Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-09-25
SHORT ITEMS.


is new diet which Germans consider d
cure or preventive of dyspepsia. as well
as Of lung diseases.
A few weeks ago Great Britain tested
her chip of-war Citation. Two shots were
fred at her. and it cost s6S,OO0 to repair
tie damage inflicted.
Gen Birncys daughter is learning to
be a compositor in the Gazrtte office
Boston. iii order 10 quality herself to
edit paper III the south.
it is computed ,ha, S75,O0O,G0O
worth of fuel is burned yearly in the
United States, and that 81 ,00O.O00.000
worth of lumber i. u,ed in bull ling and
manufactures.
On Sunday week last man stole a
kiss from Sunday school girl in J,fier-
ron City, Mo. General results-ined
by magistrate, horse whipped by tie
lig brother. and scratched by the wife
Mrs Winters has proceeded to sue
the city of Leavenworth becanse fellow
IIisuLcr, who was i..sane, killed her hus
band in the calapoose, viii her he had
been taken in a state of intoxica'ion
An EngIish sparrow, in Kentucky.
got wound up in Lnse spiders web
the other day. and would doubtless have
been dev"ured piecemeal by the propri-
,tor, had it hot been discovered and re.
leased.
When Charles O'Conuor's name was
before the Louisville Convention, the
Tribune styled him a third rate pettfoger
and when he declined the nomination
the Tribune considered him the first law
yer Of America
A man named Willis Moore, residing
in Astoria, Fulton county, Ill, saw one
Fir Tate in his watermelon patch recent
", and, seizing his double barrelcd gun,
fred. wounding him so badly that he
lived but few h. urs
Few people know, and thousands do
not know, that by setting glass fruit
jar on folded towl, thoroughly soaked
in cold water. the fruit can be poured in
boiling hot with no more d,nger of break
ing than with tin can.
Not wishing to muss up the premises
burglars at Mount Vision, n. Z, removed
from a store safe weighing fifteen hun
dred pounds, and 'blowed' it in the rear of
church Their tender thoughtfulness
was rewarded with Sl.OO in bonds and
$500 in currency.
A few weeks ago the creek under the
great Natural Bridge in Virginia sud
denly disappeared, and subsequent inves
figaiion demonstrated the fac, that the
etIeam emptieG iiself into the earth
through a number of newly formed fs
fures Of unknown depths.
The London Times, of the 90 III u!t
rays, the foot and mouth disease is in-
creasiug among the cattle to an alarming
,xten:, notwithstanding all the precau-
tons adopted. Official returns show an
increase of over four thousand cases in
the infected dIst,icts for the past week,
Those big trees at Mariposa and Cal
evaras are not the best that California
can do, after all. They have found one
at Nisal;a forty feet in diameter with the
bark of, and the bark had six feet OF
thickness. 1t is strange that these slen-
der saplings ave been overlooked SO
long
Paper is now found to be applicable to
the art of war. Curasses which will
turn the stroke of a sword, thrust of
bayonet, or the impact of a rife ball are
now made of this material, and the inven-
tor claims that it will furnish a plating
forwar vessels of greater power of resis
tance than plating of iron.
a couple in Indiana, just recovered
from severe illness. published card
Of thanks to their friends for the care
and attention bestowed upon them, and
concluded by specially thanking the
South Bend Cornet Band for 80 kindly
discoutinuing their practice during our
illness.
A gentleman addicted TO scientific
inquiry has discovered that thirty three
days complete the cycle of the potato
bug generation; that 700 of the critters
are the average product of the female,
from which the family grows in the sec
ond generation to $4,000, and in the
third to S5 100000.
In Mobile there are twin sisters who
cannot be punished for any offence, be
cause neither can be identified. Recently
one of these young ladies put to fiish,
two dog-catchers and policeman. In
court she proved to be her sister. po-
liceman accompanied her home to arrest
the other, but on arriving could not tell
which lie had brought and which had
already been there, and wen. away cor
rowing without either.
An ingenious mechanic has invented
a travelling trunk Taking hold of the
handle and lifting one end from the floor
sharp pull drags out hand bar sim
liar to those by which a haud cart is
drawn OR nrnnellel. and at the same