Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-08

Yellow is the royal color in China.
Pittston cnal sells in Titusville for $40
per ton. =.
There is scarcity of labor in many of
the Southern States.
The circulation of the Bible is rapidly
increasing in Russia
One hundred sea going vessels are
owaed by Philadelphians.
Wisconsin furnished nearly 250.000,-
600 feet of lumber during tie past year.
Why did nc: she Fyench go to Berlin !
Because the Prussiaas charged them too
much
Bedford county mineral water is be-
ing shipped in large quantities to foreign
countries.
A dead child was found in a bureau
drawer of the Exchange ho:el, Wilkes
barre few days since. .f
An anti-kissing society has been form
ed by the Galena (ill.) girls. mo kiss
ing before marriage" Il :shsir motto.
On his late return to Salt Lake Brig
ham Young found his wives drawn up in
a hollow square to receive him.
\ rittsburg man has sued his broth
er to obtain possession of the ambrotyp,
picture of their dead sister
A Cincinnati man kicked black dog
off his doorstep the other night, IS he
supposed, and was Mortified when a po-
liceman picked it up and found it an
Ethiopian baby. The kick had killed it.
DADDY. want to ask you ques-
ton "Well, my SON." "Nhy is
neighbor Smiths liquor shop like coun-
terfiet dollar ?" Il can't tell my SON"
because You cant pass it, said the
boy. .
The man in Washington, who has
been eating partridge day for month,
has won his wager. He succeeded in DO
ing it, though at first he lost fifteen
pounds, of which he afterwards regained
six pounds The wager was $500.
On the eoldest day of ;ke present win
IL
went mile into the woods, got load
of wood, hauled it 20 a school house, un-
loaded it, and got some boys to cut
enough to keep fire so that they could
have a prayer-mceting,
The wedding torr OF yonng couple
in New Haven, Conn , a few days ago,
consisted of horse-car ride to the end
of the line and home again total ex-
penditure, twenty-four cents. They be-
gan married life as they ouSht-econo-
mically.
John Johnson went to wJoing a girl
named Dougherty. For some real or
fancicd unkindness on her part, he gave
her thrashirg. She sued bin, an! he
had hearing before the Mayor of VIII
mingtOn, where he was fined one dollar
and costs and pu, under one hundred
dollars bail to keep the peace.
There is prairie in Arkansas covered
with salt some three or four inches in
depth. All about the sources OF the
Arkansas river are salt springs. In one
place'a a crust or rOck of sOlid salt has
been formed over one hundred a sixty
acres of land. The water of the springs
near are so salt that if tie bands are
thrust in them, and suffered to dry in
the air, they become as white as snow
with the incrustation.
The wealtliest nun is Hungary, Lad
islaus Ghillanyi, died recently Although
the possessor of many millions, and
eighty years of age, he was 80 stingy
that he preferred to die rather than ex-
pend few cents in order to procure the
medicine which the poor bouse physician
prescribed for him He was without
chick or child, and his immense fortune
was bequeathed to distant relative on
condition that he should expend only a
certain very Insignificant sum annually.