Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-12-09
NO. 49.
aTleI1GS.

Firm language Conversation be-
tween partners.
Why does water run down hill Be
cause 1t can't walk.
The line of lady's love is supposed
to be the mascu-l line.
Children born with auburn locks are
generally redheaditary.
The Pope has not stepped outside of
the Vatican grounds for four years.
A mild answer turneth away wrath
so doth an invitation to lager.
When a pretty girl steps on mans
toes, he receives the stamp of beauty.
The proposal to convert the tomb of
Augustus at Rome into a modern the
atre is said to be likely carried out.
1t was bright boy who told bis
teacher that there were three sects,
the male sex, the female sex and the
insects.
Sorrow comes soon enough without
dependency. 1t does no man good to
carry around lighting rod to attract
/ trouble.
1t is one of the beautiful compenss-
Z ttOLo VI lulS jlldt Slu-
cerely try to help another without help
ing himself.
Not in Shakespeare, but histOrical.-
| When Birnan Wood was reported as
coming to Dunsinsne, Macbeth inquired
sarcastically, if every tree was bring
ing its own trunk"
/ THAT aged father who, in digging a
well, was first startled at the depth of
rod with two-hundred feet Jet of water
shooting into the air, and next by in
/ fiammable gas escaping In suffocating
volume and ready to blaze at touch of
/ fire, must have concluded, however
unwillingly, that his ancestral acres
were located a little nearer Pandemo-
mum than the average.
At late meeting of the Maryland
Academy of Science, several of the
members spoke in reference to a worm
which had been discovered moving and
living inside of solid masses of ice.
/ The ice was taken from a pond near
Baltimore, the water of which was con-
sidered pure. The worm is about one
TO one and half inches long. What
it is, or wi at its origin, has not yet
been ascertained.
A curious specimen of natures handi-
work is exhibiting about the country,
in the shape of calf, born in Moravia,
Cayuga county, in this state, and now
more than three months old, which has
a perfect body, but two distinct though
exactly similar heads. 1t breathes
through all four of its nostrils, and
takes its food from both of its mouths,
I halIrnor ffcsh heal = h.
and giving no preference to either.
1t is said that st. Vincent De Paul,
passing along the streets OF Paris, saw
a beggar distOrting the limbs of child
for the purpose of inspiring pity. The
good man rushed forward, and seizing
the child, took it to his niece. by whom
I it was cared for. This was the nucleus of
his hospital for foundlings, a charity
which he watched faithfully through
the fever and chill of popular enthusi-
asm and neglect, until it was strong
enough to care for itself The institu-
tion now occupies a handsome site, in
the midst of courts and gardens, near
the Pantheon.
Sheffield, England, has, through its
industry, developed small volcano,
which has, however, failed to prove at
tractive to residents in the neighbor-
hood. Waste furnace Stag, while yet
warm has been thrown on a piece Of
land until heaps fourteen feet in depth
and covering altogether about an acre
of ground have been formed. Fires
broke out in these masses of Stag re-
Gently, and created CONSERVATION in
the neighborhOod. When water was
poured on the burning Stag it exploded
and liberated noxious vapor, which
caused sickness among the residents
of adjacent dwellings,.
They say of the grasshoppers in Kan
sas that at Topeka they "eat peaches
from the trees and then throw the
stones at the people as they pass" In
Wisconsin they say ''they stopped a
train, one morning, seized the daily
papers, and there learning that a sec
tion had been missed by them, turned
back and finished the Job" Stopping
the train is no joke. They have fire.
quently piled themselves so as to cause
the driving wheels to stick on their
broken bodies. The ladies have an
aversion to them, as they cannot walk
ont without capturing from so to 300
and bringing them home. In church
you can safely assume that every lady
has few score hidden in the folds of
her robes. A sudden twitching of the
features, a clutching Of the fingers, or
faint scream, will indicate that one of
these captives has "struck for liberty"
One of the most elaborate works of
the mound-builders is a labyrinthian
earthwork, containing some 10 miles of
embankment located at Newark. Ohio.
1t consists of a series of enclosures,
one of which is described as a circle of
more than mile in circumference,
with a single opening or gateway, 100
| feet wide. On each side of this open
ing the wall flares outward little, and
rises to height of p feet, the general
height of the embankment being about
Is. From this gateway parallel walls
a few rods apart connect with another
enclosure of about 30 acres half mile
distant, and this with the remaining
enclosures. Some of the walls are of
stone and earth, built up irregularly to
the height of % feet, while others are
/ built entirely of earth. Over some of
the latter trees grow as large as on the
surrounding level. The object of those
works still remains a mystery. They
have served, however, to keep alive the
memory of race that has been extinct
for perhaps many thousands of years.
| The New Zealand fax is now culti-
waited in st Helena, and there seems to
be no reason why the same thing should
not be done in other countries. Hith-
erto no very great attention has been
paid to the cultivation of this plant,
but the natural supplies obtained in
New Zealand are insufficient for the de-
mands of commerce. 1t is a mistake
to suppose that an illimitable supply
can always be obtained because no cui-
| tivation has been necessary IN the first
crops of the wild produce. This is not
to be regretted, for careful cultivation
cannot fail to greatly improve the fibre,
and the best kinds alone will be worth