Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-10-04

Nearly 2G0,000 sheep browse on tie
brows of the Calaveras mountains.
! Thirty thousand horses were eaten at
Metz during TIE siege of that town.
"Oh, for thousand tongues !" as the
lad said when be craslcd iuto a Inolasses
hosshead. A86 81 TEEHOH
\ Bradford county man raised fifty
four bushels of whea. on one acre this
last harvest. a-.. 4aL--.t
! A Missourian and his wife and seven
children walked twenty Ave miles to
Kansas city to see circus.
| A Mrs Brown died in Algonquin, ILL.,,
recently, from the effects of sting from
a black and white hornet ~ -| al
:, 1t is reported that two thousaud peo-
pie of color are asking help from the
American Colonization Society to emf
crate to Liberia l-...
! The Swine Exposition at Chicago closed
last night. ltwas a great success every
way except financially. The total re-
ccipts were Sl,SOO, and the expenses
$40, 500. -.-....-
a man courting a young woman was
inierrogated as to his occupation. II am
paper hanger on large scale" he ye-
piled. lie married the girl. and turned
Out to be ill-sticker.
The wife of Witng Clifford, Of Wells
boro, hung herself with skein Of warn
few days ago. She complained of
pain in her head. and was soon after
found hanging, Hfe being extinct.
! Christianburgi Va, is laughing over
venerable turkey gobbler tha. has built
nest. and is now grave!y sitting upon
four apples. A barrel of cider is no,
anticipated as the result of the ..se. "
A big haul Of sharks was made by
Captain j. S. Biggs. of Greenport, l. L.,
last week in purse. be was draw
ing. Thirty of them, ranging from five
to fourteen feet, were brought to shore,
but did much damage 10 the net.
\ Pittsburg carriage washer has jus,
learned that by the death of bis brother
in Australia he is the sole heir to the sum
OF $3.50 600. lie will now stop wash.
ing carriages for others, aud employ
others to wash carriages for him.
A telegraphic line is about be laid
across the Pacific Ocean from San Frar.-
cisco to the Sandwich Islands, and thence
to China and Japan, which viii greatly
shorten the distance, and Of course the
time required for electric communicating.
/ john G. Rider, of Galesburg, Centre
county. went to Philadelphia the other
day to get an Gculist 10 remove diseased
eye. He was chloroformed, the well eve
cut out by mistake, and thus he returned
to his bone in midnight darkness and sor
row.
An English lady, travelling on the
Rhine, recently drew the attention of a
waiter to the fact that the egg he had
given her contained chicken. Nothing
ahashed, the waiter replied that he nus,
charge for chicken III her bill instead
of an egg s. .st
i A poor etnaciatsd freshman havin-
called in physician in forlorn hope.
the latter spread large mustard plls,er.
aud put it on the poor fellows lean chest.
Pat. when he with fearful eyes locked
down on it, said, "Docther, it strikes me
It's dale Of mustard for so little NATE
young lady, of Amesbury, Mass,
some days since, while walking on the
beach, discovered in the sand, and in
shallow water, a gold watch of the hunter
pattern. Hesitate ing to go in the water.
she called a woman near the spot, who
Immediately walked in, secured the
watch, and carried it away.
In one of Cooper's novels occurs the
following passage "He dismounted in
front of the house and tied his horse 70
large locust A French author, IN
translating the passage. rendered it thus:
He descended frum his horse in front Of
his chateau, and tied him to large grass
hopper" '-. ..
!, An angry Western editor wrote 10
poeiical correspondent the other day:
'If you don't stop sending to ne your
+ abominable poetry. l Il print piece of it
some day with your name appended in
, full, and send copy 10 your gal p The
poetry from that fountain quickly dried
up. rJ "r '...aH
A woman, named Theresa Sclafer, a
. patient in the infrmary of the Convent
Of the Sisters of Mercy, ST. Louis, is
said to have been suddenly and miracu-
lously cured Of a tumor on her right side,
in answer to special prayers. The state
ment is accompanied by medical certi-
fcate. The woman had been given up
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