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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
Let Them Alone.

Never try to rob any one CT his good
opinion OF himself. IL is the most cruel
thing you can do. Moreover, it is by
no means doing as you would be done
by. Crush a woman's self-esteem, and
you will make her cross-grained and
snappish. Do the same with a man,
and it only makes him morose. You may
mean to create a sweet, humble crea-
ture, but you'll never do 1t. The people
who think best of themselves are apt to
be best. Women grow pretty in believ-
ing they are so, and the qualities often
crop out after one has been told one has
them.
1t only gratifies momentary spite to
force your own unfavorable opinion of
him deep into another's mind. Itnever,
never, did do any good. All? if this
world, full of ugly people and awkward
people, of silly people, and vain people,
knew their own DEFICIENCIES, what Sit
ting in sack-cloth and ashes we should
have.
The greatest Of all things that a man
can possess is a satisfactory identity. If
that which he calls |, pleases him, it is
well with him; otherwise, he is utterly
wretched. Let your beings
alone; hold no truthful mirrors before
their eyes, unless with pure intention
to uprOot sin. So may a mirror with
out a flaw never be prepared for you.
In those things which we cannot help,
may We ever be blind to our own short
comings. We are neither ugly, nor
awkward, nor uninteresting to our
selves, if we do not know it. A fool
may have the wisdom of Solomon in his
own conceit. Let him be and the path
to the grave will be easier for him to
tread; you will be no worse, he much
better.
Leave every man have as much self
esteem as his conscience will allow him
to cherish. 1t may be pleasure to en-
tighten people as to their faults of
mind and person, but it is certainly not
duty.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

As we were sailing out at six in the
morning to our fishing-ground we came
into the midst of a fleet of "mossers,' -
or gatherers of the carrdgeen-or Irish
moss-which is obtained here in large
quantities, and affords employment and
support to large number of inhabi-
tants. The water of the bay in shore is
remarkably clear, as | also found it TO
be very strong in bathing; so that the
''mossers" could drive down their long
sea rakes straight on the moss punches
clinging to the rocks, and in few
hours in favorable weather each would
secure a fair boat load. In stormy
weather, however, the labor is often
hard and dangerous.
When the moss boatmen have Sc
cured satisfactory loads they bring them
to their sheds and pebbly bleaching and
drying grounds at the back of the beach,
near Second Cliff, pleasant walk of
about two miles from the town, where
visitor can 90 and observe the whole
process of preparation, and will be
pleased with the frank, genial reception
given him by the "mossers" and their
wives and children, whom if, the day
is fine, he will find all busily engaged,
some in washing, others in picking and
sorting, and others again in turning
over the moss-like hay to give it all an
equal share of sunshine and air. They
put it in all through five washings, and
then, when dried, it is clean and white
and ready to be packed in the barrels of
about one hundred pounds, in which it
is sold to wholesale druggists and also
to brewers, who, am glad to hear, use
il to some extent for the dearer ISM
glass. If all beer were only "adulter-'
ated" in that way l venture to say it
would be a very healthy drink, quite
worthy of admission even into temper
ate Scituate.-BostOn Transcript.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

