Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-29
NO. IA.
Varieties.
Up in arms-The baby.

! A right angle-C Catching trout.
A mineral spring ng-"Jumping" a min
ing claim. on.
Spanish wells, of Brussels thread net,
have appeared. - -.r
John Stuart Mills will has Just been
proved under f14, 900.
The Emperor of Brazil stands six feet
four inches in his boots.
Feather trimming, it is said, will be
IN fashion again this winter
The Mikado of Japan says he does
not yet consider his country civilized.
The first "Black Friday" on record is
said to have been owned by Robinson
Crusoe.
The senior class of the scientific de
partment of Dartmouth College are sur
veying railroad line from Hanover to
Lyme.
Oregon farmers are growing rich
Their hay crop is double what it was
last year; and their grain nearly one
half more
The pearl fisheries on the Gulf coast
OF Lower California, it is said, are likely
to be soon destroyed by the avidity OF
the fishers.
Ladies just returned from Europe
wear the hair very plain and low on the
neck, style, We are assured, "all the
rage" in Paris.
1t has been estimated that the cotton
supply annually increases four per cent
faster than the cotton-consuming popu-
lation of the world.
New Haven, in the loss of her State
House, may console herself with the re-
Election that she will no longer be the
subject of capital jokes.
The Union Pacific Railroad is build
ing snow plow to be driven by FIVE
locomotives. They expect it to go
through drifts 20 feet deep.
Instead of asking what people will
think or say if you do thus or so let the
record which God viii make?
A Massachusetts, editor is inclined to
approve an English teachers plan in
examining schools to pass a newspaper
about among the children, and require
each to read from it and to explain the
allusion to events, institutions, and
persons. .l
The captain of San Francisco steam
boat is exceedingly popular with the
ladies', because he always puts back to
his port If by the aid of powerful
field-glass, he can discern female who
has arrived half an hour after the start
ing time.
The new Trinity College building at
Hartford will hGve minstrePs gallery
in its dining hall, which will furnish
accommodations for about 800 people
Each room in the college will have
/ fireplace in which wood or soft coal
may be burned.
The Belgian Government, it is re-
ported, has decreed that. in all the in
sane asylums of Belgium, locked letter
boxes shall be affixed to the walls, in
accessible places, so that the inmates
of the institutions may have the oppor-
tunity, without the surveillance of the
asylum authorities, of conveying any
complaints, proofs of insanity, or simi-
lar matters, to those outside the walls.
This provision, which cannot possibly
do harm, is certainly q humane one,
and seems really valuable means of
detecting any of those acts of oppres-
sion which sensational stories, and Oc-
casionally authentic Testimonies have
connected with the mystericas world
inside "a mad-house."
The aged mother of the Count de
Segur is described as being tiny little
shrivelled old creature, with nut-cracker
nose and chin, with eyes both dim and
blear, and little wisps of snowy white
hair sticking out from the oldest OF
bonnets, at the time when "bonnets''
were still worn, dressed in the Oldest
and shabbiest of nondescript garments.
Attended by ''lady companion, much
better dressed than herself, she never
lost classical concert, beating time
to the immortal quartets and quintets
of Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn, with
her head encased in her large bonnet,
covered with shabby ribands and faded
flowers, her eyes shut and her whole
frame swaying to and fro under the in
spiration of her favorite composer.
Liberian- colonization has enlarged
the bounds of geographical knowledge
by making known the fact that east of
the territory of the Afro-American re-
public there are populous tribes, having
the African features and hair, but light
brown in complexion, and considerably
advanced in civilization. They have
mines, and are fairly proficient in agri-
culture and domestic manufactures.
They are Mohammedans in faith read
and write Arabic; have public schools
in which the koran is taISht to the
young, and many manuscript books.
They are in all respects far in advance
of the tribes of the Guinea coast. Com.
mercial relations are likely to be formed
very soon between them, the Liberians
and the British colonists in Sierre
Leone.
A Kansas girl asks, Where is the
work of farmers daughters apprecisted?'
l am farmers daughter, and live on a
large farm where dairy and farm work
are carried on together. Few are the
moments call my own, for mother and
do our own work but 1 do not feel
that my work Is not appreciated, for the
smiles and looks that accompany the
words We'll done from father and mo-
ther are well worth a sacrifice on my
part, and amply compensate me. am
inclined to think that many women
want to shirk unpleasant work and do
only that which is agreeable; but
think, whatever work is given us to do.
We should work away at with a will,
without murmur or complaint, hoping
for the best, and content with the allot-
ments of Providence.
! A great many girls and women would
find unpleasant work tolerable if appre-
ciative smiles and looks were a part of
their reward. Ed.
Adelina Patti, according to Vanity
Fair, speaks English, French, italian,
and Spanish. Her favorite authors are
Dickens and Feuillet. She reads the
Paris Figaro every day-P,1,ch and the
Illustrated once a week. Rossini and
Bellini are her best beloved composers
primrose the color she most delights to
wear. Nobody has ever seen her with
an opal. for she has caught from the