Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-12-07
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been found in Lancaster.
The German army is otficered almost
exclusively by the aristocracy.
Indian rcalps are worth $500 in Son.
ora, with an upward tendency.
In Paris 1000 horse day are said to
be killed for food.
Deer by the dozen are daily seen on
the hills above Smethport, Mexican
county.
NhvER wait for thing to turn up
Go and turn it up yourself. 1t takes less
time, and is surer done.
Clark Watson of Conemaugh town.
ship, Indiana county. has raised seven
pound turnip measuring % inches in cir
conference.
Two fourteen months old Chester pigs
were slaughtered in Unioutown last
week. They weighed when dressed to-
gether 970 pounds.
Henry Simpson, of Sunbury, came
near going to eternity on the approved
modern way-kindling fire with petro.
leum.
Eight millions of fish have been used
the past season at the oil factory on
Charles island, Conn. They made about
5000 barrels of oil
Cat-calls, "hi-hi's" 'brayvos" and
stamping of feet in public places of
amusements are made penitentiary of
fences by a recent ordinance in Roches-
ter.
The DEGREES of fashion in New York
make it imperative for Fifth avenue dogs
of good family to wear black and red
promenade blankets, and to have the
leading string attached to the lef. side of
the collar.
Philadelphia is the fourth in rank
among the cities of the civilized world,
and contains about one hundred and ten
thousand dwelling houses, or about forty
thousand more than New York.
One of the "lost arts" has been found
1t is believed that the principal preser-
vative substances used in embalming
mummies Of Egypt was carbonic acid in
the crude state.
Eight kinds of kisses are mentioned
in the Scriptures The kisses of saluta
ton, valediction, reconciliation, subjec-
ton, appreciation, alteration, treachery,
and effection.
Two Kewaunce Wis. men, when re-
turning from a visit the other evening,
encountered two savage bears. Each
made for a tree and climbed it, and there
they were kept for several hours. the
bears walking around beneath them.
A Milwaukee lunatic rushed into
church on a recent Sunday, airily attired
in one boot and necktie, and familiarly
seized the pastor by the throat. Some
of his flock resented the rudeness, and
rescued the reverend man
1t is estimated that over fifteen hun
dred millions of cigars are consumed
annually in this country. When the i'm
mense amount of tobacco consumed in
other forms is taken into consideration,
some idea may be cleaned of the extent
to which this habit is carried
One hundred and fifty Swiss immi.
grants passed through Lynchburg, Vir-
giuia on Friday. the Is til ult. on the
way to Water Valley, Mississippi. 1t is
said that five thousand more are expect
ed from Switzerland within the next
three months, all of whom design loca-
ting at Water Valley.
Preseason A. M. kedzie, of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, says that one
hundred and seventy days passed this
season without frost sufficient to make
itself visible upon vegetation and that.
according to the record kept by the
Academy Of Science at New Haven, it
is one hundred and eight years since this
has occurred before
"Gander pulling" is an elegant amuse- |
ment they have at the South Carolina
county fairs. An unfortunate goose had
his neck and head well creased after d.
vested of feathers, and is then suspended
by its feet, while the gallant knights
gallop underneath and endeavor, as they
pass, to drag the shrieking bird from its
fastening.
A short time ago, bull, belonging to
Mr.. Doak, of Briarcreek township,
Columbia county, fell in to a we'll that
was being dug in the barnyard, and
novel expeGient was resorted to in order
to get him out. The well was filled |
with straw, until. by tramping it down,
he gradually rose higher and higher, and
finally walked over the top and out of his
prison.
Two Irishmen on a sultry night, took
refuge underneath the bedclothes from
skirmishing party of mosquitoes. At
last, one of them, gasping from heat,
ventured to peep beyond the bulwarks,