Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-06-05
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Will be ntIu ID LudL to"h'
Counterfeit fifty cent notes are again
in circulation. The spurious issue ia a
triae longer than the genuine.
The largest orchard in the world is In
California 1t contains 426 acres, and
more than rs, 900 fruit trees.
1t is the fashion in New York for
yonng ladies to carry their umbrellas
suspended from belt by chain.
The Newark bakers are now obliged
by law to stamp upon all loaves the pre-
else weight together with their own name.
A Cincinnati man is searching through
the west for a runaway wife and SlO.-
600 in bonds which she took-especially
the bonds.
The modern sandwich derives its
name from the English Earl of Sandwich
who, it is said, first made it a specially
on his table.
The rice crop along the Lower Louisi-
ana coasts are reported to be especially
Aour iehing and the ratoon cane also
promises well.
The bodies of several unfortunates
who we're buried in the snow avail anches
in Utah during the past winter. have
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been recovered.
A young girl, fourteen years Of age,
living near Kockbridge. Va, can repeat
nearly the whole of the New Tesla
men:.
Owners of pearl jewelry should be
careful to keep them from exposure to
greasy surfaces, as contact of this kind
destroys their luster.
A lady in Iowa recently drew $4,000
ON the de ,th of her second husband hav
ing drawn $4,000 from the came com
pany when her Fl. st husband died.
Near Knoxville. Tenn is spot situ-
ated between the mountains, and aptly
called Happy Valley. in which only one
death has occurred in twelve years.
Franz Abt thinks that the Americans
have more talent for music than the Eng
lsh, and that the growth of musical taste
here has been wonderful. and promises a
great future.
There is boot black in Ph iladelpbia
who processes to tell customers charac-
ter from his stockings According to this
gifted youth, customer who has no stock
ings has no character,
A lady named Rea has pre- empted "a
homestead of l6O acres of the public
land in Montana. An example which
hundreds of lordIess and landless women
would really do we'll to follow.
podology is the latest ology. Itis the
science of being able to tell a persons
character and disposition by the bones of
the leg aud feet. 1t is not lifely to come
generalIy III vogue.
/ A lady in Alexandria. Va, who list her
pocket book last October, has just receiv,
ed it through the post-ofice 1t contained
the same amount Of money. though not
the same notes, as it did when she lost it.
There are twelve thousand professional
musicians in New York city and. es,ima
ting their fami les, twenty five thousand
people directly dependent for their bread
upon the popular taste of the me,ropoli.
| for music
1--WE will meet in heaven, husband,
DEAR is the affectionate epitaph which
an Ohio woman has had Inscribed upon
the tombstones of each of three departed
husbands. Trouble ahead in that family.
certain.
Walnut s;umps have become an article
of merchandise and many of them are
very valuable The curly grain of the
roots is used for veneering aud some
stump. aro worth $3.50, after being
properly worked into shape.
A mamma has been obtained from an
old linden on the Vosges. consisting of
55 per cent. Of sugar. 25 Of glucose. and
90 Of dextrine, and is probably similar TO
that which was used by the Israelites in
in the wilderness.
There are $4,000 stars in the north
ern and $4,000 in the southern hemi-
sphere, whose places have been recorded
and yet the facility for observing lie much
more favorable in the south, on account
Of the clearness of the sky.
A Massachusetts mechanic has in
vented a friction clutch for machinery
capable of stopping forty horse power
Patents have been secured in this count
Try and England and have been applied
for in Belgium and Germany.
John Etzwiler. formerly hotel keep
er at Millersburg. Dauphn county. was
convicted few days ago in the U. 5.
Circuit Court at Pittsburg, of passing
counterfeit money. lie was connected
with the Menges Meinhart-Altic gang.
The eleven territories, including Alas
ka as accurately as can at present be as
certained. contain over one billion and a
quarter acres. exceeding by nearly two
hundred thousand square miles the ag-
gregate territory of all the present ad-
mitted States of the Union.
Miss Antinette Polk of Tennessee. ia