Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-12-18
SHORT ITEMS.

three days.
There are only five women at present
in the Mercer county Jail.
The epizootic has been unusually fatal
in Green county.
Beaver county refuses all Licences TO
sell intoxicat ng drinks.
Harper the once famous guerilla, il
peacefully raising hogs in Kentucky,
four hundred and seventy one horses
have died at Cincinnati from ep:zne'ic i'll
the last four weeks.
Somebody has discovered that ton OF
sea water contains grain of gold. Let
company be started at once.
Official statistics just published at st
Petersburg show that during the past
year over $4,000, persons died of cholera
alone in Russia.
a man who bought one thousand Sc
gars. on being asked what he had, repll
ed that they were tickets to a course OF
lectures to be given by his wife.
The Boston Pilot, which has twice
been burned out, says, 1--WE are just
about tired of this phoenix business. We
don't intend to rise nobly from our ashes
any more.
A prize fight took place at Brooklyn
in the I4th inst. between Peter Scully
aud Jack Croker, for purse of two hun
dred dollars Croker won in twenty
eish, rounds, after one hour end forty
minutes fighting.
Three mules, which have been in a Ne
vada mine at a depth of eleven hundred
/ feet eimce September, 1872, are to be
hauled out soon. They are IN excellent
condition. and apparently thrive as well
in the utter darkness of the mine as those
in daylis ht above.
/ " hat glorious world this would be
if all its inhabitants could say with Shaks
peare's shepherd, Sir / am a true la
| borer | earn what | wear owe no
man hate envy no mans happiness :;
glad of ether mems good contcn, with
my fam y
The Canadirn way of measuring a tree
is said to be as certain as it is grotesque.
You walk from the tree. looking at it
from time to time between your knees
When You are able to see the top in the
way, your Distance from the Ioots Of the
tree equals its height.
THE value of n cow 8 tail was definite
ly decided in Bedford county. 1t is ten
| dollars an inch. A couple of young men
cut off twelve inches Of cows tail and
nailed it to a schoolhousc for "sport. for
which sport the Young men paid one hun
dred and twenty dollars to the owner o!
the bovine for damages.
4 citizen of Bedford county, Va. has
invented a machine. the object of which
is to melt the snow aud ice on a railroad
track as The cars run, by means Of a flame
of sufficient intensity to produce the re
suit insiautancou-ly. Tue invention Is
just in time, if effective
The heat of the Boston fire mus, have
been greater than that at Chicago for the
very brick melted without stint Instan
ces where granite walls and masses of
leather actually fused are numerous A
brick wall on Federal street, between
Franklin and High, became liquid and
ran down over considerable space.
One George Price, whom no body seems
to know. and who is believed to have
sailed for Europe. has made mortgages
and deeds for property which lie did not
own in Hudson county, n. j.. to the
amount of $500, 900, and caused them TO
be recorded. For these mythical secur-
ities Price got possession of houses, lots
watches. .jewelry, aud other property,
which he quietly transferred to other
parties.
In a recent discourse on the subject of
horse races. Mr. Beecher said d" As
crows to the corufeld, or vultures TO
their prey as flies to summer sweet, so
to the annual races flow the whole tribe
of gamesters and p!easurelovers. 1t is
the Jerusalem of wicked men and thi.h
er the tribes go up like Israel of old, bat
for far different sacrifice No form of
sOcia! abOmination is unknown or un-
practiccd. >
Once upon time, the De Courcy was
one of the noblest and most powerful
families of France. The motto of their
coat-of arms was 81 am no king; | dis
daiu being duke; | am De Courcy."
The last decendant died few days ago,
he was-one of the municipal street
sweepers Among his rags were found
his certificate of birth. proving him to
have been Robert de Courcy.
"Well, my child" said stern father
to his little daughter, after church, what
do you remember of all the preacher
said T. Nothing was the timid reply
"Nnthino' said he. seynrelx ..nnx. re-