Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

A shark caught Oh Charieston nao
pair of boots, scalp, two cannon balls
and a package of Sunday school tickets
in his stomach.
A child was born in Ohio the other
day with ite right hand and arm perfectly
black, while the remainder Of its body
was strangely white.
Wstermelons are 80 numerous ana
cheap in Florida, that an enterprise mas
been started for ther shipment to the
North in large quantities.
The Governer of Georgia may safely
claim the championship in the pardoning
line. He has granted 346 pardons since
August. 1868. They include 4s cases OF
murder.
Afarmer in Bethel township. Delaware
county, has sold. within the last three
weeks, ten thousand pounds Of cherries
and another mans crop has netted three
hundred dollars.
Only three cities of the world are
known to contain more than a million OF
inhabitants. They are London, Paris
and Calcutta. The population some
times ascribed to Pekin is now regarded
as a mere dclusion.
A Springfield. Mass man was going
home one night, when he was assailed
by couple of rowdiss, who asked him
if he had any money. "Yes. lots of it,
said he, and at once Knocked them down
and gave each of them a gooo beating.
At Columbia South Carolina, peaches
are becoming drug in the market. On
last Friday lot was disposed of at auc-
ton at thirty cents bushel. On Satur-
day they were higher, selling from wag
ons in the small at twenty cents a peck.
Hon. D. j. Morrell was thrown from
his carriage on the evening Of the 9th.
inst. about three miles from Johnstown.
Pa, and very severely injured. His
physicians say he will recover if he is
not injured internally. although b be will
be confined to his room for long time.
In North East, the other day. young
woman threw Scotch snuff into the eyes
of a man who, as she charges. had
slandered her. and while he was blinded
by the pungent powder, belabored him
severely with cowhide. The man who
received the castigation occupied promi
rent position in the society of the village.
A wedding ring which belonged to Pau
line Burnam, an English lady who was
lost in the steamship Anglo Saxon
wrecked off Chance Cove, N. F., in Is
81, was lately restored to her relations
by St. Johns IN. F.,) fisherman, who
found the ring in the entrails of Goldfish.
The lucky fisherman received present
of ESQ for restoring the highly priced
memento to the lady's son.
One Of the public observances of the
Fourth of July at Burlington, Iowa,
was bricklaying match between half
breed Indian and Caucasian, and it is
said the Indian worked as triously
as his white brother. If the dusky son
of the forest could be induced to give mp
whiskey and scalping knives and settle
down to honest industry, the Indian ques-
tion would settle itself very easily.
A home dissolve a
bushel of salt in barrel of water, and
with the salt water slack barrel of lime,
which should be wet enough to form a
kind of paste. For the purpose Of a
disinfctant. this home made chloride of
lime is nearly as good as that purchased
at the shops and stores. Use it freely
about sinks. cellars, cutters and out.
buildings, and in this way prevent sick
ness, suffering and expense.
A gentleman, of Norfolk, Va, lately
lost a valuable ring. and consulting for.
tune teller, was told that the ring had
been dropped into the food of fine calf
which he owned. and had been swallow
ed by the animal The calf was killed,
its stomach searched, and the ring was
not found. The family of the gentleman
have since luxuriated in veal which ia.
king the price at which the calf "a high.
y improved breedl could have been
sold for as standard, must have been
worth at least $3.50 per pound.
Hatfield. Mass, farmers are trying a
novel mode of fertilizing their crops
One OF them tried sowing Indian meal
on his tobacco land last year, side by
side with bis guano. and was so we'll
pleased with the results, that this wear
he sowed ten tons on his tobacco land.
Another is trying Gotten seed meal for
the same purpose. and others are making
an experiment with barley meal. Whea,
bran is said by the scientific" to con.
tain most of the elements of the wheat
which are found in phosphates. If bar.
icy meal proves to be a good fertilizer,
buying the grain from breweries, which
are sold for eight Or ten cents per bushel,
would certainly be cheap mode of en-
riching the soil.
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DoII.p