Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-19
NO. 20.
VARIETIES.
Rank is a great beautifer.


A poor, idle man. cannot he an honest
man.
A friend indeed Is one who i not in
need.
The latest thing in front door lock>-
Night keys.
Man is the weeping animal born to
govern all the resi-.
Heaven is To he gained by a ladder,
not by leap; step by step, not at one
bound.
Two members of the British House of
Commons are said TO be worth about
81, 500 900 year.
People who do wrong seldom have
any difficulty in finding out excuses and
Justification for il.
The only good that a miser does. is To
prove the little happiness there is To be-
found in wealth.
Ii Is the pale passions that are the
nercest: IL Is the violence of the chill
that gives the measure of the fever.
We learn To climb by keeping our
eye, not on the hills that lie behind.
but on the mountains that rise before
us.
The total area of all the anthracite
coal basins in PENNSYLVANIA is estimated
at four hundred and seventy-twO square
miles.
The number of coal establishments"
in the state of Pennsylvania is five
hundred and nety-eight-229 anthra-
cite, and 1863 bituminOus.
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If you know anything that will make
/ a brothers heart glad, run quickly, and
tell of it; hut if something that will
cause a sigh, bottle il up.
1t is said that during the past few
months the water in the Bay of Panama
Las been very phosphorescent. In the
dark each wave aS it broke on the surf
looked like a wreath of blush flame.
''What becomes of all the pins -
| Er. III the writer of that will move
| around the house in his stocking feet
after a day of dress-naking. he will get
more real valuable information on the
subject than all the books in the world
| can give him.
The Shakespeare Library, founded in
Edinburgh few years back by Mr..
llalliwell, contains, in original or fac
simile, every edition of Shakespeare
plays. issued before 1860, and is he
lieved to he the only library in the
world that has the series complete.
DO you know that hundred thousand
years ago, the stars which now form
the "big dipper" were arranged in the
form of 4 large cross, and that, hun
,ired thousand years hence, they will AS
>ume the form of an elongated dipper,
very different in shape from the one
now seen.
The London ItbBTHW states that Mr.
George Smith has discovered among the
Assyrian tablets i'm the British Museum
the legend of the building of the Tower
of Babel. This discovery is quite a.
important as that of the tablet relating
to the Deluge, made known last year by
the same gentleman.
1t seems to be well-settled fact that
at least one-third of the population of
the globe are now governed by two
wOmen-Queen Victoria, who rules
over England and England's extensive
boundaries and colonies; and Tsze-An-
Twan-Yu-k ang-k' ing, the empress
dowager of China, who holds full sway
over the empire until the child emperor
has arrived az the age of discretion and
understanding.
Man is but a reed. and the weakest in
nature; but then he i u thinking reed.
There is no occasion that the whole
universe should arm itself tO destroy
him; vapOr, 4 drop Of water is Suffi-
cient to kill him. But should the whole
universe eonspire To crush him, he
would still he more noble than that
which destroys him, because he knows
that he dies; while the universe would
he inSensible of victory over him.
Pascal.
In Scotland 4 new industry has
sprung up which promises To be i'm
portant, consisting OF the use of caleine,i
granite instead of clay for the manufac-
ture of pipes and other earthenware
articles. Ii is stated that the material
will resist strong fire and is not af-
fected by transitions of heat and cold.
Any preparation of the material when
once properly finished may be heated to
whiteness without injury. The new
process of making earthenware will be
heartily welcomed by hOusekeepers.
Among English physicians the ''Mu-
scum headache is now a recognized
ailment. The great reading-roOm OF
the British Museum is very crowded,
very hot. and very poorly ventilated,
according to recent reports. There are
also many literary and scientific men
who work nearly all day in small un-
healthy rooms in the Museum. Some
of them have been forced to give up
their work entirely on account of their
health, being conscious all the while
| that the ill-yentilated rooms had done
the mischief.
One of the Paris almanacs has this
story, signed Laboulaye: A lazy girl,
who liked to live i'm comfort and do
nothing, asked her fairy godmother to
give her "a good genius to do everything
for her. On the instant the fairy called
ten dwarfs who dressed and washed the
little girl and combed her hair, and fed
her, and so on. All was done so nicely
that she was happy except for the
thought that they would go away. ''TO
prevent that" said the godmOther, II
will place them permanently in your
ten pretty little fingers" And they
are there yet.
| The French Bishop of Canton has just
sent to the .Iariin IL dAcclimatatlOn, at
Paris, a plant whose flower changes
color three times day. Ii Is spoken OF
a. another wonderful evidence of Chi
nese art in leading Nature out of her
customary paths. Ii appears, however,
\ that il j., if not the same, at least not
more remarkable than natural floral
freak found in South Australia. IL is
beautiful flower, similar to our we'll
known morning-glory, with five streaks
of color on its bell-shaped calyx- In
the early morning the color streaks are
pale blue. Toward noon they turn To
rich purple tint, which changes TO
light pink during the afternoon. As
the day declines the color fades, disap-
pearing entirely after sunset, when the
| flower closes and dies.
A Georgia journalist draws this pie
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