Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-04-05
Just as We Found Them.

An lucH Vi rain idlHnS uPou al oSis
of land weighs about 100 tons.
About 300 RATS are lying along the
river banks in the vicinity of Marietta
A new railroad through Indiana, run
ming through Cherrytree and Indiana to
Freeport, is talked of.
The amount of maple sugar sent daily
from Bratileboro, Vt, of late, has beer
upwards of five tons.
Law is like seive; you may set
through it, but You must be considerably
reduced before you can get through it.
\ little boy, upon whom his mother
was inflitting personal chastisement, sale
"go on old woman, you havn't made mt
good yet.,'i q y IN 13.lF
"A London correspondent Of a New
York paper states that Napoleon and ex.
Empress Eugene intend to come and live
in America.
The National Virsinian, published at
Richmoud. Va. has at the head of its
columns the name of Ulysses S. Grant
for President in 1872. sas
The "Lriarwood pipes are nearly all
made from laurel roots, obtained in large
quantities, at very low prices, il the low
er erscounties of Maryland.
"A thief the other day stole the beavi-
est carpet bag he could find in the Kens
ington depot. and after carrying it to
West Philadelphia, opened it,and found
the contents to be half hundred bibles
Governor and Senator elect Clayton,
of Arkansas, is native of Chester coun-
ty. His parents still reside there and his
old ueighbors say he is man of great en-
ergy. high-minded, aud above board in
all his transactions -aH 'Ii'
Pierre Ernon, one of the wealthiest
merchants of Malta, is stated to have
been a banker in Mobile. Ala, many
years ago. Having failed there he went
abroad in pursuit of new fortune. He
is by birth a Louisiana creole. -
Colonel Whitley's officers have arrested
John ID. Etzweiler, of .Miliersburg, for
dealing in counterfeit money. He is
charged with having had bogus notes
representing $500 on his person at one
time, and with having passed a number.
The barn of JIG. Weaver, near Cen
treville, Cumberland county, Pa, was
burned by an incendiary on Tuesday
evening two weeks a 60 Loss s2,4OO.
the insurance having terminated about
ten days before.
A Michigan boy who gave compan-
ion cigar "loaded" with gunpowder, and
as a result deprived him of about one
half of lis moustache, and an brow,
and portion of his cheek, has paid $50
and costs for his little practical joke
A married gentleman, living, on North
Tenth sreet. was out riding the other
evening. and when he came home bis
lis wife found false curl attached.to the
button on the side of his cap He
couldn conceive how it got there, but
his wife gussed it right the first time
1t may surprise some readers to
know that the oleander, SO popular as
house and garden plant, is EXTREMITY poi
sonous An Ohio doctor writes that he
recently called to attend child who had
eaten some small fragments of an oleand-
bush that had been cut off The symp-
toms were sudden and violent, and the
result nearly fatal. -....
Josiah Thomas, of Roaring creek,
Columbia county. recently built a new
smoke house which doors so constructed
then when closed they could not be
opened from the inside, with a view to
entrapping thieves. Last week he en-
tered himself and built fire, but before
he got out the wind blew-the door shut.
Uuable to get out or attract attention he
suffocated before relief came. His son
finally opened the door and found his
father lifeless.
The Crown Prince of Saxony is men
toned as a very tall, spare, basbful, awk
ward man. with milk and water eyes, and
long, thin, struggling yellow hair-in
short, mature Master Slendet. The
above, We beg leave to remark, although
going the grand round of the press, is in
correct. The gentleman referred to is
not above the medium height. has rather
a handsome figure, dark hair and NOUS
tache and rather worn look, which is
not to be wondered at as he has been
great rome in his day.
A day or two since, a tvs ear old
child of Lester Sheldon, of SturbIidge,
Mass, while playing with a spool two or
three inches long, holding it in her mouth.
fell from the doorway, the fall forcing
the spool down her throat far enough to
bring the bead below the tonsils and
roots n the tongue, and so completely
it into the mouth as to render it
impossible to withdraw it direct without