Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-02-11
NO. 6.
Varieties.

Il noisy piece OF crockery-Ihe cup
| that cheers.
Newburyport uses steam whistle
for fire alarm.
The cost of the Bazaine trial is stated
to have been So, 600.
Boston's losses by fire during last
year amounted to S2,55S, CSC.
A veteran observer says that many
shrewd man has married a shrew.
Do not run in debt TO the shoemaker.
1t is unpleasant to be unable to say
your sole is your own.
\ boy in one of the New Haven
schools has Just made shirt. and an
exchange Indignantly asks, "Have wo-
men no rights-no exclusive privileges?'
SLOW does that look, eh - said big
listed Wall-st. man to another man,
holding up his fist. THAT" said his
friend. CLOCKS as If you'd gone short on
soap"
King George, OF Greece, has numer-
Gus hobbies, conspicuous among which
are a number of trained magpies, who
are allowed 20 perch upon the royal
Uranium.
further endearing herself to the poor of
Dublin and Belfast, by erecting COM
partment houses TO be paid for in in
stalments.
Hepworth Dixon is coming to this
country to deliver us some lectures.
The extreme scarcity of lecturers among
US seems to be attracting that sort of
people to this country from all parts of
the world.
Mrs. J. r. Roskrow, wife of the su-
perintendent of the central shaft, was
the first woman to pass through the
Hoosac Tunnel. She wished to crafty
her woman's curiosity to see through
the thing.
A monster egg, laid by a South Hing
ham hen, was recently broken and found
to contain two yolks and another per-
feet egg. The owner of the hen is con-
sequently the victim of extravagant
eggs-t
A woman in Michigan insured her
life for S9, 500 for the benefit of her
children the other day, and then COM
uIitted suicide. And now the mothers
of Michigan are daily teased by their
afectionate children to go and do like
wise.
Fros-hunting for the Boston market
is said to be branch of industry at
Newburyport. The frogs are kept in
tubs and fattened with meal, and after
wards shipped to order. No wonder SO
many people are mealy mouthed about
eating them.
The Post, published at Pimpleville,
Vt, recently had this item: Those
who have been engaged in sheep-steal-
ing had better stand from under. We
know OF whom We are talking" Bad
blood has consequently broken ont in
Pimpleville, resulting in the loss OF
sixty subscribers, and the paper will
have to go into bankruptcy. -,..... g..
DRIED MEAT FOR MEDICINAL PUR-
PosEs.-This is prepared by cutting
fresh meat finely, spreading upon mus
lin, drying rapidly in current of air
and rubbing into brown powder, which
is almost inodorous, and has a slightly
saline taste. 1t is readily eaten by pa
tients, spread upon bread, or teaspoon
full of it mixed with a cupful of broth
or soup, or by children, if baked into
biscuits.
Coffi Calcalli, the King of Ashantee,
large territory back of the
Gold Coast, and has been contending
for many years with the English settlers
in France. In 1872, the Dutch, with
whom he was on friendly terms, sold
their possessions to the English, and
the Ashantee King declared war, but
was repulsed at Elmina, one Of the forts
formerly belonging TO the Dutch. 1t is
not likely that his death at this time
viii put an end TO the war, as it was
by the advice of his chief
tains, who, In the struggle for success
sion, will not be likely to give up the
advantages each may gain in battle.
"a poet without pathos-either natu-
raj or aequired-seems to us one who
will utterly fail in reaching the highest
ends of his being. 1t was anguish
which sublimated the genius of Dante,
lnd led to what is grandest in his divine
His was an example of
what we should call acquired pathos-
hat is, the pathos begotten in the spirit
through suffering. An example of ma
,ural pathos is to be found in Words
worth, whose life was singularly free
rom the ordinary sadnesses of human
ty, but who yet possessed, as it has
been so beautifully expressed, and he
night have claimed for himself
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears'r
Jesus Christ has trod the world. The
race of the divine footsteps will never
Dc obliterated. And the divine foot
steps were the footsteps of man. The
iOllow. On until mankind wears his
mage. On toward yon summit on
which stands, not an angel, not a dis
spirit, not an abstract of
deal and unattainable virtues, but the
nan Christ Jesus 1t is something to
nave clear margin left for effort,
,lear possibility marked for improve
nent. When humanity has become
ike His humanity, we may pause; we
hall then be aware that the clouds
lbove our heads have beamed into the
beauty of Heaven, that the
lies of the field have glowed with i'm
Mortal amaranths. May God Almighty
iasten the consummation, and may we,
With passionate, steady, burning, un-
luenchable ardor, strive to know and
initiate Christ.-Peter Bayae.
A miner from Arizona, whose name
We are unable to ascertain, went fishing
Town on Culverwell's wharf the other
,vering. He had been fishing but
hort time when he drew up on the
wharf an ordinary-sized black liquor
bottle. He was not frightened at the
,ottle. but he was wonderfully per-
,lexed as 20 what had bitten" and
low and by whom the bottle had been
,ttached to his hne about a foot above
he hook. The miner called out, and
everal other persons fishing near him
an to see the wonderful catch. An e1-
.mination showed that there was devil
ish inside the bottle, and that one OF
rs arms extended out of the neck and
vas firmly entwined around the Line.
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