Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-11-01
SHORT ITEMS.

The negroes have majority IN sven-
ty-three counties in Alabama.
About $1,000 men are engaged clear
ing away the rnins in Chicago.
Some of the most trusty lighthouse
keepers on the Atlantic coast are women.
It takes two hundred tons of coal to
heat our Capital building. at Harrisburg.
one winter d --
The cattle disease is prevailing in
many COMMITTEES Of North Carolina. Largo
numbers of cattle have died.
Why cannot :wo slender persons ever
become great friends Z Because they will
always be slight acquaintances.
When a taarried man entertains an af.
fection for another mans wife, bis love
does not come within the meaning Of a
legal tender.
A Frankfort sporting man now owns
the ex- Emperor Naroleon's formerly ia
vorite horse "Iaiek." The animal is a
dark bay and an Arabian.
A three pound eel got into the pipe
at Colts armory,; Hardford, Conn. last
week and clogged them so that the fires
had to be drawn and work stopped.
A man named Tolman was arrestet in
Oil City, on "Wednesday, charged with
showing the queer" aud. in default of
81. GOO bail, was committed to the Frank
lin jail
Two of the men atiested for Kuklux-
ism IN Spartanburg, South Carolina, are
said to be respectively eighty-One and
seventy years of age. So old in tres
passes and sins and don't know better.
A Curwensville, Lycoming county. far
ner raised this year 4S71 bushels of corn
on three and half acres Of isrd. ma
king an average of 1861 bushels of corn
to the acre.
A young man in Connecticut, having
the late railroad disasters in his mind, has
broken his engagement with a young
lady, because she wears a train and 10
negligent about her switch.
Before hanging a man in Louisiana.
they let from fifteen to forty reporters
for the newspapers interview him for
three weeks. The poor fellow is then
not only willing but anxious to be hung.
Somebody has made the discovery
that grape leaves make yeast, in some
respects superior to hops. as the bread
rises sooner, and has not the peculiar
taste which many object to in that made
from hops.
A cowardly editor, who, like great
many of his class among Us, dare not
speak out plainly what lie means, bits
the Mormon women a covert blow by
saying that hair restoratives are very pop
ular among the Mormon elders.
One Of our prominent grocers has a
sagacious dog who never sees half bar
rel of flour weighed out on the scales
but he goes and puts one foot on the plat
form, carelessly looking out of the door
to avoid exciting suspicion -LorcH Con-
rieT.
A witty clergyman. acco,ted by an
old acquaintance by the name of Cobb,
replied 81 don't know you sir" my
name is Cobb" "rejoined the man. who
was about half seas over. "Ah SIR"
said the minister. "you have 30 much
corn on you that did not see the cob"
A drawing master, worrying his pupil
with contemptous remarks upon his lack
of ability, ending by asking Now. sir.
if you were going to draw me, what part
of me would you commence first p The
boy. with a meaning look into his mas
ter's face, answered very quietly Your
neck, sir
Two houses and a barn filled with
grain were burned Thursday night near
st. Mary's, Ohio, from fires which broke
out among the grass and drift wood
Farmers in the vicinity have ploughed
trenches around their houses and barns
to save them. At last accounts the wind
had subsidized and it was thought the FIRE
would be controlled without further dam
age.
1t is reported that Horace Greeley has
got into muss with Texas editor. 1t
appears that in an agricultural essay on
tobacco, Mr.. Greely asserts that fine-cut
will not ripen well unless the tin foil is
stripped from the growing buds early in
the spring, and that plug tobacco ought
to be knocked off the trees with clubs
instead Of being picked by hand This,
the Texas editor say, was nonsense
Now here is one of the most perfect of
scamp worthy of whole para
graph by himself. William Sumner
Platt. Of New Jersey, went. according to
agreement, to Boston to marry Miss Hill.
While in the lady's room he managed to
steal 500 note from her trunk he left
the house with his booty its loss was
Miss Hill. most defrauded of
maidens, had the thievish wooer arrested;
now to clap the climax Of sweet Will