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FuIvermacher's Electric
Belts and Bands.

These conditions they will cure, while drugs
will not; and we offer the most convincing
testimony direct from the afflicted the~r
selves who have been restored to
Health, Strength, and Enere,
after drugging in vain for months and years
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON THE
~ 10th of July, 1872, Rich rd Griffiths was duly
appointed Administrator de bonis non, with the
will annexed, of Edward W. Evans deceased. All
persons having claims against said estate will pre-
sent them to the undersigned withour delay.
RICHARD GRIFFITHS,
Administrator de bonis non, &C., of Edward w.
Evans, deceased. de19-3tTh
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Learned Physicians and Scr
entific Men

in Europe and this country. We also DEM
onstrate why relief and cure result from
their use after every other plan Of trestmeaa
has failed. Reader,
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LEGAL.

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT THII
~ undersigned has been duly appointed and
qualified as Administrator of the estate of August
Horst. deceased. Creditors are requested TO Pee
sent their claims duly authenticated.
FRANK HORST, Administrator.
G. TAFEL, Attorney.
CINCINNATI, December 18th, 1873. de19,3tTh.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
SCIENTIFIC.

4 ,oriter in the Journal OF Science warns
SPECTATORS on the population question
that they must henceforth case to regard
war as one of their "positiye cheeks. -
Gunpowder contains on an average rs
per cent. salpetre or nitrate of potash.
equivalent to l0.2 per cent. of combined
or available nitrogen. OF this lO.2 Der
cent, 9.9S per cent. or practically the
whole, escapes in the form of free nitro
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
The Boy Had Him.

On a street Car recently the actions of
one of the passengers attracted the at
tention of a boy about IL years of age.
The man first blew one side of his nose
and then the other. Then he took a
handkerchief from one pocket and
wiped the right hand side of his nose,
and deliberately put that away and
pulled out another and wiped the left
hand side. The action pleased the boy
immensely, and he watched every
movement of the man, who next took
from his right hand pocket stick OF
gum, put 1t in the right hand side OF
his mouth, and then served the left side
the same way. He chewed on the right
then on the left, and the boys eyes
stood out like pillows in broken win.
dow. The man soon got rid of the gum
and took two chews of tobacco from
two separate boxes, and noticing how
closely the boy was watching him,
said:
"Boy, don't you know me?"
"No, SIR" replied the boy, "but I'll
bet you my velocipede agin a cent that
You can't drink out of Two jugs at
once"
The man handed the half of an orange
out Of one pocket and the other half out
of another pocket, and rendered them to
the boy as token Of admiration.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
Old and Curious Patents.

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The first patent issued in the United
States Government was to Samuel Hop
kins, on July 3lst, 1870, for making
pot or pearl ashes. Patents were issued
on modes of making candles, flour, and
meal, later in the same year; and i'm
1871 Francis BARLEY was granted letters
for punches of types" Also in that
year patents were issued for driving
piles for bridges, machines for tbresh-
ing grain, for improvements in distil-
ling, propelling boats by cattle, and
improvements in steam engines. In 1892
was patented a canvas conductor to be
used when houses are on fire, which
may have been the original of the late
patent fire escape. An improved mode
Of turning a spit was patented in 1888;
also a stove of cast iron. A machine
for cutting nails was patented by Josiah
G. Peerson on March 23d, 1894. A new
mode of catching fish, was patented in
1875, since which time innumerable
laws have been enacted to compel peo-
pie to catch them by the old process.
Removing pains by metallic points was
patented in 1196, and the first improve
ment in pianofortes is recorded in the
same year; also stays for removing dis
tortions of the spine. A soap-stone
stove was patented in 1897. Bilious
pills were first patented in 1876, effemi-
nate ropery for spinning rope yarn in
1893, and a washing and wringing ma
chine, the Cavabar, in 1900. Ebenezer
whiting received patent for a cotton
gin on January %, 1901. An improve
ment for manufacturing paper from
husks was patented December SOth, 1903.
and an apple paper in 1904. A patent
for finding salt water and metals was
granted in 1868. In 1904 patent was
issued for an improvement i'm the bed
stead, SO constructed that it may be
taken down and removed by one person
in case of fire or on other occasions
with much ease ard expedition. In 1904
the Government felt the value Of an
improvement In gallows, or suspenders
for breeches, pantaloons, or trowsers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

