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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
The Cucumber Sian.

"Enos Turner, what's all this aboutl'
inquired his honor of man of sixty who
came out with his coat on his arm and the
sweat running down his neck.
Il won't ans ver one darned question:
squeaked the old man as he bumped up
his back.
''Phew. What's TIE matter with youl
That's no way to answer a civil ques-
tion.n
"Well rm mad-bilin' mad, The more
/ think of it the madder l git
''You are charged with disturbing the
peace"
Il sposed there was some internal
charge or other, but I'm going to fight it if
it costs me my hull farm. You see,
brought few early cucumbers to town to
SELL l was in a grocery up here some
where to ask the price, when an old crow
bait of hoss hitched TO a rag wagon
moved up and reached into my wagon
and chawed six dozen cowcumbers into
mootal mush in about ten seconds. If the
owner OF the hoss had bin willin' to settle
like man, there would't have bin, word,
but he declared up and down that he
wouldn't pay one darned cent. Then |
got mad, and the fust thing knew had
that rag man in the ditch and was playing
on him like lapdroller. own right up,
Judge, and I'm sorry there wasn't one or
two more of Them
''If could overlook this on the ground
of your general good character you would
be more careful in the future take III"
''It's my first fight for forty years"
swell don't have any more trouble
''I'I try not to, but cowcumbers art
awful high Jest now, and I'm feeling mad
clear down TO my heels. Good day 'Squar'
l wish I'd brought ye in TWO quarts o1
cherries
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
Painting Fits and Their Causes.

A faintlng fit arises from sudden failure
Of the hearts action. II is met with most
frequently in young adults, especially in
females. Its occurrence is favored By gen.
eral debility or i'll health, and more partic-
ularly by anemia, or poorness of the blood.
1t is very common in young ladies who take
very little outdoor exercise and spend most
of their time on the sofa reading novels.
Want of active occupation powerfully pre-
disposes to fainting. People who are not
very strong are most likely to faint after
some unusual fatigue, or after long absti
nence FROM food. A liability to faintIng
seems most to be hereditary, so common
IS il ir some families Sometimes il is as
sociated with heart diseases, but in the vast
majority of cases 1t is parely functional,
and there is nothing wrong with that organ.
The determining causes of a faint are va
riable in character. The susceptible sub
jects it may be brought on by anv sudden
on the nervous system. This
need not of necessity be painful or unpleas-
ant, for people may faint from excitement
or excess OF JOY. For instance, the sudden
Of the return of some long
lost relative, or Of the unfavorable termi-
nation of protrscted law suit, may be the
exciting cause. The sight of certain ami
mails, such as frog, or black beetle, OF
even mouse, is quite enough to send some
people off, while others faint Immediately
at the sight of blood, and even feel sick
aud faint if they read of an accident in the
papers. We have all heard the story OF
the young preacher who tainted on having
to read the account of one of the sangulnary
battles in the Old Testament. Medical stu
dents sometimes faint at their first opera
tion. Such a trivial accident as pricking
the finger will make some people sick and
faint
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
Chemicals in Philadelphia.

One of the great industries which dis
tinguish the city and constitute the basis of
its prosperity is the manufacture Of chemi-
Gals, or of articles for the production of
which chemical processes are necessary.
Many of these take the form of drugs and
medicines for the wholesale trade, not in
cludIng specifics. Others are acids, alkalies
and chemical agents used in other manu-
facturers. White lead and chemical paints
are also included. The line OF distinction
is not easy to define to the general reader,
though well recognized in the trade, and it
does no. include the body of the products
known as dyes, paints and medicines, al
though closely related to them. As so de-
fined, the chemical manufacture in Phila-
delphla includes about thirty establish
ments, whose annual product has risen
from Sc, l52, $50 in 1870 to $40, 900, 900 in
1875 and Sl2, 900, 900 in 1877, and. as near
ly as now may be calculated, about Sl2, 900
900 in value for the year just closed They
give employment to about 1000 persons
relatively small number for the values pro-
duced-and have attained a position or su-
premacy IN their respective departments
which renders them reasonably secure, The
drug and medicinal products are tine
largest, eight or ten establishments produc-
ing IS, 600, 600 in value oil quinine, NOR
phia, preparations of iodine, bromine, etc,
with other standard pharmaceutical pre-
parations. These are now the basis and
body of applied pharmacy In this country,
and are likely TO increase even more rapid
ly in the future. On the side of standard
medicines used as specifics almost as much
more would be added, and the classifica-
tions would be entirely appropriate as a
manufacture. The drug and chemical
works insist on the distinction, however,
and in a calculation of total of Si2, ,000,-
900 production they are not included.
They would reach So, 000, 900 at least, and
under the general name of proprietary
medicines, footed total of IS, 400, los in
1870
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11

