Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-08-30
SHORT IfEMS.

ms up IN Aitoona. 'LITi
Big back combs are said to be- coming
into fashion again -- o. - -.'-
The cost of the London underground
railway was s4,e50.0 .000s GfVA0
1t takes six hours to dress Newport
belle for an evening reception
A .'dishwashipg machine" has been
patented BY Michigan woman.
An Illinois farm laborer was cut into
ten pieces by reapipg machine. 3 .5d
Salem, N. H., has experienced q frost
every month in the year thus fan. .
Noonday weddings, after the English
style, will be the mode 10 New York
next winter. s". s-~.r
Connecticut has model legislator who
refuses to take pay for the days he was
not in his seat.
One Of the best lawyers IN Columbus,
Ga, could not read When he was nine
teen years oM i.a.-.1
In Dublin, witnesses who do noe
speak loud enough are raped on the
head by the Judge ID. .. Bod
The cities of Coustantinople and
Odessa are TO be connected by cable
under the Black Sea. . .-s.
1t IS estimated that the loses by the
hail storm in Northumberland county
will exceed $4,000.
Up to date, August has been Ettle
warmer this season than the averages
during the last half century.
In Chestertown. Maryland. is a one
and-a.half story house, occupied by
from thirty to forty negroes.
Arsenic in rice pudding poisoned
fifteen persons in Clayton county, Iowa,
a few days sgo. sonre of them very Sc
riously.
A saloon keeper attempted to thresh
O'dell. of the Youngstowu Tndicato1,
bat got threshed himself. after which he
was arrested.
Young ladies Of fashion IN New York
now effect silver heels on their shoes Of
remarkable length. The heels are hol-
low and filed wish shot.
Gatesville, Texas, is excited over an
immense orang outaug. which had fiery
eyes, double ses of teeth, and carries
off a calf under IFS arm with ease.
1t cost the Prussian Government e.
000,O00 francs to get up their military
map of France, which surpassed even that
in the possession of the general staff Of
the French army.
A Pittstield, Mass, boy three years
and a half, astonished a congregations
the ether Sunday. by rushing in ragged
and barefooted, with yell, Where's
my papa! TIE pigs are out"
A. golden wedding. in Decatur. Ill.
a few days ago. twenty-seven children
were present, each Of whom was present.
ed with eighty acres of land. the land
thas distributed being in one body.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia is the
modern Utopia. They have no lunatics.
blind, deaf or dumb, and no paupers or
poor law. There is no taxation, and the
currency consists in ostrich feathers.
At Long Branch the other day one
young girl asked smother to dance with
her. Indeed / won't" was the reply;
"what do l want another girl huggiug
me for :" A glorious sensible girl that.
General McCook, the Democratic can
dida.e for Governor of Ohio, has been SO
by the labors of the canvas
during the hot weather that he Is obliged
to withdraw from active participation in
the canvass. .e...-- .-... .r.a
An old bachelor recently gave the fol-
lowing toast :-"Woraan-the morning
star Of infancy, the day star Of manhood
and the evening star of age. Bless our
stars. and may they always be kept al
telescope dis.ancesp
Sharks are faril;a, visitors in tho
waters around the fish market, near Full
ton Ferry, New York. They come up
to feed on the castaway fish. The sharks
are an efectual s,oppagc to the bathing
propensities of small boys.
An OF passed shrousf a crockery store
in Portsmouth. Newhampshire the other
day. He entered the rear door, passed
ont at the front, and didn't break dish,
though bis sides grazed whole piles Of
crockery in bis transit.
Four bellies at Lake Mahopac went
into training for boat race, the prizes
being diamond badges. The race was
rowed amid tremendous excitement, and
the victors were carried in triumph from
their boat to the hotel.
As an evidence of the scarcity of work
among laborers in New York fact ID no
ticeable that Broadway merchant who
advertised for porter, was forced to
close bis store and call the police 10 disperse
the crowds of applicants who assembled
on Wednesday morning.
The miIerites have ciphered ont this