Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-04-10
SHORT ITEMS.


The Irish language IL the oldest now
spoken in Europe. a1.
The Tyrone Blade SAYS the body Of
dead infant was found in the cellar of
John Bear
There is a man in Robertson county.
Texas. who has his eighth wife aud forty
ond children to feed.
Nineteen executions took place last
year in Germany. Four Of the poor sin
beheaded with the axe, two were guillo-
tined and sixhung.
A log was recently cut at Greenbush
Mich, which contained nearly ten thou
sand feet, board MEASURE, Of lumber. 1t
was ninety six feet long and forty-six
inches in diameter IN the centre.
Spiriiuali-ts in Bangor, Ne, who have
been receiving communications from an
acquaintance supposed to be dead for
sone time, were considerably surprised
by his appearance in their city few
days ago.
A Charleston paper says that an old
colored lady of South Carolina, wearing
a red tarbsa. was shot at by mistake for
a robin by Mr.. Pickn-y. She ,hereupon
accos,ed him with brick and gave him
pink eye.
Professor Agassiz lost a valuable fish
of an undescribed species. which hs
caught ont Of the Parahy ba river, through
the carelessness of a native cook, who,
being short of dainties, fried it for the
professors breakfast.
! A candidate for the post Of teacher in
rnral school district was asked by one
of the examining committee if he was ac-
quainted with mathematics. He replied,
| am not acquainted with Mathew Mat
to1. but am well acquainted with his
brother joe"
Ayoung lady entered a store in Wayne
county. N. Y, recently, and asked for
"long hose" The obliging clerk was
absent up stsirs for some time. and re-
turned with couple of long handled hoes
and insisted upon selling them to her.
Out in Oregon, recently. a land slide
occurred which carried house aud
twenty acres of ground distance of
third OF miie,the house, fenceing and
land being unchanged and uninjured.
Several persons were in tie building at
the time, but no one was harmed.
Marriage between kindred in Russia.
howaver distant, even unto the so-called
forty second cousin is against the law
and considered by all Russians as an
abomination. Neither may a young man
person marry a god parent. the latter
coming under the head of Spiritual re-
lStions."
On Saturday night a week ago a man
named Jacob Wallick, ran upon the
track in the deep cut of the Wrights-
vile Railroad, near York, just as the
evening traiu was starting ou.. lie was
warned of his danger, but refused to leave
the track, and yelled out Good bye"
He was struck by the locomotive and ia
tally injured.
A New York man was shot through
the body during the war. The bullet on
its way casually took along a gold pen
and silver pencil ease and left them
somewhere in a very shattered condition.
Pieces have appeared at the surface every
now and then, and two or three days
ago the pen was extracted from the back
of the neck.
The women of Damascus, Illinois,
take part in the discussion of the Far
mer Club meeting 4 recent conundrum
was, "shall we dress for comfort or for
show ," 1t was Of conrse decided to
dress for comfort, aud then they all went
away, and at the next meeting each ap
peared with 'tlree- decker" head dress
and dolly warden suit.
A man in New England town pnr-
ried his sixth wife. Shortly afser the
funeral he met the minister who oficiated
and offered bin two dollar greenback-
The minister declined to take it, eaying
he was not accustomed to accept pay for
such services The genileman cooly re-
piled, Just as you cay but that's what
I've been in the habit Of paying"
The Detroit Free Press says: Just
previous to the death Of young man in
the western part of the city on Sunday be
called for bis watch, and died with it in
his hand. No one attempted to raove i;
for some time, and then when they tried
to, the grasp was so firm that the fingers
could not be unclasped without breaking
them, and the lifcles. hand was allowed
to retain the watch.
An indianapolis man iinperiied his
life, cut hi. hands, and bruised himself
generally few days ago in stopping
runaway hurse which a lady had left
united When the lady came up she
commenced scolding about the dirty bus
gy aud muddy rcins. and wound mp by
telling him TO get some paper and wipe
off the mud. His gallantiy has been
considerably below par ever since.
Twenty three cheese factories in Me-
dina county, Ohio, received during the
past season the milk from s 500 cows,
and made 223. .401 lbs. of cheese.
There were estimated to be COO cows in
private dairies producing 100000 lbs Of
cheese. making the aggregate product of
the county 3.423,4Ol lbs. The total
value Of the cows ia estimated at s3lS,-
500; of these cheese, s350,000, and of
the factories SEQ
The n. Y. TriJune says: We should
really like to know what Mr. Mace, The
pruiser, can have been originally. His
professional rival, Mr.. O'Brldwin, has
written letter of an objursatory char
acter. alluding to 1.-THE dross OF the dregs
of .ocietyr from which Mr.. Mace sprung.