A certain gentlemanrequinngl legal assist
ance had been recommended to one OF
two brothers, but had forgotten the Chris
tian name of him he sought, 50 he called at
the office of the one first found and asked
for Mr.. Podger.
THAT is my name, sir"
.'But there are two of you Of that name
here in town.
''Yes."
'sWell. wish to consult the Mr.. Podger
excuse me tor the allusion-who wears a
wig"
ave both wear wigs, sir
''Well, the man | seek WAS divorced from
his wife not long ago"
'sThere, you hit us both again, sir"
s'The man TO whom was recommended
has recently been accused of forgery, though
trust unjustly.
'sThere we are again, my dear sir. We
have both had that gentle inslnuation laid
at our doors
s'Well, upon my word, you two brothers
bear striking resemblance. But | guess
have it now. The one am after is in the
habit of occasionally drinking 10 excess
sometimes TO intoxication-"
My dear man, that little viceis unfortu-
nately characteristic of the pair of US and |
doubt if our best friends could tell you
which was the worst
swell, you are matched pair certainly.
But tell me, continued the visitor, (which
of the twain it was that took the poor debt
cr's oath few months ago."
'Ha, ha, we were both IN that muddle.
/ was on Bob's paper ana he was on mine, :"
''In mercy's namela cried the appli.
cant, desperately. "Will you tell me which
of the two Is the most sensible mani"
"Ah, there you touch bottom, my friend.
Poor Bob, / can't stretch the truth, even
to serve brother. II you want the more
sensible one Of the two ! suppose must
acknowledge the corn Pm the man"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
TreadiRg the OLD Path.

The morning sun was dancing over the
floor in double shuffles as His Honor fell into
the Detroit station, his face flushed, his haIr
wet and his general look one Of goneness.
''Bijah, did you ever see such scorcher p
he family inquired, as he famed himself
with his hat. .'This ere weather" replied
the old janitor, as he stood his broom in the
coner, sis freezing compared 10 some lex
perienced in Mexico. Why, Judge, I've
seen it so hotin Santa Fe that ink boiled in
the inkstand while l was trying to write q
letter to my mother. l was sunstruck
seven times in one day while driving an ice
wagon" ''Mr. JOY" said His Honor, as
he rose up and moved TO his desk, 81 was
in hopes your late illness would be taken by
you as solemn warning, and am grieved
TO find you still treading the same old
path. s'Wasn't 1 ever in Mexico!' de-
manded the old man as his face grew red.
s'We won't argue the case. 1 am sorry for
YOU" A bootblack behind the stove here
began to grin. Bijah walked over and
seized his hair and gave him lift in the
world and whispered in his ear: ''Boy, !
want you to understand that I've been in
more Msxicos than you've got hairs on your
scalp, and any msregrins around were will
lose you the top of your head.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
Man as a Compound.

The eminent Prof. jaeger regards man as
a threefold being, made up Of body; of
purely physical matter; spirit, or that
which is absolutely immaterial and trans
cendant the soul, or connecting link be-
tween the body and spirit. The soul. ac-
cording to him, Is the seat of the will, the
passions and the emotions, and 1t may be
isolated by experiment. 1t is also easily
perceived by the sense of smell. He en-
deavors 10 trace the phenomena of sympa-
thy and antipathy as between different IN
dividuals, whether brute or human, to the
nature of the ''soul emanation." The want
of harmony In their specific emanation was
the cause of the social chasm between Jews
and Christians, betweed Aryans aud ne
groes, &c. 1t would appear, then, that it
q but universal ooloRnswhich Is needed
to bring peace upon earth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
1brondhjem.

