Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-04-14
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yARIErIES.

The traces of tears draw sympathy.
You should not stone yonr neighbor,
but you may rock his baby.
Although a womans age is undeniably
her own, she does not O,cH it.
The best preparation to keep a lady's
hand free from chaps" is a report
that she has no money.
A Michigan man raised five lemons
IN his hot house. They were good
lemons, but their culture took four
tons of coal.
Behum and Wagner. two German
scientists, have lately carefully estima-
ted the number of inhabitants on the
earth to be | ,39l 900. 900.
Spring signs. Wild water fowl, who
are supposed to know a thing or two
about the weather, are winging their
way to the boreal regions.
Josh Billings has been writing for
the press nearly twenty years, and he
doesn't know how to spell any better
now than the day he commenced.
Why did you pass yesterday without
looking at me p said beautiful wo-
man to Talleyrand Because, madam
if had looked 1 could not have
passed"
1t Is said that drowning men catch
at straws but straws, in gin slings
and other strong drinks, are caught
at by men who merely wish to drown
their sorrows.
By new invention it is claimed that
glass can be made into building mate
rial for house fronts, floors or pave
ments superior TO marble in durability
and economy.
A New England writer is trying to
prove that man ought to live one
hundred years. That sounds very well
but how would We like to have our
forefathers sitting around and forever
dinging into our ears the superiority
of the times in which they had control
of things?
A young officer of an old and noble
Saxon family fell in love with n shop
girl In Berlin, handsome as picture,
proposed, was accepted, put under the
care OF maiden amt, who was to ed
ucate her for her future high position.
and finally married her the other day
in Dresden.
An engine on the Pennsylvania Cen
trsl Railroad has been on duty since
1857, and has run in that time 437 ,733
miles. Probably there is very little of
the original engine remaining except
the frame and minor parts. Another
engine, made in London, Eng, in 1888
is still doing duty.
Oil was struck at depth OF six hnn-
dred and fifty four feet on the farm of
Daniel Beatty at Warren, Pa, on
Saturday March 18Th. The gas forced
the petroleum above the top of the
derrick but the capacity of the well ~
not yet discovered. This strike de-
velops an entirely new belt of oil terri
tory.
In Spain rooms are not warmed by
stoves or fireplaces. as there are not
brains enough in that country to un-
derstand these contrivances. They
use brazier's brass dishes full of Goals.
and all the gas remains in the room.
AlfOnsOs room WAS warmed this way
Mt Avila. and His Majesty was partly
asphyxiated, but recovered.
Baron Rothschild visited the offices
OF one of his employees on the Northern
Railroad, whore he was not expected.
He was startled at the magnificent pro-
ductions of spider web IN all the upper
corners of the room, and referred tO
the subject. monsieur the Baron"
said the man, ''I leave them 80 on pur-
pose. Otherwise, the walls would be
ruined 5y the flies"
The Grand Duchess Marie recently
bought in France the upholstery of n
bed-chamber, all in the finest point
d'AlencOn lace. It was made for Mary
Antoinette, but the Revolution pre-
vented her buying it. It was given to
Marie Louise by Napoleon on the oc-
casion of their marriage, and was sold
after the hundred days The latest
royal purchaser paid only q, 900 francs.
Some fifteen miles above Washington
are the great falls of the Potomac
river, said to be the largest available
water power east of the Mississippi.
The capacity of the fall is estimated mt
a mean average of twenty Thousand
horse power. This vast water power,
with all the mill privileges and fran
chlses on both sides of the Potomac,
and nearly a thousand acres of land on
the Virginia side, is secured for manu-
featuring purposes. by perpetual
charters of incorporation from the
Legislature of Maryland and Virginia.
A correspondent of the Carbon Dem
ocrat says: A novel way of popping
the question was indulged in in our
borough. Enters Mr.. gentleman for
merry a boarder of his lady love, for
the purpose of paying his bill, after
which the following dialogue ensued
"YOu no watts de mems saws about me?"
'No." "Vell, dat you got married by
me-" $50 dat vas what heard" said
the lady. "VeIl, says he, "ven you
AIRY me tonight / will marry you"
"Vell, / was ready" So the couple
was made one. The above is a true
statement.
The curious water stones, ss they are
called, found at Beechworth, in the
northern part of the Austrian colony
of Victoria, are described in the last
number of the published transactions
Of the Royal Society of that country.
They are not regular crystals, but
amber colored, translucent stones with
many sides, each of which is an irregu-
lar but well defined plane. In the in-
terror is liquid on which rests an air
bubble like that in a water level. This
liquid is water holding saline matter in
solution, as with the fly in the amber,
it is very difficult to tell how it got
there. The stone itself is chaIcedonic,
and about as hard as topaz.
The best rhubarb is sill produced in
Kansuh, but one of the principle msrts
for the sale of the drug is, it appears,
Sanyiian, in Shensi, in which province
also rhubarb is grown 10 a considerable
extent. The cultivation in both prov
inces has, however, it is said, been
seriously affected by the Mohammedan
rebellion. Consul Hughes, of Han
kow, states that much of the rhubarb
which reaches that port comes from
Szechuan, and is generally of very com