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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

DIDN'T STAND THE TESLA young
man read in paper a few days ago that
if you wanted to find out if the woman
you had selected for your future spouse
mad a good temper you ought 10 take
occasion TO step on her dress, or snap
the sticks of her tan, or in some way
annoy or discompose her. ''If," said
the great authority who presides over
the column of advice. ''lf she betrays
no sign OF ill-temper, she will prove u
model WIFE" Accordingly the young
man seized an opportunity when his
sweetheart was rugged in her most kill
ing array TO step on her trail and pull
out about three yards OF gathers, with
a rip like peal of thunder, exposing
about three-quarters of the frame work
that makes her dress stick out behind.
But instead of meeting the accident
with perfect equanimity, she turned
round and jabbed her parasol in his
eye, called him lCng-haired leper, and
asked him why he didn't wear his feet
sideways. He expressed himself thank
ful that he didn't marry the girl before
finding out what sort of temper she
had, but the doctor doesn't think his
eye will grow out again.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

Comfortable artificial Noted
OculIsts, for Instance as Graft, Arit and
Stellwag Carton, recommend either
blue or bluish-gray smoke colored
glasses as protection for weak eyes
against the unpleasant effect of red,
orange and yellow light. On the same
principle the trying reddish-yellow
light of candles, lamps, and gas on
normal eyes as well as weak ones can
be pleasantly modified by the use of
blue chimneys or globes, or at least of
shades for the reflection of the light,
colored light ultramarine blue. A
remarkably near near approach to a
light as agreeable as daylight is said
to be produced by a petroleum lamp
with a round wick and a light bIue
chimney of twice the usual length, the
the latter causing so great a draught
that the petroleum burns with nearly
pure white flame.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

BATENTEES AND INVENTORS should
read advertisement of Edison Bros. in
another column.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
:. s.Hear, Tor / " III speak OF excellent
things.,,

s.Hear, for I will speak OF excellent
things.'
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with Ponds Extract of Witch Hazel reC.
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

A Coon STYLE FOR RoosTs.-One of
the best modes for roosts or perches in
hen houses for Asiatics is that adopted
by an extensive breeder of Brahmas and
Cochins in Massachusetts, who informs
us that he uses common Jwo-inch
square spruce rails for this purpose,
rounded on the top side, and spiked to
a frame of similar strips on end and
middle, in shape like a gridiron. This
frame of roosts has three legs, say two
feet, in front, and the back is fastened,
at same height, TO the wall with strong
iron strap hinges. The roosts are laid
about twenty inches apart on the level.
In this form the whole can be raised
and hooked up to the house ceiling in
the daytime out of the way. At even
ing it is let down, and stands upon the
floor. The fowls are thus disposed Of
at night without sitting over each other,
and prevented from soiling those that
may (by the slanting style of roosts) be
at rest beneath the others.
For the larger varieties this is an ex-
cellent plan, since they ascend or de-
sccnd easily, and are not endangered
in coming down, as they often are from
roosts ranged too high up in our
houses; while, at the same time. III
contracted buildings the roosts may
always be kept cleaned readily, and By
being raised afford more open space in
side the buildings during the daytime.
If smaller breeds are in question we
should not favor the slantiDg style, but
make the gridirOD shaped frame, so that
all the perches will be On the level
when in use; for the more active breeds
will struggle for the possession OF the
higher perches and push each other of
and mix up things generally. The
heavier and more sluggish breeds, how
ever, will lazily ascend from one perch
to another, and ordinarily make little
trouble.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

PARKER HOUSE RoLLs.-At night take
two quarts of flour, rub in three table
spOonfuls of lard; make hole in the
middle and put in one pint of cold
boiled milk one-half cup of yeast, three
tablespOOnfuls of sugar, one egg, and
one teaspoOnful of salt; let il stand
until morning without mixing then mix
and let it stand until noon; then roll
out, cut into rolls, let them get very
light; then bake in a quick oven.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
A Case In EOnesdal Pm.

| was attacked with the liver COM
plant, which apparently brought me
TO the brink of the grave. During my
sickness | was attended by three ply
sicians in our place, but received no
help. / also tried the various remedies
recommended for such complaints, but
they afforded me no relief. As a last
resort, j was persuaded to try DR.
WIsTARs BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY,
and by using four bottles l was restored
TO better health than have enjoyed for
ten years. This statement may be re
lied upon as strictly true.
BETSY PERRIN.
The above certificate was given in the
presence of DIR. A. Strong, of Homes
dale, who is well known in the vicinity
as a successful practitioner.
90 cents and 81 a bottle. Sold by all
druggists. 46
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

