Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-08-09
Just as We Found Them.

Most people give their opinion, except
lawyers, who sell theirs.
A "bridal chamber car" is in course
Of construction at Schenectady. n Y.
A large number of colored people in
York county. South Carolina, are making
arrangements to emigrate to Liberia.
Some two weeks ago the Indians cap
tured herd of one thousand Texas cat
lie on the Concho, and killed two men.
The horse flies are reported to be so
numerous and annoying in Arkansas that
the farmers have to do their plowing by
night.
A train on the Pennsylvania Railroad
last Saturday week ran from Altoona
to Harrisburg, l32 miles, in 2 hours and
AZ minutes. -...-- .....
The prejudice against church organs
is now as strong as ever in Scotland
Many of the people will not enter a
church that has one.
The Methodists are about to erect,
right under the nose of Brigham Young,
in Salt Lake City, Gentle Methodist
Church building, to cost some $4,000.
Minnesota is proud of six daughters
of an invalid farmer, who within five
years. have cleared forty acres of wood
land, fenced and cultivated without male
intervention.
A South Adams, Mass woman, who
had been doctored two or three months
for rheumatism in the shoulder, recently
applied to another NJ. d., and found that
her shoulder had been out of joint all
the time. .......
The tusk of a mammoth was found in
a gravel pit, near Brocton, in North
western Pennsylvania. last week 1t
was about six feet in length, and its
original length had evidently been some
feet more
A Sausage chopper. such as is used by
butchers. weighing two hundred pounds,
fell on boy named Smith, in Erie, on
Saturday last, mu,ilating his limbs in
such a manner as to render him a Grip
pie for life. t--- -..A
A gentleman was struck by lightning
in his house near Richmond Va, during
a recent storm at night. His wife led
him out of doors. and the rain brought
him to consciousness, when his first
words were, "In torment at last
Victor Hugo's fortune is estimated at
over 1000 0GO francs. and yet since the
Franco tprussian war he has had an ap-
prehension that he might come to want
and many believe he has grown deranged
on the subject of money-in other words
that he is a money maniac.
AT Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on Satur-
day, the wife Of j. Vaugan, the post
master, broke lamp filled with coal oil,
while sweeping in the hall, and thought
Ie-sly applied a lighted match to con
sume the oil on the floor. The sudden
blaze set fire to Mrs. Vaugan's. clothing,
burning her very seriously.
The women of certain town in Ohio
took it upon themselves recently to close
the gin mills. and assembled in squads,
they betook themselves TO the taverns
and quietly sat down with their knitting
the whole day, working and talking un-
concernedly. Husbands and brothers
came in unaware, and of course did not
drink under such circumstances, and the
reform has proved lasting.
A gypsy woman the other day per-
suaded credulous Missouri farmer to
search for hidden treasure on his land
under her instructions, after he had de
posted $4,000 in place known to her
self and 70 him. Her spells and incan-
tations failed to have result expected by
him, and when he looked for the money,
after the lapse of ten days. that was
gone. And so was the gypsy woman.
Luxurious persons in New York take
lemons with them to the drinking foun-
tains, where they manufacture lemonade,
leaving the squeezed lemons after them
as pima tacie evidence of the act. In
Central Park it is not unusual to observe
some thirsty wayfarer produce a flask of
spirits from his pockets, wherewith to
temper the Croton that flows from the
roadside pump
A gentleman in Jefferson city who
was troubled with bed bugs soaked the
bed with kerosene aud turned in, leaving
the light burning. Just az he Was
dreaming that a regiment of bed bugs
were drawing up set of resolutions.
condemning him for using kerosene, he
was awakened by fireman pointing the
nozzle of hose through the window
The house was insured but the man was
not.
The Sharon (Pa,) Times says: "a
number of our young ladies have banded
together for the purpose of reclaiming
those young men who have become ad-
dicted to the free use of ardent spirits-