Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-06-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Heating by electricity Is promised.
Compressed air signals are success
full.
London will hive a new Thames
tunnel.
The anticipation ofev is the death
Of happiness.
"A sheet of plate glass is 36S square
feet, 12S inches.
Dyspepsia is one of the most common
causes of badness.
"A petroleum bicycle makes forty
nine miles an hour.
Wire wound guns are the latest acS
QUESTION of the United StatesNayy.
An Ohio young man has turned
green from the effects OF cigarette smok-
ing.
Gotobed Fem is the name of farm
er living in Dickinson County,
Kan.
Rev. r. L. Kidd, Canadian evan.
gelist, can recite the entire Bible from
memory.
The Duke of Wellington was born at
DUNCAN Castle, County of Meath, Ire
land, in 1869.
"A Spanish potato, raised at Clark
vile, Ga, this season, was four feet and
eight inches in length.
"A man was in Athens, Ga, recently
exhibiting a bulldog with one foot ex-
sctly the shape of hoof.
1t is said that at last a satisfactory
arc lamp for use on an incsndescent cir
cult has been designed.
"A postmaster in Texas committed
suicide recently because he had been in
dlcted for stealing forty cents.
"A West Philadelphia poet in his
latest effort attempts to make "IobOg-
gan" rhine with ''oh, come againl"
The electrical underground railway
In London has proved that a speed of
twenty-four miles an hour Is practicable.
Pure gold shines but little. 1t IS
only when it is mixed with alloy that
it takes on a glitter and brightness.
1t is easiest to be all things to all
men, but IL is not honest. Self-respect
must he sacrificed every hour or the
day.
An alderman in Janeyille, Wis,
has been fined S25 for allowing chick
en- fight in front of his place OF busi-
ness.
All the precepts of the divine law
are linked together. Negligence in one
single point may lead to the destruction
OF all.
-Inquisitive people are the tunnels
of conversation; they do not take in
anything for their own use. hut merely
to pass 1t to another.
ALL virtues are sanctifies or unhal-
lowed, according to the principle which
die. ates them, and will be accepted or
rejected accordingly.
"A moro glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this, that
when the injury began on his part, the
kindness began on ours.
Turkish soldiers, in a recent tar
get contest, proved that not one in
twenty could hit man at twenty
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Mr.. Tapling's famous collection OF
postage stamps, valued at 5000 hai
been bequeathed TO the British Mus.
cum.
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and as the stalk may remain when the
flower is cut off, SO time may remain
with us when opportunity is gone.
Mental pleasures never cloy. Un-
like those of the body, they are incIeas-
ed by repetition, approved of by renee
tion, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Energy Will doanything that can be
done In this world; and no talents, no
circumstances, no opportunities will
make twO-legged animal man with
out it.
1t is a good thing TO laugh, at any
rate; and if a straw can tickle man II
is an instrument of happiness. Beasts
can weep when they suffer, but they can
not laugh.
The el cirlc arc is composed or 8
| stream OF vapor arising from the actua
| boiling OF vaporization OF the solid nd.
| OF the separated conductors.
TO secure uniformity in the paint.
ing and vanishing of their passsenger
and freight cars some railroads enplo,
expert chemists to anslyze the paint:
and oils used.
| "A double hulled ship has been de
J vIsed by Captain Meacon, of Chelsea
| Mass, which is said to be absolutely
unsinkable. HIS plan has received in
dorsement in the highest quarters.
There is not achspter in the history
of human nature more instructive, boil
to the heart and understanding, thai
that which records our errors.
Studied conversat on is most ted
ious and defeats its own ends. w
want in conversation that the hear
should flow out. We cannot ever,
moment pronounce an epigram.
Good manners are the blossom o
good sense and good feeling. II tn
law of kindness be written in the heart
it will lead to that disinterestedness il
both great and little tbings--that de
sire to oblIge. and that attention to TIN
gratifi cation Of Others, which are tn,
foundation OF good manners.
Sixteen millions of dollars wer
sent from the United States to pay fO
beet sugar bought in Germany durin.
the year ending June 80, 1890.
Justice is itself the great standing
policy of civil society, and any eminen
departure from it, under any circum
stances, lies under the suspicion OF be
ing no policy at all.
! One must not only cultivate one
friends. but cultivate oDe's friendships
preserving them with care, lookin
after then, so to speak, and waterin
them from day to day.
1t is said that during June and Jul
/, the insect life in New York stat
is much more numerous than in an
tropical country.
"A volunteer vine at Hanford, Cal
Yielded forty-twO mors.Ious pumpkins
I and another vine thirty. The produC
OF either vine would make good wag
on load.
The only man tried, found guilt
, and executed for treason curing the e1
! istence of the Unit.d States was WI
liam b. MumfJrd, in 1862. Tho cxecu