Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-03
NO. 8.
VARIETIES.
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| of The Best of Husbands"
"Groweth Down as Carrot" by the
! author of ''Cometh up in Flower"
We would willingly have others per-
feet, and yet We amend not our Own
faults.
If a man has but one idea, what need
has he of Webster's dictionary con-
tanning 90, 900 words.
Bartholomew ChristOfOri, of Padua.
was the inventor OF the piano-forte, ac-
cording to the Italians.
TOO thin has become obsolete.
Not sufficiently materialized" is the
latest form in which this idea is clothed.
A lady Just been appointed by the
English Registrar General to the office
of Deputy Registrar, the first case of the
kind in the history of the department.
4 Californian puts in a good word
for John Chinaman on the ground that
he has never been known to become a
book canvasser or a life insurance
agent.
A three cent stamp viii now carry a
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States to Canadian city, and single
Canadian stamp will perform the same
service the other way.
An attorney having died in poor cir
cumstances, one OF his friends observed
/ that he had left but few effects. THAT
IS not much to be wondered at" said
/ another, ''fOr he had but few causes"
There is no royal road to success.
Dream only of the crowning pinnacle,
and 1t shall appear only in thy dreams.
Attend to-day to the monuments foun-
dation the pinnacle itself may appear
tomorrow.
From the Sweden comes the an
nouncement of the discovery of a new
explosive agent called vigorite. Eight
ounces accomplished by experiment
what would have required double the
quantity of dynamite.
During the year 1874 more than Go,
600 steerage passengers left this country
for Europe. The New York Commits
sioner of Emigration believes that
about fl 900, or two thirds of the whole
number, intend to be permanent alb
sentees.
There is a marked revival among the
Mohammedans of Lucknow. Old de-
serted temples have been repaired, and
are crowded with worshippers. Street
preaching has been resorted to, and
schools have been opened in which the
doctrines of Islamism are taught.
The Alta California says Raising
cork trees seems to be an approaching
industry of California. They are said
to grow very rapidly among the foot
hills. At Auburn there are a number
of these trees, three or four years old,
that have bark thick enough for an or
dinary cork.
The Patent Office has granted pat
ent for dummy. for dry goods mer-
chants, to enable them to make
large show on small stock. 1t con-
sists of block of wood, neatly done
up in a cover of cloth, labled and rib
boned to represent, in exterior appear
ance, full package of real goods.
The great staircase of the new Opera
House in Paris, though effective and
striking, is said to be greatly over
done. Ii is literally one mass of gold,
bronze, marble, and onyx, combined
with the richest draperies, with statu-
airy and huge mirrors, and everything
that the most lavish expenditure and
elaborate ornaments can bestow.
a very remarkable character has died
suddenly in Paris-SOphie, the cook to
whom the late DR.. Vernon was indebted
for his reputation as the first dinne--
giver in Paris for something like half
century. Sophie generally used to
come in after dinner and be compli-
mented, and, in her humble way, be-
came acquainted with almost every
man and woman in Paris, from Mile.
Mars, and Mile. Rachel, Taglioni, and
Elsslers, down to modern stars-from
Talma to Regier.
Hitherto Partisan bank-notes have
been burnt at the rate of about three
hundred thousand a month, much to
the disgust of people near the bank,
who complain bitterly of the air being
impregnated with the tilmy remains of
the paper and ofthe disagreeable smell.
1t is now under consideration to adopt
the plan of tearing the notes into mi
mute fragments, and then reducing them
into pulp, from which fresh material
can be prepared. This, it is said, will
further have the desirable effect of saw
ing considerable sum Of money.
The making of Egyptian air-castles.
cut circular by compass, and folded in
eight creases to form a globe, furnishes
employment for fashionable young
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They are composed of paper of various
bright colors, and when formed into
globe-shape, are strung upon a cord,
five or six different cOlors together,
and hung in a portion of the room
where a gentle current of air will set
them in motion. They get "excited"
at length, and go whirling around wind
mill fashion, eventually all tangled up
in a pretty little snarl forming but one
globe ia appearance.
King Cakobau's war club has been
sent as a present to Queen Victoria.
through Sir Hercules Robinson. IL is
about feet 8 inches IN length, and
made of dense, hard wood, stained
black, and highly polished, resembling
in shape a stout, well-rounded walking
club. Round the handle are group
Of cocoa palms wrought in silver fern
leaves gradually entwine upward
toward the head, with doves carrying
olive leaves in their mouths, and the
top or knob is surmounted by a crown
all of solid silver. 1t was formerly
used as a mace by the self-constituted
/ Government from whose hands Fiji has
now been wrested.
Ninevah was fourteen miles long.
eight miles wide and forty-six miles
around, with a wall 100 feet high and
thick enough for three chariots abreast.
Babylon was fifty miles within the
walls, which were seventy five feet
thick and 100 feet high with 100 brszen
gates. The temple of Diana, at Ephe-
sus, was 420 feet to the support of the
roof it was 100 years in building. The
largest of the pyramids was 81 feet IN
height and S53 feet on the sides. The
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