Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-25
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Varieties.

Gertrude thinks Lent good time for
proposals. for then it is so easy to ash( (k)
papa.
Nothing can make q man truly great
but being truly good, and partaking of
Gods holiness.
Small feather fans are said to be tax
ing the place of the gigantic wind sails
of last summer.
The beginning Of things is in our
own power, but the end thereof resteth
at Gods disposing.
The farmers in Scott county, Ill. find
it difficult to keep the wolf away from
the door. positively, not fguratively.
A young lady in Indiana was SO dis
gusted with her young man for running
at the sight of ghost, that she is max
ing preparations to marry the ghost.
Busy not thyself in searching into
other mems lives the errors of thine
own are more than thou canst answer
for. 1t more concerns thee to mend one
fault in thyself, than to find out thou
sand in others.-Bishop Leighton.
Mr.. Beecher says, in a recent sermon:
''To fall from high position socially by
reason of misfortune in business, or by
loss of wealth, is to the lower sort Of
men degradation, but to the higher it is
coronation"
| The Sultan Abdul Aziz, it is said,
was most graceful in his bearing to-
wards the Empress Eugene during her
stay at Constantinople, his habitual
brusqueness giving place to an unwon-
ted amiability. After her departure he
actually moped.
A lady lecturer, who has the right to
put NJ. ID. after her name, argues that,
"because American women are enthusi-
astic, they are the handsomest women
in the world. Foreign women, as q
rule, become too stout, are too phleg-
matte, too expressionless
joaquin Miller is said to have cwed
the inspiration of his verses entitled
''The Indian Summer" contained in
"Sun Land Songs" to Cleveland lady.
The fair inspirer is said to have been
offended at what a great many girls
would give their newest boots to gain.
In French industrial establishment,
employing 630 men, chiefly vegetarians,
the sick fund was constantly in debt.
By the introduction of meat into the
food of the men, the average loss of
time per man, on account of illness or
fatigue, was reduced from Is to days
per annum.
Said Lord John Russell to Hume at
a social dinner, "What do you consider
the object of Legislation ?" 1.-The great
est good to the greatest number ?"
''What do you consider the greatest
number?" continued his Lordship.
Number one, my Lord, was the COM
moner's reply.
The English Nobility are divided
into dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts,
barons. These all are specified in q
big book called the Peerage and Baro-
netage of the British Empire, by Ed
mund Lodge. In some large Libraries,
like Astor, it can probably be found,
but as it is little needed in this demo-
cratic country, it Is rarely seen here.
Ill-health should be avoi ed, b. state
action as well as personal care, inas-
much as it diminishes mental and ply
steal force but as We are all under SEN
tence of capital punishment, is it worth
while to make the enormous fuss every
body is now doing about every thing
which makes, or possibly may make,
death come little quicker? Is there
no force in Frederick's apOthegm, as he
caned the flying soldier, You rascal, do
you want to live forever?"
A peculiar case of forgetfulness and
increase of treasure came up in Lowell,
Macs raoantix- at tha \ Inuan ,kx%a
for earnings. Years ago, young lady
from Sandford, Me-, came to Lowell,
and from her earnings deposited s175
in this institution. She left the city
twenty-one years ago and returned
home, and in course of time forgot her
deposit. Recently it occurred to her
that she might have some money there,
and she wrote to inquire if there was
anything left for her. Mr.. Canney, the
treasurer, reported that there was a bal
ance there Of S7S5.95, which will un-
doubtedly be gratifying intelligence.
The Boston Public Library contained
on the first of January 25S, 900 volumes,
an increase during the year of 80, 200.
Sixteen Thousand is estimated as the
ordinary increase for the year, as of the
total increase, over &c, 900 volumes were
acquired by the annexation" of
Charleston and Brighton to Boston, and
IL, 900 were received as an exceptional
gift. The Boston library is not as large
nor as valuable as that of the British
Museum, but is probably more useful
to the general public. OF the British
library, writer in the London Times
says: 'The use of the library is practi-
caIly restricted to the few who inhabit
its purlieus," while that of Boston aims
to realize the inscription over its por-
tails, Public Library, Open to ALL"
In England a more rigorous observ-
ance of etiquette obtains, in the graver
relations of life, than with ourselves.
People are invited to prayer meetings
In London the same as to an evening
party-cards being issued bearing the
following, or similar, announcements
"Mr. and Mrs. propose Cd. V. to
hold Bible reading on - evening,
from seven to nine o'clock. Morning
dress" Bibles are handed around on
trays, and, altogether, piety is presen-
ted in rather an amusing phase. MEM
oriam cards" are also en- regLe there.
They are issued a week or ten days
after the decease of a relative, and bear
the words "In Memoriam," with the
name, age, time of death, and place of
interment; also the names of the par
ties who issue the cards; and those
who receive them are at liberty to make
call OF coincidence on the bereaved
family.
Mr.. Bertall, well-known French
caricaturist, has been photographing
modern society in sixty chapters, and
among his classifications are several in
reference to the dress coat. The pro-
fessor, he says. the orator, the ecOno-
mist buttons his coat Theoretically as il
in solemn attempt to compress the tu-
muituous outbursts of stupendous in
tellect; the coat of the savant never
fits the officers coat fits too well. The
artists coat takes eyery form the BAN