Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-07
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As lady was looking at a burning
building, in Brookville, Canada few
evenings ago, she fancied that she saw
man fall through the roof into the flames,
and so greatly was she shocked that she
fell to the sidewalk dead.
ANY hard steel tool (says the Boston
Journal of Chemistry will cut glass
with great facility when kept wet with
canphor dissolved in turpentine. The
ragged edges of glass vessels may also
be thus easily smoothed by fiat file.
A beggar applied for food and lodging
at the Schenectady poor-house and was
given a cold meal. He refused it and
abused the keepers wife shamefuily,
when her husband interfered. The fas-
tidious mendicant shot at him and cleared
out. saying he "never saw such insolence
in any hotel before"
Another new meat-preserving process,
said to be very successful, is described In
the Moniteur Scientfque. 1t consists
in the immersion of the meat in solu-
tion of perfectly pure carbolic acid in
water. Not only raw meat, but eggs,
fish and vegetables can be preserved by
the same method.
There was a wild scene at fire in
Findlay, Ohio, few nights ago. when it
became known that there were three
kegs ofpowder in one of the burning
buildings; but a young man, Henry
Erb by name. rushed in, brought out two
of them, and then returning, found that
the fire was already charring the keg
that still remained Seizing it neverthe-
less, he brought it out.
A Candidate for the prize Of twenty
thousand dollars offered by the late NJ.
Breaut for cure for the cholera, sends
to the Paris Academy of Science. an ac-
count of what he believes to be the true
cure. 1t is very simple /; consisting of
merely film of mixture of collodion
and castor oil laid over the stomach of
the patient so as to completely cover it
We are not informed whether it has ever
been tested.
The Easton Free Press says A fam
lily in the upper part of our county, near
Catasauqua, imagined roll of butter
which they had in their cellar to be
bewitch ed,a ,and sold Grechen" thought
she really saw the tracks of the witch
What did they do but gather three or
four neighbor farmers, cached armed with
blunderbuss shot gun, and carrying the
butter out in the yard, shot and blew the
commodity to atoms, and, Of course,
killed the witch.
Money borrowers must have rather a
tough time of it in Kansas, whether
they succeed in getting loan or not i
In the first place, the legal rate Of inter
est is II per cent. per annum, which Is
about as much as any man in ordinary
times would care to carry. Then. if a
poor mans note goes to protest for nom
payment, the law allows per cent. dam
ages on the whole amount Then, if a
suit is brought on the note, and sustained,
the maker must pay not only the legal
costs, but the charges of the holders
lawyer.
A good deal is said about General Grant
accepting little tokens Of the respect and
esteem in which he is held, although he
did not originate the custom, as the fol-
lowing extract from Pittsburg paper, of
Jnly 20 lSI6 will show: ave under
stand that Mr.. Samel Riddle, of this
place has forward to Major General An
drew Jackson pair of full dress mill
tary boots, finished in the best style, as
a specimen of the excellence of Pitts
burg manufacture, and as testimony of
respect for the distinguished services of
the hero of New Orleans
Farming operations are carried on in |
the West on a colossal scale. Mr..
Thompson, who lives near the town of
Wells in Minnesota, has l,4O0 acres of
wheat, 1,240 of fax, 800 of oats, and
400 of corn. About 44OO acres alto
gether are under cultivation. He has set
out $4,000 cuttings, cottonwood and
white willow, and built eighteen miles of
fence, consuming 100000 pounds of wire
and 10000 posts. He owns twenty
brick farm houses, with barns and other
and expects to open
twenty new farms this summer, putting
up the necessary buildings for each.
A gentleman in Lynn, Mass, while
passing a pond in that city few morn
ings since, witnessed singular scene,
which he describes as follows: Around
the margin of the pond, in the water