Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-05
NO. 40.
Varieties.

sleeve buttons by the pound.
A fabric woven from bamboo fbres
is new material for ladies' dresses.
The gentlest step that ever entered
sick-room is that of the Great Physi-
clan.
Froude claims to have only cleared
five hundred dollars by his lectures IN
New York.
A stone cutter in Detroit keeps ready
made gravestones with the name
Smith cut thereon.
The first Eve-angelicaI Alliance ON
record is said to have taken place in
the garden of Eden.
| Suffering seasons are sitting seasons
IN which the Christian loses his chat,
and the hypocrite his corn.
The flower of youth never appears
more beautiful than when it bends to-
wards the Sun of Righteousness.
A Michigan paper recently closed an
obituary notice with the mis-quotation,
''He is not dead, but squeaketh.
A very superior quality of champagne
is now made with petroleum as the
chief ingredient. The manufacturers
claim that il is the best that has ever
/ benzine.
A little girl was asked what was the
meaning of the word happy. She gave
a pretty answer, saying, at is to feel
as if you wanted to give all your things
to your little sister"
/ An old chap whose wife is as ugly as
sin, was recently reading an elopement
case which seemed TO affect him. Said
he: 81 should be tempted to shoot
man, If he was after my wife" We'll,
said nearer, "a man ought to be shot,
/ If he ran off with your wife" Verdict
for the hearer.
! Gods word comes with authority; it
falls upon the heart like the rising sun
light upon the mists of nigh, ,dissipating
the doubts, Illuminating the pathway,
and inspiring the courage needful for
the struggle INTO victory. 1t is the
end of all controversy. Whatever else
may fail, this world will abide.
! 1t is n popular delusion that men
never envy women. of course they do,
but they are too wise TO confess it,
Doubtless it would be better never 10
be born at all but, if that misfortune
does occur to one, it is some elevation
to be born a wOman-to be accounted
an angel here, and predestined to be an
angel hereafter
Near Delaware Water Gap, Pa. there
is cave in the face of Mount Minsi,
opposite the river, whence issues con
stantly, with considerable force, a cur
rent of cold air. A small stream OF
water issues from the cave. 1t has been
ascertained that the water trickles down
from the roof of the cave, and the
cooling of the air is supposed to be due
to contact with the wet surface of the
roof.
There are at present in Canada eight
chief Signal Service stations, eleven re
porting telegraph stations, one hundred
and four ordinary stations, besides one
in Prince Edward Island and two in
Newfoundland. The expense was only
So, 600 las fiscal year, and will be Sl0,-
600 this year. The United States, with
sixty-tive stations, maintains its system
at cost of about S400, 900 per annum.
Alphonse Karr, a white haired old
gentleman, is one of the most popular
of the Partisan feuilletonists. He has
had singular career. A long time
ago he quarrelled with VI. Bertin, of the
Journal deS De6dts, which resulted in
his swearing that he would not write
line for the press for twenty years.
This odd vow he faithfully kept not
withstanding the most tempting offers
He bought beautiful villa and garden
near Nice, and became Jealous horti-
culturist. He sent thousands of bou-
quets to the Paris market, but the zen
ture was not profitable. When the
twenty years had expired Karr returned
to his newspaper work, and is to-day as
brilliant as ever.
Gerald Massey has been dubbed aud
welcomed in a speech, to which he re
piled in honest and hearty fashion, as
became a man who made his mark a
sympathy for the poor which made his
heart poetic and touched his tongue
with music. Some of his early poems
are full of the very spirit OF humanity,
and seem prophecies OF n redemption
for labor which is already beginning to
dawn. With some of his later musings
and mystic speculations the world has
less interest, and admirers of the early
poet will regret if the lecturer confines
himself to cloudland and descants en-
tirely upon the Eternities. If he gives
MS the plaint of poverty with his unfor-
getable poetry and pathos, he will strike
the rock and make our sympathies
spring forth as freshly as at the first.
A remarkable change in the channels
of commerce, consequent upon the
L,,.l Oft tln ITnta,o Danftta Ra1lrna1
is shown in the report of the monthly
imports of raw and other silk. Prior
to 1870 the silk importatiOns at San
Francisco were insignificant in amount.
the September report of that year show
ing that only one hundred and twenty
packages, valued at $50, 900, had been
received, against four hundred and
thirty-fve packages, valued at s3l5, ,962
received at New York. For the same
month the next year the balance was IN
favor of San Francisco, the iWportations
to that port being valued at S56l 900.
and those at New York at S177,277. In
September, 1872, the values were 1898.
OBS to San Francisco, and 500, $50 to
New York. The silk, whether received
at San Francisco or New York. is used
almost altogether by Eastern manufsc-
turers.
A Massachusetts, woman, it is said,
has lately patented self-fastening but
ton, which needs no button-hole, which
holds as fast as the most desperate per-
son can desire, and which yet can be
unfastened by simple touch. The
time will come when that unhappy, too
ingenious woman will be denounced S.
one of the worst foes of her sex who has
ever existed. Nothing is greater pro
vocation to connubial ideas in the rlind
OF forlorn bachelor than the difficult
ties which he has with his apparel on
the subject of buttons. How these use
ful fastcn;ngs leave his wristbands and
collars, and vests and pantalOons every
man who has been single can sadly tell,
and how he himself has made absurd
attempts to repair the damage by sew
ing on buttons himself he would be
ashamed to tell. Despair at inability
l. Al ! of