Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-12-02

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earth are like scales of balance-when
one rises the other falls.
After the sting of folly has made men
wise, they find it too hard to consider
| that others can be rs foolish as they
have been.
The Mormon Temple at Silt Lake
was commenced twenty years ago, and
the walls are now only fourteen feet
above ground.
At Billingsgnte. London, last month,
no less than ll2 tons of fish exposed
for sale there was seized and DESTROYED
as unfit for human food.
It is easy for a man who sits lille at
home, and has nobody to please but
himself, to ridicule or censure the COM
mon practices of mankind.
The world uses 100000. 900 pounds
of tea and 7lS. .0O0, 900 pounds of coffee
each year. China furnishes nearly all
the tea and Brazil the coffee.
An extraordinary large turnip was
dug in garden at Salt Lake the other
day, which, on being cut open. turned
mp large sized frog, well and hearty.
He who does good to another man,
does also good to himself ; not only in
the consequences, but in the very act
of doing it for the conscience of we'll
doing is an ample reward.
Germany has Just adopted law by
which the holder of a railroad ticket
may stop at any point on his journey,
for an hour or ten years-the ticket re-
naming good until used.
Six establishments, with an aggre-
gate capital of 81 100000 are reported
to be making good thing ont of it
manufacturing oil and oil cake from
cotton seed, in New Orleans.
1t is proposed to call the infant son
of the Duke of Edinburg the Prince of
Feelee, inasmuch as the annexation of
the Feeiee Islands to the British Crown
was almost simultaneous with his birth.
A scientific agriculturist reports that
he has found as high as 80 per cent. of
cream in the last pint of milk drawn
from a COW, when the first pint from
the same COW yielded only 81 per cent.
Usefulness is confined to no station.
as it is astonishing to see how much
good may be done. and what may be
affected by limited means, united with
benevolence of heart and activity of
mind.
The negroes of the West India Islands
shut up their cabins at night as tight
as drum to keep out the wandering
spirits of darkness. Their belief in
is almost incredible, and the
Obeah men drive thriving business.
The leading English brewers are COM
planning of the use of sulphur in the
drying OF hops. The object appears TO
be to give the hops a more attractive
color, but the sulphur Injuries the beer,
and is said to prodnce prejudical effects
upon the health of those who drink it.
The ruins of old friendship are even
a more melancholy spectacle than those
OF desOlated places. They exhibit the
heart that was once lighted up with Joy
all damp aud deserted, and haunted by
those birds of i'll omen that only nestle
in ruins.
Ones age should be tranquil, as ones
childhood should be play full +; hard work,
at either extremity of human existence.
seems to me ont of place the morning
and the evening should be alike cool
and peaceful at midday the sun may
burn, and men labor under it.-Dr.
irnOld.
George Francis Train once more
breaks temporary silence. He says
mn Il
ted in one, and this is, that at no late
day, my ideas will control their action.
When the progressing atmospheric
changes make the country's mind sniff
ciently receptive to bring the people up
to nv psychologist plane | shall he
forced, whether desire it or not, t0
exercise the power ! know / possess, a
power far beyond Christianity, Infidel-
ity, Paganism. or Spiritualism T.
A well dressed man in Chicago at
tracted considerable attention the other
day by sitting upon the edge of the
for some time with his head
between his hands, as if i'll deep medi-
tation. AT last sympathetic stranger
approached him and said "Friend.
you seem to be in trouble can | assist
you in any way 2' The man sprang to
his feet, and taking off his hat, parted
his hair carefully, and said : stranger
do you see that cut 2 My wife did IT
this morning with hat-iron, and then
sent me down town to buy her a new
bonnet, and have been sitting here
for an hour trying to decide whether |
Will buy it or not, and blame me stran-
ger. if / haven't almost decided To get
il"
The summer trip of provincial geo
logist in Newfoundland has resulted in
the discovery of fertile tract of land,
it is alleged, of supporting
100, 900 people with ease, situated in
the vicinity of Gander Bay, in the
part of the island. The
soil is rich, and the tract contains pine
forests of large growth and great value,
the amount of cultivable land being es-
timated at 800, 900 square acres. There
is fascination about all newly discov-
cred lands, and it is therefore not sur
prising to find the beauty and attrac-
tiveness of the tract pictured very much
as General Custer told of the Black
Hills. The discovers name is Murray,
but he is no connection of the Adiron-
dack explorer.
A party of three, two Americans and
an Englishman, have ascended the vol
cano of PopOcatepetl. They started
for Amecameca and passed between the
lakes of Texcoco on the left and Chalco
on the right, the one salt and the other
fresh, with nothing but the road over
which they were travelling to separate
their waters of such different natures.
The first night was spent on the cold
side of the mountain. At five in the
morning the ascent commenced through
deep black sand. on reaching the
snow line far beyond thick clouds were
piled upon esch other in the valleys of
Puebla and Mexico. To the north
stood the snow-clad heights of Ixtaci-
huatl, and far to the east the peak of
Orizaba hooded with perpetual snow.
After reaching the top-over eighteen
thousand feet above the level of the
ocean-they descended into the crater
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