Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-05-03

Seamless kid gloves are coming mts
favor again.
/ First-class funerals II New York cost
$4,000 piece.
/ Definition of kiss-A report from
head quarters. ~ -,fs
/ On the 10th of June Captain Hall sails
iu the Polaris for the nor.h pole.
An An-Income Tax ASSOCIATION has
been organized in Boston, with ex- Gov
ernOr Clifford as president.
The proprietors of three Of the large
hotels in New York city have recently
gone into bankruptcy.
David P. Navarro, Of Rochelle, ILL.,,
has boy raised on the prairie. eight
years old, who weighs les pounds.
Liniment labels are said to circulate
freely among the Indians Of the North
west, who take them for gteenbacks.
! The Cincinnati Times was sold lass
week for S13S. $50. and consolidated with
the Egcaiog Chroaicle of that city
! A western editor, in response to a sub
scriber who grumbled that his paper was
intolerably damp, says that it is because
there is so much due on il.
A big boy has been discovered in Ly.
coming county. He is Is years old,
weighs 22o (Fairbank's) and is s feet 9
inches in his shoe-pegs.
The Reading and Lancaster pa col
onies have located on hou.esteads in Re-
public county, Kansas, on the line of the
Central Branch Railroad.
Some Chinarlen, at the Berlin diggings
in Australia, have lately struck nugget
of gold weighing 1,717 oances and worth
S24,S5O. ...
There is not a city man connectedwith r
any of the New York papers. All the
editors, writers and reporters wero born
in small towns or rural districts.
A new style of earring is in the shape
of tambourine, the bells of which i'm.
gle pleasantly at every movement Of the
wearer's head.
A jury in Indiana, a few days since,
awarded a damsel only nineteen cents
damages for breach of promise, although
she claimed $40, 600.
| Charlemange, the powerful monarch,
commenced his education, and learned TO
read and write, after he was forty FIVE
years of age.
Mark Twain having sold his interest in
the Buffalo Express, has gone to EImira
to live, threatening to abandon pen-and-'
ink labor for the remainder CT his life.
A new cattle disease has appeared in
Mercer county, Ill. The anin1aals live but
a few hours after being attacked. Ono
man has lost twenty three head in three
or four days .
/ Jessie and Jared Darlington, at Oar.
lington station, Chester county, have in
their dairy 1O2 cows of superior stock.
Within few weeks they hav$ lost sew
anteen by fleuro pneumonia.
A tanner having married the daughter
Of a butcher, the bells were rung in honor
Of the occasion. 1t was asked what the
bells were rung for. "Only union be-
tween skin and bone" was the answer.
Almond trees flourish in California, and
one near Santa Barbara yielded $40
worth of nuts last year. This spring a
farmer has set out $4,000 trees. Ths
olive crop viii be large this season.
Mr.. GreeIy having said that if he had
known as much about farming when he
was a boy as he does now, he never
would have been an editor, the Brooklyn
Eagle remarks that "It is never too laie
20 mend"
Some one who must be a disappointed,
i'll tempered old bachelor, or hen-pecked
husband, says that it is no wonder that
women maze good sculptors as they are
used to chisseling fnen--out of money, il
not out of marble.
Late advices from Mexico state that
Juarez is gaining ground in his campaign
for the Presidency for another term. He
proposes that the election for President
in future be direct by the people and not
through aN electoral college, as at present.
Six years in he penitentiary is the
sentence passed upon the Prussian bur-
gomaster who was arrested some time
since at Baltimore and taken back to
Prussia for running away with 100000
belonging TO the public treasury.
A wife in San Francisco lately put a
petition for divorce in the court, on the
ground that her husband was " con-
founded fool" The judge, who was an
old bachelor, would not admit the plea.
because, he said, every man who gets
married would be liable to the same i'm.
Iputation.
A young lady at home from boarding
school. for the holidays, was asked If she