Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-10-18
Just - We Found Them.

Mr.. Loden, who died lately in London,
lef: his relatives SIS 100000.
Highway robbers are operating in the
vieini.y Of Knoxville. Tenn.
A bear made an enjoyable lunch Of Of
two showmen At Georgetown, Ky.
Chicago contains $1,000 wooden houses
and only 1000 brick and stone honses.
Virginia tobacco pays to the internal
revenue at least ten millions Of dollars.
The barn Of the Lancaster County
Poorhouse was burned on Saturday even
ing. ft Sill
An Indiana bridal couch was recently
enlivened bya . concealed bunch Of fire.
crackers.
Iowa has five thousand more Metho-
dist than members Of all other denomina-
tions put togethet. -..I -..- ...7
Corns can be cured by soaking them
well in hot water, pairing them closely,
and applying cloth saturated with mec-
ca oil.
Returns from the Colorado territorial
election indicates that the Republicans
have two thirds majority in both houses
of the Legislature.
Thirty years ago an enterprising far.
mer hauled load of wheat to Chicago,
and sold it for two barrels of salt and a
calico dress pattern
A Mrs. Ann Conway has been award
ed the contract for building railway in
Maryland. and already has her workmen
busily engaged in digging, carsing, and
and track laying. ..
The Scientific Americua states that
thousands of pounds of butter are daily
sold in the city of New York, which are
adulteraled with a substance made from
cottonseed oil.
Patterson, N. j., has mill in which
are eleven distinct aud seperate branches
of manufacturing, from the building of
steam fire engines to the weaving of shoe
lacers.
Lewis Smoker, young man said to
be of unsound mind, has been arrested,
and bound over 10 the sum of $1,000 for
his appearance at court, at Lancaster,
charged with placing ties upon the Penn
sylvania Railroad track, near Leamon
Place.
The editor of Texas paper is exhort-
ed by sympathetic subscriber to con-
iinue to pour red hot thunderbolts right
Iuto the teeth of the letches and sharks
that are sucking the life blood from the
people. If the editor does it there will
be work for dentist down in Texas.
The new fifty cent and one daIlar rev.
enue stamps have just made their appear
ance They are made of what appears
to be linen paper. colored blue, with
scroll work, and bear a lithograph Of
George Washington. They look well
and are an improvement over the old
stamps of the same denomination.
The worlds supply of camel's hair for
artists pecils. H., comes from Persia. for
the greater part, through Russian mer.
chants. 1t is cut from the animal at GER
tain seasons. the yield being somewhat
ten pound weight from one camel. Most
of the crop is used at home in making
shawls.
Kerosene oil can be made non.explo.
Give. That none but the non explosive
kind should be sold, Chicago sadly dem
onstrates. as the fire which proved so dis
astr"u.. j. is said. was occasioned by the
explosion of n keierone lamp in a stable
The Pennsylvania Legislature next win
ter should strengthen the laws in thi.
State against explosi We oil.
The ringlcadsr of the gang of despe-
radoes who attempted to throw passen-
ger train from the track night before last
has been arrested. The gang were part
Of the Chicago plundering party fleeing
from the detectives, with the intention of
raiding on Racine or Milwaukee. Thi.
intention being apprehended, the railroad
authorities prevented them from coming
further north. They retslia,ed by at.
tempting wholesale slaughter of the
passengers.
The first pair of rubber shoes ever
seen in the United States was brought
over in 1920 In 1928 500 pair were
imported, and sold at high prices. For
many years about 5000 pairs were i'm.
ported annually The frs: company
established for the manufacture of these
shoes started at Roxbury. in Mass. spent
100000 in buildings and machinery,
and fi.ally failed. Shoes which they
made in winter melted in summer, and
exposed to cold grew hard as stones.
The preventers of cruelty to animals
in Georgia and the lovers of native music