Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-04-17
inst as We Found Them.

seen yoked to the plough in districts OF
France and Germany.
An Indianapolis creditor served papers
upon the widow of his debtor while the
funeral was in progress.
An exchange says. Imposters are trav-
cling in all directions collecting relief for
the sufferers by the fires in the West last
year.
Measles has been the prevailing disease
at Wilcox, ELK county. One hundred
and City case, have been reported there
at one time.
A woman in Western poor house has
been almost constantly ON her knees for
sixteen years. being engaged in perpetual
prayer.
Anew Bedford gentleman has succeed
ed in Matching 996 trout from 900 eggs
which is said to be the greatest yield ev-
er known.
The Fi.h Commissioners created under
the new bill which passed at the late ses
sion of the Legislature, intend to erect
large Matching houses in the vicinity OF
Harrisburg
A salute of 81 guns was fired on
Wednesday evening. At Norristown, IN
honor of the nomination Of Gen John +.
Hartranft, for Governor of Pennsylvania
one gun for each vote cast for him in the
convention.
A man who has been spending few
months in retirement in the Boston Peni-
tentiary employed his leisure moments
in training q number Of mice. and now
proposes to exhibit their performance in
public.
Georgia was the first State to grasp the
idea Of home manufactures. Cotton mills
were established at Colombus las an ex-
pertinent" and. having been found to
paw from Is to 20 per cent. profit. that
city has about 10000 spindles running
at the present time.
As a wife was holding her husbands
aching head in her hands, one morning.
she asked Are . man and his wife one
IL suppsose so," said the husband.
Then rejoined the wife, 81 came home
drunk last night, and ought to be ashamed
of myself.
Said tipsy husband to his wife. "You
need needn't bl anne me. Twas woman
that fret tempted man to eat forbidden
things" That won't do. retorted the
indignant wife. Woman may have first
tempted man to eat forbidden things but
he took to drinking of his own accord"
In Mexico the custom is, when a duel
has been fought, to erect cross on the
spot. and every one that passes by throws
a stone at the cross. Some Ingenious
Y..Loeo have taken advantage of the
custom to clear stony land by erecting
crosses where there has been no duel.
The second Kansas colony from Lam
caster county left Lancaster city for the
ia, West on Tuesday morning via the
Lancaster and Reading Railroad The
colonists number about one hundred. and
intend to settle in Russell county, about
fifty miles northeast of Kansas City.
A stone weighing three pounds and a
quarter was taken out Of the bladder of
a mare. lately killed by Joseph McCloud,
in living Allegheny county. The animal
had boon ailing for soms TINA Paet, and
alter being killed, curiosity as to the
probable cause of her sickness. led to ex
animation. when the stone was discovered.
At a social party. where numerous de
fnitions was one Of the game of the ev-
ening, the question was put What is re-
ligion ?" ''leligion,' replied one of the
party, more famous as a man of business
than a wit, lis an insurance against fire
in the next world. for which honesty is
the best policy"
Many people like newspapers. but
few preserve them; yet the most inter
esting reading imaginable is file of old
newspapers it brings up the very age
Of it's issue,with all its hustle and every
day affairs, marking its genius and iis
split, more than the most labored des
cription of the historian.
Some one who considers himself au.
thority on such subjects, says that the
guests at dinner party should remain
only twenty minutes after dinner. or
Immediately after rising from the table
as it is the hour before and the hour sitter
dinner party which is so wearisome
and trying to both host aud hostess.
The mansion in which the amou, Ma
than murder occurred at New York re
mains to this day just As it was on the
night of that event. The blood stained
carpet has been taken up. but the deep
stains which soaked through into the
floor are ineffaceable The only tenant
is bulky German house keeper.
The first American gaslight company
was chartered to light the city Of Balti-
more in 1916. In 1929 Boston adopted
the new method of illumination. The
old New York gaslight company, which
lights the city from Grand street to the
Battery, was chartered in 1923. Bristol.
r. l . was lighted by gas as early as
1885
The Me1icans are having a terrible
time among themselves. Five thousand
of them were killed or wounden in the
battle of Zacatecas. The Mexican ques-
ton might solve itself if the outside
world weuld let it alone, just as the "a
nous cat question was solved at Kilken.
ny. And indeed since the ill-fated Maxi
million showed the folly of intervention.
the Kilkenny policy seems to be the OIL
ly one left.
A Yale junior recently visited a young
lady. staying rather late, and being fear,
ful of disturbing the family. took of his
shoes. and went to the front door in his
stocking feet. just as lie emerged from
the door, with his shoes in hand, he was
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