Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-09-13
Just as We Found Them.

/ Charleston. S. g.
TnsRE are three men in Philadelphi
named George o. Evans.
The trieunial return of Enckes comet
is looked for early this fall.
Hand made lace. of all the industries
Of France, has suffered least by the war.
being chiefly carried on by the women.
There are twenty five vacancy on tht
Boston police, and we understand that
there are over fifteen hundred applicants
for appointment on the force.
! Having exhausted the oldest Masont
business, the papers have begun on the
oldest Methodist. At present she il
"Mother Winslow." Of Canton, Me-, aged
los years. Next. .
Severe summer droughts in the Mis-.
sissippi valley have rendered that river
lower than it has been for many years
before. Cattle now roam where few
months ago steamboats, went to and fro.
| To illustrate the correctness Of his
opinion in dispute, Texan thrusts his
pistol down a kansan's throat and
threatened to fire The Kansan admitted
the truth of the Texans statement i'm
mediately.
A learned Hindoo who is lecturing in
England says the vice of intemperance
was unknown in India till the English
introduced it there, but the young men
became apt pupils, and now it is causing
widespred disaster.
Among the lamp-lighters in Milwau-
kee, Wis, is little girl, ten years old,
who makes her rounds in all kinds of
weather, and runs up the ladder like a
squirrel, while her elderly mother
watches for her safety below.
A Hartford man keeps box in which
he regularly deposits his car fare when
he walks to and from his place of bust
ness, as he now almost always does
The other day. at the close of year, he
opened it, and found he had SlO9,20.-
This he put in savings bank, and keeps
right on paying car-fare as before.
A singular incident happened at Grace
Church. New Haven, last Sunday even
ing. Soon after the service began the
gas nearly went out The rector asked
the congregation to keep quiet, and hav-
ing procured light. he proceeded with
the service. Suddenly, as he was read
ing the words, The Lord shall light my
candle. He shall cast my darkness away
the gas resumed its usual flow, again
lighting up the church.
A gentleman in Richmond recently
received love letter from young lady
who had been an inmate of his home, in
viting him to meet her in a neighboring
city. lie was Sc ungallant as to hand
the document to his wife, who accepted
the invitation in his stead, and finding
the young lady at the house of some
friends whom she was visiting, gave her
a terrific scolding in the presence of her
hostess, and abandoned her to her morti-
tication.
On Monday young daughter of the
wa'chman of the Lebigh Valley Rail
road at Fairview station went to water
tank or reservoir to chase out some geese,
and while So doing fell in. The mother
seeing the danger her daughter was in.
rushed TO the tank aud also fell into it,
whereupon an older daughter hastened to
the scene, and in endeavorng to save her
mother and sister she also fell in, and all
three were drowned before they could be
rescued.
A young man in New Hampshire
agreed with an acquaintance that if he
would eat six quarts of boiled custards
he would swim two miles in a pond -
The challenged man disposed of the
custard. and the next morning the other
swan tn the prescribed point, and then
turned around and swan back into the
lake some twenty rods, giving as rea
son that his friend, on finishing the pud-
ding licked the spoon, and he wanted to
do the souare thing