Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-03-14
GLEANINGS FROM THE NAIL.
II TAKES 500, 900 FAT CATTLE TO SUP


II TAKES 500, 900 FAT CATTLE TO SUP
PLY LONDON ONE YEAR.
A PIGEON roost in Indiana is ten
miles long and two wide.
The height of st. Paul's, London, is
four hundred and two feet.
TAE United States is commonlv known
in China as ''the Kingdom of the Flow
cry Flag"
A WIDOW in England with two chill
dren, has recovered $4,000 from rail-
road, for killing her husband
SENATOR Sprague and his brother em-
ploy six thousand hands a: their print
works, In Providence Rhode Island.
A BILL has at length passed the Leg
islature of Virginia, giving colored per-
SONS the right to testify orally only, in
cases where a negro is concerned
One hundred and eighty thousand
bales Of cotton, weighing over four mill
ions Of pounds, were shipped from Mem
phis last year.
A MAN named Myers, of Houston,
Texas, has killed in his life jhe is fifty
years old $4,000 deer. His average for
many years past has been GO per year
THE Oldest reiguing monarch in the
wor Id at the present tine is the Lande-
grave of Hombourg, aged 81. The
youngest sovereign is the Emperor of
China, aged IL.
NOBLE The Maine Legislature has
passed bill granting pension Of eight
dollars per month 70 all residents of Maine
who served in the war On Names quota,
and were wounded and are in need of as
sistanee, aside from the United States
pension and their own resources.
| In Adams, Mass, Mrs Elizabeth Pew
ers attempted to rescue her young child
from the railroad track while train
was advancing, and both mother and
child were instantly killed. She was
widow and leaves eight orphans.
A DISCHARGED soldier, who stole a
ride from Chicago to Pittsburg by hiding
in pork car among the dressed hogs,
was locked in, and 90 remained for five
days, with no other food than the raw
pork.
THE Hudson Bay Company recently
forwarded TO St. Paul six thousand mink
skins, cantained in twelve ordinary sized
boxes-probably the most valuable pack
age of furn ever sent to St. Paul. They
were sold at 50 each, making a total of
| $4,000.
\ LADY in Cleveland, Ohio, the other
day, was very afectionate to her husband
and at supper handed him a cup of tea,
which he declined to drink, but handed
it to one Of his children. Thereupon
the woman sprang forward and seized the
cup, thus saving the child's life. The
cup contained arsenic An arrest and
trial of course followed.
A REMARKABLE TREE was in Janu-
airy brought to New-York from West
ern State, which is considered by the best
Judges to be worth $4,000. This was a
black walnut tree, 20 feet long, board or
inch measure, 4500 feet, 5ut ;yhen cut in.
to veneers it would be so times that, max
( ing 1876, 900 feet, which at 20 cents
would be s27 900. The cost of cutting,
carting and placing in store for sale, would
be abou. $1,000.
THE demand for fractional currency
has increased to such an extent that the
force of the printing b ureau is working
daily and nightly to furnish supplies
About two thirds of the issues Of this
character are distributed to the United
States assistant trcasurers in the South
ern States, as securities for an equal
amount of other currency destroyed by
the department. Hence, for every issue
there is cancellation.
A YOUNG laiy of Seymour, Indiana,
became warmly attached to young man.
Her love was not returned. She procur-
ed preparation called 'love powders"
and mixed them with the young mans
food. They poisoned and nearly killed
him, and he is going to bring suit against
the young lady for damages.
te- The Circlevile, (Ohio,) Union