Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
NO. 15.
Varieties.

Never 'go alone" unless you are sure
OF your hand.
The "Cave of the Winds" must be
cool just now.
The only difference between a mill
and a mile is one Ell.
1t is very ruinous to move, but espe-
peclally expensive to move in the best
circles.
An ancient we'll, built of stone. was
recently discovered in Illinois, thirty
two feet beneath the surface.
A veteran observer says that mankind
loves mysteries. A hole in the ground
excites more wonder than a star in the
heavens.
Some physicians say that swinging is
good for the health. That may be so,
but many a poor fellow has come to his
death by it.
Jones says that the difference between
his wife and the Pope is that she pos
sesses temperate power, and his Emil
nence doesn't.
jenkins told his son, who proposed
to buy COW in partnership, to be sure
and buy the hinder half, as it eats
nothing and gives all the milk.
A Jersey farmer has discovered a new
fertilizer which is cheaper than guano
and more effective, and this is corn
meal. 1t is applied in the hill, and it
causes, as he declares, a wonderful
growth.
"Anna, dear, if should attempt to
spell Cupid, why could L not get beyond
the first syllable ?" Anna gave it up,
whereupon William said : Because
when | come to u, of course, can
go no further"
A fortune-telling swindler was ar
rested In Baltimore recently, and at the
examination one witness stated that she
had paid the prisoner at various times
sums amounting to 5000, 'to have her
husbands affection restored"
God bless the cheerful face Bless ii
He has blessed it already; the stamp of
heaven is on every feature. What a
dreary world this would be without this
heaven-born light And he who has it
not should pray for his daily bread
Phren0iogical Journal.
The distress from the famine in Ben
gal is increasing, and many thousands
of the natives are dependent upon the
Government for food. In the Tirhoot
districts 100, 900 persons, all of whom
were in an emaciated condition, made
application for relief within the last
ten days.
1t was recently proposed in the
French Assembly to tax pianos, and also
certain compositions which learners
delight IN, and never grow tired of
practicing. Those who have the mis-
fortune to live next door to family of
musical amateurs will keenly appreciate
the benefits of such tax.
1t is new wrinkle in horse science
that when a horse is nine years old
wrinkle comes on the upper corner of
the lower eye lid, and thereafter every
year comes another wrinkle. If this be
true, a new revolution will take place in
the science, for hitherto there have been
no horses over nine years old.
A Justice of Guthrie county, Iowa,
decided in the case of citizen who
brought suit against his daughters
lover for ejecting him from his own
parlor one Sunday night, that courting
is necessity, and must not be inter-
rupted, therefore the laws of Iowa will
hold that a parent has no legal right in
a room where counting is afOOt and so
the defendant was discharged, and the
plaintiff had to pay the costs.
Mr.. Smith of the Cleveland and Pitts
burg Railroad says that the business of
engineer Is not so hazardous as is gene
rally believed. He has been connected
with the road for years, and of the
niDety-seven engineers employed on it
he could remember but one being killed
and another slightly hurt. The brake
men suffer most. In the same time a
score of them have lost their lives, and
hundreds have been pinched between
cars.
Two men named Mason and Hogan
persuaded certain wealthy citizens of
Truckee, Nevada, to subscribe 800 each
for the recovery of piratical treasures TO
the amount of S25, 900, 900, which, Mason
and Hogan said, had been concealed by
themselves in their younger and pratt
cal days on the coasts of Cuba and other
islands of the Gulf. The pirates came
east, their expenses being paid, had
good time, but did not recover the $25,-
100000.
A good cigar costs on an average 10
cents moderate smoker uses three a
day. Three cigars day, at 10 cents
apiece, amount in year to Sl09, 80, a
sum sufficient to purchase the nucleus
of fine library. Placed at interest at
six per cent it would amount in years
to over $50. Thus invested it does
not destroy an otherwise sweet breath,
waste nervous energy, perfume the
family or personal wardrobe, nor create
an appetite for stimulus which leads to
indulgence in strong drink.
A correspondent, writing from Rome,
says: In the little old Protestant GEM
etery Just outside the walls of the new
is the grave of Keats, on which the dirt
lies loosely as if placed yesterday. A
border of box or myrtle encloses it, and
on the small white headstone one sor-
rowfully reads ''Here lies all that
was mortal of a young English poet,
who. on his death-bed, in the bitterness
of his heart at the malicious power of
his enemies, said let these words be en-
craven on my tombstone Here lies
one whose name was writ in water"
The number of women who are lec-
turing on physiology and hygiene null
tiplies. But the most wholesome thing
in the matter is that so many ladies
attend these lectures. 1t really looks
as though our women had made the
discovery that they have bodies and
ought to take care of them. The ques-
ton with women has always been How
to be beautiful. Now the question
would seem to be How to be well. This
is well certainly, and they may find
that the answer to the second question
is also the answer to the first. To be
well is the first step towards being
"beautiful forever"
A correspondent writes to the Balti-
more american ga Texan lady, who
came on the boat from Brashear to