Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-23
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The good msn's life is like tue noun
tain top, beautiful because it is near
Heaven.
The Japanese census shows only three
thousand criminals in a population of
over thirty-three million souls.
That man is voted a bore who per-
sists in talking about himself when you
wish to talk about yourself
Some women get up reputation for
amiability by taking a little boy into
the omnibus with them and making
him stand up aud give his seat to some
body about twenty times during the
trip.
The world is waiting for the discov-
erer who will explode water. The diff
Guilty is that water when heated goes
off in steam. III it would only explode,
it would be far more powerful than
gunpowder.
The man who talks everlastingly and
promiscuously, who seems to have an
exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds
so many words into his thoughts that
he always obscures and frequently con-
ceals them.
''Brutes find out where their talents lie:
A bear Will not attempt to fly;
fOundered horse will oft debate
Before he tries tive-barr'd gate.
In man we see the only creature
Who, led by folly, combats nature"
Help somebody worse off than your
self, and you will feel that you are
better off than you fancied. You may
subdue an angry man by bearing with
him, but not by answering him that
IL as If the steel should try to make the
flint leave of giving sparks, by striking
it again.
Give man the necessaries of life and
he wants the conveniences. Give him
the cOnveniences, and he Graves for the
luxuries. Grant him the luxuries, and
he signs for the elegancies. Let him
have the elegancies, and he yearns for
the fOllies. Give him all together, and
he complains that he has been cheated
both IN price and quality of the arti-
cles.
Some very clever inventor has suc-
ceeded in applying electricity to music.
aud there is a possibility that the ex-
listing defective orchestras will be re-
placed by musical automatons warran-
ted TO play with correctness. Will no
one invent an automaton actor who will
do for the author what the new machine
promises to do for the cOmposer-ren-
der him Independent of sticks
A standing antidote for poison by
oak nta - 70 tai-n hanlfr,l Af
quick-lime, dissolve it in water. let il
stand half an hour, then paint the poi
sOned parts with it. Three or four APP
plications Will never fail to cure the
most aggravated case Poison from
bees, hornets, spider bites, &C., is in
stantly arrested by the application of
equal parts of common salt and bicar-
Donate of soda, well rubbed in on the
place bitten or stung.
An experienced editor pays a high
and deserved compliment to the fair
patrons of the press. "Women," he
says, "are the best subscribers in the
wsrld to newspapers, magazines, etc.
We have been editor for forty years,
and never lost a dollar by female sub
scribers. They seem to make it a point
of conscientious duty to pay the
preacher and the printer-two classes
of the community that suffer more by
bad pay and no pay at all than all the
rest put together"
An old gentleman in Maine is pre-
pairing for the good time to come. He
has caused to be erected in the ceme-
terry a gorgeous monument to the MEM
of lInnaalf anl 6,
their virtues, &c, and leaving the
dates of their deaths to be filed in
whenever those events may happen. 1t
is said that his chief delight consists IN
watching the throngs of gaping rustics
around the monument 70
admire its beauty and ponder over its
adornments.
When a man has been out in the
world long time, earning his meat
and drink in any other business than
that of schOol-keeping, it Is astOnish-
ing how ignorant he soon becomes, and
with what awe he listens to little girls
bounding the principal countries of
Europe, and stating the latitude and
longitude of principal cities-perhaps
spelling with ease and accuracy many
of those puzzling words which always
send us to our Webster Unabridged.
1t is astonishing how we shed our
learning as We get older.
An architect says he has been in the
habit for many years of bedding his
roofing states in hydraulic cement, in
stead OF having them nailed on dry in
the usual way, which leaves them sub
iect to be ratified by the wind, and to
be broken by any accidental pressure.
The cement soon sets and hardens, so
that the roof becomes like a solid wall.
The extra cost is 10 or - per cent, and
he thinks 1t good economy, considering
Only permanency and the saving in re-
pairs. But besides this it affords great
safety against fire, for slate laid in the
usual way, will not protect the wood
from the heat of fire at
short distance.
The free trade taking place in frogs
S attracting renewed attention in Paris.
The markets are said to be full of their
llnd legs strung on a piece of Osier,
and selling for few sous a dozen
when spiced and served hot, Kissing
ike snails, they have numerous ad-
nlrers- Inc frog is very prollhc, lay
ng about 400 eggs frogs also are de-
7Oured in immense numbers by water
eels, pike and river fowl;
wolves even are said to be partial to
hem. They are caught by nets during
which dazzles them into
inability; they are taken by the rod
md line. the bait being a worm or
ed rag. In Switzerland they are liter
lily raked out of the water, precipi-
ately retiring the rake the moment it
arrives at the border of the pool.
A new flour is making its appearance
L Eastern markets. made away in the
Interior of Minnesota by what is styled
he new process for purifying mid
llings process thus far kept Sc
ret. This flour is heavily bodied and
# such consistency that when thrown
nto the air it does not fly of In parti-