Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-11-09
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borough in the State. n
!, A girl at Chester, VT. recently die
from tight lacing. N
Napoleon head is to be taken of th
French postage stamps.
Genesee county, N. Y, claims an appl
crop of 10000 barrels.
Iron bridges are built more cheapl!
in Kansas than wooden.
Milwaukee recently shipped $4,000
bushels of grain in one day.
/ Mobile Las had 173 deaths from yel
low fever this season.
I Paris, Me, makes 10000 wheelbar
rows annually.
A blow up of a Mississippi steamboa
is expected soon, as they are still rae
ing. -a.
New Orleans registered this year 81,
1853 voters. In 1868 the number wa.
$4,000. a -.c
Since the rise Of water in the streams
of Maine the mills are operating day and
night, to make up for lost time.
Pet poodles are now amused with rub.
Der rats, which squeal and jump when
bitten. .s.. ....-.t ... on al s7sa-
| Clara Daily, a Montpelier, Vt, girl,
was recently engaged to one man and
married to another, all within "a hours
A valuable salt mine was recently dis.
covered at Kittanning. Pa, by workmen
who had bored to depth of 1924 feet,
in quest of oil.
There will be 6fty-three Sundays in the
year ls7l--the year beginning and end
ing on Sunday. 1t ought to be good
year.
A fossil feather has been found by
DR.. Hayden, in Wyoming Territory,
and is said to be the first specimen on
record.
A despatch from Augusta, Me, says
that Senator Morrill's health is impro-
wing very slowly. He is still confined
to his room. ~a..
The colored Baptists, of Kentucky,
are to have a theological school, at
Frankfort, and have bought fifty acres
of land for the purpose.
A little boy named Slattery. was fatal
ly injured in Brooklyn on Tuesday by
jumping from the fourth story of house
to escape frighful punishment from his
step-mother. She was arrested.
Some of the best umbrellas in market
are those manufactured from the wool or
hair of the Guanaco. They are imperv-
ious to water, and look equal to silk. and
for wear are much superior to those made
from the latter article
Asnieres, formely a thriving village.
situated on the railroad about midway
between Paris and the little watering
place of Engheim, and which at the be-
ginning of the war had population of
six thousand, is now reduced to four
teen inhabitants.
Horace Greeley lately visited ives
tern town where swearing is punished
by a fine of twenty five cents for each
offence. Some one stole his umbrella
and put litter of kittens in his old hat,
and, by compromising the matter. the
5000 he got for his lecture just paid for
the swearing and four dollars over.
For the benefit of young girls who are
impatient to put on trained skirts it may
be stated that the Princess Beatrice,
daughter of Queen Victoria. n5w nearly
sixteen years cid, has never yet wore
anything but short dresses even upon
the grand occasion of drawing room
reception.
Ashley Wilcox, late of Akron, Ohio,
in Peoria, Illinois. was explaining to
some lady friends how an acquaintance
committed suicide. He pulled out his
revolver to illustrate his story, placed |
it against his head, when it suddenly
went off, and he rolled from the chair to
the floor and almost instantly expired.
The illustration was complete.
A modestly attired individual. who
had attended the lectures of Senator
Sumner, at Boston, the other night. be-
ing mistaken for that gentleman, on his
way out of the hall, was surrounded by
a bevy of colored ladies and lionized un-
til he was forced. in self defense, to de-
clare he was somebody else" The
same mistake has often occurred before.
Horses it is stated, are among the
articles in Paris which have been most
greatly deprecated by the seige. At
the fashionable horse bazaars, animals
which before the war brought from 5000
to $1,000. are now selling "a low IA from
s. to 40, and the miserable jades of the
fiacres, which are too small for military
purposes. sell as low as from three to
twenty cents. -
The night of the steamboat exnlos;on