Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-15
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the lives of the largest number of peo-
pie.
1t is not a lazy farmer who sticks to
his bed late in the morning, providing
it is garden bed.
A kind word spoken to husband
will go further than a broomstick or q
hatiron, says a woman of experience.
Il Who can doubt that anything which
makes man discontented with his state,
without giving Linn the certainty of a
better one, is curse.
A good citizen must know how to be
able to command and to obey; he ought
also to know in what manner freemen
ought to govern and to be governed.
The more machinery a nation has in
operation, the more fully and protitably
is its labor employed, the more rapid
its material progress and the more de-
veloped its civilization.
He that gives good advice builds with
one hand he that gives good counsel
and example builds with both; but he
that gives good admonition ard bad
example. builds with one hand and pulls
down with the other.
Directions for finding the new comet:
Draw a line from the heel of the Dipper
to its mouth at o o. clock p NJ, and at
about twice the distance between these
points in direct line towards the hori-
zon the little joker may be seen.
A young poet in the Western States
beginning, ''Reveel, begg, the madgic
I Il q l.
would like to call at the Office he should
have the run of the dictionary for few
I hours.
/ Six days filled with seltishness, and
Sunday stuffed full of religious exer-
cises. will make good Phsrisee. but a
poor Christian There are many per-
sons who think Sunday is a sponge
with which they can wipe out the sins
of the week.
s. T. Fields says, in one of his lee
lures, that the extravagant indolent
man, who, having overspent his income,
is sumptrously living on the principal.
is like Heine's monkey, who was found
one day hilariously seated by the fire
kettle for dinner.
New Russian lace has Just been made
at Moscow. A wealthy lady there, In
amusing herself with imitation old point
lace, suddenly hit upon a novel stitch,
which is strikingly original, and made
after designs of the old Slavonian style,
and is greatly valued. The Grand
Duchess Marie is introducing this. lace
into the School of Art Needlework in
London.
A young bootblack observed a neigh
Dor poring wisely over newspaper,
whereupon he addressed him thus:
Julius, what are you looking at that
paper fer? you can't read? Go away,
cried the other, Indignantly, guess L
can read Is big enough for dat. Big
enuff retorted the other, scornfully;
dat amt muffin. A cows big enough to
catch mice, but she can't.
A small boy got another boy, some-
what smaller than himself, down on the
ground the other day, and got hold of
both his ears. placing his knee in the
small of the boys back, and asked him
in a very persuasive manner If he would
give him q white alley of his'n. The
boy replied in the affirmative. How
easy it is to settle things when one goes
about it in the right way
Madame George Sand is preparing for
the press a memoir of the young and
unfortunate Louis XVII, chiefly drawn
from the personal recollections of her
grandmother, Madame Aurore Dupin
de Francueil, granddaughter of King
Augustus III. of Poland, and nearly re-
lated to Kings Charles y. and Louis
XVIII. The memoir is to contain also
historical documents and traditions,
carefully preserved in the family of the
great French novelist.
Liberty Of speech is not one of the
blessings now enjoyed in Germany. A
sentence of imprisonment for year and
half has been passed upon a Deputy,
Herr Most, for certain speeches de-
livered by him at some meeting of work
ing men. The most serious charge
made against him was that he had de-
nounced a standing army. This was re-
garded by the Minister of War, Won
Kameke, as an insult to the members of
the army, and the prosecution was set
on foot at his request.
The most popular mourning dresses
now, especially for widows, are made
entirely of Grape. The toilette consists
of a deep basque and single skirt Of
black silk, covered in every part with
Grape. The basque is very high at the
throat, and the sleeves very close, and
both, with the skirt, are without fold
or hounces. Young girls and ladies,
who do not wear the deepest mourning,
wear tamise suits instead of the bonn
baziue once thought necessary.
In drapery, the classic is still in
favor. Ladies afflicted with em5on-
point, ito the contrary notwithstand-
Ing." So, flat trimmings are popular.
Kilt plaitings, shirrs, puffs and folds,
are among the thoroughly established
styles of trimming, and are used to
good advantage, with folds fiat, and
overlapping; cordings, single, double
and triple. Back breadths are still
aounced or loosely puffed to the waist
FIounces and ruffiss form their own
headings, and are rather scanty. Yak
lace is much worn, and like guipure is
laden with Jets.
A Chinaman entered store in Helena,
Montana, the other day, and walking
up to the counter, deposited a grass
hopper thereon, saying, as he gazed
upon the clerk with confiding look:
"He too much hoppee; all hoppee-
stop him. You sabbee?" The obliging
clerk at once commenced measuring off
musquito bar, to the intense delight of
the heather. The grasshoppers had
been destroying his garden, and wanting
to purchase some musquito bar, but not
knowing the name of the article, he
brought the DESTROYER with him, and
the clerk understood in a moment the
article needed.
The young Napoleon's rooms at Wool
wich are modestly furnished. He has
some ornaments and souvenirs of in
terest; among them a pen -and-ink
drawing of the first Napoleon's war