Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
NO. 40.
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on 1t, IN autumn.
A farmer, while fiagellating two of
his unruly boys, was asked what he was
doing. "Threshing wild oats T. was
| the reply.
/ Boston Post: Exclamation of man
at spiritual meeting: "Ol for the
touch of vanished hand and the sound
of voice that is still.
''You are writing my bill on very
rough paper" said client to his at
torney. "Never mind, said the lawyer,
''it has to be filed before it comes into
court"
To look at lady through an opera
glass is an inexcusable atfront, unless
she is a professional celebrity and
places herself purposely on exhibition,
when the closest scrutiny is allowable.
The organization of ladies' luncheon
club is on the tspis at Boston. 1t will
be place where women can procure a
cup of coffee, oysters, sandwiches, and
the like at a reasonable rate, and where
they can meet for a pleasant chat for an
hour or two.
Ignorance is a grand, good thing, and
ought to be taught in the seminaries.
81 don't know" covers up more sins
than charity, and saves more trouble
every day of the week twenty times over
than all the learning of ali the school
men of antiquity.
A wealthy Pittsburg merchant is re-
ported as having said 81 always feel
happy when am advertising, for then
L know, that waking or sleeping, / have
strong, though silent orator working
for me; one who never tires, never
sleeps, never makes mistakes and who
is certain to enter the households from
which, if at all, my trade must come"
A standing antidote for poison by
oak, ivy, ETC., is to take a handful Of
quick-lime, dissolve it in water, let it
stand half an hour, then paint the
poisoned parts with it. Three or four
applications 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 BIZ
carbonate of soda, well rubbed in on
the place bitten or stung.
Animals are not slaughtered scienti-
fically in Paris and Vienna. The in
strument used is simply a very conve-
nient form of ak, with hollow cylin-
der like gun-wad punch)about six
inches long and one inch in diameter,
with its edge ground sharp on the end
opposite the blade. A single blow with
this end cuts round hole in the fore
head, and produces instant death. I'm
der the old method it required ten or
more blows to produce death.
There are 72S, 900, 900 gallons of beer
consumed annually in England. In
Germany the number of gallons is 1i6,-
600, 900 of beer and III, 500, 900 of wine.
Frenchmen drink every year 81, 800, 900
gallons of beer and 600, ,000, 900 of wine.
In the United States the annual con-
sumption of beer is 597, 900, 900 gallons.
%, ,000, 900 of wine, and 1900, 900 of
distilled spirits. The value of all this
liquor represents $1,000, 900, and the
amount of capital invested in its pro-
duction amounts to 1000, ,O00,0 900.
One of the French papers relates that
a traveller, who paid visit of curiosity
to the chapel of Lourdes, found among
the er rotOs there displayed one COM
posed of a pair of marshal's epaulettes,
and of a great number of stars, crosses,
broad ribbons and other decorations.
1t is NJ. Bazaine who made this offering
to the Virgin of Lourdes; but whether
the mark of gratitude was intended to
apply to the commutation of his SEN
tence of death, or to his successes in
the late war, or to his recent fortunate
escape, has not yet been ascertained.
In addition to the fact that ice is
lighter than water, there is another Gu
rious thing about it which many per-
sons do not perhaps know-namely, its
purity. A lump of ice melted will be-
come distilled water. Water in freez-
ing turns out of it all that is not water
salt, air, coloring matter, and all i'm
purities. Frozen sea water makes
fresh water ice. III you freeze a basin
of indigo water, it will make ice as
clear and as white as that made of pure
rain water. When the cold is very sud
den, these foreign matters have no time
to escape, either by rising or sinking,
and are thus entangled with the ice,
but do not make any part of it.
Two plants have recently been found
possessed of useful medicinal quail
ties. One is plant of Brazil. named
JdbOrandi. 1t has a sudOrific virtue
unequalled by any medicament hitherto
known. 1t is very suitable for those
maladies which are treated by cutane-
ous exhalatiOns, such as rheumatism,
sciatica, chills, and virulent diseases
like smallpox and measles. The second
plant is tuberous Ailantus, which is
capable of checking stubborn diarrhCea,
and especially dysentery. Ii Is the
bark of the root which has this virtue
in highest degree. This is bruised in
mortar, with little hot water, and,
after sitting, the extract is administered
in teSSpOonfuls.
st. Petersburg, the capital of Russia,
is the haven of children who have
propensity for making mud sand pies.
In many of the small parks of that city
there are, here and there, large open
spaces covered with gravel. Every
morning in each of these spaces may be
seen large pile Of sand, cone shaped,
about four feet high and six feet IN
diameter at the base. After breakfast
all the children, equipped with little
hatchets, spades, and wagons, repair to
these cones and employ themselves in
digging down and scattering the
material, according to their fancy, over
the gravel spaces. Next morning the
cones are ready for another assault.
The city government provides the sand
and has it piled into cones each night.
The manufacture of Illuminating gas
from water has not been heard much of
lately, but now has come an English in
ventor who makes an illuminating gas
from sewage water, forty-seven feet of
gas being obtained from one quart of
sewage water. One foot of sewage gas
gives as much light as three feet of coal
gas, and the fame is clearer, ,purer, more
healthful, and cheaper. The process
consist in passing the liquid through
two heated retorts, then through an
iron cylinder called the hydraulic main,
which is above the furnace, then
through another heated retort, and next
through coil of metal piping immersed
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