Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-03
NO. 8.
VARIETIES.

The bump of destructiveness-A rail
way collision.
Happy thoughtful the thermome-
tiers IN the oven.
The place for proof-readers the
house of correction.
Question for horists-Is not a rich
mandarin China Astor2
The mouth that is always open-The
mouth of the Mississippi.
Farmers gather what they SOW, while
seamstresses sew what they gather.
Troubles are like dogs; the smaller
they are the more they annoy You.
A disgusted Milwaukee fisherman Of
fers chrome to every fish which will
take the bait.
The crow is not so bad n bird after
all. 1t never shows the white feather,
and never complains without caws.
81 allow that Job was patient re-
marked farmer, "but he never saw a
determined Shanghai hen sitting on a
nest full of boiled eggs"
A large earthen Jar containg GOO Ro-
man medals, bearing the efligies of the
Antoine Emperors, was recently dis
covered at Rheims, France.
Some people have peculiar constitu-
tions. Mark Twain once complained,
after long interval of idleness 'This
working between meals is killing me -
The traditions run that Brougham
once asked jeffrey for 1000 upon a
promise to work off the debt in year.
and did it, writing the whole number of
the Edinburgh RerieIg.
A wicked man in Davenport being on
his death-bed, wished to consult some
proper person regarding his future
state, and his friend sent fire insu-
rance agent to him.
The Duke of Connaught, better known
as Prince Arthur, of England, is about
to make a tour in the east, and will go
up the Nile, the modern fashionable
excursion. He travels incogRitO by
special desire of the queen.
Among the dealers who applied for
permission to place booths on the
boulevards of Paris for the sale of hol-
iday gifts, was one who wanted to sell
preserved heads and prepared human
bones. Permission was refused.
81 comprehend now," said John
Henry, as his wife's four-story trunk
went up stairs on an Irishman's
shoulder, "why porter and stout are
Synonymous terms" And then he
walked into the bar and took some
synonymous.
The total number of species of birds
included in the fauna of Norway is 80.
OF these, ia have been discovered
within the Polar Circle, and 160 of the
IVA ranged as far north as within the
limits of Tromsoe Amt, while 80 spe-
cies belong to the fauna of Finmsrk
proper.
A Duluth paper proposes railroad
on the ice the whole length of Lake
Superior, four hundred miles, and
thinks that such a railroad could be
laid in the winter and taken mp in the
spring. The route would be q dead
level, and the ice, which is thick enough
in winter to bear train OF cars, gener-
ally lasts till spring. Jules Verne
ought to interview the editor of that
paper.
Bonnie Dundee" is not quite as
charming spot as the poethas painted
it, from the accounts. Last year, SOP
women there were punished for drunk
enness and SIC for crime produced by
drunkenness in other words, ,3lS wo-
men, or II per cent. of all the women
of Dundee, are such drunkards that
the officers of the Law must deliver
them to the judge and the Judge must
hne or send them to prison.
Jobbery in China, with bad result.
In q recent number of the Pekin
Gazette is minute OF the trial of LII
Kwang- Chao. The culprit endeavored
to secure official favor and big lob"
by making some generous proposals
relative to the supply Of timber to be
employed in building tine Summer
Place, which proposals he was subse-
guently unable to carry out. Heplayed
a high game and lost, and now awaits
execution after a term of imprisonment.
A new Swiss lake, or pile-dwelling.
has recently been unearthed at the
hamlet of Vinglez, near Biel the plat
form, which was found at a depth of
three or four feet, rested upon piles,
and was composed of beams nearly a
foot thick these were of OAK, and well
preserved, the woody fibres Of the
''rings" being easily detected. 1t was
near this point that, during the last
winter a well preserved boat was dis
covered. This was forty feet long and
three wide it was embedded in a de-
posit of mari near the edge of the river.
Professor George z. Barker, formerly
of Yale College and now of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, has discovered ''a
metallic paint which he has patented,
and which he intends for application to
those parts OF machinery known as
journal boxes. Its popularity is that,
when heated to about 160 degrees
Fahrenheit it turns from its original
color, deep clear red, to pure black,
and Immediately upon cooling resumes
its reddish hue. This will be a yalua-
BILE aid to machinists and railroad men.
To discover heated journal in a line
of shafting often requires a careful in
spection OF the whole. With the use
! of this paint one passing along can
easily detect the trouble by the eyes
resting on the spot, the darkness OF the
paint indicating the same. III the lour-
nal boxes of cars are covered with this
paint, train hands upon stoppage at
stations, can, by running along the cars
J detect at a glance whether a journal
has heated.
Dancing in Russia is said to be rather
heavy pastime. The peasants in
dancing, merely sway backward and
, forward to the baldteica, long guitar,
whose notes are frequently drowned by
the shouts and songs of bystanders.
The Cossack's dance is described as a
noisy tramp. But the court dance
the polonaise (of Polish origin, as its
name indicates-is simply promenade
> or march, which affords the best op,
portunities for conversation, while the
strictest etiquette may be observed.
The redowa, mazurka and varsovienne
T are all of Polish origin. The jig and
D country dances (cogtre dalse) are
: purely English. while the reel is IN