Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-10

A sure friend is best known in an adj
verse state; we know not when we
trust till after trial there are some
who will keep us company while il is
clear and fair, who will be gone when
the clouds gather. That is the only
friendship which is stronger than death; (;
and those the friends whose fortunes
are embarked in the same bottom. who
are resolved to sink or swim together.
There is in Cayenne fly. called the
LuciLiG hOmjajUOrar man eater1
which commits great havoc among the
convlcts sent out to that colony by the
French Government. NJ. Charles CO.
querel says that this fly lays its eggs in
the mouth or nostrils of sleeping con-
Wet, especially drunken one. and that
the offspring in their larval state usu
ally bring about the death of their vic
tim.
Seventeen years ago, Michael Long
aker of Pottstown, lost a $40 note while
engaged at work. The other dav an in
mate of the Aims House, thinking he
was about to ''shutfie off this mortal
coll sent for Michael, and upon visit
ing him, said that he had found the $50
which he pOcketed at the time. THAT
money" said the old man, ''never done
me a bit of good, and have worked
and begged until | raised sufficient to
pay you back, and here it is" Taking
from his pocket an old wallet he handed
Mike the sum he lost seventeen wears
ago.-Defendcr.
Some japanese fishermen recently
killed huge cephalopod, their boat
having been seized by its tentacles.
The length of this modern kraken.
from the tail to the insertion of the ten
tacles, was about sixteen feet one of
the arms, from the junction of the BODY
to the sucker at the end, measuring five
feet in length. The readers of H1go's
"Iollers OF the Sea" have not yet for
gotten the ''devil-fsh, the marine hero
of the story, and may have their conf
dence In the author restored by this
actual discovery of an equally hideous
and powerful monster.
There are many ways of shaking
hands, and most of them are disagree
able ones. There is the fshy way, the
snubbing way, and the pumping way.
and, the worst of all, which is the hearty
way. When a friend is so glad to see
you that he crushes your hand in his
Joy, and renders you incapable of man
ual labor for eleven years, it is nearly
time that friendship should become a
lost sentiment. This is what happened
to poor fellow in New Hampshire.
whose sad case should serve as a warn
ing to the American people-the most
inveterate and unreasonable hand-shak-
ers in the world
The Marseillais, who enjoy excellent
opportunities for acquiring a taste for
shell fish, since the Mediterranean sea-
board produces edible mollusks of sur
passing quality, have established kiosks
all along the approaches to the old har-
Dor, In which oysters, mussels, cookies,
and other biyalves, are displayed for
sale. 1t Is curious to see the passers-
by, going to and from their business,
stop before the shelves on which they
are displayed, getting them opened,
sprlnklIng them with lemon, devouring
them, paying for them, and darting off
In all haste, to repeat the snack on their
retupT This goes on from morning till
nigh.
The Chicago Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools has hit upon a device which
appears promising. lie recommends
the establishment OF an ungraded
school, to which the bad scholars-the
boys who swear, are obscene, rowdyish,
or who hagrantly violate any rule, which
offence is ordinarily punished by sus-
pension or dismissal, and the girls who
are of the same sort-shall be sent from
all the other schools, there to remain
until they become fit for associating
with the properly-behaved scholars in
the graded schools. By this plan the
evil disposed will not be deprived of an
but will be educated in q
school of manners as well as mental in
struction,