Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-03-20
SHORT ITEMS.

A persevering Illinois woman has just
married her seventh husband.
A clay has been discovered in Taylor
Township, Michigan, which makes good
meeIschaum pipes,
The Spiritualists have heard from lin
Fisk. lie wVnts them to send his thin
suit. -
Huntingdon county collected $1,000
last year of parties for shooting wild tur-
keys out Of season.
In Brazil Dgu nkennoss is the urpsr
donable sin Dishonesty, theft and muir
der are considered as nothing in compari-
son with it.
Jacob Earl, of Berks county, has IS
year old COW which has had IA calves
four times twns-aad all are alive and
doing well
A Savanai letter states that at the
banquet given by the Captain General to
Alexis, the only toas, given was by the
Grand Duke, who, rising and bowing to
Admiral Lee, gave The United States
Forever"
Opelika, Alabama, has created sem
sation by the new leap mode of eat
ing philopenas 10 that place. The young
lady takes the almond between her teeth
aud the Young man bites it off The pro-
cess is eliptical.
/ An Indiana nan has returned thanks
to his noble fellow- it;zens 'fr their
kinduess in pitching his household goods
out of doors on occasion of tue burning
of a small barn near his house, on last
Friday" The goods were badly and
unnecessarily sma' Ell, up were in no
danger whatever in the house.
IN editor cut in Cicero, Ida I, on
taking charge OF the New Era, greets his
readers with this salutatory: at is the
fashion for an editor to write long intro
duction Oh taking charge Of a paper, but
as we are well acquainted with nearly
every man in the county, it is only nee
essary to say that We intend to do We
please, and announce that our motto is two
almighty doll ,r3 ve:r in advance.
A very small man, who is blessed
with very large wife, that, instead. of
looking up to him in admiration, is in
the habit Of looking down upon him
with something akin to contempt, once
called her. in his presence. ''my better
half" "Your better half! You had bet
ter say your best three-quarters; yol
are not more than one fourth of the joint
concern, no how
The select committee Of the Senate to
investigate the sale of aims held sda-
sion in Washington. Senator Schu:z
was preseat, and asked several questions
of the witness Secretary Belknap was
examined, ana nothing but what is al
ready known was elected. Arms had
1 been delivered after it was known that
Remington was the French agent, but
the sale had been made previous to that
knowledge.
Gov Allison, one of the early Govern
ors of Florida, was tried for violation of
the enforcement act, found guilty, ami
sentenced to Eye hundred dollars fine
and six months Imprisonment. the Gov
ernor is upward of sixty years of age.
| A Pledge is in circulation in Portland.
Me-, by terms Of which signers agree
/ hereafter to abstain teetotally from 'anY
/ further assistance to railroads, either By
loan or credit, issue OF bonds or guarantee
of bonds" and to attend the polls AMI
vote against any proposition to render
such assistance
Two hundred and seventy-two miners
were killed and G22 wounded in the
Pennsylvania antlartic coal regions last
year, making 22O widows and 500 or
GOO orphans. The Scranton RclRJHraa
says that one third Of the whole number
OF the killed + ct their death on the ae-
count of the neglect of operators to make
second openings in their mines. Another
third were killed by the explosion Of
gasees, which would have been avertei
if the law requiring every mine TO be eI-
amined by experiel.csd miner with
safety lamp before the woikmen enter 1t
had been complied with About one
sixth lost their lives through mere ncgli-
gence in not paying sufficient attention.
to the roof Of the mine and Otherwise,
willis the remaining oue-sixth of. the
whole number were killed by really 4un-
forseen and uuay oidable accidents
1t is terrible to think of the agonies of
a woman of cultivation and refinement
whan suffering under an attack OF that
dread disease, kleptomania. An instance
heart rending intensity took place the
othor day in Boston. An elegantly
dressed woman was detected in the very
act Of plagiariziug pair of silk stockinga
She started, turned pale and burst inte
tears, suddenly conscious Of her guilt,
and then in the most agonized manner
besonght the proprietor to release her
and offered him twenty dollar note for
the stockings. The gentleman kindly
.oo.a,aI ,..,L .ll;.,oJ 1900,