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


! Wisconsin has brought out mountain
Of black marble.
Five million bricks were made during
last year in Huntingdon
Fifty persons took the temperance
pledge in Wsynesburg last week. Good
A party is being made up in Oil City
for trip to the South African diamond
fields.
Forty.one pairs Of twins, all under one
year of age. have been found in Wake
Co., Va.
South Carolina can grow figs in abund'
ance +; they will compare favorably with
the foreign fruit
A baby show was one of the principal
features Of Congregational Church ba-
zaar at Chicago last week.
The word caterpillars was spelled sew
enteen different ways by sixty members
of an educational Institution in Maine.
The Herald of Health declares that
sleep after dinner is unhealthy, and that
ten minutes doze before eating is lust
the thing.
A Minister in MINI. has a salary of
s2O9,6O. lie supplies nine churches, the
circuit being one hundred and seventy
miles.
j. l. Crowl, of Nottingham, Chester
county. highly respectable gentleman,
was killed one day last week, by the kick
of sick horse he was administering to
at the time.
A would-be highwayman. near Provi-
dence. seized gentleman horse, when
the owner sprang out Of his wagon and
gave him sound thrashing, courageous
lady passing by volunteering to hold the
horse during the ceremony.
1uc MuIlIcesoOrO h0nIOT Is RESPONSE
bic for the following "A wonderful nat
ural phenomenon has been found on the
place of Bill Sims, near Cbris.iana. One
of his pullets laid an egg last Saturday
with the words and figures perfectly leg
ible, "Signs and Wonders, 1870" dis
tinctly raised on it.
A few nights since an Illinois clergy
man, who had been routed out of bed at
an unreasonable hour to marry a young
couple from the rural districts, 80 far for.
got his holy calling as to beat the would
be bridegroom about the room with a
stick, as soon as he discovered the blund-
ering young fellow had forgotten to pro-
cure license.
The Somerset Standard says: 1--WE
are Informed that Mr.. Jacob Casabeer, of
Somerset township. boiled this season,
one thousand gallons of apple-butter,
made between thirty five hundred and
ound thousand gallons of cider vinegar,
'old about six-hundred bushels of apples,
md raised four hundred bushels of pota-
,es
Weston, the pedestrian. undertook to
walk 400 miles in five days but failed.
laviug walked only S2O3 miles. During
his great physical effort he lost only 5
pounds. He says he tried Al times be
ore he succeeded in walking $50 miles
II % consecutive hours but he will &C
omplished 400 miles in five days with
mt having to try A times. He attri-
'utes his failure of last week to the fact
hat he had not slept enough prior to the
rial
A banker in Allentown gave large
'arty at his house few days ago, and
nore whisky was drank than was good
or some present. It seems that the lady
f the house had bottle of brandy in
which she had mis ed aomc ingredient to
make hair wash of it. and kept it in the
vine closet The gentleman of the house
n treating the musicians gave them drink
f the hair wash, which checked all
ancing that night and made the fddlers
eathly sick.
The Montrose Republican tells the fol
owing good joke on local physician
)r. Blank. having taking little to much,
vas called to patient. With some diff
Guilty he reached the bedside, and taking
he lady's wrist tiled to note the pulsa-
ions. Being unable to do so. he mum.
lied, alluding to himself, Drunk, by
Tove, drunk" 20 madam" cried the
ervant, as soon as the doctor had left,
what wonderful man! How soon he