Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-09-27
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der fifteen years of age in San Francisco
A grey sunset indicates wet weather
because the earth is covered with mois
ture
A Harrisburg paper says the Susque
hanna is below the low water mark o1
1906. XIV
Boston sells annually over 100000
pounds of curled hair. South America
furnishes the most of it. is" ii 'f
The cracking of salt when thrown in
to the fire, is caused by the rapid con-
version of the water it contains into steam
A despatch from Salt Lake City, Utah
Gays squads of men are drilling at night,
said to be Mormon militia. The objec,
is not understood. a4
A village in Wisconsin lately expend
ed two thousand dollars at circus, after
having refused to appropriate fifteen hun
dred dollars for an engine.
A girl in Racine. Wis. wanted her
lover to swear on the Bible that che was
all the world to him. and when he
wouldn't, she knocked him down with
the sacred volume. -.
Game is said to be unusually abund.
ant this fall in the vicinity of Peters
burg. Va. as we hear is the case almos,
every where. The fields abound with
partridges and rabbits, and the woods
with squirrels. Deer are also very nu-
merous, aud are being hunted every
week.
A German woman, who has lived in
Shakopee, Mimi, many years, but who
cannot understand a word of English,
recently received a visit from her son,
who has lived in an eastern State nine
teen years. and cannot speak or under
stand word of German. They are try.
ing hard to converse a little by signs,
but it is hard work.
Twcnty-four years ago Eli Stilson
established himself in the wilderness of
Wisconsin, near what is now Oshkosh
His farm now has 100 acres, worth
100000. He has neat little white
house, no larger or more snowy than one
would ordinarily see upon a forty acre
farm in New England, but his barn is
66O feet in length '.. r
A shooting ARRAY occurred on the 18th
inst, at Shawneetown. Ark, between
nr. F Grundy McGaverick and Mr..
Hadford, both well-known planters. re-
sulting in the mortally wounding of both
McGaverick was shot in the mouth. the
ball coming out of the back of the head.
Hadford was shot through the lungs
The affray originated in dispute con-
cerning some hogs.
The fog horn adopted by the Super.
vising Steamboat Inspectors is described
as a light structure of tin. three feet long
when closed. but opening and shutting
like telescope. 1t is operated by a pis
ton, which iorces compressed air through
a reed, and produces sound of great
shrllness and volume 1t can be heard
for six miles, with favoring wind, and
three miles in ordinary weather.
AT recent political meeting in Texas,
which was first addressed by General
W. T. Clark, Republican nominee for
Congress in the Third district, the Rebel
Democrats manifest their spirit by pull
ng down and tearing to pieces, with
every evidence of hatred. large United
States fl g which had waved over the
Meeting. The campaign in that State
proceeds in the most spirited manner,
md Republican prospects continue to im-
prove.
. A man named Rnssel has for several
iears inhabited an island near the mouth
If the Sacramento river, and is known
ls the "lone man of Twitchels Island
lie is without neighbors, has neither kith
lor kin, but is facinated by the beauty
# the spot BY occupation be is trap
yer, and has built for himself subst m.
ial and convenient domicile. lie varies
he vocations of trapping Ivy cultivating
'ees, and annually ships large quantities
# honey to San Francisco.
Once more we hear of that fine old
'eteran, Rev Peter Cartwright. Metho
list minister for 63 years and presid.
ng elder for over so years. This gentle
nan celebrated his s7ih birthday OH the
at lust, at Pleasant Plains, Sangamon
ouuty, III. Just think of the patriarch,
urrounded upon this touching occasion
y l2O children. grandchildren, and
reat tgrantlchildren-p'pulation enough
Or a small township. There was a
leasant reunion. and the octogenarian
'as not too old to make an interesting !
peech
When the atmosphere is heavily laden
18th moisture. the oxygen deficient, and
ne animal heat low from rapid evapora-
on. we have aching of the bones. stiff
ess of the muscles. headach, dyspepsia.
nd bilious feeling generally, as indi-
,tions of lowered vitality. While the