Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-10
NO. 6.
NlRIETIES.

funeral? Black Kids.
When is a literary work like smoke !?
When it rises in volumes.
The school-ma'am may not be a mind
reader, but she makes readers mind.
The area of the British Empire ap-
proximates to 7,769, 500 square miles.
In Paris 671 women get their living
by serving as models for painters and
sculptors.
Somebody says that King Koffee is a
wreck Somebody says that all kings
are rex.
Why am de pen dat Sir Walter Scott
wrote wid like a riber in Maine Cause
it am the Pen-ob-scot.
Henry Clay describes mule as AN
animal that has no pride of ancestry
and no hope OF poster.iy."
/ A tariff union of the islands of the
/ Pacific. at the head of which will be
Australia and New Zealand, is proposed
! by the latter colonies.
A recent traveller has discovered that
the ladies in the north of China Bang
their hair, and considering the habits
of the people have probably done so for
the last thousand years.
Two thousand dollars in gold were
lately paid in London for a cup of cof-
fee. The cup of coffee" was made by
Madrage-on his easel. 1t was a won
derful specimen of the painters art.
Miss Braddon looks like the principal
of a girls school or a spinister aunt.
She is tall and rather angular, past
forty, wears her dark and gray-streaked
hair cut short, and has coarse lines
about the mouth and deep furrow be-
tween the eyes.
Professor Hind, the astronomer,
suggests in Nature for December u.
the chance of seeing Encke's comet
with the large telescopes in English
ohservatories. Its least distance from
the sun will be attained at midnight on
the 1lth of April next.
A rupture has occurred between the
first and second kings of Siam, father
and son. The latter took refuge in the
British Consulate at Bangkok, and dis
banded his forces. 4 British gunbOat
has left Singapore for Bangkok to pro-
tect the British subjects.
Applause in an Italian theatre is not
always sure sign of success. There
was a case recently of a composer being
called before the curtain twenty-four
times on the first performance of his
opera. The theatre was closed the
next night for lack of patronage.
The Bank of France contains brick
for which 1000 francs, about 800. was
paid. 1t was taken from the ruins of
burned house, and the image and
figures of note for 1000 francs are
burned on the surface, transferred by
the heat from real note. This brick
the bank redeemed on presentation, as
if il were the note itself
All who handle money must occasion
ally get a hold of counterfeit bills, for
the Note Printing Bureau at Washing
ton makes the startling admission that
seven ont of the nine denominations of
the national bank notes have been coun-
terfeited. Nor is this the worst vet.
1t is further asserted that the makers
of spurious notes are getting more ex.
pert every year.
4 Russian lady artist has introduced
a new kind of artistic religious enter
taInment. 1t consists of a number of
transparent pictures, representing sub
iects from the Nativity, which are
brought out before the spectator. An
invisible orchestra and choir perform a
cantatd composed by the artist. The
audience are in the dark during the
performance, which lends a mystery to
1t well calculated 10 impress weak
minds.
The common cat tail of our swamps,
scientifically known as tupha l0tifolia,
Is susceptible of being used as food,
for which purpose it is highly esteemed
in some countries. The plant is per-
ennial and propagates by the formation
of underground stems containing much
starchy matter. In Southern Russia
the young shoots, are tied up as aspar-
agus Is for our markets and sold in all
the markets. Boiled as asparagus is
boiled, and seasoned with salt and
spice, it is pronounced quite delicious
by travellers who have partaken of it.
The plant is found in more or less
abundance in swampy places all over
the United States, and may be very
easily introduced in places where it
does not grow already.
1t has puzzled many people to decide
why the dark wood SO highly valued for
/ furniture should be called rosewood.
| Its color certainly does not look like a
rose, so we must look for some other
reason. Upon asking, we are told that
when the tree is first cut the fresh wood
? possesses a very strong, rOse-like fra
GRANGE, hence the name. There are
half a dozen or more kinds of rosewood
trees. The varieties are found in South
America and the East Indies and neigh
boring islands. Sometimes the trees
grow so large that planks four feet
broad and ten in length can be cut
from one of them. These board plauks
are principally used TO make the tops
Of pianofOrtes. When growing in the
forest, the rosewood tree is remarkable
for ITS beauty, but such is its value in
manufactures as an ornamental wood
that some of the forests where it once
grew abundautly now have scarcely
single specimen. In Madras, the Gov
/ eTnment has prudently had great plan
tatioRs of this tree set out in order to
keep up the supply.
/ Will alcohol freeze? is the last CO.
nundrum. 1t is stated, as an example
+ of intense cold, that, in Montana, on
the night of Jan. 13, the mercury in the
/ thermometers all froze, small quanti-
ties Of mercury in vials became con-
gealed, and proof whiskey placed out
Of doors froze solid in half an hour
This last item eiicits an expression of
IL ,rk Eat
froze in half an hour Is regarded by a
contemporary as beyond belief. The
freezing OF the mercury happens at 80
or 40 below zero, but absolute
alcohol, it is declared, has never been
frozen, though Prof. Farrady found 1t
looked little turbid when subjected
to a temperature (artifciaD of 166-
below zero. High wines contain 70
per cent. of alcohol. Proof spirits of
Government standard are placed at 80
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