Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-11-22
SHORT ITEMS.

Never contide secret to your rela-
tious; 'blood viii tell"
A tootbpick and stave factory are to be
erected at Buckfeld, Me.
A Pennington. Me hog choked itself
to death in endeavoring to masticate
live pigeon.
A Berkshire bear seized a two year
old child of VIM. Gaines, in Franklin
county, Ky, and bit him to death.
The barn of Benjamin F. johnson, in
Lower Chichester, Delaware county was
destroyed by fire few days ago. Loss,
including contents, about S2500.
\ Newfoundland dog swan out to
wreck off the English coast, seized a line
thrown by the captain, then swan back
to the shore with it, and by this means
saved the whole crew.
Young men and boys in France are
much more respectful to parents than
they are here, and son is never heard
to speak of his father as governor, old
boy, or old hoss
A stranger in New York offered $1,000
to hear Nilsson in opera, and when tickets
in countless profusion were pressed on
at So each, inhumanly informed the Of
/ ficers that he was deaf and dumb.
a gold watch chain and pin have been
presented to Miss Mary Nicholas, of
Plaistown, Mass the watch bearing an
inscription declaring them to be present
ed BECAUSE she is model Christian
woman.
Simon Gross, son of Henry Gross, of
Beaver township, Snyder county, an en-
ployee at Greenhoe s Saw Mill, was
caught in the betting on Wednesday of last
week and was so badly injured that he
died in less than two hours afterwards.
Mr.. Gross leaves wife and two Children.
A party of men went out coon hunting
near Inwood, Ind last Saturday night,
and while returning home three of them
sat down on a railroad track to wait for
the others They soon fell asleep and an
express train coming along killed one of
them named John Grear, and badley in
jured another named Bruce Robson.
There is a Mother in Israel living
in Niles, Michigan. who is 109 years
old. In a recent love feast she declared
that she had enjoyed religion one hun
dred years, and for that same period had
been a member of the Methodist Church.
1t is probable that she is the Oldest
church member of any denomination in
the world.
The Montgomery Ledger says that
the late Benjamin Frick, kept an apple
in his desk for the period of thirty-four
years 1t was given to him by daush-
ter, in 1887, the day before her death
and he layed it away and treasured it as
memento of the departed. Though shriv-
elled and dried up, it is still preserved iii
shape somewhat at the time of his death
few weeks ago.
The quiet breakfast of family was
rudely interrupted few mornings ago by
the laundress, who bolted into the room
with the exclamation "And sure, Missis,
| thought I'd come an tell yez that L
couldn' wash for yez this mornin,' as me
boy is 4ick with the small pOx, and as
black as me old man s hat " She was
allowed to depart without further apology
or explanation.
The Houston, Texas, Telegraph"
says: This year, in Fort Bend county,
two white boys, without any assistance,
raised seven bales of cotton and seven
hundred bushels of corn. At the pres
ent prices of those articles, the lads will
have cleared about $1,000 jointly, or
S5UO each which is ten times better than
hanging around villages and towns.
learning TO drink and gamble. We hold
up these boys as patterns TO all Texas.
There's the sort of grit that viii make
Texas the Queen of the South.
4 poor creature in Brooklin who stole
a meerscham pipe and sold i! in order to
obtain food and medicine for his child,
who was dying with smallpox, was sem
fenced to six months imprisonment, COM
menting on which. in view of Twecd's
recent exploits, the Tribune" says; 1t
is the old story over again,-no mercy
for the friendess wretch who takes loaf
of bread when his child is starving, but
every eivilty to the rogue who is bold
enough to steal a million instead of a
sixpence,
|, In New Haven, Conn, there is nee
die factory where the whole process. is
done by single machine without the
labor of any person. 1t cuts the pieces
of steel wire consecutively, punches the
| eye-holes, counter-sinks the eyes and
, grinds the points. and, in fact does every
, thing until the needle drops out com
| pletely formed Another machine picks
+ them up and arranges them, heads and
points together, and a third piece of me-
e chanicism puts them into paper. One of