Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-12-14
SHORT ITEMS.

They have a girls base ball club at
Lancaster, Ohio: ..
Buffalo steaks. are FIVE cents a poand
in Kansas
San Francisco Wild ducks are fifty
cents a pair.
One-sixth of the female population of
England work ont Of doors.
One half The oilcloth manufactured in
the Uuited States comes from Maine.
One farmer in New Hampshire has
made 1000 barrels of cider this season.
The new King of Spain is described
as being very taciturn.
There will be less chat.er;as in Paris
now the monkeys are eaten.
In Indianapolis dyspeptfcs try suck
ing eggs in Cincinnati sucking pigs.
A big tame bear, in Scranton, peram-
bulates the streets like a common dog.
Mr. Perry, of Michigan, traded his
wife for an old shotgun and SIS to boot.
He's Perry -patetic fraud.
One of he largest enterprises in Pitts
burg, is the American Iron Works. en-
ploying $500 operatives.
Two Georgia negroes have had but
ting match Of sixty-four rounds, which
resulted in draw.
A young lady of Boston counted
among her wedding presents recently,
eleven pie knives.
The scarlet fever is still raging IN
Pottsville, and is carrying OFF nary chiA
dren.
Philadelphia is twenty three miles long
with an average width of FIVE and half
miles.
Ladies and gentlemen who are not en-
gagged will be pleased to learn that it is
fashionable to walk arm in arm on the
promenade.
A tiger, said to have escaped from
menagerie, is roaming in Schuylkill coun-
ty.
A West Chester man has lately lost
$3.50 worth of poultry by the chicken
cholera.
1t is a good discretion not to make
too much of man at first because one
cannot hold out that proportion.
1t is safer to affront some peaple than
to oblige them for the better man de-
serves, the worse they will speak of
him.
When a lady indulges in a yawn or
two, gentlemen callers are justified in
taking there hats and viewing the house
from the outside.
In Boston poor man, who less than
one year ago, had only ore suit of
clothes, went into the newspaper busi-
ness, and now has eight suits. Sever
of them are for libel
An acre of land has been sold in the
city of London for S3,600.OoO, and in
nearly every portion of the city land is
said to be increasing in value every
year.
At an agricultural horse trot in Scran-
ton, the driver of one of the horses WIS
thrown from his sulky, while his horse
kept on his way. He gathered himself
up, took short cut across the ground,
intercepted his horse, remounfed the
sulky, and won the heat and the race.
The engineer of a train on the Hoasa-
tonic road, recently discovered drove
of cattle on the track it being too late
to stop. he put on all steam, and threw
all but one clear of the train. This ono
was found wedged firmly between the
head of the boiler and the pilot frame,
vainly struggling to escape.
AN Israelite lady, sitting in the same
box at an opera with physician, was
much troubled with cnnui, and happened
to cape. "Excuse ne, madam, said the
doctor. q l am glad yoa dia rot swal-
low me-
"Give yourself no uneasiness," replied
the lady, Il am a Jewcss, and never eat
pork"
The prairie fires around Sioux Falls
one night last week drove herd of buff
faloes into the town. The inhabitants
heared them coming in time to get out
thei. arms, and all who had guns sue
eeeded in securing liberal supply of
fresh meat. 1t was an exciting time, and
next morning the streets were CORY with
the blood of the slaughtered game.
A west hickory farmer lately heard
scratching under his bed. Putting on
his trousers, he reached for the intruder,
and in a minute found himself in the cor
ner, partly scalped, with his lower limbs
looking as though he had been through a
woolcarding machine, while, with spit
and growl, catamount disappeared
through the open window.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided that the mere name of per-
son on the hack of promissory note does