Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-22
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Throwing mud" may miss the OBJ
iect, but always defiles the thrower.
Never desert a friend. You may
some day get your deserts for so doing.
You will not anger a man so much by
showing that you hate him as by e1
pressing contempt of him.
The wife of a New Yotk clergyman
receives all the marriage fees paid her
husband, as her allowance for pin money.
The manufacture of wrapping paper
from rice straw is now successfully
carried on at new factory in Savannah.
Swiss Silk is reported to be super
ceding that manufactured by France
and England as the best marketable
quality.
Two blast furnaces recently put into
operation in California, will, it is said,
supply the entire Pacific coast demand
for pig iron.
Commanding officers of British naval
vessels are no longer permitted to per-
form the marriage ceremony on board
their vessels.
The following question is respectfully
addressed to the clergy: whether a
person who sits in the gallery of the
church is responsible for deeds done in
the body?"
1t is pronounced an ominous sign
when a man who has been married
scarcely twelve months begins to be-
tray an abnormal interest in the causes
of lock-jaw.
An amateur farmer wonders .swhy on
all this fair earth the ground is spread
bottom side up, so that it must be
turned over with plow before crops
can be raised"
An ancient vagabond was arrested by
the police in Paris, recently, who was
subsequently ascertained to be nephew
of Danton, the notorious leader in the
first French revolution.
Corn meal, heated and placed in bags,
is recommended as a substitute for hot
water bottles and such like appliances,
for restoring warmth to the sick. 1t is
said to weigh less, retain heat longer,
and does not chill when cold.
The area of land known to be rich in
gold deposits In Colorado is about 7 200
square miles, lying in various parts of
the Territoryf on both sides of the main
range. There can be hardly q doubt
but that this extent will be largely in
creased in coming years, for new dis
coveries are constantly being made
upon the foothills and plains.
There is said to be single arsenic
mine in Cornwall, the monthly product
of which is sufficient to destroy the
lives of five hundred millions of human
beings while, if the amount of white
arsenic contained in the adjacent store
houses were iudiciously administered,
In suitable doses, to every living crea-
ture, this globe of ours would be COM
pletely depopulated.
Miss Kate Fields has been writing
some of her lively letters to the Tribune
this time from Spain. Madrid"
she says, ''goes to bed at eight A. NJ,
breakfasts at one p. NJ, takes a siesta
before going to the bull-fght at four,
drives sfterward, dimes at seven, and
later begins business. There are those
abject enough to retire at night and
keepers and secretaries of legation pos
StSStu VI COusCicuct. OOuSCleuCc emu
lates the lark. 1t rises early"
A traveller writing of his Oriental ex-
periences, says "One of the most
pathetic instances of pure Orientalism
that ever came to my knowledge is re-
lated as a positive fact. While the
children of the Abeih school were play
ing together one day at recess, two
small girls fell into pleasant dispute as
to the size of a certain object-play-
thing, perhaps. One said, "Oh, it was
so very little I" and the other asked,
How little 2 Then the missionary
looked out of the window, and heard
her answer. why, a little wee thing
Then the other pressed her still further,
We'll, how little {? to which the girl
replied, unconscious of the poetry or
the pathos of her comparison, AS little
as was the JOY of my father ON the day
L was born !"
81 tell you" says "Old Cabinet" in
Scribner's, when a man who has been
surrounded with pure inhuences-I do
not mean with austerity or fsnsticism,
from which he would be likely to suffer
reaction-when a man who has breathed
no atmosphere but that of moderation
and decorum looks back upon his own
life, and trembles at his hundred hair
breadth 'scapes from utter ruii of one
kind or another, he cannot help won
dering what keeps the unprotected
classes from going altogether and ut
terly to the bad. 1t was one of the best
saints ont of the calendar who declared
himself competent to commit any crime
under the sun of which he had ever
heard, and what it is that keeps the
average sinner from going straight
through the criminal list it is hard to
tell"
A new religious sect has recently
sprang up into existence in Russia, and
in marvellously short time had gath
cred hundreds of converts. The fair
sectarians-for with one exception they
were all of one sex-dwelt in the Rus
sian town of Porchov, and were named
Seraphinovski, from their founder and
teacher, Father Seraphinus. Their
creed was implicit belief in their rever-
end leader; their practice consisted in
cutting off the hair. Women were con-
verted into crowds, and soon there
would have been little or no long hair
left in Porchov, when the police were
moved to inquire into the subject. They
discovered that Father Seraphinus had
a brother who dealt in coiffures, and
that monk and barber united to drive a
very pretty trade in the tresses sacrificed
by the devotees. The seraphic doctor
now lies in prison, with leisure to med
itate on the disadvantage of combining
religion and business.
The following explanation is given of
the origin of the word ''fiibuster. The
river Wy, in Holland, is said to have
furnished the name fyboat, in English
in Spanish, fi6ote, or by softening
the first syllable, fti6ote-to a sort Of
small fast sailing vessel of about 100
tons burthen, which in the seventeenth
century were held in high estimation,
on account of their fast sailing quail
ties. The buccaneers of the West In