Every nation has its own opinions
and customs concerning beds, and their
fitness for the comfortable repose of the
occupants very much depends upon
that occupants idea of what constitutes
comfort. A Persian ambassador was
once shown into a bedroom, where a
grand canopied state bed had been pre-
pared for him. He supposed it was a
throne in his audience chamber, re-
ceived his visitors seated on it, and re-
tired to sleep on the carpet in the corner
of the room-in accordance with the
Eastern custom. In taking furnished
house in Russia, on enquiring Tor the
servants bedrooms and beds, it comes
out that the Russian servants are in the
habit of lying anywhere-in the passage
on the floors, on the mats at the ROOM
ing-rooms-generally as near as pos
sible to the stoves in the winter season.
Beds have been stuffed with all sorts of
commodities; feathers, wool, horsehair, +,
what is called flock, which is an
omnium gatherum of all sorts of pro-
ductions, shavings, hay, straw, and i'm
the south of Europe with the soft and
elastic dried leaves of maize; dried sea-
weed has also been used, but it is apt to
become moist with use, and is therefore
not desirable. In one of the seasons
ubap hans uara ahnndant in ENGLAND
it is related of a farmer, that he sold the
feathers from all the beds in the house
and replaced them with hops. In an
other year or two when the hops failed,
and the price became very high, the
same hops were disinterred from their
beds, and fetched a considerable sum,
far more than sufficient to replace the
former feathers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
Spanish Stories.

Some of the old Spanish tales are
cleverly told. A certain knave once
saw a parson putting up money in his
pouch ana follow ed afar off. The par
son stopped to talk with friend near
the shop OF an embroiderer who had a
chasuble hanging up before the door.
Into this shop entered the knave aud
bartered for the raiment, but wished
before paying to see how it would look
on priest, Just then in the nick of
time. the parson having parted with
his friend. came by
Reverend SIR" qIOth the rogue,
''be good enough to enter and try on
this garment"
The parson, with his purse hanging
to his girdle, entered, and with much
charity put on the chasuble. Taking
advantage of favorable moment, the
knave seized the purse and ran down
the street. followed closely by the
priest. After him ran the embrOider-
er, well assured that all was but an ar
tifice to rob him of the raiment. The
fat ecclesiastic was soon caught by the
EN- broiderer, but while the merchant
was examining him As TO his compiled
ty the thief escaped.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
surest Tranquiliner of the Nerves,

The surest tranquilizer OF The nerves is
medicine which remedies their supersensltlve-
ness by invigorating them Over-tension OF
the nerves always weakens them What they
need. tnen. is q tonic, not 8 sedative- The
latter is only useful when there is intense
mental excitement and an immediate necessity
exists for producing quietude OF the BRAIN
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters restores tranquil
ity Of the nerves by endowing them with the
vigor requisite to bear. without being Jared
or DISTURBED unhealthfully. the ordinary i'm
pressions produced through the media Of
sight, hearing and reflection Nay, it does
more than thls-it enables them to sustain
degree of tension from mental application
which they would be totally unable to endure
with ut its assistance. Such at least is the
irresistible conclusion to be drawn from the
testimony OF business and professional men,
literateurs, clergymen and Others who have
tested the fortifying and reparatiye influence
of this celebrated tonic and nervine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

