Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-11-08
SHORT ITEMS.

The White Mountains, N. H. are COW
cred with snow. -l
Corn sells as ten cents bushel m
Jasper county. Mo
Twenty five deaths from small -po1 in
Pittsburg last week.
Bogus Chicago sufferers are abundant
and thieves in western cities and towns.
A Frenchman is said to have invented
a lampwick that will burn for FIVE years.
Ten dollars is to be the price of tickets
to the Alexis ball. and 900 will be is
sued.
According 10 Chicago paper many
women have been made insane by the
great fire.
When man wants to speak at a pub
lie meeting in Prussia, he must first OBJ
tain permission of the authorities.
Forty one cases of school states were
recently shipped from Danielsville, Nor
Hampton county, to Japan.
A little son of Levi B. Swavely, of
Pottstown, got a chestnut in his wind
pipe the other day, and choked to death.
Mr.. D. f. Dyer. of Conoy township,
Lancaster county, caught 700 pounds Of
eeIs with one get net on Wednesday Of
last week
A young lady in Oil City, Penna.,
while rringing out dress. ran needle
through the palm Of her hand. and died
in five minutes.
General Gorloff. of the Russian army.
has invented mitrailleuse which fires
300 to 400 rounds per minute. the range
extending to 1000 PAGES.
1t is asserted that fourteen per cent.
of the fires in New York city are caused
by kerosene, and the citizens are urged
to report the dangerous use of that fluid.
Five ladies, representing the States of
Maine, New Hampshire. Indiana, Wis
consin and Pennsylvania are now stu
dents in our State Agricultural College
in Centre county.
Mr.. Samuel Coffinan, of East White
land township, Chester county, has an
orchard containing % trees which have
produced the present season over 400
bushels of apples.
In Germany the BARRIERS have struck
for FIVE cents for hair-cutting. and two
and half cents for shaving They are
now receiving three and half cents and
one and half cents respectively.
The Detroit papers have discovered
new method of driving away the organ
grinders. Every day or two they have
a paragraph like this Organ grinders
in Memphis make about ten dollars a
day"
A gentleman from village near Chi
cago became indignant because his Wis
its to all the the churches where refugees
are housed, in search of servant, was
fruitles., expresses the opinion that :hey
have not been burned out enough.
A new journal has been started in
England in the tobacco interest, not az
the organ of the trade, but devoted to
the literature of smoking. 1t will dis
cuss all matter connected with that bad
habit, from coloring pipe to wrapping a
segarrette.
A careless spectator overturned chair
in the Oyer and Terminer court room re-
Gently. whereupon Judge Barnard, with
praiseworthy tseverity, rebuked such
recklessness with the admonition, BE
careful and do not break that chair, as it
has already cost the city 100000 to re-
pair it."
Judge Jeremiah 8. Black writes in a
recent letter to the York penn Gazette:
"The horrible and disgusting frands in
New York have done more to grieve and
dishearten the friends of good govern
ment than any other thing that has oc
Cured within my recollection. To save
the Democratic party alive, it must re-
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they fail to do it, they will go down to
political perditiou
A Tennessee man, residing where for
eats and game are plenty, Gays that his
boys, who all have gun apiece, became
short Of percussion caps few days ago.
and The first thing he knew they were
shooting with match-heads az substi-
tute. How many boxes of matches he had
lost in that way he did not say, but he
found they fired as clear as the cap itself.
Here is chance for some man to make
fortune by getting out new patent
All that is necessary is to adapt the gun
lock to the match head.
To the long catalogue Of FIRE. tempest.
earthquake shocks, volcanic eruptions.
tornadoes and convulsions generally. is
now to be added the following story
) is told by the Times, of India: Advices
from Ihangara state that, at place
forty miles distant on the hills, thun-
| der. holt fell on the 22d of August, after