Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-09
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Undertakers' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
alter burial cases.

Undertakers' motto-Circumstances
alter burial cases.
There is only one way in this world
after all-the right way.
A Washington widow who is known
TO have $4,000 is reported to have re-
fused eight offers of marriage from dis
charged clerks in one day and two
nights.
A friend invited Horace Greeley to
call and see him, ending the invitation
with, ''If 1 am not at home yon can al
ways see my wife" "Oh," said the
philosopher, 81 don't think it's well to
make practice of that" And it isn't.
Russia produces annually, 1876. 900
tons of flax !; Austria, 1905; France,
40,000 Belgium, 20, 900; Great Britain,
$1,000; Italy, 1900; Bavaria 5000
Saxony, 5000; other countries, 5000
the total European productions being
$4,000 tons. Why is linen SC dear9
While New York city has $50, 900 in.
habitants and 40 places of worship,
Berlin, with population of $50, 900 mas
only sixty churches and chapels, yet
for the most part costly edifices. In the
United States there are Y, 600 houses of
wOrship-6S, 900 Protestant and 1000
Roman Catholic, or 600 people to .
Church.
A careful review of the fields and mar
kets of Europe shows an average wheat
crop in regard to quality and growth
but an immense amount of it is yet un-
harvested, and heavy rain would do
serious damage. A great diversity OF
opinion prevails with respect to the
crops in France and Belgium.
During the late war, Dr., entering
the hospital surgery, met Paddy Doyle.
the orderly, and asked him which he
considered the most dangerous of the
many cases then in the hospital.
''That, SIR" said Paddy as with an in
dicative jerk of the thumb, he pointed
to where on the table, lay case of sur
gical instruments.
The London Spectator notes the sin
gular fact that with the increase of cul-
ture the ghosts have become as conven-
tionally wellbehaved as their surviving
relatives. We no longer hear Of ghosts
prancing around in the old fashion,
playing malicious tricks upon people
but they have become as staid and we'll
behaved as young lady fresh from
convent school, and make their exits and
entrances with the graceful sang froid
of well-bred people.
Bayard Taylor, writing from Aber-
deem, Scotland, speaks thus of the scene
of Shakespeare's famous tragedy So
much of the old moorlands have been
reclaimed that Macbeth's witches
would now have some difficulty in find
ing place to meet. From the Gram
plans to the Sidiaw hills the eye detects
no waste or ragged points ; all is culti-
waited to the highest pitch of smooth
ness, ,cleanness. Passing Burnam on the
left, and Dunsinane on the right, yon
come to Glamis, and the castle, sur
rounded by deep, rich groves, hath truly
a pleasant seat.
\ writer who has flirted with the wo-
men of Paraguay says ''Only imagine
yourself about to salute the red lips of
a magnificent little Hebe arrayed in sat
in and flashing with diamonds, as she
puts you back with one delicate hand,
while with the other she draws forth
from her mouth a brownish-black roll
of tobacco quite two inches long, look
ing like a monster grub, and then de-
posting the savory lozenge on the brim
of yOur sombrero, puts up her face and
is ready for a salute. However, one
soon gets used to this in Paraguay,
where you are, perforce of custom.
obliged to kiss every lady you are in
troduced to-"
A tri color flag on the summit Of Metz
Cathedral, which had been a constant
eyesOre to the Germans, was recently
removed, a reward of S75 having been
offered for the feat, which was attended
with considerable danger, as, after the
top of the Gothic tower was reached,
two balls had to be scaled to reach the
flagstaff. A man named Demane, a
house painter at Metz lately made the
attempt and brought down the obnox-
ions emblem of French rule, su5stitu-
ting therefor a German flag of black
white and red. Previously seven Ger
mans had tried to accomplish the task
but two lost their lives and the other
five failed.
The art of dyeing wooden, cotton and
silk materials has been rapidly impro-
wing during the last so years. New
chemical agents have been discovered,
and through them charming colors,
hitherto unknown have been obtained.
But the use Of these agents is not al
ways void of danger. and proof of this
is the accident which recently befell
Nine. Bone of the artists at the
Theatre Francais. At the close of a
dinner, during which she had been live
lier and wittier than usual, she sudden
IL turned pale and fell into a deep
sWOOn. Restoratives were applied
without success, and the guests were
becoming alarmed, when one of them
noticed the toilette worn by the sufferer
"A splendid faille train of rich, velvety
green shade. Struck by the sudden in
spiratiOn, he had the dress taken of,
and Nine. B-soon after recovered her
means Of copper oxide. was simply pois-
oning her. About ten years ago hand
some violet shade was adopted, and it
became the fashion for young children
to wear long stockings of that color.
The poor children all became i'll, and
the parents were puzzled to detect the
the cause, when some one took into his
head to analize the dye used to color
the stockings, and it was found to con-
tain strong poison.
Among the most singular sources Of
industrial production in the world, are
the leech ponds of Holland. Most of
these are owned by regularly organ
lied company. The marshes of the
land, (which if moored to its shore"
and admirably adapted to the unlimited
cultivation of the leech, and the trade
in them is larger than is imagined. A
good fat leech of powerful suction, is
not thing to be contemned. Brock
klein is the town most interested in this
strange trade, and owns stock in the
company mentioned above to the
amount of one million fiorins, and an
immense reservoir has been constructed
in which to breed millions of voracious
IaaeIas fro hroup black faltOWs war