Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-12-21

Over one hundred ladies are studying
law in this country:
Five million packs Of playing cards are
made in this country annually.
Oyster festivals are very popular among
the Connecticut churches.
Mrs. E. Tupper Wilkes is to be the
Advent preacheress in Rochester at a SAL
ary of $4,000 per annum.
All the steamers on the rivers of British
Columbia are laid up for the winter.
A speck of potato-rot as large as apin
head is said to contain about two hundred
little animals. The microscope will re-
veal them.
A lawyer at Janesville refused to pro-
ceed with a case, the other day, "because
he did not care to assist his client in per-
petrating fraud"
Five Pittsburg sports bagged 400 par
tridges on the mountains Of Fayette
county during three days last week
Game is very plenty in the neighborhood
of Uniontown
A scorchcd cat saved valuable Du-
buque property. Fire broke out in a
room where puss was shut up. Her walls
were go immense that it awakened the
sleepers, and the fire was e1tingushed.
The Crawford county, Adependent,
says about year ago this paper an
nounced the marriage Of gentleman
aged sc to a maid of Is. To-day the
old gentleman is the happy father of a
fourteen poundboy
The State Of New Hamsphire borders
on Canada for a distance of thirty or
forty miles, and yet there is not a road of
any kind across the line. 1t is a wild
region on both sides, little frequented ex
cept by hunters.
A wild woman" lately made her ap-
pearance among a number of wood chop
pers near West Mountain, Me, and scar.
ed them badly. Instead of attempting
to capture her, the valiant choppers of
wood beat hasty retreat, leaving all
their implements behind.
-. John Gwynn, travelling in 4 wagon
about nine miles from Houston, Texas,
recently. was in the act of Withdrawing
his oublebarreled shot gun from under
his seat, when both barrels were discarg-
ed in his face. carry of one-half of the
upper jaw. cheek. and orbital bones Mr..
Gwynn is still alive.
A COW belonging to family in Omaha
strayed into neighbor's garden patch
and he secretly penned her up. The
cows owners were oblidged to have milk
and, hearing that their neighbor had a
good cow, bought their milk of him for
three weeks. They then ascertained
they had been buying what was their
own and rushed to court of law for
vengeance.
Neck-tie parties are the populir amuse-
ment in the rural districts out west. A
neck-tie party is one where each lady
makes neck-tie of the same material as
the dress she wears. all of which are tax.
en- to the place where the party is to be
held and placed in bag. When the gen.
tlemen arrive each one must 90 to the bag
and take out neck tie, and it is his duty
to wait upon the lady, during the even
ing, who wears the dress corresponding
in material with the neck.tie.
A Party of hunters Of Styra, Austria.
found whole family of wild people con-
cealed in a mountain cave 1t consisted |
Of man. woman and three children, who
were utterly naked, but covered with
dense hair. They could not speak. but
only utter unintelligible sounds. The
cave they inhabited was in an almost in
accessible part of the mountain, and they
must have lived there many years -
They were taken to neighboring town,
and efforts are being made to improve
their condition.
A young man entered The store of
jeweler in Munich. the other day. and
offered to sell diamonds of great value
and beauty at SO comparatively iusigui-
ficant price that the suspicious of the
jeweler were aroused. He had him ar.
rested, and when the youth was searched
a great number of fine gems were found
secreted in his clothes. The youth was
unable to give satisfactory answers as to
where he had obtained all the precious
stones. Some suspicious are entertained
hat these are part Of the French crown
ewel..
At the leveling of an ancient Indian
mound near St. Louis No, few days ago.
l very interesting spectacle was present.
ID. The mound was originally forty feet
in height, oval in shape. and about 800
eet in length. About twenty years ago
here was house on the top of it, and
! graveyard on the side. During the
progress of the work the labors have dug
Up the bones of three races, first those of
he whites, second, of the Indians, and last