Thinking is not dreaming. The world
is full of dreamers. A few men do
most of its thinking. Thinking is manu-
featuring. Ie is taking mental tools and
hammering and filing and moulding
and shaping, until ideas have grown
into fully developed realities of the
brain, with dimensions and clearly
marked Outlines.-The reason there are
not more thinkers is because thinking
is work; 1t wears away tissue and
muscle. IL is tiresome. 1t requires
time and purpose. Men can dream
while they sleep; to work they must be
awake. Dreaming is tearing away the
fiood-gate and allowing the flood to
pour through; if anything remains it
is only drift wood that may chance to
hang on the way. Minds fill with drift
wood because they are not thinking.
Thinking is measuring chances, weigh
ing principles, watching the operation
of law; it is process of creeping upon
things and taking them by surprise be-
fore they have time to get away. A
thinker is hunter. He must live
alone. He must be satisfied with small
daily fare, and often see his game fly
before he has time to shoot. He must
have courage to face chasms and dark
places, and climb steep mountains. He
must love solitude on an outpost hidden
in the rocks.
And here is the reason this age is not
prolific of good thinkers. 1t is an age
of company, of travel, of theatre-g going,
of corporations and speculations. Men
live in crowds. 1t is a day of double
houses. Too much man and not enough
of God.-Communion with nature is
shut out.-There are no sparks because
the flint and steel are not in contact.
Men are following the college drones
ponying through life. Everybody wants
to ride. Going to the spring for water
is out Of fashion. The spring must
come up the hill. We want to turn the
faucet and have things run out to our
hands, the faucet must be on castors
that it may be convenient.
For these reasons most people are
only sponges; they live wholly by ab-
sorptiOn and are like the thing they
touched last. They wait for thugs to
'turn up" but the only thing they
ever find turning up, especially for
them, is little sod in little corner of
the graveyard, and they are at last laid
away, while the great multitude, having
never missed them, ask in wonder,
"When did he die?"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

Iron-Steel.-MM. Asbeck, Osthaus,
and Eicken, of Hagen, Westphalia, says
the Rerue Industrietle, have recently
manufactured a metal composed parti-
ally of steel and partly of iron to which
they give the name of iron-steel. The
novelty of the combination consists in
the introduction of a thin sheet of iron
between the surfaces TO be welded. A
cast iron mold is divided into two COM
partments by means of a transverse
plate or tube placed in the interior
and the two metals are poured into the
respective compartments. Before fusion
both metals are submitted to complete
refining which removes all matters
which hinder welding. They are then
turned into the mold. the sheet iron
partition in which serves to prevent
their mingling and to facilitate weld
ing by being itself brought into state
of fusion. The success of the operation
depends considerably on the prepara-
ton of the metals, on their readiness to
weld, and on the thickness of the parti-
ton. The last is determined expert
mentally and the dimensions differ ac-
cording to those of the ingots to be pro-
duced. The metal thus prepared is said
to be adapted for the fabrication of rails,
anchors, and armor plates, etc., where
the hardness of the steel diminishes the
wear and increases the resistance of the
masses. In the construction of safes,
plates of this combination are said to be
proof against attempts to break or drill
through them. In all portions of ma
chimes or for tools which support or
transmit heavy pressure or undergo in
Simultaneous and powerful stress, as in
rolls or aXles the metal is claimed TO
possess very superior advantages.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
A Vintage Festival.

| One of the prettiest vintage sights is
the feast of ST. Roch, held yearly near
Bingen on the Rhinegau, on the ground
of the Villa Landy. now belonging to
| Herr Braun. st. ROch is considered
patron of the wine industry and the fes-
tival is held on the Sunday following
the 10Th of August, the day of the res
tOratiOn of the old chapel. Against the
exterior eastern wall is put up tenn
porary pulpit; the hill is clothed with
white tents with leaves, grapes, flowers
and ribbons; refreshments are sold: all
the bells of the neighborhood peal and
jingle; the country folks in costume
come up in merry groups, or in devout
procession with their parish clergy,
school banners and crosses, singing
hymns or reciting the rosary, and after
the sermon and prayers scattering
through the vineyards and spending
the day in what we hope is no worse a
manner than appearing to the artists
eye. There is one popularity about the
Rudesheim vintage-its lateneSS. 1t
begins about the 81 of November, some
times little earlier. but still later than
most others. Two years ago it took
place in this way, after fortnight's
steady fog and weather, more like that
of a wild northern seacoast than of the
sunny" Rhine. But this gray, damp
air was the very thing wanted, for it
slowly rOts the grapes and producing
this corruption the most delicious wine.
1t is said that this Rudesheim custom of
late vintage is due to fortunate fit of
fOrgetfulness of the Abbot of FuIda.
who once neglected to give the neces-
sary permission to open the Johannis-
berg vineyards, and did not remedy his
mistake till early in November. when
the despairing vinedressers fancied the
crop wholly spoilt; but another YER
sion tells us that il once happened that
the vintage was delayed through the
circumstances of a war that laid waste
most of the neighboThood and claimed
the services of every able bodied man.
so that the vine growers sold the crop
for mere nothing, and found out after
wards what prize they had let slip
through their tingers.-Lddy Nurphy's
Tr0csls.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

