Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18

| COubiucTtO perfectly tIuStWOItuy, Idu
away few days ago taking with him
all the money that he could lay his
hands on, as well as the valuable arti-
cles which had been presented to the
maestro in the course of his career.
The police were informed, and succeed
ed in capturing the man a few days
afterward, at the moment when he was
pledging for five flOrins silver-gif
wreath which had been awarded to the
Able. When the rascal was captured
he philosophically remarked "1f
thieves were never In want OF money
they never would be caught"
The prestidigitateur Bellachini, hav-
ing been admitted to an audience with
Emperor William, at Potsdam he ex-
pressed the wish to become his Court
artist. The EmperOrreplled: well if
you will perform an extraordinary
feat "Very well, and will show Your
Majesty something | have never done
before VIII Your Majesty take one of
those pens on the desk and write or this
paper, 'Bellachini knows nothing !"
The Emperor tried to write but the pen
refused. "Will Your Majesty take an
other pen7n but it, too, refused. "Well
then, please Your Majesty and write.
'Bellachini is Court artist And the
pen did write, when Bellachini obtained
the position.
The suggestion of the London Athe-
RGum that Edgar Poe, in The Raven"
borrowed from early poems of Tenny-
son, published in an annual in 1881. re-
calls striking similarity of expression
in The Raven" and in Lady Gerald
dimes Courtship." Poe says:
And the silken, sad, uncertain
Rustling of each paper curtain,-
Mrs. Brown says:
With murmurOus uncertain.
In the air the purple curtain.-
'Ladv Geraldine" appeared in print
for the first time in 1874, in the first
collected edition of her earlier poems.
"The Raven" was published III the sec
ond number of Gallons Wig RerieW,
in February, 1915.
Incompetent critics are always calling
writers above their level "metaphysi
cal, not because they have any notion
what metaphysical means, bat be-
cause they have a natural hatred OF
persons who are above them, and have
a sort of instinct that to employ against
them, as n term of abuse, IA term which
is quite irrelevant, and probably not
really one implying any defect, is, at
all events, a somewhat unaDswerable
mode of attack, and has the great adj
vantage of "aggravating You so, as the
| little girls in the streets say TO each
other when they neutrality-suspicious..
A French traveller. who is shortly to
start for Africa in charge of an eXpior-
ing party, has contrived a novel way
to impress the barbaric mind. He car
ries an electric battery in his pocket
communicating with two rings on his
hand, and with other apparatus scat
tered about his person. When he shakes
hands with a savage chief, an electric
shock will run mp the chiefs arm, and
he will see lightning playing about the
head of his visitor.
Tico Kinds of Giring.-There is more
virtue in the small pitttance bestowed
by some poor, hard-wOrking servant
| in charity. than in the thousands given
by some millionaire, whose generosity
is tTumpeted the length and breadth of
the land. In truth it might be ques-
toned. in many instances, whether 1t
were right to receive the mite so hardly
earned, were it not that in this lesson
of self sacrifice ''it is more blessed to
give than to receive
Prayer requires more of the heart
than of the tongue, of sighs than of
words, of faith than of discourse. The
eloquence of PRAYER consists in the fer
vency of the desire, in the simplicity of
faith, and in the earnestness and perse-
of charity, Our trust and confidence
ought to proceed from that which God
is able to do for us. not that which we
can say to God.-QaeineL
There was likely to be great distress
in the Vale of Cashmere when the Cash
mere shawlS went out of fashion, but
| the Maharajah made a contract with a
shrewd heather from the ChristendOm,
in virtue of which all the women of
that country are now working at tapes
try instead of shawls.
An important work has been pub
| lished in England, which, as announced,
contains '-Sixty-nine engravings, either
from wood or metal, twelve of which
bear inscriptions representing scenes
of Christian mythology, figures of
patriarchs, saints, devils and other
dignitaries of the church,
The only kind of sublimity which
painter or sculptor should aim at is
| to express, by certain proportions and
positions of limbs and features, that
strength and dignity of mind, and
vigOr and activity of body, which en-
able men to conceive and execute great
actions.
In rain do they talk of happiness
who never subdued an impulse in
obedience to principle. He who
never sacrificed a present to future
good, or a personal to a general one,
can speak of happiness only as the
blind do of cOlOrs.
The Wise man Is careful about his
vote, and asks more than fifty cents
| for it. Apparently it elects only one
man to office; in reality it elects not
the person who gets it, but as many
of the persons relatives as the Office
can conveniently employ.
Chdriiy-The best charity is not that
which giveth aims, whether secretly or
with OstentatiOn. The best charity
that which "worketh no evil is the
charity that prompts us to think and
speak well of our neighbOrs.
The fatigue of the limbs incident to
railway travel is OccasiOned mainly by
the trembling motion of the floor un
der the feet. Invalids will find great
relief by the use of an air cushion for
a footstOOl.
he Apaches have crude natural
religion, live in pOlygamy and bury the
dead. They exact the most perfect
obedience from their wives. md the
penalty for infidelity is the loss of the
nose.
When an Italian youth has arrived at
the age of 16 he is told to stand up be-
fore his father and mother and say
whether ne would like to join clergy or
the brigands.
A lrOmdn, says Buckle, reaches her
prime between thirty-five and forty;
for fhOu oh her beautv has theu Inst the