The town has little in itself to attract at
tention. Though founded about the yeal
1000, il has so often been destroyed by IRE
that few traces Of It's antiquity remain.
The streets are wide and regular, and the
houses for the most part built of brick or
stone: thus, the wooden aspect, 50 char
acteristic of Norway and so quaint, is here
found wanting. So far one is a little dis
appointed in Throndhjem. 1t has held an
important place in early Norwegian his
tory. Ones ideas of il have been formed
in imagination at the Impressionable age
when s.Andersen's Tales" are devoured In
implicit faith. The mind, in connection
with it. is imbued with vision of all that
is old and much that is miraculous-irom
d fairy-tale point of view. Therefore,
awakening to the discovery that the ancient
town, with its rich, grand, rolling name,
its tradition of wise men-the most north
ern of the large towns of Europe-would
not be out of place in any nearer, even the
most southern towns of that quarter of the
globe, gives rather rude shock to the feei-
ings, bewilders the imagination, disturbs
the boundary mark between fact and fancy,
and causes a little of the romance attending
this wonderful and beautiful country to
melt awsy. lust as everything Is at present
melting away under the influence OF the
fierce midday sun. We found ourselves
In the market-plsce, large, wide square,
from which the four leading thoroughfares
of Throndhjem open out. 1t was as modern
as ANYTHING you could wish TO see. Inns
morning il was half covered with booths
and stalls. the buyers and sellers not even
clad IN any special costume to render mem
distinctive and picturesque. At the end oi
one of these thuroughfares stood the ca
thedral, the great and special attraction OF
Throndhiem-its glory, as it is that oil
Norway itself, the one solitary piece oi
architecture that it possesses. But only IN
its frs. impression is ThrondhJem dlsap-
nointinp. The cathedral makes up Tor a
great deal. and once visited, memory fast
ems upon this piece of antiquity Tor It's as,
sociation with the ancient capital. anu
acain. though the actual situation OF the
town ia not so picturesque and quaint as
that of Bergen. yet the neighpornood oi
Tnropdbiem is full of beauty, more iuxuri-
ant and fertile than anything we had yet
seen in Norway. 1t is situated at the
mouth of the Md, and during the first tour
centuries of its existence was called MD
sros Throndhjem signifies "The Throne S
Home.n II is here that all the Kings are
.-ownad But at the union OF Sweden
1r;th Norway it ceased to be the capitai,
,ha GOA, of Government, and the royal resi-
dence. So far its glory has departed
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
Il should Think IL Did I"

When a railroad passenger hears the
whistle sounding an alarm it is his first I'm
pulse to look ont OF the window. but this
impulse is always restrained by second
thought, except IN the case Of green ira
velers- Recently an old man and his wife
were passengers on Lake shore train, and
as the SEXTON men were making repairs on
the line in various places the whistle was
sounded pretty often. The old couple were
fully alive to every '-toot," and each time
the old man would stick his head out Of the
window.
docs it mean anything, Samuel ?" ask
ed the wife every time his head came back,
but he could give her no satisfactory ex-
plantations A traveller behind them finally
warned the old man that he ran a risk by
sticking his head out, but at the very next
toOt he was at it again. He wore plug
hat which looked fully twenty years old,
and its loss would be nothing great. Prep
arations were quietly made behind him, and
everything was all ready when the next
whistle sounded.
II wonder what's on the track now ?"
queried the wife, as she moved around
uneasIly.
.I dunno" he replied, II believe we've
run over as many as dozen men since we
left Toledo"
do lookout and see wbatit means, she
continued
Out went his head, his face towards the
engine, and smart rap with cane from
the next window knocked his hat of and
sent it flying into a swamp. He pulled back
with sucn a rush that ne almost went over
bis wife into the aisle.
Gland a stars. but did it mean any
thingi" she cried. as she grasped him,
II should think it did :" he yelled. 'Tt
meant that | was a burned old fool, and
have got to go bare headed all the rest of
this summer,
The hard-hearted conductor refused 10
stop the train aud recover the hat, and at
the fms of q hot discussion the bare-head-
ed victim brought his fist down with shiver-
ing force and exclaimed:
WAL. now, | want you to understand
that if there Is any law in this land this ere
railroad has got 10 move its fence corners
back. 'Sposen, them rails had given me
wipe on the jaw, :"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
WHIP-POOR.WILL.

