Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-05-10
SHORT ITEMS.

How 10 raise beess-Take hold Of the
tops and pull. 1923.
Potatoes are only IS cents bnshel in
Corydon, Iowa.
Eggs are two dollars d dozen in Pres
colt, Arizonia.
Buffalo hides are worth FROM two TO
seven dollars in Nebraska towns.
JEFF Davis and John Morrissey go to
California this week. Birds of a fea,li-
err" &c.
\ Texas postoflice has sen: forward
letter addressed Miss Loueaser Grebe.
Kansas City Misery" ....
The importation of canary birds has
become an extensive business, involving
capital of oser Sl,OOO,O ,OO0 yearly.
One of the spots recently seen on the
sun has been estimated by Prof. langley
to be ten times the area of the earth.
Professor Agassiz pronounces the bis
California tree, section of which was
taken to Boston, to be over l,S00 years
of age.
y thirty-inch railroad track is to be
built between Allentown and Harrisburg;
to test the value and feasibility of a mar;
rows gauge railway.
President Willis, of OgleiEofpe Col
lege, Ga, says that State has 10000
adults who cannot read, and urges free
schools.
A Wisconsin boy went fishing with
a gun and caught l95 pickeral in two
days-seven at one shot. Ten weighed
ll5 pounds.
Ten millions of dollars are invested in
the manufacture of jewelry at Newark,
y J. 1t is the workshop of the New
York jewellers.
An army of caterpillars is on the move
through southern Illinois, devouring in
its march leaves, buds, and everything Of
succulent nature.
Indigo, bound dry on the wound, IS a
sure cure for rattlesnake bites, scorpion
and bee stings, &c, says Mormon who
has tried it.
Horses are cheap in California. \ de-
spatch from that State, under date of April
25th, says: Horses are being sold at Sl3
each, in Los Angeles county.
About four hundred black bass from
the Potomac have been purchased with
funds raised by the citizens of West
Chester, and put in the Brandywine.
About so 900 head of cattle, III 100
droves. have left the Texan counties.
west of the Guadaloupe, for Kansas this
spring besides those that crossed above
Gonzales.
A man who stepped into basket Of
eggs was arrested for cruelty to incipient
animals, but he plead not guilty, because
he said, he vas merely freeing them from
their yolks.
4 wood ibis" very rare bird in this
country. was recently captured 1T Jones
Bluff, Alabama 1t is sixty-one inches
high and eighty five inches from tip 20 tip
Of the wings.
/ Eleven thousand five hundred salmon
eggs were obtained some time since to
stock the Delaware with the fish. Out Of
this number about 10000 salnot, have
been hatched.
In Phmnixville, a little child fell into
a WELL A man went down the rope,
took the child's hair between his teeth
and clambered out. 1t was hair
breadth escape"
Recently, woman was observed prom
enadiug the main thoroughfare of Kan
sas City composedly smoking a cigarette.
while her meek looking husband walked
behind, carrying the baby.
i few IRON nails, placed in vase With
flowers, viii keep the water sweet and
the flowers fresh. This arises from the
sulphur eliminated from the plants, COM
bined with the iron.
Margaret Nolan was awarded last week
by the Supreme Court of Kings county.
New York, $4,000 for the loss of her
husband, killed by the falling Of The roof
of the Novelty Iron Works.
The editor of a western paper in his
last issue says: ave cannot exist any
longer on firewood, maple sugar and
sheepskins We bid our patrons good
BY, and offer for sale 200 bushels seed
potatoes, slightly frost-btten.
), Two elegantly dressed lady shop-lifters
were arrested by the Syracuse police one
day last week On examination it was
. found that each of them had two large
linen sacks suspended under their skirts
by ropes tied around the waist.
There is a story of Paris lady who
was so overcome by her appetite as to eat
her beloved lap-dog. After a hearty
meal she looked down at the little heap
of bones tears fell from her eyes. "Poor
Biiou p' she exclaimed, how he would