"WAs Mr.. CHIssELM a very popular
man when he lived in your town ~ in
qured busybOdy of a friend. II
should think lie was" replied the gen.
tieman, las many persons endeavOred
to prevent his leaving; and several of
them, including the oherifl7s deputy,
followed him some distance"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

THE PERsIMMoN.-This tree is found
on nearly every variety of soil, but ap-
pears to fruit better on low, damp, cal
careous soils. It is rapid grower, and
we have seen it doing very well on Old,
wOrn-out fields. Ii is symmetrical in
shape, has beautiful green, glossy leaves; :;
ii is seldom that both useful and orna-
mental are more happily blended. The
wood for fuel is equal to oak, ash or
hickory, leaving rich ash. The tim
Der is fine-grained, tough and firm;
very hard and solid when seasoned, and
superior for many mechanical purposes.
The fruit appears to be a superior food
for hogs; indeed. we know of no fruit
which could be cultivated to more ad-
vantage for the hog, which should be an
item OF no ordinary Importance at this
time.
The fruit makes delicious beer. also
a very good brandy when distilled 1t
is also used in making puddings and
custards; and last. but not least by a
good deal, the seeds, when properly
dried, parched and ground, make a sub
stitute for coffee, which. for fragrance,
aroma, etc., are unsurpassed by the
regular old Java.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

Automatic fire eScdpes.-A new and
ingenious form of automatic fire es-
cape-which can be used for the pur-
pose of an elevator consists of two
quadrilateral trunks or tubes, placed
side by side, in which are two plat
forms attached together by rope
which passes over two pulleys at the
top of the apparatus, these platforms
working up and down alternately
within the tubes, from top to bottom,
in an easy and effective as well as read
ily controlled movement.
The tubes tbus employed are made
OF wood or metal, are air tight and are
regulated by valves at the base. A
person taking his place on the platform
is gently carried to the bottom, the
valves regulating the speed of the des-
cent. The pla, form rests wholly on
the compressed air within the tube, the
air acting as u cushion the passenger
Is landed aG the bottom without the
slightest irr or conclusion, and in as
short time as lac may desire-the dis
tance of your four stories being easily
accomplished in four or five seconds.
These tubes can be made of any size.
adapted to depOpulate building con
tanning hundreds of people with in
credible rapidity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

JOINING the Shakers-Getting the
ague.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

Origin and rGrietieS Of COrGL-Coral
Is OF a stony or calcareOus formation,
being In fact the agglOmerated shells
or framework of creatures invisible to
to the unaided eye, and it is found in
almost every degree of latitude and
longitude. 1t is intinitiyely variable
in its forms and characteristics. Lin
n9us, the great Swedish naturalist,
assigned 1t place Intermediary be-
tween the animal and vegetable king
dOms. 1t was not until the sixteenth
century that it came to be regarded in
any other light than that of a marine
plant, devoid of all animal life. 1t is
known to produce eggs and to give
birth to living young, and it is also
propagated 10y a process of budding
analogous TO that seen in plants.
These characteristics have been dis
covered solely through the aid of the
microscope, and are the results of mod
ern investigation. Owing to its in
finite variety of form and dimension,
as well as its method of propagation,
and its vast constructive capacity, as
displayed in the formation of reefs,
islands and even continents, this min
ute organism has ever possessed for
those of scientific cast of mind an in
terest of the most absorbing nature.
Volumes have been written on this
subject alone,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

UaUe POtcer.- Additional expert
ments made in England with Mr..
Towers machine for obtaining motive
power from ship among the waves,
says the Iron Age, have attracted re-
newed interest in the invention, and
also in the general scientific question
which it undertakes to solve. The
machine has at least the merit of SIM
plicity, consisting in principle of a
weight supported on a spring so that
it can oscillate on the spring through
a considerable range in vertical line.
The scale of the spring, and, cOnse-
quently. the natural period of Oscilla-
ton can be varied at Will. When it is
so adjusted that it synchroniZes with
the waves, the oscillations become
very violent, and large amount of
power can he obtained from them.
In practice the springs are highly COM
pressed air, pressing on the rims of
hydro pneumatic cylinders, and the
arrangement Is such that the vessel
containing the compressed air forms
the moving weight. The inventor has
designed q machine for working an
auxiliary propeller of a sailing ship
of 1,S00 tons displacement. The NOV
ing weight in this case is 200 tons, and
it is shown 10y calculation that it
would give about 30 horse power in
the long swell met with III the tropical
calms, 260-hOrse power in the average
ocean waves, and more than G0O-horse
power in a heavy head sea. The space
occupied by the machine is represented
as comparing fayorably with a steam
engine of the same power.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
DONESTI

