Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-05-08
SHORT ITEMS

lion on DIS nauos.
Capital punishment is abolished 10
! Iowa.
Wool seems to be in demand all ovel
the State.
Tobacco cultivation is largely on the
increase in York county.
One seventh of Arkansas is said to
have been recently sold for taxes.
A Mormon travelling to Hungary with
his three wives was arrested for poiys-
amy.
One hundred new buildings have just
had their foundations laid in Williams
port.
A cotton picking machine has been in
vented. It can do the work of fifty men
in a day.
A number of ladies' at Hartford are
about starting joint stock insurance
company.
Alternate stripes of red and yellow
bricks i Chicago's latest style for house
fronts.
wild Dave" a Minnesota pedestrian
challenges Weston for walk around
the world.
Allentown is excited over an alleged
elopement of a married woman with a
"handsomer man."
More RATS have come down the North
Branch this season than has been known
for a number of years.
There are 3O64 languages spoken in
the world, and its inhabitants profess
more than 1000 different religions.
A fellow in New York city was sent
to the penitentiary last week. for pulling
the tongue out of horse. Served him
right.
Massillon has fifty-three grog shops.
One for l13 persons, and one to 50 fami
lies. If they all do fair business,
somebody suffers.
Thomas Nicholson, residing in Allen
town. while out snipe shooting, was shot
through the abdomen by the accidental
discharge of his gun.
Father Nugent. of Liverpool. England
has administered the pledge of total absti-
nence to more than 1000 persons within
the past month in Liverpool.
DIR. Atlee recently removed tumor
from Mrs. Burns. in Chester. which
weighed fifty pounds. At last accounts
the patient was doing well.
A Burglar in Salem who laid his opcr
ations upon DR.. Hardmau's store.
was stopped the other night by the DIR.
dropping big lump of coal on his head.
Think of carriage made entirely of
India Rubber. A Connecticut Company
propose to manufacture such, and large
factory is being erected for that purpose
A father and son, living in the same
house, at Branford, Conn each brought
home a new wife one day recently,
neither of them being aware Of the others
intentions.
Not one of the hundred girls belonging
to the St. Louis Normal School wears
anything in the shape of chignons or
waterfalls, or dresses made of any other
material than calico.
Mrs. Emery, of Indiana, warns all wo-
men against her tickle, faithless husband
who has deserted her She says he may
be recognized by broken nose, which
she demolished with skillet.
Father Tuigg, of ST. Johns Catholic
church. of Altoona, on Sunday morning
a week, administered the temperance
pledge to two hundred of his parishon-
ers-to remain good for one year.
The clergymen of Lancaster city have
inaugurated a movement against Sunday
funerals. They think the time and labor
of the Christian Ministry are fully oc
cupied by the regular and necessary SER
vices Of the Sabbath day.
The notorious Jack Shipman, Alias
Gilbert Norton, a professional burglar.
manufactured an instrument to pick locks
from tin cup, picked the locks of the
Carbon county Jail, and escaped with two
of his cronies last week
A young man was arrested in Inde
pendence. last week, charged with lcav-
ing his horse tied to a poet for twelve
hours. without food or water, and was
triumphantly acquitted on the plea that
he was busily engaged Sparkling" his
sweetheart all that time.
Probably nine-tenths of the people
that cherish stomach snakes and lizards
are like the old man who di ed the other
day in Pittsfeld, Mass. He fancied for
forty years that he held that lizard. and
now post mOrtem reveals a simple case
OF chronic inflammation with the enlarge
of the heart.
A letter from Linn, Peru, Gays that
you may see there wretched old duen-
nas-part Indian. part negro and part
Spaniard, as ugly as night-with only
single long cotton garment and an old
poncho for dress, and the poncho clas-
ped by diamond brooch that the Queen