Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-22
SHORT ITEMss


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Perry county is gong 70 build a new
poor house,
The French under Napoleon entered
Berlin in triumph, IN 1906.
Tyrone has new paper called the
Critic. 1t IS small but promising.
Peach trees are in full bloom in Littls
Rock, Arkansas
There is said to be 6.Ooe, eco dogs ~
the United States.
What Columbus did-a notion cross
ed him, and he crossed cn ocear.
Auburn, Maine, makes about two nil
lios pairs of sh5es per year.
Many a child has been made deaf for
lie by a brutal mother ''boxing the ears"
Texas has fifty-thousand inhabitants,
and 100000 head of cattle, exclusive
Of cows.
Seven hundred persons have S.niEEtee
from jackson county ". Va to Rice
county Kansas.
Over 45o 900 valentines were deposi-
ted in the London post-olfice, on St.
Valentines day, this year.
TIE production Of the gold mines wes.
of the Rocky Mountains is estimated
little less than $4,000, coo year.
In Kansas the farmers don't want any
fences, they cost more than they are
woIth-
A Furnace company, With capital of
S3O0,O00. will establish iron works near
Mount Holly, Cumberland county. Pa.
a man won $500 in Washington by
eating aquail for breakfast for thirty con-
seeutiTe MORNINGS. Sornfs easy that,
but Just try /.
Moseby has openec bank al Warren
ton. Va, bnt not in the way be used to
open banks in the war
The pain of a wasp sting IS reEe+ed
almost instantly by applying lean fresh
meat. This remedy has been recon-
mended for rattlesnake bites
The People of the United States sup
port about 81 .OOe Clergyman at an aver
age expense of about 500 a year
Cheap
The New jersey Railroad Company
have rendered free transportation for
wheat, oats. beans, ETC., contributed as
seed in aid Of suffering France
a clergyman in Illinois, who recently
preached a sermon against drinking, was
afterwards caught il the street by ga
load keeper, and severely beaten.
Fools caught with lighted cigars in
their mouthes will be shot," is an inscrip-
ton frequently seen on the sign-boards
around the wells and works in the oik
regions.
Some rough boys in New York, pel;ed
two Italian street music boys with stones.
when one of the Italians stabbed his as
saillant named Pat Murray, inficting a
fatal wound.
The Chinese believe they have three
souls. At death 5i-e of these passes to
Judgment, one goes with the corpse to
the grave, and the other remains at the
family shrine.
Mr.. Greeley. on being asked by
Pennsylvania farmer why he didn' write
a new work entitled "Wha: | Don't
Know Of Farming" is said to have re-
piled that life Is tc short.
A COW in Bucks county, Pa, about
twelve years ago. swallowed leather
nail pnuch. Recently she was sIaush-
tered, and the stomach being opened, The
pouch was found uainjured, and in il
about dozen nails.
1T is the queerest thing in the world
what Charlotte Smith, Of Rockport,
Mass, can want of herrunaway husband,
whom she describes in an advertisement
as "a little man, badly crippled in one
leg, one leg shorter than the other, false
teeth, and bald head
The Willamsport Gazette and Bulleatn
calculates that there are ninety places il
that city where liquor is sold, their sales
averaging a gallon a day each. This
would give, it estimates, an anual sum of
s179,7l2, or nearly sl2 lead for every
man, woman and child in the place.
During the past summer a little girl,
aged about FIVE years, daughter of Mr..
John Christ, residing near Straustown,
Berks county, 1epeatedly told her parents
tha. when the snow came she was going
away. During the snow which fell in
January the child took sick and died,
and when she was buried the earth was
covered with snow more than twelve in
ches in depth, thus fulfilling her persen-
tirnens.
The fashy cz.ner of a crow-bait span
was complaining to some bystanders that
he did not know what was the matter
with his horses he had tried everything