviest; the copper-colored one
then chose the second heaviest, leaving
the white man the lightest. When the
packages were opened, the first was
found to contain spades, hoes, and all
the implements of labor; the second
enwrapped hunting, fishing and war
like apparatus; the third gave the white
man pens, ink and paper-the engines
of the mind-the moral, mental improve
ment-the social link of humanity-the
foundation of the white mans superb
ority.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Houses and Things.

The mistake of this era in the history
of "househOld art and home decora-
tion," lies, il seems to us, in the attempt
TO DO too much with furniture. Ruskin,
in one of his books, distinguishes be-
tween building and architecture. There
are certain structures in which archi-
lecture should never be attempted. A
grain elevator, a store-house, barn.
these are buildings, and architecture is
out of place in them. There is no more
reason why they should be beautiful
than there is why a meal-sack should
be beautiful, or a wheelbarrow, or a
coal-cart. So it seems to us that there
NAV be, and that there are, certain
items of furniture which we may ligiti-
mately excuse from the duty of pic
turesqueness. If our carpets are less
beautiful than rugs upon bare floors, if
furnaces are less interesting than open
fires, if the old-fashoned wash bowl and
pitcher are more picturesque than the
plumbers substitute, what of it? In
which direction shall we make our
sacrifices? Toward comfort and con-
venience, or toward the picturesqueness
of ruder times and smaller means? We
advocate comfort and convenience, and
leave others do as they choose. The
modern advocacy of beauty, in connec-
ton with all articles of furniture and
household convenience, reminds one of
the child who insists on making play of
everything.-whoc cannot take a mouth
full of food, or do any act of service,
without making it in some way a
source of amusement.
To come to the practical point. home
may be interesting without being more
than moderately beautiful, and may be
more than moderately beautiful with
out being interesting at all. If we rely
interest of house,-if We make furni-
ture picturesque at the price of comfort
and convenience, our homes may be
made interesting in a moderate way,
provided we follow out our individual
ideas, and not fall back upon the con-
VentlOualISIns OF the man llacturers.
But the most interesting things in a
house should never be its furniture.
Given convenient furniture, that should
be picturesque when convenient, the
question whether home shall be
greatly interesting relates mainly to
other things-to books, pictures, objects
of art, bric-a-b brac, and treasures of
various sorts, in fact or in association. |
We can point 10 homes whose furniture
attracts no attention whatever, but |
which are absorbingly interesting |
through the artistic products of its
members. The more the culture and |
taste of cultured and tasteful people are /
expressed in these homes, through /
various modes and forms of art, the |
more interesting those homes will be;
the more the guest is compelled to for
get furniture, except as it answers to
the higher harmonies of the house, the
better. The best things Of an interest
ing home are never bought of furni-
ture dealer, though the most beautiful
may be.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Terrors of Russian Climate

Mr.. Wallace, in his new book entitled
nose through the rigors of the Russian
Winter.
He had started from Novgorod with
the intention of visiting some friends at
a cavalry barracks ten miles from town
and as the sun was shining brightly
when he set out, he disregarded the in
functions of his travelling companion
and neglected TO supply himself with a
sufficient supply of wraps. The result
is thus described:
When we had driven about three
fourths of the way, we met peasant
woman who gesticulated violently. and
shouted something TO us as We passed.
| did not hear what she said, but my
friend turned to me in an alarming tone
we had been speaking German
'.Hein Gou, hire Muse ist dbgetrohrenr
Now, the word 'abgefrohen,' as the
reader will understand, seemed to indi-
cate that my nose was frozen off, so |
put my hand in some alarm to discover
whether l had inadvertently lost the
whole or part of the member referred
to. SO far from being lost or diminished
in size, il was very much larger than
usual, and at the same time as hard and
insensible as bit of wood.
''You may still save it, said my COM
panion, ''if you get out at once and rub
it vigorously with snow"
got out as directed, but was too
faint to do anything vigorously. My
fur cloak flew open, the cold seemed TO
grasp me in the region of the heart and
| fell insensible.
How long remained unconscious |
know not When | awoke ] found my
self in strange room, surrounded by
dragoon officers in uniform, and the
first words | heard were: ''He is out
of danger now, but he will have a
fever"
These words were spoken, as | after
ward discovered, by very competent
surgeon, but the prophesy was not full
filed. The fever never came. The
only bad consequences We're that for
some days my right hand remained
stiff, and during about a fortnight / had
to conceal my nose from public view.
If this little incident justifies me in
drawing general conclusion. should
say that exposure to extreme cold is an
almost painless form of death, and that
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Prove all Things

