Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-12
NO. 10.
VARIETIES.

I lives.
A man is successful when he makes
life give him what he wants.
Nature gives us volumes of fruit,
which she always prefaces with flowers.
Life is a sum and it becomes us to
do it properly, as it can be done bat
once.
Few consider that enjoyment must
have its moments of rest as we'll IS
labor.
Pleasure is certainly made up of
something finite and something infinite
meeting together.-PfdtO.
Teach your children to help them
selves-but not to what doesn't belong
to them.
Our passions are like convulsion- fits,
which, though they make us stronger
for the time, leave us the weaker ever
after.
A man of large experience said his
acquaintances would fill a cathedral,
but pulpit would hold all of his
friends.
1t is impossible that an ill-natured
man can have public spirit for how
should he love ten Thousand men who
never loved one?
The spores of ferns have been known
to germinate after being shaken out of
fronds that have been preserved in her
bariums for many years.
II is said that school for artists in
Mosaic is about TO be erected at Sevres
the object being to give French archi-
lecture that powerful aid in decoration.
What is life? A gulf of troubled
waters, where the soul, like a vsxed
bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain
and pleasure by the wayering breath of
passion.
''Human felicity" said Benjamin
Franklin, sis produced not so much
by great pieces of good fortune that
seldom happen as by little advantages
that occur every day.
A French patent has recently been
taken ont for the preparation of leather
from tripe. intestines and other animal
membranes. The substance thus
formed is to be used for glove making,
&c.
''AIy husband was poetical, said the
widow, land often expressed a wish to
die in the eternal solitudes, soothed by
the rhythmic melodies of natures
unutteTsble harmonies, and yet he was
killed by the explosion of a can OF ker-
osene.
Eighty years hence, when a youth of
fourteen summers asks his great grand
father If he ever saw such cold winter
and so much snow, "the oldest inhabi-
tant" will place his hand on the boys
head and reply: My son, you should
have lived in the winter of 1S74-75 y
Peace does not dwell in outward
things, but within the soul /; we may
preserve it in the midst OF the bitter
est pain, if our will remains firm and
submissive. Peace in this life springs
from acquiescence even in disagreeable
things, not an exemption from suffer
Spectacle frames, furnished with fine
wire game instead of glass, carefully
fitted to the eye. and fastened to the
by Kuhn to answer perfectly for the
protection of the eyes from dust. solid
particles, etc, in various occupations,
as threshing, cutting stone, ETC., while
they at the same time permit the neces-
sary access of air to the eye, and pro-
duce no inconvenience whatever TO the
wearer.
The vast coal fields of China are at
last 10 be utilized by the Government
Of that country. Although within
forty miles of Pekin there are extensive
deposits of excellent steam coal, equal
in quality to the best Welsh coal, China
does not contain a single coal mine
which is worked on scientific principles
or which is furnished with a steam en-
CINE or pump. The Viceroy Of the
Province of Chilli, within whose do
main these deposits occur, has deter
mined to commence mining operations
in locality rich in coal, iron and lime
stone.
In an Indianapolis street car the other
day lady pulled the strap for the
driver to stop at the first crossing of a
street, but the bell did not strike.
She did not notice this, but rushed 10
the door and began to use her tongue
lash on the driver quite freely. She
wanted to be set Off at the first cross
ing, and he had driven to the second.
Without word he promptly stopped
his car, hitched his horses to the rear
end and pulled it back to the first
crossing much to the amusement of
the other passengers and the chagrin
of the virago.
Many years ago, in Paris, Miss Porter
of Niagara Falls, was asked il she knew
much about the Falls. "Yes," she re-
piled 81 own them. This was sub
stantially true, as most OF the land on
the American side, along the rapids
and down TO the cataract itself, was
the property of the Porter family.
Recently one eighth of all the lands and
premises on Goat Island was sold by
lane Townsend to Elizabeth Porter
for Sj1, ,325, and one-sixteenth part OF
the same property was sold to George
NJ. Perth for S25. 662, 80. At this rate
Goat Island is worth about SiO0, ,OO0.-
Hdrper's Ucek'V.
There is no surer soul death, no more
inevitable paralyzing of worth and
force than self -exaltation and self
praise. The shadow OF self bhghts
growth, mains power, cripples inau-
ence. There are men in some aspects
almost great, in others pitifully small.
because they will not stand out of their
own shadow. There are men who
have the ability and the will to per
form the most valiant service for one
and another great cause, who are wise
brilliant, eloquent who yet have been
of little or no worth to their fellow
beings, simply because they are willing
to do nothing without securing full
credit for 1t, to rear no column in the
temple of regenerated humanity, un-
less they can inscribe their names on
its capital.
The deepest well in the world is in
the village ofSperemberg, twenty miles
from Berlin, Prussia. 1t was bored by
the German government for a supply
of rock salt Onerations ware cOm-