Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-02-08
SHORT ITEMS.

An Erie Iunatic imagins he is Daniel
Webster. IT, -C8- -H..7r-5c e :
Tbe gay season is at its height in
Washington.
The Sheriff Of Jersey county. Illinois.
is only y years Of age. .~--,
The Princess Of Prussia makes her
own dresses and bonnets. 1913
1t cost Maine physician SIS 900 for
bungling in setting boys broken leg.
The mariners compass has done some
of the most important needle work in the
world.
Twenty-Five cars loaded with teas and
silks are on their way eastward from San
Francisco. '- 10
The new hammer at the Bessemer steel
works at Harrisburg. weighs $4,000
pounds and cost 100000. -,y.F
A white weasel, an exceedingly rare
animal, was recently shot near PottsiowD.
and has been stuffed for preservat;oar.
Bedford county will be one hundred
years old on the 10th Of March next
A centennial celebration eught to 81 got
up.
Grant isn't much Of smoker after all =,
in comparison with Won Beust, the Aus
trian minister, whose minimum IL forty
cigars day.
Among the 300 divorces grantcd in
FerNont this year, tse wife acknowledge
ed 20 having originated the difficulty in.
2ll Of the eases.
Potter coanty has no places licensed
for She sale of intoxicating liquors for
nineteen years, and as i consequence. i.
a model community of peace and good
order.
4 medical journal estimates that the
people Of the United States pay one
hundred and twenty-five million dollars
yearly fer physcians' services and for
medicines
Freight cars Of the New Iork Central
and Hudson River Railroad have been
robbed almost nightly of goods for come
menths past At different stations along
the line of the road. .. I'd.
Il is estimated that the cost Of the pres
ens European war, for sixty days, would
build another Pacific Railroad, and the
metal in The muni,ons Of war destroyed
would yield iron enough for the rails.
"A man who Is liSeral in ADVERTISING is
liberal in trade, and such man s,,oceeds
while his neighbor with just az good
goods fails and drops cut of narket."-
Horace G2eeley.
Hon. Alexander Caldwell. United
States Senator elect from Kansas, was
formerly a resident of Columbia, Lancas-
ter county, and was for many years con-
neeted with the Columbia Bank.
\ Boston store keeper. ne other day.
stuck npou his door the laconic adver-
tisement: ~ boy wanted" The next
morning, on opening his store, be found
a little urehin in sssket, labeled "Here
he is"
The strongest vegetable fibre known
is the New Zealand fax 1t las long,
sword-like leaves, 10 or IL feet IN length.
1t is used by the settlersfor binding their
shelves, fastening their gates, sying up
their horses, a,lt in almost every posss
bic way.
An old man, named Gesrge McClees.
last week went to Wilmington, Del to
meet his daughter and lake her home to
Chester county. He met her. and the
words Of greeting had scarcely been at
tered when he suddenly tottered ard fell
dead at her feet.
An Ingenious wife in Des MONIES cured
her husband of snoring tins: She had
guttapersha tube with two cup-shaped
ends one she puss over h5s nose and
mouth, and the other over his ear. He
consumes bis ow noise, as stove does its
smoke. and wakes up.
The Warwick On. J red marble,
which it is proposed to use IN ornament
ing the colonnadea, desks, aud tables of
the new Capitol at Albany, is a compact
enclosed in white lime rock,
and very difficult TO work ous IN large,
masses, but when obtained, q tie most
beautiful and valuable marble for orna-
mental purposes in the known world.
Some fifteen years ago a steamboa.
loaded with 500 bavels Of whisky and
500 barrels of highwines was sunk in the
Mississippi river, near Parsville, No -
The wreck was recently found buried
some fifteen feet in the sand, and it is
said :hat there is but little doubt that the
cargo can be got at. Parties operating
have secured the title to the property, so
that in the extent of success they will re-
alize handsome sum.
Among the latest divorce applicants
in Indiana was man who charged his
wife with giving him a stew for dinner