Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-07

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Proud hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren.
Many of our great men have sprung
from the humblest origin.
New England has manufactured a
pice of calico mile in length.
The richest widow in America is Mrs.
Samuel Colt, Of revolver fame.
100000 sheltetless people are re-
ported in starving condition along the
Belgian frontier. } rs
During the last century 10000. 900
people lave died from smallpox in
Russia. s
Charleston has but one church bell
Al, the rest were melted into cannon
during The war. -
Oysters in the shell, packed in ice. are
shipped from Crisfeld; Nd. to Chicago
in refrigerator car. .eaf
A large plantation neat New Orleans
has been devoted to the cultivation Of
ramie, instead Of cotton. this year.
During The moving panic in Paris on
the approach Of the Prussians, the car:
men charged one hundred dollars day.
Two Cambria county boys were chased
by wolf whilst out in the woods fish
ins. one day recently.
The bachelors OF Detroit have a club,
constitutionally prohibiting from marrying
below $4,000 and a brick bouse. ...
A cat bit a COW it Nashville, Tenn,
few days ago, and the COW died. latter
the most excruciating sufferings.' as the
paper says. -e-
Norfolk, Va, is excited over finding
kernels of rice in hail stones. All of
the philosophers are showing how they
came there, and no two agree. er
The more man knows, the less he is
apt to talk; discretion allays his heat.
and makes him coolly deliberate wha:
and where to speak.
At New jersey Wedding the other
day the groom was II years old and the
bride 70. The clergyman was 80 years
old and the bridesmaids were 73 and II.
Six men and one boy were more or
less injured, one day recently, in Indiana
county. by the fall of the frame of a
building which the were engaged in rails
ing.
Persons hiring horses and carriages
from livery men are liable to fine and int-
prisonmeut for recklessly iniuring tho
animals or vehicles, law to this effec.
having passed the Legislature.
Agnes Lewis. the young girl sixteen
years old, who has this year plowed one
hundred acres of land on her fathers
rancho, near Antioch, California. is a
cousin Of Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling;
of New England. blood will tell"
For eighteen months Cinnamon have
been selling chunks of pure gold in Au-
burn, Cal, varying in value from $50 to
200. The pieces seem to have been
chopped from solid mass, and no ous
can find where that is located.
A Vermonter, who was lifted over q
fence by the horns of a neighbor's bull.
has recovered three dollars damage. the
jury taking the ground that the fellow was
going that way anyhow, and as his torn
corduroys were already well worn. three
dollars was enough.
a little son Of W. H. Marshal, Of
Altoona, fell from tree. at Blair Fur
mace. on the goth ult. and broke his arm.
Az this was the third time this little ac-
cident had happened him, he paid no at.
tention to it, but bravely walked home, a
distance of two miles.
Burlington. Vt. can boast of the
largest planning mill in the world. The
lumber yards, docks, sheds, mills, etc, of
the firm cover an area Of nearly fifty
acres, and in this area there are about
seven miles of plank road To carry on
this establishment from four to FIVE ban.
cred men are employed.
The best and probably TIE safes. imi
tation Of real hair now in the market ia
that made from linen thread. 4 New
Jersey man is the patentee and only
manufacturer in the country, and be
makes black linen switches, between
which and the genuine it is almost impos-
sitle to detect difference. The price
he receives is three dollars a pound.
| 1t won't do TO play tricks on some
women. A man named Hopkins. in
Newark the other night. thought he
would have some fun in soaring his wift
by dropping loose brick down thu
chimney into the fire place in her room
So he crept softly out Of bed, and witt
nothing on bat his night shirt, sneakec
up stairs and got on the roof. Mr.. Hop
kins dropped l9 bricks down the chin
ney, each with vigorous slam, bat hi
:, wife never screamed solitary time
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