Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-19
Varieties.

has uniform flavor.
An honest employment is the bes.
inheritance that can fall 10 any one.
1t is said that there was never sn
honest red-breast; he is always robin
The Chinese laborers in Cuba object
to being paid in paper. They say It Is
too thin.
A probate court-Making love to q
girl who proves that she has "a win Of
her own"
Why is solar eclipse like a woman
whipping her boy1 Because it's hiding
of the son.
A Newfoundland dog having q quar-
rel with bulldog at Montreal, drowned
him in q canal.
A Johnstown. Penna.. paper talks
about man who "never enjoyed days
sickness in his life
What extraordinary kind Of meat is
to be bought in the Isle Of Wight
Mutton from Cowes
That man in Trenton who found
21 900, about two years ago, Is still
advertising for the owner thereof
al bulDDuH
on board a schooner, on the ground
that no man could serve 1.-TWO masters.
The buckwheat season approaches,
when the head of the family eats four
teen cakes a. sitting, to the unbounded
satisfaction of himself, and the unmiti-
gated disgust of the oldest boy, who
cripples his digestive apparatus for life
in vain attempt to do the same.
A farmer sent to an orphan asylum
for boy that was smart, active, brave.
tractable, prompt, Industrious, clean.
pious, intelligent, good-looking, re-
served and modest. The superintendent
wrote back that unfortunately they had
only human boys in that institution.
Both the beaus. Brummel and Hick-
man, outlived their own period of vigor.
good looks and capacity for enjoyment,
each died about the age Of sixty three,
and in a hospital, attended by Sisters
of Charity; and both were buried by
strangers, and al the p ublic expense
A Roman Catholic priest, Father
Paolo Grassi, incumbent of the splen-
did basilica Of Sta. Maria Maggiore,
has abandoned the old church and re-
ceived baptism at the hands Of an Eng
lish Baptist minister. The affair has
created profound sensation in Rome.
A remarkable anachronism occurs in
Victor Hugo's new drama OF Marie
Tudor" One of the characters tells
the other to go to the Tower of London
by way of Charing Cross. The CUES
ton is then asked, 'Is there not
shorter road ?" to which the reply is,
''Yes, by the Quai"-meanins the Vic
tOria Emoankment. built not half
dozen years ago!
Mr.. Coville says looking glass affords
woman q marvellous amount of com
fort and qualification. He says his wife
thinks Just as much of consulting her
glass when she ties on her apron as
when she ties on her bonnet. He says
that when there is knock at the door
he goes there at once, but his wife, on
the contrary, calculates: mercy, Jo-
seph, who's that T. and dashes for the
looking-glass the first thing.
In conversation a man expresses HIM
self-he discloses his character, and
makes available that character for good
or evil. The tongue. in this sense, be-
comes most powerful engine and the
watch over the tongue becomes q duty
of the first importance. 1t is the chief
doorway out of which the mind sallies
forth to its work and in the contact OF
mind with mind, it is the point for
careful observation and control-Litie
Corporal.
A suit for breach of promise has been
brought by man against woman III
England. Miss Jenkinson proposed TO
Mr.. Smith, and engaged two young
men to act as groomsmen. That was as
far as the matter was allowed to go.
She Tilted Smith. When the writ was
served on her, she said, "I'll marry him
if he makes me, and when I've married
him I'll make him live like toad under
a harrow" Smith is a lucky fellow to
have been Tilted.
There are follies and whimsies in
fashion. There is opportunity for in
dividual taste and choice. Neverthe-
less, the wisest thing for people in gen.
eral to do is to follow the fashion that
prevails. 1t is only in exceptional
cases that they will obtain larger re-
suit of satisfaction at g less outlay of
trouble by setting up there own stand
ard. Dress is too important to be de-
nounced, too significant to be neglected.
but too pliable to found aght onl
1t is rather q good story which the
Cincinnati Enquirer tells OF customer
and a private banker in that city. Tbs
gentleman called at the bank and wanted
to draw $500 OF his own money on his
own check, but his reasonable desire
was not gratifed. AS the gentleman
was going out of the bank with a sad
look upon his face, the President o.
that institution peeped out from behind
the counter and seductively said: al
guess we could let you have the money
at taco per cent premium. In panicky
times like these the man sleeps sound.
est and sweetest who has no bank &C.
count.
An Ohio paper relates that about sew
enteen years ago young boy, residing
in Wood County, took black cat skin
from which the original tail Of the cat
had been removed and q mink's tail
nicely sewed on instead, and sold il to
a certain buyer of furs, not many miles
IIom bEdnu Isapius, lOr Sl-<O. II Was
done for practical joke. but the boy
kept the money, grew to be prosper
ous business man, and joined church.
but his conscience upbraided him so
much that few days ago the e1-fur
dealer received note inciosing $40,
principal and interest. The joke is now
on the fur-dealer, as he put the cat-skin
among lot of mink skins and sold it
for s.. AS he can not now hnd the
purcb aser, he proposes to contribute the
money to some benevolent purpose.
The Oldest white inhabitant OF Min
nesosa has been heard from. His name
is r. S. Spalding. and in recent letter
he says: ''I claim to be the first white
child born in what is now the State OF
Minnesota. On the 26th Of February.
1927, l was born inside the walls OF Fort
near st. Peters. My father.
Stephen Spalding, run a canoe with me-
in it, IN 1923, to st. Louis, and from
that day to the present l have never
refurned tn Minnesota Born in Mime