Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-02-18
NO. 7.
Varieties.
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to be sure.
When are eyes not eyes? When the
wind makes them water.
Dubuque is preparing to make extern
sive improvements in her harbor.
When is hotel bell-boy like broker
merchant? When he refuses to take up
note.
Never keep anything from your better
half.-BrookiyI' Argus. Quilp says he
never has, and that is the reason he is so
poor.
DIR. Hayes describes an iceberg of his
acquaintance as containing enough ice
to supply the world "with ice-cream and
sherry-cobblers for a century"
Fred Douglass has been presented
with a gold-mounted Malacca cane by
the colored citizens of St. John. They
expressed q determination to s'stick"
by him.
One thousand English and French
silk makers are reported to have re-
turned to the ''old country" after giving
New Jersey short trial. They prefer
the ills they know of.
According to a recent statement, it is
asserted that % per cent. of the deaf
mutes born in France are the offspring
of consanguinous marriages, and that
the proportion increases with the de-
gree of blood relationship.
Miss Schurz is said to have her
mothers dark eyes and hair, and some-
thing of her fathers nervous, uncertain
manner. She speaks French like na-
tive, and plays the piano almost as well.
In fact, every one who knows her sings
the song of the Schurz.
At the foot of every prayer subscribe
''Thy will be DONE" and thou shalt
enjoy preventing mercies that thou
never soughtest, and converting mer-
cies to change all for the best, resting
confident in this, that having asked ac-
cording to His will He heareth thee.
An exchange is ungallant enough to
say that, if the Duke of Edinburgh's
bride sis as lovely as the Danish lady
whom his brother, the Prince of Wales,
married, the Queen of England may be
! proud of the beauty of her daughters
ln-law, if she cannot boast of the good
looks of her own girls, as she certainly
cannot, with truth"
| There are four women decorated with
the French Cross of the Legion of
Honor, Rosa Bonheur, the painter, Ma
dame Dubar. Superior of the Convent
of the Seurs de lEsperance at Nancy,
Lady Pigott, for her devotedness to the
wounded during the Franco-Prussian
war, and Mile. Bertha Rochar, of
Havre, for founding hospital.
One of the most remarkable facts
connected with the Hoosac tunnel is the
exactness of the work. When the two
parties met it was found that the varia-
tion was less than an inch, although
the lines which were the basis of the
operations were several miles apart.
The accuracy of the work is as much of
a wonder as the tunnel itself.
1t is related that a justice of the peace
in one of the back towns of Lewis
county, \. Y, on being elected Justice
of the sessions, was asked what he
thought ought to be done with man
guilty of arson. He thought gravely
for few moments, and then answered
he should be in favor of Ening the fel-
low and then make him marry the girl.
Patents of nobility and patents for
inventions appear to be closely allied in
England. Three members of the Brit
ish House of Lords are descendants of
inventors Earl Dudley's family was
founded by an inventor in iron manu-
facture; Lord Foley is descendant of
Foley, another inventor of iron making,
and Lord Belper is descended from the
inventor of the stocking frame. Jede-
diah Strut.
Prince Bismarck does not like to be
troubled by letters from persons who
have no proper demands upon his atten-
tion. In recent issue of the official
journal he published the following no.
tice: 81 reiterate my request, that per
sons who address private letters to me
during my leave of absence will excuse
me if they do not receive any reply, l
am bound to devote every day, on an
average, several hours to the task of
sending proper answers to communion
tiOns of a political character, coming
from persons who are known or whose
position authorizes them to write to
me.
The following incident concerning a
young betrothed couple is said to have
occurred at Moscow: The girl was of
great beauty, the lover the son of rich
parents, and on her birthday obtained
leave to celebrate it with fetes to be
given at her fathers house. The first
evening at dinner the young man be-
came intoxicated, when his conduct was
so violent that the guests all retired,
and he was with difficulty conveyed to
his fathers house. The next day he
presented himself at the ball he had ar
ranged, and danced with his betrothed.
When the dance was ended the young
lady requested the bad to play favo-
rite air, and retired on the balcony,
whence Immediately afterward was
heard the sound of firearms, and the
young lady was found to have shot her
self through the heart with a revolver
she had concealed. A letter found
upon her assigned the discovery of her
intended husbands brutal nature as the
motive for the act.
A strange story is told of crazy wo-
man who wanders among the mountains
about Partenheim, Bavaria. A short
time ago she was the handsome and
happy wife of a man who had but one
evil habit-that of poaching. One night
he was pursued by forester, and turn
ing, he shot the man. The deed was
seen by others, and he was Obliged to
fly. With his wife and two children,
one Of them an infant, he went toward
the Austrian frontier, and at night,
while all were sleeping, concealed III q
thicket, the sound of hOofs was heard.
Touching his wifs's arm, the husband
whispered, "The gendarmes 4" She
started so suddenly and So violently
that the infant resting in her arms
awoke and began to cry. The father
ordered her to keep 1t quiet, and the
poor woman held the little one closer,
endeavoring to stop its cries, while the
gendarmes had halted and seemed to
be listening. Then her husband laid
his hand on the child's mouth, and held