Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-04
NO. A.
aTleC1GS.

The bump of destructiveness-a rail-
way collision.
First law of gravity-never laugh at
your own Jokes.
Breach of good manners for ruin to
stare you in the face.
Frugality is founded on the principle
that all riches have hmits.-BTke.
A schoolboy defines a hea-''Flea,
flew, ied-when you put your hand on
it.
Why is a grain of sand in the eye
like school masters cane? Because
it hurts the pupil.
'Loss of a China packet ship ~ ex-
claimed an old lady. 'No wonder,
when even iron ones aren't safe"
Why don't the ladies put their names
on the door plates they wear on their
belts? 1t would not only be novel
idea but would save a heap of trouble.
Nothing more impairs authority than
too frequent or indiscreet use of it.
If thunder itself was to be continual, il
would excite no more terror than the
noise of mill.
y btAol VI bA4C plCoo
Piotina, wife of Trajan, in fine state
of preservation, has been recently dug
up in Rome II Will be placed in the
Capitol museum.
''This fire was the result of gross
carelesspess, said an insurance agent
to a man whose store was in ruins. 81
know it, replied the man, land that's
Just the risk paid you to assume.
A kingdom. The total quantity of
land embraced in the various Govern
ment grants, including railroad and
wagon road grants, after deducting
lands forfeited, reverted and lapsed, is
210'756, ,S07 acres.
1t doesn't make any difference if
man has said his prayers before going
to bed ; let him find cracker crumbs be-
tween the sheets, and he won't go back
on the satisfaction of three or four
''swears," anyhow.
There is no funeral so sad to follow as
the funeral of our own youth which We
have been pampering with fond desires,
ambitious hopes, and all the bright
berries that hang in poisonous clusters
over the path of life.-LGHfOr.
Imagine the wrath of young woman
who rises from her seat in the horse
car to give it to an old lady, when she
turns around and sees that the yonng
man opposite is gazing ont the window.
instead of gazing at her approvingly.
Experiments recently made in Eng
land indicate that wagons are most
easily drawn, on all kinds of roads,
when the fore and hind wheels are of
the same size, and when the pole Les
lower than the axle.
After several years nv rehecktion,
have come to the konklusion that the
three most difikult things in this life
are-1st Carryin' an armful NV live eels
up steep hill without spillin' an eel.
2nd-Atkin as a referee at dog fite
getting mad. 81. Elitin newspaper.
1t is not generally known that good
custom of Keeping birthdays is many
thousand of years old. 1t is recorded
in the fortieth chapter of Genesis and
twentieth verse "And it came TO pass
the third day which was Pharoah's
birthday, that he made feast unto all
his servants.
Ducrot was supposed to have an
nounced to Paris, touching a certain
sortie, that he would return dead or
victorious. In fact, he returned alive
and beaten. 1t now appears that his
proclamation was written by Jules Fa-
vre, and he knew nothing of it till he
saw it in print.
Let me see a female possessing that
beauty of a meek and modern deport-
ment-of an eve that bespeaks intelli-
gence and purity within-of the lips
that speak no guile. let me see in her
a kind and benevolent disposition a
heart tn at can sympathize with distress,
and never ask for the beauty that
dwells in love, features or perfect form.
Windsor Castle, in Great Britain, is
mansion really calculated to acccmmo-
date large family. 1t only covers sew
| enteen acres of grouad, and contains
seventeen magnificent state apartments,
/ seventy-nine bedrooms, sixty-tive sit
/ ting rooms, and forty-eight miscellane-
GUS rooms including kitchen, pantry,
confectionery and store-roOms. In ad-
dition TO these there are apartments for
/ the accommodation of two hundred and
forty servants. What a frst-class
American hotel it would make.
The power of growing vegetables,
even the most fragile, is something hit
| tie short of wonderful. SO delicate a
structure as the mushroom can, under
certain circumstances, exert the most
extraordinary power, for, according to
a good authority, it is well known that
a mushroom will "lift paveing stone
many times its own weight rather than
turn over and grow sideways, which 1t
would appear so much easier for 1t to
do" The fact is also a curious one,
that tree roots will throw over i'm
mensely strong walls against which they
have grown, though one would think
the pressure against the softer soil
would give room for their development.
without the necessity of their extending
so much force against the wall.
The Roman papers announce the
death of the celebrated architect Ci-
polla, which occurred few weeks since
in the Eternal City. His funeral was
attended by representatives from the
Courts of the Quirinal and Vatican,
for. although employed by the former,
Cipolla was staunch adherent of the
latter. Since the funeral of Raphael,
there has been no such pOmpous inter-
ment as that of the great artist seen IN
Rome. Itwa followed by the reli-
gious, civil, and military authorities,
as well as by legion of artists from all
parts of the country. He was the ar
chitect of the beautiful National Bank
: at Florence, the Torlonis place at Rome,
and of the Roman Savings-bank, as also
! of several fine churches and hospitals.
Mr.. Menier, at Epping Forest, near
London, has been experimenting with
balloon inflated by heated air. The
heating apparatus, indeed, is nothing
but huge petroleum lamp, with a
chimney twenty five feet long. Hot air
is radiated very rapidly when the fire
is lighted, as the flame is intense, and
the fire is kept constantly supplied
, with oil from two cisterns placed IN
| the rear of the car. Ten minutes only,
d. a,