Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-03
NO. 49,.
Varieties.
Levity is the soul of wit.

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Men with winning ways-Successful
gamblers.
The greenest of greens-Paris green
and those who use it.
The marriage of the Duke of Edin-
burgh Is to take place next January.
Earrings and necklaces of English
sovereigns are among the new fashions
In iewelry.
| Quite a number of ladies announce
themselves as anxious to take in wash
ing and ironing.
A man who had scolding wife, being
asked what he did for a living, replied
that he kept a hot-house."
The new style of gentlemen's collars
IS said to be modelled after those worn
by lend men" In minstrel troups.
Theatrical Riddle.-Why is a sick
car-horse like an unsuccessful play?
Because IT won't run, and can't dra,c.
The English newspapers assert that
the eldest son of Mr.. Tennyson, who is
still at Oxford, has been gazetted a
baronet.
The Shaker Society of South Union,
Ky, has offered to adopt and educate
fifty of the children orphaned by the
pestilence in Memphis.
Said a man who tumbled out of a
third-story window: "When 1 first fell
was confused; but when struck the
pavement L knew where was"
Do not think so much of the presence
of friends In trouble as the presence OF
God in trouble. Fear not" What is
the next word? 81 am with thee; be
not dismayed. What is the next SEN
tence? Il am thy God" The richest
consolation you can have is that which
is derived from the presence of the
Lord God of the covenant.
The caution of the New Englander in
giving an answer to q direct question
was illustrated to me, says o correspon-
dent, the other day, when 1 asked an
Eastern friend of mine, whose family
were not noted for very active habits.
"Was not your fathers death very sud
den?" Slowly drawing one hand from
his pocket, and pulling down his beard,
the interrogated cautiously replied,
"Waal, rather sudden, for him"
A Springfield gentleman recently de-
termlned to sup with party of friends
against the will of his wife. He was
resolved that he would, and she that he
should not go. He did not go. His
friends missed him; and, Just for lark,
invaded his residence, where they found
him and his wife sitting in their chairs,
fast asleep. He had given her an opiate
that he might slip away, and she had
given him one that he might not.
A Detroit business man found a coun-
terfeit fifty cent scrip among his cur
rency the other day, and he put it in
his vest and that afternoon gave it to a
little girl begging ON the streets. When
he came back from tea he found the
same piece of scrip in the drawer again,
and questioning his clerk he learned
hat little girl had brought it in,
ocrght stick of gum, and gone away
Will torty-nine cents good money.
Inc lumber of stars visible to the
naked ey.. in the entire circuit of the
neaSens ona na- been usually estimated at
sGHus .H 1,JGV N ordinary opera-glass
mi. thd. eaIDls ann.tas some hing like ten times
tnIos.nun I'M nnD. oa.;,r a hSmparatively small
there are telescopes in r;st "nii1 III
which, there is reason to 49, WI. a
fewer than 25, ,000, 900 stars arer;h, no'
And yet, when all these are sees o.
numbered, the eye Will have visited H't
a mere speck in the illimitable bounds
of space.
Rubenstein is a composer of no small
pretensions. He has written an orato-
rio, several symphonies, concertos, and
operas, chamber quartets, sontas, and
numerous songs. In his music he leans
to the ideas of the modern German
school; his Instrumentation like most
of his fellow-German composers, is mas
terly, and his power of conception is
wonderful. IL his music be no. origi-
nal, it is hard to pick out subject and
say from where it is borrowed; his
diversity is immense, and his produc-
tivity enormous.
The largest sailing vessel in the world
is the ship Three Brothers, which sailed
from San Francisco recently with a large
cargo of wheat for Europe. She is the old
steamer Vanderbilt, which was presented
to the Government for the navy, and
which, not long ago, the Navy Depart
ment sold. As a steamer, the enormous
consumption of coal, although it pro-
duced high speed, made her too costly
for mercantile ventures. She was there
fore changed by her purchasers into a
sailing ship, and when she went out of
San Francisco harbor she spread fifteen
thousand yards of canvass In her suit of
sails. Her main-mast measures ninety
nine feet, her maIn-yard one hundred
90 ~ o&H
proportion. Her tonnage is 3,1S7.
A Paris correspondent of one of the
London journals writes of q halter, in
the town of Limoges, who died lately
at the age of one hundred and five. His
name was Alainquetss, and he was born
on the ID of July, 1863. or about fort
night before the first Napoleon. Louis
XIV. was then on the throne, and the
Parliament, as now, was sitting at Yer
sailles. Zone can hardly imagine"
says the correspondent, "a person who
attained his majority before the Reign
Of Terror living in our time, having es-
capped all the wars of the empire and
subsequent commissions. Yet it is only
a few months ago had the pleasure Of
breakfasting with descendant of the
great Colbert, who remembered Robes
pierre. She informed me, in a half
whisper, that he was suspected of being
a reactionnaire, and looked cautiously
round, as if afraid the ghost of the sea
green incorruptible' might rise up and
protest"
Emile Gaboriau, within the last eight
or nine years, published fifteen long
stories which 1enarallv mazda THAR a rot
appearance In the feUiLleton of some Of
the popular Parisian papers, and w-ro
subsequently issued in volumes by
Dentu. In his earlier writings, Gabo-
riau avoided many of the vices of his
fellows. and displayed considerable tai
ent-indeed, it might be called genius
for plot and character. His first
success was 'L'Affaire Lerouge.' 1t is
the story of murder, the perpetrator
of which is traced and brought to pun