Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-07-24
SHORT ITEMS.


taverns.
The latest prediction is a snow in
August.
The national debt is being paid at the
rate of over $3.50 a minute.
Ten counties in Ohio have ladies for
superintendents of schools.
Swiss cheese is manufactured in large
quantities at Oshkosh, Wis.
Oyercoats were in demand iu Duluth
on the day before the Fourth.
The iron ore supply Of Missouri for
the present year is 100000 tons.
The latest marriage in high life at La
fayette. Ind. was a wedding in a bal
loon mile above the earth.
Vermont boasts that half The slate
pencils used in the world are made in
the Green Mountain State.
A Kansas paper tells of an army Of
toais which extends three-fourlhs of a
mile along the road.
The feeces of California's 10000
Cashmere goats are bringing from 25c
to ST. 25 per fb., according to grade.
Nearly nine million dollars worth of
lard has been exported from this country
within the last six months.
The women of Massachusetts, are to
have a college oftlsir own at Northamp
ton, endowed with 100000 by the late
munifcent Miss Smith.
1t is stated that forty five per cent. of
the gross products of California is from
agricultural sources. while but sixteen
per cent is from gold and other metals.
Seventeen hundred gallons Of whisky
were destroyed by lightning in an lndi-
ana town the other day, but it was a
pretty even tuss!e between the two.
A series of experiments. instituted to
test the average loss in weight by dry
ing, shows that corn loses one-fif:h and
wheat ue-fourteenth by the process.
Some people can never be TOO poor to
marry. a young couple commenced to
keep house recently whose only crock
cry consisted of an ink bottle and an i'm
perfect chart of China.
An Idaho invalid was ordered by a
physician to take three ounces of brandy
a day, and knowing that l6 drains make
an ounce, has patiently been taking As
drinks day ever since.
An Ohio farmer has imported ''sieam
wagon" from England 1t hauis heavy
loads through fields and woods and over
ordinary drains with great facility, and
is very easily managed.
The London Tins. speaks of the is
sue of the Stokes tlial, which it calls a
Miscarriage of Justice and attributes
it to the indifference that Americans feel
for violent crimes, in which both murder
er aud yIrtIm are rOwdies.
Two fine colts, worth about $3.50 be
longing to Joshua b rker. of Mill Creek
Hundred, Delawa e. were killed by light
ming on the evening of the ith, while
standing in field, no tree being near to
attract the electricity.
The drive of Texas cattle to Kansas is
estimated from the most reliable data at
100000 head and the cattle will arrive
in their full average condition, notwith
standing the hard winter through which
they passed
On the 10Th of October next it will be
twenty five years since Henry Ward
Beecher was installed pastor of the Ply
mouth Church The congregation pro
poses to celebrate the event by jubilee,
to continue four days, beginning on the
10th of October next.
A late decision in the Chicago courts
gives a verdict in favor of lawyer who
lost his library by fire after his p"licy
of insurance had expired. No notice
has been given by the company of the
expiration. and the court decided that
such notice was imperative.