Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-01-18
SHORT ITEMS,

Peas pudding, with smoked naeats, is
an article of food among the Prussian
soldiers. 1t is cheap and nutritious.
In New Jersey graveyard is plain
stone, with she inscription "Julia
Adams, died of thin shoes. April is. Is
80, in her nineteeth year.
Miss Kitty Wilson. Of Lagrange eoun-
ty, Indiana, cowhided married man
few days ago tor writing her tender
epistle. ..,-.
Asia was recently the scene Of a terri
Bile earthquake, involving region of al
most two Hundred miles. Over 3,00C'
human lives were lost A mountain hav-
ing fallen, another was immediately up
heaved in its place t.. -g...s. -.~
Madam said cross-tempered ply
sician to a patient, 'if women were ad-
mitted to Payidise. their tongues would
make it pnrgasory.' And some physi-
cians if allowed soon make it desert"
Arsenic and carmium. both Of which
are elementary chemical substances, are
it seems, the two agents used to dye hair
the beautiful golden color lately so fash
ionable among ladies'. Carniun is said
io 10 l,,s,
Two citizens of Lancaster county
went to law abou. two bushels of lime,
valued at the time at eleven cents per
bushek Phe case went through the
lower coars. AVID was appealed to the
Srpreme Court, where she ccsts v ere di-'
viIled between the plates, The lime
cost them $500 apiece a'..'
A farmers boy. on Muscatine Ie,and..
has very large rat, which he has do
mesticated and trained to do various
amusing things-among them, the get
ting upon It's hind feet. and at signal
from its little master, attempting to crow
lise rooster. The rat Will follow the
boy as puppy does it master.
A Nebraska framer recently LET at the
office of the AgrjcultHrist, Omaha, half u
dozen ears of cora ,-the ears Averaging
1000 grains TO the ear. This farmer is
an advocate of shallow ploushing, the
land upon which the corn was grown
having been ploushed but two inches
deep.
Some Kansas boys Thought TO have
little fun on Christmas day 81 playing
war. So 'the French" took refuge BE-,
hind hay stack and "thc Prussiaus' dis
}odged them by burning the stack. The
question which aritates the little COM
Enunity now is whether the fathers of ''the
Prussians'' or those of 'the French"
should pay for the stack.
Recently, a main living in Montague,
Lewis county, n. Y, went forth to butch
e- hog. The animal WAS caught and
.he the man proceeded TO cut its throat
after this act was performed the swine
of course made desperate struggle Ho7.
life and liberty, and in 80 doing the Iiniic
that stuck the hog was by bis struggling
accidcntly forced through the mans
heart, and before the hog was dead the
man was corpsa.
a New Yogiz fashion paper relates
how young gentleman Of the bon
ton has sworn OF ladies society from dis
gust at a ''young lady who asked him
Il he objected to smoking, and, on. his
negative answer, rolled herself daiiisy
cigarette and smoked it.. Just suppose
the girls should ''cut" the young men on
similar grounds-whst rupture of
friendships and engagements would fol
low And haven't they as mitch rea-
sonl
We dnd the following statement in the
London Lanre5. A woman named Coop.
ss, housekeeper to Mr.. W. Boyce, "a
Newmarket, was sitting near table on
which were some poisoned papers. FOX
the purpose of killing flies. A fly was
seen to 60 out of thsse papers, and then
alight on the voman'5 nose, which was
slightly scratched. The wound speedily
became infanaed IN short time her
whole system became affected. and in
twenty -four hours she died.
At the battle of Woerth, in the third
charge of the Cuirassiers, it i. said that
horse was seen going at full speed with
headless rider, whose body maintained
the attitude of life The corpse was
that of French colonel, whose head
had been carried away by a cannon shot
Although sack statements as this are
frequently doubted, the Investigations of
medical science show that instantane-
Gus rigidity il the occasional accompani-
ment of sudden and Violent death, such
as results from wounds Of head or heart.
DR.. Bridson, of Philadelphia, has studied
the subject, and he relates that a man
wounded in the left breast at the battle
of Belmont, Missouri, captured stray
mule succeeded in mounting hiIs, and
then died +; but his body retained the up
right position of a living rider. and when