Up rose the moon DER the towe ring mountain.
sparkled, and danced. in the silvery NIL.
Willie forth from the elm-tree, hard by the
fountain,
Flosted the notes OF Ions whip-poor-win.
SJftly the breath Of the evening allured me
Away from my couch and leaned ON the
sill,
As the calm Of the hour again reassured ma
heard in the distance the lone whip-poor-
will
Sharp as the swirl of willow il sounded
ShsIp on the balm of the ev'ning still;
Back from the mountain the clear echoes
toundsd-
Bounded the wall of the lone whip-poor-
will
Back to my couch as the evening star faded :
Back as the breeze, from the meadows blew
chill,
While the moon from my vision by clouds was
o'er-shsied,
Again broke the plant of the lone whip
poor-win
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
Two Jokers.

On the Michigan Central tram the othe
day was a passenger WHO had lost his right
arm Soon after the train pulled out Of
Detroit, he began talking with those around
HIM in regard to the political candidates,
claiming to have served under both. This
led some one to ask how he lost his arm,
and he replied:
lit was down in the Wilderness. We
were charging the enemy's line. y bullet
struck my arm, crushed the bone, and /
fell unconscious. When / was restored to
Consciousness, | was in the hands of the
Confederates. Indeed soldier was going
through my pockets. When he discovered
that | was alive he was about to bayonet
me, but corporal sprang forward, knocked
the wretch down, and saved my life"
While he was telling this. man with
his left arm gone had risen from his seat
and came nearer, and as the other finished
he bent forward and said:
II am that very corporall l remember
the incident rs if it happened only yester-
day. had you conveyed to an old log
barn over on the right"
'sYes, yes-let US shake hands, let US en-
bracel Thank Heaven that | have found
YOU out. HOW came you ne1c3
~ have been to Detroit to be treated for
cancer. but there is no longer any hope. l
am going home to go to the pOorhouse and
there end my days. haven't shilling or
a friend"
And | am going to the poOrhouse as
we'll" replied the other. Il have consump-
ton, and am penniless. must go and
die among paupers. "
Then they embraced some more and
seemed to weep. One passenger fished up
half dollar and passed his hat, and in five
minutes a collection amounting to $3.50
was divided between them. Everybody
said it was a shame; an old man seemed
willing to adopt them both if they would
90 to Illinois. But they didn't; they got
off at Dearborn, and it was quarter of an
hour after before commercial drummer
dared to make the statement that both
chaps lived in Detroit, both lost their arms
by accident, and that they had played the
same game over and over on every railroad
in the State.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
A summer Voyage on the Pepacton.