Young ladies are not inclined TO give
much heed to many of the useful items
which they chance to hear discussed,
but that which once seemed so insig-
nificant-the little scraps of knowledge
the minute suggestion = becomes of
great value as soon as they feel the care
and responsibility of household duties,
and become more and more conscious
of their own ignorance every day. We
are cOmpaSsed about with a cloud of
witnesses TO the truth of this statement
IN the form of multitude of requests
for aid. for rules or infaliible remedies.
Seeing the evil effects of their early in
differences they are in danger of rush
ing TO the opposite extreme, and listen
10 a dozen Indifferent and entirely op-
posite directions for accomplishing the
same thing. They try all things, but
prove none.
We gladly furnish, by request, an
other chapter of ''Gleanings," but be-
fore beginning the lesson wish to sug-
gest the importance of making delib-
crate and thorough trial of each direc-
ton before yielding to encouragement.
Prove all things" "If at first you
don't succeed be not disheartened.
Many rules and regulations seem hard
and incomprehensible to those who en-
tering upon new duties, have never
been taught to bring good common
sonse and clear Judgment into the
minutest details of every day life. Re
member that it is wise to prove each
rule, receipt, or direction thoroughly
before accepting it as infallible, or dis
carding it as worthless. 1t is folly to
reject that which does not bring the de-
sired result on the first trial.
Some persons who have never been
accustomed to work methodically find
it hard to carry out any rule precisely
as given. They guess at, rather than
weigh or measure anything correctly,
and the result is that their work is full
of mistakes and failures. In such cases
they find it easier, and certainly less
annoying to their pride, to put the
blame of their misfortune on the advice
or directions they made pretense of
following rather than acknowledge
their own ignorance and folly.
Many rules. when first suggested,
will appear absurd. For instance, if
we tell our readers that they can econ
omize in the use of soap by substitu-
ting milk in its place for many pur-
poses, and find much comfort and con-
venience in the change, who Will be-
lieve it? We did not when we first
heard of it. But have your laugh;
then give the theory a fair trial. You
will only laugh for joy after that.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
Disease Is an Antagonist

That should be attacked the instant he shown
himself. Don't wait. At him before his nails
are grown, and wipe him out. The great al
terative and invigorant OF the age, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. will speedily infuse such
healthful tone into your organism that it will
be enabled to successfully resist future at
tacka The Bitters prevent and remedy chills
and fever and bilious remittents, and eradicate
dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, rheu-
matte ailments. urinary and uterine difficult
ties. 1t is particularly beneficial when the
system has been drained Of its vitality or is
inherently deficient in strength. The nerves
gather from 1t both vigor and tranquility. But
while it imparts strength and gives a whole
some stimulus to the animal economy. it does
not unduly excite it like the cheap exhilarants
sometimes resorted to under the erroneous I'M
preston that they can invigorate.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
The Sea.

