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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
Under The Law.

Under the law, no census man has
right to dispute W, man when she gives
her age. Under the law he can elevate
his eyebrows and exclaim: 'iDid you
everf" when female supposed to be 40
returns her age 81, but he must stop
right there. He may wonder to him
self where on earth the grandmothers
o. this country have suddenly clipped
to, but he mustn't wonder to you.
No census man has a legal right to
ask woman II she Is living with her
frs, second. or third husband, or whe th-
er she quirrels more with the third
than the first. The law supposes every
family to be living in peace and har-
mony, and the United States Govern
ment never takes any notice Of family
row brought on by the hired girl being
kissed in the dark.
Under the law, no census taker has
any right to ask wife how many even
Ings In a week her husband is ont after
IL o'clock, or what is the subject of her
remarks when he slips in at the side
door. This great and glorious govern
ment has always been conducted on the
principle that clubs, lodges and socie-
ties were part of its foundation.
The law does not specify that the
census man shall ask a wife IL she
couldn't have done better by waiting
for a second offer. This information
Is supposed to be chesrfully volunteer
ed, and is marked with big red Ky
TO signify the officials belief that If she
hsdn' t accepted the offer she did she
would have died an old maid.
A baby with the measles counts jus
a. much in law as one galloping around
barefooted in the front door-yard. The
law requires the census-taker to remark
that yonr baby is the handsomest one
in the ward. If he neglects to do so he
should be called back.
For the benefit of wives who do their
own housework and are ashamed to
have il known, blanks are furnished
with a heading which reads; ''ls gen
orally in the habit OF keeping four ser
wants, but has just given her help ava
cation"
The law is also very generous In an
other matter. The censHs-taker may
legally inquire who lives next door.
but it is supposed that most women will
fill out and sign the following: "Family
named Blank; no style about'em; h,
wears a shabby hat, and she never
combs her hair until 3 O'Clock P. NJ.
they have a carriage, but L don't be-
lieve it's paid for: they allow theil
children to throw stones at our dog
and permit them to play on mouth or
gans; they say she has diamonds, bu
] don't believe it; lots of callers, but |
presume II. y were there to COLES
bills. To all of which subscribe my
SELF" etc.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

SICK FowLs.-In Joctoring sick fowls
il should be remembered that no medi-
cine cures by magic. but only by being
properly administered. Nor will any
medicine, however good, take the place
of proper food and care. 1t will not
cure fowls nor keen them healthy If
they are compelled to roost in quarters
that are damp, filthy and infested with
vermin, or if they are forced to drink
water that is foul and reeking with
pestilence. Every poultry-keeper
should hvve at hand a package of Pow
der and then ne should keep sharp
watch of his flCek so that at the very
first appearance of disease il may be
checked. Just as soon as sick fowls are
di. covered, separate them from the rest
of the flock. If not very sick, or II they
are valuable fowls, put them in dry,
warm and light coops. Use dry earth
freely in their eoops, give only clean.
fresh water TO drink; if well enough
TO eat, feed lightly with soft feed, bread
and milk or scalded meal and bran, and
be sure to adm mister the medicine reg
ularly and faithfully. If fowl is too
sick TO eat, aud after fasting twenty
four hours it still refuses TO taste TODD,
a little may be forced down its throat.
But unless fowls are very valuable 1t
hardly ever pays to doctor them when
too sick TO feed themselves. What
over The disease may be it is important
TO separate the sick fowls from those
that are well. 1t is folly to dose the
whole tock because one or two are
sick, and il does the sick ones no good,
for generally they get none of the med
icine. Contagious diseases will spread
rapidly through flock if sick birds
are allowed TO drink from the same
vessels and to roost in the same houses
with the others.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

