Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-24
NO. II.
VARIETIES.

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Here's another doughmestic diff
Guilty" said Brooklyn woman as she
found her bread heavy.
/ Josh Billings says that in the beds
of many hotels ''you sleep some. but
roll over a good deal.
81 am broken man." sighed diisp
| idated author. 81 should think so,
for I've seen your pieces" responded q
bystander.
| An Ohio man' has been snatched
from drunkard's grave eighty-nine
times. Since the election he's been
going on as if he wanted to be snatched
some more.
George, dear. don't you think it is
rather extravsgant of you to eat butter
with that delicious Jam p "No. love
economical Same piece of bread does
/ for both ~
"Oh I've loved before" said q De
troit woman to her fourth husband, as
she took handful of hair from his
head because he objected to hang out
the weeks washing.
! A Snowman whose notice called for a
| few fat boys to 'feed his csnnibals,
received a card from man saying that
he couldn't spare his boys. but he had
a good "stall- fed mother in law" that
he thought would suit.
There is a farm house in Lochgoin,
| Scotland, over the door of which Is an
inscription bearing the date of 1l7S.
The present occupant of the farm is
/ H. I'll L.. -. l. IL
farm-the family having dwelt there
for 80 generstions-tha is ever since
the Sth century.
An English custom of Afternoon
Tea" has been adopted in Paris, and
the hour fixed at five p. m. Tea is not
served on silver waiter by servant,
but neat little table or etagere stands
before each guest. On the top is a
place for a cup, and under the first
shelf Is another for biscuits or sand
wiches.
A Russian geographer advances the
theory that the Pole is not a mathe-
matical point, but territory of consid-
erable magnitude. Ibis may be q
novel view to tine world at large, but
Russians for many years past have
been in the habit of thinking of the
Poles only in connection with q certain
amount of territory.
They have a good deal of wind in
Holland and the people make a good
deal of money out of it. There are
II. 900 windmills in operation, each
doing a six or horse power service,
through the twenty four hours. These
mills are kept mp at An annual cost of
81 .000,OOO. and they perform all the
service required of steam engines at
one twentieth the cost.
A recent writer says that corpulency
is not disease. The founder of the
English Church was fat man, Luther
was corpulent; NapOleaA L., though
his carriage was erect and soldierly,
hal much adipose tissue about him;
Byron was inclined to corpulency, as
were most of the literary worthless of
the Elizabeth era. SO if corpulency is
a disease, 1t certainly has not bad ef-
feet on the brain.
A Detroit gentleman, walking behind
two school children the other day,
heard the boy inquire, Twill you be at
the party tonight ?" 81 shall be there
answered the miss, "but | may as we'll
tell you now that your love is hopeless +;
mamma is determined, father is set,
and it isn't right for me to encourage
your attention. / can be a sister to
you, but nothing more. Therefore
you needn't buy me any valentine or
give me any more gum
Friction impedes the progress of the
railway train, and yet it is only through
friction that it makes any progress.
This apparent paradox is explained
when we remember that by reason of
the frictional bite of the drivers
upon the track they draw the train.
The bearings of the wheels upon the
rails are n mere line where they come
in contact, iron and iron, yet this slight
and almost imperceptible hold is sufi-
cient to move hundreds of tons dead
weight with the speed of the wind.
A very good old book teaches us by
parable, that the man who hid his
talent in a napkin did not do well.
How will those merchants succeed who
hide their capital, their business and
themselves from all who do not, by
mere chance, enter their stores? 1t is
easy for "A business man to speak out
for himself in the newspaper and by
means of it he can speak regularly,
often, and to the point. Why do so
many of us hide our talents away in
stead of increasing them to ten talents.
which we are taught to look upon as
the increase we should receive from
our good gifts, IL we pay them sufficient
NJ .,rnnarlu
In the days when rouge-et-nour -four
ished at Baden Baden the Prussian Of
ficers were strictly forbidden to play.
One of them, however, dressed as q ci-
william, ventured to place 10 NapoleOns
on a color. The color came up twice
and the officer was Just about to take
up the money when his eye fell upon
the King of Prussia, who was watching
the game with interest. In his fright,
the officer did not dare to remove his
Napoleons. The play continued and
the same color came up a third, a
| fourth, fifth time, and 5000 francs
were added to his pile, but the winner
stood motionless, erect as il on parade.
expecting the next instant TO see all his
winnings wiped out. The King put al
end to his suppense by approaching
and saying in a kindly mood / advise
you to draw in your winnings and to
be quick about it, before l notice you
your luck cannot continue SO favora-
| ble."
The SaUa,nah AdCertiser says that
/ after Sherman made his march to the
sea, all in the wide track of waste and
desolation that he made the tramp of
his footman and the iron feet of his
cavalary there sprung up a new and
unknown grass from the soil, which the
farmers called the Sherman clover.
IL would grow up in the most unex-
pected places, and it is said would root
ont Bermuda grass and, as strange
similarity. we now hear that after the
Franco Prussian war of 1S7O-71, IN