Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-03
Varieties.

London has Shakespeare sewing
machine.
Ozobenzine is the name of a new ex-
plosive compound.
The Shah scratches his head with the
corner of salt-cellar.
To make a tall man short-Try to
borrow five dollars of him.
A circuit court-The longest way
home from singing-school.
Agricultural-Am mower who can NOW
might as well be no mower.
Prof. Dana is said to incline to the
belief that the earth is solid.
The next worst thing to raining pitch
forks must be hailing omnibuses.
There are various stations in life; but
the least desirable is police station.
Members of the New York press are
shortly to have shooting match at
Creedmore.
Oysters, it is said, are never found in
the Baltic Sea, the water not containing
sufficient salt.
| Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb fell down
stairs, at her residence, at Middleburg,
recently, and was seriously injured.
Melancholy-T health authorities
of Montgomery, Ala, refuse to allow
any watermelons to be brought into the
city.
While vanity is weakness which we
are inclined to pity, self-esteem, if not
excessive, at once elicits our respect and
admiration.
A vein of mica has been discovered
in Cherokee County. Ga, and they talk
of getting the Mikado of Japan to come
and develop it.
1t is said that Iowa grasshoppers eat
mp the tobacco plants. If so, the Iowans
have only to catch them at it to kill
them when they chews.
True religion shows its influence in
every part of our conduct; it is like the
sap of living tree, which penetrates
the most distant boughs.
The Jersey hens have got into such a
habit of mislaying their eggs that
chickens are getting scarce there, and
omelettes almost impossible.
A good wife is to a man, wisdom and
courage, and strength and hope, and
endurance. A bad one, confusion, weak
ness, discontinue and despair.
A camping-out party from Boston,
finding their water supply run short,
were reduced to the necessity of boiling
a mess of potatoes in ginger ale.
The Titusville, Penna., Herald SAYS
that the atmosphere of the oil regions,
heavily charged as it is with petroleum,
acts almost as specific for the relief of
asthma, and at the same time as pre-
ventlve OF consumption.
The famous auctioneer whose adver-
tisement stated that the only drawbacks
on certain country-place which he had
for sale were the ''noise of nightingale
and the litter of the rose-leaves," was
the right sort of a man for his profess
sion.
Camphor Oil, veil known in the East,
is sold to some extent in other countries,
but the supply is limited, and is only
obtained from drippings flowing from
the cuttings of the Camphor tree.
Standing trees are never felled on pur-
pose to obtain the OIL
Emma Black, living in a small town
on the Mississippi, saved a mans life
the other day in curious way. He
was fishing, and tumbled ont of his
boat, and being unable to swim, would
have perished had not the maiden, dis
covering his danger, swan out to him,
and throwing into. his hands her back
hair, four feet IN length, towed him to
the land
The daughter of an English earl,
only seventeen years old, made very
successful debut as Juliet, in London
recently, under the name of Edith Gray.
Her father made will, leaving her
large fortune, but omitted to sign it, so
she has been penniless and homeless all
her life. A retired actress took charge
of her, and superintended her education
for the stage.
Mr.. Rawdon Brown has discovered
that Shakespeare was well known to
Cervantes, and traces Sancho Panza's
well known eulogy of sleep to Macbeth's
Sleep that knits up the raveIlsd slave Of care
He points out several other analogies
of thought and expression to snow
that Cervantes appreciated Shakespeare,
whose best dramas were printed a few
years before the appearance of Don
Quixote."
The energy displayed by the people
of American cities in recovering from
the effects of calamity is one of the best
traits in our national character. This
is most plainly shown in the rebuilding
of our burned cities. 1t has been barely
seven years since Portland, Maine, was
almost destroyed by fire, yet no one
can now see any traces of its burned
district, the town having long since
been thoroughly rebuilt and in much
better style than before. The Chicago
fire is quite a recent calamity, yet the
rebuilding has been going on SO rapidly
and efectually that in the business por-
tions of that city only few vestiges of
the burned portion remain. Indeed one
might pass through that and question
whether Chicago had ever been burned
at all. Troops of busy mechanics are
rebuilding the burned district of Bos-
ton, and by the close of the year will
have almost completed their labor. In
Baltimore the workmen were preparing
for reconstruction before the ruins of
her burned buildings were cold. These
things are highly creditable to American
energy and hopefulness, and will show
as handsomely at Portland, Oregon, as
among her elder sisters.
Mr.. Beecher was present the other
day at the New York Editorial Colven-
tion, and related an early experience Of
his, when, on the strength of his ap-
pointment as editor of the Cincinnati
Gazette. he invested in fine overcoat
and gold watch-the latter Of which
he had shortly after to return. Recur-
ring to the subject in hand, he added
Il should not be ashamed to wind up
my life as began it, for 1 think that
among the professions there is none
that ranks higher than that-which is
vet to be professionalism of journal
ism. Journalism, as yet. is pursuit,
rather than a profession. 1t has no
definite bounds; it has no common law
or customs; it has principles. and yet
they are held rather individually than