LAND MEAsUREMENT.-In order that
the farmer should keep an account
with his field, it is first necessary that
he should ascertain its area. If he pro-
vides himself with straight, stiff pole,
one rod long and notched into yards,
he will be able to ascertain the area as
follows: If the sides of the field are
sll parallel, multiply its length in rods
by its breadth in rods and divide by $50
the quotient will be the number of
acres in the field. Second, if the field
is triangular in shape multiply the
longest sides in rods by the greatest
width in rods and divide half the pro-
duet by 100, and you will get the area
in acres. Third, when the sides of the
area of the fields are irregular and un-
equal ones, run a line from one extreme
corner TO the other. and then find the
area of the two triangles as above, and
add them together. This will give you
the number of acres in the whole field.
Fields. no matter how irregular, may
be measured in this way by dividing
them into triangles.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

Diring-The fun of good dive is
fun indeed. l have often" fetched bot
tom" at fifteen feet, and brought up a
big stone to prove to my cOmrads that
| had been" clean down." But once
in water like crystal. in the Upper
Lakes, where the pebbles could be seen
at the bottom, | came rushing up with
my head cracking, and saw an old fell
low grinning at me. hung breathless
to a wharf-pile, and he casually in
formed me that the water was twenty
six feet deep. thar or tharabOuts.p
Jumping from height isa doubtful
job. Recollect that i'll everything con-
nected with swimming you are top
heavy, and that water is sincOmpressible.
If you get off your balance while drop
ping. and fall on your side, either You
will be drowned or your mother will
be drowned or in the neighborhoOd. |
have painful recOliections on that sub
ject. Two days in bed and maternal
lecture of the same length were too
much to pay for that dizzy, sidewise
rush through the air. IL | had taken my
leaden head for a plummet, should
have been spared the blisters on my
body, / ought to have dived.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
Travelling in JaPs.-

A long ride on japanese pack horse
is an epoch in the life of any traveller.
As the animals are shod with straw and
as the roads are very rough, they never
attempt anything beyond walk, even
with the most violent inducement. The
traveller is perched high up in a hard
pillion, in a sort of valley, the sides
of which are composed of his luggage,
spare hats, shoes, girths and straps
rolled into bundles; his legs are
chin and the sensation is like that OF
being on the back of a camel. Thus
placed he must perform his journey, or
as an alternative he may be driven to
the Kago or litter. This may either be
basket slung on a pole, or a regular
box with doors and sliding shutters.
The litters of men of rank, such as once
were frequent enough in the streets of
Yeddo, but which have gone the way
Of so many remnants of old Japan, were
often small rooms gorgeously decora-
ted and painted, but the litters which
the ordinary traveller must use are of
the basket type, and as provocants of
suffering and misery, are second only
10 the pack horse. To the native,
whose normal position when not stand
or sleeping is squatting on the heels of
his feet, a confinement of several hours
i'm a kagO, with scarcely a change of
position, it is no hardship, but to the
European the agony of sitting cramped
up in the space of an armchair, with
legs eurled up, tucked in or huddled
together, for an indefinite period, must
be actually suffered to be appreciated.
Temporary relief may be obtained by
sitting with the legs hanging ever the
sides, but in this case they either Craze
the ground or come in contact with the
huge bolders with which the road is
Uttered, by stretching them out in
front, when they against the coolie, or
by stopping altogether and walking,
which means loss of time, but which is
the only efficacious method of escaping
the pains of cramp. The kagois, how
ever, much more rapid than the pack
horse. and far more economical. The
coolies are well trained, sure footed,
stalwart fellows as rule, four to lit
ter covering easily their five or six
miles an hour, and resting but rarely.
The motion, however, is very unpleas-
ant. and is apt, like that of a swing, to
make the unaccustomed traveller feel
sick.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