The following are the largest rivers,
with their extent: The Amazon, in
South America, falls from the Andes
through course of 1900 miles; the
Mississippi, from the Stony Mountains,
runs 2,690 miles; La Plata, from the
Andes, apis miles; the Hoangho, in
China, from the Tartarean chain of
mountains, is $3.50 miles; the Yangtse-
kiang runs from the same mountains,
and is 5000 miles long; the Nile, from
the Jihel Kumri Mountains, courses
1880 miles; the Euphrates, from Ararat,
is 1920 miles long; the VOlga, from the
Vsldais, is 2,l0G miles; the Danube.
from the Alps, is l,79O miles in length !;
the Indus, from the Himalayas, is 1,770
miles; the Ganges runs from the same
source, and is $50 miles long; the
Orinoco, from the Andes, is / 800 miles
in length; the Niger, or Wharra is ], 300
miles long; the Don, the Dnieper and
the Senegal are each over 1000 miles in
length; the Rhine and the Gambia are
SSS miles in extent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
On Mastering a Foreign Language.

1t is to be hoped, and it is believed,
that the method of teaching modern
foreign languages has been revised and
altered of late years; formerly il was
the custom to begin at the wrong end
TO teach the ornamental before the ne
cessary, TO load young memories with
the masterpieces of great authors before
the most ordinary colloquialisms and
the proper equivalents for the English
names of the most common terms in So
cial and commercial life had been in
delibly impressed. This was bad for
either speaking or conversation. The
higher parts of education are not to be
neglected; but the lower should, in
building up the system, be first estab-
lished upon firm foundation. If a
foreign language is to be acquired for
daily use, none of what may be called
the luxuries of the language should be
permitted until the necessaries have
been well digested; until the equiya-
Tents for all terms in common use, and
until the usual forms of conversation in
as many varieties as possible, have been
thoroughly mastered.-PaH Mall Ga
zette.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

Artificial Coda new substitute for
gold has come into use in France. In
consists of 100 parts by weight of pure
copper, IA zinc or tin, 6 magnesia,, 3.6
sal ammoniac, Is burnt limestone, 8
cream of tartar. The copper is first
melted, then the magnesia, sal ammon-
lac, limestone and crerm of tartar in
powder, are gradually added, separate
ly. The whole is kept stirred for half
an hour, the tin or zinc being dropped
in piece by piece, stirring gong on till
they melt. The crucible is last of all,
covered, and the mass kept in fusion for
thirty-five minutes. The scum being
removed, the metal is poured into the
moulds. The alloy is fine-grained and
malleable, and takes high polish. 1t
does not oxidize easily.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
rr Joy Bringers-

Some men move through life as a
band of music moves down the street,
fiinging out pleasure on every side
through the air to every one, far and
near, that can listen. Some men fill
the air with their presence and sweet
ness, as orchards in October days fill
the air with perfume of ripe fruit. Some
women cling to their own houses, like
the honeysnckle over the door, yet, like
it, sweeten all the region with the
subtle fragrance of their goodness.
There are trees of righteousness, which
are ever dropping precious fruit around
them. There are lives that shine like
star beams, or charm the heart like
songs sung upon a holy day.
How great bounty and blessing 1t
is to hold the royal gifts of the soul, so
that they shall be music to some, and
fragrance to others, and life to all? 1t
would be no unworthy thing to live for,
to make the power which we have
within us the breath of other mems joy !;
to scatter sunshine where only clouds
and shadows reign; TO fill the atmos
phere where earth's weary toiler's must
stand, with brightness which they
cannot create for themselves, and which
they long for, enjoy and appreciate.
4 IL
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
The Procession of Lady Godiva at Coventry.

