Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-26
NO. 81.
VARIETIES.
Haste is of the devil.

| treasure cOucn Is virtue grave.
Regular branch establishments--Tr
Sweets for the ill-tempered-Tart say
ings.
Scandal is the reputation of the
wicked.
1t takes pretty smart man to tell
when he is happy.
The French convert pea nuts into
''the best olive OIL"
What is everybody doing at the same
time ?-Growing old.
The best band to accompany lady
yocalist?-A husband.
Riches bring suspiciousness a. surely
as over eating brings gout.
4 little perfection would revolution
ize the world-if it were in it.
To be open to argument aud To he
open To conviction, are two different
things.
How cruel is misery of being de-
ceived where we have the least right TO
expect it,
! We like a spirit of compromise; but
no man should ever compromise his
friend or himself.
The love of heaven and the love of
earth are like scales of balance-when
one rises the other falls.
A hospitable man is never ashamed Of
his dinner when a friend unexpectedly
drops in to dine with him.
A good word is an easy obligation,
but not To speak ill requires only our
silence, which costs nothing.
More epitaphs are written to show
/ the wit or genius of the living than To
perpetuate the virtues of fthe dead.
| Our passions are like conyulsive hts
which, though they make Us stronger
for the time, leave us weaker ever after.
The man who had "a will of his own
didn't get on very well at home, be-
cause his wife had won't of her own.
Personal beauty is letter of recon-
mendatiOn written by the hand of
divinity, but not unfrequently dishon-
CURED by the bearer.
A Canadian company is manufacture
ing caoutehouc from milk-weed, the
juice of which yields about four per
cent. of India rubber.
An interesting numismatic discovery
was made at BOurbOnne-les-bains, De-
partment ot Haute-Marne, in France.
In making excavations for the public
baths and reservoirs now in course of
construction, the workmen came upon
a large number of Roman coins and
medals, respectively of bronze, silver
and gold. Between 1900 and 5000
pieces in all have been already removed
| to the muSeum-namely, 1900 bronze.
800 silver, and a few gold coins; the
la.tar il. 81 aAt1al To Eran..h
of forty francs, and bear the portraits of
Nero, Iladrian, IIonorius, and Faustina
Senior, wife of Antoninus Plus.
A monster cutie fish. the body of
which was from ten to twelve feet in
length, its arms or suckers being six
feet long, and in some parts as thick IA
mans thigh, was found recently
lying on the beach at Negishi, near
Yokohama, in Japan. A mans hat
would scarcely cover one of its eyes.
1t was sent to Yokohama. After lying
at the market for few hours it was
sent to Toxic, an enterprising Snowman
having purchased it for exhibition
there. The fishermen who secured this
specimen pronounce it female, it being
minus the shell commonly found on the
back of the ink-discharging beast of the
stronger sex.
A woman living in the canton of
Zurich, Switzerland. recently resOrted
to 4 curious mode of revenge. Her cat,
of which she was exceedingly fond,
had, for some reason or other, been
killed by an official. She accordingly
procured several mOuse-traps and caught
some fifty mice, which she Immediately
enclosed i'm box and sent to the offend
ing person. He, suspecting nothing,
opened the package, and YVES horrified
to see a swarm of mice spring out of the
box and run all over the place. At the
bottom of the box he found note con-
tanning the following words: 'Iou
have killed my eat. | have therefore
the honor to send you my mice"
Mr. Froude has just got home from
visit to South Africa, and at 4 banquet
given him by London merchants, has
given his impression on British colo
NAL prospects in that quarter. He evil
IDENTIFY thinks South Africa rich-in pos
sibilities-says il is magnificent
country, with butter at S1.75 a pound,
and other provisions prOportionately
high. In fact, the labor question il a
very serious one. The Zulus who
swarm in from the heart of the cOnti-
nent are 4 tough set, who conquered
the aborigines in the last century and
who are increasing rapidly in numbers,
insolence and laZiness. There are now
800 900 of them in Natal to IL 900 whites
and Mr.. FrOude regards the Latter As in
real danger.
Italy has a standing army of over
500 OO0-n,en. Yet tourists are robbed
by bigbwavIaen in broad daylight
within five miles OF Rome, and judges,
jurymen, and witnesses pro,note me
ends of justice i'm many districts at the
peril of their lives. If they secure the
conviction of arrested banditti, they are
very likely to be assassinated. In fact,
they have ku Klux in Italy Of the very
worst sort. 1t would seem that part OF
the great army above mentioned might
be employed to better effect than il now
is, in checking crime. Still the evil
complained of is of long existence, and
will not be extirpated until moral and
intellectual culture and free govern
ment shall gradually Y remedy the conse-
quences of centuries of oppression and
ignorance.
The London Lancet, which ought to
be good authority, says: "Anodynes,
narcotics, cough mixtures, and loZenges
are practically of no good, and but too
often increase the debility and facilitate
the end. The best method of easing
cough is to resist it with all the force of
will possible, until the amount of
phlegm becomes greater, then there is
something to cough again, and it comes
up very much easier and with half the
coughing. A great deal of hacking and
hemming and coughing in invalids is
nervous, purely nervous, or from the
force of habit, as is shown by the fire.
quency when thinking about it, and
the comparative rarity when the person
is so much engaged that there is no
time to think about it and the attention
is compelled in another direction.
Courage.