Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-05
NO. 81.
Varieties.
4 good mo.ive-Locomotive.


needed is better style of men and
women"
Charles Lamb. in speaking of one his
rides on horseback, remarked that ''all
1t once tine horse stopped, but he kept
right on"
Why are the ladies the biggest thieves
in existence? Because they steel their
oettlcoats, bone their STAYS, crib their
babies and hook their dresses.
Walter Scott's novels are now sold at
three-pence apiece in London, and the
iealers say that his books are read now
only by the humbiest class of buyers.
A shaft, weighing 5000 ibs., and
some cranks that weigh 81, 600 ibS. each,
have just been made at Bridgewater,
Massachusetts,, for the Fitchburg water
works.
Turkish women now wear their wells
so thin that their feature are distinctly
visible through them. This is a great
Improvement on the thick wrappings
behind which they used to hide their
faces.
Inthe Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral.
a large and valuable collection of
I
been found. A royal commission has
been appointed to examine them and %
report upon their contents.
An enterprising firm in London lately
paid 5000 rupees for the privilege OF
collecting the hair shorn from the heads
of pilgrims at the Magh Mela, at
/ Allahadbad. and the whole capillary
harvest has been shipped off TO Loddon,
TO be made into chiguOns.
In n suit before the United States
Court in New York, counsel stated that
! the sO-called "PrusSian needle gun is
/ the invention of an American named
Smith, and patented three years before
it was used in Prussia, to which country
the United States patent was taken as
proof Of the invention.
A man must not only desire To be
right-he must be right. You may say,
II wish to send this bali so as to kill the
lion crouchinS yonder. ready to spring
upon me. My wishes are all right, and
right, and | hope Providence will direct
the ball. Providence won't. You must
DO it and If you do not, you are dead
man.-Beechcr.
A bachelor one day set the table in
his lonely abode with plates for himself
and an imaginary wife and five children.
He then sat down to dine, and as often
as he helped himself to food he put the
same quantity on each of the other
plates, and surveyed the prospect, at
the same time computing the cost. He
is still a bachelor.
A correspondent OF an English paper,
writing from the scene OF the late
African war, saws: II suppose you
heard that the Ashartees cOuld not
understand our telegraph, and so they,
in imitation, carried line of white
cotton from tree to tree all along the
road. passing it here and there through
rags of white calico"
The manufacture OF cast iron nails
and shoe pins is peculiar to the South
StaiIOrdshire CEng) district, although,
curiOusly enough. the demand for one
description, known as lath nails, Is al
most entirely for Scotland. The small
est nail made is /, inch in length, and
OF these a good workman will mold up
wards of 7j0 600 in day. The largest
measure .! inches long, and OF these
good days work IS about $1,000. The
yearly production of cast nails IS about
!, 600 tuRs.
Ladies who imagine themselves mar
tyrs to tyrlnnical husbands should pity
their sisters in India. Among other
restrictions, the Hnloo Bible forbids
a woman to see dancing, hear music,
wear Jewels, blacken her eyes, eat dainty
food, sit at a window, or view herself
in a mirror during the absence of her
husband and it allows him to divorce
her if she INJURIES his property, scolds
him, quarrels with another woman,
think of that , or presumes TO eat be-
fore he has finished his meal.
The curious manner in which the su-
perstitiOn of witchcraft still fingers IN
the human mind Is shown by the case
of a farmer named BIrbier, living at
/ Connors' Creek, Mich, who has led
terrible life during the past five years,
/ having been bewitched, as he asserts,
/ by an old woman who once called ut
| his house to beg. He regarded her as
an impOstOr, and addressed her IN Ian
guage which brought down her curses
upon him. Since that time he has been
afii icted at regular intervals with fits of
screaming and shouting. The last one
commenced two weeks ago, and he made
no pause until he was unable to open
his mouth for weakness. This clear
case OF insanity his friends persistently
attribute to witchcrlft, and are making
efforts to find the old woman in order
| to induce her TO remove the curse.
/ Tho fearful and continuous rolling of
| the vessel was the cause OF painful and
and Iudicrous accidents, of course. The
intellectual man, with long brown over
coat that touched his heels, and sharp
/ inquiring eve, that seemed to reach into
everything, was knocked off his feet by
wave, and, besides being drenched 10
/ the skin, was driven ont of sight by
/ lifeboat. B1ily enjoyed that trip better
/ than he did. One of the Stewards
/ bald-beaded gentlemen-was ''teeter-
ing" along the deck with plate Of
highly seasoned beef in one hand and a
cup of hot tea in the other, when O
sudden lurch of the vessel lifted him
into the air, and drove him with great
violence against the guards. The
sDiced beef and fork were never heard
u again, bat the tea he saved by catch
ing 1t under his collar. One Lady was
cut in the head, and one gentleman
broke a number of his legs, but was out
again in an hour eating Welsh rareoit.
His Highness the Prince Imperial,
saws the Paris Figaro, ''wAs born IN
1856; these figures added together make
%. He attained his majority IN 1874;
and these figures added together make
also 20. IL Is, then, when he is twenty
years old that his fate will be decided
that is to say in 1876. The sum OF
1861 plus plus plus 6 equals y.
Twenty-Five The exact dura5Ion (trom
1913 to 1870 of the reign of his father!
Now, any one can figure out coIncI-
dences of this kind with little lngen-
uity. Take George Washington for
example. His family emigrated from
England to Virginia in 1633-the sum
"a thoao Hrrr,roa is Il He WAS born IN