Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-12
NO. 46.
Varieties.
High-Elizabethan ruffies.

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Inveterate smokers-Steamboat sun-
nels.
Low-The new style of wearing the
hair.
The old fashioned revolver - The
world.
Northumberland fashionable in
1777, are revived this season.
1t doesn't matter much whether your
new bonnet has strings or not.
Ladies are shy about adopting the
Fashion" Of discarding corsets.
A Kansas lawyer was fined for pro-
family and contempt of court the other
day for quoting Latin to the Judge.
From all parts of the country accounts
come of people being injured by tum-
bling out of carriages. Well, this is
the fall season.
A reverend gentleman of Oswego,
New York, was recently fined $3.50 for
choking his wife, which he did with
view to make her talk
krupp's world-renowned iron works
at Esson, III Prussia, cover u space of
1000 acres, and employ Is, ,000 laborers.
The buildings alone occupy 200 acres.
The stupendous pumpkin, the enor.
nous pear, the gigantic gooseberry, and
all the rest of them must now hide their
diminished heads, for the Selma Times
chronicles, has on show in its office,
q sweet potato six feet two inches long.
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III conversation may be little thought
OF, but they are like seeds OF flowers or
fruitful trees falling by the wayside,
borne by some birds afar; haply there
after to fringe with beauty some barren
mountain side, or to make g'sd some
lonely wilderness.
j. p. Molin, celebrated sculptor of
Sweden, is dead. His most celebrated
work, 1.-The Wrestlers," representing
two men bound togethe- at the waist,
and armed with knives, struggling in
duel to the death, was exhibited at the
International Exhibition in 1862, and
was considered one of the most remark
able works of modern times.
A writer in Philadelphia paper
gushes over Miss Nelson, saying
''Robbed of her youth and loneliness,
Adelaide Nelson would still be great
and glorious actress. Like the roses
before the shrine of Aphodite, her
beauty Is but heath, fragrance, a
delight, before the nnfading image 0i
her noble and imperishable art"
So long as God holds you up by the
will and determination to serve Him
with which He inspires you, go on
boldly and do not be frightened at your
little checks and falls. so long as you
can throw yourself into His arms III
trusting love. Go there with an open.
Joyful heart as often as possible {; if not
always joyful, at least go with a brave
and faithful heart.
A school-boys toothache generally
commences at eight a. M, reaches its
highest altitude at a quarter to nine,
when the pain is intense to an e1traor-
binary degree; commences to subside
at nine, and after that disappears with
a CELEBRITY that must be very comforting
to the sufferer. If at night that boy
hasn't got four quarts of walnuts spread
out to dry up stairs, it is because there
is no place up stairs to do it.
A Virginia city (Nevadal man is said
to have invented an ingenious plan of
keeping his house clear of insurance
agents and similar nuisances. On each
side of the path leading to his door, he
has fixed several sections of water pipe
filled with small holes, and on the ap-
proach OF suspicious character a tap
Is turned, and instantly numerous Jets
of water enfilade the path in all direc-
tions, and effectually keep the invader
at safe distance.
A pious old lady at New Bedford
boosted in prayer meeting that she was
not afraid of the devil. A young chap
present, with view to testing her faith
and courage, followed her home, and
in lonely, secluded spot, crept up be-
hind her and whispered, 81 am the
devil. Butthe good woman never needed
him, and again and again he introduced
himself in the same style. Finally,
finding the thing was getting monoton-
Gus, she turned to him with the ejacu-
lation, "Well, nobody denies it," That
young man don't follow the frightened
business any more.
The writer of this saw a man who
came in 1910, with his father, to Gin
cinnati, from Pennsylvania, in two
horse wagon: They drove up Main
street, and when they got up little
above where the new post Office is TO be
located man came along and asked
him if he owned that team. When told
he did, he offered his father seven acres
of land in square block coming up to
Main street. The old gentleman took
a look around, and said 'she wouldn't
sell his team for the whole town. Drive
on, boys" The team at that time was
probably worth between seventy five
and one hundred dollars.
The story is told of a woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal
OF others, and made confession to the
priest of what she had done. He gave
her a ripe thistle top, and told her to
go out IN various directions and scatter
the seeds, one by one. Wondering at
the penance, she obeyed, and then re-
turned to her confessor. To her amaze
ment, he bade her go back and gather
the scattered seeds, and when she OBJ
jected that it would be impossible, he
icpiCu titnt II WOhil Dc SIM ulOk0 utm-
cult to gather up and destroy all evil
reports which she had circulated about
Others. Any thoughtless, careless child
can scatter handful of thistle seed be.
fore the wind in a moment, but the
strongest and wisest man cannot gather
them again.
The Southern negroes have = super
stitiOn that ii while upon the road a
rabbit crosses the path before them it
is a sign of bad luck. A crowd of girls
and boys were On their way to country
school, when a hare, frightened from
his burrow, ran across the road in front
of the party. The girls instantly, and
with one accord, turned quickly around
three times ON their heels, pulled OF
their sun-bonnets, spat in them, turned
them inside out, and, placing them
again on their heads, wore them thus
to school, congratulating themselves on
the way that by these very essential