Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-29

died within a few hours And we're all
bnried the next day.
Over FIVE hundred people are employ
ed in the flower trade in New York and
s2JO.OO0 expended for flowers every
year.
Stephen Montgolfer saw shirt wav-
ing when hung before the fire. from
which he conceived the first idea of a
balloon. t
An impudent youngster came very
near getting his ears boxed the other
night at a wedding party fer wishing the
bride ''many happy returns of the day"
A home without children 7. ls ike a
lantern and no candle; a garden and no
flowers vine and no grapes brook
and no water gurrlipg through the chan
neIs. '
The life of Maine engineer was re-
Gently saved by a testament ia his vest
pocket \ stray bullet entered his CAB
and but for the book would have pene-
trated his lungs.
The redwood forests of California fur
nish nearly all of The :ies used for the
construction OF railroads on the Pacific
coast. A few pine and SAX ties are used,
but these woods decay rapidly.
A young German arrived at San Fran
cisco lately in search of his father, whom
he has been hunting for three years,
during which time he travelled 10000
miles in the vain search.
Are the pictures which you brought
home from Europe all landscapes 7"
said an artist to Mrs. Shoddy one day.
Lord bless you, no. replied the indig
nant lady; they're lie paintings ~
A Norridgewock fMaine) deacon re-
Gently coughed up head of herds grass,
which had lain on his lungs for over thir-
ty six years 1t still retained its origi-
nal shape, but had grown as hard as a
stone
An enterprising photographer in
Brooklyn, taking advantage Of the Mum
Ter trial, announces On placard conspic-
uously displayed before his shop: "a
full assortment of spirits constantly on
hand"
A person at Pixies Peak, writing to
Minnesota Journal, says the miners arc
very much discouraged in that region
they have to dig through solid vein of
silver four feet thick before they reach
the gold.
An Indianapolis gentleman's claim for
divorce is based on the ground that when
he married, four weeks ago, his wite's
hair was black, but now it is red enough
to entille her to the front rank in torch
light procession
It don't pay to have babies killed by
the cars at Syracuse New York When
four year Old child was thus killed
there the jury awarded 5000 damages, but
a few days after gave Si50 each as the
value OF two bear cubs similarly disposed
of.
Little Frank was taught he was made
of dust. As he stood by the window
watching the dust as the wind was whirl-
ing it in eddies, he exclaimed, seriously:
Ma. | thought the dust looked as
though there was going to be another
little boy made
When an Indianapolis man wants to
commit suicide, he goes down into ths
cellar and shoots seven balls ct once into
"a pork barrel Because his wife does
not scream. call in all the neighbors, and
then swoou away. he goes up stairs and
:hrashes her.
Social Circles in Syracuse are excited
by the strange story Of the elopement Of
a married woman, heretofore OF good
standing in that city, with a Baltimore
man. whose acquaintance she made by
au advertisement Eo- CORES
pondent.
A lady who was suffering under a
slight indisposition, told her husband
that it was with the greatest difficulty
she could breathe, and the effort distress
ed her exceedingly. Il wouldu' t try, my
dear soo;hing'y responded the husband
But she did t-y: and was not distressed
in that way again.
The Roihschild5 are said to have lost
from $4,000, 900 to Sl5,100,000 bT the
result of the Franco German wa-.' They
all Believed at frst that the French would
be victorious but two weeks a.ler tie
Germans had crossed the Rhine, they
saw their mistake, and made new invest
mehts which prevented them from losing
thrice as much as they would have done
had they not corrected their bluader il
good season.
A young man named Aaron Dako has
been arrested in Fucuf Kirchen, Hun
gary, who labors under the insane de-
lusion that it is his mission on earth to
kill all men that are over seventy years
Of age. He has killed two old men, and