Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30
NO. 80.
Varieties.

| Suspicion and distrust are the great
est enemies to friendship.
/ There is no fault in poverty, but the
minds that think so are faulty,
Nurture your mind with thoughts.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Only what We have wrought into our
character during life can We take away
with us.
Since We are exposed to inevitable
scrrows, wisdom is the art of finding
ompensation.-Lecis.
Do with trials as men do with new
hats-put them on and wear them nu-
til they become easy.
He that does base thing in zeal ior
a friend, burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
A Texas gentleman was married the
day before he was hanged. 1t isn't sta
ted which not he liked best.
"The truth is that capital may be
produced by industry, and sccumula-
ted by economy but iugglers only will
propose to create it by legerdemain
tricks with paper. Thomas Jefferson.
We admire wit as we do the wind.
When it shakes the tree, it is fine:
when it cools the wave, it is refreshing;
when it steals over the flowers, it is en-
chanting; but when it whistles through
the key-hole, it is unpleasant,
A Frenchman roasts coffee, grinds it
to flour, moistens it slightly, mixes it
in twice its weight of powdered white
l and thar, fr,fo toI lnka
| One of these tablets can be dissolved at
any time in hot or cold water, making
at once the very perfection of coffee
and it is claimed that pound of the
berry will go much farther by this than
by any other preparation of the bever-
age.
The Rio Grande, like the Mexicans
and Indians on its further side, is con-
tinually encroaching on the soil of
Texas. Matamoros has robbed the
Texas city of Brownsville of much val
uable trade, and now the insiduons old
river, says the Galveston News, is
winding its way into the bank and un-
dermining our chief commercial city on
the border.
A youth who attended Scotch revi-
val meeting for the fun of the thing,
ironically inquired of the minister
whether he could work q miracle or
not. The young mans curiosity was
fully satisfied by the minister's kick
ing him out of the church, with the
maledictory. "We cannot work mira
cles, but we can cast out devils -
At meeting in London to receive Q
report from the missionaries sent to dis
cover the tribes of Israel, Lord Il
was asked to take the chair. 81 take"
he replied, @ great interest in your re-
searches, gentlemen; The fact is,
have borrowed money from all the Jews
now known, and if you can find a new
set l shall feel very much obliged"
The years 1871, 1872, and 1873 hav-
ing been exceptionally bad ones for the
production of wine in Germany, it is
gratifying to learn that the present sea-
son, is likely to prove exceptionally
good particularly as regards the choice
growths of the Rheingan and Moselle.
Reports from these districts are very
favorable, and the vintage is now be-
lieved to be beyond the possibility OF
injury by frost or any other nstusl
cause.
The Khivan expedition is said u
have brought into notice rival TO the
famous Prussian erbstCurst, or pea-sau-
sage. The Russian soldiers were fed
chiefly on biscuits composed one-third
of flour of rye, one third of beef re-
duced to powder, and one third OF So
uerkrout also reduced to powder. Tho
soldiers had a great relish for this food,
and their good health during the ex-
pedition is attributed in great part to
the use of it.
A party of scientific and literary men,
after digging away sil day at q mound
on the land of farmer named Richard
Long, near Rockland, ILL.,, finally un-
earthed white tablet of stone pro-
nounced to be Niagara spar. The tab
let is two inches wide, three and one
half long, and one-fourth of an inch
thick, and is inscribed with face and
other characters, of course uHintelligi-
BILE. A few inches beneath were found
a stone chisel, flint arrow-heads, OF
spear-points. and decayed bones.
An exhibition of the city Of Pompsii
as it was l 800 years ago is now to be
seen in Paris, winding up with an erup-
/ ton of Mount Vesuvius, which is said
to be splendid. The whole city is re-
constructed before the spectators. The
/ forum, the street of the tombs, the
tragic threatre and amphithestre, the
temples, the baths, the villas and man
sions of citizens, are all displayed.
Photo-sculpture is among the means
employed to produce the illusion.
The show is exceedingly successful.
NJ. Jansen states that Croce-Spin-
nelli, in his recent balloon ascension to
an elevation of %, 900 feet finds by
spectroscopic observation that the lines
/ IN the spectrum ascribed to the vapor
of water are due to the terrestrial and
not to the solar atmosphere since
when the former, by reason of the ele-
walton, is greatly eliminated, the bands
are also in like proportion decreased.
1t may, therefore, be considered that in
/ the sun there is no watery vapor, at
least in appreciable quantity, and that
consequently the tempature Of that
body is not yet sufficiently lowered TO
allow water to form.
Samuel Hopkins was the first person
who ever received a patent from the
United States government. 1t was
granted July 30th, 179S, and was for
the manufacture of pot and pearl ashes.
The third was Olive Evans, Of Philadel-
phia, so famous for his inventions in
high pressure engines, of whose inven-
ton President Jefferson remarked that
sit was too valuable to be covered by a
patent, and there should be no patent
for thing no one could do without after
it was known" This was said in
December of that year. For many
years afterward the patent Office was
but a clerkship in the state department.
The canary bird in its wild state is
not so beautiful as his domesticated
fellow. Its body is greenish yellow,
and the color of its tail, head and back
ranges from brown ash to dirty black.
The color of the female is even more
dinpy and indistinct than the male.
! Tbev mate in Februsry. and build nests