The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-01-06
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SCARCE ARTICLES.

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| skilful Physician regardless of self
| A staunch Politician, forgetful of pelf---
| 4 sour old bachelor, neatly arrayed-
| And last, tho not rarest, cheerful old Maid.
ns-a. The Cincinnati Commercial says that the
estate of the late Fanny Wright, [Darusmont, ]
who died in that city the 18th ult., is esti-
mated at one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
nS~In London there are more Irish than in
Dublin in Manchester and Stafford more Irish
than in Cork in Glasgow many Irish and de-
scendants of Irish in Belfast.
RY~we learn that the Hon. George W. Jones
at present Senator in Congress- from the State
of Iowa, was, on the 9th ult., reelected by the
Legislature of that State for another term of six
years from the 4th of March next when his
present term will expire
gg~The Cleveland Herald says an Irish boy
of that city, only seventeen years of age, has
| just welcomed his parents to a republican home.
He has been working for several years, part of
the time Mt four dollars month, and from his
wages has saved enough to bring his father and
mother to live with him.
Bsgs'Sal," cried girl, looking out of the up
per story of small grocery; and addressing a
mother girl who was trying to enter at the front
door, ''weve all been to camp meeting and been
converted; so when you want milk on Sundays,
you'll have to come in the back 1cay.
HSy~We cut the following advertisement from
the Boston Mail: 'Lost, hickory gentleman's
Vernon, with a gold head and steel fernile on
A. D.
Milliken's.'
Rly@A master mechanic named Whitney, on
the Vermont and Massachusetts, Railroad, was
riding on locomotive to render assistance to
the cattle train, which was unable to proceed
for the lack of motive power, when the engine
came in collision with the train, Mr.. Whitney
jumped from the locomotive and broke his leg
short off just below the knee. A singular fea-
ture of this accident was, that the leg broken
was made of cork, Mr.. Whitney having previous
ly lost his own leg by accident.
nSgWe read that somebody in Indiana, af-
ter two years labor, has perfected an instru-
ment which enables him to through the hu-
man body. Flesh viewed through this instru-
ment is rendered transparent as glass, and has
pink tinge. Mr.. Somebody must be a near
relative to Baron Munchausen.
aa- -"Pa, amt I growing tall" ''Why,
what's your height, sonny?" "Tm seven feet,
lacking yard"
Bsa. 1t is asserted that a New York house has
a vessel now on her way to New York, with six
thousand irkins of Irish butter, of first rate
quality.
nsa-An old sailor at the theatre, said he sup
posed that dancing girls wore their dresses at
half-mast a mark of respect to departed mod
esty.
EGy%A writer in the Delaware Republican
calls attention to an unusually large spot on the
sun, which may be seen through smoked or COL
ored glass.
asa-A man in Cincinnati had the zip of his |
nose cut off on Thursday by barber, who while |
engaged in shaving him, fell asleep, and the |
blade of the razor which he held descended up
on the proboscis, shortening it about the six
teenth of an inch. The outraged customer i'm
mepiately knocked the darkey down, and might |
have beaten him to death had he not been pre-
vented.
nsA- The Legislature of Illinois, which meets
in January, will have an U. S. Senator to elect
IN place OF Ine grant, DOuSiaSS, whose
term of Office expires with this session.
gag~ ~The grand aggregate exported from San
Francisco for New York, on the 1st December,
is three millions two hundred and twenty-five
thousand four hundred and thirty-ive dollars.
Gsss~A Rev. Mr. Cummings of Concord, n. H., !
has issued parcel of flaming handbills announ-
cling the end of all sublunary things in 1854
He finds a number of deluded followers.
R.ly~An interesting correspondence in the
Lexington Express, in recounting the natural
products of Australia, says: ''The climate is |
frst-rate, but the flies almost eat fellow up. |
have not seen tree, plant, herb, animal or
bird like any in the States, except domestic
ones. Plenty of kangaroos and kangaroo rats,
and the like the birds in this country are beau
tiful Every kind of parrot, roalloas, cockatoos,
magpies and the like
nea. Henry J. Aston, a native of Lancaster
county, Pa. and formerly school teacher in |
Lou ioun county, Va, last week made his ap-
pearance at che house of Mr.. John Moore, in |
Shenandoah county, Va, and asked for some |
thing to eat, stating that he had eaten nothing
but apples and acorns since the second day of
September Upon being questioned, he related
that he had lived in the woods III a sort of sink |
since the time mentioned above, and had subsis-
ted upon aeorns and applss, and had not tasted
a drop of water during tis whole times,4 He was