Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-03-08
CHANCES OF BEING KILLED
IN Battle.

sin the Crlmea1 War the British
fired Is, 100000 shots and killed
21, 900 Russians, or one man to
every 700 shots. The French
forces in the same war fired 3d.
600, 900 shots and killed 200
Russians, or one man to every 500
shots fired. The Russians, on the
other hand, fired $1,000, 900 shots
at both English and French and
succeeded in killing IS, 900, or one
soldier to every 91O shots which
they fired.
War, after all, is not so danger
Ous game as most people imagine.
1t has been calculated that the
bullets of one army hit the enemy
in safe places so times ont of every
1O3. OF every 1O3 shots which
strike some soldier 43 will lodge in
the legs (frOm the hips down to
the feet; 80 shots will lodge in the
arms (frOm the shoulders to the
tips Of the tingers); the abdomen
received IL bullets, the chest and
back IL, the neck l bullet, and IL
shots strike some part of the sol
diers' heads.
1t is further proved by official
figures that when a soldier has
been wounded, even seriously, his
chances of ultimate recovery are
very great.
On the basis of table complied
by the German War Department,
out of every 116 American soldiers
wounded in Cuba or Porto Rico 80
will eventually get entirely well.
OF the remaining II out of the
116 wounded soldiers 6 are found
to die of their injuries on the
ground before they can be removed
and an average only of IL die after
reaching the hospital.
These figures, of course, take no
account of the possibility of death
from disease"
BUTTER FROM PEANUTS.
A new factory has just been put
into operation in KOkomo, Indiana,
for the manufacture of butter from
peanuts, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. For a year or more
Lane Brothers, of that city, have
been working on a process of max
ing butter from the peanut to COM
pete with the product of the farm
COW, and have succeeded in pro-
ducing the desired article. At the
present price of the nuts the but
ter can be sold at fifteen cents per
pound.
The process of manufacture is no
secret. The nuts, after the hulls
are removed, are carefully hand
pich ed and faulty kernels removed.
They are then roasted i'll a large
rotary oven. Again they are gone
over by hand for the removal of
scorched grains. The nuts are
then put through a mill and ground
as fine as the finest flour, the natur
al oil in the grains giving it. the
appearance and consistency of
putty as it leaves the mill, except
that it is more of an orange color.
BY the addition of filtered water,
to reduce it to a more pliable state,
the butter is complete, no other in
gredient, not even salt, being used
1t never grows rancid and keeps in
any climate. 1t is put up in one,
two, five, ten, twenty five and one
hundred pound tin cans and sealed
The new butter is already in great
demand at sanitariums and health
resorts. 1t is used for all purposes
ordinary butter is used, including
shortening and frying. Physicians
pronounce it more healthful than
COW butter and it is much less ex-
pensive. By the addition of more
water a delicious cream is made,
and if desired it can in the same
way be reduced to the consistency
Of milk. The new butter factory
located but a few rods from a large
dairy barn and is running in oppO-
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