Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-27
NO. 4.
VARIETIES.
King David has come to see Jonathan.

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A good tailor sponges his cloth, and
his customers sometimes sponge him.
"Sweet are the uses of advertise
ments," as Mrs. Partington once said
to Ike.
There is said to be birth every FIVE
minutes in London, and death every
eight minutes.
Many clergymen has broken down
through preaching ine-print sermons
to coarse-print people.
''Smothered Venus" is a California
dish and, in spite of its name, it's
only beefsteak and onions,
The race is not always won by the
strong. Were it so, the onion would
be head instead of the cabbage.
The Arab chiefs of Algiers have raised
a subscription of POO, 600 francs to place
a memorial over the tomb of Napoleon
Ill. in England.
The lobster has gone West. He has
been successfully trsnsplanted to the
waters of the Pacific, where he was pre-
viOusly unknown.
The centennial of the battle of Lex
ington is to be celebrated April 18th.
This is the first ''go off, of the revolu-
tionary souvenir business.
Bones of Robert Bruce were quoted
in Edinburgh at g los piece, which
isn't much bonus considering the time
they've been accommodating interest.
A leaden coffin, containing what has
been coniectured as the remains of
King Stephen, was recently found un-
der the church of st. Mary, at Dover,
England.
Many persons will be surprised to
learn that Liverpool, England, is not
an incorporated city. 1t is merely q
town, and a movement is proposed in
the direction of obtaining city charter.
Petroleum springs have been discov-
cred in Northern Germany, which in
purity, clearness, and specific weight,
are said to surpass those of the United
States. There are also many in Rus
STA.
King Kalakaua has, it is said, an in
come of 81, 800 per annum. This Is de-
rived from a tax of ) cents on every
800 worth of property, 81 on every
horse. and 81 for every carriage owned
and run in his dominiOns.
1t is said that wax flowers, if left out
in a drilling rain, will be thoroughly
cleaned in short tin e, and will look
wonderfully refreshed and thankful.
The handwriting of thousand house
flies may be obliterated in this simple
manner.
One of the oldest of sensations is
said to be that of being lowered fifteen
hundred feet into a mine. The great
length of cable allows spring of foot
or more upon the slightest movement
in the basket, and ". J. Florence. who
has Just had the experience in Nevada,
says it feels like being ball at the end
of a rubber string.
The number of railway accidents
which have occurred during the year
ending with September, are given as
9S7 the number of persons killed, POI
and the number injured, 80. This is
an average of nearly three accidents
day, and one person killed or injured
for each accident. When the number
of trains ran, the'people travelling, are
taken into account, the per cent, is ex-
tremely small.
A story is told of two pretty Balti-
more girls, who were out rowing on the
Lake of Lucerne, and when the barge
of the King of Holland came along in
stead of trailing oars and respectfully
falling behind royalty, actually raced.
The King was evidently amused with
this exhibition of American indepen-
dence and made a sign to his oarsmen
to let the young ladies go ahead. Com
ing to the quay second, he told his cox
swain TO moor the yictors' boat, and
said 'He knew they were Americans.
The secret of health First-Keep
cool. Second-Eat regularly and slow
ly. Third-Mantain regular bodily
habits. Take early and very light sup
pers or, better still, none at all. Fifth
Keep a clean skin. Sixth-Get plenty
of sleep at night. Seventh-keep
cheerful and respectable company.
Eighth-Keep ont of debt. Ninth
Don't set your mind on things you
don't need. Tenth-Mind your own
business. Eleventh-Don't set up to
be sharp of any kind. Twelfth-Sub-
due curiosity.
Only the female spiders spin webs.
They own all the real estate, and the
males have to live vagabond life un-
der stones and in other obscure hiding
places. IL they come about the house
so often as to bore the ruling sex, they
are mercilessly killed and eaten. The
spiders skin is as unyielding as the
shells of Holsters and crabs, and is shed
from time to time in the same way to
accommodate the animals growth. III
you poke over the rubbish in a female
spiders back yard, among her cast oil
cOrsets you will find the jackets of the
males who have paid for their sociality
with their lves-trophies of her barba-
rism as truly as scalps show the savage
nature of the red man.
OF all the amusements that can pos
sibly be imagined for a working man,
after daily tolls. or in the intervals,
there is nothing ike reading a newspa-
per or u book. 1t calls for no bodily.
exertion, of which already he has had
enough, perhaps too much. 1t relieves
| his home of dullness and samenes5.
Nay, it accompanies him TO his next
days work, and gives him something
to think of beside the mechanical druid
gerry Of his every day occupation some
thing he can enjoy while absent, and
look forward to with much pleasure.
If were to pray for a taste which
would stand by me under every variety
of circumstances, and be a source of
happiness and cheerfulness to me
through life, and a shield against all
ills, however things might go amiss,
and the world frown upon me, it would
be taste for reading.
A machine has at length been con-
structed, which will travel at a speed of
nine knots an hour for three hundred
yards, and at lower speed for no less a
distance than a mile. 1t will maintain
any direction impressed upon it, and 1t
can be launched either from boat or
an iron clad, by night or by day. In
short it is a kind of explosive fish,
which, in obedience to its masters, will
auino for n mile toward any adversary