Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-03
Varieties.

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is thirty-five years old.
An Oshkosh Judge lately received -four
bars of soap for a marriage fee. Could
this be considered clean cash
"Pa, what is the use of giving our
pigs so much milk ?" 80 that they can
make hogs of themselves, darling"
When bit of ostrich feather is found
by a wife in her husbands beard no one
can blame her for being down on him.
A Western paper is dead. In its last
gasp it family whispered, "Two hun
dred subscribers, and only thirty-one
paid up"
Valedictory of His Honor, the Mayor
of Denver: "Thank God, its over with !
L wouldn't take it again for kingdom,
not if l know it.
An old gentleman at Columbia Falls.
Mo, aged So years, was recently married
the ceremony being performed by his
son, aged 81 years.
/ Temperance and labor are the two
best physicians of man labor sharpens
the appetite, and temperance prevents
him from indulging in excess.
| The Captain General of Havana has
issued decree imposing tax of 10 per
cent. on all incomes exceeding $1,000,
only the army and navy being excepted.
| A Parisian tradesman, named Lasseur,
who was recently sick, having swallowed
fork, has now picked up his health,
and seems to have forgotten the trident
/ in his stomach.
| 1t is reported that upwards of seven
thousand paintings have been sent in
/ for the ensuing exhibition of the Paris
Salon, and that the works of sculpture
contributed are fully as numerous.
A Chinaman on trial in California for
larceny proved that he was not within
mile of the property when it was
stolen. He was let off with one years
imprisonment for contempt of court.
La Mothe was not great writer, but
he understood human nature. Finding
that his book had a slow sale, he pro-
cured prohibition against the reading
of it, and every copy was disposed of.
Duties are ours, events Gods. This
removes an infinite burden from the
shoulders ola miserable, tempted, dying
creature on this consideration he can
securely lay down his head and close his
eyes.
Barbara Freitchie's niece spoils an
other romance by asserting that her
aunt did not wave the National flag in
the faces of the rebels as they marched
through Fredericktown, but only poked
them with her cane.
Phebe Couzins doesn't dress like her
brothers of the bar. She wears a heavy
silk with a polonaise richly trimmed
with black lace, roses in her bosom,
white frills around her neck, and spark
ling aigrette in her hair.
Truth being founded upon a rock,
you may boldly dig to see its founda-
tions, without fear of destroying its edi-
fee; but falsehood being laid on the
sand, il you examine its foundations
you cause it to fall.
The gold fields which De Soto and
many others after him vainly tried to
discover in the interior of the country,
are said to have recently been found in
Arkansas. They are said to be IN the
mountains. near the Choctaw line.
Muzzle-loading guns can be altered
into breech-loaders without difficulty.
This will be a welcome fact to many
sportsmen who have great reluctance
I to give up their old pieces to which they
have become attached and with which
they have done noble duty in times
past.
An Institute for the Promotion of the
Fine Arts, to which are attached a mu-
scum, library and reading room, is about
| to be opened to the public at Sterling.
1t was founded by the late Mr.. Thomas
Smith, of Fitzroy Square, London, who
left by will $4,000 for this purpose.
and also fine collection of pictures.
The Princess Marie Hohenlohe is at
/ the head of the Vienna kitchens for the
poor. She is lovely and elegant woman,
but she goes every morning to the great
hall, accompanied by Sisters Of Charity,
and, putting on a large apron, devotes
two hours to cutting bread and meat.
and ladling out broth to the hungry
creatures who come to her for food.
They who are the fullest of faith and
richest in good works make the least
sound; when their hearts and lives.
/ like the faco of Moses, shine brightly
they will not know it. They consider
/ tuciI SItdJcSL luSbIc lS DuI ~
reflection from the Father of Lights,
and therefore they have no reason to
boast at all Of borrowed goods.
A company is to be formed to raise
the treasures which are still lying in the
Lutine, a ship which went down about
one hundred years ago in the Zuyder-
zee. On the Island of UrS special
station for observation is to be erected,
in order to snatch the favorable moment
in which the work of diving can be
undertaken, a moment which occurs
only some number of times in the year.
The man who has placed himself at the
head of the undertaking, Vermeulen,
has discovered special diving appara-
tus with which work can be done also
under the sand. The wreck OF the ship
is now estimated at II, 2,0O0, 900 gulden
(f1, 600, ,0O0) in ready money, while about
fifty years ago about eight millions was
brought to light.
Inspired by the report of Rochefort's
escape from New Caledonia, NJ. Jules
Claretie contributes to the Independ-
dnce Beige some Of those ever-attractive
tales of similar events which seem to
excite the sympathy even of the most
law-abiding persons. The best OF these
dates from the time of the Reformation,
when certain Lutheran named Celius
Curion, falling into the power of the
Inquisition, underwent the usual pro-
cess of suasion carried on by its fami-
liars. An immense log of wood being
fastened to each of his feet, escape
seemed hopeless. One day, however,
he induced his jailer to remove the log
from one of his feet, which was swollen.
He then, when alone, took off his shirt,
stuffed it into the stocking he removed
from the freed limb, put shoe on the
dummy, and covered the real leg with
the folds of his cloak. He next begged
the goaler to change the log to the other
foot. This the man did, thinking it