Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-07-31
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Paris is overrun with counterfeit gold
coin manufactured in Spain.
Summer hog packing at Keokuk
amounts to Is. 900 head per week.
For. Wayne has some wheat grown
from grains taken from an E Egyptian cat
acomb.
The birthplace of cholera. according
to a scientific writer in the London
Times, is Hindostan.
A South Carolina negro harnesses
himself to plow, and his wife drives him
with goad.
Jacksonville Fla boasts Of seventy
two pound watermelon raised in that
vicinity.
A man wearing three gorgeous breast
pins, but no stockings, recently attracted
attention in Danbury. Conn.
1t is predicted that before many years
California will become one OF the coffee
growing countries of the world.
White wells are very fashionable in
Paris, and Of course will soon be here.
They are made of plain white tulle. dot
ted with black.
Pr. Houard the American citizen. has
been released from the Spanish prison
and orders have been issued for the res
toration of his property.
No wool is used for fuel on the Rus
sian railways. This order is very strict,
and is intended to preserve the forests
from complete destruction.
Half a million of people and :hirty
millions Of capital are employed in this
country in the manufacture Of stoves.
says the New York Bulletin
The buff leather shoes are again very
much in vogue at the watering places
and arc said to be much cooler than
those made of ordinary black leather.
Stanley. the discover of DR.. Living
stone. has arrived at Port Said, and sub
sequen,ly departed for England. He is
accompanied by son Of Livingston.
A street temperance speaker, in Alba
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reaching from his neck to his feet with
sashes Of red and blue about his shoul
ders.
1t was Rachel who said to her stout
sister, seeing her dressed for the part of
a sheperdess. Sarah. you look like :,
sheperdess that has just dia.d on her
flock
In the onion there is found peculiar
oil containing sulphur. called the sui
phuret of allyle. The odor of the breath
after eating onions is caused by the pres
ence Of small quantity of this oil
Sunday services are to be regularly
held in Chicago theatres next winter
Rev. David Spring will preach from the
stage ef McVickor's. and Rev. Robert
Laird Collier In Aiken's Theatre
Halt centGry-ago a worn out field in
Connecticut was planted in timber. The
field has yielded ten cords per year and
fencing for the farm for twenty year.
past, and last year. when cleared pro
duced fifty cords per acre.
BY the late floods in Alabama, it is
said the damage will reach 81 Coo, 600.
The waters in Central Alabama, are
higher than ever known at this season.
and the cotton crop in the State will be
$4,000 short.
An American general was married
recently to French lady. Neither
knowing a syllable of the Others Ian
guagc. an interpreter has accompanied
them on their wedding tour. The bride
groom having lost his nose in the Seces-
war now wears silver one.
Rhinoceroses are not nice animals to
have about in flower garden or even in
wheat field. One of these interesting
but demonstrative brutes got loose from
a menagerie in Vermont few days ago,
and before he could be captured again
had trampled down twenty acres of
wheat.
In France an inventor of boots with
which to walk on the water made a pub
lie experiment, when, says the account,
the boots indeed floated, but the inven-
tor. with his head under water, seemed to
be carrying on conversation with the
fishes. which would have probably enled
with his sufacation if boat had not
picked him up.
While workmen were engaged in dig
glng trench in Williamspor,, to lay
a water pipe, they came suddenly on
burying ground. unknown to the oldes.
inhabitant. Some conjecture that it was
an old Indian burying place, but there is
nothing to confirm this belief. Others
are of the opinion that an early day
frontier fort stood near this place, upon
low bluff So far the entire matter ia
involved in mystery.
Mr. d. Y. Gerhart, a farmer residino
in Upper Hanover. Montgomery county.
had field of wheat totally destroyed by
flre on the 4th inst. One of the men