Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-20
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Man respires, aspires, conspires and
expires.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue.
He who can take advice, is sometimes
superior to him who can give it.
God never sends an angel to affict q
human soul, but another follows in its
footsteps to heal and bless.
A Maine inventor is said to have pat
ented poly-morphous article of furni
ture, combining a wardrobe, bedstead.
dining table, and easy chair.
Two pairs of stairs are necessary to
every newspaper office in North Caro-
lina-one for the editor to go down as
the caller comes up the other.
A firm faith is the best theology q
good life the best philosophy q clear
conscience the best law; honesty the
best policy, and temperance the best
physic.
'1'm not in mourning" said young
French lady, frankly, to querist; ''but
as the widows are getting all the offers
nowadays, we poor girls have to resort
to artifice."
Forty-three newspapers are now pub
lished in Constantinople. Sixteen of
them are dailies, with combined circu-
lation of but 10000. There is also 3
Turkish ladies' newspaper.
A Frenchman Processes to have dis
covered, by experiments upon himself.
that coffee taken upon an empty stomach
renders the mind abnormslly clear and
the temper unnaturally bad.
A new invention consists in making a
cape weatherproof, water repellent and
inhatable, so that, while it affords the
usual protection for sailors and seafaring
people. it is also life preserver.
Enthusiastic pedestrian-"AmI I on
the right road for Stratford-Shake-
speare's town you know? You've often
heard of Shakespeare Intelligent
British rustic. "Yes be you he ?"
We like boys who try to help them
selves. Every one ought to be friendly
to them. The boys of energy and am
bition who make a manly effort to do
something for themselves are the bone
of the country.
A Boston paper wonders why a men,
Der of Congress, who recently spoke
with so much feeling of the ''hsy seed
in his hair" and "oats in his throat"
/ forgot to complete the diagnosis of the
case by alluding to the rye in his
stomach.
/ It is the easiest thing in the world to
be happy if men and women could only
think so. Happiness is only another
name for love, for where love exists in
a household there happiness must also
exist where love exists not, even
though it be in palace, happiness can
never come.
Thoughts seem occasionally to have a
life of their own, a life independent
sometimes they are even stronger than
the thinkers, and draw them relentlessly
along. They seize hold of outward cir
cumstances with their strong grip. How
strangely dominant thought sometimes
runs through whole epoch of life.
Hawthorne" says Joaquin Miller.
"speaks of Lord Houghton as the with
est man in England. But he is vast
deal more than a wit. He is q man
brimful Of sympathy for all men, and
for young artists in particular. A peer
of the realm, he is yet as good demo-
crat-or republican, as you please-as
ever cast a ballot in America"
Medical students who are about to
pass through the ordeal of examination
may advanta9eously, perhaps, copy the
reply of a French student, who was be-
ing examined by famous physician in
Paris. He described to the perplexed
aspirant for medical honors a disease
eliminating by degrees to the most
dangerous symptoms, and asked "What
would you then prescribe, or dOT The
student, after a slight hesitation, re-
piled, 81 should send instantly for you"
He got his diploma of course.
We cannot look, however imperfectly,
upon a great man without gaining some
thing by him. He is the living light
fountain, which it is good and pleasant
to be near the light which enlightens,
which has enlightened, the darkness of
the world and this not as a kindled
lamp only, but rather as a natural
luminary, shining by the gift Of heaven;
a flowing light-fountain, as l say, of
native original insight, of manhood and
heroic nobleness, in whose radiance all
souls feel that it is well with them.
The real mesalliance is that of souls
and ever, as more than one young man.
without home, or birth, or fortune, is .
marble column which sustains a o tenn
pie of grand sentiments and grand
ideas, so you may find satisfied and
opulent man of the world, with pol
ished boots and vanished speech, who,
if you look not at the exterior but the
interior, that is to say, at what is re-
served for the wife, is nothing but a
stupid joist, darkly haunted, violent by
impure and debauched passions-the
sign-post of tavern.
The Orientals are very fastidious
about writing, and calligraphers enjoy
a high reputation among them. 1t is
said that each letter of the Arabic al
phabet requires one years practice be-
fore the writer is able to execute it in
the thoroughly approved fashion. A
fine hand is the first and most impor-
tant, and sometimes the only sign of q
good education. Fine specimens of
writing are often gilded and framed to
hang up In rooms, as we use pictures,
which are forbidden to them. The prices
paid in Persia, Turkey, Egypt, &C., for
specimens Of the writing Of famous
scribes are often fabulous.
John Pye, the veteran engraver, who
recently died, at the age of ninety-two,
was famous for mis- reproduction Of
Turner'S engravings. The London
Spectator declares that he was ''the
most complete engraver of landscape
that ever lived" and adds that this is
not enough to say, for it would fall
short of true definition of the man, or
of his rank and position in the art-world.
He was not merely a practitioner Of
consummate skill he was the apostle,
and latterly one of the few remaining
representatives, Of great principle in
art-that is, chiaroscur0, the principles
of which "John Pye spent his long life
in illustrating and expounding. but
which are little more than q terra an