Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Varieties.
A pretty hard casa coffin.

D W De immense.
New Orleans boasts of a swimming
school for ladies'.
Patience is a flower that grows not
IN every ones garden.
/ The defects of the understanding,
like those of the face. grow worse as We
grow old.-Roehef0acdHld.
"My dear boy, honesty is the best
policy" 'Well, you ought to know,
father, for you have tried 'em both"
Why is young lady like bill of ex-
change? Because she ought to be set
tied when she arrives at maturity.
The two best rules for system Of
rhetoric are, first. have something to
say, and next say it.-EnnaOnS.
1t is proposed to introduce Latin and
German as optional studies into the ad
vanced public schools of Wilmington,
Delaware
Often do We think when We ought to
act, and act when it behOOves us to re
fleet hence, cauticn is frequently as
fatal as rashness
Man has not love for spiritual life and
Immortality, until sin breaks to pieces
the earthly things on which his alice
tions are fastened.
Washington boarding housekeepers
are said to be putting up their prices,
to keep pace with the increased incomes
of congressman.
Three questions to be put to our
selves before speaking evil of any man
First, Is 1t true? Second, is it kind
Third, is it necessary?
A San Francisco man Is proudly ex-
hibiting the prizes which he carried OF
at shooting festivals in Switzerland,
Austria and Germany.
\ boy employed in San Francisco
drug store is said to have recently fallen
heir to a fortune of $3.50, 900, left him
by relation in England.
Somebody who processes to have
made the experiment. says that chloro-
form will remove paint from garments
better than anything else.
1t is estimated that the farmers OF
Minnesota lose millions of dollars an
nually through carelessness or indiffer-
ence II securing their wheat.
There Is a member of the feline race
in Chester, known as the Ferguson cat,
that weighs twenty-One pounds. The
weight of cat OF ordinary size is not
over eight pounds.
Brigham Young has some wholesome
opinions of the Indian agents. He sayst
with but few exceptions they are the
most GOd-forsaken rascals that ever
cursed the country. They promise
everything, and ulfl nothing. They
swindle the Indians from right to left,
and the Indians kno Y il. If there had
never been a. Indian agent the Indians
would be better than Shey are now"
No girl should be Indifferent to her
personal appearance. God meant wo-
man to be attractive, and it is one of
her duties to carry out this design. But
that dress is to be all is more than We
can believe. just because We love to
see girls look well, rs we'll as to live to
some purpose, we would urge them Oh
such course OF reading and study IA
Will confer qualities which no modiste
can supply.
like to read about Moses best in the
Old Testament. He carried a hard
business well through, and died when
other folks were going to reap the
fruits; a man must have courage TO
look at his own life so, and think what'll
come of it after he's dead AMI gone. A
good, solid bit o work lasts ii is 5 only
laying a floor down, somebody's the
better for it's being done well, besides
the man as does it.-GeO. Eliot.
A French prefect recently wrote to
one OF the mayors of his department,
advising him, as the cholera had broken
out in the district, to take all the neces-
sary precautions. After some time the
mayor wrote TO say that he had taken
all the proper steps and upon the pre-
feet sending to see that they We're Ell
fectual, he found that the only prepara-
ton the mayor had made consisted in
having large number of graves dug in
the church yard.
A well-known author once wrote =
pretty essay on the power Of education
to beauty, that it absolutely chiseled
the features that he has seen many
a clumsy nose and pair of thick lips 50
modified by thought awakened and ar
tive sentiment, as to be unrecI qnizsbie.
And he put it on that ground that We
so often see people, homely and unat-
tractive in youth, bloom in middle life
into sOftened Indian Summer of good
looks and mellow tones.
Among various species of new cotton
indigenous to foreign soil, and intro
duced in the cotton States, is the Peru
Wan. 1t is tall and well limbed, but
yet destitute of the faintest sign of
blooms. This cotton does not bloom
until the second year after planting,
and continues to bear fruit every year
afterward to the seventh year 1t seems
well adapted to our soil and climate
during the summer. but it is question
able whether it will bear the changes of
the winter season. The staple is said
to be cOarser but as long as the Sea
Island, and stronger. 1t commands
about four cents more in the market
than our ordinary cotton"
In Chicago the street cars are about
being used as adjuncts to the post
Office. For this purpose, the postal
authorities propose to place In all the
cars passing near the post Office, boxes
for the reception of letters. These will
be so arranged that the letters can be
deposited without entering or stopping
the car; and on arriving at the office,
the carrier will remove the box and put
an empty one in its place. By this plan
people along the lines can deposit their
letters at any hour, knowing that in &
short time they will be at the general
Office for transmission while under ex-
isting arrangements, the lamp post
boxes eau be emptied only at stated
hours. aud considerable time may
elapse before the carrier arrives at his
destination.
There are Just thirty-.wo days in the
year upon which it is unadvisable to
Join hands. namely Seven in January,
three each IN February, March and De-
cember, two each in April, June, July,
August. September and November, and
one in October, so that January is the
worst ami October the best month for
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