Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
Varieties.
The hardest thing to hold in the
world is an unruly tonpue-

luS.
A genius is popularity supposed to be
one who can do anything except make
living.
Don't invest your money ia lottery
tickets. Give some other pan chance
for prize.
Don't tell an editor how to run a
newspaper. Let the poor fool find .it
out himself.
A hard-workIng young man, with his
wits about him, will make money while
others lose it.
Never promise a child and then fail
to perform, whether you promise him a
bun or beating.
Pull up the moment you find you are
ont of the road, and take the nearest
way back at once.
Every time the sheep bleats it loses a
mouthful, and every time we complain
we miss blessing.
a bore is a man who spends so much
time talking about himself that you
can't talk about yourself.
Already we see signs of the coming
monarchy in this country in the number
of piers around New York.
Hop picking in the day time and
partner picking at night is now the
order in Central New York.
Drinkers in this country can hardly
be called heathens, but still the great
idea with them is jug-or-not.
1t is only by labor that thought can
be made healthy, and only by thought
that labor can be made happy.
A North Carolina baby was born with
its false hair on, thus establishing the
genuineness of the divinity that doth
hedge woman.
Punch says young mans friends
object to his being loose; but, some
how, they have an equal objection to
his being tight.
One day recently, it is said, the wheat
cars which arrived in Chicago would
have made a continuous train over
twelve miles long.
A noted English clergyman recon-
mends to people to urn their dead.
Wouldn't he do better to show them
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A man, at Newark, n. J., claims to
have discovered means by which cleo
tricity may be controlled, so as to be
utilized as a motive power.
The Railroad Gdzette estimates that
the extent of new railways built in this
country in 1873 will be more than forty
per cent. less than for 1872.
Artificial wants are more numerous
and les 4 to more expense than natural
wants; from this cause the rich are
oftener in greater want of money than
those who have but bare competency.
An Italian engineer proposes to the
Sultan of Turkey to unite the cont
nents of Europe and Asia by means of
a bridge across the Bosphorus from
Pera to Scutari-distance of mile and
a half.
The wives and other female relatives
of the transported Communists who de-
sire 70 Join them in New Caledonia con-
time to be forwarded thither at govern
ment expense, and Havre paper gives
particulars OF the departure of five hun
dred women who left that port few
days ago on board the steamer Fenelon,
many of them with families.
In a prominent Western journal we
find it stated that the Sierra Madre
Tunnel Company of Colorado, with
Colonel George Heaton as President,
has been organized for the purpose of
tunneling through the Rocky Noun
tains. English capitalists have come
forward and subscribed all the stock
sixty million dollars-and work has
already been commenced. By means of
this tunnel, the company expect to reach
au of the one hundred and fifty issure-
veins of silver-ore known to exist in the
mountains, and, if their calculations do
not miscarry, the earnings will many
times replace the amount invested. It
is estimated that the cost of the work
will not exceed twenty million dollars.
An undertaken in Sullivan county,
New York, recently advertised as fol-
lows in a local journal cit is admitted
that we do not only love our wives, but
also our children, brothers and sisters.
They die. We want suitable coffin or
casket for the jewel, and a tender and
careful hand to take it up and bear it to
its last resting place. Who will do it
for us ?" The advertiser then proceeds
to answer his own question by inform
ing the public that he is prepared to
bury as many as desire his services, and
continues ga good hearse and peer
less team of horses in waiting at all
times to receive or deliver corpse at the
railroad station, or go elsewhere as far
as human voice is heard or human track
is rum"
Keep a List. Keep list of your
friends, and let God be the first in the
list, however long it may be.
2. Keep a list of the gifts you get and
let Christ, who is the unspeakable gift,
be first.
3. Keep list of your mercies; and
let pardon and life stand at the head.
4. Keep list of your Joys; and let
the Joy unspeakable and full of glory be
first.
8. Keep a list of your hopes and let
the hope of glory be foremost.
6. Keep list of your sorrows and
let sorrow for sin be first.
7. Keep list of your enemies; and
however many there may be, put down
the "old man" and the "old serpent"
first.
s. Keep a list of your sins; and let
the sin of unbelief be set down as the
first and worst of all.-Prompter.
Very few realize what vast quantity
of eggs is required for the markets of
the country. Boston alone consumes
from fifty to one hundred thousand
dozen of eggs daily, when they are at
the lowest figure, and about thirty thou
sand at the highest. One man in Ok
ford gathers and sends to Boston $780,
600 worth of eggs annually. He keeps
two teams constantly employed collect
ing eggs from grocery stores of seven
or eight towns. He has stone cellar,
100 feet by so, at home, and one at
South Paris, where he stores the eggs.
When lowest, he pickles and saves for
a higher market. He has about 1000
crates and some 100 boxes, and ships by
the railroad every day. The freight to
Boston is cent dozen, and all loss by
breakage comes on him. Eggs are
povor louar than sixteen cents or higher