A ScHooLBoY's REVENGE. = Judge
Pitman's boy Bill acquired learning IN
a log sehoolhouse. AT one place the
plaster between the logs Is broken
away, and through this aperture Bili
endeayored 10 escape feet foremost dur
ing school hours one day last summer.
Unfortunately, he stuck fast when hali
way through, and he could neither run
nor retreat. When the attention OF
Mr.. Shines, the teacher, was directed to
the culprit, Mr.. Shines proceeded 10 the
exterior to the edifice, and embraced
the opportunity afforded by Williams
position TO hammer him with a sbingle.
Then young Mr.. Pitman was pulled out
and plunged into sums in vulgar frac-
tions.
Near the schoOlhouse there is a mill
race, at the end of which there Is
sluice-gate. Immediately below the
gate there is huge deep tank, which
carries the water to the under-shot
wheel. The inside of the tank is green
and Shiny, and when the water is drawn
carefully out of it a great many fish can
often be found lying on the bottom.
The tank is fifteen feet deep. A few
days after the logging Bill happened to
pass the tank and looked in. He saw
Mr.. Shines at the bottom, picking up
fish and putting them into bag. Will
liam felt that the hour of vengeance had
struck. He turned the handle of the
sluice-gate, and in less than a minute
that jolly old pedagogue was ilounder-
ing III six feet of water, trying in vain
to Chamber up the Shiny sides OF the
tank. When ne saw young Pitman he
shrieked to him for help. But Bill,
with fiendish cOolness, said, mo, sir ;
you've got TO tread water till you
promise never TO lick ME again" Then
Shines solemnly pledged himself never
to strike another blow at him, and Bill
let the water from the tank, and helped
Shines out. That night when Bill got
home he found Shines there cOnversing
with the judge, and five minutes later
the judge was fondling William with a
trunk strap, while Shines sat by and
smiled. William has since expressed
the opinion cOniidentially that Shines is
perfidious scOundrel.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

The IjRbTOmeter.- DIR. Forfeit re
marks that most pTactiOners must
have experienced the difficulty in map
ping cut organs accurately 10y percus-
sion in cases accompanied by pain, or
where the necessary examination
might imperil the patient. "he idea
occurred to him of substituting for the
rougher method of percussion the
auscultation of musical vibration, and
for this purpose he employs first an
ordinary ditferential stethoscOpe, with
one oblong chest-plece TO fit into the
intercoStal spaces, the whole made
sufficiently sGtf to be held tn stu by
the mere pressure of the head; and
secondly, Il piece of flexible steel,
bent as bow. and held tense by cat
gut. The mode of working is as fol-
lows; Place the stethOscope over the
organ to be eXamined-say the liver:
then take the bow in the left hand,
and placing it with either of its ex-
tr6miUies firmly npon the skin over or
against the organ, begin to twang the
the catgut with the right hand, NOV
ing the instrument toward the organ
under examination. The rationale is
that solids give a clear musical note,
and cavities and organs containing air
give dull note. The instrument can
be applied in the detection of indura-
tons, ah-cesses and cavities, and it
enables various organs, as the kidney,
spleen, liver and heart, with its cavi-
ties. to be accurately marked out
Medical Times and Gd-ette.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

Oh FASHIONABLE CARDS with name 10 cts.
cO PePpards Prn;ery, Basking Ridge, - 1t
, 1877-12-22
c NAL.
J NJ A / G A.

