Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24
VARIETIES.
To kill time-Take horse and sleigh

on horseback. We prefer canvas oack.
The sentinel who did not sleep on
his watch had left it at the pawn
brokers'.
The fisheries on the coast of Scotland
during the past season have Welded
more than 5000. 900 of herrings.
When naughty little boy breaks q
window, he should be punished, on the
principle that panes and penalties 60
together.
The boys new trowsers. copper-fast-
ened throughout. and plated at the
knee so as to be impregnable to friction
are known as the ''knee plus ultra"
"What, said teacher to a pupil,
''makes you feel uncomfortable after
you have done wrong?" my paps's
big leather strap" feelingly replied the
boy.
A Scotch divine recently praying
said; 80 Lord, give unto us neither
poverty nor riches" and psusing SOL
emnly a moment, he added, especially
poverty"
The Americans being the better look
ing, of course had an advantage over
the EOelishmen in the late interview
ing of Venus and got more than their
share OF smiles.
A cake of ice sawed out by an Iowa
City man had frozen in it bass. which
is described as being perfect to the end
of its fins, and having all the appear
ance of swimming.
The best defense of lying that we
ever read is the remark of Charles
Lamb. related by Leigh Hunt. that
truth was precious, and not to be
wasted on everybody"
The Chinese have names which cor
respond in frequency with the Browns
and Smiths of AngO-Saxon Christen-
dom. Those most frequently occur
ring are Chin, Chang, Wang and Shib.
which are the equivalents of ''gold,"
''long, ''priuce" and stone"
The most bounteous vintage France
has known, the statistics say, is that of
1874. Not less than 1000, 900 hectares
| 900, 900 acres, there-abouts,) have been
cultivated as vineyards. and the pro-
duct is estimated at $1,000, 900 hecto-
lites (or 1857, 100000 gallons, very
nearly.
During the year 1874 the hfe-boats
OF the National-Life-boat Institution
saved 543 lives on the British coast,
and saved 10 vessels from destruction.
The institution also granted rewards to
/ fisherman and others, for saving 10
lives during the year, making a grand
total of 7l3 lives saved.
The duties of schoolmaster in 1861
were as follows "To act as 8 court
messenger; to serve summonses to
conduct services in the church to lead
the choir on Sundays ; to ring the bell
for public worship to dig the graves;
to take charge of the school, and to per-
form other occasional duties. Hence
the compound word over-worked.
In the city of Cognac, France, there
is an establishment fitted with an au-
tomato indicator to guard against fire.
1t is simply thermometer soconstruc-
ted that when the mercury rises to a
certain point it starts an electric alarm,
which rings bell in the proprietor's
quarters. 1t provides against fire as
the ordinary burglar alarm against
thieves.
The villa in which Michael Angelo
was born, and in which he passed his
childhood, is now occupied by lineal
descendent of his old enemy, Bacclo
Bandinelli. There are in the villa
several paintings attributed to the
great artist, including that of the so
called Satyr, the upper portion of which
only remains and these are also two
chimney pieces said to have been sculp-
tured by him in his youth.
The following test may be applied to
quartz to determine its auriferous
character: After being well ground
and calciDed it should be treated with
bath of iodine or bromine water, and
allowed to digest in it for some time.
Then a piece of filter paper should be
soaked in the solution. dried, and
burned to ashes in a mufile. II gold is
present the ash is purple. One penny
weight of gold to the ton may thus be
detected.
At Mons, in Belgium, this is the way
the public interviews" the manager
when it has a grievance. During the
play some one in the gallery SHES a
folded letter to the stage, and as il falls
all the interested public call out, Read
it read it !" There is no peace till
the letter is read then, as it contains
some charge against the manager, that
gentleman has to come forward and ex-
plain. 1t is not bad institution, but
they have just decided in the courts
that ii is "disorderly."
The following marriage certificate
was recently found among some old ar
chives of the town of Norwich, Conn.
There was no date OF the year. but the
penmanship and paper both bore testi-
mony to the extreme age of the docu-
ment "Married, at tNorwhich, Sunday
evening, 31st of December, DIR. Eaoch
Smith, so called, aged &c, more or less,
a renowned collier, to the amiable and
accomplished Miss Mary Melony a eel
ebrated tailoress, aged 26 next grass:
Turkeys and hens agree"
The good people of a certain town In
the West are, or have been, in trouble
about a schoolmaster hired without suf-
ficient precaution. 1t being discovered
that he spells ''soldiers" "s0dger," and
kerosene" "cerosene" and that he has
many other bold opinions concerning
orthography, the school committee
have requested him to leave. But he
refuses. They fasten the schoolhouse
door. He breaks it open and "keeps
school" in spite of them They have
asked him to go, begged him to go, Of
fered him money to go, but he still
keeps on teaching that "sodger" spells
"soldier." All but fifteen pupils have
been taken out of the school but il
there were no pupils at all he wouldn't
go.
A machine has at length been con-
structed which will travel at a speed OF
nine knots an hour for 300 yards, and
at lower speed for no less a distance
than mile. 1t will maintain any direc-
ton impressed upon it, and it can be
launched either from boat or an iron
clad, by night or by day. In short it
is kind of explosive fish, which in
obedience to its masters, will swim for
a mile toward an adversary at which it