Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

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largest planning mill in the word
"Do write and fear nos,' is what the
girls say to Their correspondents
There are at present over Eve hundred
applications week for patents
An electrical pen is contribution of
English genius to tighten literary labors.
A mine of an;imony, used for making
type, has been discovered in Cedar eoun-
ty, Missouri.
Mamma" said little boy who had
been sent to dry towel before file. 'is
it done when it's brown?"
A wealthy New Yorker has invested
sl6O,Oo0 in mill at Augusta, Ne I. for
making paper pulp of poplar.
The American Bible House. on Fourth
Avenue, n. Y, has $50 employees en-
gagged in the manufacture of Bibles.
The prisoner has very smooth
countenance.' Yes. be was ironed
just before ne was brought IN
Tie first daily newspaper printed in
Virginia was printed in 1850, and the
subscription was fifty dollars per annurn.
There are thirty thousand women and
girls in New York who earn their living
in the stores and manufactures Of the
city.
An Illinois postmaster gives notice as
follows After this date everybody must
lick their own stamps, for my tongues
given out.
The man who didn't believe in adver-
tising has gone into partnership with the
Sheriff, and the latter is now doing the
advertising.
1t is a singular circumstance that the
word unabridged" is not in the latest
illustrated edition of " We6ster's Uns-
bridged Dictionary" .....-
Already there is a compiaint from all
quarters that the potato crop is a failure.
Bugs. you know. We hope they will
turn out to be humbugs.
A foreign medical journal remarks that
the most warlike nation of modern times
is vaccination, because it's always in arms.
We always thought, on the contrary, that
it was cow-ardly affair.
A Columbia county man has recently
built an excellent office entirely of ma
nilla paper, manufactured in his own
mill Everything is made of paper bu.
the floor, doors and windows.
Forty years ago Simon Cameron pur-
chased for 500 spur of the Broad
Mountain in Pennsylvania. II is WORTH
S1,0O0,O0O Coal has been r..ined out of
it for thirty five years, and he has real
lied, in the shape of royalty, about $500
a day
A paper collar machine costs from So
600 to $4,000, and to fit up a factory
costs at least $4,000, and so on up to
$4,000. A good machine will turn out
l20 collars per minute About 1900
persons are employed in the collar man.
ufactories of New England.
A Vermonter mas had three dollars
damages awarded him for being butted
over fence by his neigh boris bull. The
smallness of the sum is eue to the plain
tiff's avowal that he YVES trying to get
over the fence as quickly as possible. so
that the bull only helped him IN carrying
out an intention conceived of his own
free will
1t is related that, WREN James Rus
sell Lowell was last in Rome, nendi-
cant monk met the pot5 in the Corso one
day and asked for contribution to re-
pair a monastery You should not ask
me for aid," remarked Lowell in choice
Tuscan, for | am a heretic" That
makes no difference" replied .he friar.
your money is orthodox The poet
appreciated She wtici.m, and made the
contribution asked for.
The editor of journal published in
Antwerp sent reporter to Brussell for
the king speech, and with him couple
of carrier pigeons to take back the docu-
ments speedily. At Brussell he gave
the pigeons in charge 20 waiter and
called for breakfast. He was kept wait
lag some time, but a very delicate trieases
aioned for the delay. After breakfast
ne paid his bill aud called for his carrier
pigeons. pigeons - exclaimed the
waiter, why you have eaten them.''
Fifty two years ago the Doremus fam
ily, living then as now in the old home
stead IN Bergen county, n. j. owned a
smart negro boy, named Ned. At his
own request Ned was sold to a ply sician
residing in FL zabethtown. as it was then
called, ard Immediately afterwards ran
away Mysterious letters were received
for long time after by the Doremus fam
lily, containing news Of Ned's continued
prosperity. The last of these documents
came to hand thirty years ago One
day last week a respectable old colored