Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06
NO. |.
VARIETIES.
For a wedding song-Love knot.

/ Perpetual motion-Revolution in
South America.
i A man has been arrested for taking
things as they come.
/ Lawyers maxim-where there's q
will there's way-to break it.
A man clothed in sackcloth and ashes
is overdosed, so far as the ashes are
concerned.
The man who begins life with al
won't, slides off easily enough, after
ten years of married felicity, to the tune
of You shall"
| A Kansas man got up in church and
denied that there was any Heaven.
/ He said he hadn't seen any reference to
such place in any of the papers.
The body of lady recently exhumed
at Ephrata, New York, was found to be
as hard as stone, and to weigh 600
pounds, or $50 pounds more than at
the time of burial.
The vexed question, "What is the
plural of Daddy Longlegs?" is at last
answered. "There is none; it has al
ways been regarded as a singular crea-
ture. "-BOStOR Journal.
From late report of our diplomatic
representatives In Paris, it appears that
the commerce of the United states with
that city reaches an aggregate of
seventy millions of dollars per year.
In the Royal Mint at London great
care is taken of the ''sweepings" of the
various rooms and offices. Last year
the amount of gold rescued from these
sweepings realized more than S11 ,476.
Tons of postal cards without any ad-
dress are destroyed in the Dead Letter
Office, because people write their mes
sage first, and then forget to address
the card. Always write the address
first.
The discovery of immense beds of
sulphur in Iceland bids fair to make a
material change in the trade in that
substance, the italian mines having be-
come to a considerable degree ex-
hausted.
A country girl. coming from a morn
ing walk, was told she looked as fresh
as a daisy kissed by the dew, to which
she innocently replied you've got
my name right, Daisy; but his name
isn't Dew.
A visitor to the art museum asked
for the key to kaulbach's great cartoon.
The outline copy, with the figures
numbered, was handed out by an atten-
dant. That's not it. 1 want the key
with which you unlock and go behind
II"
As to his famous bon mots, Talley-
rand said to Lamartine, People have
made of me speaker of bon mots.
But | have never uttered bon mot in
my life. | have endeavored to say,
after deep reflection on many subjects,
not good thing-but a Just one.
The process of pulping leather in en-
gines similar to those used for beating
rags in paper mill, is now in use in
Massachusetts. BY rolling it into
sheets under considerable pressure,
product of great tenacity, homOgeneity,
and closeness of texture is obtained,
which Is, morever, perfectly water
proof.
The cultivation of olive oil in the
South, so far as the experiment has
been essayed has proven entirely sue
cessful. 1t is said that a single planta-
tion in Georgia in which olive trees
have been almost exclusively planted,
has not only yielded an abundant sup
ply of oil, but the same is pronounced
excellent in quantity.
NJ. Guizot's library, which consists
of 30, 900 volumes, is not remarkable
for rare editions or rich bindings. 1t
is a collection made for work, and con-
tains the most precious documents for
the study of German and English his
tory, in the languages of those cOun-
tries, such as probably no other collec-
tions in France can rival.
NJ. Henri Robert claims to be the
original inventor of a curious clock,
which consists simply of transparent
glass dial suspended by two cords from
points in it's border. 1t has the two
usual hands, but these are apparently
free from any machinery to carry them.
III either be moved and then let go it
returns to its former position after a
few oscillations. The hands are really
moved by mechanism within them by
means of which their centre of gravity
is continually displaced.
There are some eight or ten varieties
of eels, some of which never enter fresh
water. Some of them are ten or twelve
feet long weighing 100 pounds. The
common fresh and salt water eel is from
Il to a inches in length. Eels have
been proven to be hermaphrodite, and
spawn like other fish. IL is said that
they are able by the peculiar formation
of their gills to retain water therein
sufficient to allow them to travel on land
for a short distance. The heart, which
is situated in the tail, like that of the
col, al
minute.
A most deceptive imitation of leather
is manufactured, according to a pro-
cess discovered by Dawidowski, from
parchment paper. 1t is as soft and
pliable as leather, and resembles it per-
fectly in color and finish, and, like it,
can be glued, pressed, stamped, gilded,
&c. 1t, therefore, forms perfect sub
stitute for fancy leather for many pur-
poses. As binding of books it resists
abrasion extremely " ell, and is not sf-
fected by dirt or even water. 1t is also
free from the objections to leather as
lining for hats, since it is unaffected by
perspiration.
The tra.iitiOn mentioned in Trving's
History of New York, that the Hudson
once flowed west of, and parallel to, the
Highlands, seems to be confirmed by
donble row of sand hills stretching to
the southeast from Newburg along the
base of the East Mountains and through
the Rampo Valley to this city. These
sand hills are from 80 to $50 feet in
height, some being essay swells in the
level valley, others standing, as it were,
on edge against the rocky sides of the
mountain, where the East and Schune-
munk mountains contract the valley to
pass of less than one ! the width.
There is at least one blessing in being
an uneducated working man, for which
that class cannot be too grateful. An
English servant has shown that they
never have the hay fever. He finds
that this interesting disease is peculiar
to the educated classes, and more COM
90 tho or1raa1 Of