Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-26

/ The wetter the weather the dryer the
man.
L A female ministerout West kisses the
bridegroom when she marrys a couple.
/ An obEgsto on the aute-The. sum
lent on that article by IN obliSing pawn
broker. -'''ia- H- "'7+ i'.'
I The gentleman who was unable 70
express his feelings" has applied to
4 Adams & Co.
In Nevada they hang men up to the
limbs Of trees, that they may "enioy
the morning air." .r .. ..0... -. .
! The Saratoga Railway thinks il il
| pre-eminently entitled to call itself
grand trunk-ine" 7.
! A lady recently presented the city of
| birmingham, England, with 4 park of
60 acres, which cost $50. 900.
According to the latest estimate there
were 7742 newspapers in the world, Of
which number 507l are published in
the United States. ...-.....-.
Evidences of Japanese progress ars
! increasing. Late mails bring an sc-
connt of coal mine accident by which
two hives were lost.
After asking your name in the State
OF Arkansas, the natives are In the habit
OF further inquiring, IN a confidential
tone: swell, now, what was your name
afore yer moved to these parts?"
4 wealthy bishop congratulated
poor priest on the good air which he
breatiea in his parish; to which the
latter replied: Yes, my lord, the air
world be good enough, if I could live
on II. ' 80
A million dollars worth of ostrich
feathers is imported into England every
year from the Cape of Good Hope.
Every pound of these feathers is said
to be worth fifty guinehs in the London
market.
The bashful editor of a Missouri
paper proposed to his beloved through
the columns of his paper in this form
There is a certain girl in this town
who can carry our smoke-house keys for
life, If she'll only sag the word"
A FIRM IN westboroush, Mass, re-
Gently discovered in q carload of corn
consigned to them, two men who had
hid themselves therein at Albany.
When discovered they had been forty
eight hours without food or water. g.
1t wss recently decided by New
York Judge that taking a meal in q
hotel, though kept on the European
plan, constituted a man a guest within
the meaning Of the statute, and made
the proprietors of the house responsible
for property lost by such q guest. 90
We learn that there is on the farm of
Mr.. Geo. W. King st Painesyille, Ohio,
a sassafras tree which, one foot from
the ground, measures 10 feet inches
in circumference, and four feet from
the ground, feet 10 inches. 1t is 120
feet high, presenting clean trunk of
50 feet to the lower branches
The first daily paper printed in the
English language was published in Lon
don, in 1T02, by womsn-ore Eliza
beth Mallst. It was called the Daily
CourdRt, and was not issued AS Wo-
mans Rights paper, but "to spare the
public at least half the impertinelces
which the ordinary papers contain.
4 distinguished officer was lately pre-
sident OF court-riartial. He had
sworn q witness, raw Irish recruit,
and held out his hand for the Bible.
Judge of his astonishment at finding il
the hand, not the book-grasped and
heartily shaken by Pat, who. in the
very broadest brogue, said: 'It's me-
self who is proud and plased to hold
the hand of ye, sir; and may Saint
Psthrick and all the saints of 0uld Ire
land bless yer honorT"
Captain Samuel George, the recently
deceased chief of the Onondags Indians
in New York State, Was employed by
the government as runner during the
war of 1872. In this capacity. while
carrying dispatches for the command
ing officer of Fort Niagara to Canaan
daigua, he is said to have performed
the almost Incredible feat Of running .
distance of one hundred and fifteen
miles between the rise and set of the
sun, and returned the same distance on
the next r 3a. -..
Moscbeles writes: "After q perform
ance of The Maid of Artois,' in which
Malibran performed msrvellously, we
went to see her in her dressing-room.
There she sat, surrounded by wresths
and an enormous bouquet in her hand.
She talked and laughed with us, add
ing: 'Si vous youliez me debarrasser de
cette machine, c'est Get abominabls Duo
&c Brunswick qui Went de me rappor-
ter, and, 80 saying, threw q colossal
bouquet at me, which / caught. What
must the sbominable Duke have
thought, when, few moments later, hs
saw me mount Dly carriage and carry
of his bouquet? d? For so it happened at
.he entrsnce-door of Drury Lane The
atre." 80 .-
The swans of the Thames have been
and multiplying this year
with reckless fertility. 1t seems that
a portion of the chicks belong to the
queen, another portion to the corpora
ton of London, and the remainder to
city company. Each callow cygnet has
to be branded on the foot with the mark
crest and motto, probably-of its
owner; and it is made the duty of the
Lord Mayor to see that this is done
Meantime, the fishermen complain that
these improbable and essentially ugly
fowls destroy the fish that might other
wise become human food. The fisher
men must content their souls with pa
tient resignation the poets have coz
vinced the world, against the evidence
of its sharp eyes and long ears, tha.
swans are beautiful objects and sweet
singers. So soon as their claim to ali
the cardinal virtues is established. We
hope to see one Of them elected Lord
Mayor.
NJ Bethaln Edwards visited Turk
ish princess, whom she describes as fol-
lows: "She was tall and slender and
very handsome, with a pearly skin.
delicately c'ft features, and black hair
and eyes Her dress was simply per
feet, ample, flowing, easy, Of soft, noise
less, lustrous silk, the precise hue Of
which it would be impossible to do
scribe; it was something between an
blossom and the palest pink
coral, and yet neither the one NOR the
other approached it at all nearly.