Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05
NO. Is.
VARIETIES.

Bounty, being free itself, thinks all
others so.
The thought of eternity consoles for
the shortness of life.
Cruelty is draft upon hum anity all
are too poor to pay.
The texts which dishonest people like
the most are pretexts.
Some peoples Judgment is that of
blind man at a window.
What a wedding when the Darien
Canal unites two oceans !
A country friend calls fashionable
watering places match factories.
So long as you are innocent fear
nothing. No one can harm you.
The last gentleman in a lady's
thought is generally the first as well.
If it is important for you to know
whether a man will cheat you if he can
sound him as to his willingness to help
You cheat somebody else.
| Languages are useful to men of all
conditions, and they equally open them
the entrance either to the most pro-
/ found, or the most easy and entertain
ing, parts OF learning.
A meteorological correspondent sug-
gests that perhaps the photographed
contests now in vogue al over the
country may account for the bad spells
of weather we've been having lately.
For the past few months the Bay of
Panama has been very phosphorescent.
I In the dark every wave as it broke on
I the reefs looked like a wreath of blush
fire. Fish abound in the bay at such
times, and the water is cooler than
usual
England and the United States ac-
cording to the latest statistics, are the
largest sugar-consuming countries in
the world. In 1874 England consumed
$50, 900 tons, or about 57-2 lbs. per
head of population. The United
States in the same poriod used III, 600
tuns, or Il lbs. per individual.
John Ruskin goes cold, because he
hates smoke lives out of town because
he hates noise shuts himself out of
society because he despises women
will not go aboard steamers because
the noise of their whistling is abomina-
Olc Icd,iS VII ulS OWu WOIhS DcCduSt
other peoples ideas worry him; and
now refuses to travel by rail because
he met with an accident some time ago.
His last trip by carriage cost him $3.50,
and he hates that mode of conveyance.
John, go West, sing your own praises
alone, and give up growing.
Mr.. Disraeli seems TO be more court
eous than the late Lord Derby. Every
one has heard the story of the wine
merchant, who, hearing that the late
Tory chief was suffering from gout,
sent him a wine which was deemed
suitable for persons so afflicted, where
upon the Earl returned the wine with
a letter stating that he preferred the
gout. Recently gentleman in Devon
shire, who is an enthusiastic hOmRO-
pathic, wrote to the premier and adj
vised him to try bryonia in small doses
alternated with rhus tox or arnica, and
apply wet bandages to the inhamed
parts, Mr.. Disraeli Acknowledged the
letter rcourteously.
Some interesting facts we're shown
by the latest English census: In Eng
land and Wales the females of the pop
hldiAOn tiit Alalt1 bI
ward of half a million but above the
age of twenty-five the males exceeded
the females in number. While there
were 400, 900 widOwers, there were S73,
600 widows. Above the age of ninety
females numbered two to every male.
The number of centenarians had de-
creased during the last forty years not
wlthstanding the increase in population
There we're in the southeastern conn
ties, with two millions of population,
1.0S6 nonRgenariBns, while in London.
with three and a quarter millions there
we're only S34, and in Lancashire and
Cheshire, with a similar aggregate pop
ulation, only 5S5.
1t is not your neat dress, your expen-
sive shawls, or your ringed fingers that
attract the attention of men of sense.
1t is your character they study. If
you are trifing and fast in your con-
versation, no matter if you are as beau
tiful as an angel, You have no attraction
for them. Ii is the true lOveliness of
your nature that wins and continues to
retain the affections of the heart.
Young ladies sadly miss it who labor
to improve the outward looks while
they bestow not a thought on their
minds. Fools may be won by gewgaws
and the fashionable by shOwy dresses
but the wise and substantial are never
caught by such traps. Let mOdesty
be your dress. Use pleasant aud
agreeable language, and though yOu
may not be courted by the fop and the
fool, the good and truly great will love
to linger by your side.
A reckless Bayarian, who prided
himself upon his skill as a marksman,
recently bethought himself of crown
ing proof of his unerring aim. He
thereupon led his son, lad of III years
to certain spot and paced off seventy
yards. Upon the boys head thus
posted he placed an apple, and retiring
with his rifle to the distance of 2I0
feet, he called upou his friends who
had assembled TO witness the danger
Gus and heartless act to observe that
he should cut the apple in two without
harming his child. He deliberately
raised his weapon, fired and cut the
apple in the middle, leaving the child
neither scratched or frightened, so
confident was the latter in the fathers
skill. The heartless man was then
about TO repeat the experiment, when
the police, secretly informed, it was
said by the boys mother, came upon
the ground and interfered to prevent
the continuance of such a dangerous
experiment, and arrested the father,
imprisOning him for number OF days
in punishment for his foOlhardiness.
Some remarkable feats of skill we're
recently performed at Bhopel in India,
by the Sikh Cavalry. 4 sheep was sus-
pended on a sort OF gibbet, aud the
men were to ride fast and cut at it.
Capt. Butler, the commandment of the
Central India Horse, divided the sheep
in one single cut but although nearly
one hundred cuts we're made at another
carcass by the men at various times,
not one succeeded in severing IL. Capt