Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-02-04
Varieties.

There is no public school in Raleigh,
NC.
A Chester county man boasts of a cat
% years old.
Automatic telegraph machines are
being introduced
The Spanish Republic is believed to
be firmly established.
The Oldest tombstone in Trinity
church-yard, New York, is dated 1851.
The New York churches are said to
have total seating capacity for 3OS, 500.
What is the champion conundrum
Life-beeause every body has to give it
up.
The death is announced in England
of Mason Jones, a well known political
orator.
Young ladies' use powder, perhaps,
because they think it viii make them
go off.
The river Amazon is said to be 1900
feet wide at a distance of 2SOO miles
from its mouth.
David Clark, a wealthy citizen of
Hartford, Conn, furnished Christmas
dinners to 100 poor families.
A young lady in Somerset County,
Nd, fell head over heels downstairs the
other day-a somerset, in short.
If you want your neighbors to "know
about you" give party and don't in
vite the folks who live next door.
DR.. Livingstone thinks he will come
home if he lives long enough. His stay
ing away is anything but becoming.
Bishop Heber wrote the popular
hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Noun
tains, in about an hour, and gave it to
the printer with only one correction.
| William Doctor, a colored man. was
run over and instantly killed by the
southern bound freight train on the
Eastern Shore Railroad, near Crisfield,
Md.
A negro, after gazing at some Chinese
shook his head, and solemnly said, "If
de white folks be so dark as dat out dar,
1 wonder what's de color OBJ de black
folks -
Wendell Phillips's "Glances Abroad"
are nf such a character as to suggest
the propriety and wisdom of his Look
ing at Home for some time, if not
longer.
Professor Proctor, the eminent astro-
nomer, insists that life exists on some
of the planets. In Mars, he says, every
feature with which the earth is endowed
may be discovered.
The provident hen not only gets q
good living for herself, but saves for
her future family. She deposits eggs,
and thus literally lays up something
for her children.
A sagacious Boston person has inven-
ted fire-alarm which goes on at an
alarming rate when the temperature
rises five degrees. Nice to break in
upon some midsummer nights dream.
into well, and it was four days before
he missed her and made a search. He
said he thought the house unusually
quiet. but he didn't know what made it
so.
Those who intend committing suicide
by accidental drowning would do well
to see that there is water enough in the
cistern before falling in. One may take
death cold from duckinq at this in
clement season.
The Massachusetts, PlOughman says
the quantity of milk daily brought to
Boston by railroad is about 1900, 900
quarts. OF course very large quantities
are brought direct from farms in the
vicinity of the city.
Out on the plains, recently, a party
of hunters chased large herd Of buffa-
loes to the verge of a precipice, over
which some sixty or seventy of the
frightened beasts plunged and were
killed By The fall, the precipice being
about seventy-fve feet high.
Sesselin, well known in Paris by the
sobriquei of the Emperor" is dead.
Sesselin was coachman, and gained
his imperial title from the fact that he
bore a most striking resemblance to
Napoleon l. He was very proud of this
coincidence, and was careful to cut his
hair like the great Emperor, and to wear
a grey oyercoat.
make way make way, good peoplel
I'm exceedingly cramped for space !"
This was the exclamation of a poor
worm, that had a whole field to himself,
and acres to spare; but he wished the
impression to go abroad that he was
ten times as large es he seemed to be.
There are many people in this world
who act just like this poor worm.
You must elect your work. You shall
take what brains you can, and drop all
the rest. Only so can that amount of
vital force accumulate which can make
the step from knowing to doing. No
matter how much faculty of idle-seeing
man has, the step from knowing to
doing is rarely taken. 1t is a step out
of a chalk circle OF imbecility into fruit
fulness. s.-Emerson.
A company in Paris has built a street
for workmen which combines the work
shops and the homes of the workers. 1t
contains nineteen large houses, to each
of which motive power is supplied to
the lower floors, and, if necessary,
throughout the buildings by means of
steam engine of two hundred horse
power. The principal business carried
on in the street is that of chair-making,
and the workman rents from the COM
pany his dwelling, workshop and the
motive power for his machinery, thus
reducing the capital required for COM
mencing business requiring q mode
rate amount of steam power
A New York paper says: eff women
would not cry so much at theatres their
presence would be infinitely more de-
sirable." This is nonsense. Above all
things we like to see play which
To pensive drops the radiant eye beguiles.
For beau;ys tears are lovelier than her smiles
We adore a woman who spends at least
half her time on the cry, and if we could
have found q rich and beautiful young
Niobe forty years ago, or at any subse-
quent period, we would have been q
married man to-day, and the father of