Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-04-19

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1t is said that frozen potatoes can be
cured by soaking in water three days be-
fore cooking
There are 5000 manufacturing estab-
hshnnents in Philadelphia according to
the late cens;ts.
There is a sassafras tree IN Lycomius
county, measuring si- feet seven inches
in circumference -.
A Halifax editor Is cackling over the
fact that a provincial hen produced sr
egg weighing three and half ounces. mr.
Pittsburs has adopted the Crawford
county system, and candidates for city
offices will be chosen under that system.
Mr.. Uotchkiss was the lawyer of
Wilkesbarre who cut Mrs. Wartzenber-
gers throat and then his own. on Mon
day of las: week. i ~ B
Said little four-year old Mother.
father won't be IN heaven with us, will
he p Why, my child ?" Because be
can leave the store" s,..-..s.
The Bangor Wig says the frs! s!eargo of
potatoes from that port this spring is now
being loaded They are selling in Ban
gor at about 81 per bushel. '7
The farmers of Butler county will
want to ask question to the candidates
for commissioner, az follows: "Are you
in favor of county fair ground?"
On Monday afternoon Mrs. Charles II.
Swan, Of Cochran. used coal oil in kind
ling a FIRE. She was twenty-six years
old, and leaves husband and one child.
Mother said little Johnny, running
into the house one afternoon when the
thunder was sounding heavily, at IS going
to rain, for don't you hear the pumps
going :"
The grea: cotton factory at Nashville,
Tenn, is rapidly approaching compile
ton. The main building is four stories
high, with basement, 500 feet by IS;
there is also machine shop 60 feet by
35.
"What are you doing there T. inquired
Jack of Tom, as he caught him peering
through the keyhole. What's that to
you p said Tom, Il don't like to see
persons prying into other peoples busi-
ness.
An editor once wrote a notice of a
Columbus business college, while pub
fishing paper in Xenia, Ohio. He
spoke of well-deserving institution, and
of course the compositor made it hell
deserving ... ....
Covington, Ky, had case lately
where a discarded lover murdered the
girl who rejected his suit, whereupon all
the timid old maids met together and
unanimously resolved never to reject an
offer. .....
The Boston Post tells of man in
Troy "who left boarding house just be-
cause rat bit off his ear When peo-
pie get to be that particular about .rihes,
they ought 70 quit boarding ard go to
keeping house: -t " ID. t-l..
The late Deacon Andrew Leach. Of
Searsport, Ne. was the champion attend
ant at church. having been inhis pew
259S out of 26OO consecutive SUNDAYS.
Absence from town was his good excnss
for missing on the two Sabbatls his seat
was vacant in fifty years. .a..
A citizen of Connecticut, being unex-
pectedly called upon to address sun
day school, rose to his feet in zGine con-
fusion, and after several desperate but
vain efforts to say something appropri-
ate, hoarsely murrnured, Dear children.
never fool with powder" ..a.
The proposal of Col. Van Schmidt to
furnish San Francisco with water from
Lake Tahoe for forty years, for s6,OOJ,-
BOO, has been accepted, aud the construc-
ion Of the greatest engineering work
ever attempted on the continent is thus
secured.
\ play is enacted at Chicago theater
n which man IS hung tor fnn. The
other night the gearing got out of order
and they came near hanging him for
good When they cut him down he said
be guessed they had better get some, one
,l.e to take his place, as "his neck wasn't
alented enough to take that part"
New orleans is to have a fountain
which will present some very original
features. In the lower reservoir, which
IS about the height Of mans waist from
he gronnd, two life-size swans, moved
by clock-work which runs forty-eisht
hours, will appear to swim round, and a
miniature steamship, which is so arranged
as to fire gun every hour, will also sail
round the basin
A Philadelphia man invented new
kind of blasting powder, and went out
in the country where they were blasting
4 railroad through big rock, to try it.
He filled hole full of the stuff, but it
went off before he had time to meander
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