Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-26

tUDdCCO.
The climate Of Louisiana Is said tn be
three degrees colder than it was fifteen
years ago. |.#a..
They have pat mgn in jail down in
Maryland just for trying to shoot his
mother-in law. ..e. .-a--
A young man in Illinois, while turning
his partner at ball on the Fourth. dis
located his shoulder.
A man being asked Why he talked to
himself, caDdidly answered, Because I
like to converse with man of sense"
1t is is said that tourist travelling
continuously without any stoppages can
now go round the wotld in eighty days.
A lady was discovered in tears over
the ice-housc at Mt. Vernon. She had
mistaken it for the tomb of Washington.
"Jeff, why am you like Ge cedar T.
II guve it up, Sam; | can't tell ye."
Case We stays green both summer and
winter
An Ohio lady recently pacl:ed away
her silverware in an cd clothes bag. aud
in fis of absent .mindedness sold the
whole for three certs pound.
An lrishman was asked if he would
keep a secret. if it were entrusted to
him. He answered, "And faith if
can't | will tell it 10 some one that can"
a client once burst into u food of
tears after he had heard the statement of
his counsel. exclaiming. II did not think
suffered half so much till | heard it
this day"
A Yankee being asked to describe his
wife, said why. sir, she'd make
regular fast, go-ahead steamer. my wife
would-she mas such a wonderful talent
Tor blowing up
"What is your consolation IN life and
death T. asked Sunday school superin-
tendent of a young lady in che Bible class,
who blushed and said I'D rather be
excused from speaking his name"
You'd better lock out for hoss's feet
above here, mister" said a ragged boy
to a travler. why ?" said the gentle
man, nervously pulling mp, "Cos there's
a fork in the road there" was the candid
reply.
Prof COe, who made balloon ascen-
sion from Ogdenburg, passed through
several SHOW squalls, and one time had
two inches of snow in the basket. He
and his companion suffered greatly from
she cold.
A young woman in Sacramento, Cali
fOrnia, is threatening TO get divorce on
the novel ground o. protractea festivities.
She says her husband celebrated h;s
by getting drunk, and has kept
it up eyer since.
A San Francisco wife petitioned for
divorce on the ground that her husband
was COMPOUNDED fool The Judge
would not admit the plea, holding that
he was free to confess that every man
who got married was open to jus. such
4 charge.
a naughty little boy blubbering because
his mother woul:in't let him go down to
he river on the Sabbath, being admon-
shed, said Il didn't want to 90 swim
min with 'em, ma, | only wanted to so
down and see ne bad little boys drown
for going switsmin' or Sunday"
A gentleman IN Massachusetts, called on
4 shoe dealer few days since aud pur-
chased a pair of shoes for his boy. The
shoe dealer took the shoes for the purpose
Of rasping off the pegs inside, when the
purchaser objected. Because" said he
IF the pegs are cut off the boy runs all
over town, and the shoes will not last
him three weeks
No species of tortoise. it appears, is
kno#n to 5ccur within the boundaries of
.he South American Republic of Chill.
The director of the National Museum at
the capital of that country, has
written to the secretary of the London
Geological Society, stating that the speci-
mems of the so-called Chilian tortoise
had come IN reality, from the Argentine
Republic.
A Philadelphia journal states that.
about year since, a child in that city.
eighteeI, months old. swallowed an OPEN
erded thimble. ard has since been I'M
able to fake anything but liquids into its
stomach 1t is believed that the thin
Bile is lodged in the aesopagus; and yet
some twenty physicians have sought for
it again ard again to no purpose. The
child does hot seem to suffer from the
accident, being quite as healthy and
robust as at the time of the occurrence.
The Wytheville (7a9 Despatch re-
lates the following Not far from US
young lady attempted to leave the pa
rental mansion, at the dead Of night, by
lowering herself from her chamber by
means of pulley and rope fastened to
the window. She had just reached the
ground where her lover awaited her.