Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-11
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Varieties.

He that boasts a multitude of friends
hath none.
Some people look at everything, yet
really see nothing.
''Do not sing that song again, is the
, sarcastic title of a new song.
, Unpopular music-Thomas' concerts
on the back yard fence.
Northern proverb "God created
the world, but the devil made Iceland"
The best way to keep out wicked
thoughts is always to be employed in
good ones.
81 SAY, Bill. John is fellow of great
spirit, isn't he ?" "What John ?" "Why
demijohn."
The light of friendship is like the
light of phosphorus-seen plainest
when all around is dark.
Figs are so easily cultivated in Eng
land that extensive orchards now exist
IN Sussex, and more are being planted.
The open Polar sea which DIR. Kane's
party claimed to have discovered, is
fast proving itself a fact and not
myth.
Wagner is described as the most
nervous-looking man one can imagine,
but with that grim setting of the mouth
that betokens an iron will.
| Some men mourn that they have
made and broken so many resolutions.
1t is sad that you have broken them,
but thank heaven that you have made
them.
Enemies spring up anywhere of their
own accord. Friends are reared in the
affection, and cease to be such as soon
as they are removed from the conservs-
tory OF the heart.
In an ordinary open fire CRATE, 70 per
cent. of the heat, resulting from the
combustion of the fuel, goes up the
chimney and is wasted, only % per cent
being radiated into the apartment.
The spire of Strasbourg Cathedral is
no longer the highest in Europe The
steeple of the Church of st. Nicholas.
at Hamburg, just completed, is 472
feet high, which is four feet higher
than Strasburg.
Switzerland turns out about 1,600,
900 watches per annum. The industry
is chiefly confined to the caltons of
Neufchatel, Berne, Vaud and Geneva
and gives employment to 15,241 men
and II, 727 women.
/ Pretty old boys in Europe. Guizot
died at eighty-seven, and Prince Ment-
schikoff at eighty-five is Just taking a
run from Russia to Paris. He is the
grandson of the first of the family who
made such delicious pastry that Peter
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the Cabinet.
/ The Duke of Cambridge has got the
| gout, and is going to resign the COM
mand of the British army. Queen Vic
toria once remarked to Lord Palmers-
ton that, las a warrior, Cam is not
success" Nobody has ever had the
courage to deny it. His Grace's strong
point is capacity for the sherry wine.
The celebrated Tyr;an purple was
derived from several species of marine
snails, supposed to be principally Nh
rer bralddris PU,pira and idpHlaS-
the latter being kind of whelk still
very common on the English coasts and
in the Mediterranean. The liquor
which can he squeezed from this wheIk
is nearly colorless, but, by the action Of
light, becomes first of cItron tint,
then pale green, emerald green, azure,
red, and finally, in about forty-eight
hours, magnificent purple.
Excavations in the Coliseum at Rome
show that the original floor is twenty
I feet below the modern level. The ex-
cavations have laid bare the immense
corridors whence the wild beasts rushed
to deadly combat, or human victims
were led to oslaughter, Even the mouth
of the great drain, with part of its orig
inal grating intact, has been found,
and there is no longer any difficulty in
understanding how the water could be
drawn off which flooded the ring, and
enabled it to be used for the exhibi-
tion of the sea fights.
| Krupp's steel guu, intended for the
Austrian Government, has been tested
by government commission, who, af-
ter three days experiment. we're highly
satisfied with it. They propose To-
Krupp's agent that half the guns re-
quired be cast at Essen, but that Herr
Krupp should divulge the process of
manufacture so that the other half
could be cast in Austria. The agent,
however, said that the secret could not
be revealed under any circumstances.
In competent military circles it is be-
heved that the guns cannot be made
without Krupp's assistance.
The Patriarch of Antioch. at present
in London, was taken recently to see
the library of the British and Foreign
Bible Society. He contemplated the
scene with silent wonder. Book after
book was brought to him to look at.
He was very much struck with the mode
of reading Chinese down in columns,
at first shook his head as il in doubt
whether his informants we're not de-
ceiving him. But nothing seemed to
delight him so much as Walton's Poly
glott. There he saw, side by side, He
brew and Greek, and Latin, and Arabic,
and his own sacred Syriac. On leaving
he shook hands warmly with the secre-
taries, and praised God for all he has
seen and heard.
There is in the Island of Skye, min
lister of one of the parish churches who
occupies the pulpit which his father,
grandfather, and great-grandfather
have filed in succession, and who IL
training up son to be his successor.
Besides dlscharRlng the duties OF the
ministry in his parish, he is chairman
of the School and Parochial Boards,
road contractor for the district, a
noted breeders of settlers, which he
supplies to the Southern markets,
knowing Judge of cattle, and occupant
of three large sheep farms in addition
to his glebe. He is verging on three
score, and vet he continues to discharge
these multifarious duties and preach
two sermons every Sundsy-one in the
Gaelic and the other in English
There is at least one blessing in being
an nnedscated working man, for which
that class cannot be too grateful An
English savant has shown that they
never have the hay fever. He finds
that this interesting disease Is peculiar
to the educated classes, and more com.
mon in proportion to the spread OF
-.o,taI .,,Itura and the intensity of In