He came down on the train from New
Ulm on last Monday morning. He was
large man and man of immense I'M
portance in his own estimation. Atthe
depot he met brother drummer and
stopped to talk with him-the bus man
was ready to start and is obliged to hurry
to reach the st. Paul train-der drum
mer tells bus man to hold on until his
time and patience are exhausted, and
then drives on. Der drummer halls
him, but he won't stop any more.
Drummer gets mad and offers the driv-
er of the express wagon half dollar
TO deliver him down. All right he
feels satisfied to pay express man
double fare to beat the old man on the
bus.
Noon arrives-drummer wants to go
to the Sioux City depot to take O'Clock
train-he won't patronize bus man, so
he hires express wagon to haul him over
and pays double fare again to "beat the
old man." At the depot he meets sew
eral other drummers. Our sheriff was
there, and he wears a blue ribbon.
Der drummer made fun of the blue rib
bon business, and the sheriff. knowing
all about the double fare transaction,
gently drew him out. He told the
whole story, winding up with a few
cuss words about the old man he had
beaten out of two fares. Then the
sheriff suggested that may be he didn't
know that the 'old man" owned both
the bus and the express wagon. Der
drummer was dumbfounjed, and a
whoop went up from the other drum
mers, Der big drummer had paid two
double fares right into the pocket of
the bus man to beat him, and all the
other drummers will know it and won't
fail to remind him Of it occasionally.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

The Ner Process Of Flour Making
Almost everybody knows of -four, but
not every one understands what it
is. Stripped of teehnicalities, this is
perhaps about the story or its manufac-
ture. The best flour used TO be made OF
winter wheat. Spring wheat yielded
either much less in quantity, or else so
much of the bran got into the flour in
its manufacture that It's color was in
tolerably dark. The wheat would be
ground and then bolted. In the refuse
the bran and middlings-would be in
cluded large proportion of the weight
of the spring wheat, and this would
sell more particularly for feed for
horses. Now the best of flour, and the
most expensive, is made of this very
refuse OF the old-fashiOned process. Ii
all came out of the discovery of a way
to draw out the bran. Under the new
process the wheat is ground about as
before. The first result is an ordinary
flour sold for expectation. Then the
remainder is taken and put upon great
horizontal sieves, and, while agitation
is going on there, an ingenious system
of fdraughts, rushing up through, carries
of the bran. What is left is the gluti-
nous portion of the wheat, the most
productive, and out of this, purified
now by the drawing off of the bran, We
get our new process flour.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

The Grdmme magneto-electric machine
has now for a considerable time past
been employed for supplying light at
the house OF Parliament in London, and
an idea of its power may be gathered
from the fact, as stated, that it is worked
by steam engine at distance of some
$50 feet from the point at which the
light is produced, the current being
conducted rhither by copper wires one
sixth of an inch in diameter. The
magnets in the machine are arranged
upon three massive rectangular blocks,
and make 3S9 revolutions per minute,
at an expense of two and .wo-thirds
horse power, and give light equal to
over 1000 English standard candles. 1t
is doubtless the most perfect arrange
ment OF the kind yet attained.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

The great knots, wens or excrescences
known as loupes, found on the walnut,
maple, and oak, and much priced for
of trade in the mountains separating the
Caspian provinces from Persia. They
are placed in large vessel and steamed
for days, until from an adamatine hard
ness they become as soft as cheese.
They are then sliced into thin sheets by
machinery. They harden again by ex-
posure and are sold at prices CORES,
ponding with their size and beauty.
Some louPes have brought in Paris as
high as $4,000.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

Progress the Great TuRRel.-A recent
report OF the inspector of the great ST.
Gothard tunnel through the Alps states
that the irregular character of the
formations pierced by the tunnel has
entirely ceased, and the at work is now
progressing through uniformly regular
strata. On the south side the boring
progresses at the rate of 10 feet daily
through gneiss. The rate is somewhat
less on the north side, where the tunnel
is not yet out Of serpentine. The thick
ness of this stratum of serpentfne now
being pierced is already double that
estimated by geologists from the sur
face indications.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
EDjoy Life.