POULTRY manure is about as valua-
bic rs the best Peruvian gnano. To
make 1t of the highest value as I,rti-
iizer, however, il must be stored, and
applied TO the ground with care. Ex-
posed to the weather il will be dissolved
by rain and carried off. Placed In
large heaps it heats and the ammonia
Is driven off and lost. Applied TO the
soil in too liberal quantities, especially
when too fresh, it is liable TO destroy
the vitality of seeds and to kill delicate
plants. Ii should be stored in dry
place and is comparatively small lots
so 1t will not be injured by moisture
and will not ferment. Ir is better to
mix it with dried peat. road dust. or
some other substance that will aid In
keeping it dry and tend TO arrest fer
mentatiCn. The best results attend
use when it is well beaten up and very
thoroughly mixed with these sub
stances before il is applied to the soil.
Lime and ashes should be kept from it,
as they would act upon it in such a
manner as TO liberate ammonia.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
the Queens Fondness for Beaconsfield.

AT the recent royal marriage At Wind
.or Castle, Queen Victoria, while pas
sing Lord Beaconsfield on her way out,
"unbeknown" to any one as 1t were,
gave his hand little sympathic squeeze.
II was done in the kindest and most
considerate manner possible. That
Lord Beaconsfield is great fsvorite
now with Her Majesty is sufficiently
demonstrated by the fact OF his full
length portrait in oil being hung at
Windsor Castle exactly opposite that of
the late Prince COnsort- Somebody
once stupidity asked him show it was"
that Her Majesty showed him so much
favor, and got simple answer "Well
-er-the fact is, I-er-never contrs-
dict, and-er-I ometimes-er-for-
get!" Now that he is released from
worry of governing us Lord Beacons-
field is Enthusiastically engaged In
completing a novel which he began
long time ago. This is the best piece
OF literary news have heard since the
appearance Of the mysterious para
graph heralding ''Lothair. the clever
est social romance Of our days.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

Some l1eeks ago Professor Guthrie cal
led the attention of physicists to the fact
that while flannel was positively cleo
trified when rubbed with ebonite, and
ebonite was also positively electrified
when rubbed wit glass, flannel rubbed
with glass was negatively electrified.
Professor Ayrton has endevored to ac-
count for the anomaly on the ground
that one ore more ofthe substances was
an electrOlyte. Glass is an electrolytc,
and battery had been made from it.
He and Professor Perry had shown that
in pile made up of various substance,
one or more of which were electrolytes,
though the rest were metals. the cleo
tromotive force of the pile was equal to
the algebraic sum of the several pairs
composing 1t, but it was not equal to
the electromotive force of the first and
final plates made into q. pair.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

MINCED Fowl AND EGG.-Cold roast
fowl, a ahard-boiled egg. salt and pepper
or cayenne, to taste; three tablespoon
fuls of new milk or cream, half an
ounce OF butter, one table spoonful Of
hOur, a teaspoohful Of lemon juice;
mince the fowl, and remove ali skin
and bones; put the bones, skin and
trimmings into stew pan, with one
small onion, stew in nearly one-half
pint of water; let this for an hour,
Then strain the liquor, chop the egg
small, mix the egg with the fowl, add
salt and pepper, pat in the gravy and
other ingredients, let the whole just
boil, and serve with sippets of toasted
bread.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
HUMOROUS.

PENNINGTON is man Of decision.
The other evening upon reaching home
he was met by his dearest Maria with
the narrowing tale Of Bridget, the
cooks kerose ne disaster. ''Oh. John ="
she begsn. we've had such a terrible
timei Bridget tried to hurry up the
fire-poured kerosene on it-blew up
burnt her TO death-Uh! CHI! oh ~
Pennington is wonderful man. a man
for an emergency. He replied, as
man not used to being thwarted in his
purposes: "Discharge her Immediate
ly, Maria; discharge her Immediately,
/ won't have such a woman in the
house."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
Revenge Is ssccharine.