This branch Of the Delaware, SO far as /
could Learn, had never before been
descended by white man in boat. Rats
of pine and hemlock timber are run down
on the spring and fall freshets, but of plea
sure seek err in boats appeared TO be the
first, Hence my advent was surprise to
most creatures in the water and out. l sur
prised the cattle in the field, and those
ruminating leg-deep in the water turned
their heals at my approach, swallowed
their unfinished cuds, and scampered off as
if they had seen a spectre, Isurprised the
fish on their spawning beds and feeding
grounds; they scattered, as my shadow
glided down upon them, like chick
ems when a hawk appears. / sur
prised an ancient fisherman seated on a
spot of gravelly beach, with his back up
stream, and leisurely angling in deep,
still eddy, and mumbling to himself. As /
slipped into the circle of his vision, his
under jaw dropped and he was too bewild-
cred TO reply to my salutation for some
moments. As turned bend in the river
| looked back, and saw him Fastening
away with great precipitation. l presume
he had angled there for forty years without
having his privacy thus intruded upon, 1
surprised hawks and herons and kingfsh-
ers | came suddenly upon musk-rats, and
raced with them down the riffs, they hav-
| ing no time to take TO their holes. At one
point, as ] rounded an elbow in the stream
black eagle sprang from the top of dead
tree, and tapped hurriedly away. A king
bird gave chase, and disappeared for some
moments between the great wings of the
eagle, aud imagined him seated upon his
back delivering his puny blows upon the
the royal bird. interrupted two or three
minks fishing and hunting along the shore.
They would dart under the bank when they
saw me, then presently thrust out their
sharp, weasel-like noses, TO see if the dan
ger was imminent. At one point, in it
tie cove behind the willows, l surprised
some scool-glrls, with skirts amazingly
abbreviated. wading and PLAYING in the
water. And as much surprise as any,
am sure, was that hardworked looking
housewife, when 1 came up from under the
bank IN front of her house, and with pail
in hand appeared at her door and asked for
milk, taking the precaution TO intimate that
had no objection TO the yellow scum that
is supposed TO rise on fresh article of that
kind.
"What kind of milk do you want -
''The best you have. Give ME two quarts
of il" | replied.
"What do yon want to do with it 2" with
an anxious tone, as if | might want TO blow
up something or burn her barns with it.
''Oh, drink it," answered, as if fire.
quentiy put milk to that use.
''Well, suppose | can get you some;"
and she presently reappeared with swim
ming pail, with those little yellow flakes
flost ing about upon it that one likes TO see.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-11
Rats.

1t has always been easy for housewives
who are troubled with rats to poison
them, but the problem has been TO induce
them to die upon the field of honor, 50 to
speak-to wit, the kitchen floor. They
have usually preferred to retire to their
inaccessible retreats in the walls as soon
as they have felt the symptoms OF arseni-
cal poisoning, and the low state OF sanitary
science prevailing ii their communities is
such that poisoned rats are''never properly
buried or incinerated by their associates.
The problem has been how TO kill the rats
without bringing unpleasant odors into the
house. Mrs. Benedict has solved the
difficulty and is entitled to the honor we
give 10 an inventor and beuetactor. She
was engaged, it appears, in the domestic
manufacture Of plaster casts of various
kinds. Complaint having been made of
the fragility of these wares, Mrs. Benedict
began course of experiments with the
hope of giving greater durability to her
casts. One of her devices was to mix
wheaton flour with her pulverized plaster
of Paris, so that the gluten of the flour
might make the paste less brittle. One
evening she had visitors, who rang her
door-bell just as she was sitting the mixed
plaster and -four for the third time by wav
of mixing them Intimately, as the chemists
say. She had already set dish of watar
at hand, intending TO make a cast at once,
and when the door-bell rang she hastily
removed her apron and went to welcome
her guests, leaving her material upon the
kitchen table. The guests stayed until
late bed time, and when they bid her
adleu Mrs. Benedict went TO bed without
returning 10 the kitchen. What happened
in the night was this. A rat, shifting the
odor of -four, made up the leg of the table
10 the top, where he was speedily Joined
by other fOragers-his brethren. The dish
of 1our and plaster was easily reached, and
the rats ate freely and hastily of it, as 1t
is their custom to do. 1t was rather a dry
supper, and water being at hand, each rat
turned from the savOry dish of flour and
plaster 10 slabe his thirst with water
Everybody who has had to do with plaster
of Paris will guess at once what happened.
The water drank first wettsd the plaster IN
the rats stomach, and then, In.techn;cal
phrase, ''set it; ,hal is to say, the plaster
thus made into paste instantly grew hard
in each rats stomach, making cast of all
Its convOlutiOns. The event proved that
with such cast in existence If is impossi-
bic for rat to retreat even across the
kitchen. That morning thirteen of them
lay dead iB a circle around the water dish.
Mrs. Benedict, like wise woman, kept
her secret and made profit Of it. She un-
dertook, for consideration, to clear the
premises Of her neighbors of the pests, and
succeeded IL was not long before the
town was as free of this sort of vermin as
if the piei piper OF Hamelin had travelled
that way. Then Mrs. Benedict advertised
for agents to work up the business through
out the country, selling each the secret for
a fair price