Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-04-28
VARIETIES.

Drlngs out stars.
1t is q less pain to learn in youth
than to be ignorant in age.
As charity covers, so modesty pre-
vents multitude of sins.
Each word of kindne ess, come whence
it may, is welcome to the poor.
Merit is mostly discovered by acci-
dent, and rewarded by destiny.
Cultivate not only the cornfelds of
your mind, but the pleasure ground
also.
Great places are great burdens dis
tinguished conditions in life exact
great servitude.
A young girl generally looses her
freshness by mingling with fashionable
society, as bright stream does by
mingling with the sea.
It is said that there is Q birth every
five minutes in London, and q death
every eight minutes. According to
that. the births are getting the upper
hand in the fOgs of London.
Genius without energy is an eIquis-
itely wrought engine without steam, an
object of admiration without use, where
the highest capability for speed is
motionless, and untitled, by the pecu-
harity of its structure, for all practical
purposes.
If thou art intelligent bring up thy
son in the love of God. If he is cour-
ageous and active, and increases thy
property, give him q better recon-
pense. But If the son whom thou hast
begotton is q fool, do not turn thy
heart away from him, for he is thy son.
An old servant, who had lived with
Scott for nearly a lifetime, became very
much spoiled. Sir Walter at last, out
of patience with his sins of omission
and commission, said {: Part why2
Where's your honor going3" OF
course peace was made, and Donald
remained.
Evidently the word clew, as used by
the police, must be added to DIR.
French's list of English words that
have acquired new meanings. Now
adays, when the police say they shave
q clew" to a certain crime, this means
that they are in Egyptian darkness
with regard to it.
The copper industry promises to be
prosperous this year. The price is re-
munerative, and the stock on hand no
greater than last year, when it was TO-
100000 pounds. All that is not needed
at home can be exported to Europe,
which received most of the 1900, 900
pounds exported last wear.
A man in Maine has a goose sixty
eight years old. Though attaining
this green old age, she nevertheless, is
not green goose. The secret OF her
longevity consists in the fact that she
hid away for several seasons, at Christ
mas-time, until she became so tough
that they couldn't kill her. and let her
live on.
There are three novelists, three dra-
matte authors, one indefinite literary
man, two historians, two philosophers,
five poets, one bishop, six ministers,
seven dukes and counts and nine pro-
fessors in the French Academy, all at
work ON q monster dictionary of the
language, whose publications remains
always to be made.
When your friends are laid up with
the rheumatism (says Yankee DOCTOR
always press them to come over and
take tea with you. While such acts of
kindness entail no expense, they pro-
cure for you a larger reputation for
sympathy and neighbourly kindness.
with proper discrimination, there is
that pays better profit than
goodness of heart"
Anna Dickson describes the new So
ciety bow as executed by Washington
ladies'. She says that to bend the head
except to acknowledge superiors, is
out of fashion. The lady looks coolly
in the face, smiles as sweetly as she
can, and gently inclines her head
toward the right shoulder, with little
backward movement at the same time.
A slight, Frenchy shrug heightens the
effect.
A gentleman in Washington is hav-
ing floor constructed in San Fran
cisco, consisting of different colored
woods, dove tailed together so as to
the California coat-of-arms,
and the strips SO arranged that the
colors will blend ss in painting. The
woods were obtained from Pacific
coast timber trees, and the cost alone
Of making the floor will be 1000.
The dimensions are 1s by 32 feet, and
will be sent to Washington in sections.
In Madagascar, which is not a con-
civilized country, beef cat
lie are hamstrung and then driven
about with whips and goads while thus
until they are in q highly
fevered condition. This is done simply
hat the meat may be rendered tender
and juicy, and as a refined method of
For the purpose of ed
ncating these islanders two small
model slaugbter-houses furnished with
.ools and pulleys are to be sent from
England.
Poets, like prophets, would fire.
Iuently appear to be without honor in
heir own parishes, even after death.
The vandalism of the Strstford rector
Who cut own Shakespeare's tree and
his bust, is historic. And
1ow Mr.. Hallwell, the owner Of the
premises, has offered to transfer to the
of Stratford-on-Avon the
,ite and grounds of New Place, Shakes
oeare's house, and the corporation has
declined, because the expenses of keep
ng up the place are about thirty dol
ars a year more than the receipts for
omission.
The United States Army and Navy
Journal announces the adoption into
he American service Of the telemeter
AN invention of q well-known Belgian
,ficer, Captain LIE Boulenge, for meas
1ring distance by the velocity of
,ound. The principle on which the
;elemeter is constructed has long been
Known and applied. The advantage
offered by the new instrument is the
,xsctitude of its measurement, which
to the American paper,
would in the hands of trained obser-
Tor be perfect. As it is, the telemeter
s said to be sufficiently correct in the
hands of most officers, after a little
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