Revenge is sweet. The other night
young Rundlett, who had been the vic
tim of several practical jokes perpetra-
TED by Mr.. Mongrel, entered the lat
ter's room at their boarding house.
Rundlett was evidently intoxicated,
but there was no ugliEess about him.
His first proceeding was to put his plug
hat on chair. In another moment he
had unconsciously sat upon that hat.
Then he addressed Mr.. MoDgrel, and
desired him ~ sit on the mantel shell
and talk about dog fights. Mr.. Mon
grel declined, and Rundlett urged the
matter. Finally the former said !:
"Rundlett, you've been drinking"
"By Zhove-gesh yer right. oh, zat
a man should be such a fool ash to
putin enemy into his mouth tc-steal
way his brains" Then Mr.. Mongrel
advised his young friend to go to bed.
but the latter declared that he would
sit up until Mr.. Mongrel complied with
his request in regard TO dog fights.
After laboring in vain to persuade the
young man to retire, Mr.. MOngrel de-
cided to go and get some of the boys to
come and take him 10 his room. He
went to the sitting room and told four
of them who were playing cards there,
that Rundlett was drunk and raising
more trouble In his room than hornet
would in an anti swearing club. The
boys saw a chance for fun, and at once
threw down their cards and fastened
to Mr.. Mongrel's apartment. Mean
while a greatchange ehadcomeoverRund-
lett. The drunken leer had faded from
his face. His gait became steady, and
he had been to his room, got new hat
and returned. When the boys entered
they found as sober man as ever lived.
and one who Indignantly denied the
charge of being drunk, and who show
ed his uncrushed bat to disprove the
story that he had sat upon it. Mr.
Mongrel was dumbfounded, and the
boys were raving mad at what they
considered Mongrel's lying, and as they
had cone there tor fun, they meant TO
have it. so they put a pillowcase over
Mr.. Mongrel's head, and ran him down
three flights of stairs to the cellar,
where they left hIm to find his way back
if he could. And Rundlett went and
tore his bed all to pieces by his squirm-
ing as he lay on it laughing. Revenge
is saccharinei
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

WHEN Wisconsin man sits up In
his coffin and demands to know what
the racket is, the chief mOurner says: ::
"See here, sir, we're performing our
melancholy duty TO a deceased friend,
and if YOU try to kick up disturbance
or do anything to mar the sOlemnity OF
the occasion, you'll get hurt" And
then "the corpse" is iammed down in
10 the coffin again and the lid screwed
on. They can't afford after the funeral
bills had been paid TO have the money
wasted, especially as Wisconsin men
are not usually worth two funeral bills.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

SPEAKING OF Toast, comparatively
few know what really good toast Is. A
hasty SINCE of one or both sides does
not make toast; nor do thin slices of
bread dried through. Cut slices ofuni-
form thickness, a plump one-half or
fve-eighths inch; move around over a
brisk fire, to have all parts toasted
alike; keep only so near the Goals that
the pieces will be heated through when
both sides are well Drowned. Ii the
slightest point is blackened or chaIred,
scrape it off, or il will spoil the flavor
of the whole. Ii covered with an
earthen bowl, it will keep both warm
and moist. A clean towel or napkin
will answer II IL is TO go at once TO
the table. But nobody can make good
toast out of poor bread. Stale bread
may be used for milk toast; sour Dread
may be improved by toasting it
through: heavy bread makes poor
toast. Sweet, light Tread, only day
old, or less, makes the best toast.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
DOMESTIC.

APPLE DUMPLINos.-Take some fine
ly sifted flour, say 4 h., and half the
quantity Of suet "a b., very finely
shred, and we'll freed from skin. Mix
the suet and flour, add pinch Of salt
and half teaspoontul of baking pow
der, with sufficient cold water or milk
to make it of the right consistency.
Knead it well, and roll it out to the
thickness required. Divide this paste
into as many pieces as are required for
the duinplings. Take some large-sized
apples, peel. core, sugar and Glove
Cover them with the paste, and join
the edges carefully. Tie each dump
ling up in floured cloth, and boil
about an hour. Unite them carefully,
and turn them out without baking
them; serve with cream and sugar.
n. B.-A little current Jelly may be
substituted for the butter, sugar and
Glove.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
A Good Housewife.

