Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-10-16
SHORT ITEMS.

Michigan child has twenty five fin
gers and toes.
Topeka has fined barber for shaving
a man on Sunday.
Rhode Island has one hundred and
thirty nine cotton factories.
A Peoria farmer has 4 led of hydropho-
bia from q bite eighteen years old
A Maryland horse-fancier is importing
Arabian stations from Egypt.
The Chinese have 400 600 square miles
of untouched coal fields
A delegation Of Ute chiefs 90 to
Washington III few days
IancA asks. (which goes the quicker
"A full minute or a spare moment p
Ice one eighth of an inch thick was
formed in the Mississippi at Clinton on
the eth ut
| 4 sheriff in Arkansas recently asked
condemned criminal to erect the gal
lows on which he vas to be executed
John Z, Owens is the weallhies, actor
on the American stage, and confesses to
about 81 600 900.
A pair of old breecbes with $500 in
the pockets, went through destructive
machine in an Iowa paper mill the Other
day before the operatives discovered the |
funds.
A Washington dispatch says that the
government will Immediately take vigor
ous decisive action for protecting our
Texan boundaries from the incursions OF
Mexican smugglers and robbers.
A Lowell girl claims that she won her
husband by stratagem. He fell in the
river, she grabbed him, and when he
came to the surface he was very much
"Neitea and proposed marriage.
The Front Street Theatre in Baltl-
more was struck by lightning on Mon
day afternoon. the 9TH inst, during a
rehearsal. Several actors were on the
stage. but 10 one was seriously injured
An aggressive alligator that inhabits
a Florida lake walks off with cows. hogs,
or any animal that may step into his ele
ment for business or pleasure, and cares
as much for buck shot as he does for sum
mer rain.
1t is stated that DR. Shceppe has aban
doned the will in the case of Miss Stein
necke, in the Baltimore courts. and has
claimed the estate as her husband for
the reason that be inherts more as heir {
at-law than by will.
A man in Missouri is seeking a divorce
from person to whom he has been mar :
risd sixteen years, Oh the ground that :
hat person is not woman. A sufficient :
ground certainly. but it seems to have {
taken him long time to find it out.
A train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was thrown of the track near
he 7th inst. The engine, tender and |
baggage car were thrown down an EN- ;
oankment, but no one was seriously in
ured d
At recent bull fight in Marseilles an :
,nraged bull sprans over the arena bar
rier and struck ont through the crowd =
niuring number Of people before be
was stopped by mortal thrust from s
soldier In the confusion al. the other
bulls escaped.
An actress awoke few nights ago. at
Salt Lake City, to find burglar in her =
room, when she frightened him so by
springing up with blood curdling stage I
scream, that he dashed down her jewel l
box and watch, and, standing not upon t
he order of bis going, went.
The stay of the Chinese in Spring
field was shortened by the rudeness of {
he people who stared at them. One wo
nan entered the dining room Of the hotel ;
while they were at dinner questioned
he ladies. examined the g-tals, and
inally had to be shown out.
l.
Mr.. H., of the Burlington and Mis- c
souri, land Office, was among the passen
gers of The Meiis. He is very nervous
nan, and while floating in the water i'm
igned what his friends would do to ac-
quaint his wife with his fate. Saved at
asst, he rushed to the telegraph office and
sent this message: Dear F., am ga
red. Break it gently to my wife" :" !
The Sherman (Texas) Courier takes D
a jealous view of Red River City, viz.
Two long, hungry Americans, two irish I
men, one Indian, two cadaverous locking I
of unknown nationality, 3
Mexican mule, John Q. A Carter, and
IN Indian 'dorg Of the male persuasion"
Another attempt was made on Monday a
,vening, the 9TH inst ) to assassinate King 81
Amadeus, of Spain, by two men who
we're concealed behind statues in the c.
Plaza del Orieata, and threw several !"
arge stones at the King as he passed,
Who escaped injury. The desperaloes
led and eluded pursuit.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on Satur-
lay evening. the 9th inst A locomotive