Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-14
SHORT ITEMS.

q" Aa"od''or coouty' md burned,
Two Atlanta young ladi.s insisted
upon kissing "e1- President" I..-is a,
the public meeting in that city; and they
did it.
The fat-famed banking. house of the
Rothschilds having been founded in
III, will 5e one hundred years old this
year.
One diamond set among the t5tal nutn-
Der of fifteen. sent as wedding gifts to
the daughter of Hon. ". n. Tweed,
cost $4,000. --s
The State Teaches Association viii
meet this year at Williamsport. August
Sth. Ample arrangements will be made
for all who may attend.
The King of Bavaria has had gar
den laid out on the top Of the palace at
Munich In the centre Of it is a lake.
upon which swans are seen swimming.
AT Victoria, West of Cape Colony;
Africa, by rain spout, about lOO per-
sons were killed, and thirty buildings
were swept away In few hours, on
February IL.
1t is estimated that there are goo or
LOCO RATS on the Susq uehenna between
Columbia and Williamsport, all of which
are prevented from going down by the
shallowness of the river.
Joshua WeaTer, Of CranberJ town:
ship, Venango county, was on the point
of being sold out by the sheriff, wheh
hundred barrel oil we'll was struck near
his farm. he has plenty Of friends now.
In Blair county there is spring which.
at its source, pours out a volume of wa
ter sufficiently large to turn mill, and
which, after running on the surface of
the ground for 200 or 500 yards. dis
appears.
A man named Hennessy, boss on
the Cattawissa extension, was brought
before justice on Monday of last week.
on the charge of killing deer out of
season. 1t was doe with fawn. Hen
messy was fined $50 and the cost.
! An army order has been issued that
$50 for each breech loading rife musket,
and six cents for each metallic cartridge,
will be charged against the pay of any
enlisted man who shall lose them through
carelessuess. or dispose of the same
4 few days since Clarence HILL, of
New Milford, Pike county, lad of
eleven years, was struck on the head
with a baseball bat, breaking his skull
so that portion of the brain oozed out.
His condition was critical at last ac-
counts.
A wedding has recently taken place in
South Norfolk, Mass which was brought
about in a romantic manner. A young
lady in trimming hats wrote her name
and address on the inside lining: A
young New Yorker Bought the hat; when
wedding resulted.
A Snowman in Maine wanted to exhibit
an Egyptian mummy, and attended at
the courthouse to obtain permissioh.-
"What is it you want to show 7" inquired
the judge. IAN Egyptian mummy more
than three thousand years old" said the
Snowman. Three thousand years old :"
exclaimed the judge, jumping to his feet,
and is the critter alive2"
A young girl of Williamsport, who
had been attending Boarding school at
Bethlehem, eloped with gambler aud
sailed from New York for Europe on
Wednesday. The father of the girl ar:
rived hastily at the dock an hour after
the vessel had sailed, and wept bitterly
on ascertaining the hopelessness Of his
attempt to stop the runaways.
In the time of the first Napoleon when
draft was made for soldiers, one man
had substitute put in bis place. After
a time another draft was made and the
same man was called again, but he said
t" an free. l sent d substitute into the
army and he was killed, 80 / am as a
dead man." The case was carried to the
courts of France, and it was there de.
cided that the man was free.
In Wisconsin, at locality called Pluui
City. lives a Swede, who, having this
spring but one or, persuaded his wife to
carry one end Of the yoke In plougling.
while he held the plough, anc their boy
drove. The woman labored at this e1-
traordinary employment for two days.
and was then compelled to quit it, and
take to her bed, on account of having
ruptured an internal organ in her efforts
to keep her end of the yoke even In
two days after she died.
A physician in Sioux City, Iowa, uses
an ointment made Of charcoal and lard to
prevent pitting in smallpox. This is
applied freely over the surface Of the
face, neck and hands as soon as the dis
ease is distinguished, and continued until
all symptoms of suppurative fever have