The sea is the largest OF all cemeteries,
and its numbers sleeps without monu-
ments. All other graveyards, in other
lands, show some distinction between
the great and small, the rich and the
poor, but in the great ocean cemetery
the king and the clown, the prince and
peasant, are alike undistinguished. The
same waves roll over all; the same sun
shines, and there, unmarked, the weak
and the powerful, the plumed and the
unhonored, will sleep on forever.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

We have received from the National Silver
Plating Company, Philadelphia, half dozen
Of their teaspoons, advertised elsewhere in
this paper and after subjecting them to Sc
we're test are satisfied that they are even bet
ter than the solid silver, since they are stronger
and brighter-whIle the size and pattern are
most desirable. We have an arrangement
with the company by which the subscribers
and readers of the REPUBLICAS can get half
a dozen Of these spoons with their initials en-
graved on each piece for the nominal price OF
seventy-five cents. All letters ordering silver
ware must ne sent direct to the Silver Plating
Company Philadelphia. and no time should be
spared in ordering, as our arrangement will
only last ninety days. We have a sample of
the spoons in our possession, which we shall
be happy to show to all desiring 20 avail thenl-
selves of this splendid opportunity. There IL
no humbug in the matter, as you viii learn
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
THE PUNISHED.

Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish
Not they who, while sad years go by them. in
The sunless cells of lonely prisons lsnguish,
Do suffer fullest penalty for sin.
lis they who walk the highways unsuspected
Yet with grim fear for ever at their side.
Vino clasp the corpse of something undetected,
A corpse no grave or coffin lid can hide.
lis they who are in their own chambers
haunted
By thoughts that like unwelcome guests
intrude,
And sit down unlimited and unwanted,
And make 6 nightmare of the solitude.
The GALAXY.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
SCIENTIFIC.

The achievements Of Science. = DR..
Oliver Holmes, the poet, author, scien-
| tlst, inventor of the popular steTeOscOpe
instrument, recently delivered an ad-
dress before the Boston Microscopical
Society. 1t was mainly an illustration
of the progress in mlcrOscopy-in the
construction of the Instruments and in
the discoveries by their aid. "To those
of my generation" he began, "this
modern world which most of you take
as matter of course, it being the only
condition of things of which you have
had experience, is a perpetual source
of wonder-a standing miracle. Science
and art have In our time so changed the
aspect of everyday life that one of a
certain age might well believe himself
on another planet or in another stage
of existence. The wand of PrOmetheus
is in our matchboxes; the rock of HO-
reb gushes forth in our dressing-roOms;
the carpet of Arabian story is spread in
our Pullman car; our words flash from
continent to continent; our very accents
are transmitted from city to city; the
elements of forming worlds are an
alyzed in our laboratories; and, most
wonderful and significant of all, the
despOtic reign of tradition received its
deathblOw when the angel of anasthe
sIa lifted from wOmanhoOd the worst
terrors of primal malediction.
Testing Flour.-The rise in price of
breadstuffs caused by the declaration
of war by Russia against Turkey may
lead unprincipled men to initiate the
adulteration of -four practiced in some
foreign countries. An easy method of
detecting such adulteratlon, according
to Jegel, is to mix the -four with chlO-
roform. The chlOrofOrm exerts no
chemical action upon the -four; but be-
ing specifically heavier than flour and
lighter than the earthly adulterants.
the former floats upon the chlOrofOrm
and the adulterant sinks. On shaking
up a sample of -four in test tube of
chlOrofOrm and allowing it to settle,
sediment will indicate adulteration.
On decanting the turbid liquor, the
sediment may be washed and weighed
or tested quantitatively.
Titanic Iron from the Ural-J. POpov
has recently published analyses made
by him of two tltanium minerals from
the Ural. The first is an ordinary IL
tanIc iron ore, containing magnesia;
the other a perimorphOse of the same
in which the iron seems to be replaced
by lime, only half per cent of prOtox-
ide of iron remaining. The iron ore
contained: Titanic oxide 56 81 per cent,
sesquiOxide of iron 4'05, protOxide of
iron 1876, prOtOxide of manganese 1'73,
prOtOxide of magnesia 17-1S: total 99'39.
The perimOrph contained: Titanic OK
ide 5S So. lime 40'S3, prOtOxide of iron
0'5S; total, 100'26.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
The Growth of Coral.

