Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-01-03
Just as We Found Them.

Squirrels are quoted at ten cents {
buahel in some parts of Georgia.
/ An Iowa girl has contracted to cut am
clear 32O acres of timber land this win
tser.
A Cincinnati child tied Grape on the
door to see if the carriage would come tc
take them out riding as it did the family
across the street.
Nervous headache is said to be instant
ly relieved by shampooning the head
with quart of cold water in which
desertspoonful of soda has been dissolved
A CHINESE TINS decribes trial in the
English law Courts "One man is quite
silent, another talks all the time, and
twelve wise men condemn the man who
has not said word"
A woman in Indiana has sued for a
divorce on the ground that her husband,
who was widower, imposed or her by
sending her the same love letters which he
had used in his courtships with his first
wife
The .Yo Semitic Valley is showed in ;
two of its hotels are closed and aban
doned till spring; but from fifteen to
eighteen persons are spending the winter
at the other Uiedig's) and in private
cabins.
AT a. late Plymouth Church picnic
Mr.. Beecher was asked why he did not
dance. There is but one reason," he
replied, Il don't know how. The only
dancing that ever did was when my
father furnished the music and used me
as fiddle. ! took all the steps then"
In Washington. D. G, last Friday,
come police men proceeded to the house
of man named Shea to search for stolen
goods. They were resisted by Mrs.
Shea, who deliberately shot one of the
number. Officer Doyle, from the effects
of which he soon after died. ....-
A newly married couple in Baton
Rogue. La, fearing an attack upon their
house, slept with revolver under their
pillow. The husband in the night
dreamed that some one was after him,
seized the revolver, when it was acci.
dentally discharged, killing his wife.
An old woman in Bradford county,
whose goose was killed two years ago by
a bungling sportsman, has commenced
sut for $50 damages, as she claims that
if the goose had been allowed to live, its
natural increase and feathers would have
to that sum
The Beaver ArJus says: On the 22d
Mrs. Craner. wife of Christy Craner, of
this borough, gave birth to two girls and
a boy, weighing eight pounds each. One
of the girls was stll-born; the ether
two babies. with the mother, are said 70
be doing as well as could be expected.
A house in Owsley county, Ky, was
to be haunted. as mysterious
noises were heard in it at night; SO
watch was kept for the apparition, and it
turned out to be big rattlesnake. with |
sixteen rattles, that came into the kitchen
through hole in the floor to catch mice. !
Z-phaniah Force lives in the neighbor-
hood of Vaudeville, Bucks county. and
the barking of dog. the other night.
aroused him in time to scare off couple !
of villains who had taken his best horse
from the stable, and were in the act of
hitching the animal in Mr.. Forces light
wagon.
A freight train was thrown from the
track down an embankment, about forty
feet, by broken rail. near Youngstown,
Ohio. last Friday. John Ready, a brake
man, jumped off and was struck by the
caboose and instantly killed The con
1uctor and several others were slightly
injured.
A detected looking man who asked the
editor of the Danbury News" what was
The charge for inserting an announce
nent of the death of his wife. being told
that it would be done for nothing, bright
ened up considerably for one in his af-
Fiction, and piously observed that death
had been robbed of half lie terrors."
The Beaver Argus says farmer sold
4 fat steer alive to butcher BY the
pound, agreeing to buy beef from him at
he current retail price for his family's
use. He bought one quarter at retail of
he "critter," which he had sold at
and discovered that he owed
he butcher small balance.
Mr.. CASTOR, residing near Blue Rap
ds, Kansas, last spring thought he would
experiment on his sod ground with few
peanuts. He procured half pound at
he store and planted them. This fall he
lrew mp the vines and shook from them
. bushel and peck of peanuts, as fine
Is can be grown anywhere.
A Washington CORRESPONDENT says that
| wealthy and worthy colored man, who
has amassed large fortune by many
years of hard labor, proposes to purchase