Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-05-01

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Erastus Corning left but ons heir
Erasius Corning. Jr., who thus comes in
possession of $4,000, 600.
At Denver, Colorado, on the goth ol
July. 1878. at $3.50 P. NJ, there will be a
total eclipse of the sun. lasting nearly
three minutes. ..-..
A lady at Rochester, MINI, has OBJ
tanned a patent for fan. to be attached
to swing machine, and operated by the
same power as the machine.
A San Francisco paper says straw.
berries will soon be drug in the mar
ket, as there nerer was such a crop as
the present season promises.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of the
New York Herald, has bet $4,000
yainst August Belmont's $4,000, that
Grant will be the next President.
A dro"et who sells his cattle by live
weight, always gives them as much wa
ter as they will drink before driving them
on the scales. That is his way Of water.
ing stock
THERE is a rumor in Munich that the
King of Bavaria has fallen in love with
a young American lady, and that he may
soon astonish his subjects by morgan
attic marriage with her.
Some one has taken the trouble to as.
certain The number of battles fought since
1894 by the armies of Austria. Nearly
seven thousand battles, OF one to every
fifteen days, are the figures given.
A Montevidec letter states tha. Pro.
fessor Agassiz and several of his party
were arrested while filling their pockets
with pieces of rock, and taken to the
guard house, but were soon released.
Mrs. Phoebe Schofeld, of Richmond.
Ind, aged lO5. has obtained the arrears
of pay and pension due to her late hus.
band for service performed in the revo.
lutionary war, amounting in all to slO.-
600.
Over forty trees have been struck by
lightning on Timber ridge, two miles
south Of Fairfield, Va, in the last ten
years. 1t is said that lightning has
struck in this locality in every storm for
century
An extremely absent minded bride in
Pottsville, who had just been married,
woke UP suddenly in the night and kick.
ed her husband out Of bed, supposing
him to be burglar This is the worst
we ever heard
"Gentlenen of the jury" said blum
dering lawyer, in suit about a lot Of
hogs, there were just thirty-six hogs in
that drove. Please to remember that
fact-thirtysiz hogs-just three times as
many as in that jurybox, gentlemen
TIE value of the ascertained clip of
domestic wool for 1870 was, in round
numbers s75,OOO.OOO. The estimated
value of our entire agricultural product
for that year was twenty-four hundred
millions, or very nearly the same as tbs
national debt.
Smith and Jones were ct the menag-
erie, and the conversation turned upon
Darwin's theory. Look at that monkey
said Smith think of its being an un.
developed human" Human = said
Jones, contemptuously, ''its no moro hu-
mar than | am"
In one Of Lord Brousham's S last speeches
his upper teeth fell out, and there was an
embarrassing silence until they were re-
stored, when he remarked that his teeth
had given him good deal of trouble
ever since he cut them That restored
the equilibrium.
One of San Francisco's largest cara.
vansaries is said to be entirely under the
management of the fair sex. From the
propretress 20 the hall girl, from the bar
tender to the boot black, all connected
with the establishment are women. the
portresses are muscular Germans, while
the clerk is handsome brunette.
The Green Mountain Cheese Factory,
at Peru, VT. worked up 49G,23O pounds
Of milk in Cd working days last year.
making 57,14l pounds Of green and 5O,-
l24 pounds of cured cheese. This was
at the rate of SOS pounds of milk to one
pound Of green cheese, and 90 to one
pound of cured
i female 10 Smith, or rather a coun.
tefpart of that prophet, has arisen in the
West. She teaches the doctrine of a
plurality of husbands, and shows stones
carved with hieroglyphics which she
.wears came direct from heaven, and
which entitle woman to an indefinite
number of lords. AS yet the number of
these Latest day Saints is small. and
their prophecies only babitation is an
old army tent.
The official vote for Governor Of Con.
necticut is as follows: Jewell. (Rep., J
46.563; Hubbard, (Dem y I4,562; Gil.
lette, (Temperance,l 1,549; Harrison,
Labor Reform 399; scattering. 25.-
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