Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-02-25
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A cannibaIs epitaph-"Write me as
one who loves his fellow-men."
Postal cards are now much used for
playing chess by correspondence.
'How did you enjoy Christmas ?"
writes little girl, adding. ''our turkey
was a goose.
An old farmer says: Talk about DRAIN
age, the surest drain on farm is q
mortgage at high rate Of interest.
Mark Twain says that in the higher
latitudes of Feejee ''it's SO miserably
cold that a man can't tell the truth"
A family of eight brothers, named
Lengle, in Dauphin county, average SIX
feet four and a-half inches in height.
A York county fisherman has been
found sewing catfish heads on mullets'
bodies and selling them as genuine cat
fish.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons sold flowers at the
| Springfield Bazaar the other night, and
made all the youths in town forget
there was such thing as panic.
Scotch keeper Ito young SPORTSMAN
eye hae shot boy" Young sportsman
=" Good heavens Is it possible?
What shall do?" Keeper Gmmovable)
-"Gie him shullin."
| Jove and his attendant deities must
be sadly disconnected, for by the con-
struction of a new railroad in Greece,
| the locomotives run within sight and
almost within hearing of Mount Olym-
/ pus.
/ Signor Dominiceti, the composer of
the opera ''Morovico," which has made
such success at Milan, was a conduc-
tor of troupe in this country twenty
years ago, and, the season proving dis
astrous, took to mining with fabulous
results.
Dion Boucicault is delighted with his
first impressions of California, and has
told a reporter, contidentially, that if
the winter days were always like those
they are now having out there he wished
he might ''eniOy them forever" But,
then, it is so far from Paris.
Caleb Gushing, being seventy-four
years old, and this year being II, he
May be said to be in harmony with the
age. Furthermore, even numbered
years are considered fortunate and pros
porous ones-all of which might be
claimed an indication that he would
make good Chief Justice.
Look into the life and temper of
Christ, described and illustrated in the
gospel, and search whether you can find
anything like it in your own life. Have
you anything of His humility, meek
ness, and benevolence to men? Any
thing of His purity and wisdom, His
contempt of the world, His fortitude,
His zeal?
When, where, and how to pray
When? Always, without ceasing."
Where? In all places especially that
place which, being sanctified to this
use, is therefore called the house of
prayer. How? From the heart, ''lift-
ing up pure and clean hands" That
is to say, in faith and in love. Our
prayer, feathered with these two wings,
hieth straight into Heaven
A Cincinnati lady, writing from Wash
ington, says: Boston draws herself up
severely, scans your cerebral develop
ment through her eyeglass, and coolly
asks: "What do you know" New
York displays her silks and diamonds,
and pertly asks: "What are you worth?"
Philadelphia, with prim hand and
pursed-up lips, asks: "Who was your
grandfather?" While Washington stops
between the waltz and the German to
inquire, "Can you dance?'
In the district of Champagne, France.
the cultivation of snails for the Paris
market has latterly become profitable
product, they bringing about fifty cents
per hundred, and are in great demand
as a delicacy. During the summer,
after heavy dew or rain, the peasants
catch the snails as they crawl out, with
house on back, for promenade; con
tractors buy up the molluscs, enclose
them in n kind of park, fatten them Oh
salads thyme, mint, parsley, &c. When
large enough to pass through a ring of
a certain size they are fit for the table
or are supposed to be.
A queer case of somnambulism Oc-
CURED recently at factory in West.
field, Conn. One of the workmen being
instructed in the evening to carry into
the shop the next morning a quantity
of wood lying outside, was surprised
when the time came to find it all care
fully piled. The watchman says that
during the night the man did the work
according to his instructions, stepping
carefully over the things on the floor.
The watchman spoke to him several
times, but received no answer, and as
soon as the Job was done the somnam-
bulist went home. The night worker
noticed feeling of lassitUde the next
morning and was unable to work during
the day.
Letters from Palestine state that
Mons. Ganneau, a French explorer,
while on his way to Jerusalem, visited
the site which he had previously iden-
titled with the biblical city of Gezer.
Here he was fortunate in being able to
trace in part the plan of the old city
and the positions Of the houses and sub
urbs. In Jerusalem he has examined a
number of Judea-Greek sarcophagi,
with inscriptions. They were found
quite recently on the Mount of Olives,
not far from the site of Bethany, their
date being of Christian times, and GER
tainly very early. They contain the
bones of Christian Jews, and it is start
ling, in connection with the locality in
which they were discovered, to come
upon the names of Simon, Martha, and
Lazarus (Eleazar.) II is, however, to
be remembered that these names were
very common among the Jews at that
date.
Walter Kimball, who was City Comp
troller in Chicago five years ago, has
had fortune thrust upon him in rather
a singular manner 1t is his, and yet
not his, nor will any one else take it.
During his term of Office several of the
railroad companies desiring to take a
part of the Lake Park for depot pur-
poses, made bargain for it, agreeing
to pay $500, 900 for the lot, of which
sum 5000, 900 was paid SIS an instalment.
Then certain property-holders stepped
in, and an injunction was issued re-
straining the city from disposing OF its
lands. The case is still pending.