Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-31

His father would scold and his mother would
And vow that their son was an iil-msnneieaE
But Dick would not stop till he'd had his talk
And that time, alas! never came-
Axs.-Prate, rate, ate.
Flout, lout out
The Greatest Toothache euer knOrn,,-l
IL ever any of you should have tooth
ache, my poor children, and It's very
likely that you will. just look INTO the
brook, or any other mirror, with your
eyes, and notice how
small is the little white torment0r that
is causing SO much pain. Then, by
way of comfort, / want you to reflect
how much worse it would be if this IT,
nv white thing were an elephants
great tusk, with toothache all through
it.
Perhaps you will say that elephants
can't have toOthache Then listen to
the sad story of Chunee. the elephant
of Exeter Change. :.
At Exeter Change. in the great city
of London, there was, many years ago,
a menagerie in the second story OF
building. Here the elephant, Chunee
by name,-a very quiet, well-trained
beast,-was confined in cage, under
which the floor had been strengthened
to support his weight. Chunee never
came out, but seemed very happy, Tor
all that. Suddenly he became raving
mad. and screamed and trumpeted, and
endeavored vigorously to tear away
the iron bars of his cage
Now, if he had succeeded IN getting
ont upon the floor, Mr.. Chunee wonld
have Immediately dropped through IN
to an apOthecary shop below. Ii he
had fallen into the scales, his exact
weight might have been ascertained,
after a fashion but, in other respects:
a mad elephant in a drug store would
have been far worse than a bull In a
china shop. If he had been sane ne
might have had nice time, eating the
liauorice and cOugh-lozenges and su-
gar-coated pills and candy; but as he
wasn't sane, the accident was not to be
desired.
Well, Chunee grew more and more
wild and dangerous, until, at last tne
"Beef- eaters" who are the keepers Oh
the Tower of London. were called upon
to destroy the poor beast. Ihey as
charged many balls from their oiu.
fashioned muskets into his BODY, out
loss of blood seemed to increase his
fury. and not lessen his strength. There
were no rifle teams in those days, to
reach his brain with a single shot. so a
niece of artillery was actually brought
m. and poor Chunee, obeyIng his keep,
er's voice, even in his rage, kneeied
down, and was shot to death with
cannon-ball.
Then the surgeons discovered that
the elephant had been suffering from
the greatest toothache ever known.
His tusk, preserved in the warehouse
of the East India Company, shows TINS;
Now Just think of what an awful
thing SIX feet of tooth-ache must have
been, and pity poor Chnnee!
minated Shot -Guns.-Animated. not
because they kick; like so many of the
guns our readers are familiar with, but
because they swim because they shoot
| themselves off, not accidentally, ike
ordinary guns, but purposely because
they shoot to kill, and TO eat what they
shoot more remarkable still, because
they load themselves with water, whicn
they live in, and shoot their game III
the air, which they can't live IN.
They are about six inches long, ana
the naturalists call them Iorotes Jden-
idtOr. They look very much like perch;
only more beautiful. Iheir general
color is greenish above, and greenish
/ SllkeTN-GTdN btlOWs -hNhoc' WV C.@~a'
are four short dark brown stripes, sha-
ded with green. Those who have seen
them flashing through the water, speak
wirh enthusiasm Cf their lovely and
eyer-changing iues. No wonder they
are a fayorite with the pet-lovlng Chi
nese, who keep them in jars, as we dc
gold fish, and amuse themselves by
tempting the fish to display their skill
by dangling fly over the water.
The Toxotes are natives of the wa
ters of Java, but have been widely dis
tributed throughout the East as an or
namental fish. 1t is said that their aim
is so accurate that they can bring
down an insect from the height OF
three or four feet above the water.
This fish has a near relative, Ch6to-
don rostrdtus by name, which inhabits
the Chinese seas and rivers,-a beau
tifully colored fish. which may be
called an animated rifle, from the fact
that it shoots, not shower of drops
like the ToxOtes, but a single drop
bringing down its game with wonder
full certainty and precision. In thl'
fish the laws are prolonged into a sort
of beak, which serves as rifle barrel
In other respects it resembles the scaly
shot gun above described.-St. Nicho'
las.
"Wdfch.r watch" was a little dog
with white face. He would do goot
and not make any fuss about 1t. Ht
did not bark unless it was for sOm'
useful purpose.
In nv youth boarded at the farm
house where Watch belonged. One
day we walked out together III th,
| Iz Nfrht and Il ennlf
not find the way home.
Watch looked me in the face, as If q
ask, "What ails you" | said. watch
which is the way homer
Quickly he -trotted on | followed
He led me in the tight pathway. Oh
our route, if we came to a small tret
fallen across a stream, Watch would
run over before me, and look with carr
if | could cross. When | came to hi
side OF the stream, he would wag In
tail with much joy, as much as to say
81 am so glad you are here
But when great tree. with branche
on each side, was across the stream
Watch did not mind what became o
! me. Did he reason about the size o
those trees, and decide when | wa
safef
| Muu to- utio 10 Sitdt cpVIt a.
making mud pies, I'm informed. Well
let me tell YOU that Jack has heard of
city-St. Petersburg il is called-wher
the principal ingredient of that sort o
pastry is regularly prepared in grea
piles in the public parks, and all tn
children of the city are invited to come
with pals and shovels, and dig ant
play and make mud pies all day. A
night, the clean sand is carefully swep
up again into high, smooth piles, read.
for another days sport.
Sensible city fathers those-eh IS
Nicholas.
A Bright BOy.-A little boy had
colt and a dog, and bis generosity wa
often tried by visitors asking him-jus
to see what he would say-tO give hin
one or both of his pets. One day b
, told a gentleman nreSent he mlgl