Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-08-09
SHORT ITEMS.

Jackson county; Mississippi; has i
seven-horned COW.
Cellar walls we're cracked by the
earthquake at Rochester. N. II.
The French say that they have only
lent Metz and S.rasbouts for few years.
In St. Louis, recently, sleeping child
smothered another by rolling on its
face. CD
Peaches at twenty FIVE cents per boz
are very plentiful in the Memphis mar:
ket
Roast anaconda IL said to be fashion,
able delicacy among the natives at Are
quipa. Peru.
Countless millions of grasshoppers
pass through st. Joseph. Mo-. seeking
homes in the Far West.
4 baby who kisses his mother and
fights his father, may be sad to be par
tial to his ma and martial to his pa.
Vessels for Richmond now can pass
through the Dutch Gap Canal IN James
river. shortening the voyage somewhat.
Beauty is power" wrote New Or
leans merchant upon his cosmetic
Beauty is POWDER it read. after droll
wag had changed letter.
Experiments in the army bakery at
Washington have shown that eight hun
dred and two one-pound loaves of bread
can be made from one barrel of -four
! Remarkable family lives in Dallas
county, Ark. The father is 10s years
old, the mother LOG, and the two, parents
of 90 children-15 boys and IA girls.
Good morning. Mr.. Henpeck; Aave
you any daughters that would make good
type-setters r. Mot exactly, bu. have
wife that would make irst-rate devil"
A gentleman of Cambridge. Mas. is
the owner of one week old colt, that
measures only tweny three inches in
height, and weighs bu. twenty-seven
pounds.
Jacob Wartz aged seveaty-thres years
residing il Franklin county, raksd and
bound after two cradles at the same time
during the late harvest, for period OF
eight days.
A venerable woman in Oxford county,
Me, 81 years old who worked for TWEEN.
ty-fve cents a day and saved tie money.
has just given $3.50, her wages for four
years toward building church.
A disgraceful demonstration occurred
yesterday afternoon among some e1cur-
sionists at Cape Msy, and, dsring the
melee, woman was so seriously injured
that it is thought she cannot survive.
1t is said that IN Wisconsin not less
than O,OCO women have been engaged
in harvesting this year. A blue-eyed
Scandinavian girl in central Wisconsin
last year sheared forty sheep in one day.
The fashionable note paper is pale yell
low. A love letter INK has also lately
been invented whict fades completely
out in less than two weeks time, thus
successfully preventing breach of prom
ise cases.
A woman charged with being witch
was recently burned alive in the public
square of town in Peru. The cruel
punishment was ordeted by the Lieu
tenant G oeernment and the judge of the
province.
4 messenger of the national bank OF
New York was Knocked down by two
men on Saturday in broad daylight at
the corner of Broadway and Warren
street, and robbed Of $50, 600 in govern
tnent securities.
The masous and carpenters Of Berlin
have resolved, at late meeting, to pay
their journeymen seven cents in gold
for one hodr work, or seventy cents in
gold for ten hours daily work. on and
after JANUARY lst next.
Nine fat gentlemen Of Pottstown,
Montgomery county. have been chal-
lengened by nine fatter ones Of Douglas
vile to play game of base ball at the
latter place. The Douslasville nine
weigh 1900 pounds. -..l
A little boy in Philadelphia, put a tor
pedo in his mouth the other day. and it
almost Immediately exploded. tearing his
face terribly and ehdangeripg his life
The torpedo was colored blue and red,
and looked like sugar-plum
"Where was !, ma" said little urchin
to his mother. as he stood gazing at his
drunken and prostrats father, "where
was 1 when you married paa why.
didn't you take me along. l could have
picked out better man than he is"
While preaching on Sunday. at Lick
ing, Ohio, the clergyman was informed
that his house had been robbed. He
stated the fact to the congregation, and
after joining in the doxology, all dispers-
ed, hunted for the thieves and captured