Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-29
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He who saves in little things can be
liberal in great ones.

He who saves in little things can be
J liberal in great ones.
There is no Joy like that which springs
from kind act or pleasant word.
True goodness is like the glow-worms
it shines most when no eyes except
those OF Heaven are upon it.
There were 4, 1I6, 73O bushels Of salt
produced last year in Michigan. being
500, 600 more tnan in the previous one.
The Dubuque people. after a good
deal of wrangling, have decided that
society has no reason TO look down upon
q woman because she wears muskrat
furs.
Experiments are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain
whether steel tubes can proitably re-
place those of copper and brass in loco
motives.
The reputation of a man is like his
shadow; it sometimes follows and some
times precedes him; it is sometimes
longer and sometimes shorter than his
natural size.
I A Pennsylvania couple lately had the
bad taste to be married in a graveyard.
This festive incident caused the worst
pun we ever heard; for some wretch
said: "But then, you know, it's ceme-
terial." Immaterial, indeed
The maximum cost of transporting
railway freight, last year. between New
York and Chicago, was 7 mills per tun
per mile. The total cost of moving
freight by canal (horse power being
used fer towage) is 3 mills per tun per
mile.
Ely Chapel, Ely place, London, q
building of much historical interest.
was sold recently by an order of the
High Court of Chancery. 1t brought
f5, $50, and was bought or behalf Of q
gentleman vino intends 10 preserve it
as chapel.
During the past ten years, the screw
has entirely replaced the paddle in
transatlantic navigation, the weight Of
marine engines has diminished one
half, the steam pressure has quadru-
Piled, and the consumption of coal has
decreased two thirds.
The young ladies who h.ve taken to
jumping for prizes will fnd it health
full, if not graceful, exercise; but they
must be careful to avoid the damp
ground, or they may be attacked with
the jumping toothache.
Screws of all ordinary sizes are now
made in England by rolling bars Of
heated iron between two peculiarly
grooved plates. Two boys with one
machine are able to make 90 cwt. Of
fish bolts for railways, by this process.
In nine hours.
The oldest stove, probably, in the
United States is that which Is still in
use at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. 1t
was made in England in 1770, and was
60 years in the House of Burgesses in
Virginia before it was removed to the
Capitol, where 1t has been for 80 years.
The editor of new paper recently
started In Nebraska, gives a very good
reason for doing so in his ''salutatory,"
as follows: THE object in view in the
establishment of this paper is procuring
of means wherewith to buy bread and
butter. and good clothes" Such can
did admission probably will not go un-
rewarded, and the means employed, IL
properly directed, doubtless will bring
forth the object in view.
The Rev. DR.. Porteous, in lecture
on humor, tells us that "the ancients
knew how to laugh and the benefits of
laughing. The world has had so much
divinity IN the last twenty years that it
now wants more wit, more cheerfulness,
20 give q silver lining to the dark
cloud" He thinks that We Americans
are saturated with humor and cannot
help ourselves :" but that our wits
''are not capable of seriousness.
The water colors of the present Lon
don exhibition consist mainly. accord
ing to the Spectator, of sunny glimpsss
of green fields and fowery brook sides
stretches of breezy moorland wave
washed beaches, and sea-girt cliffs re-
minaers, in short, of pleasant summer
sojourns or wanderings, or generally of
life beyond brick walls and smoky
streets; some fresh flower studies to
afford spots of gay color, and few
nicely painted heads or rustic figures to
give variety"
The following touching little story is
told by a correspondent of the Port
Jervis Gazette: ''An old hunter told me
ne once was back in the mountains,
many years ago, chopping. That day
> fawn ran up and lay down terribly
frightened at his feet. He grabbed his
rifle. for he heard the powerful springs
of a catamount coming. 1t was in pur-
suit of the little fawn at his feet He
fired and killed the animal, when the
little deer rose, left for the forest He
said he never afterwards wanted to
shoot fawn, that one having placed go
much confidence in him."
Statisticians, relying on figures that
never lie, give a man one year of mar
ried felicity before he dies, is divorced,
or consigned to a lunatic asylum. These
not too generous statistical opportuni-
ties have been grossly and ungallantly
neglected. Garrett j. Banta, middle
aged man of New Jersey, married the
lady of his choice on Saturday, made
his will on the day following, and hung
himself on Monday morning, thus inti-
mating to the world in general and his
wife in particular that two days expert
ence of that sort of thing was enough
for any able-bodied New Jersey man.
Mr.. Banta's pedagogue had evidently
failed to teach him ordinary politeness.
DIR. Nicholas Belleville, the famous
French physician who settled in Tren-
ton, New Jersey, in 1778, was G keen
observer, and generally spoke to the
point although he was trifie profane.
In lecturing before class of students,
he would sometimes wind up with this
remark: eff you have patients of good
sense and they need no medicine, only
advice, explain the matter to them, but
if you are treating id fools give them
bread pills" But few of the physicians
of the present day act upon this sensi-
BILE advice. The majority try to make
their patients believe that they are
much sicker than they are, for the
greater the cure or rather the apparent
cure, the more startling the bill.
A number of highly respectable and
strictly moral young gentlemen of st.