The good housewife, when she is
giving her house ITS spring renovat-
ing, should bear in mind that the dear
inmates of her house are more pre-
cious than many houses, and that their
systems need cleansing by purifying
the blood, regulating the stomach and
bowels to prevent and cure the diseases
arising from spring malaria and mias-
ma, and she must know that there Is
nothing that will do il so perfectly and
surely as Hop Bitters. the purest and
best of medicines.-ConcOrd ". Ii. Pa
friOf
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

MUTTON HAsH.-Fry one onion chop
ped small, with some butter, till it Is
Drowned; add tablespoonful of flour,
and one and half or two gillS ofstock,
with a few cloves, some pepper, salt to
taste, a teaspOonful of walnut ketchup,
half that quantity of Worcester sauce.
and a teaspoonful of tomato sauce. SIR
the whole together, let it boil once or
twice, and then strain it into a sauce
pan. When cold, lay the pieces OF NUT
ton in il with this sauce, and place the
saucepan by the side of the fire, so that
the contents are very gradually heated !;
shake the saucepan occasionally, but
never let the hash boil. Serve witE
sIppets of bread fried in butter.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
Workinglneu.

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after a winter of relaxation vour
system needs cleansing and strength.
ening TO prevent on attack of Ague.
Bilious or Spring Fever, or some other
spring sickness that will unfit you for
seasons work. You will save time.
much sickness and great expense if
you will use one bottle of Hop Bitters
III your family this month. Don't wait.
Hdrkegs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

PAINT, pitch or tar can be removed
from cloth or wood BY rubbing it with
turpentine. If the paint has become
dry, put few drops of the turpentine
on the spot, and let it stand if all the
is not removed, repeat the work. When
entirely gone, rub of with alcohol.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

BEEF RoLLs.-The remains of cold
roast or boiled beef, seasoning to taste
of salt, pepper and minced herbs; puff
paste. Mince the beef tolerably line,
with a smal! amount of its own fat adj
seasoning of pepper and salt and
chopped herbs; put the whole into
roll of puff paste aud bake for half an
hour, or rather longer, should the roll
be very large. b. eff patties may be
made of cold meat by mIncing and sea-
soning beef as directed above and TAX
ing in rich puff paste in patty tins.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

Razor blades are forged from cast
steel. the bars being roughly prepared
TO one inch in breath and a sixteenth
of an inch in thickness. The blades
are heated in a coke or charcoal fire.
and dipped into the water obliquely.
In tempering, they are laid on their
backs upon clear fire, about half a
dozen together, and they are removed
one at time, when the edges, which
are as yet thick, come down to a pale
straw color.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

PIcKLED MUTTON HAMs.-Three gal
Ions OF soit wafer, one pound of coarse
sugar, two ounces of saltpeter, three
pounds of common salt. Boil and re-
move the scum, and when cold pour
over the meat. In two or three weeks
the ham Will be excellent tor baking
or boiling 1t may be smoked if pre-
ferred.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
Around the World.

A fame that is worldwide and ac-
quired in the short space of few years,
must have true merit for its support.
DIR. Pierce's Family Medicines, have
gained such fame and the foreign
orders for his Golden Medical Dis
covery-the greatest bloOd-purifier Of
the age, for his Pleasant Purgative
Pellets Qittle sugar-coated pills), his
FavOrite Prescription-woman best
friend-and other remedies became SO
great, that branch of the Worlds
Dispensary has been established In
London, England, for their manufact-
ure. From this depot they are shipped
to every part of Europe, and to the
East Indies. China, Japan, and other
countries. Their sale in both North
and south America Is perfectly enorm-
GUS and increasing yearly. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Pro-
prietors, Buffalo. N. Y. and Great Rus
sell Street Buildings. London, Eng.
RoYAL CENTRE, Cass Co., Ind,
Feb. IS, 1879.
DR.. r. V. PIERCE:
Dear Sir-I take pleasure In writing
my testimony with others in regard to
your valuable medicine. For a long
time 1 have suffered from disease of the
lungs and until used your Discovery
found nothing that did me any good.
Thanks to It, am relieved and recon-
N - " MARY KENNEL.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

