Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-02-15
SHORT ITEMS.

DOetOn mas t90 mlies OF accepted
streets.
Rhode Island claims to rival Connsc-
ticut in raising onions.
A diamond valued at $3.50 600. has
been found in South Africa.
The United States ranks se cond az =
cofiee-drinking nation.
"Put me in my Little Bed is used as
a wedding march in Chicago.
Worth, the Parisian man.milliner, pro-
poses establishing himself in New York.
Birthstone mostly comes from Sicily.
for the use Of the world-about 100000
tons annually.
Of three hundred idiots in Massachuset.
one hundred and forty-6ve were the chill
dren Of drunken parents.
The drinking places in Terre Haute
are said to outnumber all other business
houses.
A lady residing in Washington City
recently gave birth to four healthy boys.
The family is doing we'll
In Wisconsin divorce suit, the wife
who was seeking to be separated from her
husband, was upon the witness stand six
days.
Twenty eight thousand dollars have
already been contributed in Boston to-
ward procuring ship load of provisions
for France.
Some william entered the stable of
man named Group. near Centerville.
Venango county. a few nights ago. and
cut of the leg of one of the horses.
John Dunlap. Of Catfish. near Brady's
Bend, has four cows. and all of them had
twin calves this season-the most re-
markable thing OF the kind on record.
An Ohio farmer whose pet bear last
week hugged bis little boy to death, re-
fused to kill the beast. but finally, after
much urging. did consent to put him up
to be shot for at the price of 500
The Scranton Republican thinks work
in the anthracite regions will be resumed
by the middle OF FEBRUARY in all the col
lieries except two or three in Luzerne
county.
Dionysius, the Sicilian, employed his
time 80 well, that, being asked by ore
who wanted to speak with him if he were
at leisure, be answered, Heaven forbid
that should ever have any leisure time"
A recent English writer states that. of
the workers in the South African dia-
mond fields about five in hundred make
a great deal of money, FIVE more in hun
dred make their expenses, while the re-
naming ninety do not.
A Ramie Planting and Manufacturing
Company has been organized in New Or
leans, for the purpose Of manufacturing
fabrics to be woven from the fibre of the
ramis plant. The company have elected
officers and purchased plantation.
A few weeks ago Robert Smith. of
Allenville, Mifiiin county, was thrown
out of wagon and had an arm broken.
and he now thinks of suing the super
visors of the township for $500 damages
for not keeping the road in proper repair.
The California pitcher plant is said to
resemble in shape the appraised head and
body Of an excited cobra. 1t possesses
an extraordinary attraction for insects.
especially flies. who enter the hollow
body, and being unable to eItricate them
selves, die there.
"Never.' says a henpecked man.
"mary a woman worth more than thou
art. When l married my wife l was
worth fifty cents, and she was worth six
ty-two cents and when any difference
has occurred between Us she throws up
the odd shilling
A man in Fort Wayne. Ind. lost his
wife. and lad stone erected over her
grave. lie married second wife, and
when she died be had the grsvestcne
split, and it then served for the two de-
parted He proposed to the third recent
ly, and the lady quantity remarked. II
do not believe that stone will split again.
Medical science in the Northwestern
provinces of India has met with no slight
foe in the superstition Of the natives, who
object to official vaccination for q curious
reason. They believe that native child
is to be born whose destiny it will be to
drive the English out Of India. and then
to conquer the world. This child is to
be distinguished from other children by
having milk instead Of blood in its veins.
The natives believe that by vaccination
the English are seeking to discover the
wonderful infant, so as to imprison or
kill him.
A story is told in Washington at tie
expense of . well known Senator. who il
notorious for taking two cocktails in cue
cession before breakfast. One morning,
while the Senator was practicing at the
Metropolitan bar, friend put to him the
pertinent question. Senator, why do
YOU take two cocktails as a custom ,