Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-01

There are said to be 100000 dogs in
the United States.
Stops and pauses in literature were
FIRST used in 1920.
Hon. Frank Jordan is the Bedford
laquiyer's choice for Governor.
Elevators instead of stairs are becom-
ing feature of modern buildings.
The hotel at Port Matilda, Centre
county, was destroyed by fire the other
day.
Letters from Florida speak Of ripe
oranges. open windows, and tempera'
ture Of seventy degrees. .9A
The production of the gold mines west
of the Rocky Mountains is estimated
little less than S6O,OOO 600 a year.
The first daily newspaper printed in
Virginia was printed in 1850, and the
subscription price was $50 per annum.
There are twenty-eight savings banks
in Massachusetts,, out of Boston, having
deposits exceeding one million dollars.
E1. Secretary Seward and party, DUR
ing visit to Woo Chong. were assaulted
by the natives, but received no material
injury.
1t is estimated that e., 100000 worth
of ale, beer and porter is guzzled in Pitts
burgh annually. Enough to float the
Great Eastern.
The cost of leeches sold in England
exceeds SlO,OGO,OO0 per annum. The
finest are said to come form the Murray
river, Australia.
If you want headache in the morn
ing. sleep in room where a kerosene
lamp is turned down. This recipe will
not fail once in ten times
A man died at St. Louis recently, and
in his will, after stating that be "never for
got favor" left 900 to an individual
who, ten years before, ran away with his
wife. .-.
A man who was brought up at one Of
the London police offices for assaulting G
and nearly killing a woman, excused
himself by saying that be thought it waa
his wife.
Mazzini's delicate health is said to
have been made worse by the prostration
Of republican France, as he thinks the
liberal cause on the Continent has been
set back half a century.
The aggregate salaries paid to the
employees of the Pennsylvania Rail
road in West Philadelphia, amount to
100000 year. The monthly pay
roll at that station is $4,000
Some of the furnaces in the Lehigh
valley have had to suspend operations on
account of the coal-miners strike. The
furnaces along the Pennsylvania canal
have full supply of coal on hands, suf-
ficient to last until navigation is resumed.
An inquisitive young lady of Wiscon-
sin thought it would be nice to see a
storm from a light house, aud went to
the tower at Racine for that purposc,-
She was gratifed with tempest which
kept her close prisoner for FIVE days.
The Miners Journal says. "Mt. Car
bon is excited over the story that t e
woman who recently had her head cut
off on the railroad at that place may be
seen nightly at l2 o'clock, parading the
board walk with her head under her arm >
A far western paper recently appeared
with two columns blank, with the ex
ception of this note BY Telegrah-
Special Dispatches to the Pacific 7rib-
xne. T"is is where the telegraphic news
ought to be but as we didn't receive
any We can't put it here.
In Lyonville, Iowa. a NJ. Fassett
went to revival meeting. and began to
deride the penitents. when he fell insen.
sible, and recovered only after many
hours. On another occasion he repeated
his folly, and was stricken with paraly sis,
since which time he has had no use of
his tongue or his limbs.
The Apaches are reported to be still
slaughtering the helpless people of Ari-
zona. Every week half dozen butch
cries occur. Whole families perish
men, women. and children. Their mur-
der is commonly accompanied by circum-
stances Of barbariety too atrocious to
name.
To prevent balls Of snow on horses
feet, let the hoof and fetlock be well
cleaned. and then rub with soft soap pre-
vious to their going out in snowy wealth
er. This will efectually prevent balls
of snow from collecting on the foot.
which will sometimes cause the animal to
fall, and if not. make his progress doubly
toilsome.
A dog was recently shut up in a church
in Taunton, Mass, and after five days
close confinement was discovered and re-
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