The order of the procession was as
follows: First came the City Guards,
an ancient, and in former times, an i'm
portant body of men; next came a
figure of st. George, who, it will be re-
membered, was a native of Coventry /:
then came the city streamer bearing the
arms of Coventry, and the two city
followers. The next object of attrac-
ton was the renowned Lady Godiva,
mounted on a white horse, with rich
housings and trappings. The city crier
rode on one side of her and the beadle
on the other. The woman represent
ing the fair patroness of Coventry was
usually dressed i'm white dress, closely
fitted to the body. She wore also pro-
fusion of long, flowing locks, adorned
with fillet or bandeau of flowers, and
a plume of white feathers. The Co
yentry Herald, in describing the process
sion of lS4S speaks of Madame Warton's
performance of Godiva as ''highly salts
factory. ''She was attired," we are
told, ''in clOse-fitting, elastic silk
dress, of a pinky-white color, entire
from the neck to the toes, excepting the
arms, which were uncovered; over this
simple white satin tunic edged with
gold fringe completed her riding habit.
Her only head-dress was the perfectly
unartificial and not very profuse supply
of glossy black hair simply braided in
front. and hanging down slightly con-
fined behind" Mr.. Warton, her hus-
band, rode short distance behind as
Edward, the Black Prince. Queen
Margaret, Sir John Falstaff, Robin
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

Iron Cement.-Take four or five parts
by weight of dried and finely powdered
brick earth, and one part of peroxide
of manganese, and mix them with two
parts of fine iron filings, which must be
free from rust, one half part common
salt, and one half part borax. Grind
all fine together and mix intimately,
then make into stiff mass with water.
The cement must be applied as soon as
made: it Is first gently warmed, and
then exposed to a heat just short OF
whiteness. 1t is stated to be thus con-
verted into a slag-like material which
stands boiling water and all common
heats. Another recipe is: Equal parts
finely sifted peroxide of manganese and
finely triturated zinc, which are rubbed
up to thickish fluid with common
water glass; this must be applied as
soon as ready, and makes as hard a
cement as the foregoing.-Cdpitdl and
Labor.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
A DEDICATION.

The sea gives her shells tc the sh.ngle.
The earth gives her streams to the sca
They are many. but my gift is single.
My verses the first fruits Of me.
Let the wind take the green and the gray leaf
Cast forth without fruit upon air;
Take q rose-leaf and vine-leaf and bay-leaf
Blown loose from the hair.
The night shakes them round me in legions.
Dawn drives them before her like dreams.
Time sheds them like SHOWS on strange regions
Swept shoreward on infinite streams;
Leaves pallid and sombre and ruddy,
Dead fruit of the fugitive years;
Some stained as with wine and made bloody,
And some as with tears.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

COLD IN THE HEAD.-This can be
cured at once, if taken care of at the
very beginning. Dissolve tablespoon
ful of borax in pint of hot water; let
it stand until it becomes tepid; snuff
some up the nostrils two or three times
during the day, or use the dry powdered
borax like snuff, takings pinch as often
as required. At night have handker-
chief saturated with spirits of camphor,
place It near the nostrils, so as TO inhale
the fumes while sleeping. >
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

Testing for !Sdlieylic Acid.-This is best
done either in wine or urine, says NJ.
Harty, by Yvon's process. The liquid
to which is added few drops OF hy
drochloric acid, is agitated with a little
ether. The ether combines with the
salicylic acid and abandons it, by spon-
taneous evaporation above a weak solu-
ton of perchloride of iron, producing a
strongly colored violet ring.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
Eyes to Order.

