Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-29
NO. 80.
Varieties.
An enemy's sword is apt to be we'll
sharpened.

An enemy's sword is apt to be well
sharpened.
Cupid is not blind, but he binds tho
eyes OF this votaries.
We may soar as high as we can, but
We will never touch the stars.
Toast at a railway dinner sour
Mothers, industrious tenders, though
they often misplaced the switch"
Human life is gloomy chamber, in
which the images of the other world
shine the brighter, the deeper it il
darkened.
Ont of the 47S1 bills introduced in
both houses of Congress last session,
less than 1000 passed, and of these over
800 were privats or pension bills.
A man ont in Boston, in his hurry to
assist failti2g lady, got a bottle Of
mucilsge instead of camphor, and
bathed her face with it. She was Q
good deal stuck up with his attention,
The new capital building at Hartford,
Coun., is to cost s.. 800, 900. OF this
sum the State has appropriated 81 0OO,-
600, and will appropriate $500. 600
more. whilst Hartford itself has given
$500, 900.
The largest room in the world under
single roof, unbroken by pillars or
other distractions, is at st. Peterburg
in Russia, and is $50 feet wide. 1t is,
used for military displays in rough
weather, and can be converted into Q
ballroom at night.
As one sensibly remarks Making q
profession of religions is like enlisting
in the army 1t is very easily done, and
is at the most only promise. Whether
the promise is kept depends on how the
recruit behaves whether he endures
hardships as good soldier and tights
bravely, and follows wherever his cap
tain leads.
A new cafe chantant has Just been
opened IN Paris on the Seine, right in the
middle of the river, close to the Baths
Henri lV. You go down to it by steps,
placed at the back of Henri IV statue,
on the Pont -Neuf. The idea is cool, at
all events and at night not only the
cafe itself is crowded, but the bridge
are filled with people trying to
catch a sight or sound of the spectacle
below.
Ii any one wants proof that ounces
can be taught to read and write, We
commenced to the following extract
from letter to the Athenaum Permit
me to suggest that an edition Of
Dickens words should be brought out
in classical English. The words used
in the authors works are extremely dis
agreeable to read. l think that the
language of the lower orders ought
never to appear iu print"
1t may not be generally known that
in Ontario, on and after the 1st of July
next ensuing the present system OF
issuing marriage licenses, under the
authority of the Governor General will
cease. Fran that date all licenses, or
certificates, to marry will issue from
the Lieutenant-Goveno or Provincial
Secretary. 1t should also be under
stood that the fee for the license is to
be reduced from six dollars, the present
charge, to two dollars. 1t is expected
that the names of the new license issu-
ers will soon be published by authority.
Some specimens of English laces were
shown at the South Kensington EX-
hibition this year. the thread of which
cost 9l6O per pound. Much of this
thread had to be wasted, not being suffi-
ciently perfect. The threads of these
and other laces are so attenuated that
the slightest motion in the air foils the
worker, and even when this is imper-
ceptible, north wind has the same
effect. So gossamer like are some of
the filaments that the separate threads
are almost undlstinguishable to the
naked eye unless backed by color.
"Woven of many threads" There are
two ladies living in Tennessee about
whom there is quite a romance, though
they have never met and personally are
strangers to each other. In their girl
hood they were both engaged to
certain young gentleman, though neither
was aware of the others engagement.
simultaneously they discarded him to
Alliance themselves to another gentle
man, who was also discarded by each,
both thinking he was coquetting with
the other. One of them finally married
a gentleman to whom the other had
been engaged before she met either Of
the gentlemen above referred to.
A scientific journal very truly says -
cit is the commonly received notion
that hard study is the unhealthy element
of college life. But from the tables
of Harvard University, collected by
Prof. Pierce from the last triennial
it is clearly demonstrated
that the excess of death for the first ten
years after graduation is found in that
portion of each class of inferior scholar
ship. Dissipation is a sure destroyer,
and every young man who follows 1t is
as the early flower exposed to untimely
frost. Those who have been inveigled
in the path of vice are named Legion.
A few hours sleep each night, high
living and plenty of 'smashes,' make
war with every function of the body.
The brain, the heart, the lungs, the
liver. the spine, the limbs, the bones,
the flesh, every part and faculty over
tasked and weakened by the terrific
energy of passion loosened from re-
straint, until, like dilapidated man
sion, the earthly house of this taberna-
Gle falls into ruinous decay"
A letter from Mrs. Davey, widow Of
the doctor who attended the father of
Charles Dickens on his death bed,
throws a new light upon the character
of the novelist, which will serve to do
away to a considerable extent with
much Of the shadow cast upon his
memory by the biography of his
egotistical friend. Mr.. John Dickens
was a man of ungovernsble temper.
The resemblance to Micawber was very
slight. Mrs. Dickens, the mother of
Charles, was little woman, who had
been very nice looking. She possessed
an extraordinary sense of the ludicrous,
and her powers of imitation were un-
usual. She took in the inventory of
room at a glance, and anything out Of
place or ridiculous she would describe in
the quaintest manner She had also fine
vein of pathos, and could bring tears to