GREASE on carpet, ii not of long
standing, can be readily disposed Of by
washing the spot with hot soap-suds
and boiax-half an ounce OF borax 10
gallon of water. Use clean cloth to
wash it with, rinse in warm water, and
wipe dry.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
CABBAGE FOR FEEDING PuRposEs.-

CABBAGE FOR FEEDING PCRPosES.-
Cabbage has superior value for feed
ing purposes. English cattle feeders
assert that their beasts progress faster
on cabbage mixed with fine cut wheat
straw and cotton cake, than with any
other vegetable. Cabbage contains one
part ffesh-forming substance to three
Of heat-produeing, while in potatoes
the flesh-forming is only one in twen-
ty. Cabbage is also rich in mineral
matters,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

SQUALLS went out west, got inebriated
insulted a mans wife, was tarred and
feathered. escorted out of town by a
deputation of citizens, and now when
questioned as TO what he was do
ing when away from home, truthfully
replies he was a rail road man.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

A ne,0 plastic composition has been in
vented in London, formed of clean
washed river sand, blue lias lime, and
common cement in about equal proper
uons. This composition is moulded in
TO the form OF bricks or slabs, and,
without firing, it dries quickly and re-
sists the action of the atmosphere.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

How TO MAKE TEA GO FURTHER.-A
method has been discovered Tor max
ing more than the usual quantity of tea
from any given Quantity of the leaf.
The whole secret consists in steaming
the leaf before sleeping. BY this pro-
cess it is said fourteen pints of good
quality may be brewed from one ounce
OF tea.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

ARE you bald CARBoLINE, deo-
do-ized extract of petroleum, the only
cure for badness, has been improved,
so that it is now the most delightful
dressing in the world. The only real
natural hair restorer ever produced.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

THE pronounced opinion of the ablest
physicians all over the country indi-
Gates that DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup is the
best remedy for all the sufferings OF
little children caused by Wind Collie,
Dysentery, Diarrhea or Summer Com
plant. Price % cents.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

SOMEBODY says '-OratOry Is dead"
They would change their opinions sud-
denly aud most decidedly IL they could
hear the av. rage woman disoourse up n
washing days, AMI when cleaning
house. Then it is that the male part
ner in the connubial concern sinks
away, and thinks ne is going to be
skilled dead" BY her Irrational powers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

SPoTs on furniture, from anything
hot, or from alcohol, can be removed
by rubbing hard with sweet-oil and
turpentine. When the spots disappear
wash in milk-warm soap-suds, dry
quickly and polish by rubbing briskly
with ciamois-skin.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

A COMPANY of scapegraees meeting a
pious old man named Samson, one Of
Them exclaimed, "Ah. now we're safe.
we'll take Samson along with us, and
then. should we be set upon by thous-
and Philistines, he'll slay them all. "
my young FRIEND" quietly responded
the old man. ''tO do that, should have
to borrow your jawbone!'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

PAINT the inside walls of a corn
house with coal tar and it will drive
weevils from the corn. 1t costs but a
few dollars barrel, and barrel will
last several years in hen houses and
corn houses.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16

IN Germany deep hole was bored by
the diamond rock drill, 1915 feet being
attained in six months. This Is not 50
deep as one made by the Prussian Gov
ernment few years ago, which wa
ils3 feet deep, but took four years to
bore.