Between 5000 and 10000 eyes are
sold annually in the United States. An
eye-maker gives one in 125 as the pro-
portion of One-eyed people. Comput-
ing the population of the country to be
AZ ,000, 900, this rate gives 33G, 900 as the
number of persons with only one eye
in the republic. Consequently, while
TO- 900 people supply their optical def
cheney with an artificial eye, 32G, 900 go
without. In proportion to the popula-
ton, the eye-maker said, there are more
one-eved people in Paterson, n. j.,
than in any other town IN this or any
other country. All towns that have
many foundries and factories, and
whose air is impregnated with SCOT and
smoke, count their one-eyed inhabitants
by the score; but Paterson is ahead of
the rest. The eye-maker knew of the
three proprietors of single foundry
there, each loosing an eye. Pittsburg
comes next. In the city one-eyed folks
abound in the neighbor hood of manu-
featuring establishments. Once he had
four patients from near foundry in
West Eleventh street alone. Not only
the foul atmosphere destroys the sight,
but flying pieces of metal burnt out the
eyes of the workmen. An importer
who sells $500 eyes annually, sends one
third to Canada; Chicago takes 300,
and Cincinnati more than st. Louis.
New Orleans, Nashville and other
towns west and south buy the remain
der. The color for eyes most in demand
is what is known as "Irish blue," pc
culiarly light azure that predominates
in Ireland. The average cost of an eye
is ten dollars. He sends comparatively
few eyes in this city, as New Workers
prefer to have their eyes made to order.
Nep York Sun.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19
That Disease Breeds Disease

l. a notorious fact. II is therefore of vital i'm
portance to check malaGies in their BIZ tn, ere
they have a chance TO develop other and NOR,
dangerous disorders. As a means of checking
complaints which il allowed TO proceed
finally di, order the entire system. Hostetter's
stomach Bltters is a medicine the use of which
cannot be too strongly urged upon the slck
and feeble The physical functions are regu-
lated by It it Insures the acquisition of vigOr
by the debilitated- and it substitutes q cheer
full condition of mind for gloom and despOn-
dency. Dyspepsia, constipation. liver COM
plant. and kidney and bladder troubles yield
to its remedial influence; it counteracts a
tendency to gout and rheumatism, and invig-
CRATES the nerves Moreover, it is derived
from purely botanical sources. and in this a.
IN every other respect. is superior TO the min
eral remedies of the pharmacopHia
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

The PROPER TINE TO DANCE.-An old
colored preacher was !ecturing youth
of his told about the sin of dancing,
when the latter protested that the Bible
plainly said, ''There is a time to dance" {"
"Yes, dar am a time to Dance" said the
dark divine, ''and it's when a boy gifts
whippin' for gwine to ball"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

Two COUNTRY attorneys overtaking a
WAGNER on the road, thinking to
break joke with him, asked him why
his fore horse was so fat, and the rest
so lean. The WAGNER, knowing them
TO be limbs of the law, replied, "That
the fore horse was a lawyer, and the
rest were his clients"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

WASHING BUTTER.-When unwashed
there is always little buttermilk and
sugar adhering to the butter that gives
it peculiar flavor in addition to that of
pure butter, which many people like
when it is new. Washing removes ali
this foreign matter, and leaves only the
taste of the butter pure and simple.
The assertion is often made, and many
people believe it, that water washes out
the flavor of the butter; but it only
cleanses it from buttermilk, sugar and
milk acid which may adhere to it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

"ASD now let me show you the ger
minating house" said florist recently,
after taking an Irish visitor through
his collection of plants and various hot
houses. 1.-The German eating-house, is
it?" rejoined the son of Erin; cav We
place, couldn't ye give us a sight of an
Irish drinking-house hereabOuts, if it's
all the same to yees?''
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

HINTS TO FARMERs.-Toads are the
best protection OF cabbage against lice.
Plants, when dropping, can be re-
vived by few grains of camphor.
Pears are generally improved by
grating on the mountain ash.
Sulphur is valuable in preserving
grapes, ETC., from insects.
Lard never spoils in warm weather,
if it is cooked enough in trying out.
In feeding with corn, sixty pounds
ground goes as far as one hundred in
the kernel.
Corn meal should never be ground
very fine, it Injuries the richness of it.
Turnips of small size have double the
nutritious power that large ones have.
Rats and other vermln are kept away
from grain by a sprinkling OF garlic
when packing the sheaves.
Money skilfully expended In drying
land by draining or otherwise, will be
returned with ample interest.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

The way for man to truly succeed is
to do what he thinks best worth his
doing, in the way he thinks it ought to
be done. Let him never step aside from
his path, either for profit or praise, and
he will have all the success that is pos
sible to have, and all that is worth
having.
Joys are our wings, sorrows are our
spurs.-Riekter.