What a truly beautiful world we live in !.
Nature gives US grandeur of mountains. glens
and oceans, and thousands of means for en-
joyment. We can desire no better when IN
perfect health: but how often do the majority
of people feel like giving 1t up dist eartened-
and worried out with disease,
when there is no occasion for this feeling, as
every sufferer can easily obtain satisfactory
proof that Green's August Flower will make
them az free from disease as when born
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direct
cause of seveDty-five Der cent of such mala-
dies as Bllousness, Indigestion, Sick Head
ache, Costiveness. Nervous Prostration, Dizzi-
ness of the Head, Palpitstion OF the Heart
and other distressing symptoms Three doses
of August Flower will prove Its wonderful
effect. Sample bottles. 10 cents Try IL
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

LANES HEAD.-Procure the head pre-
pared and the brains, cover in water
and boil gently until the flesh separates
from the bone; cut in small pieces,
place in saucepan with half pint of
any good broth, a tablespoonful of curry
powder, dessertspoonful of curry
paste, one onion chopped fine, little
butter; stew gently half an hour. Put
the brains into a saucepan of boiling
water, let simmer five minutes, skim
out and mince fine; add handful of
bread crumbs, little salt, white pepper
and chopped parsley; mix together
with an egg and form into small round
balls; dip in egg and cracker or bread
crumbs and fry nice brown, placing
around the curry when dished.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

To INITIATE GROUND GLAss.-Put a
piece of putty in muslin. twist the
fabrics tight, and tie it into the shape
of pad; well clean the glass first, and
then apply the putty by dabbing it
equally all over the glass. The putty
will exude sufficiently through the
muslin to render it Opaque. Let it dry
hard and then varnish. Ii pattern is
required, cut it out on paper as stencil,
and fix it on the glass before applying
the putty, then proceed as above; re-
move the stencil when finished. Ii
there should be any objection to the ex-
istence of the clear spaces, cover with
slightly Opaque varnish.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

RABBITS AND FRUIT TREEs.-A corre-
spOndent SAYS: 81 have used various
remedies to prevent rabbits gnawing
fruit trees, and the best is the follow
ing: Take soft soap and sulphur-not
particular as to proportions, so there is
enough soap to incorporate the sulphur,
so that every part of the mass will
readily adhere TO the trees. This does
not so readily wash off as soap alone,
and the sulphur is probably more re-
pulsive than any other cheap and con-
venient article. Grease, of course, in
jures trees, and blood, hog or other
livers and entrails, are not always at
hand.'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

IL is announced that Mr.. Rassam has
found at Nineveh, imbedded in a wall
of the palace of Assur Bani-Palo, an
round clay cylinder, divided into ten
compartments, and containing nearly
one thousand three hundred lines OF
fine inscription. What tn Q inscriptiO
means has yet TO be determined
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31

Wonderful Spiders Web.-BOys and
girls too, may be interested To know
something about the spider's'web. They
will be instructed if they read the
following, taken from the World of
Wonders "Acress the sunny paths
of Ceylon, where the forest meets the
open country, and which constitute the
bridleroads of the island, an enormous
spider stretches its web at the height
of from four to eight feet from the
ground. The coIdage of these webs
is fastened on either side To projecting
shoots of trees or shrubs. and is so
strong as to hurt the travelers's face
and even lift OFF his hat, if he Is so un-
lucky as not to see the line. The nest
in the centre is sometimes as large as
mans head, and is continually growing
larger, as it is formed of successive lay
ers of the webs rolled over each other,
sheet after sheet, into a ball. These
successive envelopes contain the limbs
and wings of insects of all descriptions,
which have been the prey of the spider
and his family, who occupy the den
formed in their midst. There seems to
be no doubt that the spider casts the
web loose and rolls it round the nu-
cleus in the center Wien IL becomes
overcharged with carcasses, and then
proceeds to construct a fresh one,
which in its turn is destined to be fol-
ded up with the rest.