Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-03-06
SHORT ITEMS.

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ence and Naples for the first time in ten
years.
A Miss Eliza Pettibone, of a small town
in Maryland, has bought church for the
Methodists has made the first payment
by the profits of her needle, and intends
to discharge the debt in the same way.
This il benevolence indeed
Ohio has 1873 424. dogs which have
MANNED and killed. within . year. &c.
9s5 sheep, damaging sheep to the amount
(estimated) of s143.Olo. Including the
cost of keeping them. it is estimated that
dogs cost Ohio s5,oO9.OOo annually.
Fourteen young Chinese. belonging to
the noblest families of the Celestial En-
pire, have just arrived in Paris from Can
ton, sent by the Emperor to be instruct
ed at the expense of the state. Every
year IA young men are to be sent to
France
This season, Yosemite tourists will be
carried BY rail within eighty miles of the
valley by either the Mariposa or the Coul-
terville route. The horseback ride is re-
duced to two and half miles. The fare
f.osn San Francisco will be s22; time,
one day and half
1t is anouace3 tEat the. Rev John B.
New, of indianapolis, Ind a Baptist min
lister, has died from cold contracted dur
ing a recent out door baptism. He had
to enter river where the ice was broken
for the purpose, and, all dripping wet.
had to walk nearly mile 70 change his
clothes afterward
The, Apache Indians who stole govern
ment horses from Camp Mcdowell, Ari-
zona, and deserted from the reservation,
have sent in 4 flag of truce and asked to
be allowed to return and receive rations.
On being told that they must first return
the stock and surrender the thieves, they
went back to the mountains,
The West Virginia Constitutional Con-
vention has decided to retain the clause
which disqualifes attorneys and salaried
officers of railroads from being members
of the Legislature, but struck out the
clause disquaIifying preachers. Men,
bers are required to take ar oath that
they will not take any consideration for
their vote. Charleston was made the
seat Of government until changed by law.
An economical 10 wan, who had a tooth
ache, determined to remove his tooth in
the Indian fashion. Accordingly be bent
down sapling in the woods. lay down
himself, and attached stout cord to his
tooth and sapling. Then he touched the
spring. and the next he knew he had
jumped over a grove of about forty
small trees, and was trying to get out of
a small pond that he happened to alight in.
A sharp five year old sshoog boy in
Minn., was given note by his teacher to
carry to the principal. The note read:
"M,-. The bearer deserves a severe
punishment" Johnny "smelt q MICE"
however, and meeting little Norwegian
boy in the hall inveigled him into present.
ing the note. The principal carried out
instructions, and the little Norwegian boy
meditates upon the wickedhess Of young
America.
Journalists are appreciated and under
stood in the Golden State. The Califor-
mia Assembly has ordered to .ngrossment,
preparatory to passage. bill e1empting
them from jury service. The passage of
the bill was not asked for by the journal.
lists, but it was conceded them as a mat
tea Of right, upon the ground that they
were engaged in public duties quite as nee
essary, and even imperative, as jury SER
vice. Practically the courts everywhere
make a discrimination in favor of journal
lists but formal law is more to that
point.
Making dwarfs and beggars is a COM
mon thing in China. For the first a
child of three or four years is taken, and
heavy porcelain vase'is put over him.
so that the head alone is free. This is
taken off every evening, 50 that he may
sleep, but is put on again in the morning.
The child thus advances in age in this in
flexible mould until ne can no longer
grow. Then the vase is broken. The
horrible sufferings that must be expert
enced in this process are even exceeded
By the practice in other establishments
in Pekin, where beggars voluntarily SUBJ
NIT to having their eyes taken out and
their limbs broken to excite public COM
miseration:
A Chicago lover went to visit his girl
one evening recently. but for some reason,
possibly that the fire had materially
changed his position in life, she received
and treated him coolly. He remained
standing in the parlor few moments, but
finally made movement toward the door
remarking that "he guessed he'd 60"
"Oh !" said she, starting from beautiful
condition of semi i-unconsciousness, won't
you take a chair 2" "Well, l don't care
if do" was his reply; and he took a
chair, thanking her kindly. and carried
it homo. He says it is a good cahir.
made of walnut, with stufing, and green