1t is asserted in the Cleaner that he cattle
pens of this island are being drained to supply
the Cuban Market, where beef has reached
the high price of SO cents a pound. On the
strength of this, and on the presumption that
beef will rise in Jamaica itself from IL to
Is cents a pound and perhaps higher, the
Cleaner thinks that the Governor ought to
prohibit the expectation Of cattle from the
colony. In these days of free trade We think
a governor would be very unlikely to do any
thing of this sort. unless there was any appre.
hension of a famine.
Beef at SO cents a pound ought to be fine
thing. Better than ST. Croix beef we doubt
not it Is, for that article with us is generally
the FISH of some animal too young to have
any decided favour. or of some venerable OK
that, having carried many a h~oRshead of sugar
to town in bis life. has been fattened Up in
the ranges III his old days till he passed into
the butchers hands. Our mutton is something
to boast Of, probably better than Demerara
mutton, which by the bye. is sold for the
enormous price of 60 cents a pound. but our
beef-well, it is st. CrOiS beef. and that 10 all
We can say about 1t.
The Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Society
issues besides Life Policies. certain term
policies" on the following plan:
"a person assuring from 1 to 7 years for
, 1877-12-22
REASONS FOR PEACE.
From the Daily News }

Even to the most ordinary observer it
must be evident that the Turkish Govern
ment is in great straits as we'll for men as
for money. 1t has been driven into a fear
full financial expenditure for war material,
which it never used so Iavisily In any OF
its former wars, and at the same time it's
system Of military service is striking at
the root of the prosperity of the country
and drying up the sources Of taxation. The
instances related of the impecunlosity OF
the Treasury are such as one might expect
to occur in the experience of some African
chief rather than in that of q GOVERNMENT
which, geographically at least, is European.
Every form Of ingenuity by which rulers
have at various times appropriated the
property of their subjects has been tried
in Turkey, and still there is the direst want
of money wherewith to buy of the foreign
er those necessaries of war which cannot
be produced at home. The supply OF
men, moreover, is beginning to fail.
Months ago the Sultan called up the grey
boards, and many such were taken prison.
ers at Dubnik and Teliche /; now the
striplings are summoned to the standard
of the Prophet. They will obey the CALI
and the battalions at Orkhauie and in the
Shipha Pass will be replenished ; but at
Constantincple the significance of all this
must be understood. These continued
drafts. each one more dific1lt to obtain,
and of less value when obtained than that
which preceded it, must have an end. and
even during the process each yields soldiers
of decreasing efficiency on the battlefield.
This is why we hear Of . peace party ct
Constsntiuople, which feels, indeed, that
, 1877-12-22

&l00, at the age of 40 pays &c les. ed. per
year. Should he die within the term, the
money is paid to his executors, administrators
or assigns; but if he o~utlives, he gets nothing,
the Society gaining the premium for the risk
incurred"
A public meeting was held for the purpose
of promoting a more extensive emigration from
India to Jamaica. His Honour the Custos,
in OF ening the meeting. after stating that
j! was held in order to organize "some definite
weIl.considered scheme of settlement aad
colonization" made the following remarks
II consider this one of the most important
meetings that has ever been convened, and l
say, so because l believe | express the opinion
of all present that if this colony is to resume
Its old position, it can only do SO by an increase
in the population. At present it is an admitted
fact that the labouring population who
are willing to work are scarcely sufficient for
such a purpose. Therefore it is utterly i'm
possible that any proposition for the produce
or exports of any other products than we hav
can be entertained. Now. We all know that
this island is capable of producing other things
besides sugar and coffee. But l think it is iD
the experience of all present that those who
have attempted to bring forward a more
extensive production have met with the diff
Guilty ofthe labour question"
He went on to show that the starving mil.
lions of India would be benefited by having
a continuous outflow to an under populated place,
and stated that the question not only concerned
planters, but merchants also, in the increase
Of trade and general prosperity that would result
from an increase of population.
In dealing with the question of the cost of
the general aud female penitentiarieS, the
Cleaner shows how most prisoners, of the class
from which %conviots are principally drawn
would look rather with favour than otherwise
upon the prospect depending some time within
penitentiaries so conducted as the Jamaica
ones.
These people look upon a If g In the peui-
tertiary as something a~ffording them benefits and
comforts to which they are unused, and which
they cannot attain outside by any means or
effort of their OWL. The thing, then, that they
ought to CT, besides, which, too, they do not get
outside the penitentiary, and W hich they do not
like, however, is continuous, very hard work.
1t must be work of a nature to impress itself
upon the minds and nature of the criminals un-
dergoing punishment.
The people must demand a thorough r etorm-
alton ia The system at present pursued 10 these
establishments aud they must not cease to
agitate he matter until justice is done them.
What We want il that these chief prisons in
the Island should be, while they tend also to
reform them, a terror to the criminal class of
the country and not what they are nov, a very
rogue and vagabond's Para disc"