Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-27
NO. 81.
Varieties.

drowned IN tears.
Large numbers of young trout, from
two to three inches in length. are dying
in Cayuga lake from some unexplained
cause.
A 15-year old lad of Medina, Orleans
county, weighs 172 pounds, stands 8
feet inches in his stockings, and is
still growing.
Diogenes, being asked which beasts
bite was the most dangerous, replied:
"1f you mean wild beasts, it's the SLAM
derer's; if tame ones, the fatterer's-"
The Walker prize of Boston Society
of Natural History was won by Alexan-
der Agassiz. A deserved compliment
to the studious son of an hOnOred father.
A new toy for boys is a bear about
two feet high, which, upon being wound
up, growls and stands erect on his hind
legs in true bear style. These toys are
made in Munich.
In wonder all philosophy began, in
wonder it ends, and admiration fills up
the interspace. But the first wonder is
the offspring of ignorance-the last is
the parent of alteration.
Postal cards are so extremely popular
in this country that, although it is not
long since they were introduced, the
enormous number of one hundred mil
lions have been printed and issued.
In removing ink spots from delicate
colors, when oxalic acid or chloride of
lime cannot be used without injury to
the color, concentrated solution of So
dunn pyrophosphate is recommended.
There is nothing which contributes
more to the sweetness of life than friend
ship; there is nothing which disturbs
our repose more than friends, if we have
not the discernment to choose them we'll.
A lady called on a witty friend, and
! finding the piano dusty, wrote upon it
''Slattern. The next day they met, and
the lady said, 81 called on you yester-
day" "fes; L saw your card on the
piano."
An inquiring man thrust his finger
into horses mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the man
had. The curiosity of each was fully
satisfied.
Ali ways of earning his bread are alike
becoming to an honest man, whether it
be to split wood or sit at the helm of
state. 1t does not concern his con-
science how useful he is, or how useful
he would be.
The ten year old daughter of West
ern telegraph operator astonishes men
along the line when her father is absent
from home by telling them confdentially
tie condition of the dolls dresses, who
got clicked" at school, and other choice
morsels OF gossip.
A Nevada Judge, after the jury had
been empaneled and counsel ready to
proceed, pulled out a revolver and Judi
cially remarked, "If any man goes fro
licking around in this courtroom dur
ing the trial of this case l shall inter
rupt him in his career" The strictest
decorum prevailed.
The head of Haydn is in possession
of DIR. Rokitanski, of Vienna, and is
preserved under a glass cover. The
doctor tenderly points out to his visi-
tors slight deficiency in the bony sub
stance of the nasal organ, the seat of
disease which gave so much pain to the
great composer during the latter part of
his life.
Laughter is one of the gifts which
distinguish men from animals. Mirth,
so far from being one of the lower at
tributes of human nature, is one of the
higher. 1t reigns In an innocent ma
ture, and tends to perfect and brighten
the mind wherever allowed. 1t may be
said of this emotion as quaint Andrew
Fuller said of anger: 'He would it hath
a MANNED mind"
In holding of an argument, be neither
conceited nor choleric {; one distempers
your understanding, the other abuses
your Judgment. Adore all things, de-
cline paradoxes and mysteries; you will
acquire no honor either in maintaining
a rank falsehOod, or meddling with sa-
cred truths as he that pleads against
the truth, makes wit the mother of his
error, so he that argues beyond war
rant, makes wisdom the midwife of his
folly
Poisson a. ApriI, the name of April
fool in France, is a corruption of the
word passion. Our Lords Passion oc-
CURED about this time of the year, and
as he was sent from Annas to Caiphas,
and from Caiphas to Plate, from Plate
to Herod, and from Herod back to Pi-
late, to mock and torment him, so arose
the custom of sending on fruitless er-
rands those who were despised-a GUS
tom which gradually spread through all
classes.
A special commission of the Cooper
ative Society of Russian Manufacture
and Trade has reported in favor of the
construction of a railroad line between
Russia and China, through Siberia.
The road, with its connections, would
traverse for the most part a thickly
populated country, and open up i'm
mense cattle and wool growing districts
which are now isolated from the business
world. 1t would have TO be built in
sections, commencing with a fortified
town in Western Russia and ultimately
reaching Pekin.
Mr.. Robert Buchanan, in a recent
essay, thus states what he deems the
true function of criticism: Criticism
is not a science, because equally desti-
tute of any absolute and universal OBJ
iective tests of the soundness of its
method, and any means of verifying its
results. 1t is, however, a very graceful
intellectual exercise, capable of being
brought to great perfection and of CIV
ing refined pleasure, and indirectly some
information to the reader. Its end Is
now seen to be, not truth, because in
criticism verifable truth is unattain-
able, but beauty. In surrendering its
false claim to be science, it takes its
true place as fine art.
Signor Eugenio Morpurgo has lately
published at Venice a short monograph
UPON paper-making, in which he fur
nlshes some curious statistics relative
TO this important industry. It appears
that the United States, with their enor-
nous amount of periodicals and other
literary productions, consume more
paper than England and France united,
They have 5000 machines, producing
annually 200 600 tons of paper, which