Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-09-20
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SHORT ITEMS.

A capital let,er-One Containing a Il
Inistance.
A good many merchansa are resting on
their overs.
Why is drunkard Ike tanner Be-
caiise be soaks his hi6e.
A greyhound has died in California
aged % years. -ss
! An African giant, eight feet high, is OF
his way to America.
! The inventor Of the metallic baggage
check made fortune Of $3.50 900.
What does q s:4socer do with nearly ali
his things before he sells theml Gives
them weigh.
Iowa stands al the foot of the list Of
whiskey manufacturing States. having
but one distillery
A Missouri and his wife and seven
children walked twenty-five miles to Kan
sas City to see circus.
The trunk makers are talking of hold-
ing a convention OF baggage smasisss
early in October.
The village Of Pickens. 5. c., is with
out bar.roon, and there is said to Sc
only one in the county.
| Bishop Asbury being asked to tsae
some whisky. replied, No. l make no
use of the devil's tea"
| Richmond, Ia, has society called
The Daughters of ths Golden Candle
stick"
The 4hauge of habits are generally too
small to be felt till they are too stro.g to
be broken.
A man who sat down upon paper of
carpet nails said they reminded him of
the income tax.
There were mat tfactured'in the United
States last year over half million oe
sewing machines
An Atlanta, Georgia, editor calls for ar
ordinance in regard to lows loafng on
the sidewalk"
An Elmare. Ala, farmer boasts that he
lately dug eight bushels of potatoes in
three rows of thirty yards each.
A California, worth s270oOO, fell in
love with lady in a Columbus (Ohio)
street car, recently, and married heE'.
Equality" says a French writer.
'.means desire 90 b. equal to your su-
periors. and superior to your equals.
The dome of the new State Ho.se az
Springfield, III will be 43 feet higher
than lsat of the Capitol at Washington.
Two convicts, in attempting to escape
from the Little Rock Arkansas, Peniten-
tiary back yard on Wednesday, were shot
aud killed by the guard.
A Georgia thief the other day, after
great risks, manage2 to steal $500 IN
Confederate mone,r No doubt he is now
disgusted with his little game.
The best lessons sor a good many peo-
pie would be to listen at the keyhoie. lis
a pity for such thu the practices is dis
honorable.
Indianapolis has a merchant who has
been in B!siness over fifty years and
never advertised a line. Ills profits av-'
erage about fifty cents day.
TIE cotton worm has Appeared in many
localities in Arkansas. There has been'
no rain for sig weeks. and Both cotton
and corn have suffered from drought.
Tie Indians in Oregon and Washing
tor Territory are so superstit;ous that
they allow The crows TO steal :heir pro-
visions with5ut shooting them.
The edito4 Of the ARKANSAS JowraE
saws: "Where our office was two weeks
ago now runs the Nlississippfriver Out
of respect for the father cs rivers, we
left"
The steau, power in the United States
is equivalent to the labor of one hundred
and thirty million men, while that OF
Great Britain amounts to four hundred
million. a....
In ten years mich cows in Vermont
have increased ten per cent. The butter
produce has increasetN two mi!lica and
cheese has declined thee million pounds.
The colored people of the South, in
the sections where tbs kukiux are not
in force, are preparing to celebrate the
anniversary of the emancipation procla-
nation on the 22d.
To cure eatarrh IN the head-Take
one ounce of pulv. Sulphur one pint OF
Pine Tar. Mix. Burn one teaspoontdf
in a hot iron spoon, and inhale the smoke
through the nose by means of a paper
funnel.
A most excellent old lady up town Is
much exercised in mind to know how 1t
is that little quicksilver in a glass tube
can make such awful hot weather. as we
had not many weeks ago. by just rising
an inch or two.
A man looking into a blacksmish shop