Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-02-01
SHORT ITEMS.
A common seat-De-ceit.


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Pottsville complains Of an unusual
amount of counterfeit money. n 2
Vermont's present pride is a baby that
weighed seventeen pounls at its birth.
A Virginia girl of 16 has died of hons
sickness, at Richmond boarding school.
The oId-fashioued spinning wheel can
still be found in many country stores in
Maine.
Itis row thought that at least twelve
lives were lost by the burning of the
Spottswood Hotel in Richmond
There. is deer in Montgomery county
which weighs 500 pounds. 1t is Miss
Polly Deer. ..- -.s.. t..
The town of Harwicl, on Cape Cod,
raised 1854 barrels of cranberries lass
year. and sold them for $4,000. ..r
There were los foxes and 10 wildcats
killed in Mexican county during the year
1870.
The Ebensburgers 90. up concer. to
aid in establishing a reading room. Re-
ceipts, s27; expenses, s33
Lafayette college received student
from Tennessee, being the fret from that
State since the beginning of the war
4 white owl. measuring over five feet
between the tips Of its wings, was shot
in Berks county last week.
The meat rations of man in Paris
are now about equal to two mutton cut
lets week.
Is it proof of an economical DISPOSE
ton ifa young lady indulges in tight lac.
ing to prevent waist-fuilness ?
Jack, your wife is not so peusive as
she used to-" No she has LETT that off
and turned expensive.
Persons should as soon think of bor-
rowing toothbrush of their neighbor
as borrowing bis newspaper. Keep one
of your own. .
A New Hampshire couple, unable to
determine which of the three clergymen
in their town should tie the marriage knot
for them. selected the man by lot
Learn to have not one Life for God and
another for the world but let your life
be divinely quickened. Let every foot
step De walk with God.
In a trial which took place last week.
a lady of Ashley. Delaware county,
Ohio, recovered $500 of saloon keeper
for time lost by her husband in frequent
ing his establishment.
A gentleman in Sullivan county. Indi-
ana Witnessed, a few days since, the raro
spectacle Of wild turkey being attacked
in mid-air by couple of eagles, and kill
ed
A charitable Cincinnati man keeps a
pair of dogs chained at his front door, go
that poor people who stop to "get bite"
can be accommodated without taking the
trouble to go in the house.
A female prisoner escaped from the
Kings county On. y penitentiary on
Sunday night, by lowering herself from
a second story window with rope made
from sheets ...
A young man at La Cross, Wis, look
ed through the keyhole of girls bedroom
and ever since the doctors have been try
ing to get a knitting needle out of the place
where his eye used to be.
An Indiana sheriff is perpiexed-
While taking horse thief 20 the stat,
prison. he fell asleep in the railroad car,
and when he awoke the prisoner wa.
gone. He thinks he must have got off
at a station for drink and got left.
The Erie Dispa'c1 says: There i.
now talk of getting up another paper in
this city, the chief feature of which is
that it will publish the names of person.
with amounts of debts that they refuse
Or fail to pay.
Putting stick of long wood in short
stove, then taking i. ou. and placing it
n a wood box and piling shavings
IN top of it, was the reason New AL
bany man had to rent a house for tho
next day.
A young couple in Bristol, Virginia.
were so affected at recent revival meet
ing that they went forward TO the alter.
and insisted upon being married. 1t 10
stated, on leaving church, they felt hap
pier than any Of the new converts.
Do not be troubled because you have
no great virtues. God made million
spires of grass where he made one tree.
The earth is fringed and carpeted not
with forests but gass. Only have
enough of little virtues and common f.
delities, and you need not mourn because
you are neither a saint nor a hero. ..
The Pit,sburg Paper says Last even
ing tastefully-dressed young lady. ac-
compauied by an elderly lady and small
child. entered one Of the Penn street