Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-11-23
NEWS ITEMS.
Salt Lake City has no rats.

Paris.
Can your grandmother be your an
cestor if she isn't your aunt's sister
Texas farmers are sowing much wheat
this year.
Sixteen miles of wooden pavement
have been laid in Chicago this year.
Texas has over 7o,oOo,ooO acres of
unoccupied land.
The old-fshioned spinning-wheel is
still much used in Maine.
+ Suicide is so common in Chicago that
public stomach-pumpery, open day
and night, is talked of.
. Twenty-Five persons met their death
by their devotion to base ball dul ing the
past season.
A little boy, named Johnny Gobright.
was recently sent by express from Bostof
to Pittsburgh.
/ Mammoth Cave is announced for rent.
A nice opening for an enterprising
business man
Some rufian at Evansville, indiana.
indu ged in the fendish sport Of cutting
the tongues out of live cows
The Lebanon Courier presents the
name of Hon. G. ID. Coleman, as an
available candidate for State Treasurer.
II is said that 10 heads of cabbage
grew on two stocks in Montrose, Susqre-
hanna county.
A man having been killel in New
York by blow from a spade, a contem-
porary heads its account Shoveled TO
Death -
A London publisher has offered $780,
OOO for the exclusive right, for ten years,
of publishing the revised version of the
Bible.
The Mayor of an interior Texas city,
instead of issuing proclamation against
the dogs, goes through the street with a
double barrel shot gun, and shoots them
The presence of women, distributing
votes, IN two of the wards, was one OF
the novel features of the election in Bos-
ton on Tuesday.
The Nova Scotia Annexation League
contemplate large meeting at Halifax
to forward .he plan of annexing the prov
inee to the United States.
In Lysoming county large black
baar weighing 426 pounds, was caught
in a trap, and two others were slaughter
ed in the woods by hunters last week.
Miss Kate Field is ahead of most
young ladies-she has t0l engagements
on hand. One hundred to lecture, and
one-to be married.
The Tiiusville Coaricr says there is a
nurseryman in Crawford county who
wants 90 bushels of apple seeds, and
offers 81 bushel.
A WOMAN was arrested in Reading, on
Saturday, charged with being a common
scoM. she was held in the sum of 5000
70 answer
A Chinese woman, who had committed
a number of pretty robberries among her
people at San Bernardino, was seized by
thera tied 80 stake, and burned to
death.
A Philadelphia woman earns her live
lihood by fainting in front of large stores
and hotels, into which she is carried. A
purse is made up for her, and she is sent
home in a hack.
There IS no such thing as menial
office when you put true man into It,
A menial office is an office with mean
man in Z; sni il makes no difference
wheather it is Kings office or scaven-
gers office.
The French have now followed the
example of the Prussians by taking
precautions to secure the identification
of the killed and wounded. The Gardes
Mobile IN Paris have each received lit
tie card on which the name, surname, age,
abode and b;zth- place of each is inscribed.
This card is to be sewn inside the tunic
of each Garde Mobile.
The following dispatches has been re-
ceived BY the literary bureau, from Mark
Twain "A son was born to me yester-
day, and with the true family instinct.
he has going to lecturing already. His
subject is the same as Josh Billings
Milk You are hereby constituted his
agent, and instructed to make arrange
n1ent5 with lyceums
A deputy sheriff in Keene, New Hamp-
shire, had habit, vixen anything occur
ed to him which he had forgotten to state
of quickly raising his right hand with
the foreGnger extended, and prefacing
his remarks with the exclamation by
the way" 1t being once his duty aa
crier to give notice of the opening of the
court. he began "Hear ye p! all persons
having anything to do before the court
of common pleas, draw nigh, give Your
attention, and ye shall be heard" Here
he sat down, but remembering that he