Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
NO. 70.
Varieties.

Never go to the BARRIERS.
Never sigh over what might have been,
but make the best OF what is.
A straight line is said to be the short
est both in morals and geometry.
Bookkeeping may be taught in les
son of three words-Never lend them.
Liberality, it is said, consists less in
giving Profusely than in giving judi
ciously.
Fret yourself as much as you please
about trifies, but don't fret your friends
about them.
Counterfeit sovereigns made OF plsti-
mum and electro plated, are in circuls-
ton in England.
As by constant friction steel is kept
highly polished, so by constant exercise
is talent ever at its brightest.
An Irishman, on observing a beauti-
full cemetery. remarked that he consid-
cred it a healthy place to be buried in.
A Cincinnati man is ssid to be train
ing himself for his approaching mar
riage by passing several hours a day in
q boiler shop.
The corn in harvest sometimes ripens
more in one day than in weeks before.
/ So some Christians gain more grace in
one day than for months before.
/ People go to the mountains in the
summer for their health, and, after
being subjected to violent atmospheric
changes, come home with colds which
last all winter.
A Vienna journal contains the follow
ing advertisement: Gamma Agrikoi, sick
nurse, watches dead bodies, repairs
straw chairs, applies leeches, and makes
pastry, desserts, and delicacies."
No man is so happy as a real Chris
tian; none so rational, so virtuous, so
amiable. How little vanity does he feel,
though he believes himself united to
! God How far is he from abjectness
when he ranks himself with the worms
; of the earth Pascal.
Jones thinks that he would make q
good correspondent, because he says he
always writes two capital letters every
time he signs his name. Well, 1t is some
satisfaction to know that he has at last
learned to sign his name with two cspi-
tsl letters, instee1 of continuing to
make his mark with an Y.
The most agreeable of all companions
is simple, frank man, without any
high pretensions to an oppressive
greatness one who loves life and un-
derstands the use of it; obliging, alike
at all hours; above all, of a golden tenn
per, and stesdfast as an anchor. For
such a one We gladly exchange the
greatest genius, the most brilliant wit.
the profUundest thinker.
According to the French critics, the
statue of Jeanne dare, lately erected
at Paris on the Place des Pyramides,
does as little honor to the memory of
the heroine as does the satire of Vol
taire. The attitude, say these suthori-
ties, suggests the idea of a gdBlin on
horseback. The statue has no heroic
qualities and the face is equally de-
void of character. beauty, and express
sion.
Salt is a simple remedy for many
things, 1t will cure sick headache,
make cream freeze, make the butter
come, take ink stains out of cloth of any
kind, kill wens, kill worms, make the
ground cool, so that it is more congo
nisl to celery, cabbage, &c; ease the
itching pain caused by irritable skin
disease, like hives, itch, dc; produce
vomiting or stop it, as you like it; and
many other things too numerous to
mention.
Many exquisites of both sexes claim
admiration for their pedal eItremities.
but it IS the boots and shoes which
cover them which we are called on to
admire. Their feet, if barred, would
present a very great divergence from
the classical ideal of beauty. Tie firmly
planted foot, neither too large nor too
small, but Justly proportioned to the
height and weight 1t sustains, the
smooth surface and regularly curved
lines, the distinctness of the divisions
and the perfect formation of each toe,
with its well-marked separateness and
its gradation of size and regularity OF
detail to the very tip of the nail, are
now to be seen only In art.
Gail Hamilton tells us that simple
minded, sweet souled, high hearted
girls, it is not in English idyls only that
they are to be found, but in American
homes, in cottages by the sea, in farm
houses under the hill, in velvet and
silken drawing-rooms, in shadow and in
splendor, they are springing all around
US, fine and fair and strong. unseen
perhaps of the girls they ought to
shame, unseen perhaps of the men they
ought to charm, yet quite as likely to
be the chagrin, the despair, perhaps the
savior of both-it is to these and to
their kind we look and look not in vain,
| for the noble and natural qualities
, which make the best women so like the
best men, that all comparison ceases"
In the Rue de Jour, a narrow, OBJ
scure street in Paris, about 10 be
widened, stands a house, built three
hundred wears ago, known in the time
of Louis XIV. as the Hotel Royamount.
The Count de Boutteville then occupied
il, who was in the habit of entertaining q
strange class of guests. His hotel was
the rendezvous of the duelists. all the
aristocratic quarrels of the day were
settled there, and the only title to the
Comte's hospitality was an engagement
on the part of one guest to meet an
other in mortal combat. A table was
laid every morning in one of the rooms,
at which the duelists breakfasted before
proceeding to business, and the Comte.
with delicate thoughtfulness, provided
, foils for those who came without.
There is in Paris" says the London
Echo, IAN aged woman, who has for the
, last fifty years, supported herself by an
industry OF which, We believe, she en-
Joys q complete monopoly. She sup
plies the Garden of Acclimatization, In
Paris, with food for the pheassnts.
which food consists entirely Of ants
eggs. These she collects in the woods
around Paris. and receives about twelve
francs (about $500 for the quantity
she brings back from each of her for
aging expeditions. These generally last
three or four days, during which she
sleeps on the field of action, in order to
, watch the insects at dawn. and to find
her way to their treasures. She Is al
) most devoured by the ants, an inconve-
nience of which she takes little notice,
! but at the end Of her hsrvest-time,
,-L,.i, I,sta from, fna month of lima To