Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-13
NO. 2.
VARIETIES

piled 'Fireplaces in every room.
The women of Ceylon were greatly
shocked short time back at seeing an
English lady traveller wearing tortoise
shell back comb. In that quarter of
the globe the article is worn only by
men.
The first three men in the-world were
agardener, a plOughman, and a grazier
and II any man object that the second
of these was murderer, / desire he
would consider that as soon az he was
so, he quilted our profession and
turned builder.-CO1Cl6y.
\ Tennyson's temper isn't so smooth as
his poetry. He ordered a new house
built az Hazlemere some time ago.
The house was put up by an architect
of great accomplishments, but the poet
laureate didn't like it. and went back
In huff to his old residence in the Isle
of Wight.
They say now that when young
ladies describe a thing as perfectly
beautiful" they merely initiate William
Pitt, who once used the expression in
a dispatch. This attempt TO deprive
women to all claim to originality is
abominable they will say next that
Adam ate the first apple.
| Professor Schievelmann has Just fin
ished the model of a group which is to
/ be executed IN bronze and placed in the
Lust Glrten" in Berlin 1t represents
a river god shielding "a neried against
pursuer, and the contrast between
| the rough muscular god, and the tender
youthful virgin is said to be exqui-
sitely developed.
Z At Ostia is an old tower and fort that
were built under the papacies of Sextus
| Nv. and Julius III. Lately thev have
found around the tower ninety-five can
non balls, buried deep in the earth.
In the middle ages, and for some years
after, Ostia was the scene of many
bloody cOmbats. These proiectiles be-
long probably to that epoch.
Among the discoveries made in the
Villa Palombara, near Rome, are a head
of Venus, of artistic workmanship and
/ in excellent preservation; and Mercury
with caduceus, and some bronze vases
and sculptures in marble. At Ripetta,
an ancient port of the Tiber, there have
also been discovered a column of mot
| tied alabastar and large sarcophagus
of marble, with genii in relief aud in
/ scriptiOns and in the Villa Babuino
some remains of walls aud mosaic pave
ment.
| The Oldest tailor in the world has
| Just died in Paris. He was 100 years
of age. He was called Father Fipps.
He began his trade at nine years of age,
and continued at it until his hundredth
year He worked for ninety-One years.
Three months ago he made a pair of
pantalOons for his youngest great great
grandchild. 1t took him a fortnight
''And to think" he said, "that once
upon time 1 could make pair in a
half a day 7"
/ Corvin, of Dresden, manufactures an
elegant imitation of marble for archi-
tectural purposes by impregnating sand
stone with silicic acid and alumina- In
Naundorf stones are prepared thus
which are intensely white, transparent
and capable of taking a fine polish.
BY the introduction of suitable pig
ments in the impregnating mass any
desired color is produced. 1t is said
that the cost is much less than that of
real marble. while the imitation resists
heat better.
The Duke of Edinburgh's baby has
Just received present of a cradle in
silver ti6gree, lined with pink silk, pink
curtains, covered with white lace, held
up by an elegantly chiselled pole, with
a charming baby-face looking out from
a knot of pink ribbons. Princess Beat
rice has worked quilt of white satin
for this beautiful cradle, and embroid-
cred the same with roses, so natural as
almost to deceive the eye. And yet the
little thing cries and needs Just as much
soothing syrup as otner babies.
\ writer in the Paris Gaulois dweIls
at great length over the change in Stras-
bourg since the annexation. The Alsa-
tians keep entirely aloof from the Ger
mans, and won't be seen with them in
public. In proof o: what he advances.
he adds the following postscript: al
forgot to say that the German theatre
/ is so little frequented that the manager
is often obliged to put out the gas, and
return the money taken at the doors.
/ On the other hand, a French cafe con-
cert is crammed nightly, and / pro-
longed my stay twenty-fOur honrs in
order te go there.
| One OF the services which the signal
offices proposes to render the country
/ is the study of sea tempature in cOnnec-
tion with the habits and migration of
fishes. This subject now engages earn
est attention in England and Scotland,
as well as in the United States. 1t has
been suggested that the movements of
| fishes have a definite relation to sea
/ temperatures and the weather, and for
two years the herring fisheries have
been carefully studied by Mr.. Cuchan
to determine this relation If these ef-
forts are successful, the signal Office
may be able to add the direction Of the
/ fisheries to its other fields Of useful
ness.
| From careful experiment, DIR. Rich
ardson concludes that since the red
blood glObules of the pig, or red deer,
cat, horse, sheep and goat ''are all so
mnch smaller than are the ordinary
minimum size of the human red disc,
as computed in my investigation we
are now able, by aid Of high powers of
microscope and under favorable circum-
stances, positively to distinguish stains
produced by human blood from those
cansed by the blood of any one of the
animals Just enumerated and this even
after lapse of five years, at least, from
the date of their primary production.
This will be important in criminal trials.
London Engineer.
/ The method for making joints to
unite the sides Of boxes, &C., has been
recently patented in England. The
two pieces of wood to De fastened to-
gether are first mitred in the usual man
ner, and hole is then drilled vertically
in each piece, from the bottom upwards,
at short distance from the mfred
edge. A channel or groove is then cut,
/ by a saw or otherwise, from the mitred
edge to the drilled hole. This channel
is of less width than the diameter of
the hole, and may be cut either paral-
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