An item of evidence touching the
growth of coral is furnished by Mel
bourne paper. A piece of the ordinary
species, measuring about five inches in
height, six inches in diameter at the
top, and about two inches at the base
bears the distinct impression of the ca
ble-a few fibres of the coir rope, used
as sheath for the telegraph wire, still
adhering TO it. As the cable has been
laid only four years, it is evident that
this specimen must have grown to it,
present height in that time, which seems
to prove that the growth of coral is much
more rapid than has been supposed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20
AGRICULTURAL.

MUTTON SHEEP WANTED.-The Dro.
rers' Journal of Chicago says:
''There is now and has long been q
| steady aud strong demand in this mar
ket for large mutton sheep of good fla
vOr. For such animals good prices are
paid readily-prices which will give to
the farmer large profits for the labor
invested In the production of the very
best mutton. As a general rule the
sheep brought here for sale are unfit to
compete with those appearing in the
Eastern markets. Their expectation to
Europe is entirely out of the question,
yet Canada and the Eastern States have
for some time been shipping NATION to
England, apparently with profit, and
there seems to be no good reason why
the West should not compete with those
parts of the country that are less favored
by soil and climate. Here lands are
comparatively cheap, and even the wild
grasses furnish abundant food; water
is plenty and good; the range, even in
the States between Ohio and the Mis-
Souri,, is at present practically unlimited,
so far as the production of sheep is con-
cerned, for almost every farm has its
bit of unused land which would make
good sheep pasture
The absence of good mutton from our
tables is noticed by almost every Eng
lishman, and the Scotch are not slow to
note the fact that all the advantages the
West has for the profitable breeding of
sheep for food, We are lamentably be-
hind even the most sterile parts of
Scotland in cultivating this source of
wealth. The meat which they find be-
fore them here when they have ordered
mutton usually so strong in odOr and
flavor as TO leave no doubt as to the
woody character of the animal from
which il was taken. To those who know
the advantages the West has in her
cheap pasturage, favorable climate, and
high, dry lands, this lack of interest In
what they have been taught to consider
a most important industry is constant
wonder. They see no good reason why
every farmer in the North and the West
should not have from ten TO hundred
choice sheep, every year, to sell to the
butchers. Nor, to tell the truth, can
we see why our farmers should not add
this TO their other sources Of income.
We know of no other kind of stock
farming in which the beginner requires
less capital and in which the profits
upon the capital and labor are greater
and, with fair degree of care, surer.
Hogs are charming, it is true, Oh paper,
but there is room for some close figuring
of chances in hog farming, now that
disease so often sweeps away in few
days the original investment and all the
care aud food given them. If a sheep
dies the peIt remains to more than re-
pay the first cost of the animal. We
have some doubt of a cholera hogs pelt
paying as much.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

MUTTON CHoPs.-Buy them nicely
trimmed, comely in shape. Dip them
in egg, roll in bread crumbs and fry
nicely brown. Season with butter, salt
and pepper. Another receipt is to broil
them over a clear fire, saving the juice
as carefully as possible and making a
gravy, in which is stirred teaspoon of
tomato catsup, or a smaller quantity Of
Worcestershire sauce.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

VEAL STEAK.-This should be cut
thinner than beefsteak, and be cooked
thoroughly. BrOil upon well-greased
gridiron over clear fire, and turn fire.
quently while the steak is cooking. Put
into a saucepan four young onions
minced fine, tablespoonful of tomato
catsup, lump of butter the size of an
egg, and little mixed parsley, with a
cup of hot water. Let them stew
together while the steak is broiling,
thickening, before you turn the gravy
out, with spoonful of Drowned flour.
Add half a wineglass of white wine.
Boil up once, and when the steak is
dished with bits of butter on it) pour
the mixture over it and serve hot.
Spinach is as natural an accompani-
ment to veal as are green peas to lamb.