Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-18
NO. 46.
a1.ISU1eS.

/ X
feet.
Science is the trunk of a mighty tree,
the roots of which are unknown, and
the branches flourish in the useful arts
He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper but he is more happy
who can suit his temper to any circum-
stances.
China has streets paved with granite
blocks laid over three hundred years
ago, as good as new. The contractors
are dead.
Nothing is more precious than time.
Never be prodigal of it. As every
thread of gold is valuable, so is every
minute of time.
1t is much better to decide a differ
ence between enemies than friends for
one of our friends will certainly become
an enemy, and one of our enemies a
friend.
A man who pretended to have seen a
ghost was asked what the ghost said to
him. 'How shonld | understand ?"
replied he. Il am not skilled in any of
the dead languages"
In these lives of ours, tender little
acts do more to bind hearts together
than great deeds or heroic words, since
/ the first are like the dear daily bread
that none can live without, the latter
but occasional feasts-beautifu and
memorable, but not possible to all.
They have found in Holcomb Valley.
California. a meteorological marvel, a
mountain of gold bearing quartz. IT
is twelve miles from Bear Lake, above
which 1t rises 800 feet. The crown of
the mountain is said to be a mass of
gold bearing rock, 35 feet high, 100
feet wide, and about two miles in length.
The assays have yielded $40 ton.
A brother of the Ashantee King Kof-
fee named Aguasi Boachi, who was
taken from Commasse by some Dutch
man at the age of nine, brought up in
Amsterdam, and afterward sent to the
School of Mines at Freiberg, is now a
director of mines in the Dutch colony
of Batavia. He speaks three or four
European languages, is intelligent and
fond of study, and generally respected.
The first live specimens of the Rus
sian fish. the sterlet, having Just been
brought to England from st. Peters
burg. Twelve of them we're placed in
a large deal tank in st. Petersburg,
and only three died in the nine days,
journey to London. These fish are
very handsome and graceful in their
movements, and are esteemed a great
delicacy in Russia They have been
placed in the Brighton aquarium.
Among the mountsins of Virginia and
found many wild hogs, which do not
hesitate to attack the traveller, and are
without doubt the most dangerous den
iZens of the mountains. They are usu
ally found in herds of from FIVE to
twelve, and the sight of a human being
is the only signal for attack that they
require. The intruder has then moth
ing left him but to outrun them, or
climb tree and wait for them to leave.
Fisherman in some parts of Europe
and of this country kill fish with knife
or bludgeon as soon as they are taken
from the water, because fish thus killed
are found to be better than those which
have long gssped and struggled before
dying. The Dutch, for example, de-
stroy life by making a slight Longitude
nal ineision under the tail with sharp
instrument. On the Rhine they kill
salmon by thrusting a steel needle into
their heads. Fish may be easily killed
by striking them a quick, sharp blow
with small stick on the back of the
head Just behind the eyes, or by taking
them by the tail and striking the head
quickly against any hard substance.
Two plants have recently been found
possessed of useful medicinal qualities.
one is plant of Brazil, named labor
andi. 1t has a sudorific virtue un-
equalled by any medicament hitherto
known. 1t is very suitable for those
maladies which are treated by cutsne-
Gus exhalatiOns, such as rheumatism,
sciatica, chills, and virulent diseases
like smallpox and measles. The second
plant is tuberOus Ailantus, which is ca
pable of checking stubborn diarrhCea,
and especially dysentery. 1t is the
bark of the root which has this virtue
in highest degree. This is bruised in
a mortar, with little hot water, and,
after sitting, the extract is administered
in teaspoonfuls.
The aged Swedish poet Runeberg.
while sick at HelsingfOrs in Finland,
for several years past has been study
ing the habits of birds, and specially
with regard to the cause of migration.
His theory is that the longing for light
alone draws the birds southwark When
the days shorten in the north the birds
go south, but as soon as ever the long
northern nights set in, with all their
luminous and long drawn hours, the
wanderers return to their old haunts.
1t is generally supposed that they move
southwark to get more abundant food
but why, asks Runeberg, do they leave
their rich hunting grounds to return to
the north ? The central regions of En-
rope are in every way more desirable
than the waste of Scandinavia. Only
one thing is richer there, and that is
light.
About two years ago a butcher in Ber-
lin was greatly distressed by the loss
of 1000 thalers, which he had placed in
a secret drawer of his desk at home. 1t
was impossible to discover the thief and
payments falling due at the time the
butcher was unable to meet his obliga-
tions on account of the loss of the money,
and was forced into bankruptcy. Not
long after this the butchers wife be-
came insane and was taken TO an asylum,
NhCiCs hAtcA L4OhtAot
she died. After his wife's death the
butcher received her clothing from the
authorities of the asylum. He found
sewed in between the lining Of one of
her dresses the long-lost sum of money,
and in addition some bank notes. Evil
IDENTIFY the woman, who had been very
avaricious had taken the money In a
moment of alteration and sewed it in
her dress.
The war Of 1870 cost France f371 900,
COZ, to which f173, ,000, 900 may be ad-
ded as the value OF the ceded territory.
of course the cost to the North German
Confederation was muck less, as their
troops operated in the enemy's country
and the commissarit was much better
managed than with the French. The
cost to Germany has been officially
stated as fi7, 600. 900, but when peace
was concluded the treasury was empty,